Born in 77.
I was trying to tell the young ones on gaming side just how fucking amazing Super Mario was when it came out in 1985. I had been playing Atari games for a few years before it came out. I was pretty satisfied with Atari. I loved arcade games but being only 6 years old I thought that was as good as it got at home.
Then my friends dad got him an NES sometime in 85. Never even saw a commercial for it. I came over and I was not ready for what I saw.
The controller? Holy shit!
The graphics? That looks like an arcade game! You can tell what everyone is!
The game? Holy fucking shit. The screen moves with the character! There are different enemies! Castles! Dragons! WTF!
It came close to melting my 7/8 year old brain.
Thinking back I think the other moment that sticks out like the NES was Transformers the movie. Seeing Megatron ruthlessly murder so many of my toys. And that was just the introduction!
I was trying to tell the young ones on gaming side just how fucking amazing Super Mario was when it came out in 1985. I had been playing Atari games for a few years before it came out. I was pretty satisfied with Atari. I loved arcade games but being only 6 years old I thought that was as good as it got at home.
Then my friends dad got him an NES sometime in 85. Never even saw a commercial for it. I came over and I was not ready for what I saw.
The controller? Holy shit!
The graphics? That looks like an arcade game! You can tell what everyone is!
The game? Holy fucking shit. The screen moves with the character! There are different enemies! Castles! Dragons! WTF!
It came close to melting my 7/8 year old brain.
Thinking back I think the other moment that sticks out like the NES was Transformers the movie. Seeing Megatron ruthlessly murder so many of my toys. And that was just the introduction!