
Summertime, during a late night bus ride at sleepaway camp in mid-July. The game was Kirby’s Dreamland. I had borrowed my bunkmate’s Game Boy light attachment so that I could continue playing deep into the night. It must’ve been nearly 4 AM. After hours of toil, the naughty King De De De fell from his decrepit throne of lies and landed at my feet. It was the first game I had ever played from start to finish in one sitting. My silent cries of jubilation were of an unmatched intensity …But all of my comrades were asleep, and none would share in my triumph. Silently, secretly, I let myself slip. Dreamland was saved. And ironically enough, it was my next stop.