I show up for a visit, and he wants me to play Super Mario Kart against his dad, my brother. Literally handed my the controller and ordered me to play him. I hadn’t played this game in like 15 years, but hey, I’m game.
My nephew watched me blunder my way through mushroom cup, and ultimately getting my butt kicked.
So at the end, instead of playing the winner, he declared he wanted to play against me! My brother cracked up and said “kiddo, he hadn’t played this game since before you were born. But he’s warmed up now, I don’t think you know what you’re getting into”
Poor kid couldn’t get a W the whole weekend. No mercy.
This brought back a memory from college. This was at Cal Poly Pomona sometime in '97. I used to take my N64 to the communal area with a big TV in my dorm to play multiplayer games. I spend like a solid month no-lifeing the time trials when MK64 came out and had a reputation for being pretty much unbeatable. This other guy who everyone said was also really good at the game challenged me and I had the most intense match on Rainbow Road ever; it was neck and neck almost the whole race. I won in the end, but it was close. Fun times.
Nowadays, of course, I would go online and be instantly destroyed.
My wife and I play Fortnite every once in a great while. You get to thinking you’re hot shit and then some 12 year old sneaks up on you and shoots you in the face. There’s always a bigger fish I guess.
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