"Learn not to hear keys"

I've been playing on the church basketball team over the past couple of months. I'm a legacy member of Madison Park Church of God, so they let me play. It's been enjoyable, although it is a little sad, how bad I am. Mostly in bad shape, but definitely lacking in some of the skills I used to have. There are ocassional impressive flashes, but they are few and far between.

Football season is over and I'm jonesing to play some Madden Football on the Wii. I've never played it, but I'm confident I would enjoy it. It would be the perfect game for that time of the day when it is 11 p.m. -- not quite ready for bed, but will be in 45 minutes. In my early teens, I played Madden 96 on the Sega Genesis all the time. I was always the Colts, and it was the days of Craig Erickson...sad days. I had that game down. I would set up my audibles and do a no huddle the whole game in hopes that I could score a ton of points.

Another classic game around that time was World Series Baseball on the Genesis. My mistake was beginning a full season thinking it would be fun to see the stats from 162 games. I think I made it to game 40 or 50 before my attention turned elsewhere.

Perhaps the best Genesis game I played was Phantasy Star IV...thanks Ricker. He let me borrow it, and it was a great RPG. Perhaps someday, I'll download it for the Wii as well and revisit the glory days.

In other gamer news, on February 4, 2009, I canceled my Xbox Live Account. Reckless Jon will never capture the flag again. It was awhile overdue, I suppose and the $50 charge just didn't seem worth holding on to since I don't think I played once in 2008. Maybe I'll use that $50 bucks to go get Madden and play on the Wii's wi-fi for free.