• 3 years 17 days ago
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    We all have memories of video games. Thats why we come to this board to talk about the fun we had playing those games and share our memories. I think video games are a great way of stimulating our senses of sight and sound that trigger memories.

    What I look back fondly on when it comes to video game memories are the time and place when I was playing a certain game.

    Like Nintendo. Whenever I play any game on the system it makes me think of the summers my cousin came in to visit, We would stay at my grandmas house where junk food was never in short supply. We would stay up all night playing Mega Man or Catlevania or TMNT 2 all jacked up on Mountain Dew, then wake up to the smell of our grandma making coffee.

    Playing Donkey Kong Country always makes me think of my old room. It makes me think sitting around in my old room watching T.G.I.F, eating pizza from a local pizza place and then when 20/20 came on I knew it was time to flip on the Super Nes for some DKC.

    I have so many more but the point I'm trying to make is how video games are a "link to the past" (see what I did there!) when it comes to great memories, not just playing them but everything that was going on around you at the time.

    I guess I just got a case of the Sunday nostalgic blues. Lets hear some of your memories.





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      • 3 years 15 days ago
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      Oh, the memories i had when my cousin put ZSNES on our computer back in 2003 and i always played Kirby Superstar with my past friend (my cousin was in his college years so he never had the time to play). The game kicked so much ass back then, and i am still looking for a valid copy of the game online (as i own a real Super Nintendo now). Little did i know that it was illegal to own ROM's if you didn't have the actual game. Ever since then, i became addicted to both video games (since 2003) and computers (since 2007).

      I was never a computer addict until i played Runescape (during its good years when it was just Runescape 2 from 2004-2007, with its terribly good graphics, free trade, wildy, and excellent gameplay). From then on, i just fell in love. As of today, i am currently in possession of four retro consoles along with a few games, controllers and accessories for each. I will not tell what they all are as i will just keep on blabbing about stories and whatnot.

      I started collecting in early 2010 when this Video Game Trade In place opened that let others trade in their retro games and that's how i became a collector. I began looking up past stories of video games and consoles around 2009 and since then, i became a retro person. Overall, you could say i am a geek i guess.

      So i will just wrap up this post now by saying that i am a retro gamer, and i enjoy any consoles centering from 1970-2004. 2005 was when the big changes begun on gaming, so that is when the retro era ended. That is all i have to say now, as that is my story.
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        • 3 years 15 days ago
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        Yeah, Nintendo = summer, late night, junk food, fun.
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          • 3 years 10 days ago
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          i remember that when i was younger i loved summer nights like playing super mario bros back in the day
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            • 3 years 9 days ago
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            I have very fond memories of playing my N64 in the early 2000's =)
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              • 3 years 8 days ago
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              In 2003 I spent a lot of time playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 on Dreamcast with a buddy. We would grab some pizza from the place around the corner and drink and play. Also Soul Calibur. Good times.

              When we were kids, my brother and I would play Mega Man 3 and take turns doing cheats with the second controller.

              darthmunk wrote:
              Yeah, Nintendo = summer, late night, junk food, fun.
              Best time I had with this was Battletoads, at a friend's house for sleepovers. I had another friend where we played Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu, all the NES Super Marios...one night we rented 8 Eyes, which I now think is kind of a crappy game. I don't remember what else except when he got a Super Nintendo and Starfox. That was pretty mind-blowing. He also had a subscription to Nintendo Power and we would look at those for hours, at least until his mom went to bed and the dirty mags would come out :lol:
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                • 2 years 11 months ago
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                memboy12 wrote:
                i remember that when i was younger i loved summer nights like playing super mario bros back in the day

                Same here,man. Get the 99 lives and play Super Mario 3 `til dawn.
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                  • 2 years 11 months ago
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                  I've been playing the damn things my whole life. I grew up on 8-bit, snes and genesis until the N64 came out. I remember when we had the sega channel when I was a kid. I would always get down on some road rash games or some mk3 or whatever. It was insane, they had all the games even the classics like altered beast and shit.

                  Overall my favorite system back in the day was the playstation 1. We had both 64 and ps1. 64 was great too. It had great multiplayer games like Conkers bad fur day (best multiplayer ever), Mariokart 64, goldeneye, perfect dark... the list of multiplayer gems is amazing. But for serious gaming I was all about that ps1. Resident evil 1 and 2 were my favorite games.
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                  Retro pimpin aint easy
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                    • 2 years 11 months ago
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                    Coming home from vacation in 1984 and get an Amstrad CPC 464 by my dad.
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                      • 2 years 11 months ago
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                      staying t my buddies hous when we were kids and playing snes and nes all night long
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                        • 2 years 11 months ago
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                        Playing certain 2600 games always takes me back to when I was around 8~10. Donkey kong, fishing derby, laser blast, space caverns, and warlords. Most other 2600 games affect me in a similar manner, but to a lesser degree (even if I had never played the game previously).

                        SMB3 makes me think of tiny toons & the simpsons album (ie, "do the bartman" ), when I was about 15.

                        Bonk's revenge on TG16 makes me think of ozzy osborne's "no rest for the wicked" album (because I used to play it while playing the game). Especially listening to fire in the sky while playing the level where you have to go up the tower.

                        Super pinball: behind the mask on SNES (especially the first of the 3 tables) makes me think of barrenness, loneliness, and depression, as well as old tool songs/videos (which likewise make me think of depression, etc). Something with the scenes & the background music/sounds are very dismal & depressing, a very bad game to play alone late at night (the tool videos are the same way).

                        Not a specific game, but the sega channel takes me back. It reminds me of sitting there in the morning, alternately playing sega (genesis), watching xuxa, watching power rangers, and watching reruns of garfield & friends.
                        signature*WARNING: The above post may be highly opinionated, read at your own risk.

                        Gee Caspah, you're a twicky one!
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                          • 2 years 11 months ago
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                          I love PlayStation 1 games, the best games ever made, and the best system! :)

                          Driver 2 reminds me of good times, when my uncle was playing it, helping him and his friends with 1 mission. 8) Good times! and when he first started Driver 2 up in 2000. I remember the day... :D

                          And completing the final mission in 2009 after having the game since 2002-2003. 8):P

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                          Grand Theft Auto 3, Ahh I also remember in 2001 when he played it for the first time, trying to enter a building. :P
                          And I remember being with his friend watching bob patterson in 2001 - 2002 and deciding to go play GTA 3 after that! :D

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                          SimCity 3000, remember having it on my dads laptop back in the day and waking up early, asking if i could play it. :D

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                          Remember also playing my uncles PSX Demos, and seeing his self full of Official Uk-PlayStation 1 Magazine.

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                          Test Drive 4, I remember my uncle had it in 2000 - 2001 and then I got it some years later, Loved crashing into Traffic haha:)
                          In memoriam: "A 2002"
                          1987 - 2005
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                            • 2 years 11 months ago
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                            Just having fun and trying relentlessly to get to the next level. Those are my memories.
                            There is a battle between two wolves inside us all.

                            One is evil and the other one is good. Which wolf will win? The one you feed the most.

                            http://unbelievableyou.com/a-native-american-cherokee-story-two-wolves/
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                              • 2 years 11 months ago
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                              good ol video games, i remember playing my oddessy back in the day this helicopter rescue game, bubble bobble and double dragon 2 at my buddies place, tons of genesis memories, mutant league hockey, general chaos, eternal champions, haunting starring polterguy, home alone, late nights with PS1 playing resident evil 1 and 2 and ff7, Too much Goldeneye to speak of, or if we were bored of that some perfect dark or Army men Sarges Heroes on N64.
                              "Good Nyborg "
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                                • 2 years 11 months ago
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                                As someone who didn't have an SNES until 2001, I accosiate Wario's Woods, The Lost Vikings, Tetris Attack, Super Bonk and Dr Mario with flying to/from America in the late 90s/early 2000s, as they are all Super NES games I could play during 4 out of the total 6 flights! (the 2 leftover flights didn't have games :( )
                                When we went to America for Christmas 2000, 1 of the games I got to enjoy on the pay by the hour Super Nintendo in our hotel room was Kirby's Dream Course, a great golf puzzle game!
                                Game & Watch Gallery 2 was my first Game Boy Color game, and it is still a great game after all these years!
                                Battle Arena Toshinden Remix on the Sega Saturn was my first game rental ever!
                                Golden Axe 2 on the Sega Mega Drive was the only game my brother, friends and I could NOT play with 6 button control pads! We had to use our old 3 button pads instead!
                                2 vacations in France in a row, I spent most of the time in our Gite enjoying a game on a console. In 1997 it was Fighters Megamix on the Saturn, the following year it was Theme Hospital on the PlayStation.
                                The Simpsons will always be one of my favorite arcade games ever! My bro and I played it a lot as kids but it wasn't until 2007 that I beat it! (this was on the last night of my one Disney vacation gone wrong)
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                                  • 2 years 11 months ago
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                                  Lets see, Goof Troop, Aladdin and Turtles in Time I will always associate with my cousins and the countless summers we'd spend playing those games. Goof Troop especially.

                                  When discussing N64 games such as Super Mario 64, Star Fox 64, Pokemon Snap and Super Smash Bros. I tend to recall the summer nights my friends and I would play those games. One specific memory I can recall is the first time we played Super Smash Bros. I had rented it from Blockbuster and it kind of slipped out that I had it. So without hesitation, all my friends got a small party of players together and rushed over to my friend's house so we can play it. Out of all of them I seemed to be the best, using Pikachu as my main character.

                                  Finally the last video game related memory I had was the Jungle Book for the SNES. A gift from my grandmother on Christmas, it was one of the few games my sister and I bonded over. I can still remember her and I trying to sing "Bare Necessities" while playing the second level,lol.
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