And yet, this relic, this slightly rusty old reminder of blockbuster gaming as it once was, still lights up a room.
But what we're seeing, especially in the images from Nasiriya and Basra, is an age-old reminder about the reality of war.
THE ruins of ancient Sheba's capital are more than a thousand years old, monumental reminders of Yemen's golden age.
Use the "Throw away" pile for old school reminders, newspapers, old graded homework.
Instead, there was plenty of laughter and hugs and poring over old photos and reminders of things past.
There were still elements of the old political calculation, reminders that Clinton was still keeping options open for 2016.
The décor is Early Cop, with police and fire patches from across the world, old police photos, reminders of 9/11, bathrooms reading "patrolmen" and "meter maids".
Like Sosa, he bolts around the bases after a home run — and his wide smile, and the smiles that he evokes from his older teammates, are reminders of the essential joy that lives in the game.
There has likely never been a game in the N.F.L.'s history that will feel more like a weird, dutiful sideshow — in which the old sportscaster's reminder, "there's also a football game to be played," might not even make it onto the air.
Mr. Kelly said that fatal shooting and the drive-by shooting on Sunday in Brooklyn that wounded six people, including a 2-year-old girl, were reminders that "we still have a great deal of work to do to stop the violence and to protect the city's most vulnerable residents".
