/vr/ - Retro Games

>some bike appears at our house (probably brother's friend's)
>bike is too large for me, try it anyways
>speeding down our street
>wipe out near dumpsters
>asphalt scrapes on arms, handle bar end assaults abdomen
>blood and more blood
>neighbors ask if I'm okay and stuff, get my shit patched up
>go play Tetris on NES

I had this babysitter named Lisa when I was a little guy, she would watch my brother and I, take us to the park, put on some of our favorite morning TV shows, made us these peanut butter, raisin, and celery snacks she called ants on a log, and would let us play her NES, I remember BattleToads, and Trog! specifically.

Would be nice knowing what ever became of her. I'm sure she dropped us because my parents were awful, either that or she had some awful habits I never noticed. That always seems to be the way with my family.

>>3774230
I was at a friend's once, playing through super mario world, spent the last couple days of that summer at his house and enjoyed every moment.

>>3774329
That's a shame. Trog is great though, wish more people played it.

>parents don't get along, mainly because dad is pretty lazy
>mom goes somewhere one day and leaves dad with a list of shit to do
>instead me, him, and my younger brother play Golden Axe 2 all day
>he makes us bologna sandwiches and we drink pepsi
>mom comes home and finds minimal work done and she flips shit

Now my mother's wrath and the taste of bologna and pepsi are forever associated with Golden Axe 2

>>3774230
I had a cracked copy of quake back in the day and played it a lot.

For some reason I had an Eagles cd in the tray, hell freezes over, and never bothered to take it out.

Every time I hear thsme eagles now I think about shooting shamble's or dodging grenades and shotgunning knights.

>>3774356
>having a father
REEEEEEEEE

>>3774360
>and love will keep is alive
>loading screen done. Console rolls up.
>hissssss. Urgh urgh. Ssssss

>>3774364
>using REEE meme
anon don't dish it out like that unless you have a better response.

>>3774230
Trying to finish all the characters' route in Gunbird 2.
9/11 happens.
Just... hell.

>>3774230
Sometimes I think of Minecraft when I listen to Van Halen because I was really into Van Halen when I started playing it.

Space Ace on the SNES with these really sickly cheap fruit flavoured chewing gums my sister's friend had.

>>3774360
I did something similar with Monkey Island CD ROM (not pirate) and Simply Red Greatest Hits. Now those songs always bring to mind the game.

>>3774230
My older brother and I used to share a bedroom. We had a TV and a Playstation, and I used to play Final Fantasy Tactics a ton, put over 100 hours on a single save file. He used to do homework and put on music, and then he'd go out with friends but just leave the stereo playing music when he left. I was usually too lazy to get up and turn off the music, so I would just listen to and enjoy the albums he'd play while grinding out my character's job levels.

Now I will forever associate Final Fantasy Tactics with late 90s popular music like Third Eye Blind, Ben Folds Five, Fountains of Wayne, Blink 182, etc.

>>3774341
We fucking get it. Stop Trog-posting in every thread, caveman-kun.

>>3774240
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27846-tetris-blocks-traumatic-flashbacks-even-after-the-memory-is-fixed/

>>3777550
I'll be damned, interesting

Primal Rage/Virtua Fighter 2/Mortal Kombat 3
>the old arcade near my house that eventually became a UFC gym
Metal Gear Solid
>cold and rainy "el niño" weather
Sim City 2000
>Loveline with Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew
GTA 3
>after working night shift at UPS

This is on topic but retro gaming youtubers arent?

>mom is terminally ill
>dad & grandparents visiting her on a weeknight
>stay up playing Actraiser II
>not as good a first and hard as fuck but stay up playing it
>getting later and later, better and better.
>get to Boss Rush before final
>Dad comes home
>"Time to go say goodbye"
>shut game off and never play it again.

Back in the day the town I grew up in was hit with a blizzard that closed our school for a couple days. On those days I would wade through the snow to the room above my garage, wrap up in a blanket (since there was no heat up there) and play ToeJam & Earl 2. I always think of this game whenever I'm snowed up inside my house.

>>3778615
I am sorry for your loss Anon

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

>Playing Rhapsody a musical adventure
>At the final dungeon but I dont want to wake anyone up so I mute the game and fire up my computer and go to youtube
>Play the super robot wars alpha version of Burning love from Beast machine Dancouga
>Music gets me super hype as I storm the castle to go save the prince utterly crush the opposition (Rhapsody is a very easy game)
>So hyped that when the last two boss fights start I play the proper vocal version
>end up feeling so triumphant after the win that the whole of the final dungeon and final boss fights are now eternally tied to Burning love in my head

>1999
>I'm nine years old
>Reading some game magazine that has an article about FFVIII
>It wasn't out in the EU yet so they'd been playing the Jap version
>Shows a screencap from the start with Squall in the hospital bed
>Caption reads: I don't speak Japanese so I accidentally got a vasectomy
>Have no idea what a vasectomy is I think this is hilarious
>Show it to my dad
>''Show this to your mother.''
>Bring it to my mam
>She sits me down and starts explaining what sperm is
>She doesn't tell me what sperm is used for or how it relates to a vasectomy, just that there's little things that swim around in my balls
>Leave the room confused as fuck
>Only years later do I figure out what happened