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Editor's note: Alex shares a part of his childhood with the Bitmob community: a book made while in elementary school about the alphabet and video games. How many of you still have game-related grade-school projects? Are you willing to share them as Alex has? -Jason
Did anybody else have Young Authors in elementary school? This is probably what first got me interested in writing. I thought I would share one of my video-game-related Young Author books because, clearly, I wanted to really get beat up badly. Actually, I'm pretty sure this is the book that won the trip to the convention or whatever it was. Obviously my town didn't have a lot of good writers if this thing got me in.
Apparently this was when my sister and I were inseparable.
And I start the misrepresentation right on the first page with a Genesis game.
QuakerJack is the nemesis of Darkwing Duck, who also happens to enjoy oatmeal.
Psychro Crow: Just in case you didn't catch that he is a crow, here it is again.
OMG!!! SPOILARZ!!!
I'm pretty sure I just made this stuff up. As I've still never
played either of these games, I couldn't say for sure.
It's too bad I didn't know about the whole cast of Sonic's friends
back then. I could have done a whole book with just them.
Even at 10 I knew that, when in doubt, whatever movie or
TV show I could think of would have a licensed game.
I used to make fun of my mother because she would
label all video games as "Nintendo." Clearly I am a hypocrite.
On top of getting a jump-start on my writing career,
it looks like I was also dabbling in video-game level design.
Did anyone even make a Road Runner game? I'm pretty sure
I'm just operating under the assumption that my teacher
doesn't know a thing about video games at this point.
Marvin the Martian will f*** you up, son!
You can tell I had a knack for enticing people to try out
games they hadn't heard of even when I was in the fourth grade.
I had to resort to "out of the box" thinking toward the end.
"Books" means Hank the Cowdog. I was obsessed with those things.
As an added "bonus," I've added the only page from my could-have-been best seller, Bomb Force. I made this sometime in middle school, when my mother bought me some of the little hardcover books they used in Young Authors at The Teachers Store. Apparently, I wasn't that inspired by the story and gave up writing the adventures of Smooth Smith, Femabomber, and Camo Man. Too bad.
You can find more of my writing on music, movies, and more -- as well as those of other contributors -- at Cerebral Pop.
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