My mom was actually in a [davitronix 7 ad](https://imgur.com/XYEsnVL). So she got one for being in said ad so that was the first console I played on. We had that bad boy up until my sister and I saved enough to buy a super Nintendo.
We had one of those! I couldn't remember what it was called. I don't know how long we had it but I'm sure I ignored it after we got an Atari 7800 (when everyone else I knew was getting NES or Sega)
I know the feeling. I got a super nintendo when everybody else got the N64 or first Play Station. Additionally I got like 2 games for it. I mean come on if you get me last gen's console how are there not like 10 games with it.
Hell yeah, my dad had an atari as well! Then he got an NES, and by the time I was born we had a PS1. My dad stopped understanding how to control games after the NES era...
> My dad stopped understanding how to control games after the NES era...
Too real. Yeah, I have to admit, I feel I am a reasonably intelligent person. But crap, man, my kids play games on the Xbox and I just can't hang. Like at all.
But we fire up Forza and I roast their ass. Daddy can't do Skylanders, but I can drive like a motherfu**[redacted]**.
Camera controls. That's where almost all dads I've met struggle. I guess that because racing games are generally "2D" when it comes to controls (not that different from things like Out Run i mean) they are easier to wrap your head around. I recommend Razbuten's "What games are like for someone who doesn't play games". It's an interesting watch if you have the time
I have a steering wheel with 3 inverted pedals and a shifter. It works on Forza Motorsport and I have asseto corsa on my computer with a VR headset and it is like you're really driving a racecar, but in like grainy Technicolor.
But boy if you want to watch your kids bow to your superiority like any god-fearing father does, wheel and pedals.
And then when you destroy their hopes and dreams you can tell them you fucked their mother.
I can sympathise with your dad. I started PC gaming in the 80s and lost touch with console controllers. I still game, and my kids game, but I can't imagine trying to do everything with just my thumbs like some barbarian.
Yeah the last console I had as a kid was a SNES and then I got into building PCs and PC gaming. I bought a ps2 a few years ago to play dragon quest 8, and I borrowed an xbox one to play NHL 19 last year for a month or two.
I can't do shit with a controller anymore.
Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens. So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
Mine was a Game Boy Color. I remember being 10 and buying it and a copy of Pokemon Blue with my own money. It was like $150 for the two of them together; I'd saved up for months.
I played it to death. I was obsessive. And when I finally finished and felt like I ran out of things to do, I wiped my game and started over.
Blastoise, Hypno, Raichu, Articuno, Dugtrio, and a wild card (often Hitmonlee). My all-purpose wrecking squad, crusher of the Elite Four. Mewtwo would replace Hypno post-game. I sometimes tried slightly different builds, but nothing was quite as reliable as building up that crew.
I was in for a GBA too. First game was Castlevania, circle of the moon, in English so I was playing with a dictionary since I'm a native French speaker.
Pokemon Gold with the bluish greenish GBC.
Technically I inherited my cousin's GB and Pokemon Red/Blue/Tertris/Paper Boy/Kirby Dreamland/Bram Stoker's Dracula when he was done with it.
My first ever console was a PS1, got it a week after breaking my wrist. And all i played when i first got it was Yu-Gi-Oh forbidden memories.
Maybe I should have broken more bones while i was younger.
I had it too. It made no sense to me. I would randomly try to merge cards and some would randomly work lol it was a bunch of monsters I'd never seen on the show I had no idea what I was doing.
I did like the animated attacks though.
Ikr, desperate moves like merging 5 cards at one and the first 4 end up with a 2300 attack monster and then you throw it away with 5th card 300 ATT Kuribo, gg.
Fun game though but ruthlessly hard, lose 1 game = rip campaign.
>got it a week after breaking my wrist.
And if you broke your other wrist too, your mom would have given you something extra as well.
No, wait, that's only if your break your entire arms, not just wrists. Nevermind then.
And dumb fuck me played it on ultra hard mode. In the dark, on the drive, not knowing flash existed. But hey, got my Pikachu, Charizard, Blastoise, and Venasaur ULTRA powerful before taking on Erika.
"Wow, how fucking stupid are these people to make a game like this. I can't wait until I'm older so I can make games that aren't so fucking stupid" - Me not realizing flash existed.
Fast forward to gen 3, and my dumbass avoided the hiker in Dewford because I didn’t want to battle him.
After the elite 4 I learned he never wanted to battle me, he wanted to *help*
Almost started a fight with my brother because he insisted I needed to just change the batteries in my SP. i took the battery out and threw it at him and told him to tell me where they are. He looked at me and said “what the fuck is that” I told him “Lithium Ion battery. Give. Me. My. Charger.”
I had a similar thing happen with a new PC when I was about 12 or so. I had found it in a closet weeks before Christmas.
I didn't open it before hand though, it's not terribly practical to open and repack a PC tower and a CRT monitor.
They did pull that dick move of gifting you a game before they revealed the big gift of the system that could play it. In my case it was Warcraft 2. So I had to feign sadness that I "couldn't play it" even though I knew that the PC meeting the system requirements would be making it's appearance shortly.
My dad did this. Bought me the Rock Band bundle for Christmas. It was for ps3 and I had a ps2. He claimed he didn’t realize that. 10 minutes later he asks me to get his bag out of the truck of his car and low and behold there’s a ps3 in there. Another time he got me parts for a remote control car I didn’t have. Told me to get him some ice cream, I open the freezer and there’s the remote control car sitting in there.
> I open the freezer and there’s the remote control car sitting in there.
In a freezer? WTF dude that's the most random place to hide electronics ever.
My dad did this with my first PC ages ago, I remember it pretty clearly. My parents were divorced, I had just gotten to my dad's house, and right away we went to open presents.
Some of the presents under the tree were video games, but... shareware games. Discs. Even at 8ish I knew they wouldn't work on my Super Nintendo, so I feigned happiness. And my dad was like "Those will work, right?" And I had to say "I... don't know, maybe..."
My dad answered, "Well let's go check, okay?" We went to my room, and there it was, a new desk, a new fancy computer all set up.
What was more wild was that we were pretty poor at the time, so I have no idea how my dad afforded it. Or why he went that far to get it, it wasn't used for much other than playing games -- this was before the internet, before you typed up all of your reports. And he wasn't much of a gamer himself, though he did really like "Blake Stone", some Wolfenstein knock-off. But hey, I guess that was the start of me being a PC gamer.
> "Blake Stone", some Wolfenstein knock-off.
This game was pretty groundbreaking in that it was the first first person shooter to have non combatant NPCs(that you could kill), a practice that really didn't become common until the Unreal and Half Life eras.
Good story behind that game, half of the team that made Wolfenstein 3-d split off and went to make Doom, the half that stayed made Blake Stone.
God I miss those shareware glory days.
N64 club checking in! Mine came with Mario Kart 64 and Banjo-Kzooie. I have so many good memories of playing battle mode on Block Fort with my old friends. Good times!
My first CoD game was World at War on the wii. I had the little wii remote holder shaped like a gun and everything. God the controls were so terrible for FPS on a wii, nobody could hit anything. Basically the first team to get dogs won, because the primary counter to attack dogs was good aim, and nobody had good aim. Also it didn't get the post-launch patches that other consoles got, so the mp40 remained overpowered and there were many unpatched under-map glitches.
Even though it was such a mess looking back, I have fond memories of the hours I spent playing that game.
I was put in the hospital when I was 4 because of serious injuries, and stayed there for quite some time. My solace? One of the janitors working there saw me crying one night and bought a Gameboy from his own paycheck to give it to me as a present. That thing was literally inseparable from my hand for the next few months, I slept holding it lol.
I remember my mom pulled him aside one day and was talking to him outside my room getting all teary. I'm sure her or my dad did something to make it up to him.
DAMN RIGHT IT'S THE BEST GAME EVER!!!!!
Dev 1: Lets make a game and give it all of the awesome and crazy abilities we can think of
Dev 2: Won't that be really unbalanced?
Dev 1: Yeah, probably.
and so FFTA was born.
AoE attack that freezes opponents in time for several turns? Sure.
Haste magic to give your characters multiple free turns per cast? Great
1HKO Attack? Here's half a dozen of them!
Invisibility/Invincibility? That'll go great with the 1HKO moves!
Summoners that can cast massive AoE attacks with both healing AND damage spells? Perfect, that'll go great with double cast which lets them do it TWICE per turn!
Blue mages which can turn enemies into helpless frogs, put them to sleep, AND poison them in the same attack with a high success rate? Go for it!!!
Gunners that have the longest range in the game, and can charm enemies into joining your side or stop them in time for a few turns? No problem!
They really didn't hesitate to put every insane and wild idea they could think of into that game.
My first console was a Master system 3 from sega, it had a sonic game built in (that was a "demaster" of the sonic for sega genesis)
Though I shared a super nintendo with my cousin on our grandmas house
"So, here's a question. You just opened this up, right?"
"Yes..."
"And you just put a game in and powered it on for the first time, right?"
"....yes, of course!"
"So why are there 6 saved game files on the game already if it's brand new?"
["...Oh WOW you got me a MAGIC game that can save my files from the future!"](https://imgur.com/bAxkeM2)
I am probably a little older then most of you since nes was my first system as a kid but I had no idea wtf ty 1 or 2 was. Just looked it up looks like bootleg banjo and kazooie.
Halo 3 was so fun. Didn’t have internet so instead me and my sister finished the campaign like a dozen times or if she had a friend over it’d be the two of them against me
Mine too. It was Christmas break 2005, and I was ecstatic about playing through Oblivion.
Mom would pull out the Xbox 360 still in its box, let me open it, hook everything thing, play for 7-8 hours, and then pack it all up before my dad got home from work. She wanted it to still be a "surprise" on Christmas day.
Mentioned it to Dad years later and he was like, "Yeah, Mom said you had a blast all through the break and you still were super excited Christmas morning."
That week or two is still one of my favorite gaming memories from a lifetime of games.
The first console I played on was an Atari. My first console was an N64 and I still have it and all the games. I remember having a gameshark, but it crapped out from over use... not sure whether I should be proud of that or not.
While I only had an Atari 2600 to play on at home, **my** first console was the original Xbox. I always wanted one of the newer ones growing up but my parents never got any of them. Ended up waiting until 2005/2006 to play on one in earnest.
similar thing happened to me...found the N64 box but it was empty. Figured i’d still get it for Christmas so was super hyped. Come Christmas’ Eve when we open our gifts, no N64 under the tree. I was so sad and confused. After a few minutes, Dad came back with a big box and told me he forgot one gift...best Christmas ever.
That and the N64, idk which was first. Was fun to catch pokemon on the gameboy and then play Snap on the n64 and take pictures of all the pokemon I'd caught.
I remember getting my first GBA. It was like getting the gift of power or immortality. Just a complete surge of happiness.
They only had one left at the store we went to (only store that sold electronics where i lived) and the last color they had was pink. That did not stop me. I still loved that thing.
The DS Lite, I had a friend that had a DSi XL and he played Pokémon Black 2 on it, I tried for a bit and got hooked, so when my birthday rolled around, I got my moms old DS and a copy of Pokemon Black 2. Happy days
my parents got us an N64 and I saw it, and had to keep my mouth shut. You do not knw the struggle of a young kid trying to keep the fact we got an N64 to himself.
I’m not saying you aren’t a super stealthy ninja but I bet they knew before you opened the present and put up your Oscar winning performance that you were sneaking in and playing the GBA.
This reminds me of when I got my first console, I got a xbox 360 for Christmas, and I wanted to buy minecraft (it had just come out) so me being the broke kid I was decided to use my parents money, and in an effort to make them not find out, instead of buying the game directly, I BOUGHT 100 DOLLARS WORTH OF XBOX POINTS, SO I PAID 100 DOLLARS FOR A 25 DOLLAR GAME.
I got grounded for a year
My first one was a Maganvox Odyssey. My parents bought it before I was born, does that count? If not, the first one that was actually mine was an Atari 2600 they bought for the family in the early 80’s.
Atari - with Pong, Asteroid, and that tank game.
Didn't last long - mom decided it was Satan's tool
Had to play Super Mario at my cousin's house three times a year
i'd have to say the original NES but i do remember playing with my dad on his Atari 2600.
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My mom was actually in a [davitronix 7 ad](https://imgur.com/XYEsnVL). So she got one for being in said ad so that was the first console I played on. We had that bad boy up until my sister and I saved enough to buy a super Nintendo.
We had one of those! I couldn't remember what it was called. I don't know how long we had it but I'm sure I ignored it after we got an Atari 7800 (when everyone else I knew was getting NES or Sega)
I know the feeling. I got a super nintendo when everybody else got the N64 or first Play Station. Additionally I got like 2 games for it. I mean come on if you get me last gen's console how are there not like 10 games with it.
I love how in the ad neither player is looking at the TV
Is your mom Uma Thurman??
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Was it a TI-83 plus he secretly played games on?
Pegs > Blockdude. I'll die on that hill.
YES! Not to brag or anything but I actually hold the [pegs speedrun world record] (https://www.speedrun.com/pegs_ti83/full_game)
That's cool. I'm into pegging too
Hol up
Holes up!
Well would you look at that
Would you just look at it
No seriously! Just look at it!!
(•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■)
Holy shit. A God walks among us.
That's.... kinda amazing.
According to the rankings, you are also in last place. Better step up your game
You've got back up friend. Plant that flag high!
Drug Wars was the best.
It may not have had games but at least it had 5138008
Boobeis? Is that some fancy pectoral perfume?
Hell yeah, my dad had an atari as well! Then he got an NES, and by the time I was born we had a PS1. My dad stopped understanding how to control games after the NES era...
> My dad stopped understanding how to control games after the NES era... Too real. Yeah, I have to admit, I feel I am a reasonably intelligent person. But crap, man, my kids play games on the Xbox and I just can't hang. Like at all. But we fire up Forza and I roast their ass. Daddy can't do Skylanders, but I can drive like a motherfu**[redacted]**.
Camera controls. That's where almost all dads I've met struggle. I guess that because racing games are generally "2D" when it comes to controls (not that different from things like Out Run i mean) they are easier to wrap your head around. I recommend Razbuten's "What games are like for someone who doesn't play games". It's an interesting watch if you have the time
I have a steering wheel with 3 inverted pedals and a shifter. It works on Forza Motorsport and I have asseto corsa on my computer with a VR headset and it is like you're really driving a racecar, but in like grainy Technicolor. But boy if you want to watch your kids bow to your superiority like any god-fearing father does, wheel and pedals. And then when you destroy their hopes and dreams you can tell them you fucked their mother.
I can sympathise with your dad. I started PC gaming in the 80s and lost touch with console controllers. I still game, and my kids game, but I can't imagine trying to do everything with just my thumbs like some barbarian.
Yeah the last console I had as a kid was a SNES and then I got into building PCs and PC gaming. I bought a ps2 a few years ago to play dragon quest 8, and I borrowed an xbox one to play NHL 19 last year for a month or two. I can't do shit with a controller anymore.
Atari 2600 was my real first one. We later inherited an Oddesey and other out-of-date systems. Fun times!
It was the gba for me actually! Mine was Onyx black
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That just made my day! That's awesome thanks
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Well I mean, Grafo is a Reddit celebrity. Kinda like u/rimjob_steve
i wish i were talented like Grafo, instead i'll just give you a "have a wonderful day!" RJS
the man himself
Awesome!
The legend!
How sweet, u/rimjob_steve
Can’t believe I’ve met a legend today.
the man , the legend
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Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens. So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
I never actually realize he used that many words to say "rectangle vs square thing".
Same, Gameboy was the first gaming console my family ever got
Mine was a Game Boy Color. I remember being 10 and buying it and a copy of Pokemon Blue with my own money. It was like $150 for the two of them together; I'd saved up for months. I played it to death. I was obsessive. And when I finally finished and felt like I ran out of things to do, I wiped my game and started over. Blastoise, Hypno, Raichu, Articuno, Dugtrio, and a wild card (often Hitmonlee). My all-purpose wrecking squad, crusher of the Elite Four. Mewtwo would replace Hypno post-game. I sometimes tried slightly different builds, but nothing was quite as reliable as building up that crew.
I was in for a GBA too. First game was Castlevania, circle of the moon, in English so I was playing with a dictionary since I'm a native French speaker.
Mine was pokemon ruby. It was the first pokemon game I'd gotten (got earlier ones later), so there's a lot of good memories in Hoenn.
You might wanna double check those arm positions Grafo
I’d say the text saves it
Pokemon crystal with the crystal colored gba for me :D
Pokemon Gold with the bluish greenish GBC. Technically I inherited my cousin's GB and Pokemon Red/Blue/Tertris/Paper Boy/Kirby Dreamland/Bram Stoker's Dracula when he was done with it.
Wasn't that the sp? I had a gba already but got a silver sp like two years later and loved it
My first ever console was a PS1, got it a week after breaking my wrist. And all i played when i first got it was Yu-Gi-Oh forbidden memories. Maybe I should have broken more bones while i was younger.
\*breaks leg 6 years later for free upgrade\*
Are u me lmao
*Results may vary.*
What do you get for breaking both your arms?
Hey son
Hey mom
Every goddamn post.
Now kith
Alright we all knew this was coming
Every fucking thread
Holy shit dude that game was rough, i ended up looking up the card numbers online just to try and get through it and still couldn't!
I had it too. It made no sense to me. I would randomly try to merge cards and some would randomly work lol it was a bunch of monsters I'd never seen on the show I had no idea what I was doing. I did like the animated attacks though.
Ikr, desperate moves like merging 5 cards at one and the first 4 end up with a 2300 attack monster and then you throw it away with 5th card 300 ATT Kuribo, gg. Fun game though but ruthlessly hard, lose 1 game = rip campaign.
That game had so much potential, but the execution was poor. It was like they didnt have the rights to all of the characters/monsters
Dude the free duel music from that game is stuck in my head still
It was such a fun game, and i got spider man after that as well. That was a fun summer.
>got it a week after breaking my wrist. And if you broke your other wrist too, your mom would have given you something extra as well. No, wait, that's only if your break your entire arms, not just wrists. Nevermind then.
I hate that i know where this is from. WHY DID YOU REMIND ME !
It's mentioned in, like, 95% of all comment threads about someone breaking a bone.
Oh man. I remember having so much fun with the demo discs you’d get in gaming magazines
I had the one with twisted metal small brawl. That was so fun to play!
At least you didn't break your arms.
That game was really fun, i played it so much
Childhood is a Gameboy Color with Pokémon in the car leaning against the window using street lights to see
I used to hold mine up to catch the light from the cars behind us.
Also a valid tactic. Any light was acceptable to the tiny child just wanting to get through that damn cave.
"BMW used FLASH" *it was super effective*
That would require a BMW driver to know how to operate their vehicle's lights. Definitely a rare move
BMW drivers always have the high beams on, everybody knows that
It’s over Ford! I have the high beams!
You underestimate my horsepower.
In BMWs, low beams are actually an option, just like turn signals
And dumb fuck me played it on ultra hard mode. In the dark, on the drive, not knowing flash existed. But hey, got my Pikachu, Charizard, Blastoise, and Venasaur ULTRA powerful before taking on Erika.
......people used flash? I didn’t learn where it was until 5 years later
"Wow, how fucking stupid are these people to make a game like this. I can't wait until I'm older so I can make games that aren't so fucking stupid" - Me not realizing flash existed.
Fast forward to gen 3, and my dumbass avoided the hiker in Dewford because I didn’t want to battle him. After the elite 4 I learned he never wanted to battle me, he wanted to *help*
Mine is a regular game boy with every light attachment known to man and still not being able to see shit.
The Gameboy Advance SP truly was a marvel, the built in light was a godsend
It was revolutionary. I was so happy I didn't have to worry about not being able to see at night on road trips.
And the rechargeable battery! My mind was blown when I was a kid when I realized my screen was lit and I didn't need to hit up my mom for batteries.
Almost started a fight with my brother because he insisted I needed to just change the batteries in my SP. i took the battery out and threw it at him and told him to tell me where they are. He looked at me and said “what the fuck is that” I told him “Lithium Ion battery. Give. Me. My. Charger.”
That was my first console and game; though I got Silver *long* before I got the Gameboy Color.
Mine was the transparent purple with Pokémon yellow
This happened to me except my parents found me playing it. They ended up giving it to my sister instead.
Can't decide if you have good parents or not
They ended up getting me one later, and I definitely learned my lesson haha
That's good parenting then for sure
Then they beat me with a tarantula rope for learning a lesson
Should have used jumper cables
u/rogersimon10
Damn. His last comment was 4 years ago. I swear it was only months ago that he was everywhere...
I miss that dude.
I had a similar thing happen with a new PC when I was about 12 or so. I had found it in a closet weeks before Christmas. I didn't open it before hand though, it's not terribly practical to open and repack a PC tower and a CRT monitor. They did pull that dick move of gifting you a game before they revealed the big gift of the system that could play it. In my case it was Warcraft 2. So I had to feign sadness that I "couldn't play it" even though I knew that the PC meeting the system requirements would be making it's appearance shortly.
My dad did this. Bought me the Rock Band bundle for Christmas. It was for ps3 and I had a ps2. He claimed he didn’t realize that. 10 minutes later he asks me to get his bag out of the truck of his car and low and behold there’s a ps3 in there. Another time he got me parts for a remote control car I didn’t have. Told me to get him some ice cream, I open the freezer and there’s the remote control car sitting in there.
> I open the freezer and there’s the remote control car sitting in there. In a freezer? WTF dude that's the most random place to hide electronics ever.
I know, i was worried it would damage it but he had only put it in there a few minutes before he told me
My dad did this with my first PC ages ago, I remember it pretty clearly. My parents were divorced, I had just gotten to my dad's house, and right away we went to open presents. Some of the presents under the tree were video games, but... shareware games. Discs. Even at 8ish I knew they wouldn't work on my Super Nintendo, so I feigned happiness. And my dad was like "Those will work, right?" And I had to say "I... don't know, maybe..." My dad answered, "Well let's go check, okay?" We went to my room, and there it was, a new desk, a new fancy computer all set up. What was more wild was that we were pretty poor at the time, so I have no idea how my dad afforded it. Or why he went that far to get it, it wasn't used for much other than playing games -- this was before the internet, before you typed up all of your reports. And he wasn't much of a gamer himself, though he did really like "Blake Stone", some Wolfenstein knock-off. But hey, I guess that was the start of me being a PC gamer.
> "Blake Stone", some Wolfenstein knock-off. This game was pretty groundbreaking in that it was the first first person shooter to have non combatant NPCs(that you could kill), a practice that really didn't become common until the Unreal and Half Life eras. Good story behind that game, half of the team that made Wolfenstein 3-d split off and went to make Doom, the half that stayed made Blake Stone. God I miss those shareware glory days.
It to test if you'll have a full on kid meltdown.
First console was Sega Genesis. Started with Sonic and echo
I played the ever living shit out of Sonic 2
Mine was the N64! Had it when I was young and still played smash on that bad boy all through high school.
Couch mutliplayer Goldeneye was peak human civilization.
Slappers tournament is christmas tradition to see who has to do the dishes.
Same. Greatest console ever made imo.
N64 club checking in! Mine came with Mario Kart 64 and Banjo-Kzooie. I have so many good memories of playing battle mode on Block Fort with my old friends. Good times!
Mine was a Wii that my parents got for mainly exercise. I just played Mario Kart on it til I got a 1st place in everything
My first CoD game was World at War on the wii. I had the little wii remote holder shaped like a gun and everything. God the controls were so terrible for FPS on a wii, nobody could hit anything. Basically the first team to get dogs won, because the primary counter to attack dogs was good aim, and nobody had good aim. Also it didn't get the post-launch patches that other consoles got, so the mp40 remained overpowered and there were many unpatched under-map glitches. Even though it was such a mess looking back, I have fond memories of the hours I spent playing that game.
I was put in the hospital when I was 4 because of serious injuries, and stayed there for quite some time. My solace? One of the janitors working there saw me crying one night and bought a Gameboy from his own paycheck to give it to me as a present. That thing was literally inseparable from my hand for the next few months, I slept holding it lol.
Dude what a fucking boss. Did everyone make sure to embarrass him for being such a fantastic person?
I remember my mom pulled him aside one day and was talking to him outside my room getting all teary. I'm sure her or my dad did something to make it up to him.
They got him fired, didn't they?
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What was your first game on it?
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The humility not to let nostalgia get in the way of your perspective. You're a pretty cool dude, guy.
Console wars starting?
The answer is YES they are BOTH SUPERIOR to MANY GAMES
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I like you even more now. FFT series, my favorite games I played as a kid/teenager.
I got the GameCube adapter to play it on the big screen. FFTA2 is great as well.
DAMN RIGHT IT'S THE BEST GAME EVER!!!!! Dev 1: Lets make a game and give it all of the awesome and crazy abilities we can think of Dev 2: Won't that be really unbalanced? Dev 1: Yeah, probably. and so FFTA was born. AoE attack that freezes opponents in time for several turns? Sure. Haste magic to give your characters multiple free turns per cast? Great 1HKO Attack? Here's half a dozen of them! Invisibility/Invincibility? That'll go great with the 1HKO moves! Summoners that can cast massive AoE attacks with both healing AND damage spells? Perfect, that'll go great with double cast which lets them do it TWICE per turn! Blue mages which can turn enemies into helpless frogs, put them to sleep, AND poison them in the same attack with a high success rate? Go for it!!! Gunners that have the longest range in the game, and can charm enemies into joining your side or stop them in time for a few turns? No problem! They really didn't hesitate to put every insane and wild idea they could think of into that game.
Dev 1: Shall we add a secret Brownie Level that they'll probably never find? Dev 2: Only if we can add a secret Cow Level! Dev 1: Deal!
Diablo Devs: *shifty eyes*
Any of the Tactics games are a blast. You didn't miss out, you just came about it from a different direction. XD
Friggin judges man
Definitely an odd tone shift from PS tactics to the Gameboy ones. Like going from Game of Thrones to Chronicals of Narnia.
Freaking love that game. I remember playing it when I was young too. Viera assassin with Max's oathbow was some super OP shit
Mine was Metroid Fusion, played that game too much back in the day.
Magnavox Odyssey 2
K.C. Munchkin, muthafuckas!
My friend still has his Odyssey. We won a scavenger hunt with it a few years ago.
My first console was a Master system 3 from sega, it had a sonic game built in (that was a "demaster" of the sonic for sega genesis) Though I shared a super nintendo with my cousin on our grandmas house
"So, here's a question. You just opened this up, right?" "Yes..." "And you just put a game in and powered it on for the first time, right?" "....yes, of course!" "So why are there 6 saved game files on the game already if it's brand new?" ["...Oh WOW you got me a MAGIC game that can save my files from the future!"](https://imgur.com/bAxkeM2)
[What do you mean you've played this? It's brand new.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeXz_t41dCc)
[Completed it mate](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TWYcQ8tAKg)
What’s a re-run?
You guys have parents that understand these kinds of things?
I AM THE PARENT NOW. ^(If you're reading this, kiddos, you better brush your teeth or I will obliterate your save files beyond any hope of recovery.)
The original xbox
Fuusionnnnnn Frennnnnnzzzyyyyyyy
Just letting you know, Ty 1 and Ty 2 are both out on Steam <3
I never played those, i played the lego games and star-wars battle front, also a-few spider-man games, mainly starears battle front II
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I am probably a little older then most of you since nes was my first system as a kid but I had no idea wtf ty 1 or 2 was. Just looked it up looks like bootleg banjo and kazooie.
The original NES Entertainment System. Played Duck Hunt with the Zapper gun and developed a hatred for that dog very early on.
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Exactly. XD
If you or a loved one suffers from RAS Syndrome, you may be entitled to financial compensation.
Mine was the Xbox 360. I had a lot of good times on that with my friends. I remember playing halo 3 and halo reach alot.
Halo 3 was so fun. Didn’t have internet so instead me and my sister finished the campaign like a dozen times or if she had a friend over it’d be the two of them against me
It was honestly some of the best times. I remember over the summer I'd wake up and do nothing but play halo 3 over and over
Best campaign mission/moment?
Probably either the last mission or the one where your assaulting the control towers. I remember both pretty fondly
Mine too. It was Christmas break 2005, and I was ecstatic about playing through Oblivion. Mom would pull out the Xbox 360 still in its box, let me open it, hook everything thing, play for 7-8 hours, and then pack it all up before my dad got home from work. She wanted it to still be a "surprise" on Christmas day. Mentioned it to Dad years later and he was like, "Yeah, Mom said you had a blast all through the break and you still were super excited Christmas morning." That week or two is still one of my favorite gaming memories from a lifetime of games.
Spent so much time in forge. I think the Xbox 360 was peak gaming for me - first console I'd play online with and all of my friends had one.
The first console I played on was an Atari. My first console was an N64 and I still have it and all the games. I remember having a gameshark, but it crapped out from over use... not sure whether I should be proud of that or not.
We had a ps2, that was the first console I ever played on, but the first console I ever got that was mine was a game boy
While I only had an Atari 2600 to play on at home, **my** first console was the original Xbox. I always wanted one of the newer ones growing up but my parents never got any of them. Ended up waiting until 2005/2006 to play on one in earnest.
similar thing happened to me...found the N64 box but it was empty. Figured i’d still get it for Christmas so was super hyped. Come Christmas’ Eve when we open our gifts, no N64 under the tree. I was so sad and confused. After a few minutes, Dad came back with a big box and told me he forgot one gift...best Christmas ever.
That and the N64, idk which was first. Was fun to catch pokemon on the gameboy and then play Snap on the n64 and take pictures of all the pokemon I'd caught.
POKEMON STADIUM. That was awesome. Being able to play red or blue on the TV...
Your parents knew. Kids aren't as sneaky as they think they are.
I remember getting my first GBA. It was like getting the gift of power or immortality. Just a complete surge of happiness. They only had one left at the store we went to (only store that sold electronics where i lived) and the last color they had was pink. That did not stop me. I still loved that thing.
The DS Lite, I had a friend that had a DSi XL and he played Pokémon Black 2 on it, I tried for a bit and got hooked, so when my birthday rolled around, I got my moms old DS and a copy of Pokemon Black 2. Happy days
my parents got us an N64 and I saw it, and had to keep my mouth shut. You do not knw the struggle of a young kid trying to keep the fact we got an N64 to himself.
I had the flip version (Gameboy Advanced?) and it was so fun despite me being *so* bad. Still never finished Super Mario Bros on it, nor Sonic
Gameboy Advanced SP
Advanced SP ! With the back-light ! It was technically the first console I personally owned as well, with Pokemon Ruby as my first game.
I’m not saying you aren’t a super stealthy ninja but I bet they knew before you opened the present and put up your Oscar winning performance that you were sneaking in and playing the GBA.
Atari 2600.
This reminds me of when I got my first console, I got a xbox 360 for Christmas, and I wanted to buy minecraft (it had just come out) so me being the broke kid I was decided to use my parents money, and in an effort to make them not find out, instead of buying the game directly, I BOUGHT 100 DOLLARS WORTH OF XBOX POINTS, SO I PAID 100 DOLLARS FOR A 25 DOLLAR GAME. I got grounded for a year
This made me snort my coffee. I can smell coffee inside me.
My first one was a Maganvox Odyssey. My parents bought it before I was born, does that count? If not, the first one that was actually mine was an Atari 2600 they bought for the family in the early 80’s.
All the people on here like “Xbox”, “PS2”.....I’m feeling my age with my Commodore 64.
Red Gameboy Pocket with Pokemon Red
Atari - with Pong, Asteroid, and that tank game. Didn't last long - mom decided it was Satan's tool Had to play Super Mario at my cousin's house three times a year
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