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One memory that stood out when I was a young gamer.
Rikimaru_X
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I remember when I was a kid, Sega was the thing (might have been Sega Saturn then, Can't remember) and SNES. I was at KB Toys at the mall and we was looking at games to buy. So I'm pulling out games and looking at them and I saw Young Indiana Jones, but what caught my eye was that it gave a way a free fruit roll up inside the box (I think Gunstar Heroes did it too). Now the candy caught my eye more than the game. So I had my dad buy it and I took the candy and ate it.
Now the game Young Indiana Jones was a good ass game. I had a lot of fun playing it, but being that I was so young, my hand-eye coordination wasn't all there so in some parts of the world in the game I cried, because I would miss a platform when swinging or miss a jump and Indy runs really fast when sprinting. This game really set it out for me liking adventure games like Tomb Raider. I think that is one of my childhood memories I am most fond off, close to my introductions to Mega Man X and Street Figther. Candy with a game, that was a good marketing approach. Put a fruit roll-up in an X360 game and see the kids point THAT game out.
I was just wondering (old people too), any of you had an experience that you may never forget when you were playing video games at a young age?
-In memory of Laura "Taera" Genender. Passed away on Aug/13/08-
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I remember getting mad at my cousin when we played Cyborg Justice on my Genesis, and he would always steal the Big Legs, which I liked best, because I could kick the shit out of all the other robots with them. But my cousin stole them off the other robots every time, and not because he wanted them, but only because he wanted to make me cry.
My cousin was a prick.
In 1987, I awoke on Christmas Morning with a Nintendo Entertainment System along with three video games; 1. Elevator Action 2. Excite Bike 3. Legend of Zelda.
When I looked at the gold cassette for Legen of Zelda it really intrigued me. I put the game in the system and played. I played and played and played and played. Then I got to the dungeon and killed the dragon and got the triforce!
I was so proud of myself for finishing something and then my jaw dropped when the game told me I have 8 other dungeons awaiting me. It was only 4 years before this that Atari was the dominant game system and with Atari there really was no end game to anything. It was just a infinite random pattern of game code. There was really no completion to any game.
Then I played Zelda and there was an ending I was shooting for. I played for literally almost 4 days straight with little sleep, food, or water.
After the 4 dungeon, I collapsed and slept for 12 hours. Then I awoke and spent the next 24 hours throwing up everywhere because I took very little care of myself. But, by God, was it worth it lol
People who have to create conspiracy and hate threads to further a cause lacks in intellectual comprehension of diversity.
I awoke to a NES on Christmas one year also though I only got the games it came with. The best thing was most years I had a pretty good idea of what I was getting but this took me by surprise. I also remember saving my money for a good chunk of time to buy Final Fantasy for the NES the day it came out. My first console RPG. Good times.
"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves." ~ Ronald Reagan
A night before the gamecube came out i was at a gamestop close to closing and they were setting up their gamecube for launch day and right after they set it up they let me play Rogue Squadron. I skiped through the cut scenes which did not make them happy but getting to play it before the midnight release was really kick ass for me at the time.
Hold on Snow Leopard, imma let you finish, but Windows had one of the best operating systems of all time.
If the Powerball lottery was like Lotro, nobody would win for 2 years, and then everyone in Nebraska would win on the same day.
And then Nebraska would get nerfed.-pinkwood lotro fourms
AMD 4800 2.4ghz-3GB RAM 533mhz-EVGA 9500GT 512mb-320gb HD
I remember Might & Magic 1 on my first console the Sega Mega Drive (Genesis i think it was called in the states). The game was awesome and i spent many a sleepy day at school due to late nights.
I had Might and Magic for my Commodore 64. Ahh good old 5 1/4 floppies...
"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves." ~ Ronald Reagan
pac man on atari was really addicting i played enough i memorized the pattern
Save file wars at the YMCA on zelda games
, only three...
get on someday later have a 20 something percent chance of your file being there if it's not you have the choice of playing someone else's file, playing a different game, or continuing the war and bumping someone's file off.
The blocks(a HUGE tub of blocks all of them jenga block size/shape) was more fun though, I made a few towers bigger than me and even got to rearrange the furniture so I could keep building.
I find it amazing that by 2020 first world countries will be competing to get immigrants.
Ha I remember back in the day getting final fantasy 7 and just being in awe with everything. I remember thinking that is wasn't possible to make a game look any nicer and graphics would never be better than that. LOL. I remember how many hours I spent trying to beat Ruby, and Emerald Weapon, (I would never beat emerald, however i did beat ruby) and to this day the feeling I had when i did in fact beat ruby was possibly one of the most satisyfing moments in my life. good times
Playing B-17 Bbomber on Intellivision (with the Intellivoice attachment) for hours on end. Always trying to find the target and avoid flak along the way. Played so long on it I would have to get a portable fan and point it at the machine to cool it down from overheating.
Fun times
"If we don't attack them, they will attack us first. So we'd better retaliate before they have a chance to strike"
Every time I went to my uncle's house he would let me play his computer which had Doom on it...I wasn't even ten years old but I loved playing Doom.
My first game system was a Sega Genesis though...I remember saving up for months just to buy one game, and the joy of my mom telling me that we were going to go to blockbuster and that she was going to let me rent a game.
Your argument is like a two legged dog with an eating disorder...weak and unbalanced.
I remember being up at my grandmother's farm... We (me and my younger brother) were in the living room, watching The Gummi Bears on the Disney Channel. My mom and step-dad at the time came in the front door, and called us into the kitchen. Mom said, "Here ya go boys." My brother opened the NES which was wrapped up, and he screamed. Literally. I didn't know what the hell it was. So my brother asked if we could play it. After hooking it up and popping Super Mario Bros. into the machine, we played for a long while, with my parents watching, and my grandmom was in the kitchen, cooking. My grand dad was out mowing. Anyway. After we went home, my step-dad gave us Zelda. I fell in love with that game. I have been playing video games ever since that day.
the first ever game i got addicted to was:
Contra!!!
up up down down left right left right b a b a start
30 lives woop woop!!!! You cant save the game thus restarting from zero everytime, and i memorised it up to the point of not dying till the very end. Hardcore times
although what pissed me off is that the turbo button on my console kept getting stuck.
i~ku~ra
