As anybody who has ever read this blog knows, Erik is a video-game fanatic. He has been ever since I can remember. When I was younger, I remember going over to his house and playing either Atari, Sega, Nintendo, Super Nintendo or the Turbografx 16. Most of you will recognize the first four I mentioned but you're probably scratching your head at the mention of the Turbografx.
This particular system came out at about the same time as the Super Nintendo and the Sega Genesis. For some reason, Erik didn't have a Super Nintendo at the time and he asked for a Turbografx for his B-day. Well not only did he get the system and about 20 games but he also got the brand new Turbografx 16 CD. This bad boy played games off of compact discs! The technology was insane!
I remember going to his house to play his new system, and he was playing this brand new samurai game that was on his Turbografx CD. While the graphics of this game were breathtaking at the time, the controls weren't very good. I recall Erik's character committing hari-kari over and over again cause he couldn't hit the right buttons. That poor samurai killed himself a couple hundred times. To me, this was hilarious.
Well G-Fed kept playing his Turbografx and got really good. I remember his agent (remember the Alf days?) calling him and telling him that Turbografx was in the works with a major Movie Studio to produce a movie about it's system. Erik flew down to California and auditioned for the part.
Well before he heard anything back from the studio, the project was scrapped. They decided to change the story over to Nintendo and it's new 'Power Glove' and Super Mario Bros. 3 game. Instead of giving Erik, a natural video gamer, a shot at the lead role they handed it over to that whiny bitch Fred Savage.
Erik was devastated. He vowed to never watch anything with Fred Savage in it again and still gets angry at the mere mention of him or one of his movies. Just try bringing up the Wonder Years or the Princess Bride. Let me know how that works out for you.
2 comments:
That's hilarious! I was just telling someone about the movie The Wizard the other day and how it launched Super Mario 3. Remember how bitchin that was when it first came out?
If they had a power glove for the turbo grafx, I would have totally had that.
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