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I've told this story in relation to Junior, so apologies if you've heard it before.
We were latchkey kids in the 80s. So, during the summer, when mom left for work, we were to stay indoors until dad got home. Mom left for work at about 9am.
We had two places within about a 10-minute bike ride from the house. There was 7-11 on one corner and a similar family-owned store called Pete's Liquor across the street. They would often send me to fetch milk, bread, candy bars... whatever we wanted/needed at the time. So when these stores started rotating video games through, I started playing them.
At the time, I had a paper route. At that age, I had more money than I knew what to do with (what a problem to have). So during the summer, I would get up around 7 and haul ass down the road to get my daily gaming in. 7-11 brought Donkey Kong in seemingly not long after it became a hit in the arcades. I believe that the first time I played it was at our Skate World skating rink, but I really put time into it when 7-11 had it. Unfortunately, 7-11 rotated their games once or twice a year, so it was relatively short lived. Not long after Donkey Kong left 7-11 though, Pete's got Donkey Kong Junior, and a lifelong sickness was discovered.
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