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[neverbeenhad]

[The camera opens onto a view of a grumpy looking mushroom-like creature toddling across the floor. And then the camera pans up so that the line of four goombas toddling behind it can be seen. A moment later, whoever is holding the camera starts running toward the first goomba--]

HIYA!

[--and jumps on it at an angle so that it flies back and

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[thenwhowas]

... "Over fifty years ago"?

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[neverbeenhad]

Closer to sixty actually.

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[thenwhowas]

What year are you from?

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[neverbeenhad]

204X.

[b/c i can't remember exactly fffffffff, it's the early 40s though :|]

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[thenwhowas]

Seriously?

(Wait, why am I even asking? We're in space, for crying out loud...)

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[neverbeenhad]

Yeah. So?

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[thenwhowas]

...

I guess that's not really all that weird, once you consider everything else about this place...

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[neverbeenhad]

Besides, your world and my world might have completely different histories where technology is concerned.

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[thenwhowas]

Yeah, that's true.

(Guess I didn't think that one out enough.)

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[neverbeenhad]

So how long has it been on your world since games were 8-bit?

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[thenwhowas]

About twenty, give or take.

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[neverbeenhad]

Huh. So what kind of video games are you used to?

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[thenwhowas]

What, me personally, or stuff that's just big in my, uh... time period?

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[neverbeenhad]

Both.

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[thenwhowas]

Uh... I'm actually not really big on games. RPGs are pretty popular where I'm from, though.

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[neverbeenhad]

Oh.

[too bad]

RPGs. Multi-player or single-player?