It's a long weekend here in the UK thanks to the second of our two public holidays throughout May. I'm looking forward to it, both to take a rest from the mental noise of daily life, and for the event taking place tomorrow!
Tomorrow I'm having a (month-late) birthday celebration in the way that I've marked the occasion for the last few years: The Davison Cup. This is a(n increasingly rare) opportunity to get my local friends together to play some video games, eat some snacks, drink some beer and just have some fun.
I typically like to make The Davison Cup an opportunity to expose these guys to some games that they may not have tried, or may not have felt the inclination to explore over the years. To that end, the games that will form part of the overall "tournament" run the gamut from Atari 2600 games (courtesy of Atari Flashback Classics on Switch) to more recent titles. There are, of course, some established classics in there too — Mario Kart 8, Nintendo Land, Street Fighter 2 — but there's also some games that I've been itching to get them to try for ages, like Boom Street (aka Fortune Street).
I'm looking forward to the event tomorrow, and I'm just hoping none of them lame out and suddenly have to go home in the middle of the day, as unfortunately happened last year. This is a rare opportunity for all of us to recapture a part of our (increasingly distant) youths, and I don't want anything to spoil that!
Anyway. Off to bed now. I need to be on my A-game tomorrow. Or I might let my friends win. We'll see. 🙂
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