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Dumb/embarassing game-related things you did as a kid
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WrathOfOtaibah
Banned
For my 7th birthday, my birthday cake was the "?" block. I just saw this picture a year ago and felt like someone should have beaten my ass for such a bad idea.
In 4th grade, I invented my own video game that I acted out in real life. I got some kid to be the Luigi to my Mario. It was mostly just jumping around and pretending each part of the school yard was an area. Fortunately, the recess was packed with about 500 kids so nobody noticed. I felt like a total tool so one day I stopped. The kid asked me to play and I pretended like I didn't know who he was. I don't remember his name.
In 6th grade, I wanted to take my video game idea and turn it into reality. There were two girls (both turned out to be hot) that had crushes on me who got scared away. I was determined to make a Mario 64 like game with QBASIC. I shit you not. I found a kid who said he knew about it but in reality, he didn't know how to do anything. I got three other guys with me to program. We spent most of the time watching TV and playing. One of my dogs started humping the legs of the supposed programmer and wouldn't stop. I figured it was acceptable justice for being a fraud.
I bought all kinds of Strategy Guides for the games. One time, I lost one and was almost obsessed with retrieving it. I almost got into a fistfight with a kid for not returning my Mario Kart 64 guide in pristine condition. Only thing that held me back was my Mom saying she'd buy me a new one. She didn't and I hated her for the following week.
I've drawn and designed almost a dozen games on notebooks. Before throwing them away when heading to college, I looked at them and thought they were crap. It was barely anything more than rehashes of games like Super Mario 64 and Goldeneye. So nothing real of note.
What basically stopped this extreme nerdery was that I took up weight lifting and joined the football team. Since I didn't have time to get into gaming obsessively, I had to cut down on strategy guide hording and obsessive gaming habits in general. I still spent all my free time gaming when I wasn't at practice, parties, or work. Giving up the hardcore gaming didn't happen until early this year, almost 21.
In 4th grade, I invented my own video game that I acted out in real life. I got some kid to be the Luigi to my Mario. It was mostly just jumping around and pretending each part of the school yard was an area. Fortunately, the recess was packed with about 500 kids so nobody noticed. I felt like a total tool so one day I stopped. The kid asked me to play and I pretended like I didn't know who he was. I don't remember his name.
In 6th grade, I wanted to take my video game idea and turn it into reality. There were two girls (both turned out to be hot) that had crushes on me who got scared away. I was determined to make a Mario 64 like game with QBASIC. I shit you not. I found a kid who said he knew about it but in reality, he didn't know how to do anything. I got three other guys with me to program. We spent most of the time watching TV and playing. One of my dogs started humping the legs of the supposed programmer and wouldn't stop. I figured it was acceptable justice for being a fraud.
I bought all kinds of Strategy Guides for the games. One time, I lost one and was almost obsessed with retrieving it. I almost got into a fistfight with a kid for not returning my Mario Kart 64 guide in pristine condition. Only thing that held me back was my Mom saying she'd buy me a new one. She didn't and I hated her for the following week.
I've drawn and designed almost a dozen games on notebooks. Before throwing them away when heading to college, I looked at them and thought they were crap. It was barely anything more than rehashes of games like Super Mario 64 and Goldeneye. So nothing real of note.
What basically stopped this extreme nerdery was that I took up weight lifting and joined the football team. Since I didn't have time to get into gaming obsessively, I had to cut down on strategy guide hording and obsessive gaming habits in general. I still spent all my free time gaming when I wasn't at practice, parties, or work. Giving up the hardcore gaming didn't happen until early this year, almost 21.
.When I was maybe 7 or so, me and my friend created a fighting game (aka just wrote down what was game was and drew a bunch of characters and stages) and sent it to Capcom. The premise of the game was that everyone was huge. I remember one guy I made called "King Midget" and he was only 8 feet tall. Capcom sent me back a letter saying that it was a good idea (a bold faced lie) but they can't accept game ideas from non-employees. I wasn't very happy.
I swear it was an accident! :lolCoryCubed said:
Haha, totally similar to me. When I was about 5/6 me and my friend used to play 'Sonic' and just run laps round the playground, I was slightly faster so I was Sonic and he was Tails (even when he couldve won I didnt let him cause 'Tails would never beat Sonic'), we needed a total shoe in for last place to be Robotnik, so we totally asked the kid who was in the car crash and was kinda a bit disabled (used to piss himself in PE cause he couldnt walk/run right).
Good times.
I also spent 2 months manufacturing Sonic pictures when I was 9 as my project for the term.
There was that Blockbuster Challenge around '94... the brochure listed about 6 games that you'd play to compete. I rented all of them and played the hell out of them in preparation. It turned out you only played one of those titles (of your choice) for the challenge. I wasted a bunch of time and money on renting a bunch of shitty games for weeks for nothing.
Guileless
Temp Banned for Remedial Purposes
wait i thought of something while reading the dragon quest 8 price drop thread. when i was a kid my brother and i made a sign that said "Metal Slime Hunting Club" cause we played dragon warrior all the time. we actually hung it up over by the nes. it was just a picture of a slime with a line through it like the ghostbusters logo. i think made in crayon.
Well let's see
Took the turn based system of Pokemon and used it for gaming project in my C++ class. My partner on the project and I made that you follow ash and stuff and had it so the pokemon go across the screen and attack in somewhat animated fashion. So in the end if Ash loses to Gary then you had Ash crying over his dead Picachu. :lol :lol :lol We won best Game idea and Game award for Winter Game Awards between the two programming classes. It was pure gold during the days when Silver and Gold were about to release in the Fall or something.
Took the turn based system of Pokemon and used it for gaming project in my C++ class. My partner on the project and I made that you follow ash and stuff and had it so the pokemon go across the screen and attack in somewhat animated fashion. So in the end if Ash loses to Gary then you had Ash crying over his dead Picachu. :lol :lol :lol We won best Game idea and Game award for Winter Game Awards between the two programming classes. It was pure gold during the days when Silver and Gold were about to release in the Fall or something.
Zapages said:
How is that embarrassing? That sounds pretty cool, and you got some recognition for it.
I'll always remember this as the dumbest thing i ever did. I went to trade in some games at EB. It was Virtua Fighter 4 (original), Croc 2, and some Football game (my bro's). I was expecting to get about $35 bucks for it, but only got about $19. The Clerk asked me if i wanted to trade them in, and i said yes. Afterwards i tried to buy a PS1 card and a magazine, i couldn't afford the mag. Afterwards i left the store. I never went back to that store. I'm ashamed of myself.
Greenpanda
Banned
I wrote three game newsletters for my elementary school and gave a 4.5 to Ghosts 'n' Goblins in all of them.
Joe Molotov
Member
When I was 8, I got my dad to make me a sword and shield out of wood and paint a cross on shield and paint the sword white like the Master Sword. I used it to fight animals and trees around the back yard.
This was probably the same summer that my cousin came down to visit me and I spent most of his visit playing his Gameboy and his copy of Sword of Hope. My only regret is that I wasn't able to beat it before he left. :lol
This was probably the same summer that my cousin came down to visit me and I spent most of his visit playing his Gameboy and his copy of Sword of Hope. My only regret is that I wasn't able to beat it before he left. :lol
Ash Sparrow
Banned
My brother and me would find out where our christmas presents were hidden in the house, we'd sneak in the parents bedroom while they were sleep, grab a game and take it out the plastic, play the hell out of it, then melt the plastic back on. Then we'd have to manage to act all shocked on chirstmas day. Whoa Double Dragon 2!!!!! YEEEESSSS Eternal Champions!!!!
I was about 5 years old, and I was fighting the first Bowser in Mario 64, and was so happy that I was about to beat the game. But when I finally won, it said that Peach was in another part of the castle. I got soooo pissed, and thought that it was a glitch. So I wrote a letter to Nintendo because I felt like I was scammed, and wanted a refund. :lol
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
In middle school I was in this "computer class" that was every thursday but it was mainly an excuse to play videogames after school.
Well one day I bring Secret of Mana in and I'm showing everyone this dungeon. I get stuck in a wall or something and everyone is saying "BOOOO! YOU STINK!" etc. I swear getting stuck in that particular spot only happened that day when I brought the game in.
Then a week or so later somebody brought in Super Metroid and was showing off the Samus in her bikini ending. I had this look of pure anger in my face like he had just killed my parents.
A little bit darker...
One time I was playing Bubble Bobble and my mother started complaining about chest pains and next thing I knew an ambulance was over. My cousin was over at the time so while the paramedics were trying to explain things to me I was too busy yelling "It's my cousin's fault!" and then I went back to playing Bubble Bobble.
Other random things:
I got halfway through Final Fantasy 1(NES) before I even figured out how to equip weapons/armor. I also mashed buttons during the battles thinking it was helping me kill everything.
Even today I still get pissy when I lose badly in a fighting game. It always feels like I'm being violated by a complete stranger.
Playing Streets of Rage 2 with my MOM.
And to this day I still have all of my old artwork from all of the game ideas I had.
Well one day I bring Secret of Mana in and I'm showing everyone this dungeon. I get stuck in a wall or something and everyone is saying "BOOOO! YOU STINK!" etc. I swear getting stuck in that particular spot only happened that day when I brought the game in.
Then a week or so later somebody brought in Super Metroid and was showing off the Samus in her bikini ending. I had this look of pure anger in my face like he had just killed my parents.
A little bit darker...
One time I was playing Bubble Bobble and my mother started complaining about chest pains and next thing I knew an ambulance was over. My cousin was over at the time so while the paramedics were trying to explain things to me I was too busy yelling "It's my cousin's fault!" and then I went back to playing Bubble Bobble.
Other random things:
I got halfway through Final Fantasy 1(NES) before I even figured out how to equip weapons/armor. I also mashed buttons during the battles thinking it was helping me kill everything.
Even today I still get pissy when I lose badly in a fighting game. It always feels like I'm being violated by a complete stranger.
Playing Streets of Rage 2 with my MOM.
And to this day I still have all of my old artwork from all of the game ideas I had.