Remeber The Good Old Times?

[Evi]

Back when we were young...? What games bring back the most memories? Remeber the gold Zelda cartridge for the 8-bit Nintendo? And remember when you had to blow inside of the cart to get it to work? And Metroid? That was a classic. Ninja Gaiden, Toejam & Earl (the first one) for Sega Genesis. Spy Hunter, Spy Vs. Spy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (for NES). The Streets of Rage series for Genesis. Anyway...enough about me. What games do you guys remember?

Oh yeah...did you ever play Solid Snake on NES??

P.S. Forgive Me For I Made A Typo In The Friggin\' Title...I Always Misspell That Word...

I always leave out the "m" too!  I still have my Nintendo and a bid ole stack of games right next to my PS2.  I still blow in the cartridge, and "re-arrange" the game in the console to get is aligned just right.  The good ol\' days?  For some of us, it still is!  

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I remember...

• I remember playing Golden Axe with my Uncle . We would beat each other up instead of the enemies and then get into actual fights over it..
• My mother picking me up early from school for an unknown reason. Then her taking me to Wal-mart and buying me a SNES as soon as they came out.
• Pulling off the dragon punch for the first time in Super Street Fighter 2.
• Playing Resident Evil for the first time and jumping when the dogs busted out of the windows.
• Lining up 3 hours early for my N64 wearing my Mario64 shirt.
• Lining up 3 hours early for my DC...
• Lining up 5 hours early for my PS2 - because I was paranoid about a shortage.
• Saving up $60 dollars and buying Donkey Kong Country for my mother when she was diagnosed with breast cancer and on chemotherapy. She had to take off work and stay at home so I got her something to enjoy when she could  - as she loves videogames also.

Oh good old times my friend... you brought a lot of memories with you, EvisX.

I remember playing my Snes like no tomorrow - and I sure do remember the christmas when I got it. We have it on tape, too, so I have re-lived that scene for hundreds of times.. It was the christmas of \'93, and I had no ideas I was getting a Super Nintendo. I had wanted Nintendo, because one friend of mine had one, and it was cool. But I opened the package and found out Super Nintendo, with Mario riding on Yoshi on the package ( it held the console + super mario world inside - the best mario game ever ).

I shouted:
Super Mario Nintendoooo!!!

And after some happy joyoys jumping around, I opened few more packages, revealing games. I remember getting off start

-Super Mario Kart - oh, memories.. I played this game to death
-Addams Family - great game, and I loved it!
and few I don\'t remember.

Then I got as a birthday present about half a year from christmas
-Super Mario All Stars ( great! )
-Starfox ( this was one of the best, if not the best game I ever owned! )

*sigh*

Then later on my collection got wider with games like Donkey Kong country and Flashback... oh those were the times... and then I was SO stupid to sell the console away... But, now I\'m re-living those times with my GameBoy Advance.

*sigh*

is golden axe the game with the little green midget with an axe , and 2 other guys and you fought like skeleton warriors???? i love that game and also that game where you fly through and shoot evrything , in a jet pack , and you can be red or blue... now what was thta game called?

I remember:

-my friend and I Playing Track and Field on NES and using the pad with our hands instead of running. Man, I loved that game.

-playing Mario Kart on SNES while listening to the Singles soundtrack. great tunes and a great game.

-borrowing Rampage all the time from friends up the street from me on SMS and playing it all night long.

-beating Ghostbusters on SMS for the first time, reading the ending, then feeling severely screwed. (beat the game and you\'ll find out why)

-guessing random numbers for my Ghostbusters bank account and winding up with 1.3 million dollars.

-erasing my game on Phantasy Star 4 the first time I had it.

-Buying Twisted Metal before buying PSX.

-Passing up on Saturn for PSX (d\'oh!)

-beating Super Mario World with my friend and cheering and slapping high fives and stuff (great moment)

-playing Asteroids on my brothers\' Atari 2600, one and only time before it broke.

- Looking at my old NES and wondering why it finally gave out, then blaming the sun on it.

-playing Killing Time on 3DO and getting really freaked out about the sewer parts.

-playing Jurassic Park Interactive on 3DO (Man its so lifelike!)

-playing Rastan with the left handed Control Stick (any old Sega fan knows what I am talking about)

-playing NBA Live \'95 with all fouls and rules turned off. Best. Game. Ever

-getting my DC with no games. playing demos for about a month!

-playing Chrono Trigger a second time through and falling asleep at the 2nd to last boss while I was playing, waking up to find out that I lost

-Racing Aces for Sega CD, nuff said.

-finally getting the rocket to launch on Tetris for GB when I was a kid!

-NEVER getting past the 2nd world on SMB3. Never had the ambition or skill

-Gauntlet Tiger Handheld, nuff said to anyone who remembers this gem.

-importing Tekken 2, and playing 100 bucks, might I add, and staring in awe at the intro. "wow, he\'s climbimb a mountain!"

-beating SMB, seeing ending, then thought about how much time I wasted on that game for the crap ending it has!

-Beating Rastan with an invincible code, only way to do it, that game was impossible and unforgiving!

-same as above, but with Shinobi

-Shadow with Twisted Metal 2

-finally learning how to tech in SF3


there are too many to name guys! I have been playing videogames for way too long! man, look how many I have put up, and there are so many more!


Eric Jacob

I remember...

Playin Blackjack on my old TI 99/4A and actually kicking butt at the tender age of 6. If only he could have taken me to Vegas at the time.

Getting to the final level on Parsec for the TI 99/4A, only to die miserably as I yelled at my sister to stop chewing on my plastic army men.

Playin Astrowarrior on the SMS for 8 hours stright and wondering if I was ever going to make it to the end. Later on I found out it didn\'t HAVE an end....

Not being able to get to the final boss in Fantasy Zone II for 5 long years. Then, miraculously, I made it... and died. I immedeately restarted the game and had almost no trouble getting to, and defeating the final boss. To this day it\'s still one of my favorite games and I even have the Opa Opa mag in PSO.

Getting Golden Axe for my Genesis and playing it all night long with my cousin, finally beatting it around 4 am the first night.

Playing Super Mario World with on my cousin\'s SNES and watching him litterally beat the controller into tiny pieces after being killed by a "Jigaboo Bug".. those little black spots with fangs which follow the tracks moving platforms are on.

Finding my dad\'s Leisure Suit Larry disk and spending hours trying to figure out the test quiz age verification. (Often they were jokes, so you\'d get em wrong anyhow) and then suddenly being thrust into game which only had support for that loud A$$ PC speaker which I would basically throw nearly my entire body over, trying to muffle the sound as I searched desperately for the Sound off option.

Finally beating Kings Quest 4, my first game on the PC and the first game I ever played where I got to take control of a female character. It was also my first Adventure game.. a genre that litterally stomped all others at the time. It was like playing a movie long before game graphics even came close to actually achieving anything like that.

Meeting for the first time, and eventually marrying, my friend Becky Newcom (Aka Xena) on Legend of the Red Dragon. (An old Renegade BBS game) She bared me many fine sons, which raised my moral and allowed me 1 more forest fight that day.

Defeating my once friend Jason at Rise of the Triad, well not just defeating... totally OBLITERATING is more like it. Bad enough to were he would post obsene messages to me on the local BBS\'s in George Taylor\'s name. LOL

Going over to my cousin\'s house to play his friends PSX.. and falling in love with it after 12 hours of Resident Evil 1 and Destruction Derby 2. At the time, I could see me and him being 40 years old, tossing back beers and still playing DD2 like a coupla hilljacks. Well, I\'m not 40 yet, but we\'re still tossing back beers and ocassionally playing DD2 when Nostalgia creeps over us.

Finally beating Baba Yaga in QFG1, and then three years later totally flipping out as I found out I had to visit her hut to get a missing ritual so that I could banish the Dark One in QFG4. I can also remember playing QFG2 for HOURS upon HOURS on end trying to find every single possible message, animation, easteregg, and scenario. To this day I know I haven\'t found all of them, since I still ocassionally stuble across something I\'d never see or heard before.

The feeling of shock as I saw Sephiroth impale Aries with a sly grin in FF7. Similar to the shock I felt when I found out Alyz would not be recovering from Zio\'s black energy wave in PS4. (Sorry for the spoiler)

Trippin major balls on some good LSD and playing my sisters N64 with my cousin. MarioCart was the only game we could get into because of our understandably short attention spans. I remember playing almost nothing else but Rainbow Road, and my cousin looking over at me yelling, "I\'ma Wario, and I\'ma gonna win-o"

Being PKed for the first time in Phantasy Star Online. I felt so violated. I knew the guy was going to do it... I just knew it. So I Simple Mailed Dark Angel and warned her not to come down to the lvl, but she didn\'t respond since she dosen\'t have a Keyboard. Just as I started to run for the Telepipe, she came through and he nailed us. Luckily, we didn\'t have anything good equipped and we only lost about half a million Meseta combined. I have seriously thought about getting a GS just so I could put on the Anti-PK code and the code that lets me PK others. I\'d start a new character, and just make it my mission to kill PKers.. take their stuff.. sell it.. and give the money to newbies or lower lvl people. Like a modern day robin hood or something.

Nehow.. this isn\'t all the gaming memories I have.. pretty much just the highlights of the Highlights.

OH GOD! I almost made a new thread regarding my post. Thank god i didn\'t complete the subject field.

Ah soooo many of them....

-Playing Mario(NES) for the first time was the first time that I\'ve ever played a videogame and from then on I was Mario\'s *****.

- Playing my second game, METROID, then becoming Samus\' *****.

-Playing my third game, MegaMan 3, but only to be disapointed to see how much METROID kicked it\'s ass.

-After playing MM3, I finally learned that Ice Beam+5 missile combo to kill the Metroids and beat the game only to be shocked when I saw Samus Aran took off HER helmet.

-Beating Mario 3(damn Bowser was easy in that one) with my best friend watching. Awesome moment.

- Getting my SNES on X-Mas day because another toy that I got didn\'t work.

-Opening up the special place in Super Mario World, possibly the best platformer ever.

-Mario Kart era. I played that game for a year and never got bored of it.

-Being amazed by the graphics and quality of Donkey Kong Country.

-Playing Super Metroid for the first time and loving every minute of that kick ass game.

-Beating Super Metroid in 40 minutes so I could see Samus in a bikini. :eek:

-On Christmas day I got my N64 and I wasn\'t even expecting one so that I had to be the best day have my life. I also got Mario64 that game. Totally awesome.

And that pretty much covers the good ole days. My N64/PSX/DC days don\'t count as being old IMO

DUCK HUNT!!! I spent hours and hours playing over and over again that damn game. I loved that gun. I still have it to this day.

So many memories!

I think I might go a little further back than you guys but I still think about the day that I went over my friends house to see something called pong. Two big controllers and hours of fun.
After that I was hooked, and had to have every new system that came out. I can remember when Intellivision just came out and my father had a friend who could get me one( I think it fell off the back of a truck). I think I could go on about all the videogame memories but I have to get some work done.
Is it me or does it seem that games were more fun in those days?

Ace

Ace, it is not only you. I thought the gaming those days were far funnier than it is today. Only few games these days achieve the enjoyment level many of the older games did.

I still remember playing Starfox on my Snes, and completing the easy-route the first time... How I kissed my controller and smiled happily... But I never completed the medium-route or the hard-route, wich is literally impossible. Even after years of practise, no can do, brother.

I remember playing the boss of Super Mario World - Browser jumping in an odd vehicle, and it was actually my friend whom completed the boss first ( in my SAVE ), and I was so mad I started a fight with him. But then later on I went the boss trough myself.

And then I remember finding the secret episode in Super Mario World - and it was literally impossible for me. Way too many ball-throwing grunts there... but I remember how cool it was to find it. And how cool episode it was anyway... never got over level 2 of it, \'tho.

I remember when I got Super Mario World, my friend showed me how to play Super Mario Bros. 2 ( the same friend who went trough the boss in SMW ), and went to the 4th world... I started my own game and never got that far. I didn\'t like the game much back then, but I love it now on my GBA.

Nostalgia. I love this thread

Yeah, I think they were more fun as well.

I know a game is great when I can\'t wait to get out of work and the first thing I have to do is fire up that game. The last game that gave me that feeling was Metal Gear Solid. I was upset when it was over.

A great game is like a great book, you just want the thing to go on forever.

I remember...

I was a PC gamer...

Commander Keen, the first game from id-Software. Then SNES: Very long NHL Hockey and Mario Kart sessions with friends. Then ISS DELUXE...One of the best games ever. No soccer game is better than ISS DELUXE for SNES. Best gameplay, great graphics (for SNES)

Yeah, yeah....good ol\' times....

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Originally posted by Ace



Is it me or does it seem that games were more fun in those days?

Ace

Games was just more fun then. I don\'t know why. Maybe we were younger and more naive? Maybe the games was simpler and didn\'t require you to read a 100 page plus manual. Maybe it was just because the game developers didn\'t put out complete crap all the time. Maybe it was because we didn\'t have to worry about the friggin\' camera angles all the time. Maybe it was because we didn\'t have to deal with 10 mintue long cinema\'s for every 20 mintues of gameplay. Maybe it was because 3DO wasn\'t producing games back then ( ). Maybe it was because the controllers was simple and didn\'t require you to have huge hands and 20 fingers - like it seems you need sometimes.
Then again, maybe it was because games just rocked more then they do now, for the most part.

What he said. They were just better back then. Simple as that.

I also feel sorry for the people who grew up on the PSX or N64...