Too many men

Someone on Ars posted this image, and it instantly triggered an amazing flashback memory from eight hundred zillion trillion years ago, when I was in elementary school, probably around Grade 6.

My best friend Andrew Knowles brought in this exact Game and Watch one day to class. He always had the best tech toys—I played the original Sears PONG and Mattell hand-held football and a whole bunch of other cool things at his house, including the above device, which looks a lot like the Nintendo DS, no? Anyway, a bunch of us were having way too much fun playing it (at lunch, as we'd never get away with it during class time... or did we??) and it does this thing (shown in the picture) when you nudge the battery and it power-cycles, basically showing every possible character in every position.

I remember this girl, her name was Astra, tall, dirty blonde, not super-pretty but she had boobs which was a magical new thing in Grade 6, and she was kind of aloof and didn't talk to the tiny proto-men that we were back then, which was probably a good thing as we would have just teased her anyways.

Anyway, someone handed her the game and it did the reset thing, and she stared at it for a bit and then started laughing, and I remember what she said then as clear as day:

"There are.... too many men!"

Everyone laughed. It was so awesome.

Even to this day, whenever I'm watching a hockey game and they get a too many men on the ice penalty, I think of this moment.