Cousin Johnny

[thanonyx thanonyx]

Hello my fellow members of the Retro Game Talk community.

I wanted to share something very personal with you all today. Today is February 2nd, 2025 and today would've been my cousin Johnny's 28th birthday. But sadly he passed away last year on March 27th at the age of 27. My aunt and uncle are still very much heartbroken and today they're really feeling the impact of his absence.

Johnny really loved hockey, I went to an Islander game recently (his favorite team BTW) and I brought a picture of him with me so he could go too, even if only symbolically. He played all 4 years he went to college too and he was really good at it. He also loved Dragon Ball, it was favorite anime of all time. He had all the games as I remember him playing them. He and I were both really into Pokémon, we'd play with my game boy carts of the gen 1-3 games all the time. He was also a huge dog lover, he loved dogs, pit bulls in particular. He had one at the time of his passing but thankfully my aunt and uncle took her in.

So do me a favor, if you like hockey, play a game for him. If you like Dragon Ball, watch and episode for him. If you like Pokémon, catch one for him. And if you love dogs (especially pit bulls), give one a loving home if you can.

Thank you and Happy Birthday Johnny

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Thank you for sharing this with us.

Happy birthday, Johnny.

I usually play with the Colorado Avalanche, but today I might go New York ?

 

[Tonberry]

Here's to you, Cousin Johnny ?

 

[Laura Zonih]

Touching...
I really appreciate you taking the courage to share something so personal with all of us.
I have a little cousin who always drags me to play Pokémon and other games.

 

[Judier]

Cheers to you Johnny. May you fly to the heavens and be happy up there.

 

[DunkeyKong]

I'm so sorry that happened to you, I can't imagine the pain you had to go through. I'm sure he is happy up there, above and beyond

He's up there with the rest of the Dragon Ball fans, even with the creator Akira Toriyama. He also used to say

 

[norunove]

Happy birthday, Johnny

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Happy Birthday Johnny!
Unfortunately, it's not good weather for me to play Hockey with the melting snow and all plus a lack of equipment, but I know of this fan game called Rokko Chan with a Hockey Man as one of the bosses

Haven't watched Dragon Ball yet but I've been keeping the first volume of the manga in my backpack as a lucky charm since Toriyama's passing, and also because I forget to read books in general

Last but not least, I love Pokemon so I'm bound to play through Emerald if not any of the older games. Hope this is enough

 

[for.we.are.many]

What was Johnny's favourite Pokémon? Might try to catch it

 

[thanonyx thanonyx]

What was Johnny's favourite Pokémon? Might try to catch it

Any given dog Pokémon

 

[for.we.are.many]

Alright, caught a male Poochyena in Alpha Sapphire

 

[ZEGA ZONIC]

Happy birthday Cousin Johnny!

 

[fake-kun]

Happy birthday, Johnny!