While growing up my brother and I had all the video game systems, first there was Atari which was upgraded to Nintendo, Sega Mega Drive, Nintendo 64, Playstation and lastly Playstation 2 before we grew up and decided that getting drunk and chasing chicks was both more productive and fun.
Out of all the games of all those systems the one that easily brought the most joy hands down was Mega drive’s Mortal Kombat. We were about 12 or so and we would be playing that shit nonstop, from Friday afternoon after school until Monday morning we were in the zone. It’s important to remember that this is prior all the energy drink shit that kids are on today so if we had that I can only imagine it would have been even more fucking awesome.
Anyway playing as a team was always a win for both unless one of us would decided we were worthy of two gos which didn’t go down well. But ultimately the best fights were in two player mode against each other, I still remember him beating the shit out of me, me pulling his cord straight the fuck out the machine and not only catching back up, but also ‘finishing him’ before he had a chance to plug it back in. This of course would result in the game taking a back seat while we decided to punch the shit out of each other. Of course we would be banned from playing it until we could get along again so our hostility would quickly turn back into teamwork.
As I was a kid who grew up with technology it’s hard to imagine how a game of twister or monopoly could cause as much passion/aggression between players, well that is until I read about 54 year old Kenneth Repke who takes monopoly very fucking seriously. In fact he is now facing up to three months jail time for trying to shake down another player into selling him Park Place and Broadwalk.
The alleged victim called the police and told the operator: “I was at my neighbors house. We were playing Monopoly and he hit me. He slapped me and knocked my glasses off.”
I don’t know about you but I want to fucking play him. Not for the fact that he has probably seen one too many Soprano episodes, but for the fact that anyone who takes a fucking board game as serious as to slap a neighbour across the face because they refuse to sell something is already a winner in my book. Add to this the fact that he is already 54, so give it a few years and this guy will be in his fucking prime and provide shit funny situations nonstop while playing board games at the retirement home.
Overall none of the means shit if he also managed to swipe the neighbors Get Out of Jail Free Card!!
