Nintendo Time Travel: A time warp caused by video game playing. Not quite a syndrome really, but it is nonetheless amazing that you can sit down to play a few minutes of the computer game 'Quake', and next thing you know twenty years have passed, and you're being rudely distracted by a wrecking ball crashing through your window. This effect, unknown to the world until Rip Van Winkle discovered it while bowling in the 18th century, represents an exciting new way to travel in time without all that constant waiting. Just fire up that latest hyper addictive video game and soon all time and space will collapse into a blur, and you will wake up to new worlds and new wonders. Unfortunately, as you travel through time, you get older too. But at least you won't have much a lost past to be nostalgic about, except perhaps some sweet reminiscences of Pac-Man games.
