That was a long time ago

Me: How do you even know about the PowerGlove? That was a long time ago.Kenneth: I research. Me: Research is good.I return the favor and ask them what their first game was. One of Buy RS Gold Dana's was Cooking Mama for DS. I was going through a phase of, like, cooking, she says. Kenneth's was Super Mario Bros. Not the first first one, but kinda like the first one I ask if it was New Super Mario Bros.. Yeah, that's it. And I also played the Kirby series, but I forget the one it was. Kirby is really old, says Ian.Vanessa, age ten, used to play videoRunescape games but she doesn't anymore. Her first game was Dora's Color Kingdom. Will says he used to play Dora Runescape games, too.Kenneth then asks me what the most recent game I played was. I begin, The most recent game I played was yesterday and the kids exclaim in a harmony of Whoa's. Maggie wants to know if I played by myself, and I ignore her, but she asks again, Mr. Jon, did you play it by yourself?, and for some reason I lie and say no, my wife was in the room, but I did play by myself, and I don't know why this ten-year-old girl wields power over me, but she does, and I feel a modicum of shame.They totally freak out when I say I'm thirty-four.Alice has a question. How often and how long do you play Runescape games? My answer is four times a week, and one to three hours per time. She covers her mouth with her hands and her eyes widen.I say that I play a little bit every day. But an hour at once is about my limit.Kenneth: I play until my eyes bleed and it's like, This is worth it.' We need to wrap things up. I ask if there are any more reactions to Nintendo's president passing away, or your own experiences with Nintendo or Runescape games in general. Alice raises her hand. She looks down at her notes, the ones she took after hearing me read Iwata's obituary. I love videoRunescape games and all, she reads. But I'm very sad to hear that he died pretty young. My expression when I heard this is, My life is over.'What I don't say then, but am thinking now, is that for you, Alice, and my other students, and for Nintendo in the wake of losing a president and mentor and friend: Your life is just beginning. Since 2003, Jon Irwin has been paid to write about film, techno, ice cream, wine, golf, drag-racing, French children and videoRunescape games.