Games I Would Play for My Soul

At work, I sit in a chair and watch kids swim for hours on end. So one way I pass time is think about dumb stuff. Usually a rhetorical question does the trick. A coworker asked me a rhetorical question to think about while I sat up in my tower listening to another round of "Marco Polo" yesterday. He asked me, "If you had to play any game for your soul, what would you play?"

I was flabbergasted. Usually I can answer these questions with ease and sharp wit. But this was my soul at stake!

So I started eliminating things. Sports went out the window first. I wasn't very good when I still played basketball my freshman year in high school, there's no telling how far from grace I've fallen in that realm. I'm not conditioned enough to play most sports like soccer or football. And although I swam in high school, this is the devil I'm swimming against, and I am just not confident enough for that race.

Then my friend, who was also asked this question, started to talk about possible board games. Shoots and Ladders. Candy Land. Risk. No way is that happening. So much at stake cannot afford to rely on a roll of the dice or whether he picked up a "Get out of Jail Free" card. So there goes that.



And then it hit me...



... GOLDENEYE

I could beat the devil in Goldeneye for the Nintendo 64, no doubt in my mind. My friends actually stopped playing Goldeneye with me because they never won. Perfect. Any weapon set up on any map, I am almost positive I could beat Lucifer himself with my soul in tact. The only way he could possibly sneak that one out is if he was cheap and decided to play as Oddjob.