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04/23/2009 | Retronauts Episode 68: Gameboy
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Technosteve
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The gameboy was my first console system, i owned three games tetris, a super mario game, and a game where you dig a hole to capture aliens this game was awesome.
Blast Processing
Member
Kobun Heat said:
Yeah, but it has that jackass Chris Kohler on it. I hate that guy.
TheGreatDave
Banned
I opened up a bank account for my Gameboy Pocket. Tetris and Link's Awakening owned my soul. As did the select trick in Zelda.
Cherry_Death
Member
Between this and Geekbox, I need naught else
I loved my Gameboy which I got the Christmas it launched. My problem was the next year I got excited about Lynx, which I got for Christmas. Then the next Christmas I got GameGear. Somewhere during that time I sold my Gameboy to facilitate the purchase of a SNES and SF2.
So, I sadly missed out on the Gameboy. Hopefully DSiWare will bring some classic GB games to the service. That would be nice.
So, I sadly missed out on the Gameboy. Hopefully DSiWare will bring some classic GB games to the service. That would be nice.
GotchaForce
Member
Great new format.
Last segment it pretty sad, I feel like someone should hug Jenn.
Last segment it pretty sad, I feel like someone should hug Jenn.
tetrisgrammaton
Member
I'm glad someone else agrees that Metroid 2's music is awesome.
Kabuki Quantum Lover
Member
voltron said:
Fucking murderers, I'll tell you...
D
Deleted member 30609
Unconfirmed Member
hooray!
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
No_Style said:
my sentiments exactly.
new format suits you very well, jeremy.
PowderedToast
Junior Member
this was greaaaatt
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
womp said:
did you unsubscribe then resubscribe? this fixes the occasional broken feed in my itunes.
rollingstart
Banned
Really good episode. Jenn's story at the end was pretty sad.
Thinking back, the only memory I have of either parent playing a video game was my mom playing Duck Hunt. I think I specifically remember it because she was scary good at it, much more than my brother, my friend or myself. I was always a BTTF fan, so I used to joke that this was the reverse of Marty getting good at shooting real guns by playing Wild Gunmen.
Thinking back, the only memory I have of either parent playing a video game was my mom playing Duck Hunt. I think I specifically remember it because she was scary good at it, much more than my brother, my friend or myself. I was always a BTTF fan, so I used to joke that this was the reverse of Marty getting good at shooting real guns by playing Wild Gunmen.
I got my SNES for my birthday, which every year we spend down the shore in our condo. I slept on the floor that night in my sleeping bag since I fell asleep in front of mario...and I woke up at midnight to my parents both playing Super Mario World. The next day they told me the following knock knock joke:
Knock knock
who's there
wenyu
Wenyu who
When you go to sleep we play more super mario
It got me so mad, lol.
My other memories are of my dad playing Castlevania, which he LOVED (SCIV). He loved that series all the way through to the PS1 too. Huge SOTN fan. My dad doesn't play anything other than racing games now (NASCAR
).
Anyway, he was playing SCIV in my room when my mom and sister were in my parents' bed (we were like 6 or something I guess) and I remember waking up to him screaming that he beat the game. It was like 1 AM and he was screaming I DID IT I DID IT
lol
Knock knock
who's there
wenyu
Wenyu who
When you go to sleep we play more super mario
It got me so mad, lol.
My other memories are of my dad playing Castlevania, which he LOVED (SCIV). He loved that series all the way through to the PS1 too. Huge SOTN fan. My dad doesn't play anything other than racing games now (NASCAR
).Anyway, he was playing SCIV in my room when my mom and sister were in my parents' bed (we were like 6 or something I guess) and I remember waking up to him screaming that he beat the game. It was like 1 AM and he was screaming I DID IT I DID IT
lol
rollingstart
Banned
I wish I had my own SNES back then. The way it worked in my family is that my brother would buy the systems and I would buy the games I wanted for those systems (a Gameboy with Link's Awakening was my first game playing device, N64 my first console). Problem was that my brother was a fickle asshole and kept trading systems with other ones, leaving me with games I couldn't play.
If I can remember correctly, it went something like: Master System > Genesis > SNES > Genesis again > SNES again > Playstation 1 for only a week > SNES yet again. Luckily I had the money to finally buy these systems to own myself and eventually got the systems he didn't sell, like the Jaguar, 2600, colecovision and original NES (top loading NES was bought at one point too). I think that's why I never was really too crazy into games until middle school.
I still have memories of the days when I wasn't too big into video games, like sitting with other kids in the basement of party I was forced to go to and first playing Street Fighter 2. The one part of nostalgia I will attest to is that the feeling of something totally new, be it a new genre or even a large graphical leap, doesn't really exist anymore. Before that experiene of SF2, the closest thing to a fighting game I played was TMNT3 on NES in the mode that let you hit player 2.
Another random memory that just popped into my head was when the Virtual Boy was on sale at Stop-n-Save Software and my mom bought two of them; one for my birthday, which was near, and one for a friends birthday, which was a week later. After playing it a bit, I realized how much I hated the thing and returned it, but still kept the gift one. I go to the friends birthday party a week later with this gift in a big box and when I get there, he too has my gift in a very similar box. We opened them and realize that we did the exact same thing and were now stuck with this bulky piece of crap. I still have that virtual boy somewhere around here.
If I can remember correctly, it went something like: Master System > Genesis > SNES > Genesis again > SNES again > Playstation 1 for only a week > SNES yet again. Luckily I had the money to finally buy these systems to own myself and eventually got the systems he didn't sell, like the Jaguar, 2600, colecovision and original NES (top loading NES was bought at one point too). I think that's why I never was really too crazy into games until middle school.
I still have memories of the days when I wasn't too big into video games, like sitting with other kids in the basement of party I was forced to go to and first playing Street Fighter 2. The one part of nostalgia I will attest to is that the feeling of something totally new, be it a new genre or even a large graphical leap, doesn't really exist anymore. Before that experiene of SF2, the closest thing to a fighting game I played was TMNT3 on NES in the mode that let you hit player 2.
Another random memory that just popped into my head was when the Virtual Boy was on sale at Stop-n-Save Software and my mom bought two of them; one for my birthday, which was near, and one for a friends birthday, which was a week later. After playing it a bit, I realized how much I hated the thing and returned it, but still kept the gift one. I go to the friends birthday party a week later with this gift in a big box and when I get there, he too has my gift in a very similar box. We opened them and realize that we did the exact same thing and were now stuck with this bulky piece of crap. I still have that virtual boy somewhere around here.
Linkzg said:
Fortunately, my parents got sick of buying me new systems right around the time Jaguar, 3DO, and other unfortunate consoles were released.
I wish I stuck with the SNES longer. I jumped right into the Playstation when it launched, and I missed out on a lot of great SNES games.
TheGreatDave
Banned
My earliest memory was playing Super Mario Bros, with my grandparents in the house. I called them in to the room to ask them to look at how awesome I was, and I ran straight in to the first Goomba. I don't think I cried, but I was certainly very upset.
beelzebozo said:
http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=8986786&publicUserId=5379721
See? I knew I wasn't crazy.
Cherry_Death
Member
Loved the new format, big thumbs up Was good to have a Parish/Kohler/Frank section again.
Was good to have a Parish/Kohler/Frank section again.AgentOtaku
Member
Finished listening to this the other day. Another fantastic episode. New format was great and eagerly look forward to the next show
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
i really wish sometimes that i could go back to playing games with the mindset i did when the snes came out. i was seven, and had no understanding or expectations of how games would change going into the 16-bit era. i was definitely excited about games like super mario world, link to the past, and other updated versions of nes games i loved, but i also looked at every game released as being potentially a new classic or an incredible experience based on the fact that this was THE FREAKIN' SUPER NINTENDO, and it had freakin' SUPER GAMES. i was willing to rent and try anything. i remember saving a bag of pennies and taking it to movie warehouse so i could rent this snes game about a little blob; it was a platformer and you could compress yourself to go through tight spaces. i didn't give a shit about this character, or this game, but the system itself made me more exploratory and interested.