OK, so I just sat  here for the past couple of hours (or more) (ok, more) playing Wonder Boy III, The Dragon's Trap on my computer.  This is a game from the ancient Sega Master System, a game system long forgotten to many, but not to me.  Oh yes, my mom may have sold it at a garage sale when I was but a boy (back when you could still have garage sales in the Woodlands...see, I'm old school woodlands not new school rich boy woodlands), but I still remember the hours and days spent in front of that small, pink TV upstairs in my mom's room trying to beat those amazing, colorful levels that even as an adult, between the less-than-perfect maneuverability of the character and the annoying, inconvenient save method (not to mention that it brings you back to the beginning of the WORLD every time you die on a  level, no matter how far you are), are still almost impossible...

Anyway, in this game you do two things basically: line your pockets with gold and try to find little red hearts to fill up your own heart, which is constantly under attack from a wide array of bad guys.  As I was playing, I sort of got a little philosophical and began to realize that this little Wonder Boy is not too unlike myself, out in the world, among all my competitors with their beady eyes trying to slay me, just trying to make my way with some gold and trying to fill my heart with happiness...as the game went on, however, I began to realize that the hearts were more important than the gold...I mean the gold was eventually used to buy stuff that would protect you, like armor, but in the end, if you're more focused on finding gold than hearts, you're dead.

So I guess I thought that in life, if we focus a bit more on what's going on in our hearts than what's in our wallet (Capital One - sorry couldn't resist) (Weezy actually put that in a verse - it's at 4:19) then uh, we'll eventually turn back into a human again?  That's what the point of the game is anyway.  I'm just wasting time at this point, I really need to go to sleep, I've got church tomorrow at 8ish....nite


i beat this part already...right now i'm like a MouseMan


this is a graffiti i made featuring the Wonder Boy in dragon form....this is the only pic i have of it on my compie, the final version looks way way better with a cooler shade of green...oh wellz