May 21, 2006
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Whenever you play an older video game, and you see the year it was released, can you resist the temptation to figure out how old it is? I recently did this as I was playing Banjo-Kazooie (N64). Right on the title screen, it said 1998. So after carbon-dating and roughly three-thousand calculations, I determined it was around eight years old. To think, I got this game when it was brand-spanking new, too. Suddenly I feel like an old fuddy-duddy. I get the same feeling when I listen to the radio nowadays. They make the 90s seem like some retro era. Every single station mentions the Spice Girls in some way when talking about the decade. This strikes me as odd because where I grew up during this time (Hawaii), the Spice Girls were a flash-in-the-pan. Everybody I knew was into Aqua. Come to think of it, I still am. They need to make a comeback!
