/vr/ - Retro Games

I've never known anyone like this IRL, to me it's purely an internet meme.

Not a nephew personally, but as an empath I can paint you a picture so you understand the mindset of a nephew better.

You've got low self esteem, for various reasons. Maybe you're smaller than all the other kids, or maybe you get made fun of for the way you run, maybe you have to wear LA gears while everyone else has Nikes, or maybe you're just fat.

Either way, you constantly feel pathetic and inferior among your peers. You may not acknowledge it (for fear of exacerbating the situation), but it cannot be ignored.

The only thing that seems to ease this feeling is if you can somehow elevate yourself above someone. Anyone. You don't have to be the most popular kid. You just need to not feel like the most worthless.

What seems like an easy path to social elevation? What if you had or knew something that nobody else had or knew? But what? What do these kids even care about? Shoes? No. You'd be expected to bring shoes to school. Clothes? Same thing. A tangible skill? That would require demonstration. A toy? Yeah. What kind? What's popular? Nintendo? Sega? Playstation? That's what everyone is talking about. Yeah. That's an easy white lie. Nobody can PROVE you don't have an uncle that works at Nintendo. And because Nintendo is like in Japan or somewhere far away, they can't even expect to ever MEET your uncle. Nice.

"Oh yeah? Well my uncle works for Nintendo and he let me play the new Super Mario Bros 4. Yeah, it's pretty cool. I think you guys will really like it when it comes out next year."

You know what's awful though? Trying this bullshit around a guy like me. Because not only am I an empath, but I'm also a sadist.

And now the pain begins, you little lying ass bitch. I see right in to the core of you and I will feed on your greatest fears. And when I'm done with you, I'm going to go find that kid with the Canadian girlfriend with DD tits.

>>5137467
Nice. The teen edge really makes this post pop

>>5137467
I really hope it was copypasta as those last two sentences are the cringiest thing i can remember reading. Writer either thought it was a funny ironic LARP or there was at least some modicum of sincerity with hyperbole, and both possibilities are simply awful.

>>5137412
I had a friend who claimed to have already beaten MM less than a day after it had come out. Another friend and I called him out on his bullshit demanding he take us to his house and show the save file. He was of course still on the first temple. He tried to claim he "accidentally" deleted the save and had to start over but we were having none of it.

Then there was this other kid, a friend of a friend, who kept claiming his mom worked for microsoft and he already had a copy of Halo 2 (this was in 2002). I met so many of these kinds of kids growing up. I don't know WHY they did it, but I do remember how most of them smelled.

>>5137467
what the fuck did I just read

>>5137412
Fuck are you talking about. This shit still exists today with all these Smash “leaks” and shit. People are just retarded and want to feel special by drawing attention.

Yay, yet another thread NOT about videogames, but some bullshit very remotely related to peoples experiences with other people! This is what a board about retro video games needs!

>>5137594
I guess I just figured near-universal easy Internet access would've put an end to that. I mean you can just google some shit in like 5 seconds to fact check some kid spouting bullshit like that.

People lie to get attention on an anonymous imageboard all the fucking time and they get nothing from it but a tiny dose of dopamine.

>>5137412
it was in 3rd and 4th grade after pokemon came out and that mother fucking mew in the truck thing, so many people at my school talked about and a few of them said they had so and so in their family working for nintendo. i think they were just circle jerking each other in hopes they could find a mew... only to find out you actually can glitch a mew and catch all 151 pokemon on one cartridge with the mew glitch. Aint that a bitch, holy fucking shit i would have loved for that to be a secret like misingno and the item dup trick. getting a mew as a kid would have been one of the most satisfying experiences in my adolescence!

>>5137501
>but I do remember how most of them smelled
why?

>>5137467
>maybe you have to wear LA gears
Fuck you, those were great shoes, even had lights and all

Fucking Thomas Carpenter, man. If Thomas Carpenter ever tells you his uncle works for Nintendo, don't believe him.

His dad really did have two lamborghinis though.

>>5137594
Xcmon now, those could have been kids make a wish foundation leaks and freebies. Douche, let him have that 1-Up.

When I was in the first grade or so, I had a friend whose dad worked at Pixar. I asked him how to get past the clam in Finding Nemo for the GBA. He told me his dad wasn't even close to being involved with the videogame.

>>5137467
>or maybe you're just fat.

Then eat less food tubby.

I think I remember that back in 5th grade a friend asked me (by way of a written note in class) if I'd heard of the 152nd Pokemon. Turned out he was talking about Missingno. That was the great thing about back then, the lack of easily accessible, reliable information combined with the mysterious nature of actual secrets (or glitches) in old games as well as the general gullibility and fantastical imagination of kids made it seem like all sorts of goofy shit was entirely possible.

As a kid I was sure that the screenshots on the back of the US Super Mario Bros. 3 box were in the game somewhere. I think one of my acquaintance's older sisters even told me that there was a World 0 or something in that game.

In my case, my dad cheated on my mom before I was even born, and then left her to raise me all by herself in some shitty apartment without paying a single dime.
My dad working for Playstation and giving me free games was just me trying to pretend my dad cared for me and that my family could afford videogames.

>>5137432
Dude, im from Brazil and even here ive heard from one or two of my childhood friends something like "my cousin works for the Playstation and he already have the Super Playstation".
I had one friend that brought to school one of those older floppy disk (the 5in one, i think) and told everybody that it was a game from his new console. kek

>>5137467
The Reddit spacing just finishes the fucking post. Holy shit this made my blood boil.

I knew a guy whose dad actually was a Nintendo Rep. He had tons of Not for Resale carts and eventually Gamecube Demo Discs since his dad was the one who had to go retrieve them from displays and replace them with newer product, Since most of it was to be sent off to be destroyed, unless it was super high security stuff like competition carts, Nintendo typically didn't care if one or two copies went missing. I actually managed to get a few Gamecube Demo Discs because of this, just by asking if he could get me a few.

Unlike the standard "my dad works at nintendo" kid, he was actually pretty cool.

>>5137467
I hereby award this the title of Best Post, Halloween 2018

Just look how many butts it already devastated and the chad poster's already long gone, asleep next to his hot girl in her torn-to-pieces sexy witch costume no doubt.

>>5137467
Best new ebin pasta 2018

>>5137501

I live in Washington State so one time when I kid said "my dad works at Microsoft" it turned out his dad DID work at Microsoft and he gave our family a free copy of Windows 98.

Real shit, it was fucking awesome.

>>5137953
> believing what anybody has to say on this board
> at any time
> on a board full of compulsive lying americans
yeah, great story. 0/10.

>>5137956

>implying all Americans lie
>remember I'm American
>remember that I lie all the fucking time

shit

I actually had an aunt who worked at Nintendo (I think in accounting and shipping/logistics).
No inside info given, she didn't really care all too much about video games.

Didn't get anything cool except a Nintendo mug that cracked in the microwave.

>>5137412
I was in class with someone like that, he was also on the last level of any game before anyone else was (remember him telling me that FFVIII's final boss was a business man wearing a turtle shell over himself). He later failed 7th grade. He got into many fights, including choking someone to the point where they passed out and he had to be sent to the bad boy school. He's been arrested a few times for assault, and was accused of raping someone. Last I heard, he was in a relationship with a minor.

>>5137467
If you just substitute "fictional video game stories from an uncle" for "redpills" in this pasta you suddenly understand the mind of the average /pol/tard. I think I just "woke" myself.

>>5137942
A friend of mine worked at the local Nintendo distributor and gave me a whole ton of GC demo discs and event Pokemon that were no longer being distributed.
Nothing SUPER amazing, and he had no insider info or anything, but it was cool.

>>5138018
>post has nothing to do with politics
>hey guys you remember /pol/ haha upvotes to the right fellow narwhals

You have to go back.

>>5138018
...yeah no, the two are not comparable. average /pol/tards might be cringy but their beliefs are based on evidence, not sheer fabrication

>>5138042
>>5138056
>t. SEETHING

>>5138056
>the bilderberg group is colluding with the jewish lizardman elite to stop us from recovering the holy jar that contains hitler's brain while alex jones helps hillary clinton kidnap little boys and keep them in a nazi sex dungeon underneath a popeye's chicken and biscuits in scranton, nj
>based on evidence

>>5138070
...what?

>>5138075
Exactly.

>>5138074
>le epic strawman
>a viable argument

>>5138080
>jewish alien lizardmen elites
>a sane or rational thought

>>5137467
lmao what the fuck is an empath this is some anime bullshit

The only lie I ever made was telling my schoolmates in first grade that my dad was a sciantist and he was able to make a baby dinosaur, like in jurassic park. I told them I had a baby triceratops at home.
It was actually more about me wanting that to be real, rather than wanting attention.
Never lied about vidya though. In fact, a lot of times I told some school mates that I had this or that new game, they thought I was lying, but I wasn't. Nothing particularly weird, I guess they just thought getting new games as often as I did was uncommon, which I guess it's true.

lol, get triggered and smash that report button

>>5138095
that's what happens here. especially with amerilards that get continually BTFO because they can't help but be disgusting compulsive liars. the sooner this board gets IDs and flags, we'll be finally able to get rid off same fagging faggots and ignore anyone from america. it'll be yuuuge.

>>5137432
This.
I literally heard about it for the first time on /vr/ when I've joined few years ago

>>5138086
>what the fuck is an empath
>this is some anime bullshit
You baiting or retarded for real?

>>5137432

Even my uncle lied about him having a friend that let him to play the "playstation 3" (when ps2 had just come out)

>>5137412
I don't work for nintendo but I do work for a recognized developer and I have a nephew, what will happen to him?, will he be punched to death?

>>5137412
I had a friend like this as a kid.
I moved away from my old town 12 years ago.
I went back and visited him 2 years ago and god damn not a thing changed aside from him being an adult with nice house and a good job.
While he may no longer "have an uncle that works for nintendo/whoever" he apparently has a plethora of other connections and knowledge so he says.
Some people are just pathological liars and it just makes you look even dumber as an adult.
You think some people would change.

The worst part wasn’t actually the kids who lied, it was when your friends fiercely believed it and you realized you hung out with retards.

>>5137412
I think a lot of it had to do with how little information and news you actually got about video games back then. People made shit up and imagined what was coming up in the future of games. I mean, it's only going to be a little while before a pre internet kid ran out of real facts about games and just made shit up to keep the gaming conversation going.

Also, this was the period before smart phones and ceaseless entertainment. As kids we got bored and sometimes made shit up just to see if people believed it. People still do this where I work, make up a rumor at one end of the factory and see if an accomplice hears the rumor at the other end of the factory.

To me thought, even as a kid, I just thought the person who's uncle worked for nintendo was desperately trying to fit in with their peers. We used to have to socialize and it was more difficult for some. Fellow autists on 4chan should be well aware of how easy it is to fail while trying to socialize.

>>5137807
>reddit spacing

>>5137807
Are you trying to one up his cringe by using the term reddit spacing to describe paragraphs? That kind of pseudo-irony is worse, at least his post is copypasta-worthy.

>>5138007
>likes nintendo
>never grows up
>autistic rage due to low self esteem
>childhood regression
>minor-kin so okay to have sex with minors
typical nintoddler

>>5137612
Bitch in the CRT threads or the Game Center CX threads.

>>5137412
>Me and my friend on the swings at the park
>Talking about how good FF7 is
>He says he has FF8
>Tell him I have Final Fantasy X
>He tells me he has Final Fantasy XI
>I say I have XII

All the way up to 20. It was a good laugh, though, I never actually expected anything past VII to come out. Now we have 15 and he shot himself in the head.

RIP Izzy, you were a true friend.

>>5137807