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February 26, 2003

Yahoo! Boing boing Poomp!
Posted by Jess in Day to Day

Last night on my way home from work, I needed something new to listen to, so I pulled out an old mix tape. "The Tetrisphere Puzzle 96 Mix" (the name was always the most fun to come up with).

The tape was created when Matt, Jay (our old roomate and Matt's best man) and I could spend hours happily playing Nintendo 64. One game in particular, Tetrisphere, had puzzles you could solve. Matt, Jay and I are puzzle/riddle nuts, so naturally we were hooked. One puzzle in particular (96, what a surprise!) took about two weeks to solve.

We'd each try, fail miserably, and pass the controller. Repeat. During those two weeks, we had a select number of songs we'd listen to, among those, Dream Theater's "Trial of Tears", which is one of my favorite songs.

Each side of the mix tape had to have it's own title also, that was very important. For example, my Tetrisphere mix had two sides. "The license to kill side", which is a reference to Goldeneye 64. In between trying to figure out the puzzles, we'd take breaks by pummeling each other in first-person shooter games. We'd get quite noisy, too, until a neighbor politely told us that they could hear us shouting expletives at each other down the building. Whoops.

The second side was the "Yahoo! boing boing poomp" side, which is a reference to Mario Kart 64. Toad is my favorite character to race, and I used to and continue to be made fun of for that... he's just so darn cute!

Anyway, if anyone has an old mix tape lying around, dig it out and play it again. You'll be amazed at how you'll instantly remember what the next song is and why you decided to put it on the tape in the first place.

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