If you could visit your past self...

emnmnme

Everyone posting on this board with a sense of humor has probably read The Onion a few times. This parody article got me thinking about what we have now compared to what we had then in video gaming. I might not have been like the N64 kid on youtube but I sure was envious in grade school when all my friends had 16-bit consoles and all I had was a Gameboy and Super Mario Land.

So if you had a time machine and you're only mission was to take any videogame-related thing back in time, what gift would you give your younger self? For me, personally, I'd go back in time and smash my old GameBoy with a sledgehammer. Then I'd pull a DS Lite out of my pocket with a copy of Mario 64 and then hand it over to my 8 year old self. Either that or I'd go back to summer 1992 and let John Romero and John Carmack play Doom 3 on a modern gaming rig for one night ... just to see the looks on their faces when I'd have to take it back with me ...

Captain Vash

I'd be all about bringing myself a DS lite with a good game selection back in the Gameboy Color days.

LewieP

I would take myself Panzer Dragoon Saga, the day it came out, so that I could appreciate it because it wouldn't have ages very very badly.

ToadTheMushroom

Gears of War back to like Genesis/Mega Drive days.

It would blow my mind.

Sol

I would have taken some rechargable AAAs and the charging station so I could enjoy the crap out of Tetris Worlds and Metroid II on my Gameboy pocket for more than a couple of days at a time.

Taramoor

I'd give myself a DS with some winning lotto numbers written down in a Pictochat window.

LewieP

ooh, I would also get a sports almanac, and a hoverboard.

SpeedySwaf

I would hand myself a lot of money, and order him, "Now go buy a Saturn!" Plus a few ideas for what game to buy.

I'd also encourage myself to finish up any game I start, because otherwise I'll still have my massive backlog today.

Æthelred

emnmnme wrote: »

Everyone posting on this board with a sense of humor has probably read The Onion a few times. This parody article got me thinking about what we have now compared to what we had then in video gaming. I might not have been like the N64 kid on youtube but I sure was envious in grade school when all my friends had 16-bit consoles and all I had was a Gameboy and Super Mario Land.

Younger children, he said, salivate upon seeing Level One of Zonic Fugue. In it, Zonic, the indigo-colored son of Sonic The Hedgehog, faces off against Chuckles The Echidna in a Terrordactyl sky-joust, attempting to earn the Ankle Rockets he needs to gather the five Chaos Sapphires that, when combined, form the master key that opens the Melody Dome.

Don't give them ideas godsdamnit!

ToadTheMushroom

Id go back in time to the exact moment I purchased Enter the Matrix and kill myself.

Zephos

toad that made me laugh more than it should.

also... might as well kill me when i bought it too.

emnmnme

ToadTheMushroom wrote: »

Id go back in time to the exact moment I purchased Enter the Matrix and kill myself.

Assuming you shoot yourself, your last words could be just a Reeves-like, "Woah." The irony would make it a great epitaph, too.

ToadTheMushroom

Its my secret shame.

I went into the store to buy Wind Waker, which was released the same day. I came out with Matrix because I was caught in the movie hype.

I still keep it with me today, plus receipt. So that I never do that again.

Vicissitude

I'd give myself a Wii.

LewieP

a blowjob too.





No?

jclast

I'd stop myself from selling my Genesis and games.

IShallRiseAgain

I would hand a xbox 360 to my 6 year old self, telling myself to hire a backwards engineer and make millions off of it. in reality, i would give myself a n64, best system ever.

Milquetoast Thug

I would just play myself in street fighter and other fighting games a whole lot in order to proactively give myself mad skills in the past.

jimenex

I would stop myself from buying Enter the Matrix and Brute Force on release day

Jon 118

If I went back in time I wouldn't give myself anything except lessons in how to be aggresive in games. Seriously. I suck when I'm attacking people, rule when I'm defending, and it irritates the hell out of me.

Spackle

I'd tell myself to not trade my n64 for a playstation no matter how bad I wanted to play Final Fantasy 7....

cloudeagle

The Wii would probably make anyone's head explode.

Even if you only went back to, say, two days before the last E3, where many heads did explode, in the metaphorical sense.

emnmnme

Spackle wrote: »

I'd tell myself to not trade my n64 for a playstation no matter how bad I wanted to play Final Fantasy 7....

Sadly, your past self does not listen to you because he believes FF7 is still possible on the N64 once Nintendo releases that disk drive addon. All the storage problems will melt away once that baby hits shelves in Winter 1997...

Sol

LewieP wrote: »

a blowjob too.





No?

haha what the crap, I can't even begin to imagine what kind of paradox would be created.

ben0207

I'd beat the shit outta myself for selling my Saturn.

Darlan

I'd tell myself to reserve the Wii, and I'd show Gears of War...not my favorite game today by any means, but easily the most impressive looking one.

Eggplant Wizard

jclast wrote: »

I'd stop myself from selling my Genesis and games.

Yeah, I'd mainly want to go back and warn myself not to give my SNES away to my neice and nephew and, for the love of all that is holy, do not sell away all the games for a pittance to that douchey kid at work. What was I thinking?

I was thinking about boobs.

I would probably give myself a Gamecube and Metroid Prime. And I would let myself know that Kid Icarus is still awesome two decades in the future, despite (or perhaps because) it never got a real sequel.

$kill -9

I'd visit myself the day I bought my NES and I'd smash it into a million pieces.

That way I wouldnt have been such a god-damned dork, and I would have seen real boobies at least 3 years sooner.



I saved all summer for that...........

bruin

ToadTheMushroom wrote: »

Gears of War back to like Genesis/Mega Drive days.

It would blow my mind.

Seriously, 360 + Gears would...I don't even know. There would be riots outside my house.

ToadTheMushroom

Exactly.

Now imagine, just imagine, what graphics will be like in another 10-12 years from now.

I mean Crysis is the absolute bleeding edge of realism at the moment. Nothing is close to it, not even Gears, and Crysis is verging on photorealism. Not quite, but at times its close. Maybe another 2 generations of console and we will have to do what Nintendo did, because graphics literally cant get better.

emnmnme

$kill-9 fails to realize he could get all the women he wanted if he had Crysis running on DirectX 10 hardware back in 1980. Manipulating field of depth would woo the Pac-Man lovers, I'm sure.

Smacky The Frog

I'd stop myself from throwing away all of my old game boxes. Then I'd kick my younger ass for even THINKING about throwing them out.

Daedalus

I'd go back to about three years ago and convince myself to get a desktop instead of a "l33t gaming laptop!"

Also, I'd go back to around when I got my Dreamcast and tell my dumb-ass adolescent self not to give away the Genesis and SNES and all the games and peripherals and that beautiful Genesis arcade stick just because he's got shiny 3D now, that dumbass me.

Sol

emnmnme wrote: »

$kill-9 fails to realize he could get all the women he wanted if he had Crysis running on DirectX 10 hardware back in 1980. Manipulating field of depth would woo the Pac-Man lovers, I'm sure.

Either that or he'd get accused of witchcraft.

Spackle

emnmnme wrote: »

Spackle wrote: »

I'd tell myself to not trade my n64 for a playstation no matter how bad I wanted to play Final Fantasy 7....

Sadly, your past self does not listen to you because he believes FF7 is still possible on the N64 once Nintendo releases that disk drive addon. All the storage problems will melt away once that baby hits shelves in Winter 1997...

*sniff* so true so true...

emnmnme

Another thing that gets me is games found in collections like this Genesis collection go for less than $20 apiece. I'd travel back in time and walk the streets while wearing a sandwichboard sign that read, "In 15 years, all of your $50+ games will sell for less than fifty cents!" ...yes, that's brilliant.

Imagine that in 7-10 years, Gears of War will sell for $4 a download over some virtual console system.

Graviija

I'd go back and do everything in my power to stop my dad from giving away out NES and then SNES.

Looking back on it makes me sad. Still, I managed to sneak my Megaman X-X3 games and Yoshi's Island and hide them. Heh, they're still in my little time capsule thing.

Daedalus

emnmnme wrote: »

Another thing that gets me is games found in collections like this Genesis collection go for less than $20 apiece. I'd travel back in time and walk the streets while wearing a sandwichboard sign that read, "In 15 years, all of your $50+ games will sell for less than fifty cents!" ...yes, that's brilliant.

Imagine that in 7-10 years, Gears of War will sell for $4 a download over some virtual console system.

GoW will be, certainly, but any collection will probably end up with at least one near-irreplaceable game in it. For example, I doubt I'd ever be able to find a copy of Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (DC) from anyone outside of eBay gougers if I lost it (*knocks on wood*).

Anonymous Robot

I wouldn't bring myself back anything. I would simply allow myself to enjoy the games of the time, for what they were.

Gaming-Module

Don't you sell those SNES/SEGA CD games you little bastard.

DekuStick

"Don't you dare sell Ys 3 for 5 dollars. Don't you dare!"