You've seen this before:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFlcqWQVVuU
You laughed. But deep down you also cried a little inside.
That's because you know full well that you used to
be that kid. You used to experience the frenzy of a thousand sugar rushes over that newest, awesomest game ever.
Maybe you sometimes took that obsession a little too far. Maybe you never grew out of it.
Perhaps you thought about merging your favorite characters together to form an awesome amalgam of awesomeness.
Or maybe you chose to weave your own tale to compliment the incredible story and setting of your favorite games.
Or maybe you chose to relive your beloved characters through extravagant dress-up, where you can interact with like-minded fellows.
Horrible Cosplay picture goes here.
Well, now's the time to come clean. Recall your most embarrassing, most hilarious moments of fanboyism, either as a young child or....well, let's just hope you were a young child. Did you run around the grocery store screaming "I will BEAT you, Team Rocket! Pikachu RULES!!"? Did you write a school paper about how Bowser was actually a sympathetic character instead of a villain? Did you doodle crude sketches of Zelda getting it on with the Ninja Turtles?
Well, time to share it. Except that last part. Unless you can post a NSFW warning, and it's hilarious.
I'll get the confessions rolling with something I posted in the Sonic 4 thread.
When I was younger (about 12ish) I used to come up with my own Sonic stories, before I ever knew what fanfiction was (much less the internet). I had recently discovered Anime and thought it was the most fucking awesome thing ever, so you can see where the influence came from.
Sonic, Tails, Knuckes, and Amy would all receive the next evolution of Chaos emeralds, the God emeralds. This gave them incredible powers, including super strength, speed that would let them leap between dimensions, and flight.
Their main enemy was Metal Sonic, who had managed to transcend his metal coil and achieve synthetic flesh. His power was astronomical.
To counter this, the Sonic group created super-powered armors salvaged from Robotnik's destroyed creations. Battles would wage across space, many planets would be destroyed just from their battles.
Also, Tails joins a futuristic police force and rides on a motorcycle.....for some reason.
I stuck with the concept for a while, but had enough sense not to put it on paper by the time the internet rolled around.
Uh...until now.
.....carry on then.
And here's an old drawing by AaronKI, which I'm sure he'd be happy to share in this thread as well.
I hope to get many laughs out of this thread followed by comforting rebuttals of "it's okay, we were all that way once.".
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Also, a Zelda fruit boss actually sounds awesome. Especially if you have an animal companion like in the GBC games to help you devour it.
You're really going to compare this to threads of that nature, you sticking stick in the mud?
Also I never understood the rules of Hurt/Heal, and I imagine it's too stupid to bother reading through.
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These of course went along with all my Dragonball Z sketches.
Do... Re... Mi... So... Fa.... Do... Re.... Do...
Forget it...
Yes, I spent more on the goddamn soundtrack than I did on the actual game, since my house used to have a strict "1 system" policy.
Not exactly embarrassing, but definitely not something I'm proud of.
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Also I wrote terrible Pokemon fanfics (they were all just me having dumb adventures with the characters from the TV show)
Yeah I was still a kid back then but I was old enough that I should have known better
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the dialogue was sooo damn horrible.
We'd make lists of all of the characters, and take turns choosing who's in everyone's rosters, along with 1 created character apiece. Whomever got Vince or the current GM (it changed all the time) got to set up matches, and we actually had belts for the winners to keep & take home (the Jakks toy ones, also were awesome), as long as you gave it up when you lost your title.
We played this from World Tour, Revenge, Wrestlemania 2000, and started with No Mercy. No Mercy had ass-tons of glitches, primarily when you played a career with a created character, it would randomly delete your entire roster data, and all of the unlocks.... basically resetting the cartridge. Completely killed the game for us.
I still have the World Title around here somewhere, boxed up.
... Did I mention we were all in our 20's/30's at the time?
How did it cost $80
back in the day, if you wanted something imported, you paid through the ear, or had to buy from majorly-overpriced local import retailers.
Yep, first printing of No Mercy all had that save/custom character deleting glitch. Still the best wrestling game ever. They fixed it in subsequent printings.
We were to the point of hunting down every GameStop/Babbage's/Electronics Boutique, asking for their collection of used No Mercy cartridges, and would go down the list looking at serial numbers.
That goddamn fixed version is impossible to find, thus ended our fun.
That's because no one would ever sell a fixed copy.
I never spoke to them again.
When I was very young, and I mean VERY young, like 2nd grade young, I used to draw pictures of something called Zoom. He looked like Snoopy, but with Sonic spinning legs. I believe I referred to him as, "The brother of Snoopy and Sonic" [Yes, I was THAT dumb]
Also I used to run around and pretend I was Yoshi when I was a little kid too >.>
I never messed with imported CDs so damn, that's insane.
I used to be a moderator at Xboxphreaker. The only Phantom Dust fansite.
I have written fanfiction ( i will not link you to it, find your own ). I have helped design a comic based off of the game.
I discussed the metaphysics of the game.
My god. I feel like shooting myself now.
Waaaay back in elementary school, me and a friend of mine played Battledrome despite the fact that the most we could do on dial-up connections was try to kill each other by flying our camera drones into one another. Battledrome was basically a mech arena game and I still have fond memories of it to this day. Me and my friend were also just figuring out the wonders of MS paint, so we would make front-on "drawings" of custom mechs using all the shape tools, print them out, and compare them at school.
And back in high school, I did sketches of game and comic characters but I also did them of a million other things as practice so it wasn't really unusual or fanboyish.
I will say that I engaged in many conversations in elementary school over how Star Wars would totally beat Star Trek except instead of using dumb kid logic, I actually used what physics I knew. Yeah, it was pretty nerdy, but hey, at least it wasn't Pokemon.
Anyway, I was also really into Mortal Kombat when I was a kid for the obvious reason that it was the most badass game at the time. In my town all the cool kids played mortal kombat, "children" played street fighter. I use to spend all my time drawing my own made up characters, I think I made the amazingly creative choice to make a red and purple ninja before midway did. I was still into mortal kombat by the time the the third one came around but kinda tapered off after that since it moved to the playstation. Mortal Kombat: Sub Zero was actually the very first game i got for the Nintendo 64 and i thought it was fuckin epic at the time, afterwards though I got into pokemon and that became my new obsession.
It was from an import store (I believe they were called Diehard) found in the back of every GameFan magazine.
Back then I was all "holy crap, I can buy all this awesome anime and Japan-exclusive stuff! What a bargain!".
The FFVII CD was $80, and the orchestrated CDs (such as FFVI: The Grand Finale) was a good $60 each.
I bought at least five CDs from them. One time they messed up my order and sent me the 1987-1994 FF CD instead of Grand Finale. I wasn't too pissed, since the music was quite top-notch.
Also payed $40 to get the next VHS of Evangelion. They sent me the subbed version instead of dubbed, so I had to pay something like $10 to send it back out.
I don't know where in the hell I got all that money from, but it really burns me up that I gave these fuckers so much cash over stuff I could find at least 70% cheaper once I discovered the internet.
Needless to say, I never, ever spent money on music since.
....because it's so cheap to buy it online. Yeah...
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We had/have a similiar store locally (McVann's Game Trader), they had all this cool import shit that you can just ogle...
Back then, it was like 'WHOA LOOK DREAMCAST IMPORTS!', and they had all the games--Biohazard, Shenmue, D2 (hells yea D2), you just couldn't... understand a damn thing going on. I worked at a Babbage's, and our store manager had bought an import DC and had it + Sonic on display for reservations--we all won free DC consoles from having more preorders than any other store in about 8 regions.
That was pretty win.
It's the best thing I played in years, reinventing a dead multiplayer genre that I want to see flourish.
$20.00 for a mew.
PS2
FF X replay
PS3
God of War 1&2 HD
Rachet and Clank Future
MGS 4
Prince of Persia
360
Bayonetta
Fable 3
DS
FF: 4 heroes of light
Taking advantage of pokefans is something to be ashamed of?
I'm ashamed that I was such a sociopath at the age of 8.
EDIT: ERRR 8th grade, the age of... 13?
PS2
FF X replay
PS3
God of War 1&2 HD
Rachet and Clank Future
MGS 4
Prince of Persia
360
Bayonetta
Fable 3
DS
FF: 4 heroes of light
I'd just call it being an enterprising young man/woman.
It's possibly my first Zelda too. My virginity was taken that day. All that and it's still not in my top 3 favorite games.
I am ashamed to admit it's all my fault that Half Life placed higher than to many people's eyes the best game of all time.
Yeah, I don't see any reason to be ashamed of this (other than the "legit leveling" part if you want to be a real stickler). Kids willing to pay money for fake monster they could get on their own a) have too much money, b) are dumb, and c) would've wasted that money anyway. Oh wait, they already did. No way in hell would I have ever spent twenty (or even five) bucks on something I could myself; that money could've gone towards something good like, I don't know, a new game.
Funcoland. I hope the owners of that burn in hell. I was around 11, had something like 6 games to trade in, and ended up getting just enough to buy King of the Monsters 2 for the SNES. Do you realize that game was about 1% as awesome as the arcade King of the Monsters? And the guy behind the counter just let me do it. I could never work at a place like Gamestop because I just know kids would bring in awesome stuff in order to buy something they think is great. I wouldn't be able to do it. I would honestly have to refuse to let the kid trade them in for a piece of trash, corporate bottom line be damned.
And once I spent my entire allowance on quarters playing the Popeye game at an ice-cream shop. I felt so dumb, which makes sense because it wasn't a very bright thing to do and the game wasn't worth it.
But I didn't regret that as the game was and still is fucking awesome.
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I had a friend like that, who would always tell me stuff to fuel my childhood fanboyism. He'd tell me how he knew a guy at Nintendo who revealed awesome projects like a Captain N videogame (where you get to choose between Captain N and all the other videogame characters), or a 2-player Zelda (Zelda being the second playable character), or that a more violent season of the Robocop cartoon was being shown at midnight (since I'd complain about how the cartoon wasn't violent at all).
The '80's series, not that extra horrible '90's one.
Ironically, the one time he wasn't pulling my leg was when I was wise enough to call him on his bullshit.
"There's a new Mario game coming out where Mario dresses like a raccoon and can fly."
Me: "Yeah right, buddy. I'm not falling for that one."
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Oh man. I knew this kid. And for a while, I believed Beedrill could evolve into a super awesome fourth form.
People even THOUGHT I was this guy, when I claimed that my Pidgeotto evolved. Since their only knowledge of the Pidgey evolutions came from the cartoon, everyone thought I was full of shit.