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TwinBird
Since: Oct, 2009
TwinBird
Since: Oct, 2009

I think this was a film. At the very least, I'm almost positive I had it on VHS. It might have been an episode of a TV show.
Basically, what I remember most is a subplot involving a boy "addicted" to video games. I didn't have a console at the time (so pre-1997), so that was sort of my archetype for a while. A Magical Native American (I think Inuit?) is framed for poaching, and he sells his Gameboy at a pawn shop to get him out. I very vividly remember, the clerk offers $50, a girl he's there with says "we need $100," and the clerk says "got any games?" I remember it seemed strange to me even at the time that he sold the system first.
I also think this was my first introduction to the concept of bail. I remember when the boy goes to the prison and tells the clerk he's bailing someone out, I thought at first it was some kind of stickup, then some kind of bribe, until it was explained to me.
Pretty sure, though I may have my wires crossed here, there was also a single-use magic talisman for "when the time is right," despite most of the film being grounded in the real world. It may have been a metaphor, or a case of Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane, but I'm almost positive there was a lightshow to represent it, and that the talisman got a hole through it. Pretty sure the whole shebang was a Green Aesop, as well.
Please help. I'm sure I saw this, but Google is giving me worse than nothing - mostly at this point links to me asking about it in various places. Honestly, It's starting to feel like Candle Cove.