This was just something I wrote WAY back when N64 first came out... a tribute to the classic 8-bit NES games of a bygone era. No, I don' t own the rights to the real song "Memories". This is just my own little rewritten version... feel free to sing along and remember the old days of gaming...

Memories (Classic Video Game Lyrics)
By Mandy Owston

Memories light the levels of my mind,
Misty Koopa-colored memories
Of the way games were...

Scattered pixels of 8 bits we left behind,
Bits that looked like Mario Brothers
In the way games were...

Can it be that games were all so simple then,
Or has 64-bit rewritten every line?
If we had the chance to play Mario 1 again,
I ask you, would we? WHY would we?

Memories of games so primitive and yet,
Games too painful to remember,
Those games we just didn't rent.
So it's the plumbers we will remember
Whenever we remember... the way games were.