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Written by Bob Alexander

Saturday, 05 June 2010 14:31

Kids today, they just have no sense of history. I was in Woods Hole recently, and came across a 20-something wearing a T-shirt with this picture:

Nintendo Entertainment System T-shirt

It shows a Nintendo Entertainment System with the words "Classically Trained". This whelp was trying to build geek cred by bragging about a gaming system that was released in 1983! I wasn't about to let that slide. I told him "Dude, you're not classically trained if it's not an Atari 2600."

(Please don't bother complaining to me that there were systems before the 2600. I know. I had to choose something the kid might recognize.)

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