I was telling a TON of stories on my Dtoid blog about my childhood as a gamer. I thought it'd make a good thread. I have tons, enough to write a book actually. here are the entries it's easier to link to them rather than just retell them here http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/mi...i-m-most-emotionally-attached-to-104685.phtml http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/mi...-past-and-some-non-mega-man-ones-104747.phtml http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/mi...cade-not-part-of-namco-s-series--104981.phtml http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/michiyoyoshiku/photos-from-the-past-104934.phtml SO how about your memories?
Sonic CD is awesome. I have a ton of sonic related memories myself. My cousin and I used to play the Sonics together he'd relegate me to being tails so I never really got to do much.
When I was five I got my first glimpse of the NES in action. The first video game I laid my eyes on was Kung Fu. I wasn't allowed to play it since it belonged to my oldest brother but one day after he unhooked the NES from the living room I asked him if I could play it. He took it upstairs to my room and I was finally playing my first video game ever Super Mario Bros. From that day on I became a gamer. I grew up in a house where the money wasn't easy. Both my parents worked in factories and had enough troubles paying the bills and putting me and my second oldest brother through school. When it came to gaming my oldest brother and sister would be the ones that bought us new games. Like you GodofHardcore Mega Man holds a place near and dear to my heart. My first title was Mega Man 3. I rented this from blockbuster and I barely had enough for it. I remember gathering my change and even asking my mom for whatever change she had in her purse and went to Blockbuster with my oldest brothers girlfriend, who he later made his wife, she lent me her card to go rent a video game. I was like a kid in the candy store. What title to pick I thought to myself. So many to choose from. I went to the row of M's and there it was. I had no idea what I was renting but the box was enough to get me interesting in giving the game a try. I thought wow three Mega Man titles to choose from but I only had the cash for one. This is the first time that I ever enjoy a game for more than its game play. My first RM was Snake Man. I loved his stage music and I still do to this day. I could go on and talk about each day I landed my hands on a new Mega Man game for the first time but then I would be here forever typing this up. Mega Man isn't the only game that has a lot of memories attached for me. A couple of other examples are Resident Evil and Pirates! for NES. Resident Evil holds a lot of memories because just about each time I play it it brings back so many memories about the summer me and my friends got together and played the series for the first time. They hated when it was my turned because it would always take me the longest to die. :lol: As for Pirates! my brother and our buddy from the neighborhood would get together and play this non-stop trying to get 100 point to get the Kings Advisor rating. One year we had a huge snow storm and there was no school here in PA for an entire week. All we did was play this game during those times. :lol:
Beating Sonic 2 was memorable. Zelda Ocarina of Time was memorable, all of it. Thief series. If it's any game that got me so involved into it, it is the Thief series. Arc The Lad II was also very memorable.
The first game I ever beat was Super Mario Bros 3 with my cousin when I was five, since then it became one of my favourite games and still today I play it once in a while... Sonic games are a big part of my gaming memories too, I can't forget the moments when I beat Sonic and Sonic 2. Beating this kind of games had something that I can't find in newer games, maybe the thing that you couldn't save and if you run out of continues the game was over used to make these games more challenging...
I've got tons of gaming memories most of which start from the PS1 era, I remember getting into games like Resi 1,2 and nemesis and completing them all as well as completing the 1st Silent hill. I think those were probably the only games i completed since most of my time i was at my best friends house all the time just messing around with games like Fifa, wipeout etc... Also i remember my best friend at that time had an N64 and we played 007 goldeneye multiplayer a lot before i got him into getting a PlayStation
I'd have to say most of my good gaming memories rest on the N64. Playing Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Smash Bros., Mario Party, Conker's Bad Fur Day, amongst others, in multiplayer mode all night with a couple of friends was awesome, really nice memories. The SNES gave me good times also, with Kirby Superstar, Zombies ate my neighbors, Zelda and Mario RPG. I think our best memories in terms of gaming will always be when playing with friends. As for solo games, the ones I enjoyed most where Thief 1 & 2 and Deus Ex.
Some of my fondest gaming memories are playing games with my dad. -Blades of Steel on the NES when I was little. -Playing Area 51 at the local Godfathers again, with my dad. -My dad playing Halo: CE at every lan party I had in high school until the wee hours of the night aka 11:30pm. Good times.
When I was around 8 years old I went to visit my cousin in california... up until then I had never heard of a "video game". Well anyway I basically spent the whole trip playing bomberman* and bomberman max red challenger on his gameboy, and some frogger game on his ps1. To this day I am completely obsessed with video games, and bomberman remains my favorite series. *I have never really figured out which bomberman game this was... at first I thought it was pocket bomberman, but I remember there being some traditional overhead levels and not just the side scroller stuff... maybe some import game
Playing F-Zero X on the N64, particularly the death race. I used to stay awake all night trying to trim a few more seconds off my time. Really addictive, but sometimes it severely pissed me off to the point of launching the controller towards the wall. The dents in the wall still exist to this day. Must dust off the '64....
