“It’s Just a Game”

[Mike23Ua]

Tonight I want to post something that’s always sort of bothered me, and I do not know who will read this or take any of it to heart but I wanted to share something a bit personal, and maybe perhaps a little bit weird if I’m the only one that does this..? But hopefully no one will mind.

I hate it when game developers are quick to toss out the phrase “It’s just a game” I don’t think that as Developers they can understand what a game might actually mean to someone.

On September 9th I bought Bubsy the Purrrfect collection as soon as it became available, I played the original releases of this forgotten mascot of the 90’s on the SNES & Sega Genesis game consoles with my now recently deceased Grandmother, Buying this collection I get to run and fly through all the levels I played with her when I was young, the catchy intro music, every iconic sound, the hidden Easter eggs she proudly found & showed off to me, every funny animation like a sewer lid popping up and crashing down on Bubsy’s head that had me & her laughing so hard at night that my grandfather who had to get up super early in the morning to go to work the next day would angrily come to the door & yell at the two of us to shut up so he can get to sleep, only for him to end up laughing too when we show him.

This isn’t just a video game.. its memory’s I have of people who are no longer alive that we got to share together because of a game.

Today.. I sit here in my grandfathers mostly empty house, he & my grandma both passed to the other side, I fire up “Bubsy Purrrfect Collection” on my Xbox & although she’s no longer sitting by my side as we take turns trying to clear the games levels just for a brief moment I get to remember the moments we shared.

This doesn’t just apply to video games though, movies, books, old funny comic strips you can stumble upon online from now discontinued newspapers.

I remember playing Sonic 2 with my Aunt before she left home and went off to get married, she promised that she’d come back and we would finish the game together but we never did, we never got the time between her marriage & busy life with having kids, life moved forward for her while I still believed someday we’d complete Sonic 2, well that didn’t happen & I don’t have much family left anymore.. When I bought Sonic Origins a few years back, I finally completed Sonic 2 without her.

Anyway uhm the point I’m trying to make with this post is that sometimes it means a little more then just being some silly game, sometimes it can be a way of holding onto people who aren’t here anymore. 🫶🏻

[linabagel]

This time I support you Mike.

[Bumber64]

Precious moments, never enough time. C'est la vie.