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