It started way back in elementary school

I started tryin to be smart steada tryin to be cool

Got a 286 with 8 megs of ram

Stayed inside, never got a tan

Runnin QBasic got me coding games

I made a couple that were good, but mostly they were lame

Got a 486 runnin wolf 3d

And duke nukem, too, baby, hail to the chief

I grew up on hits like SMB3

I would play it all night; it meant the world to me

And when I hit my teen years, it was like a girl to me

It was all I needed to set me free

A video game junkie I would tend to go drastic

Spent all my money on circuts and plastic

Playing those games till the break of dawn

Much to the dismay of my dear old mom

All those moments I got to play

On my nintendo every day

I wish I could go back

To those times - they were so easy

I wish I could be playing my super NES

Playing ninja turtles with my friends

Those times they were the best

Now ten years later, I'm the the same boat

Near the same castle, in the same moat

I have dual widescreens to my name

And a good video card to run my games

I'm reasonably certain the times have changed

But you wouldn't know if from my games

Technically my games have changed, it's true

Playin doom 3 instead of doom 2

I've practically mastered Mario 3

On the gameboy, emulator, and my TV

Mario Adventure is the game I roll

On the gameboy advance, when I'm on the go

I'm always down for some Halo on the XBox

I'm a little out of practice, so I don't trash talk

It's great multiplayer, but it's not the same

As the great story line of the single player game

All those moments I got to play

On my nintendo every day

I wish I could go back

To those times - they were so easy

I wish I could be playing my super NES

Playing ninja turtles with my friends

Those times they were the best

All those moments I got to play

On my nintendo every day

I wish I could go back

To those times - they were so easy

I wish I could be playing my super NES

Playing ninja turtles with my friends

Those times they were the best