NES stories

Lets sit around like old men and share our nostalgic old nes/famicom stories here.

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.

I REMEMBER BEATING SUPER MARIO WORLD

I found my Legend of Zelda gold cart some months ago. My savegames were intact. I was such a noob.

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.

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.

I was playing Crystalis lately... too bad the battery had gone. That game was brilliant for its time.

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

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.

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..

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.

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.

Ghosts and Goblins for NES XDDDD! I used to play it over and over again. Still one of my favs of all time

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!

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

>>17 is about to die!

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 :(

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.

Ah, the days of playing RPG's without caring about the storyline (if any). Pure bliss :)

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.

Base Wars = greatest baseball game ever.

150 in 1 SUPER FAMILY COMPUTER cartridge = best old-school game ever

especially that tank game

>>20
Why am I about to die?
I'm surprised I haven't heard any tales of Duck Hunt and that fucking dog yet.

I'm surprised the dog isn't the most recognised icon during the nes-era

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!

>>26

130 in 1 TV Game Cartridge is better. Robocco Wars.

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.

My mother beat Dragon Warrior before I did.

Damn it.

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

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.

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?

>>34

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

>>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.

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.)

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.

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.