Hey, I remember that!

---

There are days when I'll return home from work to find the boys sitting around the computer playing a game which I was sure that they'd abandoned long ago. Since installing our new operating system I found a floppy from a few years ago with a game that had occupied them for almost countless hours and decided to reinstall it. They found it and returned to it with an unexpected (to me at least) fervor. So just what "nobody has any interest in" means is open to interpretation. It's not hard to forget something and keep it out of mind, but apparently also very easy to have some external trigger remind us of it again. As long as there's hard drive space, I'll keep their games available, no matter how long it's been since they last played them. This is basically the same principle upon which I keep books on Hila's shelf. She may not have asked me to read her a particular story for ages, but chances are good that if I remove a particular book from the shelf, that's the book she'll want me to read tonight.

An old yet recently rediscovered game (and for that matter, an old yet recently rediscovered book) can be at least as enjoyable as a new one - and quite a bit cheaper.

---

Go to: Tel PC, or
Go to: Tools I've known and loved ... and often abandoned.