Brain Full of Games

Something about a little green guy makes me want to do my very best. It makes me want to try to protect him. I think I’ve always loved the little green guy on my screen because I started off playing those green toned Game Boy games and really every game protagonist was a little green guy back then. I used to get anxious playing Frogger. I just wasn’t good enough to keep him from being squished.

Jelly Blobs of Doom was a different story. Even if you didn’t grow up on Neopets in the 90s/00s, you certainly played a game that was basically the same thing: you are a little ___ and you eat other ___ to get bigger. Then, you can eat even bigger ___ and your score starts to get crazy. Of course, the bigger you get, the harder it is to dodge the even bigger ___s that are still trying to chow down on you.

So in this scenario, I was worried about the green jelly Chomby (a friendly brontosaurus-looking fellow who has always reminded me of Littlefoot). I was thinking about this tonight as I played Jelly Blobs of Doom, cackling in a stress-induced mania as a slammed on the arrow keys to get as much jelly in the Chomby as possible before the game ended, because of a video I saw about little white guys. We are still talking video game characters here, by the way, not like, White Guys. I am going to have to revisit this post with a link because unfortunately my brain is not so good and I cannot remember the name of the person who made the video. Also you should watch/listen to it. Little White Guys as a blank slate, ready for you to project emotion and identity onto. Small, soft, simple in a complex and colorful world! It certainly gives me something to think about when I latch onto my Green Guys and Black Guys: I need to revisit Limbo.

*NB// the video is called Little White Guys by Juniper Dev. Link to watch. https://youtu.be/banRsciq1ww?si=QR7kxEvihAusp58R