Collected Thoughts

That's hysterical.

I remember being one of the first kids to have a Nintendo (just the regular, basic model), and Super Mario Brothers seemed so cool compared to the old Atari games. One of my friends was from Japan and had a Japanese Nintendo system, and got the games for that about a year before they were released on the American system. Another friend figured out how to modify the Japanese cartridges to play them on an American Nintendo. (Pretty much, you use needle-nose pliers to slide the inside part out of the cartridge, wrap it in a 1 1/2-inch-wide satin hair ribbon, and secure the ribbon with scotch tape.)