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Wow, I still remember riding my bike down to Kay-Bee Toy and Hobby and picking up a copy of Zelda. It was a little more expensive than the other NES cartridges, but it was gold and I read in Nintendo Power* you could save your game — no more writing down stupid long codes like in Metroid and Kid Icarus! It was accompanied by a TV ad with a guy in a black turtleneck screaming incomprehensibly about something.Hard to believe that was twenty years ago.

~jeff

* oh, and I wanted to be a Nintendo Game Counselor so bad, too. Imagine! You’d get paid to sit around in a tracksuit, play NES games all day, and then talk on the phone to children! But in the cold, hard light of twenty years later, there’s no way in hell I’d take a job where I’d have to work up tips n’ tricks for “Chubby Cherub” and “Blaster Master”, both of which I swear to God I beat.