Flashback: Making Friends With Learned Words

So, today I woke up with a dry mouth, and wasn't in a very good mood. So, I do what I always do when the weekend's coming closer: find a classic video game. I have a box filled with my old Game Cube stuff, and a small selection of Gameboy Advanced games. I saw some great titles, which I will come to eventually in this segment, but, one really caught my eye, it was a Gameboy Color game. Now, some of you may not have been around for the Color, but I was, at least for its later years, played a lot of games for it on my GBA. For some of you, this may be a controversial title, but it still remains one of my most played games of all times: Hamtaro: Ham-Ham's Unite!
Now, some of you may say "SANTA! THIS IS A GAME BASED ON AN ANIME! ALL GAMES BASED ON MOVIES, BOOKS, AND ANIMES ARE HORRIBLE! THE MAIN CHARACTER IS A HAMSTER!" And you would be right on the last issue, Hamtaro was an orange and white hamster, but he was adorable, and had to help find his friends who were scattered about this adorable world, and bring them back to your clubhouse. It took me 7 years to complete this game. 7 Years. As a small child, I thought this game would perplex me until the day I died, but, after a while, I figured I could cheat, and looked up how to beat this confounded game. As stated before, you have to retrieve all your friends, but, to do this, you must first find, and convince them to come back. How, you may ask, as you do not speak Hamster. The entire point of the game was to learn words that have special meanings pertaining to their club, and had special abilities, seriously, one word made you quintuple in size; it described 'big.' Hamsters are magic.
After finding this creation beyond its years again, my next challenge was to find a way to play it, as my DS doesn't play Color games (much to my dismay) and my GBA was nowhere to be found. But, never fear, I had the greatest piece of gaming technology ever invented: the Gamecube GBA player. That’s right ladies and gentlemen, I got out my old Gamecube (which was covered in a layer of dust about 3/8 of an inch thick) and found the player still plugged in, this cute little thing plugs into the bottom of your Gamecube, then you put in the included disc, and pop your favorite retro game into the slot on the converter, you get to play your old games on the big screen, and use your favorite controller from this seat of your couch. Now, I can't say that I played more hours on the adapter than I did on my GBA (god rest its used soul, wherever it may be) but I can say that it is by far the best 60 dollars I ever spent on anything.
So, to all of you old game fans out there, if you get a chance at one of these amazing devices, I'd take a swing at it, I haven't seen one in a long time, and I can safely say that although it may not change the overall quality of the game, (It will look a bit blocky, depending on your screen) it will give new life to your overall gaming experience. To everyone else who still owns a Gameboy Color, hold onto it, I know that I have countless memories from my days of handheld gaming, and I can only hope that yours are just as magical. Although the handheld industry may be a bit undersold at times, I still have 2 of my top 5 games of all time in the handheld game spot. Who knows, next Friday, I might be back on a Pokémon binge, as anybody who grew up in the 90's can tell you, handhelds may not give you the greatest storyline of all times, but they can kill an entire evening worth of time.