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Had a 2600 too. Pitfall was my game.
Must have been quite the shock going from an Atari to a Genesis.
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I was always kinda jelly about you fancy 8 bit NES guys in high school, so I overcompensated in the 90s when I had money and 16 bit dropped.
I do remember thinking how it was like having the arcade in your living room.
Flash forward to last November and I get an Xbox One as my first console purchase since the Sega. I am still in awe.
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Haha, I hear you. I loved the NES, but opted for Genesis instead of Super Nintendo. So scandalous.
For what it's worth, I guess karma got me back, as I was one of the poor suckers that got Sega CD -- the crappiest system known to man.
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Ouch.
I knew someone that had a Dreamcast. That was actually pretty dope, but then Sony drops the Playstation and just leveled the console field...while I kept playing my Sega.
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Playing GTA 3. Banging a hooker and than beating her with a bat to get my money back. My mom was not pleased with me. My brother and I thought it was hilarious.
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Great graphics for the time period, but I could never wrap my head around the Special person controller that looked like the love child of a telephone and a cheap walkie talkie.
Jeepers.
I remember when my mom was worried about me playing this because it would "rot my mind to violence"
You were literally learning how to commit felonies as a child.
SMH
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Great graphics for the time period, but I could never wrap my head around the Special person controller that looked like the love child of a telephone and a cheap walkie talkie.
Jeepers.
I remember when my mom was worried about me playing this because it would "rot my mind to violence"
You were literally learning how to commit felonies as a child.
SMH
Check this upgrade out:
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this s what we had
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We had the raised ones.
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damn, I didn't even know those were a thing
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Great graphics for the time period, but I could never wrap my head around the Special person controller that looked like the love child of a telephone and a cheap walkie talkie.
Jeepers.
I remember when my mom was worried about me playing this because it would "rot my mind to violence"
You were literally learning how to commit felonies as a child.
SMH
Combat was the bomb.
I cannot tell you how many fisfights broke out between my brother and I as a result of someone getting cornered on that and repeatedly blasted.
I also loved when it glitched and you could shoot from one side of the screen to the other.
...my atari days ended with ET. mowed lawns and saved and saved to get that game and it was easily the worst game ever produced.
I put the controller down and never picked it back up.
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Had a Dreamcast too, albeit not by choice. I was saving my money to buy a PS2, but I got a Dreamcast for a surprise Christmas gift in the process. I was pissed because I swore off Sega after Sega CD, but I had to commit after that. Really never liked the Dreamcast actually -- good for sports games but that was about it.
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When you were at the mall, this was the toy store..
You're too young, but Service Merchandise used to have the best toy section. You walk into the store, and the walk paths were designed around the logo's 5sided diamond from the entrance. Then to the far left(at least the 2 near me were like this), it was a mix between a dusty Toys R Us, and being in a Costco. Except, they seemed to have every damn thing a kid was really hoping their parents would buy them, not just toys.
It was pretty sneaky. At the end of the toy section on one side, you would go from action figures to the next aisle, which had bb guns, slingshots, martial arts equipment. On the other end of the toy section, you went from remote control cars and stuff like that, the next aisle was computers and all that software (so many video games). And before all of it, was the kitchen section. The part of the kitchen section that you had to pass, in order to get to the toys had a selection of appliances that made all the sugary treats and popcorn makers, with a few gumball machines thrown in. And on the other side of that main aisle was floor space with air hockey, foosball, pool, and ping pong tables.
You would be 7 years old. Your parents got distracted by their own shopping dreams, somehow let you run off on your own or with siblings(let's be honest, nobody asked, we snuck away and didn't ask). In a 20 minute span, you went through this unique experience unlike any normal toy or other department store. On the same day you walked into the store as a shit kid spaced out just wanting some hot wheels. By the end of the day you grew up wanting to have a whole HiFi stereo system home theater decked out in your bedroom, planning how you were going to steal the basement away from your dad.
And the only reason your parents would dare take you to Service Merchandise, was to feel you out for your Christmas list. Places like Toys R Us, Kay Bee, those were places you were rewarded with for behaving in the mall while mommy bought her new dress and makeup. Service Merchandise wasn't even on the table as a reward, but you would ask, and they would pretend like you didn't say anything, no matter how much you begged and screamed. Scream about Toys R Us, they might take you there once in a while to shut you up.
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70s, Riding race horses
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Would you like to expand upon what you found nostalgic about the 70's or was it just everything about the entire decade?
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Playing Blades of Steel and Techmobowl for hours on end with friends.
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You don't remember the VirtualBoy? I mean the SegaCD and the 32x were kinda Meh., but that thing promised the stars and delivered the sewers.
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I remember being excited as hell that I knew enough older trivia that I was able to bypass the "age restriction" in the original EGA version of Leisure Suit Larry.
I also remember if you got the old Quake Shareware CD you could unlock the full version of just about any ID game (Quake, Ultimate Doom, Doom 2, The Master Levels, Heretic, Hexen, Deathkings of the Dark Citadel, and Wolfenstein 3D) with a simple keygen.
I remember there was some CD my brother got his mitts on...I want to say, "Forbidden Subjects III" but I might be mistaken, that had all of this hacking stuff on it and whatnot, but we saw this file on it called, "whale.avi". We both watched it and lo and behold, it was a video of the time when the Oregon highway department blew up a beached whale carcass using half a ton of dynamite. Note: this was back before the interwebs and all we had was the old BBS dial-up services with the Hayes 2400 smartmodem--so this was about all the video that computers at the time could handle.
I swear we were laughing for hours when we saw that...and the best part is: it never gets old--and if it does you stop watching it for 30 minutes and it's brand new again!