There were the dreary days too, but they were no less magical. So long as the clouds gave an occasional respite from the sun, it could run from morning until twilight, though there was always some interlude of sandwiches or hot chips that appeared just in time for the ravenous hunger that made itself known on the rush back to the encampment of towels and blankets. We, the ever-hurried suburbanites who were far too busy and serious to lose hours to one kind of play would spend eternal days on the beaches of Gerringong, Kioloa, Tuross and Narooma. It wasn’t the same southern shores on which Storm Boy is set, but a few degrees colder, and the places of the game could be pairs for the ones hidden in photo albums back home, even if home was somewhere different now. We spent most of our holidays on the beach when I was growing up. It wasn’t so prominent in my memory that I could remember the beats of the story, but as I played and the course of its path became inevitable, I found an anchor to the narrative through my own childhood. A video game that shares its title, developed by Blowfish Studios.Īs I played through the game, there was a familiarity around its setting, as though recalling something that I’d once learned but since forgotten. In the time between now and then, we have yet another. Others may have been brought to the story by the film adaptation of over forty years ago, and more may come in the next year, as a new adaptation is released. It’s most known and loved as the children’s book written by Australian author Colin Thiele, becoming a shared experience in so many childhoods, even those that may have forgotten it as time went on, only to rediscover it in the latter years as life took them somewhere different.
Storm Boy – Memories of Childhood PC, Xbox One, PS4, Switch
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