Gone were the days...

I miss being a kid again.

Up until a few moments ago I was scouring the net for game emulators and roms of old 16 and 32-bit games (NES, SNES, SEGA, N64, even GBC and GBA).

Yeah, I used to be a sucker for those games. They weren't the graphics-heavy sort of online and PC games we see today, but they had great gameplay which, unfortunately, is sorely lacking in many games we find today (some PC games are just too repetitive, similar, and lacking in originality). I liked adventures, RPGs, puzzles...but I wasn't much fan of fighting games like Tekken or Street Fighter or X-Men. Now, games like Super Mario were more of my style.

I downloaded all that I could remember like crazy, not because I really wanted to play them again, but because a weird sense of nostalgia overcame me and I suddenly wanted to see them again, have access to them whenever I wanted to.

It's unlikely though that I'd play them again like I used to do. More likely I'd just open them for fun and gaze at the graphics and remember the "good ol' days." After all, it's not really the games I miss, but the memories they bring back.

Most probably I'd scoff at my cheesiness, like now, and then I'd just close the application and move on to doing something else.