Stupid Childhood Gaming Memories

I had a couple of kids over at my house. Watching them struggle through my videogames as they mashed the buttons repeatedly reminded of the early gaming memories in my life. So far, I can only think of a few, but I'll add more when they come to me.

a) The guy who invited me over to his house to watch him play a two player game. He wouldn't even let me touch the second controller for fear that I might do the unthinkable and hit start.

b) The guy in the arcade who, instead of beating me mercilessly, taught me how to play SF2.

c) Believing the lie my friend told me about TMNT II for NES: if you fight Shredder a certain way, you can go through the screen in the background, enter a warp zone and play 10 more stages in Dimension X. Shit, I was gullable.

d) The argument over how you pronounce "Guile" ("Gully" or "Gwile"?)

e) Writing in my grade school year-book "Open your eyes, Sega sucks." (See what a one-year sub to Nintendo Power can do to you?)

More later. Anybody have any of those?

EGM2 ran a code in an April issue about getting nude Lara Croft. I tried for like 20 minutes and then finally stopped :sweat:

1. Beating a couple of 20 year old dudes at VF 2 in an arcade about seven years ago, then seeing them get all pissy because I kicked their ass with Wolf.

Having to beat that board in Mario 3 in the first world where the board is moving with you for my cousin cuz she sucked too much.

Having to beat the Water Temple for Rich cuz he sucked too much (yeah, you know what I'm talking about!) :lol:

I'll think of some more later.

Trying to learn a game and having to deal with the Arcade Stalker. The guy who followed noobs to every machine they went to and beat the shit out of them in the game. What joy a 20 year old get out of destroying 12 year old is beyond my comprehension.

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Having to beat the Water Temple for Rich cuz he sucked too much (yeah, you know what I'm talking about!)

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Wow.

The debate which raged on from grade 7 thorugh grade 8: Which is better MK or SF.

"The characters look real in MK. In SF they look fake and gay(Nick: keep in mind these are grade 8 quotes)

Oh, and this isn't video gaming, but on the last day of school in like grade school, two of my friends were playing Guess Who in the corner while the rest of the class either watched a movie or something else. I'm not exactly sure what happened, but one guy accused another of cheating "You're fucking Frank, bitch!" and a fist-fight broke out.

Should we all guess who punched out who?

Frank.

The earliest video game memory I have is watching my parents and uncle play Intellivision AD&D in a dark room and getting completely freaked out.

There's also a picture of me playing Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack with my Dad from about the same time, I have no idea where it is now though...

-getting a new game and on the way home my Dad would drive really slowly and take the long route, absolutely driving me bat shit insane in the process.

-my Mom getting really mad at me when I beat Wizards and Warriors (bought brand new that day) in a few hours.

-my friends and I running from the bus to the mailboxes to check and see if Nintendo Power came, and going crazy if it did.

-knowing that I was getting an NES for Christmas and not being able to stand it. With some prodding from my older brother I convinced myself it was a good idea to open it early, my parents were just livid.

The greatest and grand of all battles.... SNES vs Genesis. Oh man the arguments raged on for months. Lunch time... home room class... while walking in the hall. One time, we were having an argument over system power and my friend was going on about how many more colors the SNES could display. I asked him where he got that info from and he said, Nintendo Power. I was like, thats BS then! Of course they would lie! My math teacher overheard the argument, and instead of giving me detention for talking in class, he was like, "Yeah, Nintendo Power is way bias.".

My math teacher was a SEGA man... word.

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Going to the dentist to get my teeth pulled. Then driving to Zellers just to look around. We went into the electronics section as we usually did. My dad pointed at the Nintendo and out of nowhere said, "this is what you wanted right?" To which I responded by saying, "Ye- no... I wanted the Genesis." "Don't get greedy," he replied and unexpectantly I had a Nintendo-

-that took forever to hook up cuz my dad know nothing about TVs. Put a Cerwin Vega amp, Numark mixer, an Ashley Crossover, and a couple of decks in front of him and he gets to work. A coaxial cable, a tv, and a NES and he calls it a day.

Teaching a kid to play MvC when I was up by Big Bear. It was in this camping 'structure' with everything you would find in normal life - kinda killing the reasoning for camping. There was even an arcade, with old and new fighters alike, and so I started playing MvC. Then this kid came up, didn't even know what he doing, so I showed him how to play. Much more fun than railing him a minute and going back to the CPU. On the same day my little brother dominated a Third Strike machine...making all these 19-year old guys swear up and down the place - on the verge of hitting things even. Funniest thing I ever saw in an arcade.

No, wait...funniest was when my friend was playing DDR, doubles, tripped and flew right off the pads. THAT was funny.

These are freaking fantastic! Especially the "Guess Who" fist fight.

The fist-fight is one of my fondest memories. The class is all quiet save for the movie playing and some boys macking on some girlies, and then you hear "You were Frank, bitch!" Then a loud boom and some desks fall over.

This isn't really a childhood memory, but over the summer a fist-fight almost broke out over 8-player Halo.

"Which team fucking won, huh?!"
"Yeah, not because of you; you lost 38 times."
"What."
"You lost 38 times, 38!"
"Fuck you!"
"Fuck you, 38."
"Oh yeah bring it."
"Stop hiding behind the door, 38!"

Of course.. thinking that if you beat Metroid in a certain ammount of time, you get to see Samus nekkid.

Burning every single tree in Hyrule in hopes to find some kind of secret.

Pissing off my friend by stealing lives in Contra... before we knew the up up down down stuff.

Playing Flashback and thinking, "Thats it! Graphics have topped out!".

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Turning the power switch on the Atari VCS off and on really fast on certain games to see what weird "alternate" games I could play.

One time I did it on Ms. Pac-Man and got her caught inside of one of the squares!

My dad's friend letting me borrow his NES. A week later he visited again and I was trying to avoid him so that he couldn't ask for it back. Finally he found me;

"So what do you think of the NES?"
"It's neat."
"You like it?"
"Yeah."
"It's yours."

That NES was the first system I ever owned. The rest of the conversation is made up, but the "It's yours" is exactly what he said. One of my earliest childhood memories, videogame or otherwise.

I remember playing . . .Circus Charlie in arcades. Every time I found myself in a new one(every few months from random travelling with the family) and I saw the game I'd end up playing it.


But I hated the game. And I would forget that I hated the game every single time I arrived in a new arcade. "Ah, there's that circus game I played last time! I'll give it a go!" and I'd wander over to the cabinet and have a play and after hopping through a few hoops I'd wonder why and remember that I hated it. But I wouldn't remember long enough to stop myself from doing it again the next time. . .



Then there was John Elway's quarterback, and the "hidden" dash play. But the game had just one screen of plays right, so it wasn't hard for everyone to find this. The game would just be two guys picking the same damn play over and over again. But I only played it for the one day thankfully.

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Originally posted by Briscobold
What joy a 20 year old get out of destroying 12 year old is beyond my comprehension.

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Its fun.

a) I asked my uncle for the then impossible to find Super Mario Brothers 2 for my birthday. i was quite excited the day my birthday rolled around, and they step in with what looks like a clothing box. classic fakeout i thought. i asked him about Super Mario Bros.2 and he laughed for a bit, and handed me the box... with a nice sweater inside.

b) begging my mother for a Gameboy since it had come out, it looked liked i had to take no for an answer. Christmas scampers in and the usual long boxes of clothes are under the tree. so we sit, and hand out the gifts. i open the last one and out comes a Big Blue down vest. underneath was a gameboy. i think i almost knocked the wind out of my mom when i hugged her. i still have the blue vest.

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Originally posted by rezo
Then there was John Elway's quarterback, and the "hidden" dash play. But the game had just one screen of plays right, so it wasn't hard for everyone to find this. The game would just be two guys picking the same damn play over and over again. But I only played it for the one day thankfully.

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Reverse play... right?

A couple of buddies of mine tried to make the players in Track and Field run (or do whatever) by humping the power pads with some girls. The characters never got any where, and my buds always got too distracted to play.

That and I made out with a girl underneath a pinball machine.

Memories.

( By the way, most of these memories aren't stupid. Guess I should read before I post, eh? )

- Beating 20+ year olds in Street Fighter 2. I remember they thought that I was going to be easy pickings.

- Playing Street Fighter 2 all night long during sleepovers. Good times.

- Having my friends take me all over town to beat other people in ( you guessed it ) Street Fighter 2. The ones that went down the quickest were always the ones who'd talk the most noise.

- An acquaintance of mine from high school wanted to fight ( fisticuffs ) me because I drew better than him AND kicked his ass at Street Fighter 2.

- Renting Contra 3 for the SNES.

- Beating the original Contra over and over and over again.

- Experiencing the sweetness that was Life Force for NES.

- Being on the Nintendo Bandwagon, and honestly not understanding why people liked the Sega Genesis.

- Playing Mega Man for the first time, and drawing the characters over and over and over again, and coming up with some creations of my own.

- Going on my hours long winstreaks in the arcade.

- Making friends with my current bud ( and one of my rivals ) Andre. FINALLY someone would could beat me in Street Fighter 2. We still play to this day when I go home. He's one of the only people who can play KOF longer than I can.

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Originally posted by remotec
-getting a new game and on the way home my Dad would drive really slowly and take the long route, absolutely driving me bat shit insane in the process.

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Oh, sweet Lord, I HATED that. My mom would always see someone that she'd know ( small town ), and they'd talk for what seemed like an hour.

Arguing with some dumbass kid who claimed he had an arcade-perfect version of Dragon's Lair on his home computer.

Having "Let's see who can draw Pac-Man and Q-Bert the best contests".

I was in a bowling alley trying to teach someone moves in Mortal Kombat while totally stoned.

There was some NEC-sponsored Devil's Crush contest that Compucentre had set up in the mall. The employees would say their memorized speeches about the TurboGrafx being the best system on the market. There weren't too pleased to have a little 15-year old telling them and surrounding people that they were being paid to say that.

Playing Adventure on the 2600 and luring the bat and all 3 Dragons into the Gold Castle, locking the door behind them, and then took my sweet time finding the chalice.

-Having my older bro show me the secret "micro dot" easter egg/designer room in Adventure for 2600.

-I had sold off all my Atari games saving up for an old Nintendo "Fatboy". I came up $20 short. Being totally crushed I went to a local camping store to just walk around and sulk. While getting ready to leave I found a twenty dollar bill on the floor! That is probably the closest I've ever been to believing in a god...

-Begging and begging my parents for an NES, but having them get me an Atari 7800 so it could use all my old games.

-My dad not getting us a modem for the computer because people could "hack into our computer"...and take what? My freaking shareware copy of Wolfenstein!?

-Begging for an NES for like two years (which was like a year before SNES came out), and it finally rolling around to xmas morning. I had been eyeing one box the whole time that I KNEW was an NES. Anyways, xmas morning comes around, I tear open the box...and woo! It was an NES, but the box was empty! How could my parents be so stupid as to buy an empty box!? Anyways, the NES was already hooked up to the tv, safe to say I was pretty freaking happy.

-Whupping my Mom day after day after day at Sea Quest. Finally she practiced for hours a day for like two weeks until she was good enough to beat me.

-Going to Lionel Playworld for Atari 5200 games on clearance. Specifically Mario Bros.

-My grade school's after-school program had a summer camp that I went to for several years. They had an NES. I was basically it's keeper. I would hook it up to the TV in the mornings, I would be the one to turn to for advice on any game, and was the only one who could successfully enter the Konami code on Contra. I might add that I never actally owned an NES until about 2 years ago.

-But that's okay... because I had gone NES-less for so many years without putting up a fuss, my dad brought home a SNES on it's release day. Hooking that baby up (myself, of course) and playing Super Mario World for the first time... There's never been a greater feeling in all my days of gaming.

- Buying tons of Atari 2600 titles at Zayre's for $.99 each. Even Star Raiders.

- Playing Assult insessantly at the local pizza parlor, until they threw us out.

- Discovering Joust for the first time, at a local deli, on what I know now is an ultra-rare cocktail cabinet.

- Burning off an entire summer on my C64.


Not a childhood memory but,

- Almost becoming a vitcim of gang violence after cleaning house on a guy and 5 of his "boys" with Lizardman in Soul Calibur at Six Flags New England. These guys were almost ready to kill me after I nailed 2 perfect matches in a row on one of them. At the end of one of the fights the people I was waiting for thier ride to end were done, so i just said, "gotta go..." and slinked outta there..

Participating in the Star Fox Super Weekend competition at Hills Department store. And scoring high enough to earn a StarFox T-Shirt and Pin :)

Also, earning $200 plus by tearing down our swimming pool after it got destroyed by a fire my father had caused. We lived in farm country and he was burning papers or something in an old silo base near our barn. Well it was a windy day and the wind cought the flames and *poof* up went the barn in flames. Rather than paying the insurance company the money to tear down the pool, my parents gave me the money to do it, which I promptly went out and bought an SNES with Zelda and Super Mario World with.

Needless to say, I was in heaven for weeks after that!

-Kevin

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Originally posted by Wildkat
- Buying tons of Atari 2600 titles at Zayre's for $.99 each.

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Heck yea, I remember that.

Tables and tables full of clearance Atari games.

In Junior High, two guys in my music class got into an argument that escalated into a fight. As usual, everyone starts screaming "fight, fight, fight", but that's not the good part. The smaller kid jumps at the guy he's fighting from about 7 feet away and throws a dragon punch. Of course, his opponent sidestepped and then proceeded to beat Ryu's ass and all the guys in the class were hysterical with laughter. One of my friends even fell out off his chair from laughing too hard. Perhaps the funniest thing I've ever seen.

Getting up to world 8 in SMB 3 with 72 lives without using any "turtle shell" style tricks or warps. On world 8, I went into my "Mighty Casey" routine and cockily started messing around on the air ships and such. I lost all 72 lives from not playing seriously. I continued and wrecked all of world 8, with 3 lives, as if it had personally insulted me. Damn, I had too much free time back then...

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Originally posted by FighterX
( By the way, most of these memories aren't stupid. Guess I should read before I post, eh? )

- Being on the Nintendo Bandwagon, and honestly not understanding why people liked the Sega Genesis.

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This one must have been why you said "most" instead of "all".

Sneaking down to play games after I was told to go to bed or to turn the system off.

I know some of you did this too, but did you get caught?

Yes.:lol:

Funk dat, I bought my own tv and own consoles so i had them in my bedroom....

Tape on the consoles light and a tap of the remote to turn the t.v off and I wouldnt be cought. :)

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Originally posted by Yoshi
This one must have been why you said "most" instead of "all".

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Man, you just don't quit, do you? ;)

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Tape on the consoles light and a tap of the remote to turn the t.v off and I wouldnt be cought.

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yeah, and run a towel along the bottom of the door to block any light from creeping out. Not to mention the gameboy made late night gaming very easy.



I remember first seeing SF2 in the arcade and thinking it was the dumbest thing ever. Why would I pay two tokens to fight one guy when I could play Final Fight or Xmen and fight dozens of guys?

This one dude called his Mom when he got to the end of a game my friend and him had been playing.

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Originally posted by remotec

I remember first seeing SF2 in the arcade and thinking it was the dumbest thing ever. Why would I pay two tokens to fight one guy when I could play Final Fight or Xmen and fight dozens of guys?

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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Oh, here's another one!

- I was reluctant to play Street Fighter 2 at first. Why, you ask? Because it had 6 buttons, which I thought would be too much to handle :lol:

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Originally posted by FighterX
Oh, here's another one!

- I was reluctant to play Street Fighter 2 at first. Why, you ask? Because it had 6 buttons, which I thought would be too much to handle :lol:

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:jest: :jest: :jest: :bang:

Um skipping School to play games at an Arcade? Only did that every now and then. Not reccomended for those still in School.

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Participating in the Star Fox Super Weekend competition at Hills Department store. And scoring high enough to earn a StarFox T-Shirt and Pin

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Yep. I still have both.

Going to Golden Corral in 1981, entering a drawing to win an Atari 2600- and actually winning it! You cannot imagine the rejoicing in my house the day we got the phone call. All we had was Combat for about 4 months and it didn't matter. We played the crap out of it.

and sooooo many NES, Genesis, & SNES memories...

There were Golden Corrals in 1981? Wow.

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Originally posted by Bacon McShig
Yep. I still have both.

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I still have the pin, but the t-shirt got lost along the way. Odd, considering the shirt is about 10,000 times larger than the pin :D

-Kevin

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Originally posted by Korian
This one dude called his Mom when he got to the end of a game my friend and him had been playing.

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That has got to be one of the most pathetic human beings in mankind.

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Originally posted by Cookie Monster
All we had was Combat for about 4 months and it didn't matter. We played the crap out of it.

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I'm the tank, don't TOUCH the tank. You can be the airplane :)

Here's more, that happened recently.

- Winning the chance to PURCHASE a Gamecube. I thought that contest was for a free one. I was so pissed. Here I was all happy, hearing the worlds that someone who wanted to win something wants to hear on the phone.

Female voice on phone: "Mr. QW%EDQFQ? Do you remember that contest you entered for a Nintendo GameCube last week? Well, you've won!"
Me: :eek: "Sweet, when can I pick it up? *excited* I'm glad I waited to buy one, now I get one for free!"
Her: "it'll be $149.99 when you get here."
Me: ( you can't imagine how I felt when I heard that ) "What? Didn't you just say I won the GameCube?"
Her: ".....no, it's for the chance to PURCHASE a Gamecube, since our store is getting them in short sup...."
Me: *CLICK*

- Then, when I thought it wouldn't get any worse, a get ANOTHER call a day later....

Male voice: "Hi, is this Mr. ADAFAP QW%EDQFQ?"
Me: "Yes."
Man: "You entered a contest for an X-Box giveaway a few days ago...?"
Me: *excited, but wary* "YES."
Man: "Well at the bottom of the entry card, you checked a few boxes and put your email address, and I was wondering if I could interest you in some product information ( had NOTHING to do w/ gaming, btw ) ?"
Me: "So I didn't win the X-box :bs: *CLICK*

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There were Golden Corrals in 1981? Wow.

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Oh yeah. And get this...we used the receipt from lunch as the entry form since they were out of the little cards. Possibly the only time I ever won something cool.

As for Combat, I can remember having all of these debates with friends on whether or not the big plane was better than the three small planes. I think the three small ones took the cake, personally.

Oh yeah! Here, I've got some! *some of my fondest memories* :o


-Asking my next door neighbor if I could watch him play Super Mario World on his SNES, because like, one time out of ten he would let me play. He was such a bully! >.<

-Drawing Mario and Donkey Kong characters on *everything* at school. (the little artist I was....)

-Me and my now ex-boyfriend looking at Nintendo Power in his mom's car, while we went to get vanilla ice cream and fries....

-This guy named Tony Hewitt and I playing Batman Forever on the Genesis.....and Altered Beast for the first time!!!! I rememver Batman being ridiculously hard in certain places, and everytime i'd get to something tough Tony would turn on the Sega =/ stupid big ears....*grumble*

-Playing Doom on my friend's computer. I was sooooo scared. (hey i was a little kid!!!!) Everytime there was a weird groan or something i'd jump!!!

-This one time i was in a pizza parlor, and they had Marvel vs Capcom (this was before I knew what Capcom was, but i've always been a fan of comics...) so I picked Wolverine, and this other fucking huge like, 19 year old picked Juggernaut and Captain America, and I beat his ass!!!! twice!!!!!! ^______________^ I was so happy, the kid kept going like, "Grrrr............DAMN IT! How the heck.......???"


Well, I have plenty plenty more.....but I'll leave you with this.

#1 stupid gaming memory.....>_< spending 100+ dollars a week on DDR. Stupid arrow smashing game....

-Making a handshake that involved the Dragon Punch. Oy!

-At a sleepover my buddy was trying to do the Feil-Long kick (forward+hk) and ended up kicking the SNES across the room. The room went deadly silent. He was was ostracized.

-playing some SF II when I was twelve years old against some army guy. We went back and forth, back and forth, 'til I finally ran out of quarters.. bastard.

-playing various sports games against one of my buddies. whenever I was beating the bastard he'd power the system off...

How bout hitting pause in Mario Bros when the other player was about to make a jump?

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Originally posted by OmniGear

Having to beat the Water Temple for Rich cuz he sucked too much (yeah, you know what I'm talking about!) :lol:

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Hey, I beat it the second time through!

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Originally posted by Rich
Hey, I beat it the second time through!

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:lol: Commendable....

1. having to listen to my baby siter and her boyfriend make out heavily while i played super mario bros. for the first time.

2. playing mega man for the first time and making up words with my cousin to the elecman stage music while our older cousins got anoyed and told us to shut up or leave. ('snot our fault they kept dyin')

3. making out with my then girlfriend between rounds of street fighter alpha 2 on the super nintendo. it was heaven.

I'll never forget this one time my cousin brought Bionic Commando over to my house. After we both had tried for like a year to beat this game he finally made it to the very last boss. He got his ass kicked and threw the controller down in anger, I noticed he had one continue left so I pushed start. He immediately bowled me over screaming "NO! STAY AWAY! YOUR GONNA BEAT IT!!!!!!!" I don't think I've ever seen my cousin happier than the moment he beat Bionic Commando, he almost looked like was gonna cry :lol:

i remember

*playing echo the dolphin on sega genises and not getting anywhere. stuck in a stupid cave or something.

*playing sonice the hedgehog 2 and repeatedly dying on level 2. that frustrated the shit out of me and I dont think I would have ever even seen anything past that except that I got in the habit of watching my sister play it.

One of them is when my cousins neibibor was the first to own an nes.. The whole block was their seeing him play SMB, and Kung-Fu.. i just remember saying oh my god, its like the Arcade..

My Cousins other neibor, who had a Sega Master System, no one was at hous looking at him play.. hell they let us play with it...

Getting a Atari 2600 for christmas

Getting a NEs for Christmas

Getting a Snes for Christmas...

Umm i also have fond memeories of arcades.. games like Ghost and Gouls, Elavator shaft, this sumbermine game, popeye, ms pacman..

i also had a uncle, who make aracde cabinets, so i recall playing frogger for free,, dozens of times, and other arcade cabinets hey laying around the house..

I've got lots of great video game memories.. here are the stupidest..

- finding Mighty Bomb Jack at Kaybee for $19.99, thinking I'd just hit upon the greatest bargain of all time

- seeing the slowdown in the Zelda forest and thinking that the battery in my cartridge must be dying (hey, gimme a break I was 12! Didn't understand the concept of saving games..)

- having my SNES freeze up when I finally got to the Death Star level in Super Star Wars :mad:

- writing "Genesis Does What Nintendon't" in my school notebook

- constantly taking EGM's Genesis scores as gospel :sweat:

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Originally posted by Ex Ranza

- writing "Genesis Does What Nintendon't" in my school notebook

- constantly taking EGM's Genesis scores as gospel :sweat:

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Ha, I remember the drag racer ( Sonic ) vs. Mario Kart!

As for the reviews, I take it you rented Sega Monaco GP because of the score, ( they gave it four perfect 10s, was it ) am I right?

- I was at a Camp Ground near Wisconsin Dells when I was like 9, and in the Lodge they had Street Fighter 2: Championship Edition. Its the first time I had ever seen a game like that. I was blown away by the characters and colors. I could not do a single special move but I must have dropped dozens and dozens of quarters into it. And then one night we went to a Dog Track (same vacation) and I saw these asians kids playing it and this one kid was fighting M. Bison with Blanka and beat it. I was amazed at the fact he could do the moves. I feel so stupid now at the fact how easy the moves were, but it was the first time I ever played a 2D fighter, so yeah.

-School was delayed 2 hours due to snow, me and my older brother were killing time while waiting for the bus by playing some Super Mario World, we were still in our coats when we look at the clock and see it was now 12:00 Noon. And we had skipped school. We did not get caught some how though.

-SF3 had just came out and the Peanuts Gallery Arcade at the Mall of America had it, much like the first time I saw SF2 I was blown away. I only had 2 quarters so I could only play it twice. I go to pick Sean and accidently picked Oro. The cabinet did not have move lists on it and I had no idea what to do with Oro. And then the machine ate my next quarter. Oh well.

-I was playing Tekken 2 on the Arcade and was about 4 characters into the Arcade Mode (first time ever played it), some older jerk comes up and pounds my Law with his Paul. And then says to me, "Get out of my 'Cade!" I found that pretty funny. I kinda laughed and he goes, "Round 2!" I then left in confusion.

-I remember there was this Non Chain Video Game store on this little mall in our town called Mega Bits. Thye had a few Cabs in there and just got Ultimate MK3. I was so happy to fianlly be able to play as Scorpion again, but the whole thing was ruind becase the place had a Guns and Roses Pinball machine with the volume ALL the way up, I could not hear anything happaning in UMK3 due to constant "WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE!" that rang out when you put a quarter in it. And of course it also goes, "WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE" when you hit just about anything in that game.

FighterX, EGM gave Super Monaco GP two 10's. I think the other two scores were 8's. It's still ridiculous though.

Thank you.

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Originally posted by Clash_Master
-I remember there was this Non Chain Video Game store on this little mall in our town called Mega Bits. Thye had a few Cabs in there and just got Ultimate MK3. I was so happy to fianlly be able to play as Scorpion again, but the whole thing was ruind becase the place had a Guns and Roses Pinball machine with the volume ALL the way up, I could not hear anything happaning in UMK3 due to constant "WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE!" that rang out when you put a quarter in it. And of course it also goes, "WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE" when you hit just about anything in that game.

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that is classic!

It also reminds me of Revolution X! XD haahaha thats one of my #1 fav games of all time (seriously).....I remember when me and my best friend beat it at this arcade....because his totally rich dad would give us like $30 in quarters....

Thus we wrap up this portion of stupid childhood gaming memories. Thanks for the stories. I will forget them by tomorrow.

My fondest childhood gaming memories in no particular order:

1. Playing rampage with my best friend on NES for 100 so levels, than spilling coke on the console.

2. Making out with my first girlfriend while playing columns for the SegaCD.

3. Playing my genesis seconds before my house got struck by lightning, therefore destroying my precious.

4. The great sega vs. nintendo debates during 7th grade lunch.

5. Ocarina of Time basically getting me kicked out of college. (term paper or horseback riding? the eternal question.)