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Just so every non-dork out there gets it, that slip cover is a damned near perfect replica of the slip cover that old, original Nintendo games used to come in. When you slip it off even the back looks like the old video games, complete with (what I believe are) the warnings about extreme temperatures and how you shouldn’t clean the games with alcohol. This is a long-winded way for me to say that you didn’t have to be a video game geek in your past or present to enjoy this comic… but it would help immensely. This is, as Robin puts it, “loosely autobiographical”, and involves a long conversation with the Robin character and his friend Katherine. She wants to know where his obsession with video games came from and the bulk of the comic is dedicated to his detailing that obsession, from being one of his first memories through the really obsessive years all the way to finally realizing that there are other things in life besides video games. I can relate to this to some extent, as can practically every male I know of a certain age group, but this is also a great comic for anybody who’s ever known somebody who’s been obsessed with video games. He lays it all out clearly here (or clearly enough for these biased eyes) and is self-deprecating enough to make this funny for just about anybody. This is probably $2, well worth a look to dorks and lovers of dorks all over the world…
