/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9642609
Once in high school I had to give a 30 minute presentation on any subject I wanted so I forced my class to listen to me talk about Herzog Zwei for 30 minutes

>>9642609
If i like a game too much I have a difficult time finishing it because I know it'll be over.
If a game is mediocre I'll finish it as fast as possible. Maybe for some hope the completed game will give some satisfaction, maybe just to get it over, I don't know.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

>>9642609
Somehow Oddworld Abe's Oddysee made its way into my house when I was probably about 10 and for the next 5 years I couldn't safely make my way around the house at night because I thought the sligs would shoot me

Yoshi's Story is how I learned about my shrinking/size comparison fetish. I was 5.

>>9642609
We used to have creative writing assignments for English class, and one time when I was in fifth grade, I submitted a fanfic of Sonic R as my story. My teacher then decided to read it out loud to the class. She didn't know what the fuck was going on and struggled while reading it out loud. I was so fucking embarrassed I remember wishing to just fall through the floor and die.

Natural Selection 2 was supposed to have a taser for the marines. In response I drew a picture of a Skulk having a taser stuck in its ass while its buzzing, with the main dev Flayra giving a retarded grin with a thumbs up next to it. This was posted in the forums and not even a month later they suddenly dropped the idea and years later I still saw some guy using the Flayra face as an avatar.

Anyway NS2 fucking sucked.

Several of my /vr/ games, peripherals and accessories are literally things that I or my older brother borrowed from friends and never gave back/they never bothered to ask for back. Off the top of my head, this includes FFVII (black label version with the misprint in the back), FFVIII, Chrono Cross (this was exchanged for MGS though, to be fair, and I didn't get that back) the N64 Expansion Pak, Conker's Bad Fur Day, a Dreamcast and Sanic Adventure 2 (these were my cousin's, and he's gone now RIP), and that's just scratching the surface. I swear I'm not black or named Jamal. Friends and acquaintances just kept lending these things out and I guess they'd forget and/or move on because who cares, they're just toys and shit.

>>9642925
Do you still have that fanart?

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>>9642945
I think everyone has stuff like this. I still use the GameCube controller I borrowed from a friend 15 years ago.

Shane, if you're out there, I'll never give it back. Also sorry about hearing your father died bro.

>>9642874
I have a similar story.

There was a creative writing assignment too when I was twelve and I wrote a FF8 fanfic. The teacher gave me a grade of 18/20 and she read it out loud.

All I remember is that it was about Laguna, Ward and Kiros, Ward had readen the map upside down so they got lost, fought a Chimera, and then eventually found their way to a castle with I think a wizard as boss.

>>9642609
My story is that I don't understand why this thread with that gif is still up but my funny one about games with dumb profile systems and surveys before the game starts got deleted

>>9642874
We had to make bingo cards in this one 4th grade project, and the topic for one of the squares was "Favorite Song." I said "It Doesn't Matter", the song from Sonic Adventure 1. Teacher read that out loud, started to get angry, and I had to resort to singing the fucking song out loud to get her to understand it was a title of a song, not a commentary on the project.

Soon got switched out from that teacher to a different one (not by my own choice).

>>9643060
>Shane, if you're out there

Jewanon here. As a kid playing Super Mario World, I would imagine that your score would be the amount of money the princess would pay you for saving her. You know, like a bounty system; the more enemies you kill, the more money you get.

Back when I was in 1st grade the first Mortal Kombat came out on Genesis and I would play it all the time at a neighbors house. Anyways I was drawing Sub-Zeros finisher in school where he pulls the head off his opponent with spine still intact and blood spewing out etc etc. Teacher saw this and I ended up going to talk to a person in the main office where they asked me about my home life, if I'm happy, what are my feelings about this subject etc etc. Didn't think much of it at the time but looking back I'm pretty sure they knew nothing of Mortal Kombat and figured I might just be disturbed in the head.

>>9643217
This was a big deal for a while because back when the game industry was still relatively compartmentalized adults knew of video games as a thing that existed but had no specific knowledge. So it was like speaking a different language. My parents found Tifa porn on the computer and instead of having "the talk" like they would have had they found a Playboy, they just kinda pretended I was normal and that it would hopefully blow over.

I sure showed them.

One day when I was playing Tekken Tag Tournament my friend kept spamming Eddie breakdancing and pissed me off to the point I started swinging my controller around above my head like a helicopter and cracked him in the face with it

>>9642670
>high school
>30 minute presentation
no, it would take like a month for the entire class to do their presentations

>>9643514
Maybe the presentation wasn't compulsory for everyone? He said he had to do it, but maybe it was as a penalty for misbehaviour, or to get a better grade?

>>9643514
We did 15-20 minutes presentations in highschool too; and it took almost the entire year. Usually it was just one person per week at the end of a lesson.

>>9642609
I used to install a lot of stuff on Counter Strike back then, in a time where connection with the world was far away from my reach. After setting up a particular mod, I booted up the game, bots enabled. Some minutes into gameplay, then a 'player' spoke in the chat. Startled me on spot, but I was partway excited, too. I proceeded to inquire that individual... But no direct answers I got. Then the realization came. I still feel so pathetic for it... But I grew very fond of bots in games from that day on.

>>9643514
>>9643551
>>9643514
>>9643551
Where are you guys from? In my highschool days, students had regular presentations on determined subjects. A buddy of mine and I made a hour long or so one about arthropods and we still felt the need to rush near the end

>>9643514
>>9643550
I went to a focus school with small classes. The presentations were spread out over a couple of weeks. We also had compulsory participation in national competitions for either science or history (we chose the topic alongside the teachers) that we worked on all year, and I think this was supposed to be practice for doing long presentations, which is why the topic could be on absolutely anything

>>9643054
lel

I'm sure there were some spaghetti-losing situations among me and my cohort but I think I've blocked them all from memory. I remember a friend accidentally informing the entire class about his Golden Sun fanfiction but that's about it.

In 2nd grade, my teacher had every student write a story, so I wrote about the jellybean-eating blob from A Boy and His Blob. It lived on a planet with the rest of its species and ate jellybeans. I also put the egg things from Snake Rattle 'n Roll in there.

I wasn't a creative child.

I don't know if it's a story so much as a nostalgia thing but some of my earliest memories are of playing SMB 1, 3, and Battletoads with my dad. We used to get stomped by Turbo Tunnel but I'll always remember when my dad finally aced it, was mind blowing to me. Before my little brother was born it was a mix of that and watching him and my mom play 2 player on SMB 1, they were both great at it.
After that my best gaming memories are of playing multiplayer with my little bro, then Crash Team Racing came out and we racked a bunch of hours playing 4 player on that, truly a golden era. Later on me, my brother and my dad got REAL autiatic about the target flying minigame in Super Monkey Ball.
That's what it's all about bros. I don't get where all the vicious cynicism comes from, I had always assumed the people that liked retro games would understand the heart of the experience and what made it fun in the first place. Like I fundamentally don't get HATING a console for instance. I was so out of the loop in the mid 90s that when my friend down the road said he got a Playstation for Christmas I thought he was referring to some sick playground setup in his backyard. I disn't know 3D gaming was a thing until I went to my cousin's birthday and he had an N64 set up in the living room, blew my mind. He showed me Starfox, Banjo Kazooie and Mario 64 and it hit me like the spaxe baby scene at the end of 2001 Space Oddyssey.
I ended up getting a PS1 before an N64, and was somewhat sad at first but then I played Spyro and Croc and it just was magical shit man, like it saddens me that I don't think future generations will feel anything like that. Eventually got an N64 maybe a year later and it was just as cool. We had no concept of x amount of good or bad games for a console, it was just two different extremely cool things that both brought me a ton of mirth and good memories.
Tldr play games with people you love and stop being a cynic anons, don't miss the point of the whole thing.

>>9642609
I also had a creative writing class back in middle school. It was framed like an exam where we were given an hour and a list of prompts off which to launch our story, the one I chose was "The ship is going down!"
So naturally I turned it into a Star Wars fanfic since I'd be playing a shit ton of Republic Commando at the time. I stole characters, descriptions, and probably even plot points from the game. I remember my teacher's face as she was reading it, just absolute confusion. I think there was a moment she realised it was Star Wars and then just went "Oh" and gave me a middling mark.
I felt pretty disappointed because I'm actually an okay writer when I don't completely sperg out. I think I even did a Star Wars performance for drama class too. I wish I could go back and stop myself.

Almost got a free copy of Nintendo World Champs 1990. Was at a retro game expo in like 2000/2001 and they had a NWC cart there that they used to hold a high score tournament and the winner got the cart. Came in 3rd place which wasn't too bad considering i never played Rad Racer before then and between the preliminarys and finals with last 5 i went over and bought a copy of it cause i liked it. Despite not winning, was cool to get to play the original cart in an actual competition and hell i won a full year of free rentals from hollywood video.

>>9642874
I ripped off the plot of earthbound for a writing assignment.

>>9642832
>anon creeping around his house at night scared of sligs at age 15 while Kevin down the street was sneaking into Becky's house to lose his virginity

>>9643506
That's the least Eddie players deserve

>>9644487
You're doing it again

>>9642670
I'd like to listen to your presentation...

>>9644253
>Tldr play games with people you love and stop being a cynic anons, don't miss the point of the whole thing.
Great advice!

>>9642874
teachers are awful people

>>9642609
no

>>9643506
fake, but still the funniest story itt

>>9647808
I’m not him but what about that sounds fake

>>9645720
What are you, 15?

I got a disc containing MAME32 and hundreds of ROMs from a guy at a computer store. I took it to school and we all played Asteroids 2 with no sound on a keyboard during electricity class. We really got into the game and kept track of high scores for a week until the girls ratted on us.

Had a friend in 4th and 5th grade that kept drawing Mr. Saturns from Earthbound, but she kept calling them "toilet dwellers". Our friend group thought they were the funniest shit so we kept drawing comics of them fighting off the "bathtub bunnies" which were just ugly rabbits.
Eventually she told me that the toilet dwellers were Mr. Saturn from Earthbound and told me to play it. I went online, discovered emulation, but ended up getting the NES Earthbound prototype instead because she didn't say it was for SNES and I didn't know any better. Still had fun playing it though.
Also I was the only one with a Genesis and a copy of Primal Rage so a bunch of kids came to my house after school one day to see the uncensored full bloody Primal Rage, but none of us could pull off the fatalities, so no monkey death piss finishers for us.

>>9645720
They can be. Most of my teachers in grade school were babysitters + 2 years of teacher's college, and priests. They didn't know what the fuck they were doing.

>>9642609
Some niggers tried to beat me up for my tokens at an arcade while i was waiting to play Mortal Kombat 3. Mall security got them though.

>>9642609
I made friends with a kid and hung out with him basically just for his Super Nintendo. He hated me, but despite this we sort of bonded for a little while til we fell out in middle school.

>>9647834
you mean Deluxe...? Blasteroids? Set 2? There is no "Asteroids 2"

>grade 4
>bring gb and gameshark to school
>have a sheet of a million cheat codes
>"can I try it anon?"
>"okay"
>kid deletes his own game save somehow
>in tears
>kek

>>9649110
It was Asteroids Deluxe. The one with the blue asteroids.

>>9649632
Figured, thank you for satisfying my autism.

>5
>can sort of read but have terrible comprehension
>recently playing through LttP after watching my older cousin play it
>just beat aghanim, still really excited about it
>go to kindergarten and the teacher asks us what we did on the weekend
>only remember part of the story up to that point involved wise men
>proudly announced that I killed a wise man as the teacher looks horrified

>>9643060
I've got a copy of Mario Party Advance from a kid i used to be friends with. We didn't even end on bad terms or move away, we simply quit hanging out. He only lived a couple blocks away from me so i guess he didn't care about the game fitting, it's not very good

One time I had a friend stay over at my house when we were in Middle School. The day he was to be picked up he wanted to ride my four wheeler around the yard, so that was cool. I stayed inside and jerked off to Tomb raider on my PC that I had the "Nude raider" mod installed on. Post nut clarity was weird that day.

>>9649793
i always like jankin off when my friends are over.

>>9649091
>Waiting to PAY to play a FAKE version of fighting
>Helpful people come around and challege you to REAL fighting for FREE
>Ungrateful fool rats them to mall security

>>9647825
Embarrassing post.

one time my high school crush mentioned Battletoads in a way that suggested she liked Battletoads, despite being a pretty girl
LATER, I continued to not confess my feelings and eventually she would marry some dude and have two kids
he seems cool though and she never got fat and still seems to be awesome so I guess it's okay

>>9644678
Is that supposed to make him feel regret or jealousy something? Anyone who's having sex before they're 18 is an irresponsible moron anyway. I don't envy anyone who lost their virginity at fucking 15.

My cousin is the most stereotypical autist ever. Obsessed with Sonic, socially retarded, and he's a troon now.

When we were kids, he would always want to borrow something of ours whenever he visited, and only learned it was wrong from listening to the lyrics of Live and Learn.

>>9643086
because your thread was shit and you're delusional about yourself

>>9642609
>be me in 8th grade
>the console wars are in full swing
>some autistic (they didn't diagnose this stuff at the time but he was 100%) 6th grade kid will not shut up about nintendo
>not just the usual "nintendo is better" but every conversation, no matter how flimsy the premise, becomes about nintendo or its mascots
>once told a bully "if donkey kong was here he would beat you up!"
>after months he comes up with GAYSTATION
>starts constantly saying it
>own a playstation and he starts trying to yell it at me across the gym during shared PE
>after a couple days this has worn out it's welcome
>he is also the only person who insists on using the showers after gym, every day, no matter what
>a plan formulates
>like clockwork he goes to the locker room before everyone else to shower
>follow him in
>he is literally humming the super mario bros theme, this is too much
>so far into his autism zone that he does not notice me enter the shower
>grab one of the disposable bar soaps they provide and sneak up on him
>start rubbing it on his back
>nintendnerd jumps like a scared cat and tries to scream
>grab him and put a hand over his mouth
>start raspy talking shit in his ear
>"what happened to gaystation?"
>still rubbing soap on him, move to his chest and start rubbing it on his nipples
>kid has zero muscle and is soft as a fresh bedsheet
>notice he is getting a hardon
>start getting hard too
>no ruler handy but his dick was small, probably half the size of mine and im not tommy salami
>flick his hardon
>this makes him try to jump back, basically wraps his ass around my dick
>pin him up against the back wall and start rubbing soap down his back
>at this point he is starting to cry but still hard
>without really trying the head of my dick is parked right on his asshole, feel it start to twitch when my hand gets down to his ass
>there is a little bit of penetration but not even my full head
(cont)

>>9653026
>realize this is going to turn into full on rape
>pull back and let it rest between his cheeks
>let his mouth go
>he is kind of hyper-sobbing
>"say gaystation again bitch"
>calling him bitch gets me rock hard again
>he cant even talk
>start rubbing my dick against his asshole
>"say gaystation or im going to fucking rape you faggot"
>"gg-gg-gay station!!!"
>hear outer locker room doors opening
>people returning from gym
>turn water cold to kill my boner, leave him there and get dressed like nothing happened
>never see him again
>hear people saying he was having a retard breakdown and wouldn't leave the showers until his mom picked him up
We all lost something in the console wars. He lost his anal virginity. I lost a bit of my innocence, I guess.

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>>9642874
I had the same thing. I remember doing ones about Sonic, Pokémon, Yugoh and even Halo.

From what I can recall:
>Sonic
Basically had a long story copying Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, made a lot of mentions to Chili Dogs
>Halo
Copied the introduction of Halo 2
>Yugioh
Made up a duel between Kaiba and Yugi which I then crossed out because the teacher said you couldn't use cartoons as a base only for me to use Pokémon instead lol
>Pokemon
Above

>>9643103
Reminds me when I got into an argument during a game we used to play where a word would be put on the board and you'd have to find words within the word and whoever got the most would win. I had "Mart" as a word and the teacher didn't believe it was real, when she asked me where I saw the word "Mart" used, I said Pokemon and she immediately dismissed it.

Looking back I should've just walked up to a dictionary and fucking a description of it.

>>9643054
hehe very nice

>watch my dad play vandal hearts 2 when I was 5
>just like when he reads books out loud, he does all the voices
>had a great time and fell in love with srpgs
>he watched me play disgaea a while ago
>this time, I did all the voices
>great time was had by all
>greentext

>watch older cousin play LttP
>he was college age while i was 4
>totally obsessed with watching him play
>would make grilled cheese and cut it into the shape of the Triforce
>still talks about Zelda to me on the rare occasion i see him

Funny thing is this guy is jock incarnate.

>>9644678
>giving me shit
That's fair, something about that game affected me for a long time in a way nothing else did

>>9643506
>you get what you fucking deserve.jpg

>>9653026
>>9653041
Sonygger shares his gay fantasies, it really is the gaystation