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Post by The Fuj on Nov 25, 2012 12:37:16 GMT -5
HOLY FUCK WAS THIS NOT THE END ALL BE ALL OF GAMING CONSOLES?!?!?!
Discuss.
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Post by robertd on Nov 25, 2012 12:52:23 GMT -5
There was so many great games on that system that I would still play today.
I know the spoiled rotten kids today would look at them and go "man, my iPhone got betta graphics than that yo" but we had a CalicoVision, then an Atari 2600, which the most graphic game on there was Pitfall. Getting that NES and shooting ducks(and trying to shoot that smart ass dog) was just awe-inspiring.
And the hours I logged after school burning bushes with my torch because some guy said there was a hidden passageway under one in Zelda makes me realize exactly why I'm a chef and not a CEO, and i'm okay with that.
And having to take out a game that wasn't starting, and blowing in it, even though people swore it didn't make a difference, then putting it back in and having it start........you can't buy memories like that.
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Post by scottyflamingo on Nov 25, 2012 13:29:51 GMT -5
Loved my NES, but I'd say the SNES has it beat. Just a TON of awesome games. Plus it has bigger and better versions of everything on the NES (Mario, Zelda, Metroid).
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Post by Caliber on Nov 25, 2012 13:35:10 GMT -5
The thing about the NES was that it was a way of life. I mean, as a kid you HAD to have a NES, or you were fucked. Then you had to have the Mario/Link cereal, bed sheets, beanbags, those awesome black cases that held your games, the running pad, the power glove, all sorts of rad things.
Now a days, a kid can not have a PS3, or an XBOX, and be fine because there's a ton of other shit to keep him cool.
But when we were kids? Nope. You had to have that shit. You had to have Contra. Bad Dudes. Mario 3. And you had to discuss how fucking impossible that level was in TMNT where you swam through the electric eels and defused the bombs.
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Post by robertd on Nov 25, 2012 13:38:07 GMT -5
Speaking of Mario 3, I remember doing weeks of yard work in order to go see The Wizard, and at the end, when they debuted Mario 3, I was literally cheering.
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Post by scottyflamingo on Nov 25, 2012 14:36:25 GMT -5
I was the only kid in my class that subscribed to Nintendo Power and was like a Shaman.
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Post by The Fuj on Nov 25, 2012 15:38:54 GMT -5
I was the only kid in my class that subscribed to Nintendo Power and was like a Shaman. man... nintendo power... i had a script to that 4 two years. i felt like a grown up gettin mail at 8. |
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Post by scottyflamingo on Nov 25, 2012 16:26:04 GMT -5
What amazed me was that it lasted until like LAST year. I hadn't even thought about it for 20 years. But man, I've never loved getting mail as much as NP. I still think Adventure of Link would be impossible without it.
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Post by acsativa on Nov 25, 2012 17:09:11 GMT -5
What amazed me was that it lasted until like LAST year. I hadn't even thought about it for 20 years. But man, I've never loved getting mail as much as NP. I still think Adventure of Link would be impossible without it. Actually it's finally just getting killed off now, the December issue will be the last one. I have to take the SNES over the NES, less shitty games and no 10-NES chip. But the NES is a close second. |
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Post by yj2310 on Nov 25, 2012 17:19:03 GMT -5
Blowing into the cartridges used to be a pain in the ass, now we look back on it with nostalgia.
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Post by acsativa on Nov 25, 2012 17:43:07 GMT -5
Blowing into the cartridges used to be a pain in the ass, now we look back on it with nostalgia. What's funny about it is that blowing into carts did more harm than good. It was the infamous 10-NES lockout chip that was causing the blinking screen syndrome, blowing into carts just helped the contact pins corrode thanks to saliva. Of course, we didn't know any of that as kids. |
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Post by cultstatus on Nov 25, 2012 21:41:45 GMT -5
FUCK Teenage Ninja Mutant Ninja Turtles and that underwater level with the electrified seaweed.
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