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 8-year-old me just could not master that split second where you punched him the gut. If you ducked, he'd do this the whole round. Then the AI cheated and you never could beat him by decision.
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That feeling when you've sat up playing SNES half the night, staring at the tv, and every bright colour starts giving you a splitting headache.
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Mar 10, 2015 11:56
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Content: Failing to convince my mom to rent a game for me called MAXIMUM CARNAGE. I tried in vain to reassure her it was just an exaggerated* name for a cool Spider-Man adventure. *I realize the comic book version def seems to have been pretty violent though?
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Mar 10, 2015 19:56
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When that little fucker at the playground offers to trade games and you bike across town to find out he's only got the wrong title and/or system despite claiming otherwise. 
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Mar 11, 2015 16:31
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Playing Street Fighter 2: Turbo on 8 stars, and having Guile walking towards you and then throwing a Sonic Boom.
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Mar 11, 2015 18:12
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Iron Tank for NES had mention in it's manual of a two player mode. It did not have a two player mode. My friend and I spent hours trying to figure out how to activate the two player mode. I'm still pissed.
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Mar 11, 2015 18:15
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whiteyfats posted:Playing Street Fighter 2: Turbo on 8 stars, and having Guile walking towards you and then throwing a Sonic Boom. or walking forwards/backwards into an instant flash kick. gently caress fighting game AI in general never having to actually charge their moves that require charging
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Mar 11, 2015 19:27
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Dietrich posted:Iron Tank for NES had mention in it's manual of a two player mode. It did not have a two player mode. My friend and I spent hours trying to figure out how to activate the two player mode. I'm still pissed.  The back of the Karate Champ box for NES showing the bonus stage with the bull. This does not exist in the NES version and these screenshots are actually taken from the arcade version which has different, slightly better graphics.
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Mar 11, 2015 19:35
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The "Bramble Blast" stage in Donkey Kong 2. It probably wasn't hard for everyone else but holy gently caress it bugged the hell out of me as a kid. I could never figure out the barrels and kept hitting the spiked edges, man gently caress that parrot. Actually there were a lot of things about Donkey Kong that annoyed me as a child. I think I was just bad at the game.
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Mar 11, 2015 19:43
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mamelon posted:Failing to convince my mom to rent a game for me called MAXIMUM CARNAGE. Mom wouldn't buy me Bloody Roar: Primal Fury
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Mar 11, 2015 19:44
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The Battletoads cart racing course was my nemesis. I eventually beat it on an emulator by slowing it down to the appropriate speed, but that was like 10 years later.
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Mar 11, 2015 21:08
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Being an only child and having to play with/against my uncle who was much more skilled than me or with/against my cousins who were much younger & LESS skilled than me. 
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Mar 11, 2015 21:10
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The spinner in the game of LIFE. The lube always dried up between games, so you spend the first 5 minutes cleaning and re-lubing it so it will spin more than one god drat revolution.
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Mar 11, 2015 21:55
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ArtIsResistance posted:i traded a holo blastoise for a friggin machamp in kindergarden. this made me into the resentful monster I am today I traded a Porygon for a holo Blastoise. Then his mom came over later and I had to trade back. gently caress you, Nick.
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Mar 11, 2015 22:40
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Yeet posted:The "Bramble Blast" stage in Donkey Kong 2. It probably wasn't hard for everyone else but holy gently caress it bugged the hell out of me as a kid. I could never figure out the barrels and kept hitting the spiked edges, man gently caress that parrot. Animal Antics in DKC2 was pretty much Bramble Blast + 4 additional levels tacked on. I think I actually cried over it when I was little? The name of the level has stuck with me for 20 years because of how hard it was. Same with "Tubular" in Super Mario World. Fuckin' baseball players.
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Mar 11, 2015 23:08
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LloydDobler posted:The spinner in the game of LIFE. The lube always dried up between games, so you spend the first 5 minutes cleaning and re-lubing it so it will spin more than one god drat revolution. You had to use lube on a plastic spinner? Did that game come with some bottle of lube that I didn't know about? Could you really not spin a penny worth of plastic hard enough? Are you sure your childhood gaming complaint isn't "I was bitch-made"?
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Mar 12, 2015 01:37
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Grem posted:You had to use lube on a plastic spinner? Did that game come with some bottle of lube that I didn't know about? Could you really not spin a penny worth of plastic hard enough? Are you sure your childhood gaming complaint isn't "I was bitch-made"? The "spinner" was just what his uncle called it. No one's had the heart to tell him what really happened to him at his uncle's cabin every summer.
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Mar 12, 2015 04:31
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When my private tutor made me play leapfrog. I hated that game.
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Mar 12, 2015 05:44
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Grem posted:You had to use lube on a plastic spinner? Did that game come with some bottle of lube that I didn't know about? Could you really not spin a penny worth of plastic hard enough? Are you sure your childhood gaming complaint isn't "I was bitch-made"? Instructions to oil it are literally molded right in to the plastic. I could read as a child.
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Mar 12, 2015 22:39
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Shbobdb posted:When my private tutor made me play leapfrog. I hated that game. He never quite managed to leap over you, as much as he tried.
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Dietrich posted:Iron Tank for NES had mention in it's manual of a two player mode. It did not have a two player mode. My friend and I spent hours trying to figure out how to activate the two player mode. I'm still pissed. The programmer probably couldn't work it in because he was hella mad. Hidden in the RAM is this rant: quote:PROG. NO KNT DESU. It translates to "This is the programmer, KNT. Those rear end in a top hat scum Nintendo fools! Die! Go bankrupt! I hate the Famicom!! That idiot, Mr. T!! He fuckin' killed it!" So perhaps the manual was written before KNT lost his marbles.
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Mar 13, 2015 03:36
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I had one of those cool 3rd-party PS1 memory cards that let you hit the shoulder buttons to change partitions so that you could have like four times the storage space in a single card. Then it dies and took my FFIX save that was on Disc 4. also gently caress playing against Gon in Tekken 3, having to crouch the whole match just to hit the guy and he just spams the spin move to win!!! or farts at me the beach volleyball mode was amazing though.
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Mar 13, 2015 06:18
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 First time I beat it I loving cheered loudly and I think I even told my mom about it for some reason
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Mar 13, 2015 13:58
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I bought a new GPU with my money in like '98. Except I was a kid and didn't bother checking to see if it would even work on my motherboard. So disappointed.
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Mar 13, 2015 16:34
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Adults pronouncing it "Mare-eo" instead of "Marr-io."
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Mar 13, 2015 17:12
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The fuckin disappearing/reappearing blocks jumping puzzles in Mega Man games were always wicked hard for me (because i suck tbh)
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Mar 13, 2015 17:33
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JebanyPedal posted:I bought a new GPU with my money in like '98. Except I was a kid and didn't bother checking to see if it would even work on my motherboard. I done the same thing. Needed PCI, bought AGP. 
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Mar 13, 2015 17:49
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The falling block autoscroll level in castlevania 3. Childhood me could never anticipate where the blocks would fall, and I'd either die at the bottom of the screen as it scrolled up, and die of health loss. Never went back either, it's probably much less annoying than I remember
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Mar 13, 2015 18:05
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Disney games' second-to-last and final levels always seemed to do me in. Never beat Tarzan, Emperor's New Groove, Toy Story 2 and many more. It didn't help that I rented most of them, so I was playing under time pressure too. "One more level dad, I know the shop closes in like 15 minutes but COME ON"
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Mar 14, 2015 00:08
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Dying/falling into pits because 90's 3D games usually had lovely cameras
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Mar 14, 2015 00:30
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"You're a girl, you have to be the Pink Ranger." gently caress you Alex, the Yellow Ranger's a girl too  ... as far as we know, being kids in the U.S. Also, playing on the Game Boy meant finding just the right source of light to see the screen once the sun went down (or just being SOL on long road trips), or attaching some kind of massive peripheral device that shone a light directly on the screen and made the whole thing unwieldy.
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Mar 14, 2015 03:54
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Playing a game you're absolutely loving. *Please insert Disk 2* Sure. Cant wait to continue I'm loving it. *Nothing... Disk 2's hosed* Oh come on!
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Parasol Prophet posted:Also, playing on the Game Boy meant finding just the right source of light to see the screen once the sun went down (or just being SOL on long road trips), or attaching some kind of massive peripheral device that shone a light directly on the screen and made the whole thing unwieldy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterburner_%28modification_kit%29 BITCH
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Animal Antics in DKC2 was pretty much Bramble Blast + 4 additional levels tacked on. I think I actually cried over it when I was little? The name of the level has stuck with me for 20 years because of how hard it was. Same with "Tubular" in Super Mario World. Fuckin' baseball players. No matter how many times I 100% cleared SMW that goddamn level had me almost in tears well into my late teens.
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Mar 14, 2015 08:28
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When the lovely constant 98% humidity shorts your save battery and you lose everything. The memory card was Sony's best invention ever.
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Mar 14, 2015 08:50
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"Let your little brother play on your Gameboy for a while."
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Mar 14, 2015 10:58
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Look at this guy playing a game boy with COLOR. For real though, Castlevania: Circle of the Moon was my first GBA game and I would have killed for a backlight for it.
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Mar 14, 2015 11:35
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Controller fights. Like my Xbox is flail, eat hard plastik.
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Seriously Safe posted:"Let your little brother play on your Gameboy for a while." RIP your Pokemon save file 
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Meat Circus in Psychonauts. I just want to have fun playing your stupid loving game.
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