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-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.
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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.
Z-roe
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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.
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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.
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These are freaking fantastic! Especially the "Guess Who" fist fight.
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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!"
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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!".
z-roe
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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!
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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.
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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.
