As far as I was concerned the only thing of any real value traveling in the car with me, the only thing that I worried might be stolen or damaged on my road trip, was a Super Nintendo Entertainment System. I’d fantasized about owning one for months. My favorite periodical, Electronic Gaming Monthly, described in borderline pornographic detail the machine’s powerful 16-bit central processing unit—the original Nintendo, by comparison, employed a laughably puny 8-bit processor—the unprecedented Mode-7 effects, and the Super FX chip. Though I swore to myself that I wouldn’t do this, that I couldn’t possibly afford such an indulgence, not…