![]() ![]() The Power Player Super Joy III in its original packaging. In an act of unprovoked generosity, my beautiful selfless aunt forked over $49.99 or so to whatever pushy seller was running the kiosk. Not my grandparents, who still functioned under the half-belief that too much television would liquify a child’s brain. Not my mother, seemingly impervious to the allure of an impulse buy. But I didn’t expect to actually get it.īut, by the grace of God, I was with my aunt that particular day. However, I was also still young enough to not fully recognize (or care about) the quality of the content or hardware at hand. Falling somewhere between the ages of 9 and 11, I was old enough at the time to enjoy playing video games. One of the rotating kiosks situated in the center of the main hall housed a few dozen brightly-colored packages and a screen advertising a variety of 8-bit games. My aunt was in charge of all the kids one afternoon, and for whatever reason, she took us to the nearby Clifton County Mall. ![]() Perhaps unsurprisingly, the consistency of these trips makes it easy for me to recall an event that I could not have anticipated – my first encounter with the Power Player Super Joy III. It was the sort of fun that I could accurately forecast, which even at a young age I deeply appreciated. Many of my memories of those visits bleed together. We’d visit a now-defunct water park aptly named Water Slide World, gawk at the mastodon skeleton and mineral collection housed at the New York State Museum, eat pancakes wrapped in brown sugar and syrup. Growing up in the early 00s, my brother and I would head up to Albany, NY for a week each summer to spend time with our grandparents and younger cousins. While the titles available on each cartridge varied significantly, each version featured a pair of gulls flying across the menu screen while the popular 1955 hit “Unchained Melody” played in an endless loop. The opening screen of a popular Famiclone multicart that was marketed under a variety of names. ![]()
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