/vr/ - Retro Games

[My story No.2788434]

Today, after 10 years, I've finally found my first console ever, my cousins gave me it when I was 4, it was 2000. Sadly one day my parents had taken it and put it in the basement cause' "videogames are not good, they make you stupid". After 2 relocations the nes was never found and became a sort myth. From those days I've started collecting videogames wondering if I would ever find that pice of my heart. Today it is a great day, it is not about expand my collection (even though there are some gems), it is about return child.
Does /vr/ has a similar story? Do you remember where you've picked up any of your game? Did someone introduced you into gaming? how?

What do you think about what I found?

[Anonymous No.2788446]

all of your commas gave me cancer

[Anonymous No.2788448]

I think blogposts should go into the >>>/trash/

[Anonymous No.2788453]

>Mattel version
>Yuropoors

[Anonymous No.2788457]

>>2788446
Hope, you, died

[Anonymous No.2788465]

>>2788434
Where the fuck was it? You left out the rest of the story fucking christ.

[Anonymous No.2788467]

>>2788465
Sorreh
It was in a random box with some magazines on the top of it

[Anonymous No.2788470]

Good blog I read it

[Anonymous No.2788473]

>>2788467
What's that Konami game, the very last one?

[Anonymous No.2788474]

>>2788434

a few of those games there will actually make you stupid... they weren't wrong. :P

[Anonymous No.2788476]

>>2788473

Not OP, but I'm pretty sure that's RollerGames.

[Anonymous No.2788479]

Rollergames

[Anonymous No.2788525]

>>2788434
>being 4 in 2000
nigger wtf

[Anonymous No.2788541]

nice blog dipshit

[Anonymous No.2788571]

>>2788434
Garbage.Shitty childhood where mom bought movie games. You got lucky with chip and dale but only decent things are the mike tyson version of punch out and RC pro am.

[Anonymous No.2788575]

I'm happy for you, OP.

[Anonymous No.2788580]

>>2788525
UNDERAh shit.

>>2788571
Hey, ease up, he's got Dr. Mario.

[Anonymous No.2788594]

>>2788571
>Gremlins 2
>Robocop
>Gauntlet 2
>Mario/Duck Hunt
>Garbage
Get out of here.

[Anonymous No.2788609]

>>2788434
Why are the dust protectors stacked separately?
They can't protect dust that way!

[Anonymous No.2788690]

>>2788434
>Mattel Version

I'm sorry, what? I've never seen this, why is Mattel making NESes?

[Anonymous No.2788708]

>>2788690
They made the NES in Canada too. Pretty sure they even did it in the US. It just wasn't advertised as a Mattel product.

[Anonymous No.2788720]

>>2788690
PAL version most likely.

[Anonymous No.2788734]

>>2788690
Nintendo always outsourced cartridge/console production back in the day.

Combine that with hefty licensing fees and chokehold exclusivity deals, and Nintendo was swimming in cash.

Not to mention whoring out their game mascots to everyone on the planet (Mario has seen everything from the front & back of a cereal box, to children's genitalia (underwear).

[Anonymous No.2788738]

>>2788575
this desu

[Anonymous No.2788742]

>>2788453
>>2788720

I'm Euro and I've honestly never seen a Mattel NES here ever.

[Anonymous No.2788760]

>>2788434
>The Addams Family
I'm sorry, Anon, I know your pain.

[Anonymous No.2788762]

>>2788742
>Mattel NES
It was mainly distributed in Canada and Austrailia, Eurobro.

Wiki gibberish incoming:

"In the UK, Italy and Australia which share the PAL A region, two versions of the NES were released; the "Mattel Version" and "NES Version".[67] When the NES was first released in those countries, it was distributed by Mattel and Nintendo decided to use a lockout chip specific to those countries, different from the chip used in other European countries. When Nintendo took over European distribution in 1990, they produced consoles that were then labelled "NES Version"; therefore, the only differences between the two are the text on the front flap and texture on the top/bottom of the casing."

[Anonymous No.2788779]

>>2788434
>my cousins gave me it when I was 4, it was 2000.

God damn. I was a teenager in 2000.

[Anonymous No.2788784]

>>2788734
Also sodas back in the 90's. They were breddy gud. I like the Yoshi one.

[Anonymous No.2788796]

>>2788779
I was fresh out of college

[Anonymous No.2788838]

>>2788796
Same here.
I wonder how I would have reacted if someone would have told me that one day I would have nearly every major console game (pre-2000) stored on a hard drive, and all playable with a mobile phone.

[Anonymous No.2788870]

>>2788434
About half those games are awesome. The rest range from average to forgettable.

[Anonymous No.2788901]

>>2788609
I was cleaning them
Now of course they are on the cartridges

[Anonymous No.2788913]

I have several games that still have this sticker on them. Game Corner was a store and rental shop that also had arcade games in the back. I spent many, many hours there as a kid. To this day the combination smell of stale cigarette smoke and a bunch of sweaty geeks makes me think of primal rage and mortal kombat 2. I miss it, they shut down around maybe 1996.

[Anonymous No.2788916]

Btw here's what I have now

[Anonymous No.2788967]

>>2788916

what's with those printed labels? =/

[Anonymous No.2788976]

>>2788967
What do you mean?

[Anonymous No.2788993]

For years there has been this old cartridge I knew nothing about lying outside of my grandma's house. It read Stargate and Atari 2600 on the label.
It was lying there for as long I can remember and neither my mother nor my grandma had any idea where this came from.
I grew up with videogames since early in my upbringing but this cartridge resembled nothing I knew about. I was about to destroy it as the stupid child I was but then an epiphany struck me in the back of my head "what if, just what if, I keep it? I might get the console this belongs to when I grow up" and so I kept it.
Fast forward twelve years later, I get a hold of an Atari with some games and I remember that cartridge I decided to spare it's life.
That was the very first one I wanted to try as soon as I got the Atari hooked up.

I just washed the pins with some alcohol and plugged it in. It worked.

"Jesus fuck man! (accurate words) They really made this things well back in those days!"

I felt good for not destroying it as that single game was better than most of the games I bought the console with. The end.

Also, I'm collecting SMT games as I grew up just admiring those series and having to stick ti just playing emulators and roms.

Feels good man, even if I can't understand shit. I'm not that weaboo just yet.

[Anonymous No.2789539]

>>2788976

I mean the mega mans, chip n dale and bionic commando all look like they were made with a handheld label maker.

[Anonymous No.2789564]

>>2789539
Not him but some NES cartridges didn't have stylized fonts on the top of the label.

[Anonymous No.2789627]

>>2788434
So how and where was it found. This feels like only half a story.

[IaTM No.2789781]

>>2788762
Canada's an NTSC country, sir. they got the normal NES.

[Anonymous No.2789967]

>>2788779
I'm stuck in this as well... Totally stopped reading and that's all I gained from this thread.
4 in 2000.
I can't even...

[Anonymous No.2789969]

>>2789564

yeah but the titles i mentioned did. or at least the north american versions did. the capcom games didn't have white labels like that in the USA.

[Anonymous No.2790057]

>>2788779
My first kid was 4 in 2000.

[Anonymous No.2790067]

>>2788434
>I was 4
>it was 2000

Go back to reddit.

[Anonymous No.2790085]

>>2788434
>"videogames are not good, they make you stupid"
They might have been on to something.

[Anonymous No.2790529]

>>2788434
>videogames are not good, they make you stupid
apparently they were right

[Anonymous No.2790696]

>>2788580
>UNDERAh shit
kekked/10

[Anonymous No.2790701]

>>2790067
go to bed gramps, this site is for COOL KIDS only

[Anonymous No.2790816]

>>2790067
Op here, never been to reddit. Why does it matter how old I am? Please don't tell me I can't understand nor I didn't breath enough 90's air and my mind is not forged to handle retro.

[Anonymous No.2790997]

>>2790816
If a 90 hear old had posted the same shit as you he would have rightfully been call an underage cancerous faggot.

[Anonymous No.2791013]

>>2788434
>it is about return child
Poetic.

[Anonymous No.2791537]

>>2789781
From the same wikipedia article (it was also mentioned by a Canadabro earlier in the thread):

"..In Europe and Australia, the system was released to two separate marketing regions. One region consisted of most of mainland Europe (excluding Italy), and distribution there was handled by a number of different companies, with Nintendo responsible for most cartridge releases. Most of this region saw a 1986 release. Mattel handled distribution for the other region, consisting of the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Italy, Australia and New Zealand, starting the following year."

[Anonymous No.2791759]

>>2788434
Glad you found that shit OP, take good care of it.

[Anonymous No.2791764]

>this thread

[Anonymous No.2791771]

My firstest console ever was the SNES I got it in 2013 after jontron told me about the most epic game in the world... it really changed my life... RANDOM SELFIE XD

[Anonymous No.2791801]

OP, I'm glad you found some video games that made you feel like a kid again. I'm a burned out, alcoholic husk of a man and these old games are the only thing that brings me joy after my wife left me and took my dog last year.

[Anonymous No.2791802]

>>2791801
>and took my dog
This is some country music shit right here. Sorry anon.

[Anonymous No.2792617]

>>2788541
I will never understand what the hell is going on with scene kiddie hair. Shit looks like they found a dead racoon on the street and slapped it on their head.