"Some researchers have theorized that the amount of space Jenkins' brain allocates for Nintendo-based memories has resulted in damage to or the complete loss of his non-Nintendo-based memories."
It's funny 'cause it's true. The essense of Nintendo fanboy-ism in print! I, too, have trouble remembering phone numbers and Sega games I know it's the Onion and all but it really hits the nail spot on. I know I'm not the only one seeing myself in the article
Great find!
Thanks for the link, I really enjoyed reading it.
Once I had finished this line, I had burst out laughing, and I chuckled for the rest of the article.In addition, his entire dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is devoted to remembering the time he did a helicopter dunk from half-court with Shawn Kemp at the buzzer to beat the Charlotte Hornets 82-81 in NBA Jam: Tournament Edition.
I had a laugh at that last lineThe findings also revealed that about 60 percent of Jenkins' repressed memories may involve Nintendo. In a Rorschach inkblot test administered to him, Jenkins compared a series of amorphous shapes to a bird eating its young, his mother brandishing a broadsword, and the entire cast of characters from Castlevania II: Simon's Quest.
Oh my god... one of my favorite memories from college."In fact, the only school-related memory he is able to review as vividly as the underwater-bomb-defusing level of Nintendo Entertainment System's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is his first day of college, which was spent playing multiplayer GoldenEye 007 with his roommates.".