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NINTENDO SIXTY FOUUUUUUUURRR!!! (A Childhood Fanboy Thread)
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also when we used to play x-wing (and TIE Fighter, although it would be innaccurate) i would take the keyboard and sit behind my friend while he would be in a chair in front of the monitor and i'd pretend i was his R2 unit. my duties included operating the targeting computer, diverting power to different functions, switching to missles, etc.
also on the dbz front, i have a binder of pictures i'd find on dbz fan sites that i thought were 'badass' at the time and wanted to print out and show people. shit like everyone super saiyan doing energy waves and stuff.
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If you did this as an adult you'd be thrown in prison. "Hey, wanna see some cool DBZ pictures, kid?"
I hope you had a few Gamefans in there. That was, bar none, the best videogame magazine ever published in my humble opinion. I never even bothered with EGM or Gamepro once my local grocery store started stocking it regularly.
Man, you people are making me feel nostalgic over here. I'm gonna have to get an emulator and fire up some old NES games.
you're sitting on internet gold dude.
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Fuck. Yes.
Everything about this post is awesome.
Post it!
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I'm gonna get a nosebleed from doing this, I just know it.
Shang Tsung is a demon who is exiled to earth in human form with the goal of infiltrating and winning the Shaolin tournament for Shao Kahn. But he can't win, and is cast out. If he dies on earth, he's damned for eternity as a human. Shang Tsung basically goes on a long journey where he falls in with human sorcerers, learns their arts, kills them, raises Reptile from the dead and instructs Reptile to build an army of the damned while Tsung locates a means to reach the Outworld and enlist Goro for a second go at the tournament. With Reptile's aid Shang Tsung kills and replaces the grandmaster with himself before the next tournament, enabling Shang Tsung to pose as the benevolent officiator while Kung Lao defends the title. Goro basically just shows up for the tournament and kills everybody not allied with Shang Tsung. Reptile and his army of the dead renovate the island and build a fortress compound for the tournament to be held in, while Shang Tsung spends 500 years irritating Raiden into appearing on the earth realm to fight him, basically instigating the high-stakes tournament where Shang Tsung can win the requisite amount of souls to allow Shao Kahn to cross over with his army, while at the same time Shang Tsung would devour the soul of a god and escape everlasting damnation for being a demon, as well as escaping the clutches of Shao Kahn by becoming too powerful to control.
Guess I focused on the bad guy.
Then a bunch of stuff happened involving everyone else, but it was mostly Scorpion/Sub-Zero history interspered with Liu Kang's training to take back the island fortress and defeat Shang Tsung. I mentioned some stuff about the more mundane earthlings-Kano, Sonya, Johnny Cage-but it was easily the least good part of the story and also the least interesting. I left the ending open.
Also:
Me from 1993 wrote, in the preface:
Key: ~{}~ = telepathic voice
Man, I didn't even have more than one font in 1993.
I made a comic book mashing the three together. I still have it to this day (albeit in storage right now). Oh god is it painful to look back on.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
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
While this statement in itself isn't surprising coming from you, I was a little bit shocked by how unsurprised I was that you said this.
The Larry Koopa/Carnage picture by Demon was fantastic. Had me laughing my ass off.
I'm a little bit ashamed to say I wrote some light FFVII fanfiction back in the day, but that's really about the extent of what I can contribute to this thread.
Carl Champlin Jr, on the other hand has quite a substantial contribution.
Sadly, when I was just out of high school, I tried to pin together Mario's timeline too. I even had some ridiculous idea about making a fanfic out of it. Here's my take on it:
The Mario Bros., as seen at the end of Yoshi's Island, were indeed born in the Mushroom Kingdom. Their parents were Italian immigrants from New York who had previously somehow found their way to the MK. Princess Peach's parents had also found their way to the MK, but in Peach's case, I originally wanted it so that her parents had somehow ended up there back in the 1930s. I figured they were farmers living in the California dustbowl and had somehow ended up finding the MK down a well. My idea was that time passed in a completely different way in the MK, which is why you see lots of different "eras" represented in the MK from modern kart racing to medieval castles to Victorian-era mansions. In a sense, the MK exists in a parallel dimension that I imagine being under our own world. All these different cultural ingredients were brought to the MK by other people who had stumbled upon this land by various entry points around the world, all being somehow underground or what not, either by falling down a hole or getting lost in a cave, etc.
Anyway, shortly after the bros. were born, the Marios decided to return to New York, which by then was around the mid 1940s and raised the bros., which was kind of a shock since roughly thirty years had passed since the Marios had first entered the MK (I figured that the Marios had ended up there somewhere around the turn of the century, yet ended up there after Peach's parents because of the weird time twist). Similarly, back in the MK, Peach was born to her parents, who had apparently become beloved by the Mushroom people, mostly because of the fact that they were one of the very few humans around and were viewed as dieties. It seems that many of the various regions of the MK were ruled by humans, from Daisy of Sarasaland to all those kings that ruled Desert Land or Giant Land, etc.
The Marios eventually started a small plumbing business, with the bros. apprenticing under their father. They eventually grew up and took over the business. In lean times, Mario took other odd jobs. Working as a carpenter, he encountered DK. This lead to a brief job being DK's wrangler, but this caused him a lot of stress what with DK Jr. messing it all up. This didn't work out, especially with his first love, Pauline, eventually breaking up with him. He took demolition jobs, bringing Luigi along while the family business was faltering. However, they were hired on by the city to do one last big plumbing job - to rid the sewers of creatures fouling up the works. They took the job, but were surprised at the types of dangers they were finding - from turtles to crabs to strange beings that froze the floors. This eventually led them to a pipe that was the source of the problem. They went down and found themselved in a familiar place - the land of their birth, the MK. They heard that Peach had been kidnapped and decided to help out. By this time, Bowser had grown and risen to power and had turned many of the MK's inhabitants into various clouds and bushes and horsehair plants and whatnot - including Peach's parents. Of course, we know the rest of the story, about how the bros. beat Bowser, etc.
The other key component to this story is that at some point, the bros. had gone back in time and met their baby selves. It was agreed that if they wanted to protect the MK, they would need to be more than just the plumbers that they were. They took this opportunity to take their baby selves to the MK to train them in all sorts of skills, knowing that they in turn would absorb these skills themselves and this would all be somehow helpful in fighting against Bowser. Because of the fact that time moved differently in the MK, this didn't really pollute the timeline (yeah, it's kind of a cop out, but whatever). These ranged from medicine to kart racing to various mastery of sports.
The bros. have also gone back to our world at various points to catch up with the folks. This led to a chance meeting with one Shigeru Miyamoto when he was visiting New York one day in the late 70s (I have no idea if Miyamoto had actually visited New York at that time, call it historical fiction). The bros. told him their story, and this of course led to Miyamoto later creating all these games we play now. The bros. still keep in contact with Miyamoto.
So yeah, I'm a total dork about this stuff.
When I was a little girl, we didn't have a videogame system or a computer. The kids next door, however, had a ton of games on their Mac. I practically moved to live there. My first game love was Manhole, a children's game from Broderbund in the style of Myst (but, you know, with greyscale graphics and no puzzles). I played Manhole like crazy until the neighbour kid realized it's not cool to play with girls, and I was banished from their Macintosh (as well as their house).
"Playing videogames" got a whole different meaning for me after that. I built my own computer from cardboard boxes and designed a whole line of games for it. If I had a friend over and we "played videogames", I gave my friend a stack of floppy discs (also made from cardboard), each one with the name of the game written on it. Then I hid inside the cardboard computer and waited for my friend to slid a disc through a hole ("disc drive"), and started the game. Each game consisted of a stack of drawings, each one with a different scene from the game. The games were controlled by stucking fingers trough holes on each side of the screen, so I could see even from inside the box which way the player wanted to move. Then I'd just swap the appropriate drawing on the "screen". Sometimes my friend had to yell commands like "Okay, I'm gonna kill the dragon with the sword" and I'd swap the dragon drawing with a picture of a treasure.
A couple of weeks ago I was cleaning up, and found a cardboard floppy disc with "Manhoul 2" written on it with wonky letters.
So, about a year ago I was watching over my niece, and I showed her my DS to keep her occupied for a while. It turned out she absolutely fell in love with it, and she's begged me to lend her the thing every time we meet. Once she complained how much she'd like to have her own DS, I told her about the cardboard computer I made when I was her age. The next time we met, she proudly showed me a cardboard DS she'd made, complete with a stylus and all.
I wonder if I could play my Manhoul 2 on it.
My co-worker's son is just now discovering it after playing the "modern" ones (GC/Wii)
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I also drew Helicopter Man. Which was (looking back) a terrible idea. Why have a helicopter strapped to your head when a jet pack is much cooler? Another character I drew was eye-man. You could never neak up on him because of all his eyessssssss. I also had a character based off Tarzan, named Jungle Boy (which was really me except I had an outfit made of leaves.
Friends and me would also play Power Rangers or TMNT. Anything with the team ethic was awesome. Never had a pink ranger and everyone had to be the red.
We also played guns. Which was essentially, we pretend to shoot each other, then this fight starts: "I shot you!" "Nu uh!!!"
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Oh man, that's awesome (even if it was a Mac).
Oh man, that is awesome.
Damnit. I was ahead of my time.
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neeeeeeeeeerrrdddd
Me and my friends made a crapton or robots for Megaman, I remember a waffle man, I don't remember what he was supposed to do however. We also made a paper cut out Mario rpg shortly after Mario 3 came out. We'd play out the action and roll dice for attacks and such. Also wrote up, I dunno, primitive design docs for a rail-shooter Mario game. :P Sorta like Yoshi Safari, only with more gore. I've never seen these papers for years. Sadly the giant ziplock bags I stored them in did not hold up against the house fire all those years ago.
I did lay eyes on a few things my Grandmother has kept in some damnable secret stash! I was big into Bonk back in the day, made a club, sorta forced my cousins into it, had some flyers and various other printouts, some of these still exist! We would sit around a table and discuss caveman business, and how to beat back the egghead dinosaur threat.
Also, she had a photo of my recreation of that Nintendo power cover with the clay Mario 2 scene. I tried my hand at it with playdough, turned out not entirly awful. Next time I go over there, I wanna grab these, scan'em, and bare my shame.
Snowballs in peril! Action/Puzzle = Snowball's Chance E1 (it's free now!)
In Grade 5, we were given a group project to do of coming up with a new animal, and designing it's habitat in a zoo environment. The Super NES was still the hot new thing (1991?) so the group of guys I got put with decided we'd make a Yoshnovich. A brown Yoshi dino that ate apples and mushrooms. We built his habitat dome out of chicken wire, and built the trees and food out of plasticine.
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Goddamnit DBM I was gonna post that
Yeah, it was a different beast before the internet. I remember shortly after MK1 came out, EGM had a feature with all of the moves. That shit was like the holy grail. When you'd bust that out, people took notice. I couldn't tell you how many people asked to see it.
I made my own Zelda game, but, lacking any programming experience, I did it entirely with drawings. Like, plans of the dungeons, character images, concepts, stuff like that. And in my story, the hero of the gods finds out about the reincarnation cycle and decides to free the THREE EVIL GODS, which were once imprisoned inside the Triforce and which actually power all the wishes, which is why all wishes ultimately turn out to do something destructive! And then, he allies with the remaining Gerudos (who're demons by now), because the original Link was their leader and, following his defeat and his people's banishment, was cursed by the gods to forever battle evil! So he forged an EVIL master sword and Hyrule started falling apart and ohgodivegonecrosseyed.
But THEN, the player character emerges, who isn't actually Link, but rather a MANIFESTATION OF THE LEGEND ITSELF! Also, Ganondorf can fly now. Yeah.
And then, I used to make my own Pokemon cards as well. We're talking almost-forgery here. I created new Pokemon and would glue the drawings on original cards- found a use for all those Geodudes! And then, I'd sell them to gullible kids. Hell, at the height of my "business", some kid three years older than me would come and ask whether I'd trade one of my awesome tank Pokemon for his Alakazam. Good times.
Lucky for me, I moved to another school shortly afterwards. Deprived me of a valuable lesson, I guess. :P
There's also a rather recent example. But I suppose it qualifies anyway. When I finished Shadow Hearts 3, I was rather letdown with the story... so I made my own. Involving more actual people from history, of course. And more screentime for the other characters. And it turns out the guy with the glasses who's killed at the very start is actually behind everything, and manipulated Lady and Killer, while secretly working together with his minion Gilbert! Such ingenious plot twists!
Hell, if I could find my old drawings of "my" Pokemon, I'd post them. But I guess everyone invented their own Pokemon to SOME degree. :P
This is the best story.
Adorable.
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Didn't everyone do this kind of thing in the NES era? Pouring over Nintendo Powers, trading games with friends, etc. I miss that culture.
Another memory: There was a period of about a month when I would get up, shower, eat my breakfast of Eggo waffles, and then play the first three levels (the "practice" mode) of Double Dragon II before leaving to go to school. I really miss mornings like that.
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You make me and VC look like chump change
Used to be one of my favourite games on the NES. I would always do 2 Player B so I could kick Jimmy's ass, and when one player kills the other, they get the life. I learned to beat the game using those 7 lives but eventually got good enough to beat it with maybe dying once or twice, but no continues.
I loved fighting the Shadow Master just for that brief black and white freeze frame on the final hit, especially if I could pull off the flying knee move. Best. Move. Ever.
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