From LauncherWP | And now, for Mega64’s greatest stunt: Aging gracefully!
Mega64’s Shawn Chatfield is the father of four children. When he shows them off in photos on Twitter, his smile beams out from a salt-and-pepper beard. Rocco Botte has a few laugh lines indented around his mouth; he’ll be turning 40 next December. Derrick Acosta is the youngest member of the group, which means he was a teenager while the other two were in their early 20s. Now, he’s 37.
I watched these clips over and over again in high school, laughing and screaming at their audacity; the wondrously raw id of Mega64. But if you count yourself as one of the gang’s earliest fans, then you, just like them, are staring down the same ultimatum. We’ve gottenvein — tend to be the terrain of young men and women. Mega64 is attempting to age gracefully. Perhaps they can light the path forward, one more time.
“There was literally a talk in our group that was like, ‘After Rocco graduates, who’s going to make the videos?’” said Acosta. Just a few years later, the answer might have been obvious. Acosta, Chatfield, and Botte would have uploaded their project to YouTube, with high hopes that the algorithm would shine brightly upon them. But simple home video distribution was much harder to come by in 2003, so the earliest version of Mega64 emanated from public-access television in San Diego.
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