meanspartan
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So I recently saw those Nintendo 64 kids in that Taco Bell commercial and it reminded me how very lucky they are to have such a moment recorded forever. My first console was a Super Nintendo that I got when I was about 4 years old circa 1993. It might even have been 1994, I sadly don't remember the exact year I got it. I soooo wish my parents had recorded me getting that console and playing it for the first time, as all I have are my very fuzzy memories now.
I would do anything to relive those early days playing Super Mario World and Super Mario All Stars. I didn't even realize then that the original Mario 1, 2, and 3 looked a lot worse originally til a decade later, All Stars was the first "HD Remake" of it's time and it didn't click for four year old me that those games I loved actually existed beforehand. For me, Mario Bros 1 and 2 and 3 and Lost Levels look like they do for SNES, not the NES original lol.
And if I could re-do something from that era, I wish I'd given the amazing library of SNES rpgs a go. As I said, I was pretty young when I got the SNES and while I could handle the mario games, F-Zero, and other easy to learn games, RPGs were probably a bit outside of my 4-year-old abilities. But I didn't get another system for a while. From 1993 til I got my Game Boy Color in 1998, SNES was my system. I really wish I had played games like Secret of Mana, Earthbound, etc as I got older. Several I went back and played years later, and recently bought Chrono Trigger's DS port to play on my 3DS finally. But while they remain great titles, nothing beats playing a game when it is relevant and on the cutting edge.
A little goodie for reading my post, check out this old training video. Not for the training, but for those beautiful sealed SNES games!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C990wzFsoho
If I had a time machine, sure I'd go back and invest in Google and all that, but the first thing I'd do was go back to that moment where my dad (happy father's day!) walked up carrying this glorious box:
I had NO idea how important that moment would become to me, I was just ecstatic about getting a cool new toy. But I quickly realized from the first moment I played Mario that this was not just any other toy.....How lucky am I that my first game was one of the best of all time, Super Mario World? Kids growing up today don't have it anywhere near as good as us in the 1980s and 1990s did
I don't know why, but lately I have been feeling super nostalgic for my childhood and teenage years. I'm only almost 26, it's not like I'm that old. And yet I find myself wishing for 1993. Weird stuff.
So which gaming moments do you wish you had recorded like the N64 kids? Which could you relive? What would you do differently? I look forward to reading your stories!
I would do anything to relive those early days playing Super Mario World and Super Mario All Stars. I didn't even realize then that the original Mario 1, 2, and 3 looked a lot worse originally til a decade later, All Stars was the first "HD Remake" of it's time and it didn't click for four year old me that those games I loved actually existed beforehand. For me, Mario Bros 1 and 2 and 3 and Lost Levels look like they do for SNES, not the NES original lol.
And if I could re-do something from that era, I wish I'd given the amazing library of SNES rpgs a go. As I said, I was pretty young when I got the SNES and while I could handle the mario games, F-Zero, and other easy to learn games, RPGs were probably a bit outside of my 4-year-old abilities. But I didn't get another system for a while. From 1993 til I got my Game Boy Color in 1998, SNES was my system. I really wish I had played games like Secret of Mana, Earthbound, etc as I got older. Several I went back and played years later, and recently bought Chrono Trigger's DS port to play on my 3DS finally. But while they remain great titles, nothing beats playing a game when it is relevant and on the cutting edge.
A little goodie for reading my post, check out this old training video. Not for the training, but for those beautiful sealed SNES games!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C990wzFsoho
If I had a time machine, sure I'd go back and invest in Google and all that, but the first thing I'd do was go back to that moment where my dad (happy father's day!) walked up carrying this glorious box:
I had NO idea how important that moment would become to me, I was just ecstatic about getting a cool new toy. But I quickly realized from the first moment I played Mario that this was not just any other toy.....How lucky am I that my first game was one of the best of all time, Super Mario World? Kids growing up today don't have it anywhere near as good as us in the 1980s and 1990s did
I don't know why, but lately I have been feeling super nostalgic for my childhood and teenage years. I'm only almost 26, it's not like I'm that old. And yet I find myself wishing for 1993. Weird stuff.
So which gaming moments do you wish you had recorded like the N64 kids? Which could you relive? What would you do differently? I look forward to reading your stories!
