My parents raised me in Shitsville, TX, with nothing around me but horny toads and fields. We didn’t have color TV, much less cable TV. I did, however, have a Commodore 64 (connected to a B&W TV, of course) and it ruled. I used my modem to call BBSs and download games–a game like this might have taken an hour to download. By the way, that’s how I met a 15-year-old Lance Armstrong in neighboring Round Rock.

When you put that kind of time into a game, you really appreciate it. VVVVVV is a retro platform game that’s a lot of fun. You can’t even jump–but you can reverse gravity so you fly onto the ceiling. That’s your only control–left, right, and reverse gravity.

Perhaps best of all, it won’t make you replace hours of maps like Super Mario for the Wii.

Really, mom and dad, you couldn’t have gotten me an Atari 2600? I digress.