Hank gives John an original Aero Fighters ('Nerd Fighters') arcade game for his birthday (2013)
story · status: told 2×, last update 2020 · last event: retold (2020-01-21)
Although the brothers had agreed not to exchange birthday presents, Hank gave John an original 'Nerd Fighters' (Aero Fighters) arcade machine in 2013. In 2020 John said the gift meant far more to him than its cost in money would have.
Told alongside: John's 'Nerd Fighters' arcade game at the Savannah airport (2007)
About: Aero Fighters
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-09-10 | told | John tells Hank that, despite their agreement on no birthday presents, the original 'Nerd Fighters' arcade game arrived at their office as Hank's present. | Secrets of the Movies: Thoughts from The Fault in Our Stars Set 00:00:00 |
| 2014-05-06 | update | For Hank's birthday yesterday, John says that unlike last year (2013) he remembered a present, from himself and Nerdfighteria: the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game. | TFIOS Movie Madness, Incongruent, and Headless Hotel People 00:00:36 |
| 2020-01-21 | retold | John tells Hank that the Aero Fighters video game machine Hank gave him meant much more to him than a check for its cost would have. | Gifts That Changed My Life 00:00:29 |
What is said about it
5 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2014-05-06 · TFIOS Movie Madness, Incongruent, and Headless Hotel People — John also gave Hank a donation to Partners In Health for his birthday. — 00:00:52
- 2020-01-21 · Gifts That Changed My Life — John shows the world on a turtle that his parents gave him, which means a lot to him because of its symbolic resonances. — 00:00:58
- 2020-01-21 · Gifts That Changed My Life — John: Another upside of gifts: occasionally, not usually, you get something you didn't know you needed that changes your life for the better. — 00:00:58
- 2020-01-21 · Gifts That Changed My Life — John: A few years ago Mike Rugnetta gave John Elaine Scarry's The Body in Pain, which he would never otherwise have read and which totally changed how he thinks about pain and language. — 00:00:58
- 2020-01-21 · Gifts That Changed My Life — John says that without that gift he might not have written Turtles All the Way Down. (hedged) — 00:00:58