Saturday, October 07, 2006

When I was a ciku-ling (young person la) during the 80s, I would pester my mom to buy me a Game & Watch by Nintendo. It was awesome! The one and only one I had was the Octopus game. The aim of the game is to retrieve gold as much as possible from a chest on the seabed while manoeuvring your way around the octopus’ tentacles. There are only three chances as evident by the three fish-bowl wearing men sitting in the boat. A very tricky and addictive game powered by a button-sized battery.



Fast forward to present time, kids these days would laugh at this no-brainer two-button device. Just look at the PS2 control device. Two joysticks and so many buttons. How do you manoeuvre your character with one hand while pressing different button combinations to shoot your enemies with the other? A character I played in a game not too long ago died even before I could figure out the buttons. Indeed this was tougher than my one day piano lesson when I was six. Sigh.

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