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ITT: games your parents, grandparents, relatives, etc bought for you

>> No.5880836

So... all of them?

Didn't really have a well-paying job as a kid unfortunately.

>> No.5880880

>>5880836
Lol, right?

>> No.5880890
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>>5880836
More like games you didn’t ask for that you got as presents.

>> No.5880897

>>5880890
GET OUTTA HERE

>> No.5880905

>>5880794
The only time my grandparents got me games was this one christmas, it was ms pacman maze madness and 3d frogger both for pc. The former was pretty bad but frogger was fun.

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Thanks grandma :)

>> No.5880936

>>5880890
>More like games you didn’t ask for that you got as presents.
That is a better basis for a thread.

>one year for birthday, grandparents got me Fire N Ice for the NES
>the hell is this
>simple puzzle game, kinda cool I guess
>play it anyways since there for the week
>beat it on the second day
Thank god for the puzzles the game drops after you beat it, grandparents looked pretty nervous when I got the ending on the second day. Ended up selling it to Funcoland for store credit, probably bought SNES games with the money.

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I think my relative found this in the bargain bin at Kohl's ... but it turned out to be tons of fun and I put a lot of hours into it.
I never played f-zero or wipeout so I don't know how it compares.

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>>5880794
Played the shit out of it, knew every dinosaur by heart

>> No.5880974
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Pretty interesting: an adventure/puzzle game with bosses but no regular enemies.

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>>5880794
Despite it's screen crunch, I loved every part of it.

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>>5880936
Oh shit, I was thinking about Fire N Ice earlier today, that game fuckin' ruled

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>> No.5881415
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My mom has surprisingly patrician taste

>> No.5881534

my grandma got me some shitty snes flinstones game when she went out of town once, think it was based on the movies.
She also got Yoshi's Island and Rouge Squadron that same trip

>> No.5881538
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>hey anon the video store was selling off their rental copies so i got you a mario game!
I'm still mad. The devs can go fuck themselves for making an intentionally misleading game.

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It was a pretty weird minigame collection

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My uncle bought me fucking Zoop. I'm guessing it was a bad day at the KB clearance bin that day.

>> No.5881787

>>5881384
>when your dad's favourite vidya was the gameboy version of this

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My dad randomly came home with this game one night. I remember thinking “damn, Mickey Mouse?” but it was actually really fun. I also ended up with castle of illusion and world of illusion, which are both really good platformers as well.

>> No.5881824

>>5881538
I second this.

>> No.5881862

>>5881808
love this game

>> No.5881869
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>>5880890
The Civ nobody played. It's a fantastic game.

>> No.5881872

>>5881808
one of my favourite platformers. your dad either has great taste or luck, both are good options.

>> No.5881879
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I remember that was summer after my first high school year, got really good grades and I was enjoying the summer with friends, there was the town festival (I'm not american btw) and various shops were selling their stuff until midnight, with fireworks all over the sea, my parents came home telling me that they stopped over the computer guy stand (I knew him) and he told them I would love this game, I was expecting something in the vein of Lee Cavallo's Putting challenge and they showed me this, my mom tought it was too violent and my dad told her "yeah, that's the point".
I miss them

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Never got past a few stages

>> No.5882342

>>5881787
The Gameboy version was actually better than the outsourced SNES version

>> No.5882347

>>5881869
Have you ever played the second one? It's just called Call to Power 2.

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I had never even fucking heard of this thing
Tried it, didn't know what was going on, left it for a week
Tried it again a week later and now it's one of my favorites
Thanks Mom

>> No.5882660

>>5881538
I remember renting Mario is Missing as a kid and thinking "what the fuck is this." Might have even returned it for another game because I couldn't figure out what to do and it conveyed no semblance of ever being fun.

>> No.5882665

>>5882660
I almost rented Mario is Missing but we were just there for a movie. Those games are so fucking misleading

>> No.5882693

>>5882665
I played edutainment games as a kid and had no problem playing something like Mario Teaches Typing, but renting a Mario title for a videogame console and having it be some sort of weird shit with a ringing phone and no clear action in sight threw me for a loop. They should've named them something like Luigi's Geography Lesson and Mario's History Lesson.

>> No.5882701

>>5881808
>Second game in the Magical Quest trilogy
Based gaming expert dad

>> No.5882702

>>5882693
Educational games can be fun, i had the jumpstart games when i was little, but there is zero gameplay in these games, aside from the surfing in Time Machine. The entire game is the exact same as just taking an open book test in school

>> No.5882705

I got Pokemon Red from a relative, at that point i had never heard of it

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>>5880794

>> No.5882753

Games I never asked for?

6-Pak on the Genesis
I played the fucking shit out of it, even Columns and Super Hang-on. Loved 6-Pak.

Aladdin for SNES
I liked it and still do.

Batman Forever for SNES
Even back then I knew it was fucking bad, I didn't like it at all.

Resident Evil Gaiden for GBC.
Honestly didn't like it, I even gave it multiple chances just to play through and beat it, but never made it far before I'd drop it. I'm sure it has its fans but I don't like it at all.

Evil Dead: Hail to the King for PSX
I loved the Evil Dead movies so of course I loved it.

Doom 64
I loved it.

Jazz Jackrabbit for PC
Loved it.

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 for PC
Loved it.

I guess I was really lucky when it came to getting games I didn't ask for.

>> No.5882761

>>5882753
6-Pak was great, by the time I had it as a kid no one was selling games like Sonic 1 or Shinobi by themselves.

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5883362

Grandpa was hardcore.

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5884109

I think this is the only CIB SNES game I ever owned at the time. Everything else I had was loose carts. I didn't get very far in the game.

>> No.5884124

>>5881869
Its a great meme game

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Parents got me this for my birthday, probably because I watched the show. Still one of my top ten genesis games.

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>>5880890
Uncle bought this. Me and my brothers played it every day for months.

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>> No.5884509

One of my first memories (not just of games, but one of my earliest memories in general) is opening up the Christmas present my grandparents gave me when I was 5 or 6. They got my Kirby's Adventure for NES, and the box looked so cute and cool, and I was not disappointed when I put the game in.

>> No.5884510

>>5882753
>Batman Forever
My name got this for me and my brother and goddam we had a hard time with it, but we did use the training mode as a fighting game a lot.

>> No.5884518

>>5881879
Extremely based dad.
Sorry for your loss, anon.

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>> No.5884613

>>5883362
IoI

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>> No.5885871

It’s not /vr but this weird ass gypsy women who lived with us for a while bought super monkey ball 2 for my brother and I.

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>> No.5886340

>>5886324
Got this for the holidays, fucking good game overall. Especially considering the other R+S games made were complete shit.

>> No.5886348

>>5881869
how do I get this to work on a Windows 7 machine?

>> No.5886369

>>5883362
Based Grandpa

>> No.5887304

>>5881415
Based weeb mom.

>> No.5887334

>>5881787
my mom had the gameboy version and didn't like it
that and renting mario is missing made her hate spinoff games lol

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