Yeah, I know it was a glitch, but its like the high score of an arcade game. You see your piddly little 80,000 versus the 270,000 that gets its name plastered on the screen while your trying to eat your ice cream. You loathe that person for either being too good, or spending too many quarters on pac-man. You don't know where that score came from, how many quarters were dumped into the machine, or exactly who you are attempting to beat. None of that matters -- It's been done. You must eat more ghosts, and stomp that no-named foe into the number 2 spot. Once you do, he will be crushed, forced to watch your initials, not his, come across the screen. You sleep better at night because of it. Your children will tell of stories of how their father beat the pac-man high score in 1989. Your grandchildren will know what pac-man was, and that their grandpappy was the best at the ice cream place. In our futuristic dystopian society, you can lay unstirred in your grave knowing, that somewhere in the deep crusts of the earth is a little piece of 70's era silicon with your initials carved permanently into its memory address for the top score.
Wow that got long, and if it sounds douchebaggy, I'm sorry, didn't mean to be!
And if you ate at the Dar-E-Kreme in Cedar Hill in 1994 (yeah, in 1989 I wasn't old enough), Somebody owes me $20 in quarters, a few bowls of ice cream, a Lamborghini, a 4000+ sq. ft. mansion, and a trophy wife for what could have been, had I only had the muster to beat you.
Last edited by poohead900; 11/03/2008 at 03:02 pm.
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