May 11, 2002. A day that will forever live in infamy.... Just kidding.
Actually May 11, 2002 was the day that the Toonami Mobile Game Unit came to visit my hometown of Virginia Beach, VA. I know a lot of you won't like me for saying this, but to me it was a partial letdown.
Let me start at the beginning. I was born on September 22, 1981...... Wait that's a little too far back. Actually it all started about 2 weeks before, around April 28th. I was watching Toonami when all the sudden a commercial came up that I thought was just another Toonami promo, but then this lady came on and started talking about "Come see the Toonami Mobile Game Unit in Virginia Beach," and my heart just about stopped. I was like "What the?" and just about screamed out load in joy. I had heard about the Mobile Game Unit in the old Revolution Board, but I didn't think anything like that would come to my town ever. The last major video game thing to come to my town was Nintendo Power Fest '94, but that's another story. At that moment I decided that I would be going to this event no matter what. I didn't really think about mentioning this to anyone else until it was brought up in a thread in the Toonami forum at Toonzone, and then the greatest webmaster ever, TylerL, mentioned that he'd lik!e pictures from the event, and the commercial, since his site hadn't got a copy yet. I made it a point to get the video at that point and spent about 3 days watching Toonami and recording every commercial break searching in vain for the commercial. (ed. note: Now you know how I feel :p )
Finally on day 4 of my recording adventure I hit paydirt and was able to videotape the commercial. Unfortunately, my video capture skills are poor at best, so I got in touch with Tyler again and made arrangements to mail out my copy of the video out to him. This was about a week before the magic moment, so I still had a lot of waiting to do. Every time I saw the commercial, I couldn't wait for Saturday. Those next few days