Stupid things you did/believed as a kid

[Anonymous No.1787482]

Haven't seen one of those threads in a while.

>named the rival in Pokemon G/S/C '???'
>generally believed a lot of Pokemon rumors, especially the "Mew under the truck" and "press down and B at the same time to increase the chance to catch a Pokemon with a Pokeball" rumor

Also in racing games like MK64, Diddy Kong Racing or F-Zero X I used to lean in the direction I was driving, I don't know if I believed that it would help or if it was some kind of quirk. Probably the latter.

[Anonymous No.1787492]

>named the rival in Pokemon G/S/C '???'

Fuck, I did that too. The police man asked what name his name was, and I was like "well, it said ???" so I just put that in.

[Anonymous No.1787493]

>If you mash special/attack with the Pkunk it raises your respawn rate.

[Anonymous No.1787495]

>pidgey evolves into ho-oh

[Anonymous No.1787502]

>>1787482
>named the rival in Pokemon G/S/C '???'
God dammit. I did this every time I played until I replayed before the remakes.
I felt like a fucking idiot.

But we were just telling the police officer what the guy said. We weren't dumb, just goody-goody faggots.

[Anonymous No.1787504]

>press Up+A when the Pokeball hits to increase catch rate

I caught Ho-Oh with one Pokeball when I did this and I was certain it worked.

[Anonymous No.1787512]

>>1787482
You wouldn't believe how much time I spent around that truck, trying to find where that damn mew was.

[Anonymous No.1787515]

>not native english speaker
>5 yo playing ninja gaiden
>thought the name of boss was "Enemy"

[Anonymous No.1787521]

>>1787482
I did that shit too, man. I did that shit in every subsequent play-through of the original games and Soul Silver even after I found out, because it was so funny looking back on it. It's a tradition at this point among my friends.

That B+Down thing wasn't exactly just a rumor, more so straight up false information in one of the official English guides or some other pokemon publication.

[Anonymous No.1787525]

I used to pretend the buttons on the Gameboy were pressure sensitive, would press the fuck out of the A button when trying to catch Pokemon.

Also used to think glitches could fuck
your game and console permanently.

[Anonymous No.1787526]

>>1787521
>I suggest using it on a Pokemon you want to add to your team but are hard to catch, like a Fearow or Tentacruel!

Shit I remember that, golden advice right there.

[Anonymous No.1787534]

When I was about 8 or 9 I had a friend actually convince me that Majora had seven other forms if you beat him in a specific way. Only one I remember was some Octopus form called "Majora's Eight-legged Wrath".

[Anonymous No.1787547]

>>1787482
I can only remember believing holding down down and B when throwing a Pokeball and that's only because I still do it today out of habit.

[Anonymous No.1787548]

My asshole friend somehow convinced that his xbox version of Morrowind was superior, because apparently it had multiplayer and the PC version didn't. I was so jealous.

[Anonymous No.1787573]

It was down+B with a great ball. And it did work 100% on all non-legendaries

[Anonymous No.1787632]

>>1787547
In Red/Blue/Yellow it actually had the effect of influencing the catch-rate RNG, albeit requiring frame-perfect timing to perform.
Not true beyond Gen 1 however.

[Anonymous No.1787818]

>>1787632
Gonna need a source on that, buddy.

[Anonymous No.1787827]

>>1787573
>It was down+B

This was in Nintendo Power.

Regardless of its effectiveness, it makes sense that people believed it.

[Anonymous No.1787832]

I believed you could fight Sapphire Weapon in the PC version of FF7 in the snowy area.

[Anonymous No.1787839]

>>1787818
http://tasvideos.org/GameResources/GBx/Pokemon.html

[Anonymous No.1787850]

Friend told me there was a 5th e tank/heart tank/something if you beat the armadillo guy with ice/fire/somethign else comboing through the weapons.

[Anonymous No.1787867]

>>1787839
Wow. Thanks. This is news to me.

[Anonymous No.1788026]

>>1787482
>"press down and B at the same time to increase the chance to catch a Pokemon with a Pokeball"

But this works.

[Anonymous No.1788076]

All these years, I thought it was UP and B. That was the myth that went around my school.

[Anonymous No.1788315]

>>1788076
Well, you were just as right as the rest of us

[Anonymous No.1788334]

Somebody told me that if you beat the snake game, then you get free phone calls from that phone.

[Anonymous No.1788454]

Aside from all of those Pokemon "secrets"(Yoshi, Pikablu, the truck, B + Down, Mewthree, etc.) I believed that:
CG cut-scenes represented the "power" of a system
that 3D games would all be Doom-like FPS
that Final Fantasy IV, V, and VI were the game boy games, that Mega Man X was the 10th Mega Man game, and that Super Mario 64 was the 64th Mario game
that the red line on some SNES carts meant that the game was "good" and purple lines meant "not as good"
that Sonic games were about running really fast and were thus really cinematic and amazing
that Crash Bandacoot was the official mascot of Sony and that Sony would never reach the same level of popularity as Sega and Nintendo.

[Anonymous No.1788474]

>>1787482
>in racing games I used to lean in the direction I was driving

yeah it's called being a child you get into the shit you're playing

[Anonymous No.1788478]

you retarded faggot fucks it's not Down+B you're supposed to rapidly press A

[Anonymous No.1788778]

>>1788478
>>1788076
>>1787827
>>1787573
>>1787547
>>1787504
>mfw never pressed anything

[Anonymous No.1788838]

I mashed all the buttons and the dpad while trying to catch something.

I still do.

[Anonymous No.1788946]

>>1787521
OH MY GOD THIS MAKES ME KIND OF MAD.

Is this a prank? Please? I want to fucking smack this person for some of this dumb shit.

[Anonymous No.1788967]

>>1788474
Not OP, but I still do that now at age 22, especially for Ridge Racer.
>>1788946
I own that guide, it's real and fucking serious.

[Anonymous No.1789409]

>>1788454
>that Crash Bandacoot was the official mascot of Sony

w-wasn't he???

[Anonymous No.1789425]

>>1789409
Sony didn't have a real mascot.
Crash was made by Naughty Dog primarily.

[Anonymous No.1789428]

>>1787515

[Anonymous No.1789434]

>>1787482
>lean in the direction I was driving,
this plus jerking up on the controller when jumping in platformers

[Anonymous No.1789436]

>>1789434
oh, and leaning in the direction of the jump as if that would help jump farther. it was all involuntary responses. I knew damn well it didn't actually do anything.

[Anonymous No.1789441]

>>1787502
This.
I think it's funny how Game Freak altered the first meeting of your rival. This 'oh now you saw my name, right?'. They knew how fucking stupid we were.

[Anonymous No.1789596]

I spent a long time trying to unlock Raichu and the angry Kirby face in Super Smash Bros. How did these rumors even start?

[Anonymous No.1789621]

>>1789596
My friend convinced me that Wario could be unlocked by beating Very Hard as Mario or Luigi 5 consecutive times, resetting the console after each time. I believed him because he knew how to unlock Ness and that blew my mind.

[Anonymous No.1789629]

In spyro 2 I'd always charge at the apex at of every jump because I thought it made you jump higher

It fucking blew my mind when I found out it actually did

[Anonymous No.1789643]

I always leaned into turns while racing too
I stopped doing it when I was playing MKwii and fuck up my Wiiwheel by falling off the chair tossing it into the radiator
Shit sucks because other than the burn marks it's absolutely pristine

[Anonymous No.1789650]

>>1789409
no, just iconic.

[Anonymous No.1789657]

>>1789409
>>1789425
>>1789650
Sony's Japanese mascot is Toro, I don't know why they didn't decide to bring him to the west, but they still fucked up by not acquiring Crash

[Anonymous No.1789671]

>>1789643
>fuck up my Wiiwheel by falling off the chair tossing it into the radiator
hilarious

[Anonymous No.1789773]

>>1787482
>named the rival in Pokemon G/S/C '???'
Goddamnit, I did that.

In Paper Mario, I actually told Bowser Mario's weaknesses or whatever, too (It's the part where you can choose things to show up in Shy Guy's Toybox). I saw the options like "Mushroom" and "Soda", but my only thought was that those could obviously never be things Mario hates. So instead, I gave the names to whatever enemies sounded stronger.

[Anonymous No.1789815]

When I was a kid you had to hold down a and repeatedly press down to catch Pokemon better.

I also thought that Ness in Smash N64 was supposed to be Red from Pokemon, that Samus was Captain Falcon's girlfriend, and that Fox was their pet.

[Anonymous No.1789818]

>>1787534
If that kids name was Caleb, then I'm sorry...

[Anonymous No.1789836]

>>1787521
>Surf to SS ANNE
>Fly to BILL'S BACKYARD
I love how the two biggest rumours from my school were started from the very same page right next to eachother.

[Anonymous No.1789843]

>>1789815
I also thought that Master Hand from Smash Bros was the main character from Glover (for a while I also thought he Nintendo's mascot because of him being the boss of their team-up fighting game).
Didn't learn that Glover was a third party multiplat game, or that the master hand represented the little kid who was playing with the Nintendo toys until I got to high school.

[Anonymous No.1789870]

>>1789843
>I also thought that Master Hand from Smash Bros was the main character from Glover

You're not alone.

[Anonymous No.1789898]

>>1787521
...
Wow...
Just... nothing works that way.

[Anonymous No.1790043]

You could get Scorpion to say things like "Get the fuck over here" in Mortal Kombat 3 with a code.

I wasted a lot of time trying to get it to work.

[Anonymous No.1790092]

When i finally achieved an S rank in RE2, i assumed every RE game that had ranks had an S rank. Oh boy having no internet back then was something, at least i'm stupidly good at the games now.

[Anonymous No.1790140]

>>1789815
>I also thought that Ness in Smash N64 was supposed to be Red from Pokemon, that Samus was Captain Falcon's girlfriend, and that Fox was their pet.
How the fuck

[Anonymous No.1790231]

>>1790092
If I remember correctly, the S ranks were still present in the JP games, but were all lowered one rank letter in the other US titles.

[Anonymous No.1791398]

>>1787482
Shit. I did that all the time and never realized it until this thread. Now I feel like I've been played for a fool.

[Anonymous No.1791446]

I thought pressing buttons harder made the attacks stronger.

[Anonymous No.1791467]

>>1791446
I thought they affected crits, didn't realize that praying buttons did fuck all till R/S/E

[Calvin Adams No.1792356]

>>1787482
You could unlock nude Lara in Tomb Raider 3.

[Anonymous No.1792372]

>pokemon red
>lose all my money by spending it in stupid things
>don't have enough money to enter safari zone
>can't get HM surf
>can't proceed in game
>forever stuck

I had to reset my game, goddammit.

[Anonymous No.1792405]

>>1792372
You actually didn't really need to reset, you know. You could have battled some trainers, sold some of the stupid shit you bought, or found a person with a copy of Blue and traded for a Meowth so you could use Payday on everything you encounter.
Meowth/Persian is my bro to this day. I always have a subgoal of maxing my wallet.

[Anonymous No.1792410]

>>1792372
The same thing happened to me when I was little, except I was stupid and spent all my money in the Game Corner.

I think this was the main reason why the VS Seeker was introduced in the remakes.

[Anonymous No.1792417]

>>1792405
>>1792410
My stupidity also was that which I didn't heal a single time at a Pokemon Center until I figured out that the "wall between them" was a desk at Cinnabar Island.

[Anonymous No.1792425]

>>1787521
>Raichu evolves -into- Pichu

[Anonymous No.1792429]

>>1792417
Kek

[Anonymous No.1792437]

>>1792425
That fucking guide, I can't even figure out how it got published.

GSC's guides weren't excellent either, though better than that. I remember owning one I got as a gift, halfway through it literally gave up and stopped listing Pokemon locations. They even copypasted the wrong information into gym leader strategies.

[Anonymous No.1792526]

>>1787493
Is that a fucking hqnx scale of the UQM art?

[Anonymous No.1792793]

I thought Koffing was the moon and the gas that came out of him was parmesan cheese.

[Anonymous No.1792821]

>>1792793
>I thought Koffing was the moon and the gas that came out of him was parmesan cheese

I'm curious at how you came to that conclusion.

[Anonymous No.1792856]

As a kid, I didn't have a Gameboy Color, so I thought Koffing looked like the moon, since he had a bunch of craters and stuff on him. I also thought the moon was made of cheese, so I assumed the gas coming out of him was parmesan cheese.

[Anonymous No.1792859]

>>1792856
Was in reply to
>>1792821

[Anonymous No.1793018]

>>1787548

oh wow

the loading times on xbox morrowind are actually hilarious

[Anonymous No.1793023]

>>1792372
>pokemon crystal
>first save I actually beat elite four/red.
>got celebi from some nintendo event
>stuck on second trip on s.s. aqua

Thought I tried to interact with every single tile from every angle, to this day no clue how I could have missed the bed

>months went, I eventually reset. heartbroken.

[Anonymous No.1793026]

i thought that nightshade was batman in training

[Anonymous No.1793065]

>>1793023
You're a liar.
A legit fucking liar.
How fucking dare you lie about something so obvious on the internet you sick depraved twisted fuck! I goddamn swear I would fucking end you if I saw you in person right now you stupid fucking plebeian lying sack of shit. You just ruined my fucking high you goddamned dub nigger! Do you understand that? You got me fucking angry shitsack! Now listen up fuckface! Here's how I know you're fucking lying.
>got celebi from some nintendo event
NINTENDO NEVER NOT ONCE EVER DID A CELEBI EVENT IN THE US! IT. DID. NOT. HAPPEN. UNLESS YOU LIVED IN JAPAN THEN YOU ARE A LIAR YOU LYING PIECE OF SHIT! I FUCKING SWEAR IF I COME ACROSS YOUR LYING PROSE AGAIN ON THIS BOARD I WILL FUCKING END YOU AGAIN VIA TEXT!
HOPE YOU STEP IT UP KID BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR YOUR KIND!

[Anonymous No.1793134]

That you could unlock super saiyan 3 goku in dragonball z budokai 1 by setting all the difficulties to max and beating the advanced tournament 50 times in a row with saiyaman. Actually spent months trying to do it until i got to like my 45th time and got knocked out of the ring.

I then threw my ps2 out a window and got grounded for a month.
I legit broke a ps2 and a window as a child over a video game.

[Anonymous No.1793146]

Another one was back in '99 there were these blue animal-like dolls going around with Y2K written on them. It looked kinda like a pikachu and my friends and i were forever convinced it was a new pokemon called "pikablu," and kept waiting for it to come out. Wasn't until ruby and sapphire came out that we realized what y2k was and that we were retards

[Anonymous No.1793261]

>>1787482
well the f-zero thing became true in gx

[Anonymous No.1793307]

I finished kirby's dream land like 80 times. I tried to do it as fast as possible.

20 years later I find that there's this thing called speedruns and that I was slow as fuck.

Also:

>Pokemon Silver
>Playing erryday and talking about it with friends
>I see one of my older friends in a comics store nearby
>I keep wondering what the fuck is that shrine in Ilex Forest for, thinking something is hiding there
>This guy tells me "hey, I got celebi, lemme clone it to you"
>"How did you get it?"
>"You'll never know"
>Obsessed with the idea of Celebi being there
>Years later
>Find out that you need an event item and he is indeed in there

Heh.

>Best friend
>4 years before that
>"Hold on let me show you a cool thing about this super mario all stars + smw cartridge. I'm going to put Donkey Kong Country in there"
>Wait at the living room while he does some shit to that cartridge, hearing weird noises like he's fucking breaking it and doing all kinds of weird shit with a hammer
>"Here you go"
>Try it
>It's fucking DKC
>He just changed the label but I thought he actually did it

Man I was so silly.

[Anonymous No.1793342]

>>1787482
In the manual for Donkey Kong 64 Cranky refers to an item called the Scroll of Gameplay, which I spent days scouring through every world trying to find.
I miss the days when I could do that and not have it feel like a colossal waste of time.

[Anonymous No.1793349]

>>1787482
bite on the controllers when i got mad, my genesis, nes and snes controllers all had teeth marks and occasionally my playstation controller

[Anonymous No.1794661]

>>1793342
>Scroll of Gameplay
It was probably a joke about the manual in your hands.

[Anonymous No.1794715]

>>1792372
Holy shit, I thought I was the only one who had that problem.

I'm still kicking myself to this day over this, I had tons of nuggets on that save and I didn't know what the fuck I was supposed to do with them because items had no description and Oak always told me it wasn't the time to use this

>>1793349
I used to slam my controllers every once in a while. Thankfully they were made of Nintendium and could take the abuse and still manage to work years later.

I recall a friend of mine actually throwing his Gamecube controller so hard that it actually put a hole in his wall. Shit still worked of course, can't say the same for the wall though. He covered it up for months with a poster until his mom found out and beat his ass.

[Anonymous No.1794720]

>>1787482
>named the rival in Pokemon G/S/C '???'

I did that. I also used a master ball on some qwilfish because lv. 40 seemed like a high level.

Also not really /vr/-material but I trade in my LOZ collector's edition (the gcn one) to GameStop for $12.

Good times.

[Anonymous No.1794730]

>>1787482
I figured something different might happen depending if you named him ??? or something else, didn't actually click that you were supposed to choose a name until I played the remake. They could've made it more clear by having the same dialog as your name, or even just putting a default.

[Anonymous No.1794734]

>>1787547
I still do it too

[Anonymous No.1794735]

>>1794730
Or maybe you could just not be autistic.

[Anonymous No.1794751]

>>1794715
I left a sizable dent in a plaster basement wall by means of a stock SNES controller whipped by the cord at maximum velocity when I was 11 or 12. Controller remained fully intact with only minor debris embedded in the plastic. Was trying to beat SF2 on the hardest difficulty and M. Bison just made me childrage. Next time I visit home, I should get a picture of that wall. I would imagine the dent is still there.

[Anonymous No.1794790]

>>1794730
You get a fucking name box and Pokemon Red was an international bestseller which also had a rival you could name. What more did you want?

[Anonymous No.1794878]

>>1794790
And it's obviously confusing if multiple people in this thread have admitted to it. In the first generation, naming your rival was obvious: It's the multiple presets+custom selector just like when you name yourself. Contrast that with some random guy showing up named ???, who then literally says "My name is ???" and then some NPC asks you to input it later.

[Anonymous No.1795049]

>>1789434
>>1789436
I still catch myself leaning to avoid in-game projectiles.

[Anonymous No.1795161]

>>1789650
he was ON EVERY PLAYSTATION COMMERCIAL.

[Anonymous No.1795247]

I played Mario RPG before I played Chrono Trigger, and thought the Timed Attack thing worked in that game as well because of the crit animations.

Thought I was hot shit with Crono when it was really just the fact that the Rainbow has a 70% crit rate.

On a related note, I rented a copy of CT where someone had just started a NG plus game, and thought that they had used a game genie or something.

[Anonymous No.1795270]

>>1795247
I did the same thing in Final Fantasy VIII. Was real disappointed when I realized it only worked on Squall. Why don't more turn-based RPGs have this awesome mechanic?

[Anonymous No.1795310]

>>1795247
I did something like this with Pokemon. Back when I played G/S/C, I had already played Super Mario RPG, and so I thought that nearly every game had action commands.

[Anonymous No.1795552]

>>1787521
So THAT'S where the rumors started.

[Anonymous No.1795617]

>>1787515
>not native english speaker.
>pronounced Rapidash "Rape-dash"

[Anonymous No.1796106]

>>1795617
You didn't have localized Pokemon names? I've never really paid attention to all the available languages in Pokemon.

[Anonymous No.1796132]

>>1796106
Not really no

[Anonymous No.1797358]

???

[Anonymous No.1797562]

Whenever in a pokemon battle, I habitually press left + a thinking it will increase the chance of a critical hit.

[Anonymous No.1797589]

>>1793065
>GO AHEAD AND UNFRIEND ME SEE OF I CARE

[Anonymous No.1798763]

>>1790043
He said that in the later ones I think.

On the topic, when MK3 came out all I had was AOL message boards and after reading 200 posts about nudealities I started to believe they were real, but was too scared to try them in case it got saved and all my characters wound up naked and my dad saw and would take the game away.

[Anonymous No.1799295]

>first time beating the pokemon league in pokemon yellow
>go through cerulean cave
>meet mewtwo and prepare for battle
>sparky (pikachu) faints with mewtwo at low health
>"Do you want to use another Pokemon?"
>no I want to use an item
>"Got away safely!"
>SAVED THE GAME BEFORE I REALISED WHAT HAPPENED

[Anonymous No.1799583]

>>1787482
I used to think the guy guarding the cave was one of those british guards with the tall hats.

[Anonymous No.1799589]

>>1799583

[Anonymous No.1799669]

>>1796106

Japanese, English, German and French have their own Pokémon names, everyone else uses the English ones.

[Anonymous No.1799706]

>>1795270
It didn't only work with Squall, it was just really easy to do it with Squall in comparison to everyone else.

[Anonymous No.1800534]

>>1799583
I thought the very same thing.

[Anonymous No.1800576]

I used to think all the houses in pokemon without doors had a secret way to enter, and each one had a masterball inside.

I don't know how my younger self even came to that conclusion.

[Anonymous No.1800591]

>>1795310
>so I thought that nearly every game had action commands.
if only

[Anonymous No.1800614]

>>1787525
>Also used to think glitches could fuck
>your game and console permanently.

Hey, apparently the barrel break glitch in DKC2 really could.

[i ain't tripfagging !!UCnc1JMdFaF No.1800671]

>>1787504
i always pushed diagonal right-down and held A and B. i still do it to this day.

[Anonymous No.1801781]

I always thought that if I could insert some code or find a bug in a demo version of a game, I would release the full game.
>Pic related. I've spent hours in this little demo.

[Anonymous No.1801810]

>>1801781
Well to be fair, there were some games where the full game was hidden in it. Can think of two examples, first one being the original release of Doom shareware if you changed the WAD filename from DOOM1.WAD to DOOM.WAD you'd get the full game. Least I believe it was with the original shareware release. The other game being a demo version of Redneck Rampage called "Redneck Rampage: The Early Years" it contained the first five levels of the game, however the rest of the game is on the CD tucked away inside a hidden folder.

[Anonymous No.1801839]

>>1801781
I played the shit out of that demo too, there was a code in crash 3 to unlock it

[Anonymous No.1802235]

>>1787482
For some reason I thought shinys were glitched pokemon so I just killed them

[Anonymous No.1802438]

>>1802235
Destroy them all. Leave none alive. This is your purpose, anon. This is your destiny.

[Anonymous No.1802446]

So in Sonic Adventure 2 inside Eggman's lab there's two large glass containers filled with some liquid. One of them has what is obviously Metal Sonic inside, and I could have sworn the other has Metal Shadow.
In fact, I still think it's Metal Shadow but I haven't played the game since I was a kid.

[Anonymous No.1802452]

>>1802446
Eggman had a lab in SA2? In SA1 I think I remember a metal hedgehog or two in his ship. Now I'm curious, especially because Shadow didn't exist at the time of SA1's release.

[Anonymous No.1802458]

>>1802452
>>1802446
Sorry, meant SA1.

[Anonymous No.1802463]

>>1802452
There was Egg Quarters. I don't remember any Metal Sonic/Shadow, but SA1 definitely had a Metal Sonic, it's in the entrance hall to Final Egg. He's also unlockable in the DX version.

[Anonymous No.1802464]

>>1802446
It's Silver Sonic from Sonic 2.

[Anonymous No.1802472]

>>1802458
I looked it up, and it turns out to be an unnamed robot, never encountered again.
http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Silver_Sonic_II
In the Archie comics it was named Silver Sonic II, due to its visual similarity to Silver Sonic.

[Anonymous No.1802705]

>>1802438
laughed more than i should've

[Anonymous No.1802748]

>>1789843
>>1789870

Good to know I wasn't the only one

[Anonymous No.1802754]

>no anon, you can unlock sonic in melee! my dad works at smash bros

[Anonymous No.1802827]

>>1787482
fuck! b down and a that mew under the truck was on the official nintendo guide on spain !!!

Im still press down when the pokeball fall on pokemon X/Y

:-|

[Anonymous No.1802837]

>>1802235
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
thats so sad but happends

[Anonymous No.1802971]

>>1799583
holy shit man, me too, and i forgot until just now

[Anonymous No.1803526]

>>1794751
Similar story expect I raged out on sagat and broke my controller. To this day still no second controller for the family snes.

[Anonymous No.1803787]

>>1787521

I used to subscribe to NOM. Looking back, it was a rag aimed at kids. N64 Mag was so much better

[Anonymous No.1803902]

I have two devastatingly embarassing ones that stem from my inability to read until i was 9.

>Be me, 4 (Ish)
>Pokemon in RBY have the little L next to their level.
>Didn't realise it was an L.
>Thought it was a 1
>Mfw I thought you get your starter at lvl 15
>MFW I thought Pokemon jumped from lvl 19 to 110.

The other one

>Still can't read
>Still RBY
>Find item: Awakening
>Can't read it for shit
>Use item on Pokes, nothing.
>All Pokes are obviously not sleeping
>Notice letters 'WAK' in it
>MustbeforaMaroWAK.jpeg
>'Oh, I know where to find a Marowak!'

I then proceeded to spend hours of my childhood trying to catch the soul of Cubone's mother so I could try and use an aWAKening on it because i thought it would have some effect. Eventually I caught on and evolved a Cubone, only to have my efforts shattered before my eyes.

[Anonymous No.1803914]

>>1803902
>inability to read until i was 9
Why?

[Anonymous No.1803917]

>>1803914
General dyslexia, I could obviously read but shit just didn't make any sense in my head until i was about 9. I put no connection of the word awakening with the word awake.

[Anonymous No.1803964]

>>1787482
>I used to lean in the direction I was driving
Girls always do that no matter their age. I still do kick back on my control, by tilting it up and lifting it, when firing big gun, makes me feel like a man.

[Anonymous No.1806443]

bump

[Anonymous No.1806828]

just on the OOT front...
>throwing rocks around Saria could make her afraid of me
>standing in front of the Temple of Time for long enough would make you grow up
>didn't know the word "sacred" yet, so I read "Sacred Realm" as "Scared Realm"
>that the Lost Woods were actually dangerous for Link
>that video games were so much more creating video games was so much more magical and fun than it actually is ;_;

I was 8 or 9 then... I miss being so naive.

[Anonymous No.1806840]

>>1806828
>creating video games was so much more magical and fun than it actually is
Game Maker and Python are working on it.

[Anonymous No.1806850]

>>1792405
I had beat every single trainer in the game, I had nothing to sell, and I was playing on some ancient emulator.

[Anonymous No.1807028]

>>1806828
That's cute

[Anonymous No.1807048]

When I was little playing NES I used to try to imagine how video games actually worked. My conclusion was that developers had to make pre-rendered still images of every possible scenario that could ever happen, and the game would simply flip between these images based on your input like an incredibly fast view-finder.

[Anonymous No.1807091]

>>1807048
That would be segacd or dvi development

[Anonymous No.1807249]

>>1807048
Same here.
Until the day I discovered RPG Maker

[Anonymous No.1807407]

>>1807048
Th-that's not how it works...?

j/k, my parents told me that how games work was that the people who make them know every possible move you can make (which I guess is true, they program all your options), but I didn't understand it like that. I thought it meant the game could somehow read the future and knew exactly what moves I would make and when, so it already knew ahead of time whether I'd win or not every time I played. Pretty spooky when you think about it like that.

[Anonymous No.1807426]

>>1807048
that's halfway to a Game & Watch

[Anonymous No.1807760]

>>1807407
I always had it in my mind that the COMP players always cheated and reacted to your exact moves in games.

[Anonymous No.1807830]

>>1794751
>childrage

I'm borrowing this from now on.

[Anonymous No.1807965]

>>1807048
>the game would simply flip between these images based on your input

That's actually not far from how it really works if you think about it in terms of sprites. That's what I figured as a kid, but I didn't know how to explain it back then.

[Anonymous No.1807983]

>>1807760
This is more true than you're giving credit for.

[Anonymous No.1807992]

>>1807760
"Easy" trainers choose moves at random and never switch pokeyman.
"Smart" trainers such as gym leaders always choose an element your current porkmon is weak to when their pogeyman faint, switch out their pogopogos if they're imune to your element, use items when on red health, always use their unique "tm" move, usually the same tm the gym leader gives you or for example lance's case he always spams Dragon Rage and they always use their strongest move when they calculate that will result in a KO.
Also they have infinite PP.

[Anonymous No.1808013]

>>1807992
Also there's probably more to it, i just know about this from reading about speedruns.

[Anonymous No.1808627]

Way back when, someone I went to school with told me that Paper Mario was an unlockable character in Super Smash Bros. Being a little kid, I believed him and proceeded to basically waste a month trying to unlock him. I was so pissed when I found out I had been lied to.

[Anonymous No.1808761]

>>1797562
I would just hold Left thinking it would do more damage for a normal hit.

[Anonymous No.1808783]

>>1801810
Apparently on some spyro game the full crash bash game was accessible and no one found out about it until recently.

[Anonymous No.1809062]

>>1808627
An entire month? Why wouldn't you just go look it up after the first week failed?

[Anonymous No.1809408]

>>1807830
It's not a pretty sight.

[Anonymous No.1809984]

>>1809062
Not everybody had internet access at home.

[Anonymous No.1811938]

bump

[Anonymous No.1813837]

>>1809984
Nigga, I had internet access in 95, there's no way you didn't have it by Paper Mario's release in 2000.

[Anonymous No.1813861]

>>1787525
Missigno COULD delete your save file. But only if you caught him. Funny enough, it never happened to me. But when I transfered Missingno to a friends file, it deleted it.

[Anonymous No.1813896]

>>1789843
>>1789870
>>1802748
Same here, guys.

[Anonymous No.1813903]

>>1799583
I just thought he had a really big afro.

[Anonymous No.1813940]

When I was a kid I had no idea that you could switch boxes in RBY. I got confused because it just kept making me save and I had no idea what to do.

[Anonymous No.1813967]

>>1787482
>>1787502
>named the rival in Pokemon G/S/C '???'
fuck I did this too. used to pronounce it questionmarkquestionmarkquestionmark in my mind

I only realised my foolishness years later on 4chan

[Anonymous No.1814026]

>tfw got to the lift battle in Shinra HQ not knowing about how to equip stuff and running away from most normal battles
Still dislike that battle because it was so hard, learned how to do stuff from a friend afterwards

[Anonymous No.1814131]

thought in SSB Melee you could unlock toad as a playable character if when you beat Master Glove you shot all of the credits

>mfw me and my friend shot all of the credits and nothing happened

[Anonymous No.1814168]

>>1814131
I always wondered why the shootable credits were there if you couldn't unlock anything from it.
Seems like it was just Nintendo being a dick.

[Anonymous No.1814527]

Did anyone else spend hours on Supercheats.com (or whatever it was) as a kid?

[Anonymous No.1814562]

>>1813967
In fairness, it's a relatively roundabout and obtuse way of naming your rival.
I get they wanted to keep him mysterious, and for that reason they couldn't simply let you name him at the start of the game, but Silver identifies himself as "???". He says "???" is his name. When you're later asked by the policeman for the perp's name, there's no way you could realise you're being asked -to name him-.

[Anonymous No.1814571]

>>1814562
Are you fucking autistic? Of course you are able to realize that you are being asked to name him. I was 7 years old when I first played Gold and I was able to understand that without any problem whatsoever.

[Anonymous No.1814585]

I remember when I was younger I used to think that if you went to Hell you'd meet Scorpion. And if you somehow became friends with him, he'd protect you from Satan or something.

[Anonymous No.1814645]

>>1814562
I've always wondered if it made a lot more sense in the Japanese version. The English version combines absolute terms with an authority figure, and it's hard to expect young kids to know they're expected to lie to a policeman.

[Anonymous No.1814651]

It's weird that he says "My name's ???" in the first place. What is it your character is hearing? Is the rival mumbling, making it hard to hear his actual name? He really is making it sound like his name is Questionmarkquestionmarkquestionmark.

They should've done like, "Hey do you know who I am?" Then you input the name and he replies "Yeah, ___, don't you forget it" or something corny like that.

[Anonymous No.1814663]

I still instinctively hold B whenever I toss a Pokeball.

[Anonymous No.1814938]

>>1814663
It's down + A, silly anon.

[Anonymous No.1814982]

>>1814651
He could have just not said the line. It wasn't really needed, and it didn't add anything but confusion for young players

[Anonymous No.1815085]

>>1814982
That's really the best solution. They could've used that dialogue to build the character slightly instead of not saying his name.

[Anonymous No.1815379]

>>1813861
Yeah, I almost always caught MissingNo when I played, emulated or not, and I never had any side effects really.

>>1800614
I think there are some instances where it fucks something in the SRAM that fucks the game, but you can't write to ROM and unless you destroy a component, the console should be fine too...

[Anonymous No.1815746]

I thought the Ngage was going to be amazing, I mean it's real 3d games on a handheld, how could it not be the best selling thing ever?

I remember being like 7 and seeing a preview for pokemon on kids WB and thinking it looked stupid and would be cancelled quickly. (I become obsessed with it like everyone else 4 months later)

I can't remember if I legit believed in the mew/truck or pikablu but I remember talking about it on gamefaqs

I thought after tooie came out that rare was being clever in saying they removed stop n swop and it was just really well hidden and I wasnt swapping fast enough.

I thought boktai was going to lead to a ton of kids getting skin cancer and I was worried nintendo would get sued into bankruptcy

[Anonymous No.1815825]

i remember knowing "that one kid" in elementary school, he would make up lies abut video games but i would just pretend to believe him, because he was a good friend and really creative.

[Anonymous No.1815878]

>>1814938
Down+B you silly. >>1787521

>>1814645
More than ever I wish I could find the magazine walkthrough I had for Gold/Silver. It was only about four pages long and of the Japanese version because the English one wasn't released yet, maybe it'd have said something.

[Anonymous No.1815938]

>>1815878
Found it! Well, the text at least, and it's slightly different from what I remember but it'll do.

https://web.archive.org/web/20091021025512/http://geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/2247/goldw.txt

[Anonymous No.1816056]

>Star Fox 64

I used to think that i if you 100% the game, see all levels and all paths witha ll the medals, you could unlock james McCloud

[Anonymous No.1817134]

> Link to the Past

I believed there was a way to upgrade not just the arrows, but the bow too. Blame a bad translation.

[Anonymous No.1817141]

>>1815825
We called ours Billy Bullshit, not to his face, but every now and then we'd call him Billy, he never knew why.

[Anonymous No.1817193]

>>1816056
This isn't that far off. If I remember right getting all the medals on all routes on Expert lets you wear sunglasses like James

[Anonymous No.1817692]

you can play as Akuma in RE2

[Anonymous No.1817836]

>>1814026
I know that feel. Chrono Trigger was my first rpg, and leveling was an unknown concept to me. I was used to the idea that avoiding enemies was just as good as fighting them, given the choice.

Dragon Tank showed me the error of my ways.

[Anonymous No.1817938]

>>1817836
I couldn't beat the Dragon Tank when I rented it. Even to this day he's kind of a tough boss for being so early.

[Anonymous No.1817949]

>>1817692
just
damn you

[Anonymous No.1818041]

>>1787482
I originally played gold on an original gameboy, so It didn't have color. I always thought when a pokemon did the same thing as red gyrados it was a red version of that pokemon.

[Anonymous No.1818093]

My friend convinced me that in Tekken 3 Yoshimitsu could throw his sword at the enemy on his own stage, pinning them to a tree.

He'd then mimick their fighting style for the rest of the match, and would even steal Eddy's sunglasses before doing so.

He just 'couldn't remember the code' of course.

[Anonymous No.1818095]

>SSF2T has Fatalities

[Anonymous No.1818145]

>>1818093
>Yoshimitsu has a 1 hit KO attack.

[Anonymous No.1818434]

>>1813837
As someone who also had early internet access, apparently we were in the minority. A lot of people I've talked to didn't even know what dial-up was like.

[Anonymous No.1821456]

>>1793307
> >He just changed the label but I thought he actually did it

Okay, I fucking lol'd

[Anonymous No.1821485]

>>1808627
> Unlock Giga Bowser
> Unlock Master Hand and Crazy Hand

> you just got to beat it with 1 stock on Very Hard with 0 continues anon, I promise

That shit was on Gamefaqs.

[Anonymous No.1821491]

>>1787515

Lol. I had this game when I was a little kid and I thought it was about wizards.

(how else would they be attaching to walls and shooting fireballs?)

[Anonymous No.1821557]

I used to think that every video game was based off of real events that took place on other planets and the developers just had a portal or something that they would use to see them.

>>1807048

Holy shit, I thought the same thing.

[Anonymous No.1821670]

There was this cheat on a magazine I owned long ago about a debug menu on the original Crash Bandicoot, the cheat is fake but you can still find it in every cheat list website and I don't understand why

[Anonymous No.1821891]

>>1821485
You could play as them via Action Replay and I think there's some glitch you can do to play as Master Hand too.

[Anonymous No.1822160]

>>1807048
I was always told software was simply a stream of 0s and 1s (Which is technically correct, I guess), and I thought people had to spend years learning the language of 0s and 1s to make games. Also, I thought those people were wizards.

[Anonymous No.1822168]

>>1822160
They don't? I just assumed that's how people made Atari games in their garages. Maybe NES too, I really don't know how early games were made.

[Anonymous No.1822173]

>>1822160
But that's how it works, you just master the 0's and 1's language and become a virtual wizard

[Anonymous No.1822174]

>>1822168
Well, now that you mention it, things were done on punchcards for a while, which in a way could've been raw binary. But I think the first videogames were made via assembler, which is just about as close as you can get to 0/1 without actually being there (ASM corresponds 1:1 to what a machine does, unlike modern languages).

Come to think of it, I still don't know how you get from assembler to a video game. Best I can do is directly work with the raster in C++.

[Anonymous No.1822192]

>>1822160
There are people who can actually do that though. All you need is a hex editor and a list of cpu instructions in binary and you're set, although I would strongly recommend using an assembler instead.

>>1822174
>I still don't know how you get from assembler to a video game
Easy, consoles at the time had rasterization hardware that would look at a piece of VRAM and automatically draw it to the screen every frame. Your game code then becomes a routine that pushes that data to VRAM through internal registers. What data that is is based on its internal state, which is updated every frame and can be manipulated by pressing a button at certain time intervals.

[Anonymous No.1822198]

I'n pokemon crystal I thought Entei/Suicune/Raiku would return bck in the wild after you beat them so you could catch them again, sadly this destroys any chance of catching them ever and obtaining ho-oh so I reset my game when I figured this out

[Anonymous No.1822456]

>>1787521
>that kid worked for NOM

[Anonymous No.1822630]

>Be me
>Young as fuck
>Don't know how to catch Pokemon
>Walk up to Jigglypuff in Viridian City
>Go to bag
>Highlight Pokeball
>Select 'toss'

I was very disappointed.

[Anonymous No.1823182]

>>1822198
In pokemon Yellow I used to use just 1 pokemon (my dear Pidgeot) and whenever I faced a legendary (Moltres, Zapdos, Articuno) I threw a pokeball and after they missed it my 10 yo me said:
-Well, this pokemon can't be caught. Let's kill it, Pidgeot.

How I miss my lv 80 Pidgeot

[Anonymous No.1823489]

>>1792417
How did you even get there?

[Anonymous No.1823934]

>>1822630
Cute.

[Anonymous No.1824358]

>rpgs always my favorite genre
>shining force was the first game i beat (aged 4...ish)

The above is just to put into context how extra retarded what i did was.

I'm playing Suikoden, and right at the start some guy says you need to get a flight from a wyvern or something (can't remember exactly) in the pen outside the castle. Ok i think, i'll go find the pen.

I travelled around tonnes of the overworld map, getting my ass kicked by everything and anything, going into areas i shouldn't even be attempting and eventually ending up ridiculously overlevelled just so i could survive.

After a week or so of searching i gave up and thought i must have had to talk to someone else in the castle before i left. I went back and then realised the pen was actually inside the town you start at, rather than 'outside' in the overworld like i thought. Pretty sure that's the stupidest thing i've done in any video game i've played.

[Anonymous No.1824373]

>>1824358

I see that as an amazing tale of perseverance.

[Anonymous No.1824389]

>>1824358

ya the dragon and futch were literally like one screen and 15 steps from the castle where they tell you to go to the pen.

[Anonymous No.1824394]

>>1824373

w...why thank you

>>1824389

Yeah, i walked straight south and figured they meant outside as in outside of the city itself. In most games like that you're usually stopped from going outside so i didn't think anything of it when i left and started wandering around.

What's worse is that i was wandering around without the full starting team. It's amazing how quick the main character gets mauled at the start when he isn't backed up.

[Anonymous No.1825564]

>>1824358
I've had a similar experience with Gothic 2 (not exactly retro, but feels like it).

>Open world RPG
>Not even a clue about what to do in the city
>Weak as fuck
>Decide to take a look outside the city walls
>Get lost in the woods
>No map
>Spend like 40 hours just exploring the world, knowing people, living my adventurer life.
>Travels until the end of the world (literally).
>Leveled up until lv 20 (the monsters don't respawn until the end of the chapter)
>Found the best equipment of the the game even though I wasn't supposed to get them until late on the game.
>Never managed to go back to the city.

I'm not even mad, it was one of the best experiences I've ever had with an RPG

[||D.II.II\/II.||D No.1825565]

I believed using a name like PIMP was cool.

[Anonymous No.1825575]

>>1788454
Dude it's called the N64 because it came out in '64 you idiot.

I have no fucking clue why I thought this, especially since I'm older than the N64.

[Anonymous No.1825582]

>>1815746
>I thought after tooie came out that rare was being clever in saying they removed stop n swop and it was just really well hidden and I wasnt swapping fast enough.
The truth is, the hardware specs for most late-wave N64s changed so that the console no longer kept data tracers from a removed game for a full 15 seconds. The time went down to roughly 2 seconds, which isn't even long enough for the console to load a new game, so Stop n Swap became useless.

All Stop n Swap content is fully available in Banjo Tooie and multiplayer though. You didn't miss out.

[Anonymous No.1825636]

>>1793065
Calm down you fucking faggot.

[Anonymous No.1825643]

>>1825564
game name?

[Anonymous No.1825646]

>>1825643
Looks like Gothic II to me, chief.

[Anonymous No.1825670]

>>1825564

Well god damn, that sounds amazing. Now I have to get my hands on that game.

[Anonymous No.1825673]

>endless corridor
>when you survive 99 stages, another corridor opens
>survive for another 99 stages and you will meet the final boss

I never even got past stage 30.

[Anonymous No.1825710]

>>1825670
Gothic 2 it's pretty cheap on Steam. You definitely should buy it, it's worth every cent. My dream is to play a Gothic style MMO. I used to imagine game mechanics that could work in this mmo and my pants always get wet when I think about it.

Start with Gothic 2 and just play Gothic 1 if you liked Gothic 2 so much that you can't live without another Gothic game. It didn't aged well.

[Anonymous No.1825745]

When I was 6 my brother convinced me that you could carry your saves over from Final Fantasy 7 to Final Fantasy 8, he got me to sell 7 and buy 8.

Never forgiven him for that.

[Anonymous No.1825778]

>>1788076
At my school it was Left and A.

[Anonymous No.1825786]

>>1825565
I remember in Pokemon I named Gary "BASTARD" and on the last day of school when we were allowed to bring in our gameboys I showed everyone. This one kid told me he would report me to Nintendo and they would delete my save somehow. I believed him because "they don't like swearing in Japan".

[Anonymous No.1825847]

>>1825786
>they don't like swearing in Japan

[Anonymous No.1825940]

>>1789425
No, Crash was Universal.

Naughty Dog developed the games, but they never owned the rights.

[Anonymous No.1825949]

>>1825940
Let me clarify a bit.

Naughty Dog made the games, Universal owned the rights, and Sony had an exclusivity deal.

[Anonymous No.1827146]

>>1815825
I'm 26 and the guy next to me at work still tells these kind of stories.That Kid just gets older.

[Anonymous No.1827181]

>>1825575
Some friends back in middle school thought that V-Rally '97 was the 97th of the series.
Same for every FIFA

[Anonymous No.1828814]

everything

[Anonymous No.1828961]

>>1822168
The lowest level a human could be reasonably expected to write software as complicated as a simple game is ASM, which is tedious but definitely not 1's and 0's levels of tedious.

[Anonymous No.1829931]

>>1815825
I had a friend like that in high school. Telling me about how he got betas and prerelease copies of games and shit.

Anybody who knows anything can tell it's bullshit. I wonder what motivates people to do that shit with the obviousness of the lies.

[Anonymous No.1829953]

>>1829931
Either delusion or the power over people, assuming they're older than 12.

[Anonymous No.1831742]

bamp

[Anonymous No.1831854]

>>1787521
I kinda miss strategy guides that gave false information like this. Even NP had "crack writers" on staff that spread this kind of misinformation.

[Anonymous No.1831872]

>>1788454
>that the red line on some SNES carts meant that the game was "good" and purple lines meant "not as good"

For me, the colors were swapped. Purple meant "Nintendo excellent quality" and red mean normal.

[Anonymous No.1831880]

>>1825673
Fucking love that game.
>dat forest enviroment
>dat atmosphere
>dat monster hybrid.

[Anonymous No.1831896]

>>1792372
>get a gold/silver version when it comes out
>have a pokemon that is tradeable to r/b/y hold a nugget
>use clone trick to make multiples of said pokemon and sell the nuggets
>use trick until max P

It was difficult and taxing to do, and very very boring, but you could buy anything.

[Anonymous No.1831935]

>>1793349

I used to chew on the rubber on the control sticks when I was younger. My poor Playstation and Gamecube controllers.

Is there a way to replace just the rubber bits?

[Anonymous No.1831972]

>>1799669
Korea uses the Japanese ones and China has its own names (which are hilarious)

[Anonymous No.1832168]

>>1787521

I had a guide for Pokemon Yellow which was full of stuff like this. One piece of advice was that you could catch Machamp just before Rock Tunnel, but it was a rare encounter. I didn't have a link cable at the time, so I wasted God knows how many hours eagerly trying to find one.

[Anonymous No.1832234]

>>1832168
you can trade your drowzee for a machamp in goldenrod city

[i ain't tripfagging !!UCnc1JMdFaF No.1832246]

>>1832168
can you please take a pic or find a pic of the guide?!!? i really want it because it sounds fuckin' hilarious

[i ain't tripfagging !!UCnc1JMdFaF No.1832257]

>>1827181
been comin' out er'year since 1901

[Anonymous No.1832263]

>generally believed a lot of Pokemon rumors, especially the "Mew under the truck" and "press down and B at the same time to increase the chance to catch a Pokemon with a Pokeball" rumor

I still do this whenever I play Pokemon. Doesn't matter which one. The habit is forever burned in to my subconcious.

[i ain't tripfagging !!UCnc1JMdFaF No.1832279]

>>1832263
i hold diagonal down right and A+B. i can't NOT do it. it hurts.

[Anonymous No.1832320]

>Herpaderp used Growl!
>Derpaherp's attack fell!
I thought that shit was permanent when I was a kid.

[Anonymous No.1832387]

When I was 6 playing Final Fantasy I didnt know you could press select to rearrange your party. Once someone got poisoned it was to the bottom they went until they cycled back up. Of course, I had no idea that the positions were different in any way either so it was really just my OCD wanting to organize things.

[Anonymous No.1832846]

>>1832168
It's not far from the truth though, in Yellow you can trade a Cubone (found in Lavender, just after Rock Tunnel) for a Machoke, which will evolve upon trading.

[Anonymous No.1833079]

>>1787492
This

[Anonymous No.1833365]

nice thread! i have a lot for pokemon

>tried every single hexadecimal gameshark code for pokemon appearings to check if there was some hidden pokeblu and togepi as they said. Not that stupid now that i think about it

>looked around that fucking mew van for days, pressed A and B at every tile, talked to everyone near it, used every HM on it

>tried the viridian old man/missingno glitch to get every possible pokemons.

>tried the "pause+fly" glitch to get pokemons as well

>never used or even kept, stat lower or enhance techniques, thought brute force and grinding was enough.

NON POKEMON ONES

>fag classmate told me there was a 3D medabots game where you could exchange parts of the robot like in the cartoon (something that got me crazy after megaman battle and chase).
Went to the store, there was no medabots game for PSX (at least outside of japan you nerds)

>i once said, that when your character died, it wasn't "no big deal, its just a game" but "it's the real life of the ninja turtle!" (playing TMNT hyperstone heist) and that maybe explains why i didn't suck at games

>replayed FF7 a few times to see if aerith could survive, and how the "date" could affect the story. a FAQ would've saved me hours..

>Was convinced dark knight (gafgarion's class) was unlockable in FFtactics. Mastered every class like crazy, nothing.

>Shooted ducks from duck hunt from closer to the screen for accuracy, since the shot would have less distance to travel (even if it was an infrared light shot)

[Anonymous No.1834532]

>>1832234
That's G/S, and a Machop.
See >>1832846

[Anonymous No.1835185]

I still don't understand where "mew is under the truck" came from and how everyone heard of it except me. Don't say >>1787521 because it doesn't mention Mew in relation to the truck, yet everyone and their cat seems to have known it.

[Anonymous No.1835629]

>>1792356

How are those model textures so good? Is that PC?

Ive got a TR3 PC runthru in progress now and mine doesnt look that good.

[Anonymous No.1835683]

>1999
>before dragonball z was popular in north america and only way to watch it was get bootleg vhs from japan and watch in subtitles or stay up till 2am to watch it on cartoon network(just starting raditz saga)
>friend has this game, looks awesome
>dont know who most of the characters are
>we all actually believe the character in the bottom middle is "evil goku" didnt know shit about ssj4
>after watching a bootleg vhs on an episode that revealed ssj3 gotenks fighting buu, we all wonder how to unlock him if possible
>be told that you have to beat the game with all the characters on hardest difficulty in a row no resets or continues(also apparently unlocks super piccolo..)
>believe that shit
>friend and i have a sleep over and stay up all night playing this goddamn game with nothing to show for it
>be trolled hard in 1999

[Anonymous No.1835816]

We didn't have internet in our house til like 2002 so I couldn't look up anything about games. I saw there was the triforce in ocarina of time in the item menu. I read a april fools game magazine about setting off all the gossip stones to get the triforce and thought it was serious
>spent 1998-2002 systematically blowing up gossip stones to get triforce

[Anonymous No.1836126]

>>1835683
Has that picture been edited at all? Because if not, holy shit, dat sameface. It's extreme even for Toriyama standards.

[Anonymous No.1836181]

>>named the rival in Pokemon G/S/C '???'
>I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE

[Anonymous No.1836497]

>>1835185
You're not alone. I didn't know about it.

>>1835683
Damn son.

[Anonymous No.1836593]

>>1833365
>never used or even kept, stat lower or enhance techniques, thought brute force and grinding was enough

but thats right anon they are all completely worthless

[Anonymous No.1836595]

>>1835816
That must have been a popular rumor because I can vividly remember doing the exact same thing.

[Anonymous No.1837047]

>mfw that kid once told me you could get the majora's mask for yourself if you beat the entire game without going back in time
Why do kids used to lie about video games so much back then?Like seriously,what would they get from it?I wonder how they are doing now,if they became compulsive lairs or something.

[Anonymous No.1837084]

>>1837047
>Why do kids used to lie about video games so much back then?Like seriously,what would they get from it?I
Attention and recognition

[Anonymous No.1837107]

My dad told me that if I lose at Duke Nukem 3D, the computer will explode and all of us will die. As I remember I was playing very carefully that time. The first time I died he blew an airhorn behind me.

[Anonymous No.1837141]

>>1837107
Your dad is great anon

[Anonymous No.1837379]

>>1835683
You muricans didn't know Dragon Ball/DBZ in 1999 ?
(just a french asking)

[Anonymous No.1837393]

>>1837379
The dragon ball we did get was poorly dubbed and/or censored. Unless you lived near the southern border and knew a bit of spanish then you could see a pretty good dub with much of the material intact

[Anonymous No.1837428]

>>1837379
>You muricans didn't know Dragon Ball/DBZ in 1999 ?
You kidding? Here in Clapland in the late 90s, if you were between the ages of 6 and 15, there was a 95% chance you watched DBZ.

[Anonymous No.1837578]

>>1837379
It took Dragon Ball until about 2002 to really pick up here.

[Anonymous No.1837590]

>>1837379
Everyone I knew was obsessed with DBZ in the late 90s. No one knew about Dragon Ball though.

[Anonymous No.1837621]

>>1837590
There is no such thing as Dragon Ball Z. Please stop using the ridiculous names given to post-Piccolo arc Dragon Ball by Toei.

[Anonymous No.1837636]

>>1837621
>theres no such thing as dragon ball z
Am u redarded?

[Anonymous No.1837642]

>>1837636
The entire manga is just called Dragon Ball in Japan.
Stop being such a filthy autistic plebeian swine.

[Anonymous No.1837653]

>>1837636
He's right though.

[Anonymous No.1837663]

>>1837642
>>1837653
Holy shit. The topic of discussion was the damn anime in America.

No one cares to hear you flex your trivia knowledge (trivia that everyone already knows, even) on 4chan of all places.

[Anonymous No.1837668]

>>1837642
You're the only one being autistic here.

[Anonymous No.1837701]

>>1837642
Motherfucker are you my mother? It's called Dragon Ball Z in America and I'm Americn so I'll call it what I want bitch. You fucking weeb loser. You're getting this bothered by people adding a letter to a phrase? I bet you'd get pissed if I called Cuntra, Cuntra instead of AnalProbe-otector. Drink smegma faggot. You fucking dork. I bet you get no pussy too, you can't sit with us sperg.

[Anonymous No.1837715]

>>1837642
literally nobody cares

and no, replying to your post to call you an idiot doesnt suddenly mean someone cares.

[Anonymous No.1837720]

>>1837701
Maybe you should go back to /b/. I hear it's a containment board for your type of retardation.

[Anonymous No.1837730]

>>1837642
Also your stupidity is clear proof in your post dumbass. If I were truly a pleb, you would've carried on without acknowledging my post because to a patrician; a pleb is untouchable.
Therefore not worth the time of arguing with or even looking at. Good job with your logic anon. I'm not saying I'm patrish or anything because I wasted my time responding to your worthless ass as well. Great job faggot.

[Anonymous No.1837738]

>>1837720
Eat smegma.

[Anonymous No.1837740]

>>1837738
Is that an admission to posting on /b/? You aren't welcome here buddy. You have a containment board for a reason.

[Anonymous No.1837748]

>>1837740
Why would someone from /b/ be on /vr/?
Get real dude.

[Anonymous No.1837765]

>>1837748
Telling somebody to "eat smegma" and using the amount of sex somebody gets as an insult is not the behavior of somebody who posts on /vr/, it is the behavior of an underaged child who posts on /b/.

[Anonymous No.1837849]

>>1837379
In 1997 I was friends with an Asian dude who really liked DBZ. I only vaguely knew about it because of my extensive research into Sailor Moon that summer. It wasn't until around 2000 that DBZ actually first aired on Cartoon Network and you could watch it freely. After that I started to notice people wearing DBZ t-shirts and stuff.

[Anonymous No.1837870]

>>1837849
>>1837765
>>1837748
>>1837740
>>1837738
>>1837730
>>1837720
>>1837715
>>1837701
>>1837668
>>1837663
>>1837653
>>1837642
>>1837636
>>1837621
>>1837590

Go back to /a/ you weeaboo.

[Anonymous No.1837902]

>>1837765
Children don't use 4chan stupid. Stop being so condescending like you're better than anyone else. Because look where your posting idiot.

[Anonymous No.1837975]

>>1837902
>Children don't use 4chan stupid
That's an objective lie.
I'm 21, but I and most other people I know who began posting on 4chan started using /b/ when they were around 12 or 13. They eventually all grew out of that containment board and left that attitude behind with them.

[Anonymous No.1838197]

>>1808783
Referring to this?
http://www.crashmania.net/bash/mysteries-2/

[Anonymous No.1838216]

>>1837975
The point of /b/ is to get all of your shitposting needs out of your system before you go onto another board.

Hilarious thing about /b/: The most civil threads are the lolicon threads.

[Forte SWN-001 No.1838232]

Mashing B in pokemon to "lessen damage"
mashing A to "increase the chance of critical hits"

>>1788076
one variation of the myth was the button input was ball specific

[Anonymous No.1838608]

>>1787482

Got Majoras Mask when I was about 10 or 11. Got so mad when playing it i didn't know what to do. I told my mom that you can't beat the game. It just ends after 3 days no matter what!

[Anonymous No.1839030]

>>1837642

>>1837379 Here
I am glad there are Dragon Ball purists here, because I am one too. But this was not the topic. I was just wondering when you muricans could view the Dragon Ball (Z or not) ANIME on TV because I could see DB since 1987 and Z since 1990 or 1991 (I don't remember). But this was because we frenchies had a TV show where we had a nice selection of animes (DB, Cit Hunter, Captain Tsubasa, and some others), and this show were canceled in 1996, due to evil politicians.
I was curious to know what animes you could view in the 80s and 90s.

[Anonymous No.1839052]

>>1838216
>>>/s4s/

[Anonymous No.1839069]

>>1839030
Pretty much none. There were a few I guess, like Grimm's Fairy Tales, which is technically an anime because it was made in Japan. It ran on Nick, along with Noozles, which was also made in Japan but is not what people normally would think of as anime. Outside of that, the SciFi channel would occasionally air anime movies early in the mornings on the weekends, stuff like Iria, Venus Wars, Lodoss Wars, but not much. I didn't learn about anime until I got the internet in 1996.

[Anonymous No.1839071]

>>1837975
That's pretty spot on, actually.

[Anonymous No.1839085]

>>1814131
>Master Glove
Its Master Hand you cockmongling faggot

[Anonymous No.1839374]

>>1839030
Here's what I remember as big for kids my age on main stations that aired anime.
Ages 5-7: Pokemon, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Monster Rancher
Ages 8-13: Dragon Ball, Yu Yu Hakusho, Rurouni Kenshin, Gash Bell, BoBoBo, Shaman King, One Piece, Narushit, Inuyasha, Fullmetal Alchemist, Groove Adventure Rave, Ultimate Muscle, Sonic X, Sailor Moon, Blue Gender, Cowboy Bebop, Gundam Wing, Tenchi Muyo, The Big O, Cardcaptor Sakura, G Gundam, Hamtaro, Detective Conan, Kodomo no Omocha, s-CRY-ed, .Hack, Ghost In The Shell, Samurai Champloo, Bleach, FLCL, Wolf's Rain, Euereka Seven, Lupin the 3rd, Duel Masters, Beyblade, Kirby!, Tokyo Mew Mew, Gurren Lagann, RahXephon, Cromartie High School,

[Anonymous No.1839535]

>>1838216
>most civil threads are the lolicon threads

That's true across any board that's not already civil.

[Anonymous No.1839550]

>>1814527
It's still up. The forums are however good as dead. I sometimes drop by to see what has happened. Also to cringe at my old posts.

[Anonymous No.1840042]

>>1839550
I wish Nintendo Power was still up. I spent a large bulk of my childhood on there and it probably contained countless moments of my stupidity.

[Anonymous No.1840052]

>>1840042
There was this website that I used to go to a lot. It was a nintendo cheat site with black background and green text. It was so fucking cool to my little kid mind.

[Anonymous No.1840087]

>>1814645
>"My name is ???"
>"What!
>You battled with such a trainer?"
>"Did he happen to tell you his name?"
>"Rival's Name"

[Anonymous No.1840092]

>>1840087
Well, that's depressing.
Thanks though!

[Anonymous No.1840190]

>>1801781

I used to play the Spyro demo on Crash and the Crash demo on Spyro, despite having both games.

[Anonymous No.1840265]

>>1793349
bit the screen of my GBA SP because gollum wouldn't fucking die. No idea I had to throw him into the lava, like in the movie I watched a million times. Christ, I'm retarded.

[Anonymous No.1842332]

>>1793065

[Anonymous No.1842354]

>>1835185
>I still don't understand where "mew is under the truck" came from

>secret area you can only reach by dying in the right spot and coming back later
>has a piece of scenery that is found nowhere else in the game

Gee, I wonder why people thought there would be something there.

[Anonymous No.1844973]

bump

[Anonymous No.1845972]

I remember changing my screen's tint/color to emulate new powers in the Megaman games when I couldn't defeat the Robot Masters.

Also remembering doing the same in Zelda to get a neon dark world. shit was so cash

[Anonymous No.1846090]

Looking at the screen from different angles to see I can see "more of the game world".

[Anonymous No.1847458]

>>1845972
>Did this with the GBC's color mode thing
Shit was VERY cash, anon.

[Anonymous No.1850193]

>>1846090
I used to do this all the time as a child. I actually thought it was working because the CRT I used was very curved, so it made the the image on screen look different at the edges.

[Anonymous No.1850275]

>>1846090
I lean to see things around corners when a game camera moves slowly. It's involuntary, but I catch myself doing it occasionally.
I'm one of those people that leans when I play racing games, too. My brother thinks it's hilarious, but I guess it just means I get easily immersed in games.

[Anonymous No.1850472]

>>1787482
> "press down and B at the same time to increase the chance to catch a Pokemon with a Pokeball"
Is this a lie?! I always did that, and still do whenever I play Pokémon...

[Anonymous No.1852215]

>>1787482
I used to think the rival was a girl

[Anonymous No.1852519]

When I was around 6 I used to hover around people playing in the arcade while my parents shopped at the PX, because my family was too poor to give me quarters to waste.

There was one guy who constantly kept trying to finish Knights of the Round on one credit with either Arthur or Lancelot, and eventually my curiosity overcame my shyness and I asked him why he never chose Percival. He said it was because his axe was harder to pull out of the ground compared to the others' swords.

[Anonymous No.1852549]

>>1794715
My sister used to smash the controllers on the floor as hard as she could every time she died. It did not help.

[Anonymous No.1852559]

>>1825847
I don't think that the Japanese language even has profanity as we know it.

[Anonymous No.1852586]

>>1799583
Me too god damn man I love these threads they make me feel less stupid

[Anonymous No.1852658]

>>1839374
>Cromarite High School
>Aged 13
u wot m8

[Anonymous No.1852660]

>>1852658
Aired on G4's anime block nigga. Along with RaXepheon.

[Anonymous No.1853356]

>>1787521

>that zubat next to the "unique pokemon" advice

whoever wrote this must hate children with a passion