Yesterday I waited patiently while a woman of a similar age to myself had a long animated conversation with the game geek at Best Buy. Well anyway, she was animated. As I shamelessly eavesdropped, I discerned that she was anxious about buying the new PlayStation 3 for her 13-year old son for Christmas. Apparently they are soon to be released and will be hard to come by.
I also figured out that the medium-sized line up of people camping out in front of the store were there for the same reason. Not the 13-year old son part, necessarily, but the game console release. The woman was speculating that many of them were there to buy one and then flip it, making huge profits from desperate gamers and gadget heads. The Best Buy guy wasn't so sure.
I was there with a question that is stumping store employees around Redwood City, which is, can the GameBoy Advance and the DS communicate? Few people other than me appear to realize that the Game Boy Advance has a wireless communication adapter, which already makes me more of an expert than many retail game geeks.
So, how many other women of a certain age are out there, rapidly morphing into game experts at the speed of their son's electronic addictions? An army of boy-mothers who can go head-to-head, swirling acronyms around with the best of them, aiding and abetting their young in the never-ending exploration of the convergence of fun and electrons.
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