Edit: Sadly, this was posted barely a day before the death of longtime Jeopardy host Alex Trebek. Rest in peace.
So this brings me to the 5th grade, when I won a few prizes on a Nickelodeon show.
It was a show called Total Panic, a variety show somewhat modeled after the original You Can't Do That on Television episodes aired in Canada in the late 1970s, before being picked up by Nick. Amongst the fun, I did a call-in contest where I won a Casio keyboard, a 110 camera, and a trip to Busch Gardens, Florida -- and their water park, known at the time as Wild Water Kingdom.
The tech story isn't in Florida, although the 7 day, 6 night trip was too short (and my parents made me give up a couple of those days to visit my grandparents, losing valuable theme park time). No, it's the flight back, when my piece of luggage was lost. It took them a while to find it -- and then had to drive it over 2 hours north from the airport -- so it wasn't until weeks after the trip that I was able to enjoy two bargain-bin games that I bought there. For CGA monitors, in DOS, here's Pat Sajack and Alex Trebeck.
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