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  • #32
    CiDeRmAn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Older Ciderman just has to be satisfied with buying all the games and consoles that he always wanted as a younger Ciderman, in fact so young he was then perhaps "Cidonaman" owing to the fact that he didn't drink yet.
    Now, instead of emulating Sonic, SFII or Metal Slug, I can excuse myself from the table, nip upstairs and in a few switch flips I am playing the originals....

    Which is nice...


  • #33
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,678 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    It's all about making childhood dreams a reality.

    I can remember wanting a Sega Mega CD for christmas when I was 9. Coincidentally, it was the same year I found out the truth about Santa.

    I never did get that Mega CD. My parents were probably still paying off the Megadrive they'd bought me the previous year on higher purchase.

    (For all those celtic tiger kids, higher purchase was for us folk who grew up in the previous recession. It was like getting a mortgage for electronic items you couldn't afford and paying them off over time)

    I bought one a couple of years ago for less than 3 euro on ebay. My inner child rejoiced. Perhaps what they told me about santa all those years ago was in fact a lie. He just operates through ebay now.


  • #34
    landsleaving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Perhaps what they told me about santa all those years ago was in fact a lie. He just operates through ebay now.

    My feelings exactly. I think I've become my own Santa, maybe I never really got over the whole sordid affair, but I just get my own presents now. I know what I want, make a list, and soon wonderful parcels start to arrive at my door. Well in my case they're chucked unceremoniously over my side gate, but it's the thought that counts.


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