Preordering a game console 2006: “I’m going to camp out in front of this Gamestop all night so I can get a Wii in three months.”

So fashion is resurrecting the early 90's shoe aesthetic... and I don’t like it. Call me crazy, but that juxtaposition of dirty gray fabric, and bright, shiny fluorescent colors looks very tacky and cheap to me. And of course they cost $200/pair.

Nintendo: “Emulators are bad! If you’re using emulators, you’re basically stealing!”

I was excited until I started pricing-out a multiplayer setup. The karts are each $100, but each player needs their own Nintendo Switch. Spending $700-$800 so my kids can race RC cars around my small living room floor on Christmas morning is a hard sell.

Or your Moms can have the same name.

It looks a lot more Sunset Overdrive-y than I anticipated.

The PS2 was super hard to find within its launch window. Every Walmart, Target and Toys ‘R Us in my area was sold out for months. Three times a week I would call my local stores, early in the morning, to ask if they got any. About 3 months after launch I found one at Toys ‘R Us, and I was so excited that I found a…

Speaking as a novice LEGO collector, this theme really isn’t doing anything for me. I’ve seen the Mario sets at Target, and they seem more like overly-complicated board games than LEGO sets. The only asset, in this theme, that piqued my interest is the big Mario figure with the animated face, but it’s only available…

“Hey, we need a name for our car company that people will take seriously.”

I bought the game at launch, played it for a couple of weeks non-stop, and then one day I forced myself to stop. The gameplay loop got really repetitive, I found myself traveling to the same 5 islands over and over again, collecting the same resources every time. Before I knew it I was stressing out over collecting…