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Dumb/embarassing game-related things you did as a kid
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I remember when Chrono Trigger came out, I wanted it so much because I saw an ad and it saw the Epoch and the graphics looked awesome. Also during span in my life I hated RPGs because I didn't get the idea of your people standing there waiting to be hit and not having full control of them during the battles. Anyway my mom got it for me out of the blue which is something that never happened (I usually only got them for Christmas and Bdays). I get real excited opened it up and started playing. As soon as I got into that first battle, I started yelling, bitching, and throwing a fit. I was so mad, my mom came in and asked what was wrong and I told her that "I hated these types of games." I could tell she was less that happy since she went out and got it but all she said was "Well play it a little longer and if you don't like it, its ok." I didn't play it for about a week and then one night I came home and my dad was playing it, he never plays games so I was surprised. I sat down and watched him play and decided I want to play. I was great after that, and now I really like RPGs. I just felt like a complete jackass for yelling about it and pouting about it.
Well, I was in elementary school, Pokémon just became a HUGE hit. A couple of things.
- When they banned the cards, we still brought them in. I was in a fight with my friend, and he took out his shinny Charzard. It was a pretty hot day, so the card was really bright. I said that it had blinded me and I couldn't see and I was going to run to the teacher to tell her.
- This 4th grader told all of us about MISSINGONO. So, we all tried it and we got super Pokémon and everything. Ended up that my game got deleted. I spent about 20 minutes on the Power Line talking to some poor woman about how I loved all of my Pokemon and now they were all gone.
- I rentede Superman64.
- When they banned the cards, we still brought them in. I was in a fight with my friend, and he took out his shinny Charzard. It was a pretty hot day, so the card was really bright. I said that it had blinded me and I couldn't see and I was going to run to the teacher to tell her.
- This 4th grader told all of us about MISSINGONO. So, we all tried it and we got super Pokémon and everything. Ended up that my game got deleted. I spent about 20 minutes on the Power Line talking to some poor woman about how I loved all of my Pokemon and now they were all gone.
- I rentede Superman64.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
elostyle said:
I always think this when someone brings up Pokemon.... but time marches on man. My girl was a pokemaniac during the craze. In 1998 she was 12 years old, now she's almost 20! :lol
hooded pitohui
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When Dragon Warrior II first came out, I was reading the spell descriptions in the manual. It said that "spells' targets are listed in parentheses," and I had no idea what the hell parentheses were at the time, but it sounded like a book of the bible. So I'm going through the bible trying to figure out what the hell I can cast Infernos on. Messed me up pretty good.
i wrote some doom fanfiction for my 7th grade english class (which was to say, ****ing awesome) that was really... ahem... detailed 
with some -awesome- artwork....
i think my teacher thought i was crazy after that point and completely denied its existence. Not my fault she didn't want to hear about an imp blasting it's fireballs to a marines back and his ripcage snaps and his innards spill all over the place. Damn her! if it wasn't going to be graded, then i wanted it back
but that's not really the criteria of the topic
When I was 8 or 9... i used to blast the super mario world special world music outside for everyone to dance to... even though i was most likely the only one doing so.
with some -awesome- artwork....i think my teacher thought i was crazy after that point and completely denied its existence. Not my fault she didn't want to hear about an imp blasting it's fireballs to a marines back and his ripcage snaps and his innards spill all over the place. Damn her! if it wasn't going to be graded, then i wanted it back
but that's not really the criteria of the topic
When I was 8 or 9... i used to blast the super mario world special world music outside for everyone to dance to... even though i was most likely the only one doing so.
I was watching my dad play Oh No! More Lemmings once, and he was playing the 8th level of Crazy difficulty - Keep on Truckin'. The first time I saw one of those little green tendrils snatch up a lemming and eat it alive with a SNAP sound, I screamed and cried. Dad, always the hot-head, promptly banned me from video games 'forever.' :lol
Saargabath
Member
The first day I had Zelda ALTTP, I played all day long ( I was about 10? I'm 22 right now ). After so many hours of playing, I forgot to save and turned off the console. I was so mad at me that I cried.
A few years before, I read in Megaman's instruction booklet that observation was the key to get secret items or something like that. So when I saw a secret item hidden behind a wall ( had to break the wall with gutsman's weapon ), I was convinced that all I had to do was to make megaman face the wall and wait... And I waited a loooong time. My cousins still laugh at me about this one.
Edit: hey I'm no junior anymore
Last one:
I was about 10 or 12, and I was playing with two of my younger female cousins. I was Ryu, the older one was Chun-Li and BAM I made a Hadoken. In her teeth. Result: a broken tooth.
A few years before, I read in Megaman's instruction booklet that observation was the key to get secret items or something like that. So when I saw a secret item hidden behind a wall ( had to break the wall with gutsman's weapon ), I was convinced that all I had to do was to make megaman face the wall and wait... And I waited a loooong time. My cousins still laugh at me about this one.
Edit: hey I'm no junior anymore
Last one:
I was about 10 or 12, and I was playing with two of my younger female cousins. I was Ryu, the older one was Chun-Li and BAM I made a Hadoken. In her teeth. Result: a broken tooth.
Pimpbaa
Slop Inspector
Me and my best friend use to pretend to be the characters in donkey kong (both of us had the colecovision). One of us would get up high on something and throw pillows (the pillows would be the barrels) at the other pretending to be mario. Later when the NES came out, all my friends were playing super mario brothers, and I got to the last level and got overly excited and all my friends were looking at me as if I was retarded (I still think they were just jealous I got there first!).
Neko Tsukimi
Member
This thread reminds me that I have no childhood memories... ;_;
Let's see...
I used to rent a lot of games as a kid. I ended up with some really bad ones (think Back to the Future for the NES). Other games just completely kicked my ass, like Blaster Master. I just could not make the jumps in the game. So, being the little shit head that I was, I complained to my mom. She offered to take me back to Mr. Movies so I could exchange it for a new game. I was extremely shy at the time, so I didn't think it would work. Suffice to say, the girl at the counter actually let me exchange the game at no extra cost. I suppose there are some perks to being a shy, embarrassed little kid. People tend to be really nice to you.
And...
At one point, I began drawing videogame characters as they looked on the screen, pixels and all. I used to spend hours drawing little stair steps, without the aid of graphing paper no less. In particular, I remember drawing Haggar from Final Fight.
I used to rent a lot of games as a kid. I ended up with some really bad ones (think Back to the Future for the NES). Other games just completely kicked my ass, like Blaster Master. I just could not make the jumps in the game. So, being the little shit head that I was, I complained to my mom. She offered to take me back to Mr. Movies so I could exchange it for a new game. I was extremely shy at the time, so I didn't think it would work. Suffice to say, the girl at the counter actually let me exchange the game at no extra cost. I suppose there are some perks to being a shy, embarrassed little kid. People tend to be really nice to you.
And...
At one point, I began drawing videogame characters as they looked on the screen, pixels and all. I used to spend hours drawing little stair steps, without the aid of graphing paper no less. In particular, I remember drawing Haggar from Final Fight.
I used to draw maps for games in class, but there were games I made up. I remember in like 88 my genius idea was for one about a skateboarding potato, that was gonna be like a mix of Adventure Island with Metroid. I think that's about it, I usually just played games.
Oh, I did "do the mario" though.
Oh, I did "do the mario" though.
StorablePrawn
Banned
My friends and I tried to put out a reguar Pokemon newsletter. It was never completed. I remember Missingno. was the major freature -- we really thought we were among like ten people worldwide who knew that existed, god knows why.
Roland Stiles
Member
Let's see... I was Link for halloween '89 and everyone thought I was Peter Pan (wtf).
In sixth grade, not only did I draw LttP stuff all over my yearbook, but at one point we had an assignment to write a story about going somewhere far away. We were allowed to take one friend along in our "story." Kickass assignment (I'm a writer now). Most of the kids took along their best friend, one girl took along an older lover which...always made me feel a little weird around her after that. My choice? Luigi.
For real.
All through fourth grade my friends and I would design games (on paper) during recess instead of playing with people.
Lastly, in High School, I got some FFVI fanfiction published in our literary magazine. I had all kinds of copywrite warnings which the journalism class REMOVED--so I basically plagiarized Squaresoft for all the nerds at school to see and get pissed about. Great.
EDIT: In 7th grade we had a culture fair and my group was assigned China. My job was to find Chinese music to bring in to play during our presentation. You know world 4 of Super Mario Land, with that really Chinese sounding tune? That's what I brought (GB + Tape Recorder = ?) That's okay though, cause the music guy in the Japanese group brought in Chun Li's stage theme (oops).
In sixth grade, not only did I draw LttP stuff all over my yearbook, but at one point we had an assignment to write a story about going somewhere far away. We were allowed to take one friend along in our "story." Kickass assignment (I'm a writer now). Most of the kids took along their best friend, one girl took along an older lover which...always made me feel a little weird around her after that. My choice? Luigi.
For real.
All through fourth grade my friends and I would design games (on paper) during recess instead of playing with people.
Lastly, in High School, I got some FFVI fanfiction published in our literary magazine. I had all kinds of copywrite warnings which the journalism class REMOVED--so I basically plagiarized Squaresoft for all the nerds at school to see and get pissed about. Great.
EDIT: In 7th grade we had a culture fair and my group was assigned China. My job was to find Chinese music to bring in to play during our presentation. You know world 4 of Super Mario Land, with that really Chinese sounding tune? That's what I brought (GB + Tape Recorder = ?) That's okay though, cause the music guy in the Japanese group brought in Chun Li's stage theme (oops).
Greenpanda
Banned
Saargabath said:
Nice
Valtox said:every year, in primary schools we had a one day trip with the class.
i always went with a dozen of game&watch so half the people in the bus were playing
This isn't embarassing! This is awesome
once my dad caught me doing shoryukens in my room. with the sound effect, naturally. i wasn't even that young. probably 10 or 11. as i type this post i feel a strange desire to get up and do a shoryuken.
edit: oh -- for a while i'd take polaroids whenever i'd beat a game, because when i beat ninja gaiden and told my friends about the ending they didn't believe me. recently i was cleaning out my room at my parents' place, and i found a random polaroid of the last boss from kid niki. very strange.
edit: oh -- for a while i'd take polaroids whenever i'd beat a game, because when i beat ninja gaiden and told my friends about the ending they didn't believe me. recently i was cleaning out my room at my parents' place, and i found a random polaroid of the last boss from kid niki. very strange.
Tom the Enchanter
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Nice.hooded pitohui said:
BobTheFork
Member
In second ggrade I had a writing assignment where I had to create some kind of creature and write a story about it. I didn't want to make anything up, so I totally stole A Boy and His Blob for both the creature and the story : ) did pretty well if i remember.
Not about me, but my friend had his NES hooked up to a crappy TV that would periodically scramble almost the whole screen, but we'd always keep trying to play. The sound was fine, but the image would be horrible and we'd play away. Digital crack!
That same friend would often yell "Mom, the controller's not responding!" if he was sucking at a game.
I used to get a kick out of other friends who would move the controller in the air left or right trying to get Mario to go either direction.
I remember getting totally bent out of shape on World 8 in general on Super Mario Bros. It's a breeze now, but as a kid 8-2 and 8-3 (without a fire flower) would really rile me up.
That same friend would often yell "Mom, the controller's not responding!" if he was sucking at a game.
I used to get a kick out of other friends who would move the controller in the air left or right trying to get Mario to go either direction.
I remember getting totally bent out of shape on World 8 in general on Super Mario Bros. It's a breeze now, but as a kid 8-2 and 8-3 (without a fire flower) would really rile me up.
Greenpanda
Banned
Ancestor said:
They were just ahead of their time
In elementary school at recess me and my friends used to run around the playground pretending to be nintendo characters.
I was Yoshi.
Right when Mortal Kombat came out we also used to draw our own designs for the pit level. Flamethrowers, buzz saws, lazer beams all kinds of stuff. So lame. :lol
I was Yoshi.
Right when Mortal Kombat came out we also used to draw our own designs for the pit level. Flamethrowers, buzz saws, lazer beams all kinds of stuff. So lame. :lol
BamYouHaveAids
Member
When I was 8 or 9 I pissed (not because the game is good just really had to go) myself while playing a Tomb Raider demo at Toys r' Us and then continued to play for another 10 minutes with the puddle under me.
I had pretty much all of the MK2 fatalities memorized, so I would write them out and sell them for 2bucks to other kids at my school.
When the PSX first came out, my mom was on the whole "I'm not wasting anymore money on that video game crap" trip(I guess because my parents had bought me 3 genesis) so while I was saving up to get one, my mom would go to the mall weekly as usual, and I would spend literally 3-5 hours in sears playing playstation.
When the PSX first came out, my mom was on the whole "I'm not wasting anymore money on that video game crap" trip(I guess because my parents had bought me 3 genesis) so while I was saving up to get one, my mom would go to the mall weekly as usual, and I would spend literally 3-5 hours in sears playing playstation.
HomShaBom said:
My comment was related to the same game! The Good ol' WCW vs NWO: World Tour!
We estimated that Hulk Hogan's Clothesline in WT was the most murderous of them all. To determine what was the most powerful clotheline, we made a tournament of wrestlers with good clothesline. There was Hogan, Nash, Norton, Glacier, The Unknown, The Claw, BlackHeart and Scott Steiner.
The rules were simple. Each wrestler take a turn of taking the opponent's clothesline until the KO. We did the whole tourney and Hogan won all his matches quicker. We even did a 4 Hulk Hogan tournament that the Yellow and Red without Bandana skin won! :lol
Those games were the most played on the N64. Still play them every week.
I used to write to every company that ever made an NES game, asking them for more info on upcoming products etc. I had a checklist in a binder to tell me when I'd last sent to any given company. I swear it was the most organized I have ever been about anything in my life.
The funny thing was that it was always the little companies (American Sammy, Seta come to mind) who were awesome, sending hand-written letters with tons of one-sheets, pins, company "membership" cards etc. that I plastered all over my walls. Half the posters I got were from games that never even saw the light of day.
Oddly enough, I remember sending a money order to join the Capcom fan club, and I never recieved squat.
The funny thing was that it was always the little companies (American Sammy, Seta come to mind) who were awesome, sending hand-written letters with tons of one-sheets, pins, company "membership" cards etc. that I plastered all over my walls. Half the posters I got were from games that never even saw the light of day.
Oddly enough, I remember sending a money order to join the Capcom fan club, and I never recieved squat.
I remember being in Blockbuster trying to rent a video game. I had to be no older than 8. I was just following my mom down one of the aisles when I saw Genesis games. I didn't have a Genesis, but I picked Aladdin up and started looking at it. I must have been staring at it for like two minutes, because my mom had disappeared the next time I looked up. I just picked the Aladdin and went up to the counter with it.
There was a big Oprah-ish looking woman behind the counter and she smirked at me and said, "You gonna pay for that?"
I have no idea what happened. I just remember freaking out, throwing the cart to the floor, and running out of the store SCREAMING.
There was a big Oprah-ish looking woman behind the counter and she smirked at me and said, "You gonna pay for that?"
I have no idea what happened. I just remember freaking out, throwing the cart to the floor, and running out of the store SCREAMING.
Mr.Ressetti
Member
When I was 15, I remember the teacher asked the students to write a story about anything, just to look at how the student thinks.. I wanted to write a simple one, so I wrote mario sunshine's story , but instead of mario being the story-star, actually it was me.. but the wierd thing is that mine was the best story between 20 student.:lol
I guess gaming is useful sometimes.
, but instead of mario being the story-star, actually it was me.. but the wierd thing is that mine was the best story between 20 student.:lol I guess gaming is useful sometimes.
nm, I'm being dumb again.Mr.Ressetti said:When I was 15, I remember the teacher asked the students to write a story about anything, just to look at how the student thinks.. I wanted to write a simple one, so I wrote mario sunshine's story
I guess gaming is useful sometimes.
In junior english class we had to give a speech on a book we read. The teacher stated early on that the book could not be a video game. I did Halo: Fall of Reach, but then again my friend did a Warcraft novel so atleast I wasnt the only one.
Another incident would be Senior year printing out Forza car lists before it came out and looking them over in class.
Another incident would be Senior year printing out Forza car lists before it came out and looking them over in class.
phillipgessert
Member
There was an expansive, dry basin a few blocks from my house. I used to wander around in there quite a lot imagining the monsters and treasures from the Ys game I bought from a friend with his Master System.
VariableTerry
Member
I got my gf to admit to some things:
and she still writes fan fictions for phantasy star, star fox and mega man
and she still writes fan fictions for phantasy star, star fox and mega man