On being before your time

I have, for reasons which are currently obvious only to me and a few game manufacturers, been very interested of late in Family Fitness Fun. I love how it puts together three words which have so much trouble relating to each other. And I love even more the picture of families having fun exercising together. So, I did what anyone in my position (in front of the computer) would do, I Googled. And found my way to this article about a thing called a "Power Pad" - a game peripheral used to play, among other things, Dance Aerobics, which was ever so clearly a direct progenitor of the wildly successful Dance, Dance Revolution, and yet, despite the brilliance of it all, everso vividly failed.

O, it succeeded, the Power Pad did, in its way, but not in its time. And it made me honestly contemplate the possibility that maybe it's not so bad, actually, not such a minor achievement, in fact, not something one would poo-poo, the Power Pad, and all those things and people before their time, who, despite financial failures, have made this time possible.



from Bernie DeKoven, funsmith