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NINTENDO SIXTY FOUUUUUUUURRR!!! (A Childhood Fanboy Thread)
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I used to read the same GameFan, Game Pro, EGM, or VG&CE every morning before school. I read every single review, cover to cover, usually about 1 magazine a month.
Oh, and around NES era, we used to have discussions about what Mario games would be like in the future, like around now. We basically imagined Mario 64.
I think I had a Tail Concerto fansite, too.
Oh. And I made Sonic fan games in The Games Factory. I'm pretty sure I have a screenshot of one of them somewhere... I'll see if I can dig it up. It was pretty awful.
Now that I think about a lot of the games that I would be fanboyish over back in the day, it's amazing that I'm not a furry.
Tail Concerto was the shit... this past Christmas, I picked up a used copy for my little brother.
He's beaten it 7 times so far.
It's probably my third favorite PS1 game after Klonoa and MGS. I went as far as importing a japanese copy so I could compare the differences between versions and also the portrait art that was cut from the US release. I was super-excited for a PS2 sequel when the developer released some concept art for it, but nothing ever came of it. Now they're making Naruto games. (This seems promising, but.. I don't want to get my hopes up again.)
Anyway, here's the sonic fan game screenshot I mentioned above.
Not really particularly bad, but it is a memory that has stuck with me.
Around the time OoT came out, and I was on a holiday school day camp thing, and the outing was a trip to the beach. Naturally, any second being seperated from Ocarina of Time was causing me physical pain.
We (some nerds) were all sitting around talking about OoT. We were not very interested in the beach. something like:
OMG AND THEN THE CASTLE FALLS DOWN BUT GANNONDORF IS NOT DEAD AND HE TURNS INTO A BIG MONSTER AND YOU HAVE TO FIGHT HIM AND HE HAS THESE HUGE DAGGERS AND HE KNOCKS THE SWORD OUT OF YOUR HAND BUT IT IS OKAY YOU KILL HIM AND IN THE END YOU SEE THAT EVERYONE IS HAPPY AND IT IS AWESOME.
One of the leaders said something like "It's a wonderful day. Can't you guys just enjoy being at the beach and not talk about video games?"
And I said something like "You just don't understand what it's like man." And then we went back to talking about Zelda.
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Favorite dinosaur: triceratops. What could be better? How about a triceratops with wings and fucking ice breath?
Triceratops is still my favorite dinosaur.
Also: I felt Luigi was under-appreciated. I used to sit and play nintendo alone on 2p, killing off Mario on that first goomba and playing as Luigi.
I was trolling through sprite resourced trying to find the best Pangloss model at 3am on a weekday.
It was a bad time in my life.
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Did some fan art for WoW
I'm still hoping the inventors of the Zelda Fruit Boss can find their scraps, or at least recall more of their designs.
Also renamed the thread in the hopes of better getting the point across. And to sound less GAF-ish.
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I was like 9 or 10.
I uh that's kind of awesome. Way better than what Sonic has gone through, that's for sure.
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When I was first learning the ropes of how to type, I used my old laptop and I would transcribe anything I could get my hands on that interested me, and that was usually video games and video game magazines
If I could find my old laptop, I'm sure you could find several entire issues of GamePro (I was a kid!) and EGM transcribed (advertisements too), as well as the back covers of games and entire instruction manuals
I knew my training was complete when I typed out the description for every single trophy in Super Smash Bros. Melee in a scant couple hours back when I first got my GameCube and demolished SSBM
Zelda: Ocarina of Time also helped me learn how to read.
Edit: And for some actual fanboyism, I made DOZENS of Dragonball Z ripoff comics when I was really young. God they were awful.
Oh it's such a nice day, I think I'll go out the window! Whoa!
Oh God
I feel old now, thanks
Oh it's such a nice day, I think I'll go out the window! Whoa!
How many CDs was the FFVII soundtrack? There's no doubt that they were price-gouging, but CDs are simply more expensive in Japan than in America.
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There are four.
It remains the only game soundtrack I've purchased.
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Needless to say, I became obsessed. I would play it compulsively and would just grind for hours when my dad wasn't around to read to me in case I accidentally furthered the plot unknowingly. I would also spend hours thumbing through the strategy guide, which I was slowly learning how to use and read. Since PSII was one of the first big console RPGs it came with a huge strategy guide since SEGA was afraid US gamers wouldn't know what to do with a massive RPG. I got to the point where I could recite from memory what items and equipment were available from every shop in town as well as how much it all cost.
Once I got a better command of reading and writing I did what a lot of us did and started creating my own stories based on the PS mythology. I wrote long, dry stories in which the cast of characters from the game went on adventures and had them play out exactly like they did in game. It wasn't enough for me to say the characters traveled from one city to another, I described every step of the journey, including a blow by blow account of the random battles and what weapons a character happened to be using at the time.
All of this is fairly standard, but I decided to ask my first grade teacher permission to read these stories aloud to my class every day after recess. She eventually agreed, because what teacher (other than me) would deny their students the opportunity to share extracurricular work? I'm sure I've repressed most of the student responses to my work, but I remember reading these stories aloud to my class every day for at least a month or two. Suffice to say, I had very few friends in elementary school, and I'm pretty sure my teacher loved the one day a week I had to go to Gifted Studies because it meant she didn't have to sit through the absolute nonsense I read every day.
Edit: Isn't learning to read at age 5-6 pretty standard? That's when pretty much everyone at my school started.
Oh it's such a nice day, I think I'll go out the window! Whoa!
I had what rival factions in middle school affectionately referred to as the "GayStation"
Ah okay, I get you now
As for standard reading age? I was reading pretty well before I started school...I honestly don't know.
I'm the brother, and I'm searching for the drawings now.
I do recall some other bosses though:
A giant monster turtle!
A bipedal bear, dressed like Link (with a sword and even the little hat)!
Oh, and I also made Fruit-Link to go along with the golem. He had an orange for a head.
He'd always play as himself. Apparently he was just a badass ninja guy in his head.
I'd always play as the villian he was fighting at the time.
A typical session would start out with Golbez swooping in, stealing his girlfriend/valuable keepsake/legendary item of power and announcing who I was in dramatic fashion and leaving him to fight a minion or two.
After he won a hard battle versus both Ryu and Ken, he'd absorb some power and be able to fight the next dudes in the sequence. But this time he got to use a fireball or dragon punch or something.
This went on until the end wherein we'd never finish because after he won the epic battle of epicness, Golbez wasn't as badass as he seemed at first: he was merely a pawn for some overlord. The grand trampoline opera wasn't over yet. And so it went.
Also, I created a pen and paper dice-based Pokemon game with random chance and limited moves per day so that my brother and I could have something fun to do. I made him scream "Pikachu, I choose YOUUUUUU" or whatever pokemon he was choosing to battle for him every time. Also we sang the title to the cartoon everytime we played.
OHGODSOLAME.
In college I turned in a paper loosely based on Eternal Darkness.
I think in high school I wrote something that was more or less the plot to Army of Darkness
This. Good god, middle school was nothing but a battle of the two "factions". You had a Playstation or a 64, and that dictated who your friends were. God forbid you had both, and if you did it was in your best interest not to mention it. Oh those were the days.
It was never stolen(and still works), somehow.
I had a kid in my 3rd or 4th college english class, had a clueless as hell teacher. His paper was a story about Mario and his dinosaur pet Yoshiro saving the Frog village from the evil Suprise Ghosts after a mysterious house appeared. He even ended the Ghost house with Mario hitting a giant moving white bar, as they cued fireworks.
Edit: Almost forgot, Mario left Yoshiro behind when he got to the Ghost house.
My best friend at the time wrote an episode of Thundercats, essentially. I wrote the Legend of Zelda (NES), minus 7 of the dungeons. Of course, I hadn't even BEAT Zelda at the time, but like fuck you knew you were going to rescue Zelda and get the 8th piece of the Triforce. My teacher thought it was soooo good, he selected me and a few other top stories to be read over the morning announcements in school. And then again in front of the lower grades (Kindergarten to Grade 4, Grade 5-8 were considered upper grades) in the auditorium. I blame him for my fear of public speaking because when you're 7 or 8 years old, you're in FEAR of the older kids.
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Alas, I have all of my other writing from elementary school, but not this one, for some reason.
-A horrible re-imagining of Mega Man, in which Rock was actually a human who wore a special suit. The Robot Masters were still robots. It also had more of a modern day setting, rather than being very futuristic. It was intended to be a comic book, but all I ever produced was some concept art, and an un-finished rough draft for the script.
-A slew of terrible superhero knock-offs which included an amalgam of Wolverine and Archangel. This was my earliest offense.
-A comic in which Sonic did battle with Pikachu. I was actually 16 or 17 when I drew this, and I mainly did it to annoy this younger kid at church who was obsessed with Pokemon and constantly ragged on another boy for liking Sonic games better.
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I used to draw a semi stick-figure based Counter Strike comic when I was in middle school. It centered on one Seal Team6 CT vs one 1337 Terrorist on the "Militia" map. The ones I remember most:
CT had T cornered on the roof of the house, T has his glock, CT has his USP. T manages to shoot the USP out of the CT's hand leaving him with only his knife. Laughing maniacally the T unloads his Glock into the CT but since the Glock was so unbelievably weak the CT casually strolls over to the T and stabs him in the head.
Another comic with the same scenario, CT remembers what happened before and willfully switches to knife. As he strolls through the hail of bullets, the T gets smart and chucks his Glock at the CT's head and knocks him off the roof.
Finally, I came up with what I thought was an epic story arc wherein a Demon attacks the map and the T and CT run to the CT spawn and tear the APC apart to make weapons and armor. After an epic battle, the two win and the CS narrator says "Counter-Terrorists AND Terrorists win!" Then the CT stabs the T in the face and "Terrorists" gets crossed out.
Looking back at what I've typed, now they seem kind of lame.
I also wrote out a concept for a Star Wars squad based shooter. LucasArts must have read my mind when they decided to make Republic Commando. 8-)
Anyway, the shameful part:
I owned this CD, loved it, and would listen to it every morning on the way to school. Some songs from it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngovaH86VVU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOsdy1ZsXUs
The really shameful part: I still like some of the songs, get them stuck in my head from time to time, and sing them in the shower.