2 posts tagged “childhood”

My favorite Muppet? Kermit, of course. It ain't easy being green.

Kermit is smart. He's sensible. He keeps a cool head in the midst of craziness. He has a great sense of humor. He's self-depricating. He's organized. He's talented. And he's a frog.

I guess I love him mostly because he's the first Muppet I remember knowing. I can remember watching Sesame Street in the early seventies. I always hated Big Bird. I liked Oscar okay, and Ernie, but was sort of non-plussed by everyone else besides Kermit. I loved Kermit. And when the Muppet Show came along, I was hooked!

I can remember when my father took me to see The Muppet Movie. I loved it. I made him take me a couple more times that year that I was seven. (Remember: films played much longer then. There were no VCRs, so it wasn't unheard of for a film to stick around in theaters for months, or even a year.)

And don't forget my collection of Sesame Street Video Clips at my main site. Still very popular!

I had many favorite arcade games. It depended on my age and what was out. I grew up at the perfect time for arcades. I can remember Pong machines in the movie theaters when I was a boy, followed by Space Invaders, Asteroids, Missile Command, Pac-Man, and more. All of these were favorits. But my favorite of all was probably Joust. I was good at it, but not great, and it came out when I was in junior high or high school, so I had my own supply of quarters and didn't have to bum them off my parents.

I played a lot of games right up until a few years ago. In the late ninteties I switched from Mac to PC specfically so I could play more games. But when I switched back to Mac a couple of years ago, my game-playing days became few and far between. I still play World of Warcraft every winter, and I plan to buy Civilization 4 when it is released for Mac this summer, but that's about it.

Not.

I'm saving for a Nintendo Wii! I hope to get my wife interested in console gaming, though that's an uphill battle...