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i had a gameboy when i was 5 and my mom got really into tetris. one day she called me into the living room because she had beaten b mode on 9 speed, and she wanted me to see something "amazing" in the game. i asked her "is it a rainbow", and she said "no even better" and it was the victory screen for beating level 9 high 0, so just like 2 violin dudes playing this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwT9gVCLl8g it was better than a rainbow
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heehee posted:i really wanted crash bandicoot as a kid, so i would always beg my mom to get it whenever she went to the store. she came back from costco one time and i asked if she got it, she said yea, here it is and put a container of goldbond foot powder on a table near the front door. my excitement rendered me retarded and i spent like 5 minutes trying to figure out how this was a video game, slowly going through the stages of grief before realizing it wasn't a game and running to my room to have a tantrum for the rest of the day lmao
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Aug 12, 2021 19:11
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was an amiga/ atari kid, had my mind completely blown by a friend showing me mario 64 thank you nintendo
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Aug 12, 2021 19:13
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heehee posted:i really wanted crash bandicoot as a kid, so i would always beg my mom to get it whenever she went to the store. she came back from costco one time and i asked if she got it, she said yea, here it is and put a container of goldbond foot powder on a table near the front door. my excitement rendered me retarded and i spent like 5 minutes trying to figure out how this was a video game, slowly going through the stages of grief before realizing it wasn't a game and running to my room to have a tantrum for the rest of the day lmao
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Aug 12, 2021 19:15
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also i think being really bad at metal slug arcade cabinets whenever given the money to play is a perfect and beautiful experience
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Aug 12, 2021 19:16
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heehee posted:i really wanted crash bandicoot as a kid, so i would always beg my mom to get it whenever she went to the store. she came back from costco one time and i asked if she got it, she said yea, here it is and put a container of goldbond foot powder on a table near the front door. my excitement rendered me retarded and i spent like 5 minutes trying to figure out how this was a video game, slowly going through the stages of grief before realizing it wasn't a game and running to my room to have a tantrum for the rest of the day lol
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Aug 12, 2021 19:17
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I may have told this story before but one of my first gaming memories is my dad finding Super Mario RPG at target and getting really excited about the new Mario game. In the first area he tries jumping on a koopa and gets incredibly pissed off that it starts a battle instead of just killing the koopa. He starts yelling about how they ruined Mario and he's going to get a refund for this crappy game. I convinced him to keep it and it became one of my favorite games but he still hates it
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Aug 12, 2021 19:45
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my mom took me to the store and told me I could pick one game and I picked Zelda cause the cartridge was shiny gold. We played through it together and since then she's played Zelda on basically every Nintendo system. My kids just came back from a week at grandma's house and immediately demanded breath of the wild
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Aug 12, 2021 19:57
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why didnt you already have breath of the wild
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Aug 12, 2021 20:03
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2-day rentals of SNES "tapes" (we called them "cassettes" en français) at the local movie rental place on Friday afternoons. Memorizing the store's product numbers on the game boxes in an effort to keep renting the same copy of LTTP or whatever week after week, hoping that no one deleted my save file. Learning pro gamer tricks from my friend in 3rd grade, like using vanish/doom combo in Final Fantasy 3/6, or the secret vendor for Amulets of Annihilation in secret of evermore. Renting my first N64 game without knowing what a memory card is or why I needed one.
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Aug 12, 2021 20:22
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elf help book posted:why didnt you already have breath of the wild I do, but it was on Wii U and not Switch. They got out alcohol swabs and cleaned the stuck buttons on the gamepad so they could play it.
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Aug 12, 2021 20:34
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I’ve told this story before but my brother and I would call the rental place whenever we got stuck in a game. They eventually told us to stop calling.
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Aug 12, 2021 20:39
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 From the family gamer vault - thanks to modern technology I'm able to present to you this image without the limitations of disposable cameras holding anything back
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Aug 12, 2021 20:44
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P-Mack posted:I saved up all year to buy a power glove but my mom convinced me to instead open my own bank account that paid like .005% interest. The glove would have been a much better investment. interest rates were way higher than that in the 80s
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Aug 12, 2021 20:50
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Caithness posted:interest rates were way higher than that in the 80s It was a passbook account, I dunno if they even exist any more but they basically served no financial purpose beyond not keeping your cash in a piggy bank. playing a ton of Metroid but always starting from the beginning because I could never write down the 32 character case sensitive password without a mistake
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Aug 12, 2021 21:10
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Having only played a little snes stuff at friends houses, it absolutely blew my mind come christmas one year when I got an n64 with ocarina of time. It was the greatest most perfect game imaginable to me, and I remember when a friend showed me how to get Dins fire I loudly declared it to be the best day of my life. My mom got sort of pissed at me for that, lol. Sorry mom, it's Nintendo.
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Aug 12, 2021 21:11
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heehee posted:i really wanted crash bandicoot as a kid, so i would always beg my mom to get it whenever she went to the store. she came back from costco one time and i asked if she got it, she said yea, here it is and put a container of goldbond foot powder on a table near the front door. my excitement rendered me retarded and i spent like 5 minutes trying to figure out how this was a video game, slowly going through the stages of grief before realizing it wasn't a game and running to my room to have a tantrum for the rest of the day
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Aug 12, 2021 21:15
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One time I was playing the original Zelda and I got lost in the Death Mountain dungeon for a long time and the music got stuck in my head so bad that I couldn't sleep and my mom wouldn't let me play videogames after eight for years and years. I did kill Ganon though, making it the first game I ever officially beat.
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I used to pretend to play the demos of coin-op motorcycle / driving games whenever my family would come across them. When my family lived in Bahrain I remember my mom taking me to a local fabric / tailoring shop. While I sat and waited one of the guys that worked there tried to make small talk with me by asking me how many games I had on my Gameboy Color cartridge. I was playing a legit copy of Pokemon Yellow so I was mad loving confused by his question. I told him I only had only one game on the cartridge and just kind of glared at him, still really confused and put off.... Looking back, I think he was somehow making a reference to the bootleg cartridges with like hundreds of games on them that were super popular all over the country.
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Aug 12, 2021 21:36
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We had err this game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Ad3JMgkZU
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Got introduced to Super Mario 1 on a trip to my grandparents. Was so fascinated, I went home and re-drew worlds 1-1 and 1-2 (the furthest I managed to get) on paper for an art project. Even measured the bricks, as well as I could. Didn't know about the warp zone, though; that blew my mind the next time I saw the game.
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Aug 13, 2021 00:28
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staying up late as hell for the first time christmas night to play ocarina for the first time. the christmas night game sesh is still the best of the year, this last one was dq11.
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heehee posted:i really wanted crash bandicoot as a kid, so i would always beg my mom to get it whenever she went to the store. she came back from costco one time and i asked if she got it, she said yea, here it is and put a container of goldbond foot powder on a table near the front door. my excitement rendered me retarded and i spent like 5 minutes trying to figure out how this was a video game, slowly going through the stages of grief before realizing it wasn't a game and running to my room to have a tantrum for the rest of the day
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Aug 13, 2021 02:20
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my sister and I saved up when we were young and bought my dad a Gameboy for father's day. I think spent the next year begging to play it at every opportunity
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Aug 13, 2021 03:50
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I got the tude now posted:staying up late as hell for the first time christmas night to play ocarina for the first time. the christmas night game sesh is still the best of the year, this last one was dq11. As a kid I only got new videogames on Christmas so I know the feeling.
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heehee posted:i really wanted crash bandicoot as a kid, so i would always beg my mom to get it whenever she went to the store. she came back from costco one time and i asked if she got it, she said yea, here it is and put a container of goldbond foot powder on a table near the front door. my excitement rendered me retarded and i spent like 5 minutes trying to figure out how this was a video game, slowly going through the stages of grief before realizing it wasn't a game and running to my room to have a tantrum for the rest of the day lmao
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Aug 13, 2021 05:20
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7 year old me begged parents for a nintendo after playing Rambo on nes at my cousins, but they were adamant about it being a waste, kids should play outside etc. Big last present from grandma on christmas is an snes, super Mario world and gradius 3. Dad was like "1 hour a day, after you're done with homework" lol, he seemed so annoyed. Grandma ftw
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Aug 13, 2021 05:37
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Playing Zelda 1 at like 5 years old, my parents told me Link lived in the space above the garage between his adventures. He (my patrents) would leave me little gifts I would find there for each dungeon I beat. First a letter thanking me for helping on the quest, then rupees (sea glass), then a map of Hyrule they drew, etc. A really nice memory. The series has always been special to me but that experience as a kid kicks it into something truly magical.
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Aug 13, 2021 05:54
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one time my grandma gave me and my brother like $10 each in quarters at an arcade in Reno and we beat the Simpsons arcade game. Other kids would show up for a while but none had the epic grandma money so only we made it to the end, it was exhausting but still pretty epic
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Aug 13, 2021 06:06
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very nice i like posted:
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The first game I ever played was Kings Quest 5. My dad was playing it while writing his thesis. . It's now regarded as one of the bad Kings Quests but I love that game and play through it at least once a year. Also getting a Gameboy when I was about 9, I got it way after the GBC was out and almost to the point where the GBA was about to come out so finding games for it was pretty difficult. But it played pokemon so I was loving overjoyed with that and I think that game was in the system for probably a year without being removed.
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Big Bizness posted:Playing Zelda 1 at like 5 years old, my parents told me Link lived in the space above the garage between his adventures. He (my patrents) would leave me little gifts I would find there for each dungeon I beat. First a letter thanking me for helping on the quest, then rupees (sea glass), then a map of Hyrule they drew, etc. A really nice memory. The series has always been special to me but that experience as a kid kicks it into something truly magical.
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Big Bizness posted:Playing Zelda 1 at like 5 years old, my parents told me Link lived in the space above the garage between his adventures. He (my patrents) would leave me little gifts I would find there for each dungeon I beat. First a letter thanking me for helping on the quest, then rupees (sea glass), then a map of Hyrule they drew, etc. A really nice memory. The series has always been special to me but that experience as a kid kicks it into something truly magical. Insanely good parents
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sourdough posted:7 year old me begged parents for a nintendo after playing Rambo on nes at my cousins, but they were adamant about it being a waste, kids should play outside etc. Big last present from grandma on christmas is an snes, super Mario world and gradius 3. Dad was like "1 hour a day, after you're done with homework" lol, he seemed so annoyed. Grandma ftw Awesome grandma Big Bizness posted:Playing Zelda 1 at like 5 years old, my parents told me Link lived in the space above the garage between his adventures. He (my patrents) would leave me little gifts I would find there for each dungeon I beat. First a letter thanking me for helping on the quest, then rupees (sea glass), then a map of Hyrule they drew, etc. A really nice memory. The series has always been special to me but that experience as a kid kicks it into something truly magical. Awesome 'rents
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Big Bizness posted:Playing Zelda 1 at like 5 years old, my parents told me Link lived in the space above the garage between his adventures. He (my patrents) would leave me little gifts I would find there for each dungeon I beat. First a letter thanking me for helping on the quest, then rupees (sea glass), then a map of Hyrule they drew, etc. A really nice memory. The series has always been special to me but that experience as a kid kicks it into something truly magical. drat cool
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Awesome grandma
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Big Bizness posted:Playing Zelda 1 at like 5 years old, my parents told me Link lived in the space above the garage between his adventures. He (my patrents) would leave me little gifts I would find there for each dungeon I beat. First a letter thanking me for helping on the quest, then rupees (sea glass), then a map of Hyrule they drew, etc. A really nice memory. The series has always been special to me but that experience as a kid kicks it into something truly magical. Beautiful…
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CyberPingu posted:The first game I ever played was Kings Quest 5. My dad was playing it while writing his thesis. . I was obsessed with KQ5 in third grade to the point that for our "Young Author's Day" project that year I wrote and illustrated a 50 page book on it when they were supposed to be 7 pages at most. My teacher spent story time reading that literary equivalent of a GameFAQs walkthrough to everyone, hope it saved on some calls to the hint line. I remember calling Sierra about the locket and the loving sack of peas you throw over the cat.
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memory is a little fuzzy but when i was 9 or 10 years old i saw a copy of kirby 64 at a flea market and i kept talking about how i really wanted that game. my mother seemed like she didn't want to because i don't fuckin' know – she only ever went to flea markets to browse but she would never actually buy anything. brother convinced her to get the game for me as a surprise because he knew i really wanted it for years. still have that same cartridge today. love ya, budBig Bizness posted:Playing Zelda 1 at like 5 years old, my parents told me Link lived in the space above the garage between his adventures. He (my patrents) would leave me little gifts I would find there for each dungeon I beat. First a letter thanking me for helping on the quest, then rupees (sea glass), then a map of Hyrule they drew, etc. A really nice memory. The series has always been special to me but that experience as a kid kicks it into something truly magical. 
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I was around 8 years old, sitting in the living room, playing with my Mario toys: My older sister came into the room, made me and my parents sit on the couch, and watch as she recreated 9/11 with the toys. She had Luigi play Osama Bin Laden. I wasn’t happy about any of this.
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