monkey nonsense

Grandma, let me play that video game!

i don’t see what the big deal is! i’ve been fighting my grandparents for the video game consoles since i was little! one time when my grandparents came to visit us and were bored (’cause they can’t really go out without my parents who worked), we introduced them to those japanese video games (“11083091 games in ONE!”). they were hooked! i remember being called down to the basement while i was supposed to be practicing piano so i could solve a banana (who remembers that game?!) level for them. they equated smarts with the ability to beat video games (yay! that may have been the only time in my life they considered me smart) and i remember my grandpa lecturing me, while playing video games, on the need to keep the mind sharp by exercising it often.

when they went back to taiwan, they bought their own console and played all the time. when i went back to taiwan to visit them when i was 18, my grandparents excitedly told me to go upstairs to this room – their gaming room! my grandma complained that there were days that my grandpa wouldn’t even leave that room and that she’d have to bring him up his meals!

even my mom would get hooked on the games. i remember some summer nights staying up til 2-3am playing tetris with my mom!

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