Tell Us Your Childhood Game Stories

[freddykreuger666]

just some retro gaming stories

i remember having the ultimate showdown of who should have the megadrive in who's room (me vs me bro)
we played a game of nhl 93, had huge argument over who had player 1 (no difference, whatsoever, but i always liked an argument)
so there we was, playing nhl93, brother proper rubbing it in whenever he scored, did dance and shit
last period and it was 3-2, i had to get a goal. 10 seconds to go and my keeper had it, i clicked shoot and like magic keeper hit puck from my goal into his goal (in about 6months of playing this game, like all the time, didnt see this happen once). basically ripped megadrive off table when celebrating.

but i lost in overtime anyways so wasnt a happy ending

gogo tell yours

 

[Retroid]

It was some type-in program on my uncle's ZX80. I have no idea what the game was but I remember enjoying it, and typing it in even more than actually playing it!

 

[Titcher]

I remember being really proud when I was the only of my brothers and sisters that were in to games that could get passed the snake boss in Wiz 'n' Liz. Playing that game now, that snake is easy, they must just be bad at the game.

 

[Blah]

Lets see...My brother learned how to read from Final Fantasy on the NES.

A couple years ago some family came over. We played 5 player networked Warcraft 2 BNE for 2 or 3 days, as a competition.

 

[prairiefire]

ff1. used to cycle over to my friend's house every morning one summer to play. We felt pretty proud of ourselves not using the booklet that came with it (since his sister spilt a whole glass of milk on it and didn't tell anyone). After almost finishing the game (I think we were at the mirage tower) his younger brother played and didn't reset the game properly and we lost everything. Finally after two months from when we started the epic journey.. we finished it!

 

[craigix]

Playing Manic Miner and a Donkey Kong clone at my uncles on the old ZX, ahhh to the smells of fried 80's food and the sounds of 80's TV in the background we used to compete on the games.

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.

Great days.

I was somewhere the other day and I smelt some cooking which reminded me exactly of those days, I guess it was someone with a deep fat fryer cooking mini kievs or similar.

 

[sehs33]

NES clones were so common and cheap where I was raised, I remember my mom taking one of the joypads and hiding it so I do other stuff beside gaming, later she found out it comes with another joypad, so she took the second joypad, I kept buying new joypads and she kept hiding them, until one day she took the AC adaptor, as usual I bought another adaptor, and one day I came back from school, and found that she has taken the console itself, so I went down a near store, and bought a complete new NES clone set, since that day she stopped hiding things from me

 

[Alex.]

My true revelation came with StarCraft in 1999. I played some old DOS platformers some years back, but never spent much time on them. Anywho, back to StarCraft, it got me to appreciate all the detail that goes into a game of that caliber. I became obsessed with it, to the extent of making turn-based pen & paper versions of it to play with friends at school I never would have thought I'd be making my own real video games 8 years later

 

[bagmouse7]

I remember beating Ultima 2 on my Atari 800 computer.
I was so happy, it was the first big RPG I have even beaten.
I was probably 14 or 15 at the time...

 

[ruckage]

Playing Manic Miner and a Donkey Kong clone at my uncles on the old ZX, ahhh to the smells of fried 80's food and the sounds of 80's TV in the background we used to compete on the games.

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.

Great days.

I was somewhere the other day and I smelt some cooking which reminded me exactly of those days, I guess it was someone with a deep fat fryer cooking mini kievs or similar.

We must be from the same era. My first computer was an atari XE and I can remember playing Asteroids in 2 player mode with my best friend. used to have us in fits of laughter, our favourite technique was to head straight for the other player, guns blazing and then nip into hyperspace at the last possible moment (obviously easily pleased back then).

It was on the XE as well that I played the first game to make me jump (years before resident evil was even thought of). It was a game called 'Rescue on Fractalus' and I had been playing it for quite a while when a on a routine rescue the downed pilot turned out to be one of the aliens (the jaggi I believe they were called) and it burst in front of the screen with a loud noise and smashed the window on my ship - I was in shock for several minutes and that kind of scare was unheard of back then.

Finally does anyone else here miss the days when you had to draw maps for games yourself? I can remember it being as much fun mapping a game as playing it (though mapping modern games would be a near impossible task). I can remember playing games like 'Draconus', 'blinky's scary school' and the 'dizzy' games and carefully drawing the layout of the game onto a sheet of graph paper.

 

[sam fisher]

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.

 

[Ripster]

I have a ton of memories... starting with the original pong. How someone had purchased it and brought it over... my eyes opened wide that day. Then there was the Radio Shack Tandy and Star Trek (omg so much fun with nothing more than text as graphics)... or the Atari 2600 and playing Space Invaders late into the night on my bed.

But some of my favorite memories are with my Intellivision... I remember spending the $400 dollars for the system and not caring... more money than sense in those days. But more specifically the thrill I got from playing games like Dungeons and Dragons... the rush I got hearing the breathing of dragons in the next cave as you approached or the sound of the bats chasing you. Another game we played and was incredible if you think of how relatively well thought out was Sea Battle... though it was 2 player game it was incredible for its time... we had a blast playing it... When I think now... I don't believe there is anything since that brought that kind of emotion from me playing... Star Trek, Dungeons and Dragons and Sea Battle hold very special places in my heart. I guess it goes to show that 3D graphics... and fancy explosions don't make a good game.

Oh and now... the women seeing two grown men playing xbox... with their little steering wheels pretty funny. But on the other hand... they say we look like little kids having a great time. I just like having fun... and guess what I find this a lot of fun... so this is what I will continue to do. Its too bad that some people seem to connect video games to an age group. Its all about having fun... so go for it...

 

[freddykreuger666]

loved a game of dr.mario on the nes, it still continues to kick my ass to this day
boulder dash on the gameboy also, used to go blackpool once a year, you wouldnt
see me not playing that game ><, i still love it
u cant forget fifa 97, where if u have a player stand infront of the keeper when hes
gonna boot it out, it rebounds of em and goes in, abused that many times.
also me sitting there learning every move for my player on tekken 2
going zomg, i pwnt the practice character with all this sick moves
and bro comes along, mashes buttons (he supposedly has specific mashing pattern)
and perfected me, whilst i was trying all my moves out, such a lamer
super mario 1,3 on nes always played that
streets of rage co-op is easily best co-op game ever, great gameplay/music etc..
yes im rambling on.. sorry, i stop and go bed

 

[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

 

[Javacat]

We always used to go to the Whitby Regatta every year and for quite a lot of the years there used to be the Sega Bus that the whole family would go on. The bus was always located on the north cliff, near the mini golf course. You would get into a queue and wait for an hour or so. You eventually reached the end of the queue and got onto some double decker bus that had been fitted out with TV's and mega drives. You could then play the latest mega drive games by Sega. When you left the bus you would always receive a goody bag of crap (fake tattoos, etc. I think I still have stuff from a few bags under my bed somewhere). They stopped taking the bus to the regatta years ago and it was never the same

 

[craigix]

Aha, that bus, I had the high score on Sonic on that for at least 1 year.

I think my score was around 169,000 in 5mins. (that was a sub 30 sec on both the first areas).

Good days. They gave me a huge goodie bag.

They promised they would send on a special prize (maybe sonic 2) but they never did. Bastards.

 

[sam fisher]

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.

 

[norm]

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

 

[Zider]

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..

 

[norm]

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 dad had an amiga - my first proper all nighter was super smash bro's on n64 lol (stilol feeling young and pissed lol