The Game My Father Played in Secrecy

Tried to perfect his skills in the video games, so he didn’t, end up at the bottom every single time, translated…

There’s the game, the Galaxian, from the earliest Nintendo machines, you’d needed to operate the joystick to avoid the bullets from the enemies, and you’d needed to, hit and eliminate all of the enemies planes to get to the next level, and as the levels increased, the levels of difficulty also, increases.  Back when we were little after meal, we’d played this game, and the one who’d scored the lowest will be the one who had done the dishes for that meal.

My mother was the expert in the game at home, she has sharp gaze, and is precise in hitting the enemy ships, in a few moments’ time, she’d, gone through many levels; my dad was, the worst player, as the enemies approached, he’d, flown into a panic, and, started turning the joystick all over the places, which caused him to die, and, he’d, worked, as the robot who’d, washed the dishes for weeks on end, and my youngest sister made fun of him, on how bad he was at playing the game.

here’s that game…from online

Late one night I woke, saw the light in the living room still on, I’d run to see, it was dad, playing Galaxian in mute mode, he saw me awake, sounded a bit shy, and told me, “go to bed now!”

And, these late night trainings he had actually helped, he’d, beaten us, and every now and then, beaten mom too.  Seeing how my dad was grinning after he’d own, and, to help him keep his dignity intact, I’d, kept his secret.  But later, as we’d switched to the car racing games, he’d started getting at the bottom again, and no matter how hard he’d, practiced the games, he still, came up short, and, naturally, winning the video games, it’s, based off of talents.

off of YouTube…

And so, this, is what you caught your dad doing in the middle of the nights, trying to perfect his skills, so he didn’t lose to everybody in the family all the time, and yet, after you started playing a brand new game, he still, got stuck, at the bottom of the food chains, and I’m sure, he’d done, more than his equal shares of the dishes during your childhood days too!