Were your parents tough. Mine were. I never got a big belting but I certainly knew that my dad was the boss. I remember once trying to get out of our moving car as it was coming into the garage because I'd just bought Summer Games on Commodore 64 with all my heard earned cash and was dying to play it. My parents took the game and I had to wait 24 hours to play it. That hurt.

But now I'm better for it....

I'm not sure my parents would have gotten as much cash as this guy though;

Dad sells son's 90-dollar video game online for more than 9000

Sun Dec 16, 1:37 AM ET

MONTREAL (AFP) - After catching his 15-year-old smoking pot, a father sold the hard-to-get "Guitar Hero III" video game he bought his son for 90 dollars for Christmas at an online auction, fetching 9,000 dollars.

The sale took place after the father spent two weeks searching for the video game for the Nintendo Wii gameboard.

"So I was so relieved in that I had finally got the Holy Grail of Christmas presents pretty much just in the nick of time. I couldn't wait to spread the jubilance to my son," the father wrote on the eBay website.

I'm puzzled by this story... why would anyone pay over the odds for the game just because of the back story?

There was that guy who shot himself because of Everquest.

9,000??? Who's the fool?

Shawn Woolley. He's on wikipedia.

okay. I'm going to go shoot him He's nuts!

He gave up his job so that he could do nothing except play the game. Wierd.

okay, he is nuts.