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I can´t get to understand why it does this to me but every time I look at it just sitting there on the furniture, staring at me, begging me to be turned on, I can´t avoid and think about all the moments that that console has been there in my life ever since I started coming to Monterrey (except that one time when I was 10 years old). I still remember that weekend I visited my brother and stayed at a friend’s apartment because his house didn´t have any water or electricity running. That was the first time I saw this particular Nintendo 64 and started playing it with my brother and his friends, sometimes during the day, then some more before going to sleep, it was so simple and relaxing it felt just right. The next year I also visited my brother, there it was again, waiting to be played, and oh boy did it get played. The next year when I moved to Monterrey it was there waiting for me in my, now good friends, living room, waiting to be played. And almost every day it got played, if not by one of the 4 roommates living there, by other friends that visited the apartment all the time, it was such a relaxing thing to do, to get to yell all kind of trash to your friends, to get so mad at such simple and kind of ridicules things. I remember coming home late at night after studying all night at school, and seeing my friends watching a movie or a game or whatever, and before going to bed a game had to be played to release all the stress accumulated from school, and even though we just played about one or two matches, it was enough to go to sleep feeling so much better. And even though a lot of friends have graduated and went on with their lives, that console is still around, now with a new set of friends, but it still does what it does best, get friends together, make them excited, mad, make them yell, even sometimes make them drink, but it always gets us together and every time our friendship grows just a little bit more. Every time I see it gets me thinking about all the people that have played it and all the great moments it has seen. I don´t know what´s going to happen to it when I leave Monterrey, but I really hope it gets to stay with a friend, and makes him do what it does best, enjoy some quality time with some people you cherish.