[TheSlyMoogle]

Don't forget it was also so magical because you remembered all that stuff too. Remember when you found something secret in Zelda or mario or something like that? You remembered it. I can go back and play those games to this day and be walking down a screen in zelda and go "Oh yeah, can't I bomb this wall here for a heart piece?" Bam! Heart piece. Same with Mario and warp pipes and hidden areas.

You also used to talk about these things with other kids you knew. I would see someone on the bus with a game or something and be like "Oh yeah, you ever played that? Oh did you find that heart piece right next to where you start the game? Oh you didn't? Oh you bomb the top wall and it's under the rocks!"

Then the two of you would spend the next couple of weeks discussing secrets of the game.