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Posted on 3/22/15 at 5:37 pm
Posted on 3/22/15 at 5:37 pm
What did you grow up on, what blew your mind as a kid, what do you remember most, and what do you still play today?
We had the NES. That was what I grew up on and my first exposure. We had the Power Pad and the gun, Mario, Zelda, Mega Man, Metroid, Contra and Super C, Castlevania, etc etc. Those games were hard, much harder than games today.
Things I remember that stand out:
- my parents had a "grown up" dinner party and so ordered us pizza and locked us away in the kids room. Playing through Super Mario Bros. 3 without whistles, seeing all the levels blew my mind. There was no saving and never enough time before.
- Mega Man 2 with my friend Cory and having all the boss orders written down. The graphics on Heat Man stage blew my mind. The lava actually flowed!
- Christmas Day getting an SNES and a Super Scope. Holy shitballs Metal Combat and Yoshi's Safari this the greatest thing ever
-Sega v Nintendo arguments. Sega to me was edgier, more arcadey, more violent and sports games. Nintendo had more games overall and was more polished and clean cut. I think you could kind of see this reflected in their respective fans.
-NBA Jam for days and days with friends.
-Computer games. First at school I had played Carmen Sandiego and Maniac Mansion a lot, when i finished my work early. Later we got a Gateway 2000 and Windows 95. Aces Over Europe, Doom, and Duke Nukem 3D. Yeah, that was the shite.
-The notebook full of Mortal Kombat 2 special moves and fatalities we passed around at school. May have been some prototypes for new characters too...
-Nintendo 64. It came out in October and only one kid in the neighborhood got it on release day. I went over and there was a fricking line of 100 people at his house. It was mind blowing. I did not think it could ever get any better than Mario 64. I remember seriously thinking that. This is the pinnacle.
-GoldenEye and Mario Kart every day after school with friends
-My brother came home from college and had Civ 2 on his laptop. I started playing that night and the next thing I knew the sun was coming up. That had never happened before.
Today I'm lost. I don't want to immerse myself in a sandbox MMORPG or spend all day in an online FPS trying to kill my friends before my friends killed me. That's great if you like that. I WISH I liked that. But I'm still hooked on platforming challenge and repeating the same game over and over until I figure out exactly how to beat this motherfricker. That's my shite.
This is what i like. As an adult, i indulged it. I own a lot of old consoles and still play to this day with my wife and friends and family
We had the NES. That was what I grew up on and my first exposure. We had the Power Pad and the gun, Mario, Zelda, Mega Man, Metroid, Contra and Super C, Castlevania, etc etc. Those games were hard, much harder than games today.
Things I remember that stand out:
- my parents had a "grown up" dinner party and so ordered us pizza and locked us away in the kids room. Playing through Super Mario Bros. 3 without whistles, seeing all the levels blew my mind. There was no saving and never enough time before.
- Mega Man 2 with my friend Cory and having all the boss orders written down. The graphics on Heat Man stage blew my mind. The lava actually flowed!
- Christmas Day getting an SNES and a Super Scope. Holy shitballs Metal Combat and Yoshi's Safari this the greatest thing ever
-Sega v Nintendo arguments. Sega to me was edgier, more arcadey, more violent and sports games. Nintendo had more games overall and was more polished and clean cut. I think you could kind of see this reflected in their respective fans.
-NBA Jam for days and days with friends.
-Computer games. First at school I had played Carmen Sandiego and Maniac Mansion a lot, when i finished my work early. Later we got a Gateway 2000 and Windows 95. Aces Over Europe, Doom, and Duke Nukem 3D. Yeah, that was the shite.
-The notebook full of Mortal Kombat 2 special moves and fatalities we passed around at school. May have been some prototypes for new characters too...
-Nintendo 64. It came out in October and only one kid in the neighborhood got it on release day. I went over and there was a fricking line of 100 people at his house. It was mind blowing. I did not think it could ever get any better than Mario 64. I remember seriously thinking that. This is the pinnacle.
-GoldenEye and Mario Kart every day after school with friends
-My brother came home from college and had Civ 2 on his laptop. I started playing that night and the next thing I knew the sun was coming up. That had never happened before.
Today I'm lost. I don't want to immerse myself in a sandbox MMORPG or spend all day in an online FPS trying to kill my friends before my friends killed me. That's great if you like that. I WISH I liked that. But I'm still hooked on platforming challenge and repeating the same game over and over until I figure out exactly how to beat this motherfricker. That's my shite.
This is what i like. As an adult, i indulged it. I own a lot of old consoles and still play to this day with my wife and friends and family
This post was edited on 3/22/15 at 6:52 pm
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Posted on 3/22/15 at 5:54 pm to genro
SNES- Super Mario World 
N64- Ocarina of Time (GOAT), Super Smash Bros, Mario Kart, Mario 64, Banjo Kazooie, Banjo Tooie, Mario Party, Pokemon Stadium
N64- Ocarina of Time (GOAT), Super Smash Bros, Mario Kart, Mario 64, Banjo Kazooie, Banjo Tooie, Mario Party, Pokemon Stadium
Posted on 3/22/15 at 6:00 pm to genro
Metroid- password Justin Bailey
3rd level of original Super Mario Bros where you have 1 chance to kick the turtle on the steps to load up with 90 lives.
Ocarina of Time was awesome, but I was already in college when that came out, and my roomate was stingy with it. I never got to finish my quest.
Goldeneye at the same time was awesome... all depends on whether or not you got the shitty controller. Pick Baron Von Whatever character and slap the shite out of Natalya, beat her to death, and then she rebirths into instant death because you laced the birth points with proximity mines.
Early childhood didnt really have video games. Bikes, skateboards, treehouses, big creek running behind the neighborhood that had little bass and catfish, biggest fish that ever came out of it was a 5 lb carp. Lots of camping and campfires, the only nerdy part about it was to see who could make a fire in the most primitive way.
3rd level of original Super Mario Bros where you have 1 chance to kick the turtle on the steps to load up with 90 lives.
Ocarina of Time was awesome, but I was already in college when that came out, and my roomate was stingy with it. I never got to finish my quest.
Goldeneye at the same time was awesome... all depends on whether or not you got the shitty controller. Pick Baron Von Whatever character and slap the shite out of Natalya, beat her to death, and then she rebirths into instant death because you laced the birth points with proximity mines.
Early childhood didnt really have video games. Bikes, skateboards, treehouses, big creek running behind the neighborhood that had little bass and catfish, biggest fish that ever came out of it was a 5 lb carp. Lots of camping and campfires, the only nerdy part about it was to see who could make a fire in the most primitive way.
Posted on 3/22/15 at 6:03 pm to deeprig9
Have you ever beaten Contra without the Konami code?
I have, it was hard as shite.
I have, it was hard as shite.
Posted on 3/22/15 at 6:07 pm to genro
I wasn't allowed to play "video games" as a kid but my parents didn't count PC gaming which my Dad was kind of into so I ended up playing a lot of Doom, Command and Conquer (original and Red Alert) and Star Wars Dark Forces.
Got Doom on the 360, all the C&C games through origin and Dark Forces through steam. Still play them.
Got Doom on the 360, all the C&C games through origin and Dark Forces through steam. Still play them.
This post was edited on 3/22/15 at 6:09 pm
Posted on 3/22/15 at 6:08 pm to Vols&Shaft83
No but i've beaten Super C without it.
I remember the Metroid chick code and being blown away when i found out about the Mega Man 3 trick.
I remember the Metroid chick code and being blown away when i found out about the Mega Man 3 trick.
Posted on 3/22/15 at 6:10 pm to KSGamecock
Why does my OP have downvotes? Who could have a problem
Posted on 3/22/15 at 6:10 pm to genro
Haters man. Don't sweat it.
Posted on 3/22/15 at 6:11 pm to deeprig9
And the Minus Level on SMB1.
Posted on 3/22/15 at 6:12 pm to genro
Giant world in Mario 3 blew my mind the first time I saw it
Posted on 3/22/15 at 6:14 pm to genro
I don't want to think about how much of my Saturday was wasted playing SSB 64 with 99 lives on hard difficulty.
Also NFL Blitz 2000 and Mario Kart. Good times.
Also NFL Blitz 2000 and Mario Kart. Good times.
Posted on 3/22/15 at 6:17 pm to genro
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And the Minus Level on SMB1.
Ok, I've seen the minus level, but how do you get to it?
Posted on 3/22/15 at 6:17 pm to Vols&Shaft83
Today I learned that most of y'all were the spoiled nerd kids growing up. Not sure how I feel about that. 
Posted on 3/22/15 at 6:20 pm to KSGamecock
Anything but.
Favorite system will always be the PS2 though.
Ace Combat 5
Favorite system will always be the PS2 though.
Ace Combat 5
Posted on 3/22/15 at 6:21 pm to KSGamecock
Excite Bike And baseball stars for me.
Posted on 3/22/15 at 6:23 pm to Vols&Shaft83
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Have you ever beaten Contra without the Konami code?
Only on two player.
Posted on 3/22/15 at 6:24 pm to genro
And the problem is kids drinking Coke. Fricking mother of god, generation laZy.
Posted on 3/22/15 at 6:26 pm to KSGamecock
No. We didn't get a 64 that X-mas, we had to work for it. The NES was a family NES and by the way, everyone had one. Only Granny would get me NES games. Super Scope and SNES is the only big gift video game wise from my parents I can really remember. They damn sure didn't buy me Duke Nukem.
Posted on 3/22/15 at 6:27 pm to deeprig9
There was a band in Athens that got pretty big about 6 or 7 years ago called ContraBand.
At the Georgia Theater, they had two players with the cheat code playing the game on the big screen behind them, real time, while they played the music, flawlessly.
You should youtube it if you like Contra. It will exceed your expectations.
At the Georgia Theater, they had two players with the cheat code playing the game on the big screen behind them, real time, while they played the music, flawlessly.
You should youtube it if you like Contra. It will exceed your expectations.
Posted on 3/22/15 at 6:30 pm to genro
The greatest games of the 90s were Final Fantasy 7, Ocarina of Time and Goldeneye and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
I played the motherfrick out of Donkey Kong on the SNES as well
I played the motherfrick out of Donkey Kong on the SNES as well
This post was edited on 3/22/15 at 6:31 pm
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