Last night, Kevin loaded an NES emulator and literally hundreds of classic NES games on our XBox. I spent a decent amount of time going through the list to figure out what games deserve my obsession, and came across a few gems.

As a kid, one of my absolute favorite cartoon superheros happened to be Darkwing Duck. Yes, I'm serious. And I remember reading the Nintendo Power Magazine back in the day about a totally awesome Darkwing Duck video game that was coming out for the NES. Sadly, I only had a Sega Genesis and would never get the chance to play it. Truly heart-breaking stuff there, folks.

But my dream finally came true last night. There it was, sitting in the middle of a list of hundreds of NES games just waiting for me to find it. I was overjoyed. I even made up a happy dance to the Darkwing Duck theme song that started after I fired up the game.

I spent about an hour playing through it, and realized that it's actually kinda hard. And seeing as I'm a bit obsessive about getting through games, I probably wouldn't have passed the 6th grade had I started playing it when it first came out. So, now it all makes more sense. While it seemed totally unfair when I was twelve, it was good that I didn't have a distraction that would pull me away from things like getting through school and figuring out what to do with the rest of my life. Now, it's much easier for me to handle such obsessions --as the only thing I have to lose from it is my job and social life!

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