NINTENDO SIXTY FOUUUUUUUURRR!!! (A Childhood Fanboy Thread)

The Grey GOAT

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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.

Shitty Way to win

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We used to call it the "Rocket Knee" and the "Power Uppercut" I loved the noise it would make too when it hit. Man that game was so fun, much better than part 1.

DeMoN

Cantido wrote: »

I forgot to add I bought the Brutal Legend poster and buttons a while back, now I'm getting a shirt with my buttons so everyone can know that I am a whore for Double Fine.

I bought the Brutal Legend t-shirt and poster about a month before the game came out.

Now I want to get the Whispering Rock shirt because I realized I liked Psychonauts better.

symbolsor

Raggie wrote: »

My story is a tale of videogame deprivation.

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.

This is too cute and awesome, I'd report you if I could.

Kristmas Kthulhu

Rent wrote: »

Witch Doctor, DBM wrote: »

cj iwakura wrote: »

I still own that CD.

Granted, I haven't listened to it in ten years, but it's there.


I wish I meant the Pokemon one.

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.

Goddamnit DBM I was gonna post that

The only unfortunate part about it is that all the comics that Natek drew for it are gone. That was a truly amazing thread.

AaronKI

A while back, a friend mailed me a bunch of art scraps when I ordered some of his comic books. This was buried in them... I've never played any of the Rayman games beside Raving Rabbids, but I thought it might fit in this thread. Judging by the date on the picture, I think he was 15 or 16 when he drew it.

Concept Art of his idea for Rayman 3 before Rayman 3 was announced:

He wrote this on the back when he mailed it to me:

Matt Renzatic

Cameron_Talley wrote: »

I remember putting one of those soft drink koozies on my left hand and running around the house pretending to be Mega Man.

I think we all did something like that. Me? I was all about imitating some Bionic Commando. Had a nice little white painted plastic AK-47, a little round army helmet, and a long bit of nylon rope with a weight tied to the end to act as my grapple arm. I'd slap it all together and go dashing into the woods singing the DA DAAAA DA DA DADADA theme music from the first level. Oh, the awesome times I had. So awesome in fact, I'm still sporting a huge scar on my right shin from the time I tried grapple-leaping that wide ditch and didn't quite make it.

Truthfully, I'm surprised I lived through my Bionic Commando phase.

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.

Same here. Downloadable games might be more convenient, but ultimately doesn't compare to swapping games or getting a bunch of friends together and hitting up all the then locally owned video stores looking for stuff. Arguably, kids today do have it better, but it's nowhere near as fun.

Professor Snugglesworth

THEPAIN73 wrote: »

Raggie wrote: »

My story is a tale of videogame deprivation.

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.

Adorable.

Was going to say the same thing. That's the sort of stuff you could put in a feel good movie that even dudes wouldn't feel ashamed about watching.

dumbmanex wrote: »

I too am guilty of this stuff.

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.

And this one is awesome for that line alone.

Please tell me you grunted most of your conversations.

AaronKI

I completely missed out on the Nintendo Power phenomenon. I owned an NES, but I didn't really get into magazines until the 16-bit era and I had a Genesis*. I did have Sega Visions, though... I found several issues of it in my parents' attic and thumbed through them for nostalgia's sake. They were horrible... I couldn't even tell the difference between the game previews/reviews and the advertisements most of the time.

My first "Real" game magazines were EGM and Ultra Game Players in 1997, I think... and I only really started getting UGP because one issue came with a copy of Christmas NiGHTS. :P


*Side-Note: I never experienced the 16-bit "console wars", either.. I loved the SNES even though I didn't have one. Most of my time playing it was either at demo kiosks (Where my love of Super Mario World, Yoshi's Island, Donkey Kong Country 1, and Donkey Kong Country 2 began), a few times at a friend's house, and a few times when my grandma rented one for me when I would go over to her house.

Raggie

Matt Renzatic wrote: »

Cameron_Talley wrote: »

I remember putting one of those soft drink koozies on my left hand and running around the house pretending to be Mega Man.

I think we all did something like that. Me? I was all about imitating some Bionic Commando. Had a nice little white painted plastic AK-47, a little round army helmet, and a long bit of nylon rope with a weight tied to the end to act as my grapple arm. I'd slap it all together and go dashing into the woods singing the DA DAAAA DA DA DADADA theme music from the first level.

The mental image I'm getting from this is just too much!

Professor Snugglesworth

So help me, I will find some way to make "Caveman Business" into a valid meme.

Also, is the group that started the Zelda Script recordings ever going to finish what they started? That was one of the best PA experiences ever.

Wha's wrong, Link?

Sir Carcass

AaronKI wrote: »

I completely missed out on the Nintendo Power phenomenon.

I got lucky, but I have fond memories of Nintendo Power. I even still have all of my issues. I remember getting a thing to sign up for the Nintendo Fun Club from somewhere, probably either my NES or a game, before Nintendo Power started. I think it was free to sign up, so I did. Got some neat little things, but nothing major. Then they sent out that first issue, and I was hooked. I remember subscriptions were $15 a year, which was kind of steep at the time, but my mom was cool. Getting that new issue was always magical when you're like 9 years old.

I remember those cards they were doing for a while, came on a sheet in the issue and had different games and characters and stuff. Each month they'd have a prize if you had a certain 3 or something. I always had my friends give me their cards, but I never won anything.

Also, any time I rented or bought a new game, I'd go through every issue I had checking Classified Information and the help section, looking for stuff I could use. I'd then have all of the relevant issues laid out around me as I played. Man, those were the days.

gjaustin

I used to play "Adventure" during recess in elementary school.

You see, my parents were really big into the Sierra adventure games. I really got into them myself, especially one summer where my morning consisted of waking up, eating breakfast, and beating King's Quest 1. So during recess I would wander all over the playground, "collect" items, and then use them to solve some puzzle involving a piece of playground equipment. After a while I even got my friends in on it.

I miss having the imagination of an 8 year old. That was also the year I turned in a Mario story for a writing assignment.

A few years later on I drew level designs for a game that was a mix of Super Mario World and A Boy and his Blob. Yoshi eats anything, right? Of course, I have never played A Boy and his Blob, I just read about it in a strategy guide I bought that included tips for about two dozen different games.

fadingathedges

Raggie wrote: »

My story is a tale of videogame deprivation.

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.

This is great.

mrt144

Raggie wrote: »

My story is a tale of videogame deprivation.

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.

OMG, this is so cute. I also love manhole as a kid.

GreasyKidsStuff

My friends and I would play Pokemon in the schoolyard when we were in elementary school.

No no, not on Gameboy.

We were Pokemon.

I distinctly remember pretending to be a Bulbasaur, and my friend who was an Ivysaur was taking me to see a Venusaur who would help me evolve. Yeah. Good times.

And I think we all thought we were Yoshi at some point too.

Xeno id

Long time lurker first time poster, HI PA!!!

So my friends and I used to get together and play Squaresoft games. My obsession with FF7 eventually lead me to creating a gaming club called.....guess what?....SOLDIER! Yeah so original right?

At the local Wal-Mart there was a machine that could engrave dog tags so I had me and a few of my best friends make them. There was a set structure to the inscriptions:

SOLDIER-FIRST-CLASS
<Name here>
SHINRA, INC.

All of our other friends wanted to join so we had to figure out some sort of initiation. Eventually we came to the conclusion that if you wanted to be admitted to SOLDIER you had to beat ME in Bushido Blade.



Yeah....pretty embarrassing... Even more so for the poor bastards trying to join as I was FUCKING MASTER at that game. I basically had to let them win.

I was 16 years old... I'm now 27 and I still have my dog tag on my key chain.

FCD

Sir Carcass wrote: »

AaronKI wrote: »

I completely missed out on the Nintendo Power phenomenon.

I got lucky, but I have fond memories of Nintendo Power. I even still have all of my issues. I remember getting a thing to sign up for the Nintendo Fun Club from somewhere, probably either my NES or a game, before Nintendo Power started. I think it was free to sign up, so I did. Got some neat little things, but nothing major. Then they sent out that first issue, and I was hooked. I remember subscriptions were $15 a year, which was kind of steep at the time, but my mom was cool. Getting that new issue was always magical when you're like 9 years old.

I remember those cards they were doing for a while, came on a sheet in the issue and had different games and characters and stuff. Each month they'd have a prize if you had a certain 3 or something. I always had my friends give me their cards, but I never won anything.

Also, any time I rented or bought a new game, I'd go through every issue I had checking Classified Information and the help section, looking for stuff I could use. I'd then have all of the relevant issues laid out around me as I played. Man, those were the days.

Yeah, this is pretty much all my childhood, too. I even remember the Zelda and Mario comics they did during the Super NES era. God, yes.

gjaustin

FCD wrote: »

Sir Carcass wrote: »

AaronKI wrote: »

I completely missed out on the Nintendo Power phenomenon.

I got lucky, but I have fond memories of Nintendo Power. I even still have all of my issues. I remember getting a thing to sign up for the Nintendo Fun Club from somewhere, probably either my NES or a game, before Nintendo Power started. I think it was free to sign up, so I did. Got some neat little things, but nothing major. Then they sent out that first issue, and I was hooked. I remember subscriptions were $15 a year, which was kind of steep at the time, but my mom was cool. Getting that new issue was always magical when you're like 9 years old.

I remember those cards they were doing for a while, came on a sheet in the issue and had different games and characters and stuff. Each month they'd have a prize if you had a certain 3 or something. I always had my friends give me their cards, but I never won anything.

Also, any time I rented or bought a new game, I'd go through every issue I had checking Classified Information and the help section, looking for stuff I could use. I'd then have all of the relevant issues laid out around me as I played. Man, those were the days.

Yeah, this is pretty much all my childhood, too. I even remember the Zelda and Mario comics they did during the Super NES era. God, yes.

I think I still have those in a bin somewhere.

The Zelda ones were awful, but the Mario and Captain N ones weren't bad.

mrt144

gjaustin wrote: »

FCD wrote: »

Sir Carcass wrote: »

AaronKI wrote: »

I completely missed out on the Nintendo Power phenomenon.

I got lucky, but I have fond memories of Nintendo Power. I even still have all of my issues. I remember getting a thing to sign up for the Nintendo Fun Club from somewhere, probably either my NES or a game, before Nintendo Power started. I think it was free to sign up, so I did. Got some neat little things, but nothing major. Then they sent out that first issue, and I was hooked. I remember subscriptions were $15 a year, which was kind of steep at the time, but my mom was cool. Getting that new issue was always magical when you're like 9 years old.

I remember those cards they were doing for a while, came on a sheet in the issue and had different games and characters and stuff. Each month they'd have a prize if you had a certain 3 or something. I always had my friends give me their cards, but I never won anything.

Also, any time I rented or bought a new game, I'd go through every issue I had checking Classified Information and the help section, looking for stuff I could use. I'd then have all of the relevant issues laid out around me as I played. Man, those were the days.

Yeah, this is pretty much all my childhood, too. I even remember the Zelda and Mario comics they did during the Super NES era. God, yes.

I think I still have those in a bin somewhere.

The Zelda ones were awful, but the Mario and Captain N ones weren't bad.

Wand of Gamelon?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mHw5g55oC4

mrt144

Speaking of Zelda and ridiculous fanboyism:

I'm 5 years old, and with the help of my Dad I beat Legend of Zelda. I claim that "This is the greatest day of my life."

LoveIsUnity

mrt144 wrote: »

Speaking of Zelda and ridiculous fanboyism:

I'm 5 years old, and with the help of my Dad I beat Legend of Zelda. I claim that "This is the greatest day of my life."

Well, was it?

mrt144

LoveIsUnity wrote: »

mrt144 wrote: »

Speaking of Zelda and ridiculous fanboyism:

I'm 5 years old, and with the help of my Dad I beat Legend of Zelda. I claim that "This is the greatest day of my life."

Well, was it?

For a while, yes.

Wyborn

When I was younger I came up with a fanfic idea that would tie in Final Fantasy VI and the Legend of Zelda (three goddesses = Triforce goddesses, you might be able to see where this was going). Shadow's old partner turned out to be alive and was seeking to resurrect Ganon, Kefka came back to life whe magic energy flowed back into the world, so on and etc. I was very proud of how cohesive it felt, at the time.

I never finished the fanfic, because I couldn't commit to the idea. Possibly rejected it subconsciously.

....Pretty sure I planned to have Ganon and Kefka duke it out

Deadfall

I was big into WWF as a kid, as were my friends. I remember being invited to my friend's house in fourth grade to watch the Royal Rumble was one of the best days ever. We would play WWF at recess on the playground at school.

I was usually Undertaker or Ultimate Warrior or Animal from Legion of Doom. But then we would get ambitious, and suddenly we would announce things like, "But wait! What's this? A Terminator has entered the ring!" And so we'd gang up on the friend who was a Terminator.

But he was a death machine from the future, so the only way we could have defeated him was to bring a Predator into the ring!

Once we started playing as Galactus, we decided it'd be best if we went back to just normal wrestlers.

Professor Snugglesworth

Deadfall wrote: »

I was big into WWF as a kid, as were my friends. I remember being invited to my friend's house in fourth grade to watch the Royal Rumble was one of the best days ever. We would play WWF at recess on the playground at school.

I was usually Undertaker or Ultimate Warrior or Animal from Legion of Doom. But then we would get ambitious, and suddenly we would announce things like, "But wait! What's this? A Terminator has entered the ring!" And so we'd gang up on the friend who was a Terminator.

But he was a death machine from the future, so the only way we could have defeated him was to bring a Predator into the ring!

Once we started playing as Galactus, we decided it'd be best if we went back to just normal wrestlers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNybksDGjcE

gigawatt666

I remember owning one of the first N64's in Canada on launch day, that's a great memory. But when I plugged in Shadows of the Empire and flew a snow speeder during the Battle of Hoth...the hair on my neck and arms stood straight and I could feel the blaster bolts whizzing by my cockpit. It's still one of my most favorite video games to date.

slessman

Actually I was ancient when I first got my N64. I love that console just the same though. Had I gotten it for Christmas I probably would have flipped my lid like that too, but that was not the case.

dumbmanex

Professor Snugglesworth wrote: »

dumbmanex wrote: »

I too am guilty of this stuff.

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.

And this one is awesome for that line alone.

Please tell me you grunted most of your conversations.

No, it was very civilized. I did one time(the ONLY time) call a meeting to order by headbutting the plastic table. It was Bonk related after all. Ouch.

AaronKI

Here's an embarrassing memory: I've already talked about my massive Sonic obsession a few times on this forum, I think, so I won't into too much detail... But I was into everything. The games, comic books, merchandise, both cartoons, etc.

Well, at some point I decided that all I wanted to eat was chili dogs. I don't know how long the phase lasted, but I'm pretty sure it was a significant amount of time.

Lux782

Man, the Farsight in Perfect Dark was by far the most unique weapon I have seen in a FPS. I greatly enjoyed my N64.

Jdubrx

Xeno id wrote: »

Long time lurker first time poster, HI PA!!!

So my friends and I used to get together and play Squaresoft games. My obsession with FF7 eventually lead me to creating a gaming club called.....guess what?....SOLDIER! Yeah so original right?

At the local Wal-Mart there was a machine that could engrave dog tags so I had me and a few of my best friends make them. There was a set structure to the inscriptions:

SOLDIER-FIRST-CLASS
<Name here>
SHINRA, INC.

All of our other friends wanted to join so we had to figure out some sort of initiation. Eventually we came to the conclusion that if you wanted to be admitted to SOLDIER you had to beat ME in Bushido Blade.



Yeah....pretty embarrassing... Even more so for the poor bastards trying to join as I was FUCKING MASTER at that game. I basically had to let them win.

I was 16 years old... I'm now 27 and I still have my dog tag on my key chain.

I LOVED Bushido Blade! My friend and I still talk about how sweet that game was. I really wish they would come out with a new version.

Dixon

Dear god I was amazing at Bushido Blade, the god damn convoluted single player.

The best part was the bamboo thicket level where you could could down the bamboo...so god damn real

jeddy lee

For a while, all me and my 2 buddies did was play Bushido Blade and Wayne Gretsky's 3d Hockey for HOURS at a time. Like 6-8 hours at a time. We just did it and talked. Took pop tart breaks.

Big Classy

Dixon wrote: »

Dear god I was amazing at Bushido Blade, the god damn convoluted single player.

The best part was the bamboo thicket level where you could could down the bamboo...so god damn real

KUITSCH!
I can still hear the sound effect.

Hillean

AaronKI wrote: »

Here's an embarrassing memory: I've already talked about my massive Sonic obsession a few times on this forum, I think, so I won't into too much detail... But I was into everything. The games, comic books, merchandise, both cartoons, etc.

Well, at some point I decided that all I wanted to eat was chili dogs. I don't know how long the phase lasted, but I'm pretty sure it was a significant amount of time.

We're all accustomed to TheSonicRetard, so whatever you might throw out there is... might i say, tame.

Hillean

Jdubrx wrote: »

Xeno id wrote: »

Long time lurker first time poster, HI PA!!!

So my friends and I used to get together and play Squaresoft games. My obsession with FF7 eventually lead me to creating a gaming club called.....guess what?....SOLDIER! Yeah so original right?

At the local Wal-Mart there was a machine that could engrave dog tags so I had me and a few of my best friends make them. There was a set structure to the inscriptions:

SOLDIER-FIRST-CLASS
<Name here>
SHINRA, INC.

All of our other friends wanted to join so we had to figure out some sort of initiation. Eventually we came to the conclusion that if you wanted to be admitted to SOLDIER you had to beat ME in Bushido Blade.



Yeah....pretty embarrassing... Even more so for the poor bastards trying to join as I was FUCKING MASTER at that game. I basically had to let them win.

I was 16 years old... I'm now 27 and I still have my dog tag on my key chain.

I LOVED Bushido Blade! My friend and I still talk about how sweet that game was. I really wish they would come out with a new version.

You missed Bushido Blade 3... which completely changed the way it was played... aka made it pretty damn bad.

I miss games with 1-hit sneaky knife kills.

Big Classy

Oh boy, Sonic. Alright this ones probably the worst thing I've done.
So I'm around 7 yrs old. I've just got me a Master System, it rocks. I have little money and so I stuck with playing Sonic, which came built in over and over again. One particular session I was nearing the end and I got a shout from my bro, foods ready. It's lunch time and my parents want me downstairs and eating immediately. But I can't just leave the game now, I just reached the final flipping level! I'm midway through it and my door swings wildly open and brother comes in quickly and flicks the power switch at the mains. What a silly goose. I was fuming, I'd just spent a hot summer day stuck inside playing Sonic and when I reached the endin gthis goose comes in and switches it off! So I did the decent thing and went up to his bedroom door which is directly opposite mine and kicked it in, as hard as possible. For a split second I felt awesome, I was the hero in those action movies i watched at the time.

The feeligng didn't last. I immediately glimpsed the broken lock on the door frame. I was goosed. Big time. That was the first and only time my bro beat the hell out of me. From then on I knocked. And then kicked the door in.

Jdubrx

You missed Bushido Blade 3... which completely changed the way it was played... aka made it pretty damn bad.

I miss games with 1-hit sneaky knife kills.

Yeah, I never played 3, mainly because I heard it was so bad. What I mean is just a new version of the original, with better graphics. I love how the game was so realistic and focused blocking, countering, and timing. I was convinced that if given a sword at that point in my life I would have killed many a real mediocre samurai with the skills I learned.

Sir Carcass

Deadfall wrote: »

I was big into WWF as a kid, as were my friends. I remember being invited to my friend's house in fourth grade to watch the Royal Rumble was one of the best days ever. We would play WWF at recess on the playground at school.

We used to do that with pillows on my trampoline.

El Fantastico

Sir Carcass wrote: »

I remember those cards they were doing for a while, came on a sheet in the issue and had different games and characters and stuff. Each month they'd have a prize if you had a certain 3 or something. I always had my friends give me their cards, but I never won anything.

I won Super Contra for the SNES because of that 3-card collection promotion thingie. I was pretty damn happy when I won, and sent in my cards. 3 weeks later or something, I have a package, completely forgetting I submitted to that contest and it was this ginormous white box. Open it up, pull out all the packing peanuts and inside was Super Contra (no box, no manual) with a big fat "NOT FOR RESALE" sign over the front picture of the cartridge.

I was alright at the game at first, but it quickly became one of my go-to games for sheer fun. Flamethrowers in that game were so boss.

EDIT: When I submitted the cards though, I was kind of hoping I'd get the select which game I'd get from them. I was more surprised that since it was a Nintendo promotion, I didn't get a Nintendo-licensed game like Super Metroid, or Link to the Past.