Buying Games Like It's 1989

[Josh]

what?

[YellerDog]

Biff has malfunctioned.

[Othello Harrington]

what?

Cocks!


perfectly acceptable according to item 1 on the

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URBAN DICTIONARY!!

[YellerDog]

Hey what was that side scroller where if you went in the wrong room you fell on the floor in front of some big ass dragon and turned into a frog and got your shit dealt with?

Iron Sword?

[Othello Harrington]

God I hated that game.

Put some time into this one summer.

[YellerDog]

With or without the manual? I remember renting it for a weekend and getting to that particular point.

[Timber]

I was also really lucky that my Mom was into games during the NES days. I would come home from school sometimes to find her playing a brand new game she bought earlier in the morning. If it wasn't for her I'd have never played Dragon Warrior or Final Fantasy.

We also had something like 100 Atari games since she was buying them from the time the system came out.

[Lordmrw]

My experience is pretty similar to Yoshi and Josh. When the Nes came out, my oldest brother still lived at home and had a well paying job, which meant we got a new game every week quite awhile. I also remember stores like Sears had a very liberal return policy, meaning all you had to do was bring the game back with a receipt and you could exchange it for something else, no questions asked. I don't remember how much time you had to do it, but it must have been awhile, cuz we abused the shit out of that. If a game sucked it went back. If we beat it within a day or week, it went back.

I didn't start actively reading game magazines til april 92, when I got both Game Players and Gamepro from a mall. I found out(back then) that BLockbuster got Gamepro every month, so soon after that I became that guy in school people looked to for game recommendations or advice. I still wasnt old enough to work, so my friend's and I had to go to the dreaded pawn shops to get new games. Fuckers got on our nerves even back then, as one of them had a habit of playing the damn games you were going to trade in and saying it sucked and wouldn't take it.

[Gooch]

Wow. I was in college by the time 32-bit hit. My dorm room was the place to be, since I had a Jag, Neo CD, Saturn, PS1, and N64. Mario Kart 64 probably got the most multiplayer play time.

I wasn't into the N64 in college, but I did get dragged into the Mario Kart and Goldeneye sessions. One shady dude kept trying to squeeze Diddy Kong Racing and Starfox 64 into the rotation but we were having none of that.

I actually buy less games today than I have in the past. Now I inspect each game like it's up for Spartan citizenship. I had to earn my games as a kid, too, but I used baseball card and comic book gains to fund a lot of my purchases so I actually had a nice sized library of NES, Genesis and SNES games back in the day.

[Yoshi]

Yes. Sports cards were a major factor for me as well. In fact, they funded my Genesis itself.