Statement of Purpose

[8-26-08-Note: I'm keeping this post as a sort of interesting (to me only) historical document.  This website was originally to be about old-school video games.  It was "Mighty Deep Roots: Exploring Our Gaming Roots One Cartridge At A Time."  Not bad, if you ask me.  However, I find now that, 8 months after creating it, I haven't posted a single real post.  Turns out that my enthusiasm for the subject was insufficient to sustain a website, even one that I would have been able to make money off of.  So it goes, as the man said.  I am, however, in love with the name "Mighty Deep Roots."  I found myself looking for a name for a blog I wanted to do about my favorite words (and language sort of in general), which is among my very most favoritest subjects, and I realized that I already had a great one that I wasn't using.  Not really.  So, Mighty Deep Roots is no longer about video games.  There's enough talk of them on the internet.  Too much.  So, now that my mightily failed foray into old-school gaming has committed an honorable seppuku, Let's Play with Language.]

I love video games.  For the last several years, though, I haven't played them very much.  The problem is that new games often aren't all that great.  Sure, the graphics will blow your face off, but you don't play cutscenes and graphics, you play games.  Thus, I've started getting back into old school games.  That's what this blog is about: reexploring my gaming roots. This past Saturday night marked our first Old-School Night.  I finally got my N64 back from my sister, so we plugged that puppy up and rocked out to some Goldeneye.  Which, for the record, is the single greatest FPS ever created, bar none.  I'll readily admit, my Bond reflexes have slowed, and my trigger finger is rusty.  In fact, I was having trouble remembering which finger is my trigger finger.  We played a few rounds last night, too, and things went better.  I've got some original NES's that are going in there, too, and a few Ataris to boot.  We're looking for a Genesis and a Super Nintendo, also.  Old School gaming?  Back.