/vr/ - Retro Games

Had to do a double check to make sure I was one the right board.

>>>/v/

>>2548336
I was that kid.
My family was rich, I had pretty much everything I wanted and I used to lie to make people even more jealous then they already was.

If any kid got anything new or before me I'd make my mom go buy it and I'd lie I already had it.

Looking back not sure why I did this. Made me feel better I guess. I was pretty popular because I had everything. I had the best birthday parties too.

Fuck I had a great time growing up.

hee was always the same as the weird kid who invited me over to play game but ended up making me suck his dick

i eventually let him fuck my ass too

>>2548340
You realize despite how memetastic it is that kid threads belong here more than anything right?

There's no more that kids anyone with the advent of the internet any lie can be disputed with a simple google search.

/v/ is not a place for something like that kid.

I remember one time this stupid cunt told me you could do a hadouken like Ryu in Megaman X

I knew he was a little fucking liar so me and my friends tied him up in the woods and left him there over night.

I guess he ended up getting raped or something but that little fucker deserved it. Trying to fucking lie to us like that.

>>2548353
Oh you..

>so many /v/ posts in one thread

>>2548336
>At school one day.
>1st grade.
>Have a whole pack of shiny pokemon cards that I obtained through connections and many trades.
>They were my babies, never let anyone touch them.
>One day some faggot kid joins the class.
>He sees my collection.
>I let him see them.
>Gives them back nothing suspicious.
>Or so I thought....
>Shiny Charizard is gone.
>Figure that shitheel snuck it behind his back or something when he was looking at them.
>Confront him about it.
>Says he didn't.
>Physically kick his ass until he starts sniffling a little.
>Insist he didn't take it.

>It's in his back pocket. I see this when he falls over.
>Suddenly gives me the angriest look i had ever seen at that point in my life.
>It's mine.
>He attacks me.
>Suddenly anger turns to fear.
>This nigga has surprisingly strength for a twig hell might have thought he was possessed.
>Just waiting for him to start screaming in tongues.
>Flee the classroom taking my backpack full of cards.
>Tell teacher about it.
>Kid lies and plays victim.
>Never get card back.

Fuck that faggot.

>Mega Man X comes out
>everyone's playing it and loves it to bits
>kids in school sharing the various passwords, some trying to create like a full encyclopaedia of every working password
>pretty fun and shit
>that kid comes up to me one day
>"oh god anon I just found an amazing secret. if you complete armor armadillo's stage 3 times and get the secret health above the boss door everytime after having gotten all upgrades, you can get the Hadoken from Street Fighter!"
>he gives me a password for it, tells me I should try it out as soon as I get home
>ask other kids about it and nobody recognized that password
I was so fucking sure that would be the password which would corrupt my game or something, never tried it.

>ps1 era
>every kid in middle school has got a playstation
>new trend is Castlevania Symphony of the Night
>enjoy the fuck out of it, beat it numerous times
>that kid tells me "oh but if you find some secret items and then go talk to maria, you'll get the ability to find the true spirit controlling the final boss, then you can go into a completely new castle which is an upside down one of the normal one!"
>know he's lying because that would mean the completion on my save file should be 50% and not 100%

Thankfully I didn't believe the little faggot any of the times, and eventually stopped talking to him because he was a lying piece of shit.

>>2548363
>that kid. Relevant to /v/
I don't get it? I really don't that kid belongs here more than anything considering /v/ is about modern games and modern games don't have myths and rumors like that anymore.

>Or that one weird kid who invited you over and had weird parents or crappy rules.

Oh yes I know that kid. "20 minutes of video games a day and only 1 hour of TV".

Poor bastard.

>that kid who told you he could weld genesis carts to work on a SNES and run laser discs in a ps1

>>2548363

>expecting anything less from it's sister board

kek

>>2548373
>best friend wasn't allowed to play Zelda
>his mom said it had "magic" so it wasn't christian
>he would come over to my house to play it
>i wasn't allowed to have really gory games like mortal kombat
>he was
>we'd play it over at his place
>she wore a tank top without a bra once and i saw her tits

>>2548379
That's very american.

>>2548348
>Looking back not sure why I did this.
Probably mad insecurity issues since you being rich was the only thing that made you relevant.

>>2548404
Could be.

Pretty sure I just liked the attention I got from people being jealous. I knew they couldn't afford it and that made me happy. Like I said I was pretty popular regardless.

>>2548370
The last one is true tho

>>2548348
>I was that kid
Judging from your grammar you still ARE that kid.

>>2548363
Link all of them.

>>2548370
Isn't it crazy how some of the most outlandish sounding tales are often the truest?

>>2548379
That's copypasta with your own added ending

>>2548430
I was actually very confused when I completed that game and didn't encounter the second castle and now I know why.

>be over at some kid's house for a party or some shit
>"if you can get to level 60 on duck hunt instead of three ducks, you fight a giant duck that takes three bullets to kill!"
>call bullshit/believe every word simultaneously
>the next day sit up RIGHT in front of my tv
>cheating like crazy to get to level 60
>level 58
>level 59
>oh shit shit oh shit here we go
>level 60
>normal ducks
>I KNEW that idiot was lying, giant duck yeah right

And if I ever saw this kid again, you know he would just say some dumb excuse like "Oh what I meant to say was level 100."

>>2548432
>look at me, i reply to every post because i want replies really hard pls give me attention
okay here you go, kid

>>2548452
> game rolls over and glitches back to 1
>"gee, man, your copy must suck"

>>2548462
"You must've gotten the newer version, in the ORIGINAL version Mario gets a fourth powerup where he gets huge and smashes everything."

And then that actually came true like 25 years later.

Also what the fuck captcha, why you so obsessed to see if I know what food is?

>That kid who swooced into class.

No seriously i'm not even joking, on hot summer days the school would leave a window open in the classroom to circulate some air and whenever this kid was late he'd climb through the window to get in.
Granted the teachers scolded him for it but he still did it all the fucking time.

>>2548480
Sure is video games in here.

>>2548336
>Pokemon Yellow is different because when the Team Rocket guy asks you to join, you can accept and move up through the ranks until you're the Rocket Master

Fuck you, Cameron.

>That one kid who whose parents were fundamentalist Christians, and didn't allow him to play video games, or watch TV or listen to music that wasn't strictly Christian in nature.

Yeah, there were a lot of those kids in my part of the Deep South. Their parents made church attendance compulsory, homeschooled them, wouldn't let them have any friends outside of their church, and made them watch Christian programming and listen to Christian music all day.

One of the kids I vaguely knew (whom I met at church) got into hardcore drugs and eventually killed himself. The only time I talked to him as an adult, he mentioned he was basically estranged from his parents for one reason or another, and they were abusive as shit when he was growing up.

Another fundie church kid I knew now has 6 children from different fathers, and all of them were taken from her because she was cooking meth in her own home. She also has hepatitis C and is HIV positive, and sleeps around quite a bit.

>>2548502
That actually sounds fucking neat.

Team Rocket pokemon game when? At the very least we need a game where you play as Jessie or James, hell tat could be a good way to include the gender selection at the beginning. At the very least it'd be more interesting than
>Pick Male blank slate
or
>Pick Female blank slate

I'd pick James tbh he was always my fav but jessie is one sexy bitch.

James british voice is just gold man I'd read every piece of dialogue in that fucking voice if this game was real.

>>2548507
Really. I don't suppose you'd happen to know her phone number?

>>2548510
I know, so you can imagine my butthurt when I got my hands on it and it wasn't true.

>>2548502
I would be dimwitted enough to believe that

Fucking christ. That kid's name was Randall. He lived across the street. He had one fucking controller and I'd just get to sit and watch him play. I spent the night once and his parents wouldn't let us leave his room for like 3 hours the next morning because "he wakes up in a bad mood and they shouldn't have to put up with it." I constantly got pressured into hanging out with him because his mom would pressure my mom. Fucking weird people all around. I think I was 9 or 10 when I finally put my foot down and was like fuck no.

>>2548530
I almost forgot... sometimes his dad would fucking play. I never once got to touch that single fucking controller. All around cunts.

>>2548510
>>2548502
>Start game
>Pick Jessie or James
>Starter pokemon is Meowth.

I'd buy it.
>Capture pokemon in the wild with traps and gadgets or steal Pokemon from enemy trainers.
I'd buy it.
>Sell Pokemon on black markets for cash.
I'd definitely buy it.

>>2548535
You'd need something to spend the cash on besides Pokemon fighting supplies. Like a base to upgrade or something.

>>2548530
I was that kind of kid. I always hesitated to give people turns. But too be fair, my friend when asked if he wanted to play, usually said "no it's fine." It was usually to him I did it to

>>2548558
>tfw playing with dad
>tfw never getting a turn
Dads are the worst That Kids.

>>2548336
The thing that pissed me off about "That Kid" was that his lies were so blatantly obvious that I could not believe he'd expect anyone to fall for it. You really think I'd believe you got a PS3 before the PS2 even came out Chris?

>>2548578
YES I DID, NICK!

>>2548578
>he didn't have a PS3 in 2000

>>2548336
That Kid in my class tried to tell people what button to press to catch Pokemon better in Gen II. I'm not sure why, but he told different people different buttons, so eventually the entire class was confused about whether you had to mash A, B, A and B, or alternate between A and B. No one considered that none of them were true.

He also tried to scam people with Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, but met with much less success.

I remember a website I used to frequent that had pokedexes for every pokemon game up to the first DS gen, as well as a section for each game that was essentially a condensed database of "that kid" hints and tricks. Some were legit, the majority were not, but I pored through that shit like Indiana Jones through Sean Connery's notebook. Its formatting was 90's as fuck, but I can't recall the name of it.

>>2548598
Made me think of:
http://www.blue-reflections.net/ragecandybar/projects/pokegods/

>>2548554
Maybe the whole premise of the game is to get better and better traps and disguises until you can finally capture that Pikachu

>>2548604
That's not it, but it's very similar in looks. I remember lots of bright, flashing text and frames.

On the other hand, in my search for it I found a site that I have not browsed since I was eight and had Windows 95.
http://pojo.com/

>>2548578
Well, I did. My dad actually worked at Nintendo.

>>2548613
I remember that site. How is it still around.

>>2548620
That's how he got the ps3 early. Nintendo wanted to know just how much of their marketshare they lost beforehand.

>>2548613
>http://pojo.com/
Fuck that site just gave me eye cancer.

>>2548621
The last update was two days ago, yet it still has 90's formatting. The fuck.

>>2548598
>1998
>use internet for an hour at the library every day
>just read "pokemon code" sites that all kind of have the same fake codes but reworded
I tried so many and never got Pikablu, Togepi, Charcoalt or any pokegods.

>>2548641
>Togepi
That's interesting because a friend of mine actually did have a togepi. I noticed it and thought it was cool and he said it was stupid because it didn't do shit.

>>2548647
He's talking about Gen 1 rumors, back before you could get Togepi. Pikablu was Marill.

>>2548651
I'm talking about either Red, Yellow, or Blue. He got it using a complex series of Gameshark codes.

>>2548363
/vr/ are older /v/-tards, your point?

This still exists surprisingly. My 12 year old cousin was telling me recently that his friend had told him you can get Articuno in ORAS by <exact same sort of tedious bullshit>
I just laughed at him.

>>2548665
I disagree. /vr/ represents an era of gaming design and content that will never be seen again. The closest shit we had to DLC was shit like game genie. (considering it gave you cheats for most of your games... it really wasn't that bad. Now a single game will try to milk you every few months. Look at all this Sid Meiers Civilization bullshit...

>>2548668
I hope that the grown-up "that kid"s encourage their children to spread bullshit stories about games on the playground, just like how I hope that some parents will teach their kids about the S.

>>2548430
They're both true. That's the joke.

>>2548336
>Back in the days of /vr/ that fucking kid thrived, spreading lies about video games and being a little cunt.
FTFY newfriend

>>2548598

Cheat code central? Supercheats?

>my dad works at Nintendo

>>2548365
That kid is a psychopath. They're easier to spot when they're young.

>>2548375
>that adapter now that lets you play Genesis games on your SNES.

>>2548670
/vr/ doesn't represent a shit, this board is just got the discussion of retro games [Videogames from systems that came <1999], not a history board about video games like if we need yet another "History of video games" topic when this shit has been discussed even before /vr/ existed. Try to be less of a pretentious prick next time.

>That kid says he says the japanese version of Pokemon Yellow has some uncensored stuff about the GHOST from lavander town killing your pokemons and gutting them on screen
>I snag his Pokemon Yellow [being legit honest, it was the actual japanese version, probably an import]
>Go to lavander town, GHOST still works the same like in the localized version
>Call on his bullshit
>Gets mad and runs away

Party like its 1999

>>2548993
ok... that's like saying you could reproduce presley's sun sessions on modern hardware...

>>2548993
I wasn't giving you a history lesson... I was simply stating a fact as to quality. Retro games provided more content and replayability with a few megabytes than MOST modern games provide with gigs of data.

>>2548480
I might have been in you're class although I wasn't the kid who did that. Did he get locked out of school one day because they locked the doors after recess when he was hiding causing his parents to cause a huge stink and try to get Mrs. Gertner fired?

Had a distant cousin growing up who had everything because he was spoiled by his grandparents. Had both a PSX and N64 with the latest games. My brother and I being poor as dirt would be stoked when he'd invite us over.

Problem was, he never wanted to let me and my brother play anything, Constantly bitched if we suggested playing something other than WWF RAW IS WAR, which was a shitty game. I remember trying to play Pokemon and he threw a bitch fit saying I would ruin it. It got so bad, there was a point where I just stopped talking to him or acknowledging his existence.

Years later, he's a wigger piece of shit who thinks he's a legit thug. Has 6 kids by three different women and works at Walmart. Meanwhile, me and my brother play all the old games we want to now with stable marriages and overall decent lives.

Fuck you Glen.

>>2549163
kek...
>fuck you glen
I just rubbed one out on my massive justice boner. Thanks anon.

>I have this super computer but I can't show it to you, it's in repair because I spilled some cola on the keyboard

>be 1999 or something
>That kid spoke of the Nintendo 2000
>"It's a Nintendo + Playstation"
>"No really! It plays playstation games"

>mfw some time ago on /vr/ I realized his word was true

>>2549221
>be 12
>find that kid thread on /vr/
>be that kid

There was this stupid beaner kid who always watched mexican soap operas with his mom.
So anyway .... back in the 90s there was this super popular soap opera...popular among beaners that is, wich is pretty much like being the worlds tallest midget...
It was about this guy who won the lottery and would spend all his cash on stupid stuff and sleeping with random women here and there, wich of course got him into tons of trouble...

What the fuck does this shit have to do with /vr/ ?! Well, the stupid kid insisted that he owned a snes game based on the soap opera, and he would go on and on describing it in detail. I knew it was all bullshit, but in retrospect his imaginary game would have been actually pretty funny and cool.

It was a platformer where you play as the rich guy and the whole point was to run away from enemies and find a safe place to hide from them. The enemies included:

>Std ridden prostitutes
>lawyers suing you for sexual harrasment
>random women trying to pin their bastard children on you
>your wife suing for divorce and trying to get half of your money
>tons of other crazy shit

I've got a simple one:

That kid that submitted fake GameGenie codes to game magazines and they actually published them without checking.

>>2549369
There was this shitty website in the early 00s where you could submit passwords, codes and whatnot.
I submitted some REAL stuff, and then I got a mail from them telling me to stop sending fake stuff.

>mfw

>>2548340
you are the worst person

>anon did you know that you can glitch Ocarina of Time to have Mario as the main character? Also did you know that you can "glitch" it so that you can wear the masks from Majora's Mask and they unlock a secret final boss?

THAT'S NOT HOW GLITCHES WORK COLLIN YOU FUCKING IDIOT

>>2548594
Oh shit now that you mention it my whole crew used to press left/right in gen 1 when catching a pokemon according to the pokeball rolling left/right

The funny thing is i spread that rumor around myself and started to believe it after a while

Fucking Danny.
>Hey did you know there's a glitch in pokemon stadium 2 that can make your magnaton into a electric/fire type
Inb4 he gamesharked it.

>mfw that one kid who claimed you could fight a green ninja in Mortal Kombat if you did a bunch of stupidly obtuse shit
We beat his ass and left him on the train tracks. I heard he got flattened by a train, got what he deserved lol.

Peter, he was chinese so it was kind of justified when he said his uncle worked at Nintendo.
>claimed that the woman in SS Anne who wants cherry pie, if you give it to her, you get taken to an area where you battle Professor Oak and all his Pokemon are level 100 and if you beat him he gives you special Pokeballs that can store 6 Pokemon each so you can have 36 at once

Here is my "That Kid" story.

>Didn't grow up in America
>Most people pretty normal
>We all played games, hang out every weekend at each other's houses playing multiplayer
>One day some kid says they read in a games magazine (probably an Aprils Fool) there are secret unlockable characters in Street Fighter II
>All you have to do is perfect each round on the hardest setting
>We all agree it sounds like a decent challenge
>Spend a day trying to defeat game with perfects and have fun
>Whack on Action-Replay cheat cartridge and cheat our way to a perfect victory, nothing gets unlocked
>Everyone agrees it's bullshit, but many lolz were had
>No one gets bent out of shape about it


The End

P.S.

I remember getting Pokemon Red and Blue a couple of months before everyone I knew because I just happened across it on a holiday with my brother and we bought one each. By the time game had arrived in Europe and everyone was going batshit crazy over it we had pretty much worked out every glitch and exploitable bug in it.

When kids in my school started getting competitive with it I told them I had some special Pokemon no one could get. They called Bullshit on me, come back with my fucked up Pokemon Blue cartridge with a shit load of secret and bugged Pokemon, everyone's jaws drop. People paying me £10 per Mew and all I was doing was using a Game Genie to spawn them before people got hold of the codes (internet was not big then, if it didn't end up in a game magazine no one knew about it) and farming hundreds for transfer. Would even dupe rare candy or fight bugged pokemon with insane experience for cash. Made more cash doing that then selling weed to the rich kids in my school.

>>2549601
Props for trying though.

>Grade primary
>This chick who had a crush on me years later (and probably then) told me she had Pokemon Red and Blue on her computer
>Call bullshit
>She tells me she'll bring the floppy to school
>Wait a couple days
>Forgets it everyday
>Say fuck it and explore the internet for them
>Discover emulation

I don't know if she was being that kid or not, but regardless I wonder how things would've been different if I didn't play all those wonderful games from years past at that age.

>>2549783
I don't know why you would still expect that to have been a lie. I started using NO$GMB to play Japanese Gold in 1999.

>>2549783
>1999
>Mom just got DSL
>Back in the day when DSL was only 128k
>Discover emulation
>Rent PS1 games and play them on PC with a keyboard
>Play pokemon red
>Play for hours and hours
>Hit escape by accident and fuck like 16 hours of grinding.

>>2548336
>I swear, there is a porn code in Tomb Raider 2. We even saw a CG video where she is in a strip club and get fucked!

I was that kid who made up bullshit about video games. Who invited kids over so they could watch me play. I do own every console ever made, and my father does work at Nintendo. Saged and reported!

>>2549783

They definitely existed as roms back in the day.

I remember getting my first PC in the mid 1990s and one of the first things I did was download an emulator to play old Nintendo games. My first play through of Earthbound and Chrono Trigger were emulated because you couldn't get the cartridges in Europe, Pokemon too because it hadn't been released here.

Remember the Gameboy was 1980s hardware that had been going a good 5 or 6 years. So it had been emulated.

Though I doubt many primary school girls played emulated Pokemon, if someone showed her how to it's feasible. I frugal parent maybe, why buy that shit if you can teach your kid to get it for free.

>>2549814
same here, gb roms and bgb emulator could fit in a floppy

>>2549794
>>2549814

Its not that I expect it to be a lie, its that I knew this girl from grade school to high school and she never played games, she was a preppy cheerleader type. I she might've been making it up to get my attention, but it turned out to be an existing method of playing them. But like you said, one of her parents might've showed her it.

>>2548336
>Man I wish I had a gyarados
>oh haha I had one but I released it
>oh what? How'd you get it??
>Just used a water stone on magikarp :^)

>>2549795
Who didn't emulated pokemon at full screen in the late 90's?

>>2548336
>Find that kid
>3rd Grade
>Pokemon is huge at that time
>I am the current school champion
>Kid challenges me
>Threatens he has an item that permanently devolves your pokemon
>2scared
>Never fought him

>>2548340
Now do a double check at the autism unit in your special needs clinic lmao

I had a friend that would spend like 4 or 5 hours making characters on WWF N64 games. I would be sooo fucking bored. I loved those games though.

>>2550494
Who didn't emulate everything in the late 90's?

Seriously though how excited all my "peers" were when the Gameboy Player was launched and I'm just sitting there like "so you still have to pay for games...? Not interested"

>>2548336
This thread is not appropriate for /vr/

>>>/v/
>>>/b/

>>2550564
lol

>>2549783
I was thinking back on this story, and now that I think about it, it wasn't entirely how I got into emulation.

>Upset she never gave me the floppy
>Look on the internet for games to play
>Find a website with an 8 bit style megaman game (Pretty sure it was an official demo of some sort, maybe for a DOS megaman, not sure)
>Want to play megaman really bad because the demo was good
>Find the ROM for megaman 1
>Don't understand why running megaman1.nes isn't doing anything
>After a few days of searching (keep in mind I was 5) find Nesticle

Glorious days. I vaguely remember playing FF1 on super speed for a while because I turned it on by accident and thought that's just how the game was.

>>2550564
how is that kid relevant to /v/? or /b/? /b/ is more about porn and furry shit these days and /v/ is about modern games and you'd have to be one stupid shit to fall for any of that kid's lies in the modern age since a single google search can completely deconfirm anything he says.

>>2549885
Please tell me you asked her out.

>>2550591
And /vr/ is for retro games discussions. This thread is not a discussion about retro games.

>>2548535
>>2548510
>>2548554
>>2548608

As long as this or some kind of remix or spin on it is the main theme of the game i'll buy it regardless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXlEuxMDGLw

It's so cheesy yet I love it so much.

>>2550598
It's relevant given that it's about various myths and rumors spread by sniveling little shits back in the times when we didn't have much evidence to refute their lies.

>>2550595
I was into her best friend
and ended up fucking around with her next best friend in junior high

>mfw I was friends with that kid
>he was pretty cool except when he did "that kid" things
>he pulled the mk red ninja shit on me, obviously didn't believe it
>tfw few weeks later I traded him a shiny blastoise for pokemon red

Still have it today, do not feel bad at all about taking that pokemon red

>>2548558
I was like your friend. I never had a console with 3D graphics when I was a kid. A friend and I played older 2D games together, but I couldn't understand the controls or objective of a 3D game, so I just watched him play those. I remember his mom got mad because he was "hogging" the game, but I usually refused his offers to let me play.

>>2550608
>driving girl home from date one night
>had mp3 player plugged in to car stereo
>forgot I had this song on there
>waiting at the lights
>this song comes on
>slowly turn head towards her
>mfw

>>2550709
teamrocket/10
>>2550708
I did this too, but only with 1 player games. If it was two, I'd join in.

>>2548336
A kid used to invite me over all the time to watch him play 64 games.
At 9 o clock his brother always yelled that some soap opera would start and he would toss the controller on the floor and run to not miss anything.
I obviously wanted to take the chance and actually play then, but I had to be polite and sit with them to watch that mindless crap.
I don't actually remember why I kept going.

>>2548370
>some trying to create like a full encyclopaedia of every working password
We had a notebook full of every password and cheat code on our class.
Shit was so cash.

I was "that kid".

I brought my super scope and Battleclash to a friend's house, and made him watch me beat it without ever letting him touch it. When I was done, I left.
If I could go back in time, I would have let that little kid play the whole thing by himself.

>Probably around 11 or 12 years old
>Fat annoying kid constantly tells everyone about how he has a Sega Genesis
>It's the late 90's but he still thinks this is impressive
>He's kinda weird but I slowly befriended him
>He wants me to come over to his house for a little bit after school
>sure why not
>His house is huge
>It's neat and clean to the point of being creepy
>There are dozens of extra rooms that no one uses but no one is allowed to go into
>Everyone in his family is a nudist except him and one of this sisters
>He has like 12 siblings
>No one has a TV except him in his room
>His whole house is just naked people reading and eating quietly
>He only has a Sega Genesis and the only games he has are Sonic 1 and Ballz
>Ballz doesn't work
>We took turns playing Sonic for a few hours
>Barely talk to each other
>He kept getting up to go to the bathroom every ten minutes or so
>Every time he let me play he would get mad that I didn't find the "secret characters"
>He kicked me out around dinner time because he said his family had to go to Church
>Never went to his house again
>He moved a few months later

>>2550935
I can't believe you on this one, anon. Sorry.

>>2550935
>Big creepily clean house
>several rooms you aren't allowed to go into for no discernible reason.
>Family of nudists
You should have said nope and ran out right then and there.

>>2548336
I had a friend who used to have huge sleepovers where we would play video games all night and there was this one weird guy that would always go to them. I don't remember much about him but he would argue with himself in his sleep and he would get made when people overheard him. He also talked about the Inuyasha fanfiction he wrote where Kagome's dad was abusing her. He also had a really formal way of talking, like he was always at a business meeting or something. He probably has some kind of autism but I didn't know what that really was back then.

I'm impressed to say that "that kid" still exists today. There's this guy I used to work with who, among other things, claimed to have come from Camden, NJ, and saying he was 'legit'. He also mentioned that Treyarch, or Infinity Ward, or one of the CoD devs, used their military technology to use for the in-game missiles. As in the game missiles used the same program real missiles used. He also said that he had a friend whose cousin worked at Rockstar, and mentioned that there was DLC for GTA5 that puts real cars in the game.

Then my nephew, who is 9, says that Franklin's aunt is actually his mother, and that JB from one of the side missions is his dad. He also says that Niko Bellic (who was removed from the canon due to a dispute with his VA and RS) appears in GTA Online, and gives you missions. he does, however, say that Brucie appears in GTA Online, which is true, however, only in voice.

Not /vr/, but it's relevant to the thread, no?

Did this phenomenon die out in the 2000s? I am 20 and honestly never heard kids gossiping about video games, but then again I am a girl and we didn't discuss video games in elementary much anyway.

I have no experience with /vr/ relevant rumors however I have read of many. Like PokeGods, Yoshi in Pokemon RBY, Marty in Mario Kart, random characters in SSB 64, how to revive Aerith, etc

>>2550947
In hindsight it was probably some kind of cult. I remember him referring to is moms plural, and he was genuinely surprised when he learned from other kids that most people only have two parents.

>Be playing gen 1 Pokémon
>That one m8 told me to hold Left + A together
>To get a better catch rate.

>>2550963
It wasn't a problem back then. Now it's over inflated crud.

>>2550973
I'm 18, and I remember in school and daycare where there were still rumors, and the internet and YouTube kept those rumors going for a bit longer. But as the internet evolved those rumors died.

>>2550973
18 here,didn't grow up with various rumours (strength on the truck was one, but everyone kept saying it was for ruby/saph). Most we had was when we were 6 a kid gave another kid a pokemon card saying that "if you spin around 3 times while saying Galileo it'll become real."

The kid done it, when he was confused about nothing happening, he was told to try it at home the next day he complained about it not working

>>2550981
I still do that on instinct.

My group of friends in elementary school were great to hang around with in & outside of school because they were somewhat skilled gaming enthusiasts & they were always down to play but they had occasional lightweight "that kid" tendencies.

>I just got sequel to Michael Jackson's Moonwalker

>NEC stands for Nintendo Entertainment Center

>Protips to beat the ED-209 in the NES version of Robocop from my super duper Robocop enthusiast friend got me killed intead

>My friend outside of school said his friend at his school said that he turned in the 1st issue of Nintendo Power to Nintendo & he was awarded a Neo-Geo

>Robocop enthusiast friend also said he was playing the Robocop arcade game at the local pizza place & that he did a button combo, while Robocop was in front of a supposed Data East factory in-game, which made him do a funny dance which in turn unlocked the ability to play other Data East games

>>2550973
I would imagine it probably did decrease over time and yes, it probably has some to do with you being a woman. As a boy who was born in '88, I remember people talked about and played games all the time. Hell, on the playground some friends and I would often pretend to be various game characters.

When Super Mario 64 came out there was this kid who tried to sell $5 maps in the cafeteria that showed how to find secret levels. When people realized they were bullshit he just said that no one was good enough at the game to follow the maps right. One of my friends bought like five of them, and when he showed them to me they looked like completely undecipherable nonsense. Eventually he got in trouble and he wasn't allowed to sell them anymore, so he got mad and told people that because of that he wasn't going to tell anyone how to unlock Luigi.

>friend finally got gameshark for n64
>holy tits yes
>spend all day playing
>find new game and new code menu
>youre supposed to enter a string of numbers and letters that tell the gameshark what to do
>codes available in gameshark dictionary
>friend lies
>"you can enter any code and the gameshark makes it happen"
>this nigga must be dumb
>i tell him to prove it
>types in "enemies are bananas"
>nothing happens of course
>he says the manual said it takes 2 days
>gets nervous and suggests we eat a snack
>next day at school says it worked and all of the enemies are bananas
>moron

>>2550973
Who needs to do that when even kids under 10 have fucking smart phones these days.

>>2551026

Smart phones weren't a thing circa 2000 - 2007 plus not all kids have them or are constantly glued to the internet. Parents give their kids cellphones for safety reasons.

I am pretty sure kids still speak rumors. US adults still do it, though many rumors get debunked within a week.

>>2551030
Oh, well yeah. I was talking about nowadays. Like within the last 5 years or so.

>>2548336
>my name is
>test test

My personal That kid never lied about video games but when I was 11 and had no critical thinking skills SuperCheats.com was my jam.

>talk to Silver outside of Elm's lab 100 times and he'll give you the third starter Pokemon/100 Master Balls

>>2548336
That kid said his dad could jump over the flag pole in SMB 1...

>>2551047
I love when a "that kid" style cheat actually works, like checking Wesker's desk 50 time for the Rebecca photo in RE2 or the previously mentioned Hadouken in MMX.

I just realized something. "That Kid" usually told you about doing an arbitrary string of events in order to trigger something else in game, right? It's also true that many Japanese games also required you to do arbitrary things in order to gain access to secrets, or sometimes the item needed to win the game. Does that mean that 'That Kid' stories are actually from Japan?

>>2551073
I think Jesus Christ predated Japan tho

and Moses before him

Who was the original That Kid? We will never know

>>2551086
How old do you think Japan is?

>>2551086
>missing the point

I take it you never at least watched Game Center CX, have you? Some Famicom games require the player to do some obtuse things to actually progress the game. Even the original SMB did this with the "mazes". The game gave you no clear indicator on whether you chose the right route or not, aside from looping the stage again. The original Zelda requires you to do some random ass shit to actually progress. Legacy of the Wizard is nearly impossible unless you find this item, located in an arbitrary spot, and use this item again in another arbitrary spot. And do it again for every character you're given. Deadly Towers is literally a series of mazes.

>>2551107
I thought I read or heard or something that Tower of Druaga was designed so that people would discuss the game and by telling eachother secrets players would figure out how to progress. Maybe this mentality was present in other games? Like, no one person would figure out how to clear this game entirely on his own, but one guy would find the secret door in level one, tell his friends, one of them would tell his other friend outside of that group, and that friend would use that knowledge and eventually discover the secret door in level two on his own, share that knowledge, and so on and so forth?

Or were obtuse secrets just a way to help sell copies of guides or reflective of the developers' hate of the players?

>>2551125
Probably a mixture a both. What I meant to say is that "that kid" stories seem like they're based on a Japanese phenomenon, despite getting just a few of those cryptic games stateside. And Takeshi's Challenge is the king of cryptic bullshit.

I can't help but stare at the kid in OP's pic, like every fucking time I refresh the catalog.

It's just... that fucking stare, those pulled back lips, that whole fucking expression is worth a million words. I realize it's a pretty old pic but it's mesmerizing how genuine his annoyed, disappointed, unpleased face looks.

Like, you could probe his thoughts and you'll probably find stuff like:

>Nope.
>Really?
>No doing.
>Getting real tired of your bullshit.
>Nuh-uh.
>Not dealing with this.
>Yeah K.
>Not buying it.

If anything, that face represents your typical reaction to "That Kid", not himself.

I'll probably delete this post, just wanted to utter it out loud.

>>2551154
>"that kid" stories seem like they're based on a Japanese phenomenon,
I don't think lying is exclusively a Japanese pasttime.

>>2551158
No you idiot. I mean that the origin of "that kid" stories came to be because Japanese games required obtuse game design to be beaten, and it wouldn't be surprising if someone said something incorrectly by accident, basically hearing things from the grapevine. It'd made more sense if the majority of American games were based around obtuse puzzles, leading into this situation.

>>2551091
the country itself is only around a thousand years old

9th century AD IIRC

>>2548993
Why are you so mad? Is it because you had argument with another anon?

>>2551107
I'm not sure you understand what a joke is

>>2551032
>>2548668

>>2551174
The 9th century AD would be the middle of the Heian Period, when Japanese imperial power was at its peak.

If you want to get technical the country of Japan could be said to have come into existence at a number of points, depending on what you count as a new country. The current government of Japan could be said to have been founded after World War 2, but that system takes many of its institutions from the Meiji Government of the 1800's. Before that there was also the foundation of the Shogunal system by the Minamoto Clan in the 1100's, which essentially overthrew the existing government in all but name. A united Japanese government ruling over all of Japan first appeared around 700, but the dynasty that formed that government is much older. If you take the fact that Japan is technically still ruled by the same Imperial line into consideration, you could say that the Japanese state started existing well before any written history from Japan. The only record that exists of the era, the Nihon Shoki, puts the foundation of the Empire to 660 BCE.

And this is assuming that Japan exists only as a political entity, and not a geographical one. The islands of Japan have existed since well before humans even settled them.

>>2549393
when you get into speedrunning, glitching and romhacking, "that kid" stories don't seem too far fetched anymore.

>my gameshark can let me fight an arwing in Zelda
>dude, in super metroid, I can get a super var beam that resets the whole map so you can collect infinite items

etc...not saying your guy had anything right, but when you think about some of the crazy bugs in old games, nothing is too unreal.

>>2551261
I'd say the only break point that actually matters is the point at which Japan actually became a single unified country.

>>2551301
That is a decent break point, but saying it's the only one that matters is just asinine. You might as well say that the US didn't exist until we took Texas, because it wasn't the whole thing.

>>2550882
I had an old leather briefcase my parents gave me.

It had printouts of all of the awesome Mortal Kombat shit from back in the day.

Fanfics, FAQs for all ports of all of the games, printotus of Ed Boon's MKT NITRO gag, printouts of literally everything on The Limit's site, But most importantly his Pirate MK Products List...

It was lost in a flood but I had no issue whatsoever carrying that business-looking case to arcades and fucking shit up in UMK3.

>>2551050
Which is entirely possible even without a Game Genie. And when you did everything after the pipe was just an endless wasteland of nothingness.

>>2548365
>they were my babies, never let anyone touch them
>I let him see them

So...what made him so special that you broke your own rule? or your own story

>If you lose the battle against Lugia he takes the last pokemon on your team list forever.

I actually believed that one for a long while.

>>2549991
He should have put that magikarp in the daycare instead. My friend told me that if you did that when it was a certain level and then took it out at the right time, it evolved into Mew.