Its fun.Quote:
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.Quote:
Originally posted by Briscobold
What joy a 20 year old get out of destroying 12 year old is beyond my comprehension.
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.
Reverse play... right?Quote:
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.
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.
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.Quote:
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.
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..