gamer

Monday morning, while sitting at home because it was a holiday, I was looking for something to do.  I had spent my entire Sunday doing...well I'm not really sure exactly what I did with my Sunday, probably just watched a lot of movies and knit (aka, the usual).  So Monday I was looking for something a little bit different.  I made my breakfast, ran to the store to buy syrup when I realized that mine had expired (I didn't know syrup expired) and then I excavated my 'storage' area in my weird L shaped kitchen in order to dig out my PlayStation.  First generation.  Like so many things that I own, I inherited it when someone I knew was done with it - in this case, my little brother.

When I moved out here, I brought the PS, but in true Jessie fashion, I forgot to bring any games.  In the 10 trips back to Michigan I've made and the countless visits people have made out here, I never once remembered to get the games.  I also never thought to have them mailed out here.  Basically, I just sort of forgot the whole thing existed.  Anyway, when friends were going to be in Michigan over Christmas, I finally remembered to send for the games.  All five of the ones I like.

Crash Bandicoot
Crash Bandicoot Warped
Crash Team Racing
Croc
Jet Moto

Three games basically designed for children and two racing games.  Before the advent of the music games and the karaoke games (which can hardly be classified as music the way I play them) and the Wii, this was the extent of my video game interests.

What I don't have, as it turns out, is a memory card.  I vaguely remember my brother giving me the PS and telling me that he was keeping the memory card because it had stuff saved that he wanted for the new PS2 he had, but it didn't really phase me at the time.  Now, however, it really blows.  It's a pretty big letdown to play a game for two hours and not be able to save it so no matter how well you were playing you know you'll have to go back and do it all over again the next time.  I found one on amazon for $1.85 (+$6 shipping which is just silly) so hopefully this time next week I'll be saving games like nobody's business and I'll be rockin' like it's 1999.  Yea!