To '80s kids, that's probably still the case. Pop culture pundits will tell you that the quintessential piece of video game music is the theme to 1985's Super Mario Bros. I am also about to beat Sonic Adventure 2 for the first time in over a decade, and have been forced to reconcile my nostalgia with the harsh reality that it is not a terrific game: The controls are frustrating, the 'treasure-hunting' levels dramatically upset the game's pace and the Doomsday plot reads like a Bob Books Armageddon.

At the time of writing this, I am unemployed and addicted to Postmates. But most of all, I remember playing a shit-ton of Sonic Adventure 2: Battle on the Nintendo Gamecube, a mildly enhanced port of the Sega Dreamcast game released in June 2001.įifteen years later, and my early, illustrious English education has clearly paid off. I remember feigning excitement during the 2002 World Cup I remember using deodorant for the first time and being made fun of for not knowing how to rollerblade. When I was 10 years old, my parents sent me to a boarding school in Suffolk-a picturesque part of eastern England that was recently immortalized in the annoying Ed Sheeran song ' Castle on the Hill.' Despite sounding like the premise to a screenplay residing in the wastebasket of Wes Anderson's imagination, my memories from then are mundane and decidedly un-twee.

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