My Nes Tale

I had Nintendo as a kid and 5 or 6, and I loved it.  I had all the great games, and sometimes my dad would come home with games he picked up from a garage sale.  It was great.  I played it for many years. It gor harder and harder to play, I had to blow in it so much, and it was such a chore.  I got SNES, but I still loved my NES.  I got playstation and my NES and I had grown apart because it was impossible to get to work.  A kid needing cash for PS games, Sold all of my games and threw out my broken NES, a day I am still kicking myself for (which at the time I didn't know but probably only needed an internal cleaning.)  I went to my local video game store and he gave me a dollar a game, i traded it in for a copy of Jet Moto(I know, I was a dumb kid).  Years later of boredom over my PS games, I really started thinking about my NES and all the fun i had.  I went back to the store, to find that they don't carry any NES stuff anymore.  So i resorted to the internet, found many great sites and discovered NES emulation, Wow i thought FREE NES!!!!  I played it a couple months and realized it was just not the same.  I asked around in school, and my friend told me he still has his.  I offered him a deal of 10 dollars, he accepted.  A month later he finally gives it to me with one game (of course Mario/DH) but with no controllers.  I took the thing home and it was the dirties thing I have ever seen, it was sticky, and had juice and crayon on it.  After a good hour or two of cleaning, it was as good as new.  I popped in Mario and oh yeah no controllers ARRGGGHHH.  I did some more asking, and found another friend who had only controllers (kinda ironic)  A month later he finally gave them to me, for free.  Still zapperless, I said to myself "Ok this something I could find at that great Funco Land.  Maybe I could pick up a few cheap games while I'm there.  As I go there I see the NES rack, I scan it for games, "WHAT IS THIS?  These crappy common games 5.99???  Hell No" I asked if they had any Zappers, he said no and they rarely get them in, but he said If they get them they are $.99.  Arggg no gun.  After more asking around in school, nobody had it.  But as I walked home, with my friend who sold me NES, and a kid i never met, i brought it up.  The kid I never met said he had one, as we walked by his house I offered him a dollar, he went upstairs and brought it down, I was so happy(so it was the grey one and I liked the orange better, so what).  With some games bought from my friends for a dollar each, I am set, I have a NES again.  And that is my NES story boring enough.  Maybe later I'll tell the story about the videogame guy who laughed at me for asking about NES.