Stupid/funny/unusal things you (or others) did/believed as a kid

[Anonymous No.2149468]

Let's try this again.

>Get N64 and Mario 64 for christmas
>Manage to get King Bob-omb
>He doesn't die when I throw him on the ground where you encounter him, clearly I must be doing something wrong (I only threw him once)
>Keep throwing and taking him everywhere
>Can't do much else because 0 stars
>Eventually friend had to tell me that you're supposed to throw him three times

I wasn't even able to get the one other star I could get at that point because I was so afraid of the Chain Chomp.

[Anonymous No.2149478]

In Quest 64, I got to the first town and just assumed the leader there was your father, and I called it a day.

[Anonymous No.2149492]

>5 or 6 at the time
>can't beat Brock in Red
>for some reason, decide that healing at the Pokemon Center would make me stronger
>heal like 20 times in a row
>still get my ass kicked

>would try to jump on 8 (or is it 9?) enemies in a row in Yoshi's Island to try and get a 1-up

You know, that second one might actually work, but I don't remember.

[Anonymous No.2149502]

>Buttonmash in Street Fighter 2 and thought I was good until my Mom rekt me with Dhalism.

>Wanted to change my name to Sonic in kindergarten becuz I wanted to go fast.

>I thought getting a platinum ankh in Crash Bandicoot Warped was impossible.

[Anonymous No.2149521]

>>2149468
Don't feel bad. I grew up with snes, was blown away by Mario 64 when I first got it but had no clue what to do, spent 3 full play sessions just running around the castle jumping and swimming before I figured out you could jump into the paintings.

[Anonymous No.2149551]

>>2149502
>Wanted to change my name to Sonic in kindergarten becuz I wanted to go fast.
Literally laughed out loud.

[Anonymous No.2149556]

I thought Sonic was a dragon.

(I was four and did not know English.)

[Anonymous No.2149573]

>put SMB1 cartridge partially in
>enjoy new game, 'Garbled Green Block Man!"

[Anonymous No.2149665]

In Pokemon, I thought the nurse joy or whatever was behind a wall.

So I got all the way to Cinnabar Island without healing until I realized how a Pokemon Center worked.

[Kya !kDashing02 No.2149754]

>>2149468
My father and I spent at least a full day trying to beat King Bob-omb. We didn't think about just dropping him on the ground and kept throwing him off the mountain.
A day or so later, my older half sister came over and told us how to do it.

This was when I was four or something like that. Still can't believe it.

[Anonymous No.2149760]

>>2149492
For some reason I thought the nurse in the Pokemon Center would refuse to give me my Pokemon back. It took me like 15 minutes until I saw that I still had my Pokemon.

[Anonymous No.2149767]

I thought the merchants in Castlevania 2 were blob monsters with one eye and a big grinning mouth.

[Anonymous No.2149796]

>>2149468
I remember when I was little I would go on the internet and read about ways you could unlock Luigi/other Mario characters in SM64. I always tried to do what the guides told me but obviously nothing ever worked and I would get super pissed off.

[Anonymous No.2149823]

>>2149478
You did the right thing anon.

[Anonymous No.2149850]

>>2149796

No thread about bullshit on the internet about functions of games is complete with out Tomb Raider

>First make sure to face Lara exactly north...

[Anonymous No.2149976]

I tried to move the truck in Pokemon Red/Blue. Lost my shit when there was actually a truck there. Lots of disappointment followed.

[Anonymous No.2150009]

>>2149767
Holy shit i see it, that is terrifying.

[Anonymous No.2150012]

>>2149796
>>2149850
We've all been there. Naivety is a powerful thing.

[Anonymous No.2150035]

I had the WORST luck with snes/gameboy rpgs with getting lost or stuck. THe solution was almost always something stupid like you have to talk to that one guy in the corner 3-5 times IN A ROW without leaving because that resets the dialog options.

[Anonymous No.2150162]

It took probably a year for my sister and I to make it past child Link in OOT because neither of us noticed the entrance to Zora's River from Hyrule Field. Also, later during that playthrough I used the bottle glitch on Bombchus because I thought they were useless, which they were until that one room in Ganon's Castle.

I also accidentally erased my friend's (nearly completed) Banjo Kazooie save because sexy Grunty freaked me out as a kid and I turned the console off and back on too quickly.

Besides that, I also spoiled all the puzzles in Myst for myself because I was too young to logic my way through them but old enough to read my dad's strategy guide.

[Anonymous No.2150390]

Tried to defeat the barrel of doom by jumping on it.

[Anonymous No.2150575]

>>2149521
I genuinely thought that SM64 was going to end after the 8-star door Bowser.
Unlocking the basement was mindblowing

[Anonymous No.2150653]

>>2150575

When I first played Advance Wars I thought the Field Training missions were going to be the entire campaign portion of the game. Needless to say, bricks were shat when I got into the huge, extremely difficult campaign mode, and subsequently the advanced campaign.

[Anonymous No.2150656]

>>2149665

You played it right, anon. I beat Leaf Green last year without ever healing at a Pokemon Center or other healing spot.

[Anonymous No.2150661]

>>2150653
Was it your first videogame or what?

[Anonymous No.2150667]

>>2149796
>TFW find some guides for unlocking ridiculous shit like Spider-Man and Kenny from South Park in Super Smash Bros.
>Actually believe that shit.
>Actually fucking attempt it.
>Actually confused when it doesn't work.

[Anonymous No.2150854]

>>2150656
But it's not like I didn't lose or anything.

I spent half my time going back through Mt. Moon again and again until I found Cut.

[Anonymous No.2150859]

Obligatory:

>named the rival in Pokemon Silver '???' because he said that was his name

[Anonymous No.2150886]

>>2150653
same

[Anonymous No.2150985]

>>2150653
>>2150661
Not him, but the AW tutorial mode is pretty damn long for a tut, i can easily see how he thought there wasnt much more to the game beyond that.

Nowadays long in-game tutorials are a common thing but it was only beginning to be a thing back then.

[Anonymous No.2151928]

>>2150162
why didn't you just use the reset button you little fucker

[Anonymous No.2152480]

>>2150390
try to find somebody that didn't

[Anonymous No.2152507]

>Star Wars VHS has "Star Wars" written on it
>Terminator VHS has "Terminator" written on it
>Zelda cart has "Legend of Zelda" written on it
>Writing "Super Mario Bros." on a blank VHS would turn it into Super Mario Bros.

[Anonymous No.2152514]

>>2152507
You were a fucking stupid kid
omg

[Anonymous No.2152528]

>>2152507
lol'd

[Anonymous No.2152532]

>>2149468

Haha I have a good story for you guys

>5 or 6 at the time
>Wasn't mentally challenged.
>Pretty much had no problems with any game ever because I wasn't retarded.

[Anonymous No.2152535]

>>2152532
It's better to be retarded than to be a buzzkill.

[Anonymous No.2152554]

>>2152535
>it's better to get a participation trophy than be first
yeah no

[Anonymous No.2152576]

>>2152554
You don't strike me as a very fun person, anon.

[Anonymous No.2152586]

>>2152576
You don't strike me as a winner.

[Anonymous No.2152590]

>>2152586
sh-shut up

[Anonymous No.2152593]

>>2150859

I literally cant believe so many kids did this

[Anonymous No.2152598]

>>2149468
When that bat demon thing in Link to the Past "cursed" Link with the "half magic power" thing, I freaked out, reloaded my save, and didn't go back in there until I learned later on that he was actually halving your MP consumption.

[Anonymous No.2152610]

>spend day after day trying to kill gannon
>refuse to ask for help
>freak out
>finally ask for help
"You use the butterfly net anon"

[Anonymous No.2152618]

>>2152610
I actually used the net to beat Agahnim, because I tried swiping at one of the orbs with the Master Sword, and got shocked. I didn't know you could deflect them with the sword, and just assumed it was the orb that shocked me, and not Agahnim himself. I was too close to him.

So, I ended up going through my items, and trying out everything I had, eventually discovering that the net would deflect his energy balls. So, that's how I beat him.

[Anonymous No.2152631]

>>2152593
>Kids are taught to never lie when speaking with authority figures
I'm amazed more people didn't.
Silver identifies himself as ??? and the cop asks you for his name. It was an extremely vague and circuitous way of having you name your rival.

[Anonymous No.2152635]

>>2152631
I started using drugs at a very early age.
I almost compulsively lied my entire childhood.
Got really fucking good at it too, it's really really hard for me to tell the truth a lot as an adult.
There are plenty of times with girlfriends etc where I instantly lie without even thinking of it and have to correct myself.

I'm good at it too, I can carry the lie on forever and keep it believable.

I know in blue I named him buttlikr or something that fit and in gold I just named him some profanity too.

[Anonymous No.2152646]

>>2149478
Knew a kid who thought Solvaring was the final boss.

[Anonymous No.2152652]

>>2152635
I know you're trying as hard as you can to be edgy, but the topic here is the poor context in which you name your rival in GSC.

In RBY it's quite explicit:
"Oh yes, my grandson, what was his name again?" [Name entry screen].

But in GSC the dude explicitly refers to himself as ???. A police officer then asks you for his name, and as a well-adjusted, obedient child you do not lie to the cop and instead input the only moniker by which this individual referred to himself: "???"
It was dumb on Gamefreak's part, and they remedied it somewhat in HGSS by showing you the dude's trainer card.

[Anonymous No.2152658]

>>2152652
not trying to be edgy as much as responding to
>Kids are taught to never lie when speaking with authority figures

[Anonymous No.2152701]

I had no clue Star Fox 64 had alternative levels and vehicles. I only learned this when my friend borrowed the game and I went to his house to play it. However the only reason he knew about the alternative levels was because he looked up the information online.

[Anonymous No.2152730]

I always associated the voices from Stardust Speedway JP with Squidward's house

this one in particular
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojWjPJowkR4

[Anonymous No.2152738]

>>2152701
I'm really happy I knew about this by finding it out for myself as a kid by playing
Although I never unlocked you being able to run around on foot in multiplayer...

[Anonymous No.2152786]

>>2149502
When I was around that age, I wanted to change my name to Piccolo because I didn't like Connor.

[Anonymous No.2152901]

Playing Super Mario on GBA. Read a tip that red dot levels have 2 exits. Notice a pattern. Every Ghost House that is near a red dot level has 2 exits. Worked for every Ghost House except for pic related. Spent hours looking for a secret exit.

[Anonymous No.2152908]

>>2152901

pretty sure that particular ghost house doesn't have a secret exit. but it's true, every red dot level has 2 exits.

[Anonymous No.2153114]

>>2152507
This is a new level of retarded.

[Anonymous No.2153123]

>>2152631
I think I was ten at the time, so I understood it was a framing device for naming your rival.

[Anonymous No.2153126]

>>2152701
Didn't the map screen confuse you with all those unavailable planets?

[Anonymous No.2153149]

>playing Doom first time
>Oh look, I wonder if something's in that barrel
>shoot it with a shotgun while right in front

[Anonymous No.2153151]

>>2150390
Yeah when I encountered that back in 1994 I assumed I had taken a wrong turn and that it was actually a dead end trap, and just waited until time ran out.

I tried different branching parts and I always ended up at that same damn barrel and I hated it

[Anonymous No.2153152]

>>2153126
They could have just been there for decoration

There isn't like a line or anything to show that you can go there if you don't find the secret path

[Anonymous No.2153252]

I remember someone claiming that in Super Mario 64, there was a switch in the castle that would activate a staircase to the roof, as an alternative to using the cannon to get to the roof. Of course, this person "didn't remember where it was."

[Anonymous No.2153260]

>>2153252
There were so many fucking rumors about that game that I was actually kinda surprised about Yoshi actually being on the roof when I finally got all the stars.
My cousin claimed you could jumpkick Lakitu when he approaches you on the bridge at the start of the game, which would make you steal his fishing rod, which Mario could then use to fish at the castle lake.

[Anonymous No.2153262]

>>2149767
I see it now anon...so funny

[Anonymous No.2154571]

>>2149767
i miss those threads

[Anonymous No.2154650]

>Pokemon red
>pick Squirtle, love it
>eventually evolves into Wartortle
>confused, I take it to the pokemon center thinking it would change it back
>it doesn't
>restart game
>repeat this cycle, picking Squirtle each time, until I figure out you can cancel evolution with B
>proceed to beat the game with Squirtle
>eventually raise Squirtle to level 100 without ever letting it evolve
I couldn't explain this if I tried

[Anonymous No.2154669]

>>2154650
Depends. Did you do this with any of your other Pokemon?

[Anonymous No.2154676]

>>2154669
No, I overlevelled Squirtle and steamrolled everyone with it. I only ever used other Pokemon as fodder to switch into so I could use a revive when Squirtle fainted.

[Anonymous No.2155673]

>>2152631
It wasn't vague, it's common sense no human on Earth would be named QuestionMarkQuestion MarkQuestionMark.

[Anonymous No.2155692]

It took me years to realize that "Alucard" is "Dracula" spelled backwards. I am not a smart person.

[Anonymous No.2155715]

>online one day
>read that you can save Aeris if you be mean to Tifa
>Tifa would supposedly run in front of Aeris and save her by sacrificing herself
>get excited because I liked Aeris more than Tifa
>tell brother
>"No anon, that won't work, I already tried it"
>mfw

Why was there so much of this bullshit on the internet at the time

Fucking Supercheats

[Anonymous No.2155725]

>>2149556
Was seriously worried before you clarified with that second sentence.

[Anonymous No.2155729]

>>2155692
Jeez and I thought I was a fool for not realizing Grobyc was Cyborg backwards for 5 minutes.

[Anonymous No.2155734]

>>2155673
>brb replaying pokemon and naming all my rivals Mark?

[Anonymous No.2155740]

>>2155673
You are obviously unfamiliar with Question Mark and the Mysterians

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc8Y2zNckKs

[Anonymous No.2155757]

>>2149468
>3rd-4th Grade
>Playing Mega Man X on SNES
>Get to first stage Boss (vile)
>Keep dying fighting vile
>Call friend, tells me Im suposed to loose to vile
>WTF ive been dying constantly fighting him
>Figure out I was supposed to be getting by stun charge he fires at me for him to grab me and zero to save me

Guess I was too good for the first stage

[Anonymous No.2157760]

bump
any more stories?

[Anonymous No.2158147]

>>2157760
Not really funny, but yeah
When I first played Vagrant story, I was not aware that you can, and indeed, are supposed to chain one attack after another. I spent the whole game, up until the Wyvern/Dragon in Le Monde, attacking an enemy one blow at a time. Because of this it took me so long, and I remember, once I finally managed to kill boss, I was so overjoyed to finally be able to progress. Shortly after, you find another boss, that crablike thing, and I was just so puzzled as to how there could be so many bosses in short succession because I had to rely so heavily on items to get me through, on account of my unorthodox playing style. It wasn't until I came back years later and stuck it in my Ps3 that I learned that I'd been doing it very wrong.

[Anonymous No.2158170]

>>2155715
>Why was there so much of this bullshit on the internet at the time
>Fucking Supercheats
I kinda miss it, to be honest.

[Anonymous No.2158224]

I rented a Secret of Mana cart once that had Purin at level 64 and the other two at around level 15. Progression-wise the Fire Tiger hadn't been beaten yet. At the time I thought it was a bit weird, but when I finished the game for the first time with my party at level 56, I was awed at how the people who rented the cart(maybe it was one guy?) killed rabites and mushbooms with Purin solo until level 60+ and nothing else.

[Anonymous No.2158228]

In Pokemon Yellow I always assumed the nugget from nugget bridge was a chicken nugget. Anyone else?

[Anonymous No.2158235]

>>2149665
>>2149760
When a Pokemon got poisoned and the screen flashed i though that it was hungry and when they died i though that they were dead for good.

[Anonymous No.2158248]

>>2158235
...Did you not get a pleasant surprise when you went to the pokemon centre?

[Anonymous No.2158256]

>>2158235
Man that fucking flashing screen. I was so worried that my game was somehow broken. It took me a while to realize it's because of the poison.

Another one which comes to mind:
>read about the Elite Four in the Red/Blue game guide
>guide mentions if you lose once you have to start all over
>didn't challenge them because I was worried I had to restart the entire game

[Anonymous No.2158605]

>Early childhood play original LOZ and Oracle of Seasons
>Play OOT in late childhood
>Get to Forest Temple
>Don't bother exploring the first room, since it never has anything of interest in the aforementioned Zeldas
>Don't know about the key on top of the tree
>Spend a month trying to activate eye-switches with my hookshot

[Anonymous No.2158621]

>>2158605
To be fair, that was a dirty place for the devs to hide a key

[Anonymous No.2158636]

>>2158621
Yup. It took me a while to find, too. I assumed it was just an entrance like area and it was only when I could not find a key anywhere that I started checking every place possible in great detail that I did find it.

[Anonymous No.2158653]

>>2152631
Yeah, nah, it wasn't vague or ambiguous at all.

We should run a survey on all the kids who named their rival "???" for learning difficulties and autism, I bet there's a correlation.

[Anonymous No.2158659]

>>2158653
The only way I can see anyone being dumb enough is that Silver/Gold was their first pokemon game

[Anonymous No.2158667]

>tfw never had a major problem with any children's toy (videogames) because not developmentally challenged

Shame all that time spent playing them stunted my social skills.

[Anonymous No.2158679]

Well, not game related, but I and my friends used to clean Snes cartridges and the system with something moistened when it wasn't working, one of them thought that more water would make the console work even better and poured a glass full of water into it.
It never worked again.

[Anonymous No.2158719]

>>2158636
>>2158605

Oh God, me playing Zelda as a child would have looked so retarded.

>never used the Map or Compass
>wandering around for hours
>trying every item everywhere, and I mean EVERY item, EVERYWHERE
>the frustration of being one key short
>the Forest Temple in OoT
>the Water Temple in Majora's Mask

Although to be fair, when I play Zelda games today, I still have to remind myself to use the Map more.

[Anonymous No.2158721]

>>2158679

>it never worked again

No shit it didn't! As a kid I was always SUPER careful of water around my vidya.

[Anonymous No.2158737]

>>2158719
>dad buys me OoT out of nowhere one day
>leaves me in car for a few minutes to go grab some stuff he needed for dinner or whatever
>comes back with the guide as well

So fucking happy that day.

He did the same thing with TP when that came out too just to relive those happy memories.

[Anonymous No.2158752]

>>2158721
If you don't turn it on there's still hope anon.

[Anonymous No.2158768]

>any RTS
>just building a pretty town and trying out all the different units until I get bored instead of what the game wants me to do
>get upset when the computer inevitably rushes my sandbox and kicks over my sandcastles
>start turtling like mad with walls/towers or cheat and destroy the computer so that it has one house left and I could continue citybuilding
>never played the campaigns either, just hundreds of hours of melee where I could dick around without any purpose
To this day I consider myself a good player at a range of RTS games from AoE and Starcraft to Cossacks, but I've never beaten a single RTS campaign because my childhood has instilled instinctual boredom from playing anything but melee

[Anonymous No.2158786]

>thought beating final boss in Sonic 2 as Knuckles was impossible
>fast forward many years
>decide to look it up
>feel retarded

[Anonymous No.2158848]

>>2158786
>>thought beating final boss in Sonic 2 as Knuckles was impossible
Ha, I actually used to believe that beating the second boss of Super Bomberman 3 was impossible for a good 1 year or so, and there should be an alternative route to the third world instead.

[Anonymous No.2158858]

>>2158768

I swear this one is common as hell with kids and RTS, I used to do the same and did all of my friends who played RTS games. No wonder Minecraft is so popular with kids today.

[Anonymous No.2158868]

>>2158858
I did this, to me Age of Empires was the game where you make 30 photon men and then build a city.

[Anonymous No.2158878]

>>2158858
Yeah, I'm actually happy Minecraft didn't come out when I was a kid, because I would've played absolutely nothing else.
At least I had Lego.

[Anonymous No.2158880]

>>2158719
I was so happy with my highscore in Zelda LTTP. It was like 380. It was so high, but I was sad it never got higher; I figured the highscore must not keep going up once you kill the final boss.

>that wasn't a highscore, anon

[Anonymous No.2158889]

>>2152480
me

[Anonymous No.2158909]

>>2158880
What was it? It's been years since I last played A Link to the Past.

[Anonymous No.2158975]

>>2158909
Your death count. It even displays how many in which dungeons.

[Anonymous No.2159071]

>>2158768
I used to do weird shit like that.
Like filling the entire map with zerg creep in starcraft. Mining every single resource.

I remember running into a guy in a 4v4 Random Team in Wc3 about 2003 or 2004, who's goal was to eat every single tree with night elf buildings before the game was over. Was pretty funny.

[Anonymous No.2159118]

>>2152631
Really? You were taught that?
We were taught "police officers are good deep down because the people who are arrested deserve it" but we were never taught to "never lie to cops". My mother taught to "never lie" period but nobody mentioned cops.

Speaking of cops, what's your favorite retro vidya cop?

[Anonymous No.2159127]

>>2158737
> playing OoT for the first time with a guide

[Anonymous No.2159160]

>>2158768
I'm ashamed to admit I still do it to this day, to a certain extent. Building a civilization is so much more fun than destroying others'.
I'm not that good at RTS because of it.

[Anonymous No.2159164]

>>2149468
>Mew is under the truck.

[Anonymous No.2159182]

>>2152586
hee hee hee you come first at everything hee hee hee

[Anonymous No.2159225]

>>2152631
Are you autistic?

[Anonymous No.2159229]

>>2159225
>hhhaughtizztick

b-but I thought /vr/ was the cooler /v/

[Anonymous No.2159454]

>>2150035
It took me a long time in Link's Awakening to figure out that you can push the sea anemones while holding the shield. This wasn't back in THE day but in A day (Game Boy Pocket era).

Same shit confounded me when I picked it up a couple years ago, had to view a Let's Play to figure out how to get past the beach section.

[Anonymous No.2159462]

>>2152598
Yeah I thought this was something you needed to avoid until the Internet explained that it's an infelicitous translation, since by "your magic power" he means "your magic consumption (rate) (per spell)" or "every spell's cost".

[Anonymous No.2159545]

>>2159229
that's what /v/ thinks too

[Anonymous No.2159684]

Couldn't figure out that I had to slice the curtain behind where Agahnim flees in ALTTP

I spent like an hour wandering around that room trying to understand what the fuck I was supposed to do, never figured it out until my sister (who was further in the game than me) told me

[Anonymous No.2159789]

>>2159684
I thought I'd finished the game after that.

[Anonymous No.2159804]

>>2158228
Go to bed, Ronnie.

[Anonymous No.2159810]

>>2159684
I always thought his headband was a giant eye.

[Anonymous No.2159813]

>>2152730
Huh. Whenever I hear Stardust Speedway (JP) past version, I always think of some back alley in New York or something, maybe during the late 70s/ early 80s. Lots of overhead power lines and it's always right before sunset when everything has an orange cast to it. I don't know why it's such a specific image but that's what I imagine.

Best example I could find on google was something like this but at ground level.

[Anonymous No.2160003]

>>2159462
>an infelicitous translation
Do you know if he's still meant to 'be evil' in the original though, like he's still meant to act as what he's bestowing on you is negative, or has that also stemmed from misunderstanding in translation?

[Anonymous No.2160025]

>>2160003

actually it's accurate, according to kwhazit's work.

Hey, how dare you awaken
me from my long slumber!
...thank you very much.
Hey, I'm gonna pay you back
for this, so brace yourself.
...will that be all right?
Heheheh, serves you right!
Now your magic will drop half
as much... good for you.
Then, try your damn best.
A pleasant farewell~

it seems they intended him to try to curse link, but accidentally help him instead.

[Anonymous No.2160196]

>>2159684
My god, you're right.

[Anonymous No.2160470]

>>2158679
Are your friends honestly retarded?

[Anonymous No.2161319]

I use to put a penny into the cartridge slot of my SNES every time before I played a game when I was four. I don't remember why I use to do it though. A bunch of pennies accumulated at the bottom of the housing over time.

One day (I was still four) I saw a triangle shaped hole on the back of my SNES, which made it look as if someone had dropped it and chipped a piece off, that I had never noticed before. I didn't know how it got there, but I assumed it was broken and didn't work anymore without even trying to turn it on. I told my dad that the SNES was broken which he probably took as "it's non-functioning" and assumed I tried turning it on before telling him. He put it away somewhere and I never saw it again, but I thought nothing of it because as far as I knew, it was broken. Eventually, I forgot about the SNES.
Years later, when I was fourteen, I remembered about it. I asked my dad what happened to the SNES and he told me "I put it away because it was broken because you put pennies in it, but we probably forgot it when we moved out of the apartments". I then remembered that my dad put it away because I told him it was broken, only because I saw the hole at the back of it. I figured that my dad didn't even bother to check if it really was broken before he put it away either, since he couldn't even remember why he really put it away. I realized neither of us knew if it was really broken or not when he put it away. Then I remembered I never had any problems with the SNES before I saw that hole that day. At that moment, I realized that it still worked when my dad put it away. All those years I could've still had my SNES were lost because I saw the small hole at the back of it that could have been there the entire time.

[Anonymous No.2161328]

I feel like you spent a lot of time turning 1 page papers into 5 page papers in highschool.

[Anonymous No.2161349]

>>2161319
>I use to put a penny into the cartridge slot of my SNES every time before I played a game when I was four. I don't remember why I use to do it though. A bunch of pennies accumulated at the bottom of the housing over time.

>And that's the end of the story.

FTFY.

[Anonymous No.2161357]

>>2158605
>>2158719
>Playing OoT
>Pull on the Gravestones while that little kid is outside pretending to be Dampe.
>Text pops up "Don't mess with the gravestones! I'm telling Dampe"
>The camera doesn't move or anything, and I didn't see the kid.
>Assume it was Navi that said that

>Later on in the game
>Spend weeks trying to figure out how to find Dampe's hookshot.
>"You just open the Grave anon"
>HOW!?

[Anonymous No.2161479]

One I did ages ago and never found out how to do again to this day.

>Be 6-7
>Playing Hey you pikachu! for months
>One day go with pikachu to cobalt island for treasure hunting
>Get to the higher beach where the abandoned outpost is.
>Walk up to the board walk, pikachu runs ahead
>Get to where butterfree normally is and the ship canons.
>Turn camera and investigate the treasure chest buried down below us
>"Pikachu is inspecting the cannon..."
>Suddenly turn around, pikachu is standing on the cannon
>"Pikachu is inspecting the Cannon...."
>Call him over to get the treasure instead
>"Pikachu has fallen into the cannon!"
>FSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
>BOOM
>CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaa
>Pikachu goes flying across the island and straight into the sand of the other side
>Camera imediately pulls me all the way to the other island on a track
>Pikachu is headfirst in the sand, tail and feet up.
>Call to pikachu in panic
>"Pikachu is playing dead..."
>"Pikachu is playing dead..."
>"Pikachu is playing dead..."
>"Pikachu is playing dead..."
>"Pikachu woke up"
>Gets up rubs the back of its head, then runs off and gets interested in a durian


I've never had it happen to this day, and nothing about it ever shows up online, has anyone else had a similar experience with this?

[Anonymous No.2161634]

This

[Anonymous No.2161660]

>>2161479
Sounds like a false memory, anon.

[Anonymous No.2161778]

>>2149492
I remember not knowing that the PC was in the Center, so I spent hours searching for the "PC island" and get all the pokemon I caught earlier.

[Anonymous No.2161787]

>>2161634
You're either retarded or trolling.

[Anonymous No.2161895]

>>2152646
He was fucking hard at the time, that game had some dank atmosphere building him up.

I once left the N64 on overnight with the joystick held to the left by a string and a keyring. Mad agility, dog.

[Anonymous No.2161901]

>>2158256
LOL

[Anonymous No.2161907]

>>2150162
I remember being stuck in OOT at like 6 or 7 years old, in the goddamn Deku Tree, not realizing i had to make that huge suicide jump onto the web. The fact that it doesn't move when you stand on it paired with self-preservation had me stuck...

[Anonymous No.2161928]

>>2158147
VS is complicated enough without additional misconceptions ruining your playthrough. There are so many ways to play that game poorly between suboptimal weapon setups and enemy affinities and dumb risk accumulation and...

You really didn't stand a chance.

>>2158170
I miss it too. The age of the internet myth is over, except in the case of relatively obscure games or those which resist thorough investigation (games with complex branching paths, etc). I miss when games that everybody knew had mysteries and you could talk about them at school.

>>2158719
ONE FUCKING KEY EVERY TIME GOD DAMMIT FOREST TEMPLE

>>2159164
But I don't have strength yet!

>>2161479
I once had a nightmare about being lost in the mist of the Poliwhirl level, just endless blind dock walkways...

[Anonymous No.2161957]

>>2158228
I figured it was a chicken nugget but I knew that couldn't be right, either, because of how much its worth. That's how I saw it in my head, however.

[Anonymous No.2161959]

>>2158256
Don't worry, anon. I took that message as "restarting the entire game" as well; it took a long time before I decided that I would challenge them but shut the game off when I lost.

[Anonymous No.2161962]

As a kid I was a complete retard so I used guides and magazine tips all of the time. Until recently I decided to actually play the fucking games instead of following a recipe, hence the following:

I played through the whole school in SH1 without a map. I entered the same rooms at least four or five times. I supposed the game didn't feature maps in those stages until I easily found the hospital one.

[Anonymous No.2161964]

>>2152635
nobody likes mythomaniacs anon

[Anonymous No.2161967]

I was scared as fuck of the oddworld intro, especially of abe himself.

[Anonymous No.2161970]

>>2159127
tbh I believe there were some stuff in OOT wouldn't have found without learning by hearsay from my friends (never used a guide though).
Recess was basically trading-game-info-time.

[Anonymous No.2161972]

>>2161907
That took me a few times to figure out too. I remember thinking I had to burn it or something first.

[Anonymous No.2161976]

Lego Racers: I wasted way too much time trying to find a shortcut on the Knightmare-athon track.

[Anonymous No.2162209]

>>2158147
Dude don't get my started on that game and its machination.

I seriously spent three hours one time doing two or three damage to the dragon/wyvern in the mines because I was tarded and rebuilt my dragon fighting weapon.

Still I got insane risk amounts piled up was rediculous.

[Anonymous No.2162312]

>>2161479
>That kid

[Anonymous No.2162353]

>>2153152
What? Yes there is. Before you start the level the planet will have lines coming from it to show the path.

[Anonymous No.2162393]

>>2149502
I currently work with a guy who officially changed his middle name by deed poll to Sonic.

I have never wanted to punch somebody this hard.

[Anonymous No.2162789]

>>2162353
Wasn't that just when you beat the harder path, to act as an option to select the easier one anyway?

[Anonymous No.2162810]

>>2162393
Ask him for his da and link it here.

[Anonymous No.2162916]

>>2161319
Sad story ;_;

[Anonymous No.2162920]

>>2149976
>I tried to move the truck in Pokemon Red/Blue. Lost my shit when there was actually a truck there
So you found a truck under the truck?

[Anonymous No.2162963]

>>2159454
to be fair, the shield is the only item you have at that point and there's nowhere else to go

[Anonymous No.2162994]

When i first played Poogeymen, which happened to be on a emulator, i always loaded a savestate when my poke got hit by a stat-reducing attack, thinking it was a permanent decrease to my stats.

It wasn't until i played one of the games on the DS, with no savestates, that made me get that out of my mind.

[Anonymous No.2163014]

Never used Bellsprout because the sprite scared me, and friends convinced me he was super weak so I thought it was justified.

[Anonymous No.2163061]

>>2163014
Am i kawaii yet, Anon?

[Anonymous No.2163087]

>>2161319
Try to cut down that story next time you tell it.

[Anonymous No.2163148]

>playing OoT as a kid, made a second save after my older brother
>lake hylia, adult link
>enter water temple for first time
>bro comes in and tells me he never finished that temple because it was too confusing, he got lost
>stop playing for 3 months because I was afraid I would get stuck and never get out

Later

>reach the bottom of the well as kid link
>reach dead hand mini boss
>stop playing forever because he scared the shit out of me

[Anonymous No.2163352]

In ALttP, for a long time I thought there was a hidden "real" master sword in the Lost Woods, because the screenshots at the back of the game case were different from the actual game. Also that there was something you could do with your hearts, because it was "+LIFE+" instead of "-LIFE-" Eventually I figured those were beta screenshots or regional differences or something.

[Anonymous No.2164131]

>>2161357
Did you know he was dead when you went to look for the hookshot - surely if you knew that you could try anyway because she can't tell Dampe if he's not there

[Anonymous No.2164573]

>>2158653
>has autism
>named rival ???
Can confirm

[Anonymous No.2164829]

>>2161357
This

[Anonymous No.2164841]

>>2163352
I remember searching for the sword planted on a cliff in Zelda 2 due to the title screen

[Anonymous No.2164864]

Playing Hamtaro Ham Ham Heartbreak fro the GBA, stuck in boo manor, I thought when Hamtaro became trapped I lost and had to restart the game

[Anonymous No.2166009]

>Playing Pokemon Red/Blue
>Trying to get my Pokemon out of the PC
>Think "Withdraw" means leave the PC and "Release" means to retrieve the Pokemon

I lost practically everyone on my first playthrough because of that.

[Anonymous No.2166070]

>>2164841
Why was it even planted there on the title screen?

[Anonymous No.2166573]

>first play-through of Pokemon Blue
>did what most kids did and overlevelled my starter
>beat elite 4 and head to Cerulean Cave
>don't believe my friend when he says the masterball will catch Mewtwo no problem
>decide I should damage it first just in case
>Venusaur used solar beam
>Mewtwo fainted

I still don't know why I didn't trust the masterball.

[Anonymous No.2166584]

>>2166070

reference to Sword in Stone legends durr

[Anonymous No.2166596]

>>2153123
probably 7 or 8 when playing Gold, also named him right.

But I have to admit that I leveled up my Totodile to level 20 and evolved it to Croconaw before reaching Pokémon Professor's house because couldn't find it, I was just going up and down the route till I found I could go the other way.

Got a bunch of berries too.

[Anonymous No.2166607]

>>2166573
>Not saving beforehand.

[Anonymous No.2166972]

>>2166573
I did the same but I only damaged him a little "just to be safe". I also saved before every legendary.

[Anonymous No.2167068]

>>2158768
Even though it's a horrible idea for competitive play, I always place my buildings symmetrically. I can't play against my friends anymore because they know I do it and where to launch an attack to destroy 99% of my power/supplies/gatherers.

[Anonymous No.2168838]

>>2158768

>Starcraft
>refuse to build any fucking buildings except for Photon Cannons
>entire gigantic fields of PCs
>it would take any opponent up to 15 minutes or more to clear it all out

Good times.