It really does take a kid
When I was younger, I was the prodigy of fixing the computer. No. I didn't know that much about it. I just happen to know more than the 'ahem' older generation. VCR's, cable setup, whatever it was, no match to my prowess of youth knowledge. During these times, it was simply commented "the kids these days know more than the adults". Yeah buddy.
Now I am the adult and ironically I find myself thinking the same dang thing. It started with the game StarFox. First off, the game rocks. The kids and I play together at the same time. Usually we war against each other. The last couple of weeks, simply put, the kids have been kicking my butt in the game. I use to knock them out or at least maintain a feasible battle.
Alas, the games now last a whopping 3 minutes 21 seconds maximum. The last 1.5 minutes is me running my A$$ off trying to get away. LOL
Today on our trip to Devils Den, we made a stop at Target. The wife's favorite store. We found the Game Boy Advance cable to allow them to link up the GBA's together. They have Fire Red and Green Leaf Pokemon games. Anyway, I'm looking all over the net trying to figure out how this is suppose to work. Connect them, they go to some location within their games and they are suppose to be provided a means to play "together". I couldn't find the specifics online. Most of my searches were cluttered with referrals to the GameCube link not the Game Boy Advance (GBA) link.
I then referred to the Green Leaf / Fire Red magazine, no go. At the end, my soon to be 9 year old daughter found the specifics adn proceeded to inform me how to do it.
Sure enough, the process worked. Now both are trading pokemon between games, battling each other. I am sitting here with thoughts of the past, where I was the kid outsmarting the adult. The tables are turning. Sigh.
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