A Gamer Holiday and Shameless Advertising
In late July I plan on starting my own Holiday. I’m calling it 16-Bit Saturday. 8-Bit is awesome but 16-bit allows the variance I desire for my weekend. Kidding, it’s because the alliteration.
The debacle over the name over; what is this Holiday? Well it’s a weekend to celebrate our origins. I say we have a weekend in the summer where all gamers take a couple vacation days or call in sick to celebrate video games as we used to. Fun things, we got together with a couple of friends, and forgot our cares over. A time when console wars didn’t exist. We all brought our systems together, no matter how diverse or different, and played them.
I’m personally creating a Facebook event for everyone I know and offering up my pad as a place to crash. I will have four TVs of my own, provided no one else brings some, all set up between the dining room and living room with different consoles on each.
I want to play video games, get drunk, and remember what’s it like to have fun when games didn’t need to be triple A or make sense. I will be a pipe jumping plumber that kills turtle demons and mushroom meanies. I will Rage on some streets. I might even double some dragons.
I encourage you all to do the same. In the coming years I wish to make this a thing. Every fourth Saturday in July. 16-Bit Saturday. A national holiday for gamers.
Oh also… check out SDA Marathons that week too if you can’t make it. Speed running for a cause. I can’t get over this fascination with the phenomenon.
