Many in the Game Kingdom have experienced gaming while under the influence of, er, illicit substances. We won't go into detail about those sins, but instead we'll talk about a similar, more legitimate gaming experience: gaming while sick. Hey, if your immune system crawls off to the pub and leaves you at the mercy of a high fever, can The Man blame you for enjoying the pretty colours your brain soothes you with while it slowly turns into fricassee?
I speak from experience. This weekend, which was a gloriously warm Thanksgiving weekend in Canada, I found myself knocked out with the flu. Today, I'm able to sit up again and this coincides with my decision to keep on living.
I was honestly too sick to game at all this weekend, but I remember some good times when the doctor prescribed long doses of "sit down and don't move" and gaming became my number-one pastime. One summer I had major surgery that left me pretty much unable to do anything fun except game. That was the summer I became unsettlingly good at Street Fighter for the Super Nintendo. It was also the first time I played Final Fantasy II (SNES). If you want an eerie experience, land on the Moon for the first time, while playing by yourself in the dark and jacked up on painkillers.
Speaking of, a friend of mine had a special experience playing Super Mario Kart while loaded up on Tylenol 3's after his wisdom tooth removal: "Mario hit a ramp and didn't come down for ten minutes."
I've got a long road to recovery so I think I'll download Secret of Mana on Virtual Console to help soothe me into a doze. Yessssss!
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