You must be quite young, or have a terrible long-term memory.Originally Posted by gabetar
You must be quite young, or have a terrible long-term memory.
playing tanks or whatever it was called by myself on the atari...sooo much fun haha
My early gaming memories
My best early gaming memories come from these games:
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Oregon Trail with emulator:
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My first gaming console was a Sega Genesis.
I had Sonic the hedgehog, X-men, X-men 2, and a few other games, like a boxing game and a tennis game.
My dad always played the boxing game. X-men was a pick and choose thing for me, and Sonic was my favorite to play.
From there I went to a Nintendo 64, then to the GameCube, Xbox, and PS2.
I haven't bought a console since.
Last edited by Kal El; 04-08-2009 at 01:39 PM.
Nintendo 62 was off the hook.
And the first X-men pissed me off, for the Genesis, because... man, there was absolutely no collision detection. I would walk through enemies, punches wouldn't connect. Even as a kid, I knew something was off.
I haven't played the game in 15+ years, so I can't remember the bugs the game had. But I do remember walking through enemies. Wolverine was a shitty character too in the game. He was too sluggish, while I think it was Gambit who was a little too powerful.
What the hell was the Nintendo 62?
MalReynolds' personally modified Nintendo 64. He had the only one, ever.
You put Nintendo 62 first...
Unless you bought it off him.
He did buy it off me. Cost him $62 to ship it 62 miles, but the truck found a special route that only took 62 feet, so it was delivered in one minute and two seconds. He played it 62 times before getting frustrated, breaking it into 62 pieces, and throwing them into the river. This must've been 62 months ago, at the least.
Also, 4.
I bought it off of him as I made a typo that I oversaw.
This.
And Mal wins
I think I'm going to donate my brain to a hungry mouth of a shark. I think playing as much Sonic as I did as a child versus studying or doing something where I could develop my cognitive skills further permanently fried my ability to avoid making typos, I should probably overview what I have type before hitting "post quick reply" but my fingers only seem to know how to hit "A" a thousand times while watching Sonic spin in circles.
Up, down, left, right, hold A and press start is the Sonic 1 level select, FYI.
First code I ever memorized.
Uh, lol, I always used wolverine because he was the strongest character.
I never actually finished that game. I would beat the computer boss, and then it would tell me to hit the 'reset' button on the computer... It was a trick, and you had to lightly tap the reset on your console.
By the time I figured this out, I also figured out that my console had a sensitive 'reset' button, and I ended up resetting the game every time.
By the time I had a new one, I was old enough to realize the game blew.
After a while my reset button stopped working, so I could never get to Asteroid M anymore and thus never got a chance to beat the game.
The first video game I recall was watching my step brother play Leisure Suit Larry.
I remember it had trivia questions at the beginning as an age verification.
Last edited by gorefinger; 04-18-2009 at 05:44 AM.
Pacman on the atari 2600. I knew the route and was pretty good at flipping the score. Also video pinball on the 2600. I could literally play it until I was tired then get up and go make a sandwich eat it then come back and watch the score roll and roll...
I can't tolerate Pac-Man for the 2600. By the time I played it I had already been playing the arcade version for years. I think I have video pinball somewhere too but don't remember playing it; I'll have to dig out the Atari cartridges sometime.
I first played it on the 2600. I remember too because I was at my aunts house and played it for a good while. I got sick that night and was told I could never play video games again. My life would probably been better if I hadn't.
Another early memory, and one that led me to believe I had psychic visions: Star Voyager. I woke one night from a nightmare that I was lost flying through an endless expanse of space looking though a HUD and watching stars fly by. I would encounter another spacecraft every now and then only to find frustration in trying to engage it in combat.
A few weeks later I rented a cool looking game called Star Voyager. Getting home, I put it in and enjoyed it for approximately 2 minutes before realizing it was my dream. Easily the worst rental I ever got, by comparison even Rambo was a great game. I don't know what made me think of this just now, but from time to time I will still wake in a cold sweat.
I have strong recollection of the SNES and the Genesis memories. I just bought the Sonic Ultimate Genesis Collection and it's just oozing nostalgia.
I bought the TMNT arcade game off of XBL the other day, total nostalgia.
I played it on my friends SNES a few weeks back. Total awesomeness.
I have a feeling you're thinking of Turtles in Time. Albeit thats also a great game, I am referring to the first TMNT arcade game that was ported to the NES as Turtles 2.
that game is really fun! so awesome playing it 2 players.
i still remember the day my dad bought and old NES from the swap meet.
we hooked it up and i played my very first video game: Super Mario Bros 3.
it was magical.
Yes I thought that was what you were referring too. Turtles in Time is a rocking good time.
The TMNT arcade game was good, the NES game was another matter altogether. I still want my $1.99 rental fee back. They can keep the tax.
As for Super Mario 3, it was a great game, especially for the NES. It refined the 8-bit gameplay I knew and loved from earlier action/adventure games and added a much larger and varied quest for Mario. It also took the series into a new direction, as evidenced by Super Mario World and other 16-bit games. I think I own it now, but never did when I was growing up; I always had to borrow it and never wanted to give it up until my friend's parents got involved. Even Bases Loaded was expendable when I had a chance to get SMB3.
Shitting my pants on multiple occasions in Tomb Raider 2 for PS1.
When the tigers came in the first level. Panic.
Encounters with anyone, anywhere. Especially those huge thug guys whos legs were bigger than Laras chest.
The last level, made me afraid of burglars for like 3 years after.
I still recall seeing early screenshots of Tomb Raider. A female protagonist with not just one but two guns blazing away at a crocodile. Looked quite a bit different than the finished product, but I knew it was a game I was gonna get.
I feel somewhat insecure knowing that I was just a child around the era of the PS1, the NES and stuff were relics before I was even born lol.
PLaying mortal kombat trilogy w/ my dad on n64
playing mortal kombat 2 on snes
basically mortal kombat
My best friend pre-ordered the original Mortal Kombat and we waited for weeks to play it. By that time he already knew the blood code and we spent hours kicking each others butts, both in the game and out of it. During the so-called "Blizard of '96" I braved the elements in my Chevette to make it to Toys "r Us for MK3. Trilogy was okay, but by that time my interest in the series was waning.
Ehhh pretty sure the first game I played was Mortal Kombat 2 on my cousin's SNES. I remember I kept losing to Baraka, think I was using Reptile at the time because he looked cool, then I thought Scorpion looked much cooler so I started choosing him. Favourite MK character of all time
My earliest gaming memory is either playing Commander Keen on GOD MODE (hold down g, o and d together and you are invincible and can fly) or trying to figure out Kings Quest IV (it was the one where you played as a girl) with my older brother in the study of our first house in Ellington Street in about 1992.
Wolfenstein (the guns that enable you to win the game are behind a swastika poster)
Time Crisis (arcade baby)
also used to go round my neighbour's house and play Shenmue on the Dreamcast
that game was fucking awesome
oh yeah and tekken 2 even though thats like 98 or something
I just remember kicking ass at that game
I also remember beating Metal Gear: Solid at my friends house over a few weekends, and running through all of RE:2 for him in a few hours because he didn't think I could do it, when he got his copy.
EDIT: More vividly, picking up a red key of some kind (diamond? were they doing card suits at RCPD?) in the hallway near where you can get under the station.
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