/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1345364
>gannon

>>1345370

>>1345370
n64 kid plz go

>>1345384
>>1345394
To be fair, the manual does spell it with one N.

>>1345384
Do you call them "rupys" as well?

>>1345419
When you say it out loud, so do you.

I'm amazed you could remember anything at that age, OP. Anything before 7 (2nd grade) for me is a complete blank.

In 5th grade I was playing LttP and had a friend tell me you could summon a bird to fly you around the map. I thought it sounded like bullshit but tried it anyway and it worked. Yeah its not much of a story.

>Be 10 years old
>Playing OoT, just finished the Water Temple
>Go to Kakariko Village
>Queue cutscene where purple 2D thing is destroying shit
>Kakariko is in a state of dismay, much less cheerful than normal
>The lights for the whole upstairs in my house go out the lights and outlets for upstairs are on different circuits and a fuse blew
>Freak the fuck out and run downstairs
>mfw

>>1347426
Not OP but I remember a few pre-kindergarten memories. Very, very few specific ones, but that's about it. They're all non-vidya though.

I don't remember how old I was but I used to play Sonic 1, and I loved it. I was obviously very young because I wasn't great at it, but I really liked Starlight zone's music, and it was rare for me to get there at that age, if it ever happened. So I remember just specifically using the level select cheat and just playing through that level just so I could enjoy the music. That's probably my best story.

>>1347426
>Remembering your childhood

Holy shit, I can't remember anything that happened to me from before the age of 16 without some kind of reminder.

>all those psychotropic drugs and alcohol abuse

>>1347512
It's kind of a weird and scary feeling to think that a large portion of your life basically never happened, even though you know it did. I have only 2 short memories of 1st grade - the teacher saying the word "can't" doesn't exist in terms of learning how to read, and then fighting over a piece of paper... with who or why I have no idea. Other than that, literally nothing.

To keep this relevant I remembered a better story. My dad used to manage a hotel and there was a guy who would come up on business every 2 weeks to stay the night. I was still pretty young, maybe 7-9, and the guy was in his 30s or 40s, but he was super into Nintendo. After he finished his business meeting my dad would invite him back and he and I would play NES games for an hour or so. Actually looking back on it that all sounds really weird, but it was all innocent and fun.

>be 9-10 years old
>playing Final Fantasy on NES
>just beat Lich for the first time - feels good
>heading back to town to save
>ambushed by a pack of ghouls
>they manage to paralyze my entire party
>watch helplessly for minutes as they slooooowly whittle my team's HP down and kill them all

>around 6 years old, playing Final Fantasy Mystic Quest with brother who is 9
>get to final boss
>battle coming along, brother accidentally casts Cure on the boss instead of ally
>Cure does massive damage to the boss
>boss dies and we start flipping out
>I throw up on the couch

>>1347623
>>boss dies and we start flipping out
>>I throw up on the couch

Man, when you celebrate you party hard.

>10 or so years old
>Beat Ganondorf
>Tower starts collapsing
>Oh fuck, gotta go fast!
>Suddenly I get a nosebleed
>Worst nosebleed ever
>Pause game, run to bathroom
>Blood goes everywhere
>Vomit blood
>Everything was blood
>Mom comes in to see if I'm okay
>Sees all the blood, freaks out
>Drives me to the hospital while my dad holds a towel to my nose
>By the time we get there my bitching Spiderman pyjamas and towel are all ruined with blood
>Secretary in ER freaks out, calls doctors right away
>Get taken to a room
>Doctor calmly walks in, takes an ice pack, applies it to my nose
>Asks me what happened
>"I beat Ganondorf and then my nose started bleeding!"
>Doctor is confused, looks at parents
>Parents equally confused
>Doctor tells me some funny stories to calm me down
>Nosebleed stops, go home
>Change out of pjs, have shower, change into new ones
>Continue playing game
>Ganon appears
>Holy fuck!
>Beat him in the most epic battle of my childhood

>Playing Earthbound
>Stuck in Threed
>Can't figure out how to get past those zombies guarding the tunnel entrance
>Order a pizza in game thinking the pizza man will come and bowl them over
>He doesn't
>The magic of video games is ruined forever

>older brother is playing Super Mario Brothers 3 in the evening.
>He is in the last world
>He is making it to Bowser's castle
>Parents tell me to run the garbage out
>Quickly grab the garbage, run out and dump in the trash, run inside
>Unknowingly left the porch light and door open
>An hour later
>My parents are yelling
>A metric fuckton of moths have filled the porch
>They are yelling
>Try to use the vacuum to suck them up
>Doesn't work
>Turn off all the lights in the house, leave lamp on outside
>Everyone has to go to bed while the moths leave
>Cannot remember if brother beat Bowser or if we had to turn the game off

>>1347623
hahahah that's hilarious. best music in that game

>Own alien storm
>play co op with brothers
>never beat it
>play solo one day
>magically make it to the boss
>beat the game
>Go and tell my brothers
>They don't believe me
>I never beat it again so I can prove the ending is like I said it was
>Try so very hard
>Never prove it happened

sigh.

>>1347658
I read your story once before while at the bar and lol'd. I'm at the bar now and lol'd again.

As for me:
>dad fixes arcade games at an amusement park
>get free season passes every summer
>used to go with friends, b-line to big arcade (fuck rides)
>go through employee onry door right beside the dragon's lair cabinet, walk upstairs to dad's office
>he used to give me the key to open the arcade cabinet coin doors so I could flick the metal wire where the coin drops and give myself free credits
>play TMNT and that Simpsons beat-em-up with three other friends all day
>tfw even with unlimited credits I still have never been able to beat the dragon's lair arcade game

The only rule was to make sure no credits were left when I stopped playing a game.

I used to leave credits in the machines all the time.

>>1347658
>Vomit blood

Jesus. I've yet to have a nosebleed, but I had no idea they can actually make you puke.

>Get Sega Game Gear and Super Columns
>Play story mode
>this is gonna be a piece of cake
>Up against this fucker
>Sand keeps raising on my end
>Quickly dying
>Die multiple times
>Spend so long trying to beat him
>Keep dying
>Finally beat this guy once after so many attempts
>Turns out it's a best out-of-three battle
>My once gleeful face turned into a mixture of shock and disbelief
>Quickly lose from the shock
>Never got close to beating him again

I still can't beat this asshole.

I remember it like it was yesterday.

Ocarina of Time had just been released about a week ago and my friend had already rented it. Of course he was a selfish ass who never let me take any turns so I just watched. The graphics blew me away and the music was awesome.

The next day my dad gets home from work and me and my friend are playing Super Mario 64. He hands me a bag from Wal-Mart and says "I got my summer bonus today and so I had a little extra cash and the lady at the store said this is a must have so here you go".

I open the bag and there it was Ocarina of Time. I nearly had a heart attack and the look of jealousy in my friends eye's were priceless because he was only renting it.

This marked the first night I had ever stayed up the entire night just playing a video game.

>be probably 10
>be at cousin's lakehouse one summer
>had recently got mk2 so we were playing it in the basement
>had subscription to EGM as a kid so knew fatalities already
>kill one of my cousins with Liu Kang and do his dragon torso-eat fatality
>as he turns into the dragon, a girl cousin of mine just lets out this deafening "WHHHOOOOOOAAAA!!!"
>i just laughing because what the hell
>aunt came downstairs and made us turn it off because we were being too loud.

>>1350230
*mk2 for snes, just to clarify

>>1347673
Thank you, token fairy. Every free credit I ever found felt like jesus cured cancer and gave me an ice cream sundae.

When my grandparents gave me a Nintendo 64 they gave me the rumble pak to open first. I said, but I don't have an n64, and tear started welling up inside me. They told me to open this lumpy present next to me. It was Goldeneye, padded in foam to make it look like something else. I opened this huge present that they had falsely labeled and it was the n64 with the purple controller. I busted out crying, because I was grounded by my parents for not doing my science project, and because I definitely did not think that i was going to get EXACTLY what I wanted for Christmas. They also gave me Zelda (mother of god!!!!) and another game that I can't remember. Of course, as soon as my grandparents left my dad took away the controllers and I had to wait like months before I could play it again. Anyways it was fucking amazing. it was kind of like when I believed in Santa because I got a game boy one year and a genesis the next. I knew my parents were poor so I was like "Santa MUST EXIST".

>playing sonic 3 and knuckles
>on final boss as knuckles
>never beat a game before
>kept dying
>literally offered to sell my soul to satan if he let me win the game
it didn't count, right? religion isn't real, right? that's not why my life has been a disaster, right?

>>1350576
As long as you didn't sign a blood oath I think you're ok.

>>1350997
Then again, you can be damned for wishing that somebody would die, then forgetting about it.

Don't worry, nobody but you has the power to help you win at video games.

>>1345364
>4 years old
cool story bro

>Be nine years old
>Beat The Lion King on SNES
>Feel a sense of accomplishment in vidya I've never felt since that day

>Be 11, spend loads of time trying to beat Floating Continent in FF6
>Can't beat it
>Stop playing game for a year, come back and beta it on the first try
>Keep playing until I get to Kefka
>Can't beat Kefka
>Stop playing game, come back a few years later
>Beat Kefka
>O-okay

>playing NBA Hangtime with brother and brother's friend
>editing stats on players
>really loud "NO!" plays when you try to add a stat to one that is already full
>keep doing it so the "NO!" sound keeps playing
>parents think it is hilarious
>feel happy

>>1347764
you're sinuses lead to your throat, it's possible for blood to drain into your stomach then your body be like, "the fuck?" and puke it back up. maybe anon ripped a hole in his stomach cause he was so excited or stressed and the ulser made him puke blood. still intense

>>1351353
>be 9 or 10
>my bro calls me over, him and his brother are very nerdy but chill as hell
>they tell me they just found loin king laying around their house and we need to beat it now
>we were playing for like 6 hours straight then his mom comes home from work
>she is piss the fuck off
>rips the game out of the console and tells me to go home
>talk to them the next day at the bus stop
>it was supposed to be their christmas present

hahah

>Be 10
>Play PC games at my friend's house because I don't have a PC yet
>He was bro as fuck, used to let many of us have our own save files on various games
>I'm on my first playthrough ever of Doom II with friend sitting next to me watching
>It's late at night, other friends have gone, I'm waiting for my parents to pick me up
>Playing the Courtyard level
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpyMjT7_lGc
>For some reason it scares us the fuck out
>Dat music
>The creepy faces all over the pillars
>The sounds of monsters, particularly the pinkies
>No other level had scared us but for some reason this one did
>Progressing slowly with friend watching on
>Tell him that this is too scary
>He agrees
>Parents arrived and I'm relieved
>Say goodbye and head home
>Have a nightmare that night of the level
>Tell my friend and he laughs and said he also did
>Play The Courtyard the next day during the day time and it's not as scary
>Breathe a sigh of relief when it's over
Good times

>>1347451
whats the deal with that gif?

maze game?

playing desert strike on the master system aged 7yrs. at pow camp on level 2 but almost out of fuel. older sister comes in tells me its time for top of the pops and kicks the console. game freezes. i scream fuck and use the controller as a flail to hit her. knocked out one of her teeth. she still goes on about it.

>be 8 years old when Pokemon Red and Blue come out
>Christmas comes, don't get either at my house Christmas tree.
>go to grandparents, don't usually expect great things
>Last present in a weird bigger thin box
>boxes in boxes, get to final box
>Pokemon Blue
>Mother says it was the happiest Christmas face I ever gave and she kind of wishes that she would've been the one to get it for me

>>1345370
>Implying that Gannon isn't the same as Ganondorf

Get out you faggot

>about 3 or 4, can't really remember
>Christmas eve party at my aunts house
>my cousin brings me up to her room and gives me a gameboy and super mario land.

I'm surprised I still remember getting that game from her to be honest.

>>1350281
I got a christmas one like this myself
>Pokemon is comin round and becoming a phenomenon
>Have Game Boy
>Been buggin Pop about it to no avail
>Christmas rolls on by
>Pop starts to push a particular gift on me
>Sorta mentions my Game Boy, so I'm hype as fuck now
>It's a link cable, and I have 0 multiplayer games
>Going through the other gifts, no such games
>Start watering up and getting upset
>Pop urging me to check the link cable box
>Whining back at him because I don't believe
>He's about to the point of getting up and whoppin my lil ass
>I shake it around
>Hear something
>Turn it upside down
>Out comes Pokemon Blue
>Start crying even harder as my frustration turns to guilt
>Hug Pop
>Pick Squirtle

Good times.

> Be 4 years old in kindergarten
> Family has newly purchased Amstrad CPC
> Play vidya all the time

> Teacher asks us all to talk about what we did at the weekend
> Tell her about "Bomber"
> BASIC clone of a classic game
> You are a plane that moves across screen, a row at a time
> Only control is a button to drop bombs
> Have to drop bombs on all the buildings in a city so you can land
> Teacher is horrified: "what about all the people in the buildings"
> Hadn't even thought about that and probably didn't understand concept of death
> Teacher tells parents she's worried vidya will make me violent
> Parents lol

> Years later, have learned to read and play game again
> mfw title screen says city is abandoned and you need to bomb it so you can land safely and refuel

Okay here's mine
>be 10 years old,
>dad had other family, kinda complicated story, but basically he didnt gave two shits about me and my sister.
>mom has a decent job, but has to sustain a lazy and worthless sister with 5 fucking kids and it is also a widow. Hence, we are poor as dirt.
>christmas time,1997, nintendo 64 and ps1 are all kids dream.
>i cant even bring myself to ask for my mom for a vydia.
>Asshole cousins still have a NES imitation (phantom system) - they never allowed me to play.
>mom finally manages to buy another house. She lets my crappy aunt live rent free in the old house.
>no money left to buy shit for chirstmas.
>kids on school all boasting about some mario 64, mario kart, and all the nice stuff they getting for xmas. I am dying of envy inside.
>last day from school, my father was at home and said he had a surprise for me. (I loved that prick, even though i can count on one hand the times he actually went visit us).
>open a huge box...a super nintendo appears in all its glory.
>starts crying like a faggot.
>play super mario until, literaly, pass out.
>next day i rent legend of zelda ina video store. Mind fucking blown.
>couldnt get the second crystsl. Happy as i will never be anymore in my life.
>best goddam weekend ever.
>got to see my asshole cousins drooling over my grey and purple sexy beast.
>they call me a faggot for liking a faggy game like zelda.
>couldnt give any shits coz i was finally getting the goddamned master sword.

>>1350281
You're dad sounds like a piece of shit.

>>1354810
So does your English.

Seriously, though, if I have children, I hope I never want to pull any of these "it's a rubbish present... surprise it isn't" tricks. The children must end up really traumatised.

>>1351306
Hey man, I was playing NES games when I was four, so fuck your shit.
Granted was completely terrible, but I was pretty good at turned based combat like from Dragon Warrior. I even beat the Dragonlord before I started elementary school. I learned to read off the freaking manual.
I still have it.

>>1350281
>Nintendo 64 they gave me the rumble pak to open first
My mother made me open a wrapped packet of batteries and Tetris before she game me my first brick gameboy. Good times.

>>1354810
because he actually followed through on his punishment so anon learns to do as hes told? You're the one that sounds like a piece of shit.

>>1347663
Your parents sound very high-strung. I'm pretty sure most the moths would have fucked off after sunrise anyway.

>>1356083
Holy shit, it was fucking Christmas. You'd think it and the kid's birthday would be the only two days where a a dick parent can stop mentally raping their kid, but NOPE.

Some of my earliest memories, like pre-kindergarten in the late 80s were playing my mom's atari 2600. Until I got an NES. I never actually beat any of the beatable games for it.

I have a weird memory about playing SNES for the first time.

I would play F-Zero, I remember purposefully jumping off the ramps out of bounds of the track because I thought it was funny. I remember smiling and laughing about this.

The weird part is the way my parents tell it, I would get really mad that I kept falling off and scream in frustration.

I have no idea why we remember it totally differently.

>I was a kid when the N64 came out
>when I was getting babysat I would play their N64 and SNES
>Rember playing Super Metroid, thinking it sucked, and going to play Star Fox 63

>7 years old
>sleeping over at cousins house
>she has a SNES
>playing Donkey Kong Country 2
>cousin tells me that DKC2 is her friends game that she borrowed
>2 days pass
>time to go home
>quickly slip DKC2 into back-pack when nobody was looking
>???
>Profit

I only now slightly regret stealing the game nearly 15 years on.

>>1357315

>"Star Fox 63"

I heard the sequel is better.

>>1354345
I would still remember it too if I had a little cunt of a brother that knocked my tooth out for interfering with his video games.

>>1357318
Fucking people like you were the reason it was way too risky letting friends borrow games back in the 90s.

>>1354345

>Use controller as a flail
>Knock out one of her teeth

Did you have some sort of battleroar to go along with it? In my mind, you had.

Shit i did play NES at 4. But i sure as hell was not beating LoZ at that age. Big ups to you OP, Winning!

>>1357319

>>1359195
What the shit is that gif from? As a trekkie, I can not afford not to know. I feel as though my life has been leading to this point.

>>1354345
cunt deserves it, shame you didn't knock out more.

>>1359195
not the anon who posted it, but my guess would be one of those travel commercials Shatner was in. I don't remember the company's name, but I think it compared hotel prices.

>>1360880
an old commercial for a telephone company.

>>1360935
in reply to
>>1360880

>>1360880
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJrrCF73r5s right here