Yesterday, as I’m winding down watching some Stanford lessons, I put my phone down on the desk on top of a pile of cards I had been going through earlier. Unexpectedly my phone beeps strangely. Bewildered, I pick up my phone and I’m greeted with this screen on my phone.
Now I’m more than a bit curious. The pile of cards is, as far as I know, a wide range of plain plastic school IDs, among other things. I start going through them, mashing each one into my phone in awkward display of poor hand-eye coordination in an attempt to find the little treasure trove of information. After going through half a dozen cards, I stumbled upon the culprit.
My old Tekken 5 arcade game data card. Yes kids, back in the old days of 2004-2005, we had to go out to play with other people, and our game data wasn’t stored in some fancy cloud by Microsoft, Sony, or Steam. You had to carry these around, pay $5 for them, and you could only use them a limited number of times before you had to transfer the data to a new card. Aside from pure greed on Namco’s part, I’m guessing it’s some sort of technological limitation on the card. It must be some sort of RFID for my Nexus S to pick it up. I’m now very, very curious as to what’s in this card, but I’m not willing to shell out $3995 to buy one of the old Tekken 5 arcade machines.