While the town gets buried under snow, Christmas does not look hopeful for Jake. They talk about how video games are making children inattentive and fat. However, at the dinner table, Jake’s sister Katie throws a bucket of cold water on Jake’s excitement. When Jake helps his father with his woodwork, and his father also agrees. While managing three tasks at once, Jake’s mother agrees to the plea. He spends most of the day at the principal’s office, wears an Iron Maiden t-shirt, and spends time near the beer counter at the gas station.Īfter the miserable experience at Timmy Keane’s house, Jake Doyle comes home to plead before his parents for a Nintendo. When they are not waiting in the queue in front of Timmy Keane’s house, the kids are thrown around by in-house bully Josh “King of the mountain” Jagorski. The motley pack comprises Mikey Trotter (the one with the mature mind), Evan Olsen (the geeky kid in the group who has to go home early), baseball card genius Tammy Hodges, her twin brother, Teddy, and Jeff Farmer (pathological liar not a friend of the group, but always around). All other kids from the neighborhood stand outside Timmy’s door to play the video games, but Timmy chooses only the lucky ten. But he is famous because he is the only kid in town with a Nintendo. Timmy Keane, the most popular kid in the school, is quite short-tempered. In flashback, Jake lives with his eccentric parents and terrorizing sister in the Chicago suburb of Batavia.
Jake starts telling Annie the story of his quest for the Nintendo that sits under a pile of dust at his paternal home.
Jake’s daughter Annie wants a phone for Christmas, but a sudden collapse on the road makes Jake revisit his childhood days.
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