Tell Us Your Childhood Game Stories

[sam fisher]

you guys make me feel so young - with your atari 800's nd XE's

my game gaming memory is the day i got my sega megadrive (my first console) must have been 91/92 and i was 3ish and how amazed i was that i could control this little sprite, it came with sonic 1 nd 2 and streets of rage (one of my top 5 games ever) and they all came in a hard plastic case moulded to fit the console, 2 controllers nd 4 games i love that console but my step dad sold it for like £15 too his mate :angry: i was not happy nd im still not il never forgive him :angry: i want it back NOW!!!!

EDIT: sam i imagind you being older than me but your same age, 89 wot a year... year of the offsprings first commercial album gd days gd days

You are actually slightly older than me

I remember the first time I did an "all-nighter", I played Laser squad on my Amiga.. Suddenly I noticed the birds started chirping outside my window.. I still love the music from that game, altho I don't have the game anymore, so it's all in my memory..

My first all-nighter was when borrowing "Front Mission 3" from my next door neibour, I was only allowed it for 24 hours, so I stayed up 24 hours straight playing it. Then I brought it myself off ebay oneday, it was my sole motivation for signing up. I brought a load of old PSX games cheaply come to think of it :lol:

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

I was 3 or 4 and id run up the road to my friends house to play mario bros 1 on te nes. I only had 2.

Hmm, so you were 3 years old, you ran up the road, and you played mario bros.


At 3 years old.


Lol.


I remember playing super mario world with my baby-sitter when I was 7. I remember (vividly, actually) playing through the SPECIAL area.

Ah, so many SNES memories

This is a quaint small town in wiltshire road, no the Ghetto.

Yes I was 3, born in 1989 and this was 1992. May of been even earlier, my mum would escort me up the road anyway. Didn't have a brother back then.

Your argument isnt strengthened by stating your DOB and year you supposedly did this.

You were 3. You weren't playing Mario Bros at the age of 3. Don't embellish so much.

 

[norm]

You are actually slightly older than me

wow i just checked the dates im like 7 monthe older your no 18 yet? that sucks (its all about being 18) - you alredy know fenix dont you?

back too the subject at hand all nighters are the greatest! in fact i might just arrage an all nighter with my old gaming buds couple of brews and sum classic ( on the 2x maybe, as they've not seen it in action yet )

EDIT: why wasnt he playing mario at 3 daclassicgamingmaster? what so wrong bout that?

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

You are actually slightly older than me

wow i just checked the dates im like 7 monthe older your no 18 yet? that sucks (its all about being 18) - you alredy know fenix dont you?

back too the subject at hand all nighters are the greatest! in fact i might just arrage an all nighter with my old gaming buds couple of brews and sum classic ( on the 2x maybe, as they've not seen it in action yet )

EDIT: why wasnt he playing mario at 3 daclassicgamingmaster? what so wrong bout that?

he was 3 FOR FUCKS SAKE. he wasnt gaming at 3.

sam fisher embellishes on the truth quite often.

 

[norm]

You are actually slightly older than me

wow i just checked the dates im like 7 monthe older your no 18 yet? that sucks (its all about being 18) - you alredy know fenix dont you?

back too the subject at hand all nighters are the greatest! in fact i might just arrage an all nighter with my old gaming buds couple of brews and sum classic ( on the 2x maybe, as they've not seen it in action yet )

EDIT: why wasnt he playing mario at 3 daclassicgamingmaster? what so wrong bout that?

he was 3 FOR FUCKS SAKE. he wasnt gaming at 3.

sam fisher embellishes on the truth quite often.


i was playing sonic nd mario nd at the age of 3

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

You are actually slightly older than me

wow i just checked the dates im like 7 monthe older your no 18 yet? that sucks (its all about being 18) - you alredy know fenix dont you?

back too the subject at hand all nighters are the greatest! in fact i might just arrage an all nighter with my old gaming buds couple of brews and sum classic ( on the 2x maybe, as they've not seen it in action yet )

EDIT: why wasnt he playing mario at 3 daclassicgamingmaster? what so wrong bout that?

he was 3 FOR FUCKS SAKE. he wasnt gaming at 3.

sam fisher embellishes on the truth quite often.


i was playing sonic nd mario nd at the age of 3

Really? I was playing pong in the womb. I kid you not.

 

[norm]

You are actually slightly older than me

wow i just checked the dates im like 7 monthe older your no 18 yet? that sucks (its all about being 18) - you alredy know fenix dont you?

back too the subject at hand all nighters are the greatest! in fact i might just arrage an all nighter with my old gaming buds couple of brews and sum classic ( on the 2x maybe, as they've not seen it in action yet )

EDIT: why wasnt he playing mario at 3 daclassicgamingmaster? what so wrong bout that?

he was 3 FOR FUCKS SAKE. he wasnt gaming at 3.

sam fisher embellishes on the truth quite often.


i was playing sonic nd mario nd at the age of 3

Really? I was playing pong in the womb. I kid you not.


is there any need for that? my 3 year old cuz plays the ps2 he may not understand it but he plays it

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

You are actually slightly older than me

wow i just checked the dates im like 7 monthe older your no 18 yet? that sucks (its all about being 18) - you alredy know fenix dont you?

back too the subject at hand all nighters are the greatest! in fact i might just arrage an all nighter with my old gaming buds couple of brews and sum classic ( on the 2x maybe, as they've not seen it in action yet )

EDIT: why wasnt he playing mario at 3 daclassicgamingmaster? what so wrong bout that?

he was 3 FOR FUCKS SAKE. he wasnt gaming at 3.

sam fisher embellishes on the truth quite often.


i was playing sonic nd mario nd at the age of 3

Really? I was playing pong in the womb. I kid you not.


is there any need for that? my 3 year old cuz plays the ps2 he my not understand it but he plays it

slamming the remote mindlessly does not count. I thought that was a given.

 

[norm]

he dont slam the controll midlessly

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

"he doesn't understand it but he plays it"

That means he doesn't know what he's doing. He hits random buttons.

I've made my point, so I'm leaving the thread now. Bye.

 

[norm]

"he doesn't understand it but he plays it"

That means he doesn't know what he's doing. He hits random buttons.

I've made my point, so I'm leaving the thread now. Bye.

your way too pedantic

 

[FQ22]

When I was 5, my dad let me play Mortal Kombat 1 for the SNES and I did Scorpions' fatality for the first time.

 

[jislizard]

I was recovering from a minor op and was told to take a week off work, I was crashing at a mate's who had a playstation 1 and Tomb Raider.

I got up the first morning and sat in the comfy chair and fired it up as he got me a cup of tea on his way to work, I was still playing it when he came back from work, short break for dinner then back to the game, he made me a cup of tea on his way to bed.

This continued for a week until I figured I was well enough to go back to work.

Spent 1 day at work and decided I missed the game too much so rang up the next day to say I had pulled something and took the next 2 weeks off.

Then spent loads of time searching for all the secrets, which was cool, found the land that time forgot, which was a nice surprise, discovered ancient Egyptian ruins, which was interesting, then discovered some weird alien race and figured that it was getting a bit stupid so went back to work.

That's pretty much the closest I have ever come to completing any computer game ever, except puzzle games like minesweeper or Sudoku I get bored very quickly. I now have all the other tomb raider games waiting to play, just need to have a an accident.

 

[Sphinxter]

They had only just invented the wheel in my childhood, we played with those a bit.

 

[ruckage]

found the land that time forgot, which was a nice surprise, discovered ancient Egyptian ruins, which was interesting, then discovered some weird alien race and figured that it was getting a bit stupid so went back to work.

You have no problem that Lara can run around frozen wastes in a pair of skimpy shorts or with a land where dinosaurs still exist but the Alien race was a bit stupid so you quit, that's funny (maybe it was just too difficult for you ) . Seriously though the original Tombraider was the only one I bothered completing, I found the the sequels a real let down - more tedious than fun.

 

[markiej]

This was not childhood, but was almost 20 years ago. I started my usual after-class game of NES Lifeforce. About 10 minutes into it, I announced to my roommates, "You know, I haven't died yet". Their response was a silent "so?"

Some of you remember just how harsh the penalty of death was in lifeforce. You don't have to start the level over like some of the more annoying shmup's, but even worse, you lose every single power-up you've worked so hard to gain. Which in most cases, is super-laser, super-missle, two flankers, a little (but not too much) speed, and the shield. Die once in Life force, and it's more or less game over.

Back to the story: a few minutes later, I shouted, "you have to see this - I'm still going." They came in and sat down as we saw some wild new levels (the design in Lifeforce is really pretty damn cool), chock full of insanely challenging obstacles.

A short while later, a roommate's friend came in. He quickly joined us on the sofa to witness this "perfect game." Sweat was pouring down my face as I somehow managed to keep dodging all of these never-before-seen enemies and traps. To this day, I have no idea how I, a thuddingly mediocre video-gamer, managed to not die for so long.

By the time I reached the final level I had accumulated about 10 or so back up guys. I needed every single one for the final push. The last level is impossible unless you memorize the traps, or have Christopher Walken in Dead Zone-like powers. My powered-up superstar guy who had been around since the opening credits? he died in seconds. His successor, seconds later. And so it continued until I was down to my last ship, with no end in sight to this outrageously unfair level. One of my roommates pointed out, "This is your last guy."

I retorted, "I know!"

"Be careful"

"I know!!!!"

Little shouts and gasps croaked from the audience of three as I dodged last of the jutting walls. In a whoosh, my last little ship plunged straight ahead and off the screen, I was through. Seconds later, when it became clear that that was the last level, and not some especially cruel, penultimate level, my body, which had been rigid with adrenaline, slumped. My roommates were cheering, as though I had won an NCAA championship and not some foolish videgame.

Since that time, I've learned the Konami code, and with emulators, the "save early and often" trick. And I have to say, there's nothing like doing it without a net.

Thanks for giving me the chance to share this story among a sympathetic audience.

 

[Orkie]

he was 3 FOR FUCKS SAKE. he wasnt gaming at 3.

sam fisher embellishes on the truth quite often.

I used to play Sonic and Street Fighter II at about that age.

 

[colt chillin']

i remember the frustration before i had a floppy drive, waiting half an hour for a game to load into my c-64, only to get a LOAD ERROR 5 out of 10 times.

i also remember ordering the c-64 version of "bomb jack" after seeing it in "computer + video games", waiting weeks for it to arrive, only to find out IT SUCKED!

those were the days..... B)

 

[gp32rich]

The joys of games back then was that they only lasted a few mins so you could watch, laugh, and try to beat the other player.
Heh! Except for the last time I played Defender (C-64 version, c.1988).

Get 20 levels in and it stops getting harder.
And you score enough points per level to get more lives than you loose.

Result?
Bored mates unplugging the joystick
Then waiting in disbelief for the lives to go down
And not being let anywhere near it again :rolleyes:

 

[nubie]

Ha, we never got Nintendo or any TV games when I was little, but my dad hooked us up with MS-Dos 2.0 on a 5 1/4 floppy and some basic games. This was on a portable dual 5 1/4 80186, we always had a CGA monitor hooked to it (good stuff that, digital monitor you know).

I would play Qbert and the "ford driving simulator" which makes Outrun look positively futuristic by comparision.

My brother and my mother were so good at Qbert that they broke through the ceiling on the score and it started going backwards until they were at -3 billion points, that was wacky.

I can't stand the remakes of qbert I have never seen one yet that properly got the feel down, the Ninty versions just don't do it for me. You need a snake and a flying platform to return you to the top is just cheating. Plus the graphics were awesome, the level would change color/pattern every time, very neat.

A little later on it was Descent all the time, that game was sick (still is, see D1X Rebirth, it lets you play at resolutions up to 3,048x1024 across 3 monitors, if you are into that sort of thing!), still the only 3-D game I have ever played that took advantage of all three dimensions. I navigate it on the numpad exclusively, it is amazing what you can map to 16 buttons, for descent 2 I needed an afterburner button, so I mapped it to the left "arrow key" so I could nab it with my thumb. Maybe I need to pickup a WiiMote, now that there is finally a controller for 3 axis and 3 dimensions!! In fact a re-make of Descent 1-3 would make a killer app for the Wii, throw in an updated version of Descent and it would be the perfect game for the wiimote, if it wasn't $60 to play with one I may have done it already (I don't have a bluetooth dongle).

Ooh, I forgot about Castle Wolfenstein, there is still something about turning to see that attack dog leaping at you that can send chills up your spine.