Everything as a Super Nintendo

If I had enough money, I’d buy everything in Super Nintendo form. Everything. The console from the nineties had and still has basically everything I need to be happy. Secret of Mana, Super Mario World, Link to the Past—that’s the holy trinity right there, and that’s just the games. I’m not even counting the rest.

I’d get shoes shaped like the SNES. T-shirts. Phone cases. I’d build furniture out of console wood or plastic or whatever, fill a whole apartment with it. I’d drive an SNES-shaped car, live in an SNES-shaped house, wear SNES-shaped clothes. At some point it stops being nostalgia and starts being a religion.

Most of these things won’t happen, obviously. Some of them probably could, but they’d look stupid or cost too much or just ruin the memory. So instead I’m settling for a wallet—an actual licensed Super Nintendo wallet from Japan. The compromise between the fantasy and reality. You want things to look cool but not so hard that you’re embarrassed to use them in public.

It’s enough. It has to be enough.