So I thought it was bound to be a good time when, in the middle of our SSBB tournament in music theory, our (34 or 35-year-old) teacher decreed there would be a "rookie deathmatch" where the only people allowed to play were those who had never touched the game before, and us vets couldn't help them.
Quite funny when the band teacher himself agreed to participate in said rookie deathmatch.
Even funnier when he looked at the character select screen and said "I want to be something called Jigglypuff."
He lost, unfortunately, thus proving he's not a modern gamer. But nonetheless it did intrigue me when he said something along the lines of "It's interesting hearing all these old-school video game tunes here." We'd heard the LoZ theme, some song I think may have been from Kirby (I can't remember) and the band teacher had participated in a match in Brinstar or whatever that level is called. I mean, I knew that he knew Mario music (evidenced by the one time he played the "100 seconds left" music on his keyboard when we were taking a test in music theory and the morning announcements - signalling about 7 minutes left in the class period - came on), but Metroid and LoZ?
Then I asked him if he'd ever been a gamer. "A little bit," he replied. "I was never /too/ into it. I had the original 8-bit Nintendo, never upgraded. It was like crossroads - 'do I get a Super Nintendo, or don't I?' - and I never did."
"What games did you play?"
"Legend of Zelda... Metroid... all the Mario games..."
I've known this teacher for four years but never once did I even suspect that he had any interest or knowledge in those game franchises or any knowledge of anything video-game-related apart from Mario (which, I figured, was more of an 'everyone knows this' kind of thing). Suddenly the fact that he'd recognized the Hyrule and Brinstar themes made so much more sense! (Though left me questioning why he went straight for the unfamiliar Jigglypuff rather than Link, Zelda, Samus, Mario etc... I mean my best friend had picked up SSBM for the first time a few matches earlier and went straight for Kirby because the Kirby and Pokémon franchises are the only ones she's ever really participated in, and Kirby's more familiar than Pokémon to her.)
I always knew my band teacher was a dork (to the point where him calling me a dork is saying something), but somehow I never expected this. Respect for him is increased greatly.
And then there's my boyfriend's parents, who apparently almost broke up/divorced (idk if they were married or not at the time) because they kept hitting each other in Battletoads.
So. Any of you guys got interesting stories bout dorky teachers or parents you'd like to share?
Quite funny when the band teacher himself agreed to participate in said rookie deathmatch.
Even funnier when he looked at the character select screen and said "I want to be something called Jigglypuff."
He lost, unfortunately, thus proving he's not a modern gamer. But nonetheless it did intrigue me when he said something along the lines of "It's interesting hearing all these old-school video game tunes here." We'd heard the LoZ theme, some song I think may have been from Kirby (I can't remember) and the band teacher had participated in a match in Brinstar or whatever that level is called. I mean, I knew that he knew Mario music (evidenced by the one time he played the "100 seconds left" music on his keyboard when we were taking a test in music theory and the morning announcements - signalling about 7 minutes left in the class period - came on), but Metroid and LoZ?
Then I asked him if he'd ever been a gamer. "A little bit," he replied. "I was never /too/ into it. I had the original 8-bit Nintendo, never upgraded. It was like crossroads - 'do I get a Super Nintendo, or don't I?' - and I never did."
"What games did you play?"
"Legend of Zelda... Metroid... all the Mario games..."
I've known this teacher for four years but never once did I even suspect that he had any interest or knowledge in those game franchises or any knowledge of anything video-game-related apart from Mario (which, I figured, was more of an 'everyone knows this' kind of thing). Suddenly the fact that he'd recognized the Hyrule and Brinstar themes made so much more sense! (Though left me questioning why he went straight for the unfamiliar Jigglypuff rather than Link, Zelda, Samus, Mario etc... I mean my best friend had picked up SSBM for the first time a few matches earlier and went straight for Kirby because the Kirby and Pokémon franchises are the only ones she's ever really participated in, and Kirby's more familiar than Pokémon to her.)
I always knew my band teacher was a dork (to the point where him calling me a dork is saying something), but somehow I never expected this. Respect for him is increased greatly.
And then there's my boyfriend's parents, who apparently almost broke up/divorced (idk if they were married or not at the time) because they kept hitting each other in Battletoads.
So. Any of you guys got interesting stories bout dorky teachers or parents you'd like to share?
