The Day I've Waited for

Glory!

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It is rare that I forget a day like today, but between a mixture of work, relational and metal issues, the big day today was somehow concealed from me. It was when I collating news papers for the store I was opening for that I saw the advertisements for it. I rarely get excited about consumer events, and yet today I had looked forward to since 2006 if you can believe that.

It was the launch date (pushed back too many times to remember) of Super Smash Brothers: Brawl, the third in a series of video games I have lifted to a near worship of. It is a simplistic game play, where you don the avatar of some icon of Nintendo, from Mario to Link, to even many more obscure characters like Pit, and Mr. Game and Watch. In a traditional fighting game you try to reduce the opponent to zero health by hitting them. What separated smash was that you are trying to send the opponent out of the arena, often a floating platform. Its easy to use button layout and elementary design made it easy to pick up and hard to put down.

I have logged many hours since the first one came out, and often watch YouTube videos of professional gamers duking it out. It is one of two video games fully supported by the Professional Gamers Association, the other series is Halo, also rife with fans and devotion of it own. It is also nice because it is a very social game, the best way to play is with two to four players, and watch the havoc unfold as you all grip to stay on the platform while trying to knock each other out.

For this reason and my own personal interest I thought it would be good to get the game, as social gaming was one of my original goals. I like gaming and its a part of me but I don't want it to make me anti-social or a recluse as some one player games often do. So after work I rushed around town and sought the grail of my gaming life, a fresh copy of my favorite series of games. I played all day with my brother Eben. From 2 - 10 pm, with many intermittent breaks to do other things, not just eat and go to the bathroom. It was a great day, though I probably could have used more of it to take a nap. So thought I am still tired I felt like I had a nice day with my brother enjoying one another and something we'd both been looking forward to for quite some time.

Body - 4: Fatigue had set in, though I didn't chain smoke or eat bad food all day, I didn't really move a lot, and even at work I was sluggish and tired. My body needs rest to get a better score I think.

Emotion - 7: Pretty emotional day, with all the excitement, and nothing really looming on the horizon, I think I did well today. In my interactions I was smart, honest and not in any bad way.

Mind - 5: The mind here is following the bodies example, fatigue certainly slowed down my thoughts, the only reason it got a better score was for still having the drive to do other things, like write here, and also giving me the old reflexes I needed to be better than my brother at smash.

Overall - 5.3


Let the Brawl begin :-)