In the last month, Nintendo has released two Nintendo Directs about games that were a huge part of my childhood and teenage years. It makes me “nostalgia pretty hard” about the good ol’ days and how much fun it was to just kick it with good friends and beat the heck out of them (through Nintendo characters of course), but it’s also made me think about where the industry is going. I wonder things like “What will my nephew play when he gets older?”
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Nerdy Birthday Presents
Sometimes when we’re not working on Andrecca, we craft other nerdy things. Becca does a lot with clay, yarn and beads when she can. I usually don’t get too crafty, but this year I decided I wanted to custom paint some controllers for Becca’s birthday. She really likes to get her hands on pink controllers whenever she can. She has a pink Wii Remote but there aren’t a ton of other accessories out there that are pink, unless you want to chance it with off brands. Becca is a big fan of the Mario Kart franchise, especially Double Dash. So I decided that she needed to have a pink Wavebird GC controller along with a pink Wii Wheel.
The Importance of Being Backed Up
I absolutely know that this should go without saying, but if you are doing work that is important to you on a computer, back it up.
Learn from me, my name is Becca and I trusted the one copy I had of a project I was working on. That one copy, yeah, I lost it. It was entirely deleted. Don’t worry, this story has a happy ending, thanks to Andrew (he literally is my better half when it comes to electronics).
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