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NINTENDO SIXTY FOUUUUUUUURRR!!! (A Childhood Fanboy Thread)
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I bought that as a birthday present for my sister once. She still listens to it today.
It's not nearly as embarrassing as the NA Sailor Moon CD.....which I borrowed from her time to time. :?
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Granted, I haven't listened to it in ten years, but it's there.
I wish I meant the Pokemon one.
Or something.
But not What Kind of Pokemon Are You?
That one I can never forget.
They lost me after there were more than 151 of em. How many Pokemon are there now?
One time in 9th grade I wrote a short story version of the plot of Ultima 8 and turned it in. Got a B on it.
Not game related, but when I was like 8 I used to play in my backyard, pretending I was hanging out with Def Leppard and would have rumbles with the dudes from Poison.
Something like 497 I think
I still love Pokemon to this day, and I'd call it my secret shame except it's no secret and I hold no shame about it
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I'd kill to see Atlus add functionality with Pokemon games into an SMT title.
Stop saying things that would be awesome but will never happen...
I still find my current name to be an upgrade.
(though to be fair, it was one of the coolest FF7 bosses, at least that's what I thought at the time)
Jesus...that seems unnecessary...
Gotta keep the franchise going I suppose.
I bust out laughing so hard, my co-worker looked at me like I was having a hysterical fit. When I tried to explain why I was laughing, he looked at me like he didn't get it. I'm surrounded by fail.
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Except that I still do that, even though I'm really not disciplined enough to code a full game.
Someone at my school asked “how the heck did Mario go form chasing apes to saving princesses and eating Shrooms”
I then proceed to tell a story that I don’t quite remember that outlined the entire Mario timeline. It involved.
Luigi going to plumbing school
Mario going to med school and working construction to pay for it and for his girlfriend Pauline who at the time who worked in the zoo”
Donkey Kong happens
Mario saves Pauline.
Mario Quits his construction job and works at the Zoo
Donkey Kong Jr happens
Breaks up with Pauline
Is changes his job to a work for a destruction company.
Wreaking Crew happens
Takes a side job refereeing boxing matches
Punch out happens.
Decided all these side jobs were taking up too much of his time so quits them all to work at an arcade
Pinball happens
Graduates Med School and does Research on Viruses
Dr Mario happens.
Mario goes Golfing to try to expand his practice
Golf happens
Mario is a renowned Dr. and is asked to do research in Space. On the way to a moon base there is a asteroid belt that looks like a wall. The only thing Mario has that might break the wall with him is a bowling ball
Alleyway happens.
Mario wasn’t happy as a Dr. and missed his brother so he and Luigi started their own plumbing business
Mario Bros happens
Mario and Luigi are working in the sewers when an Earthquake hits and the ground opens up and they fall into a cave and go into a large pipe to come out into a strange new world
Super Mario Bros and the mushroom kingdom adventures happens which at that time was Super Mario 1,2,3,Land and World.
Did I mention I wove this into a story that I told and I was in high school at the time.
Oh! And in that same notebook there's my sketch of Doom IV, where you could obtain BLACK ARMOR which had it's own health bar besides normal armor and health. I think I also added spike traps or something. OH AND YOU COULD PUNCH PEOPLE WHILE CARRYING A GUN. Just like Duke's foot of death.
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Oh, don't worry.
I can top that.
Before my little Sonic Rangers Crisis Z project, I used to really obsess of my idea for "the most awesome crossover ever".
It consisted of the ultimate team-up of Captain N, Mario, and Sonic. Captain N was the leader, Mario was the voice of reason, and Sonic was the sarcastic loner who thought the other two were losers (cuz, you know, he's got ATTITUDE).
Their main enemy? With Bowser dead after a dramatic battle, it fell upon Larry Koopa to avenge his father's death and assume control of the Koopa empire. But how could he face the three mightiest videogame heroes at once?
Simple....he fused with the Carnage symbiote.
Yes, that Carnage. Unsurprisingly, I was a big Spidey fan back in the day. Endowed with incredible strength and psychotic bloodlust, Larry Carnage was the ultimate threat for our heroes. Eventually their battles would grow so intense, the entire world was decimated into an apocalyptic wasteland.
I even described my awesome movie idea to my Dad once in excruciating detail, because I thought it was so awesome. Thankfully, his attention span is very, very low, so he no doubt forgot everything within five minutes.
So to reiterate, somehow I was convinced that this:
plus this:
would equal the most awesome villain ever.
Just try and top that. Also, an artist rendering would be hilarious. And humiliating.
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Also, I owned the soundtrack for Super Mario 64, and I'd have it blasting in the home stereo.
A creative writing assignment in which we had to write a short story based on a picture from a magazine. I wrote a story based on a poster for 'James Pond and the Aquatic Games' (pic below) from my Sega Power magazine. I had no clue what the game was actually like as I was a frustrated Master System owner in an increasingly Mega Drive (Genesis) dominated world. Got a good mark if I remember correctly.
Then there would be the endless sheets of A4 me and my mates would fill with our homemade platformer maps in an extremely Mario-esque style. Page after page of them that we would lay out and link up in a huge great collaborative project.
The art lesson where the task was to create a menu for a theme restaurant. Two groups of boys both predictably coming up with a video game theme and the arguments over who came up with 'Sonic Strawberry' and 'Goomba Grape' first and who was the copycat almost leading to a playground punch up.
Those were the days when your social standing was set by ability to draw Nintendo characters. Every piece of school stationary was scrawled with pictures copied form the Nintendo sticker collection. When I was off school for a month or two with really bad glandular fever my classmates made me a giant homemade get well card with an A3 sized Raccoon Mario on the front and the inside covered with doodles of Goombas Bobombs and Koopas.
This is all back when I was in a private Primary School (only because we got reduced rates as child of a teacher). Entering Secondary School with the rest of the hoi polloi the world became a bit less geeky and computer games became something to be a bit more hidden. Le Sigh.
Still, first Year in Secondary we had an English project to create a book for children with lift up flaps. I do believe 'Harry the Hedgehog' is still at my parent's house somewhere as a testament to my awful Sonic drawing skills. I would so scan it for you all to laugh at if it were available now but alas I fear the thread will have died before i can retrieve it.
I could read and re-read my notes over and over but the projects the prof wanted might as well have been asking for the moon. I could barely figure out the Hello, World! project on my own, and that's supposed to be the most basic thing you learn. I attended 6 classes, but once I got to the point that I would stress about not being able to figure out the projects, I just opted for a refund on the course.
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Late in my first grade year, I combined all these great new characters I made based off these games into one huge opus: The Spooky Old Lighthouse. It was a grand thing indeed. And you know what else? We didn't have no Internet Webspaces or Photohouse software back then. We had to do things the right way...the old fashioned way. With pencil, paper, and crayons.
:waves crotchety cantankerous old man cane about:
...not even 4 years later I was swapping out Nintendo Powers with friends hoping one of them had a guide so I could get myself unstuck in Goonies 2 (a game in which I was horribly stuck). This was way before the days one of you uppity yard sprogs could hit up GameFAQs for his game spoilers. You either had to wait for an issue of the aforementioned Nintendo Power, or spend whole weekends trying to find the solution to your vidjagame problems yourself. But did we complain? Oh no. Because even then we knew THAT'S THE DAMN WELL WAY IT SHOULD BE!
Kids these days. Lil bastards don't know what they're missing.
Or call the Nintendo Power hotline. I admittedly must've gotten my parents to spend at least $100 on that thing one year. Different video games each month, but it was imperative that I beat the game, money be damned!
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You still got those stories? This sounds like something I would enjoy reading, and not ironically either.
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I tried that one time while renting Tombs and Treasures way back in the day. Of course, me being me, I did it without parental permission, and they blocked all 1-900 numbers soon after getting the phone bill.
The Nintendo Power Hotline was not an option for me.
Most of my old drawings are long since gone, though I did happen across The Spooky Old Lighthouse while digging around in the attic at home about a year ago. Once I get some free time, I'll see if I can track it down and scan it out for you.
That thing was busy all the time. I remember sitting on the kitchen floor with the phone beside me, calling over and over, finally just pulling a Goodfellas and banging the shit out of it with the receiver.
Until I got my first modem. Then I'd just use my terminal program to repeatedly redial until I heard it answer.
ahem...
I read this as my girlfriend and her flat mates were in the room watching Sexy Beast. I'm pretty sure it was a sad point judging from the music and I showed my girlfriend the post and then google imaged Larry Koopa so she'd know why it was especially funny. After seeing that guy's face I had to apologise and leave the room as I was giggling like a little girl.
That is gold.
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Thank god it wasn't
The original image of Larry needs to be fixed so this can be reported for awesome. :P
You made my day, seriously.
I can barely type this because I'm too busy laughing.
Although truthfully I envisioned him as like 7 feet tall and hulking with muscle. Larry was a teenager in my version, I forgot to mention that.
Regardless, this thread is now deemed MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
(still want to see a Zelda fruit monster).
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I remember being really young and trying to get my little sister to play some imaginary version of D&D that I was making up as I went along. We built characters out of legos and other buildy-type toys and then made stat sheets for them where we counted stats like "stars" "jump" "awesomeness" etc.
It was some sort of Spiderman/Mario/D&D hybrid that made no sense because I was like...7 and also I had no idea how D&D worked.
It was like playing action figures except with sheets of paper for tracking random stuff that I came up with on the fly.
I've been looking for it, but no such luck. Still, might as well keep trying.
Sounds like Calvinball of the RPG world.
This reminds me.. my friends and I collected pokemon cards, but we were too dumb to make sense of the actual rules... so we just made up our own.
That also reminds me of the time I traded a Pikachu card to someone for their copy of Link's Awakening DX. Best trade ever. :P (But I was dumb and sold it to gamestop a few years down the road. Argh! I keep meaning to find a new copy of it on eBay, but I never get around to it.)
My cousin and I used to be way into Ninja Turtles (as were most kids), but we especially loved the arcade game. So one day while searching through my Grandfathers garage we found two perfectly square 2 foot long pieces of wood, some electrical tape, and a chain fron an old dog leash and boom....I was Michelangelo. We also found an old mop handle, wraped the middle of it with electric tape and my cousin was Donatello. We would go around the neighborhood on our bikes with our "weapons" ready for any attacks coming our way. We did find an old machete which was the closest thing we could get to Leanardo's swords, but we thought it best not to run around playing with that.
Lol, I remember that stupid nintendo power hotline, pure crap. I would just collect all my Nintendo Power, EGM, Game Pro, and any other gaming magazine I could get my hands on. I literally had about 100 of these things lying around and over the course of time I read through nearly all of them cover to cover. I was so into it I could play a game and if I got stuck, I knew exactly what magazine to look in for the map, clue, whatever. I was like the Nintendo Google and such a nerd,
And I think it's so funny that other folks here have turned in grade school projects based on Nintendo plots. I did that in 4th grade with Zelda 2,
"Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death." -HST
In my defence: I was in the middle of some grudge matches back home, they'd just taken that game out of our regular arcade, and I was trying out some new characters.
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