I don’t remember much about my Year 9 school camp. I have vague impressions of stretches of bushland, and another class being made to perform the Nutbush while mine was spared, but the part I remember with the greatest clarity is that the camp ended on May 17, 2002 – the same day that the Nintendo GameCube launched in Australia.
I got back from camp and my parents took me right to the mall to pick up my preorder. I’d somehow gathered enough savings to buy a console at launch, along with copies of Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader and Super Monkey Ball, and I spent much of the next four and a half years (until the Wii released) enjoying the console’s increasingly sparse slate of releases.
