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For the love of games!
mojoeskateco:
I'll never forget the first time I turned on the SNES. My mom rented it for me and I still to this day remember watching the title sequence and being blown away by the leap in graphics and how amazing the music was.
This was back before YouTube and announcement trailers, etc. I don't even think I had seen a screen shot of Mario world before I turned the system on.
This is probably the most memorable gaming moment I'll ever have
sheep2001:
For me some of the most memorable moments are firstly, Christmas 1984, getting a 48k rubber key ZX spectrum from my parents. With a 6 pack of games including Horace goes skiing. The 3-4 minute loading time, watching the coloured lines running up and down the screen felt like an eternity.
Buying myself a master system having saved up for MONTHS! Hang on was the absolute shit! Astro warrior, outrun, my hero........ Still one of my favourite consoles to this day.
Buying myself a commodore Amiga. I got myself a Saturday job and saved and saved. £400 was ALOT of money for me. But it was oh, so worth it.
Then when a friend got his hands on a Japanese snes, before the uk release, and playing Actraiser for the first time. I was absolutely blown away. And lastly playing sonic the first time on an in store display. Right then I HAD to buy a megadrive.
I rarely get excited by games now like I did back then, mostly I guess because I am older, and there are other more important things in my life. Although things like first playing tony hawks pro skater on the ps1 and infamous or sleeping dogs on the ps3 have managed to get a bit of that feeling back. Just one more level........
Ive just orderd an ouya, I'm going to preorder a ps4, and I will probably end up with Xbox one at some point down the road.
Superchop:
--- Quote from: TyrannicalFascist on June 10, 2013, 10:13:46 PM ---So here's a related bonus memory...a rather embarrassing one. :P
Back in the early days of the internet, when I was a more naive gamer, I came across a site claiming that you could...
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Lol, I have a similar story...back in the early days of pokemon red and blue, I remember reading a lot of websites claiming that there is a secret 4th evolution to the main 3 pokemon. It said that you have to beat the Elite 4 about 100 times or more. And believing the websites I did just that lol, although I used that to also level up my pokemon team to 100. You can only guess how dissappointed I was when my Blastoise didn't evolve lol.
In terms of gaming and the different generations, I think the biggest impact was from the N64. I literally wanted the the n64 solely for Zelda: OOT. The year that I got it I remember asking my mom to take me to toys r us so I could buy my cousin a xmas gift. This was xmas eve so the toy store was packed lol. While I was looking at the games for the snes I also remember my mom looking at zelda for the 64 a bit more then others. But I shrugged it off. I waited in line to pay for the game and since back then we had to take a paper to the counter then wait in a different line so the employees could pick up the game from the stock room. Once I paid my mom had told me to go wait in the car while she waited to pick up the game. So I did, I went to the car and waited...it took her about a half hr to come back! I found it kinda strange that it took so long especially since she was like 2nd or 3rd in line. Well, the next morning I got the surprise of my life! A N64 and zelda! Me and my cousin played it for hours and hours and were just amazed with the game. Since then though, no game or system has had that same impact. Which I think is a shame but things change...
Seraph Man:
You know what? I don't need nostalgia.
I was sitting in my room this morning with my little (13) brother, watching the Nintendo Direct livestream, which was choppy as all hell. But we powered through, and halfway through the thing stopped buffering every 20 seconds. He was excited about Pokemon, being the pokenut that he is, and I am too, to a lesser extent. The other games interested him, and he found himself wanting a Wii U for the new Mario and Mariokart games. Then they showed the new Smash. We were both excited and had fun as it unfolded. We agreed that the Villager was cool, and the game looked like the kind of fun you'd find in Smash. Then it ended, and he was a little disappointed that they only showed one new character. But I suspected more, so I told him to wait. Seconds later, new challenger appeared. We see the silhouette, and I know. My brother suspects, until the helmet appeared. We both cheered, trying to mute ourselves and not doing too good a job. It was Mega Man. See, my brother may be a pokenut, but I'm a fanatic of Mega Man (though Forte seems to have one-up-ed me in terms of how hardcore his love is). When Mega Man was down, he switched to his powers and we cheered again. The moves were phenomenal. And after it ended, we were giddy. We watched the trailer again and again.
That's it. Just a nice anecdote about today. I'll remember this day.