Personal Narrative-Some Call Of Duty-Esque Games

When I was little(mostly while living in Southern Illinois), we owned what would now be considered a dinosaur of a computer. I loved that computer, and I would play videogames constantly. We had Pandora’s Box(a puzzle game) and Riddle of the Sphinx(My mom is the only one who has figured out at least some of the mystery). Some Call of Duty-esque games (that I somehow understood and liked to play when I was three) and, ironically, Candyland(which I still play today even though it originally came in a glorious cereal box which carried all of my hopes and dreams in a tiny CD), along with many assorted games related to television shows. Most importantly though, Nancy Drew games.

The first Nancy Drew game I remember is Message in a Haunted …show more content…
Nothing compares to the crappy animation and the somehow terrifying but intriguing plotlines of the old games. I remember being scared of all the secret stairways. I remember the alluring artwork that went into all of the rooms in the game. I remember “When the four sided box loses its border,” and “When the bird of fire can see again.” I remember when I first found the key in the bedpost, using the paint chipper to pry off the top, and then using that same paint chipper to scrape tiles off of the ceiling, discovering the secret door that we would later access via key that we may or may not have found in a bedpost(my sister and I still say, “Quick! Look in the bedposts!” whenever we are in a victorian house). I also remember never being able to beat the game. We now have a separate computer that we use to play Message in a Haunted Mansion(and another that we use for the newer games), and still I have yet to get to the end. I know that I have finished it, but it was so long ago that I probably