Baby fever running wild lately. Especially around town, it's more common to have an unplanned pregnancy! I however, have a plan whenever I do have an offspring of my own. I did say this on my Facebook profile a couple of times, but I think I'm just record it here so I won't sound like a broken record anymore.
I have been wanting a daughter for some reason. I don't know why, it's a feeling that I have about her eventual existence. She's gonna be a great woman someday! What's crazier is that I already decided on a name for her. Her name is gonna be... Unique in a way.
But first, let me y'all introduce you to a favorite childhood game of mine. Played it for the first time on the Nintendo GameCube back in 2002 or 2003. (I was still a young child!) My uncle bought two games for it, one was The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. But he didn't let me play it because I was too young to even understand the game. So he let me play the other game: Super Monkey Ball. That game got me hooked for hours! The game was easy to understand and play, even for a small child like how I was.
As I grew older, I had a better understanding of how the game worked, and managed to find ways to manipulate the physics to my advantage. The game has so much layer of strategy, and more secrets are still being discovered! But one day, I got more curious of the game's development history. So I did research. I found a discovery that would basically set a path.
I learned that Super Monkey Ball is actually an enhanced port of the arcade game, Monkey Ball! The "super" in the GameCube version is indeed that! Compared to the arcade and console versions, the difference is night and day. But the arcade original still plays exactly as the console version. What's crazy is there was gonna be a console port originally for the SEGA Dreamcast. That plan was then abandoned due to the failure of the system, and the company's transition to become a third party developer. But not wanting to fully abandon the project, it was instead ported to the GameCube. GameCube had more power capabilities than the Dreamcast, so they might as well improve the graphics!
As I did further research, I also learned that the Dreamcast had similar hardware to the Monkey Ball arcade hardware. What caught me by surprise, the arcade hardware actually had a name! What is it? New Arcade Operating Machine Idea. Or simply, NAOMI... Naomi. I like that name. It strikes me. Feels catchy, and not a very common name. The name left me a bigger impression than it really is. I also think it's cute to name a girl with. So... I basically went on with it.
I then did further research on the arcade system, and learned that other favorite games of mine also ran on the NAOMI system! 18 Wheelers, Crazy Taxi, Capcom vs SNK 2, and Marvel vs Capcom 2. Those games alone sold me. That's the moment that I decided to go with that name. Naomi!
Many people name their children after family members, but my daughter will be named after an arcade hardware. That's what I meant by unique. Until then, it's just a dream of mine. But I know it'll happen someday! God is good, and He will give me the opportunity when the time is right.
Can't wait to hold little Naomi in my hands.
