Lets sit around like old men and share our nostalgic old nes/famicom stories here.
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Anonymous2004-12-24 5:51
Before I knew how to read I managed to erase my brother's Dragon Warrior game. He wasn't very happy.
This is also the only example of me actually remembering looking at words and them just appearing as nothing.
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Anonymous2004-12-24 6:02
I REMEMBER BEATING SUPER MARIO WORLD
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ilifin!R0F030lwEk2004-12-24 6:05
I found my Legend of Zelda gold cart some months ago. My savegames were intact. I was such a noob.
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W.T. Snacks!TcT.PTG1.22004-12-24 6:10
I didn't have an NES until probably whenever N64 was out.
However, I do remember playing ET (hahaha) on my Atari 2600.
Oh, and The Empire Strikes back. Damn.
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Anonymous2004-12-24 6:29
Had a FF1 cart that used to fuck up and give me random exp gains that would give me like two levels then absoulty nothing for like 8 battles... boy those were the days.
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LargoTK2004-12-24 6:46
I was playing Crystalis lately... too bad the battery had gone. That game was brilliant for its time.
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posem_diest2004-12-24 7:26
I remember repeatedly getting wiped out in the Ice Cave by the SORCERERS and Astos-pallette swapped pieces of probability defying trash the Dark Imps or whatever the hell they are they're called Dark Wizards on the remake.
I NEVER MADE IT PAST THE ICE CAVE IN FINAL FANTASY ON THE NES CONSOLE AND MY LIFE HASN'T GOTTEN ANY BETTER SINCE
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pollen2004-12-24 7:43
largo: DUDE, that game rockz0rs.
i remember actually fighting IRL with my best friend over which dude in megaman 1 that were the coolest. my bet was cutman, while he was rock solid on gutsman. i remeber hitting him with a chair once, even though i was 6 at the time.
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TheLastRoboKy!PTp2mgltYM2004-12-24 8:01
I never owned a NES, but once I went to Sydney with a friend and his parents in a flat some people rented out while they went on holidays. They had a NES and Ducktales. No instruction manual, so I didn't know how you attacked, or if you could attack at all. As such I spent two days on the first level trying to avoid all enemies until accidently stumbling across the pogo cane simply by accident. I beat that game flawlessly thanks to my retarded two days of practice dodging enemies and dying at the mid or final boss, I can't remember that far back..
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Anonymous2004-12-24 8:13
I never had a NES. But, my uncle did, and I played Super Mario Bros 1-3 and Batman on it. Yep.
The first NES-like thing I actually owned was a Power Joy II famicom clone, one of the shitty ones where everything's built into an N64-style controller. It at least had a cart slot, but since the carts were on the controller, it had a tendency to crash at inopportune moments. Then the AC adapter broke, and fuck using 4 AAA's.
Then I got an Ultra 8 Bit to replace it, which was a bit better, until it died. So now I've got a box of Famicom carts and not much I can do with them.
Maybe I should get a real NES.
That, or a Pockefami.
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Disco2004-12-24 10:08
My NES sits on top of my PS2. I still play it all the time ^_^
Well, I say "NES", when really, it's just the one that works the best out of the three I've owned ~.~ Damn redesign spring loaded dust collecting connector scraping... rrrrrgh...
LOL I feel all old and stuff. I was trying to get my ROB the Robot to work on Gyromite long before most gamers I know were even born.
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Kratos2004-12-24 11:39
Ghosts and Goblins for NES XDDDD! I used to play it over and over again. Still one of my favs of all time
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Kratos2004-12-24 11:42
Oooh! And also Sweet Home for Famicom, did it release in America? I think it's one of the most advanced games for the Famicom, I think it was way underrated. Definately cleared the path for suspence and horror games :) my favs!
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saitaikaibou2004-12-24 12:05
one time while i was playing ff1, my cousin bumbed the nes right as the fighter was attacking. i swear to god, the fighter just stood there swinging his sword for like thirty seconds, and when i was resigned to press the reset button, he stopped. the status window then said something along the lines of "fffff hits!". we have not been able to duplicate this yet.
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Songlian2004-12-24 12:45
Oh god Kratos, that brings back memories! XD Ghosts and Goblins was so damn hard for my small, kiddie brain back in the day. *shudders* The best memories are of Punch-Out and Maniac Mansion, though. XD
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Suzuna2004-12-24 15:20
Ahh, NES.. when I was really small, the kids we babysat tricked me into thinking that Mario couldn't see in the Dark World. They told me I had to close my eyes when I played or it didn't count.
Then when I got a little older, about 7-ish, I tried playing Zelda. Miserable failure ensued. Well, I was fine.. up until the fifth castle and those damn darknuts.
Ahh, what else? Gauntlet. For some reason, that game always got my NES to work when no other games would. I love the Gauntlet theme.
Then when I finally got old enough to truly appreciate my NES, it was nearly impossible to get it to work. I ended up balancing it on its side, sticking pencils in it to make the cartridge sit just so, and other strange things. Last year it died on me completely. Rest in peace!
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Otacon2004-12-24 15:53
I remember using the world warp whistle thing for SMB3 immediately after watching the Wizard.
One time I managed to get all the way to the end spaceship of Fester's Quest(boy was that 4 hours of pure hell) and dying. Pissed off, and not wanting to retrack through the entire damn game, I restart and tap the top of the cartridge to crash it in spite. The game subsequently warped me into the spaceship again...
Right into the middle of a fucking wall.
I also got pretty far in Blaster Master(area 6-7), another tough Sunsoft game.
Our used Dragon Warrior cart had this maxed out file with the highest level and all of Erdrick's equipment. The clincher here is that it was originally a rental copy. How someone has that much free time I don't know.
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2004-12-24 15:54(capped)
I'm not a big gamer. In fact, NES is the only system I ever owned. I remember when I beat Ninja Gaiden at the tender age of nine. It was quite a moment. The game I most recently was emulated SRWII. Old Super Robot Wars games seem to be much tougher than newer ones.
Anyone remember the game Bayou Billy? That game was fucking hard. I don't recall getting too far in that.
My most 'memorable' tale; a nes, a used copy of zelda and a black and white TV.
Problem? When you spend that long playing the game, only to find out that the bloody internal battery is faulty, you know you're going to explode. Except you don't know that it's faulty, and you've been playing nearly 10 hours straight. My head still hurts from the memory :(
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Pierson2004-12-24 17:12
I got a borrow of a NES when I was something like 9 along with a beaten-up copy of Zelda. I spent hours wandering over the landscapes beating up Octorocks not knowing what the hell I was supposed to be doing. Did I care? Did I hell.
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Anonymous2004-12-24 17:23
Ah, the days of playing RPG's without caring about the storyline (if any). Pure bliss :)
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theBiskuit2004-12-24 17:41
I was playing Super Mario Bros. one day. The TV was maybe 3 feet wide and mounted on a stand. My brother pushed it on me and I was stuck underneath it.
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Anonymous2004-12-24 17:47
Base Wars = greatest baseball game ever.
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Anonymous2004-12-24 17:57
150 in 1 SUPER FAMILY COMPUTER cartridge = best old-school game ever
especially that tank game
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Suzuna2004-12-24 18:05
>>20
Why am I about to die?
I'm surprised I haven't heard any tales of Duck Hunt and that fucking dog yet.
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Anonymous2004-12-24 18:07
I'm surprised the dog isn't the most recognised icon during the nes-era
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creme2004-12-24 18:12
I remember our first nintendo! by the time we sold it, we had nearly 350 games. Since, my brother and I have tried to get back all the games we had and then more, but currently we're only up to 315 or so. We own 'newer' systems, too, but sometimes we just have to get back to the old school nintendo + super nintendo :] nothing like the classics!
130 in 1 TV Game Cartridge is better. Robocco Wars.
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Virtual Korean!DSv3yyjLCE2004-12-24 19:28
I have many of SNES stories (i never owned an nes, but i did have an ntelevision).
The one i will share takes place in the old days of my boyhood. This was an ongoing weekly tradition that me and my friends have, we would always watch Cartoons on Saturday, the Fox ones. And i swear to you, not 30 seconds after the credits for X-Men would start to roll, there would be 2 (out of 5) of the regulars at my door, and the rest would follow. We all would sit around the T.V. and play games until lunchtime. Rampart, Gradius III, Faceball 2000 (or was it 3000 i dont remember, someone tell me), Zelda: Link to the Past, Pilotwings, and later Donkey Kong Country. But mostly it was Rampart.
I dont know if anyone else here played this game as much as me and my friends or me and my father, but Rampart was "the shit", and today it still stands as my favorite game, and it will continue to stand, even if it has no cannons.
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Shizumaru!ZgWyOepuR62004-12-24 19:46
My mother beat Dragon Warrior before I did.
Damn it.
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omg lol2004-12-24 21:45
first, no one screamed Excitebike
second, rampart realy was kickass
third, i had dragon warrior and im at the end castle with the big boss and ive been trying to make it all night and couldnt. the next day at school i tell my firnd i mat the end. my best friend brother realy wana see that and he comes to play with me after school.
so i start the game get to the castle, actualy make it to the boss and then the boss talks to me. im a kid and i dont know well english, there is 2 choice, my friend is better in english so i let him decide. he made me chose the lasy "joine me" and i lost the fight ><!!! i didnt know what happened. motherfucker then said let me try it and finished the fuckin game before me and ill forever hate him for that. now htat makes me think why i just payed 50$ for a xmas gift today when i know he didnt get anything for me >< arg i got owned again motherfucker lol
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Kageshima!W.rJY3yfYQ2004-12-24 21:53
I`ve got a lot of NES stories (beat Battletoads without warping or dying. That took a LONG time to do) But my favorite is a SNES one.
Got together with a friend for an all night SNES bash. We started playing Gemfire (which rocks, hard)at 8:00pm. Played... and played... and played on the first campaign until we had completely annihilated everyone else and just continued to vie for power between the two of us. The sun rises, we keep playing.
Finally, my friends says "Damn dude, we should eat some breakfast." We go downstairs and toss some Poptarts in the microwave and look at the clock. 4:20pm. That`s right. 20 hours and 20 minutes of Gemfire without so much as a bathroom break. We were in the ZONE.
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Anonymous2004-12-24 22:37
When I first got my Genesis and SNES, my mom somehow convinced me to give away my NES and games. It's over 10 years later now, and I still can't let that go. What the hell was I thinking?
Gemfire does, indeed, rock hard. You are a wise man.
I remember never being able to beat Ninja Gaiden 3, on the nes, BECAUSE YOU DIE IN FOUR HITS. And level 3 was a very unfriendly place for such a fragile Ryu Hayabusa. Making it to the fourth stage took the entire extent on my abilities and then some.
But I was able to beat the first two Ninja Gaidens, eventually. And on the snes compilation, I had my way with 3 since they fixed the bogus damage. BUT EVERYDAY I WAKE UP AND MY FIRST THOUGHT IS I WASN'T ABLE TO BEAT THE NES NINJA GAIDEN 3. IT EATS AT ME IT WILL HAUNT ME UNTIL THE END OF MY DAYS
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Kageshima!W.rJY3yfYQ2004-12-24 23:49
>>36 You beat the first two Ninja Gaidens? You are a better man than I. Level 7-2 in Ninja Gaiden kicked my ass repetedly. And on the rare occasion I got to the boss, it was with no more than 2 bars of remaining health.
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angelstar2004-12-25 0:22
Battle of Olympus. Anyone remember that? As far as I remember it was one of my favourite ever games. It was so fun to play, and satisfying when I finally completed it. (Okay, so I cheated shamelessly, but I really enjoyed it.)
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satanbunny2004-12-25 1:26
Mega fun for me was exploiting glitches on the poor old nes. Best ever was the Excitebike trick, where you lay down millions of cool down thingies and ramps, then go higher and higher until you go off the screen and come up through the bottom, right?
Well when I had passed the finish line on the 9th lap I happened to be underneath it at the time and I just kept on going, the lap numbers going up to 99 I believe then turning into letters, lap A-Z, then AA, AB, etc. It kept on going for about 10 minutes or so, then eventually timed out. By that time the laps were just wierd symbols (like if you keep getting lives in SMB). It was damn neat, and I haven't been able to recreate it since.
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The_Fluff2004-12-25 8:32
Dude, battle of olympus and there's my NES childhood. That rock golem scared the bejeesus out of me. Can anyone say "Boy and his blob"? Eat my jellybeans bitch, indeed.
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queazy2004-12-25 9:07
I remember back in the day, we had some crazy errors. Hearing Cranky Kong in Donkey Kong COuntry talk about how way back when the sprites would change for no apparent reason. I remember that happening tons of times, Super Mario would turn into some bizarre flashing blocks of brown and white, and when you were still they didn't move either. Remember having to dip q-tips in rubbing alcohol and clean the connector of the NES cart that way.. boy we can't do that with the disks now. Damn, blaster Master was also the coolest thing too, wow, you got to drive a tank! What a power rush!
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Edible Corpse2004-12-25 11:41
i remmeber the days of first playing gyromite. all you had to do was simlpy press the bottons to make the pillers go up or down. naturually i was young and an evil bastard to i was always delight in squishing him from every possible angle
and then there was also contra. remember back then? when getting the spread shot impressed you and see-ing a giant head for a boss was the most awesome thing ever. yep those were the days
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Anonymous2004-12-25 14:11
I always fooled around in Super Mario Bros to see what was possible to do, since i had nothing to do most of the time when i was a kid. I remember pausing to see the different color hues mario would turn into when he was in star mode after eating the star(yes we reffered to it as 'eating'). ah yes, and I also managed to jump over one of the ending flag poles, the game would screw up and all this weird sprite displacement would happen.
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ohnoitschris2004-12-25 18:21
>>14
America never got it but someone translated the ROM :D
I remember playing an obscure game called Spiritual Warfare, for hours on end. It was essentally a Zelda clone made by Wisdom Tree (They made lots of various Biblical games). It was a fantastic and surprisingly very challenging game with plenty of puzzles and secrets, and a fairly big world to boot. I never did beat it, or get to the final boss (Satan of course) for that matter...
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Anonymous2004-12-25 19:45
Satan as a last boss in a Christian game?
Crazy.
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Fnordulicious2004-12-26 0:38
I never beat Ganon. I still feel like a failure for that. I kept dying every damned time before I had him pegged. Sux0r.
I loved Gauntlet even though it pissed me off to no end. I sucked really hard at it, and playing it single player on the NES meant I sucked even more than normal because I couldn't depend on random arcade winners to take out half the level for my sorry ass.
Now that I got a new SNES, is there a Gauntlet for SNES?
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Fnordulicious2004-12-26 0:39
Fave hack for SMB was the infinite turtle bounce hack. I loved how your up counter went beyond hex into symbols. That was the cool.
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Suzuna2004-12-26 23:47
>>46 I don't think there is.. or if there is it couldn't possibly be as good as the first two =D
I do need food badly.. but it's just too scary outside this room.. >.>
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Anonymous2004-12-28 18:58
Snake Rattle'n'Roll still kicks majorly. Can't remember how many hours I spent playing that game with my cousin.. again and again until her parents would come down and tell us to go to sleep. And of course, finally reaching the last level was only rewarded with death by a foot. I still haven't beaten that game, and no one I know has a NES anymore.. too bad, it has some awesome games. Quite unlike anything being released today.
Not a Gauntlet in name - I do know Gauntlet V's on the Genesis, though, lol
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Katy-Chan2004-12-29 4:17
I know somebody who put a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in an NES instead of a game cartridge... The only excuse I've heard as of yet is "Hey shut up I was little!"
Any other strange way of breaking/fixing NES's?
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Aborn!2004-12-29 8:06Aborn!
Aborn!
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KillArby!0Mc34dvxtM2004-12-29 15:27
Battle of Olympus was great, that stupid forest/maze level always drove me nuts. I'd load it up just for the title screen music.
Rygar was a great game, but very difficult unless you didn't level up a lot. I remember using a NES Advantage with a taped-down button to kill monsters over and over to raise levels. It took hours and hours, but after waiting you could get through the game pretty quickly.
I dusted it off recently and gave Rygar another playthrough many years later, and beat it in 40 minutes. What happened? If you go to Lapis and kill those red-and-yellow robots, you can max out your levels in no time.
Of course that's what the NES was all about, killing huge amounts of time. Anyone who finally got through Metroid can attest to that.
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Anonymous2004-12-31 18:11
I was never able to do the bomb jumps for the first boss in Metroid, no matter how hard I worked at it.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned River City Ransom. I remember playing with the neighbor's kid, and he was obsessed with getting one of the items. Every time we beat a screen, he'd go back to the shop and make sure they still sold it.
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Anonymous2005-01-01 2:06
Yup, River City Ransom...cool co-op game. That was the most fun until Metal Slug and Gunstar Heroes.
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Anonymous2005-01-02 23:48 (sage)
記念カキコ
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Anonymous2008-03-23 1:39
Hello everybody, I am reviving an ancient thread.
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Dejiko!EjMa0ZMQuY2008-04-02 22:57
I hate to admit it but, as a kid, I didn't know half of the GOOD NES games to get, so I just played the ones I had and rented others I thought were interesting. It wasn't until I got a computer roughly 10 years ago that I really began to start going at the NES seriously and truly appreciating its glory. Prime example being Star Tropics.
bullshit, no one gets to the final level in Battletoads
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Anonymous2008-04-06 18:24
The beautiful thing about the NES is that the games can HALFWAY fuck up and get weird pixels all over the place. Just like fucking with rabbit ears. Banging on it, blowing it, all the physical stuff works tangibly, and you can see results on the TV sometimes.
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Anonymous2008-04-07 7:14
>>61
Come to visit so I show you.
AND ANYONE ELSE WHO DOESN'T BELIEVE!
Battletoads isn't hard if you practise it enough.
You guys can fap with your gay memes.
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Anonymous2010-08-13 20:08
asspiss
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Anonymous2010-08-13 21:26
All that i remember is getting own'd.
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Anonymous2010-08-13 22:57
If you didn't get all the chaos emeralds on at least sonic one and two, you might as well kill yourself now.
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Anonymous2010-08-14 1:17
Well, here I go.
*Shoots self.*
Oh yeah. Crap. I'm invisible.
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test2011-01-19 21:40
test
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Anonymous2011-01-19 22:54
Play Zelda and love it.
Suffer through chip shortage...Get Zelda 2... ahhh shit..
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Anonymous2011-11-16 11:14
Beating Super Mario Bros one morning at the age of 4. Had a bit of trouble on the last level, but somehow I figured it out and beat that bitch Bowser. Too bad I was the only one awake at the time to celebrate my first video game victory.
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Anonymous2011-11-16 12:41
Kirby's Adventure
Just being able to fucking inhale your enemies and turn into them. This game surprises the shit out of you when you look at the cover and all you see is a fluffy cute pink cloud.
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Anonymous2011-11-18 3:08
GETTING STUCK IN ZELDA 2
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
CHEAP GAMES FROM THE PAWN SHOP LIKE FESTERS QUEST
that feel when you beat super mario 3 for the first time
that feel when you literally developed gamer thumbs AND hand muscles like 10 years before the rest of your bros because you played THE SHIT out of caveman games
that feel when you remember playing Chiller with a bro way back in the day, when that shit was like HOLYSHITOMGWTF
Iremember beating Zelda on super nes before anyone else even owned it, as we ordered it straight from japan
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Anonymous2014-01-16 13:43
Mario 3 sucked and was boring but I have a good story to share.
My mom went out late at night to the midnight release at toys r us when mario 3 came out. That night she met screech from saved by the bell in line. That's the best thing about mario 3 I can think of.
Share you're stories here friend.
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Anonymous2014-01-16 16:45
>>75
Was either of your parents really into gaming? Importing a game seems pretty hardcore, especially if you did it so long ago.
I'm not sure I've ever even touched an NES controller.