It's Only a Game
It seems as if on a regular basis some new fad appears that every kid must have, whether it's a video game, a doll, or even a book, like the latest edition of Harry Potter. It's funny, but I don't recall anything on the scope of these "rages" back when I was a kid. Sure, we had hula hoops and silly putty and stuff, but it was never a question of being with it or die like today. Even television took a few years to catch on big time, but my memory on it might be faulty because my parents drew a line on the sand and we didn't have one in the house until I was in my teens. It didn't matter to me. I had my own TV made of a cardboard box with little cardboard dials I'd cut out. I pretend watched it for hours. The programming was way better than the real thing.