Most of y’all have seen this comic already, but I had to redraw it because, uh, because the other one was crap. You’ve also read it in this mini comic, if you have it. I don’t know why I’m even posting it. Ugh, this day is less useful than a bird fart.
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I’m so jealous! My mom had a “no video games” policy as well. My brother and I didn’t get a gaming system until my senior year of high school. I missed out on so many classic games!
I got the adapter that let you play Japanese carts.. it was fun at times to play stuff months to years before the US version..
I remember freezing fingers and heat lamps!
My mother still has that policy about cold weather. Maybe it’s the Canadian in her, but I think it’s the sadist in her.
my dad took away our Legend of Zelda because he thought it was satanic. i think that is pretty much the coldest thing a parent can do.
My parents never bought us a video game console either. Not because they had a no video games policy, but because in their minds video games were for boys and were of no use to two little girls.
I’d like to say I showed them when I saved up my money to buy a PlayStation, but it turns out I’m too ADD to get through most video games.
I love the way this comic veers off in a direction you didn’t know it was going, several times.
Oh man, Donkey Kong Country was so beautiful.
i had to buy my own super nintendo with babysitting money
ironically, i really REALLY wanted a Sega Genesis when we moved from Omaha to Colorado (my grandma in Nebraska worked at a computer store so she got video games for all the grandkids to play, for cheap) but once I got the Sega I hardly played the thing, which always made me feel guilty since my parents no doubt payed a pretty penny for it. Since then, I’ve never been that interested in Video Games, unless other people are playing and I’ve been drinking…but yeah, Super Nintendo was the shit when it came out, f’reals.
Yeah I just noticed the great difference between this one and the older one. I really liked how you added an extra panel after the Christmas tree. Adding some suspense before you open the large present, then later finding out it’s a heat lamp. Funny and great stuff.
@ Elyse
I don´t understand, what does ADD have to do with finishing video games ?
Ahh, I lived in an old house like that growing up as well. My room was essentially a closed in front porch. Good lord was it cold in the winter, this was in Ohio, but the extra TV was in my room with the nintendo and then the SNES.
ugh, my parents had a no video game policy too – every year i’d ask for whatever game system all my friends had, and every year i never got one.
one year i got VIDEO PAINTER.
…you can do tangrams on the tv screen if you hook it up in complicated ways. JOY
to this day i can’t play video games, i just never developed the hand/eye coordination or whatever. i mostly just panic, button mash, and give up.
then my fucking sister comes along 11 years later, i come home and she’s on a headset playing goddamn call of duty on a brand new black xbox. NOT BITTER AT ALL.
This brought a real smile to my face, Julia. Great stuff as always.
I mostly played educational PC games. Which was fine, actually, as that included Lemmings.
who Knows what happens when you jump a bike in excite bike with the cheat code and go out the top of the screen fast enough ?
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