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Orlandu Holy SwordsMan Level: 137      Posts: 5010/5913 EXP: 30480257 For next: 392598 Since: 01-12-10 From: Las Vegas, NV Since last post: 4.0 years Last activity: 208 days
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Sponty Part boy, part car; Boycar, Protector and King of Chilladelphia Level: 184  Posts: 9953/11098 EXP: 85642874 For next: 476536 Since: 08-24-07 Pronouns: he/him From: Canada Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 5 days
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Keitaro Fire Snake LOVELY ARRANGEMENT. VOLCANO BAKEMEAT Level: 70 Posts: 960/1191 EXP: 2901658 For next: 114153 Since: 09-09-08 From: California Since last post: 4.1 years Last activity: 3.8 years
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| when I was three, my uncle told me Duck Hunt was "shoot the doggy" and everyone thought this was hilarious ):<
my first REAL experience with gaming however was with the Game Boy at four years old. I had played an extended family member's handheld extremely briefly and was instantly hooked. Christmas of that same year rolls around and I receive my very own, with Kirby's Dream Land and Dr. Mario. I later sold off Dr. Mario (I knew not what I had  ) and got Balloon Kid, which became one of my favorite games of all time. The Kirby series had such a huge, massive impact on my imagination growing up that I can honestly say had it not been my first game, I may not have even gotten hooked on video games so hard in the first place!
Skip ahead maybe a year or two, and I randomly decided as a kid that with mother's day and father's day, there should totally be a child's day because I clearly don't get enough shit as it is! Surprisingly, my parents obliged this twice (the first time I got this neat dominos set) and on the second day which I'm more than certain I pulled out of my ass and was probably even within the same year as the first, my dad surprised me greatly with a gift of a Super Nintendo! It came packed with Super Mario World AND Mario Paint, the latter a game I never expected to fall so much in love with. Sadly, many years later I would sell this system to fund a PS1, a console I would later then sell to get another SNES  it was seriously the single biggest mistake I ever made.
The SNES and its games had such a massive impact on my childhood, my imagination would soar through the roof just by playing games on these two consoles of mine. Really, people would think that a kid that age so hooked on gaming would sit inside and do nothing else. Not even true. Games like Mario World would have me going outside in to the large expanse of woods in my back yard and pretending it was the Forest of Illusion, or that various structures made of rock and dead tree formations were the lost city of Kremlantis from Donkey Kong Land. Hell, I'd even pretend that this one cul de sac was part of that concrete looking area from Great Cave Offensive. I used to collect various things people might think were junk that to me I would pretend were things from games. I once had a rather appealing, translucent looking rock which I painted green with water colors (lol) and pretended was the plasma power-up from Kirby Super Star. I even placed red-ish orange food coloring in some water and added it to a plastic toy beaker and pretended my grandmother's basement was subspace. I think no game has ever had a huger impact on my imagination though than that of Pokemon, which to this day still continues to inspire me with imagery galore. Something about those games always made me feel such a real connection with my surroundings, like I could relate aspects of the game (exploring in woods, traveling to places by bike you might not have seen, etc) to things I would do myself, and it was excellent. To this day, Pokemon remains the game for which I hold the strongest connection with, I guess you could say its like a part of my childhood lives on through these games. Were it not for these two consoles I'd probably not only not be the gamer I am today, but also the person. While its true in this current day and age I don't play nearly as many games as I used to (its so different now!) and I remain mostly a handheld gamer, though not entirely, I still cannot deny gaming as such an influential part of my history. |
sofi 🌠 Level: 116  Posts: 1939/4152 EXP: 17114279 For next: 209814 Since: 02-18-11 Pronouns: she/her From: たまごっち星 Since last post: 10 days Last activity: 1 day
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On IRC, I gave a nice long account of how playing ROM hacks and attending computer camp and meeting Keitaro led me to this forum so I don't really feel like typing out a new detailed story like some people here seem to be doing.
These days I'm just really about classic platformers and maybe RPGs. I play when I'm in the mood—when I don't really have much else to do or when I have friends over who are into gaming. ____________________ About the author: A prolific contributor to Jul with some 1939 posts published, Sofi better fancies herself as a cinema geek, a composer, an occasional gamer, a budding fashionita, an absolute cooking newbie and a general life enthusiast-satirist. She is responsible for a number of notable discussions about meteorology and current events and may be contacted at any time through private messaging. |
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Keitaro Fire Snake LOVELY ARRANGEMENT. VOLCANO BAKEMEAT Level: 70 Posts: 964/1191 EXP: 2901658 For next: 114153 Since: 09-09-08 From: California Since last post: 4.1 years Last activity: 3.8 years
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| Oh yeah, huh, that's right. I had got you in to Lunar Magic which got you here. and you taught me how to use ExGFX.
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paulguy Green Birdo Level: 93  Posts: 1770/2294 EXP: 8032702 For next: 20108 Since: 09-14-07 From: Buffalo, NY Since last post: 9.7 years Last activity: 9.7 years
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Paulguy's Post configuration I think the first game I played was I think Sonic 2 for Game Gear, or possibly some educational games for Apple 2 if you want to count those. I was maybe 4 at the time. Later, (around 6 to 12) I would be playing NES, SNES and Genesis at a cousin's house fairly frequently. I also got an N64 when I was 9 and a PS1 when I was 10, but they stayed at grandma's so I could only play them a few times per month. I still got a good amount of fun out of them, though. I lived at (another) uncle's from about 6 until 12 as well, and they had a PC, so I mostly did stuff on that. I still prefer the PC. I'm not much in to gaming nowadays, though. ____________________ |
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Zero One 5170    And as we fall the spirit carries on, That a hero'll come and save us all, As we call the ones we left below, We all dream of the day we rise above Level: 129  Posts: 3489/5173 EXP: 24572981 For next: 476673 Since: 05-24-10 From: Delta Quadrant Since last post: 1.6 years Last activity: 130 days
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Orlandu Holy SwordsMan Level: 137 Posts: 5018/5913 EXP: 30480257 For next: 392598 Since: 01-12-10 From: Las Vegas, NV Since last post: 4.0 years Last activity: 208 days
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Keitaro Fire Snake LOVELY ARRANGEMENT. VOLCANO BAKEMEAT Level: 70 Posts: 969/1191 EXP: 2901658 For next: 114153 Since: 09-09-08 From: California Since last post: 4.1 years Last activity: 3.8 years
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| ...I'd head-desk right now, but I'm concerned the velocity in which I'd do so would send the desk rocketing through the floor |
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Zero One 5170 And as we fall the spirit carries on, That a hero'll come and save us all, As we call the ones we left below, We all dream of the day we rise above Level: 129 Posts: 3491/5173 EXP: 24572981 For next: 476673 Since: 05-24-10 From: Delta Quadrant Since last post: 1.6 years Last activity: 130 days
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sofi 🌠 Level: 116  Posts: 1945/4152 EXP: 17114279 For next: 209814 Since: 02-18-11 Pronouns: she/her From: たまごっち星 Since last post: 10 days Last activity: 1 day
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Originally posted by Keitaro Noo I was already using Lunar Magic at the time. I ended up joining because you mentioned Bouche teaching lessons on how to modify SMW music and I was dying to figure that out! Which I still haven't learned, haha. ____________________ About the author: A prolific contributor to Jul with some 1945 posts published, Sofi better fancies herself as a cinema geek, a composer, an occasional gamer, a budding fashionita, an absolute cooking newbie and a general life enthusiast-satirist. She is responsible for a number of notable discussions about meteorology and current events and may be contacted at any time through private messaging. |
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Keitaro Fire Snake LOVELY ARRANGEMENT. VOLCANO BAKEMEAT Level: 70 Posts: 971/1191 EXP: 2901658 For next: 114153 Since: 09-09-08 From: California Since last post: 4.1 years Last activity: 3.8 years
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I think you misunderstood then, too, because he wasn't doing that xD he was teaching -me- how to do it but at the time it was very...hush hush. lolgod remmeber when rom hacking was like this. there's ways to do it now that don't involve injecting a custom hex-edited SPC, however its going the way of ExGfx in that everyone and their dog does it now but only a few a worth listening to  |
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Orlandu Holy SwordsMan Level: 137 Posts: 5021/5913 EXP: 30480257 For next: 392598 Since: 01-12-10 From: Las Vegas, NV Since last post: 4.0 years Last activity: 208 days
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Miasmir Member  Level: 50  Posts: 425/528 EXP: 891145 For next: 56172 Since: 07-26-07 From: Lavastone (don't tell the pirate orcs) Since last post: 87 days Last activity: 6 days
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| This is a good opportunity I think for reflecting on my own gaming heritage and in what specific ways it is superior to everyone else's. How serious I am about that last bit is left for the reader to determine. I'm not quite sure where to start. Some game must have been the most important of my early experiences.
I don't remember not having played video games. So it's a bit hard to look back on the beginning with any clarity. Super Mario All-Stars is one of the first console games I remember being able to play on my own without anyone's help. There were games I played before that, but because I was so young most NES games without save features were simply inaccessible to me. Using the ability to save, especially in Mario 3, helped me feel like I could share in the experiences my older sister had without having to restart from the beginning every time I lost every life, which was frequently. Playing a game that was too hard for me but with lowered consequences for failure was probably the beginning of my love of games that are too hard. In time I would become less terrible at platformers but I would never lose that drive to play games that force you to die over and over again before you can figure out how to proceed. Dying repeatedly has become the focus of several games I've programmed recently, including my Ludum Dare entry. When I think about old PC games, I mostly remember Oxyd, Math Blaster, and the early pseudo-3D RPGs that my parents played, and I snuck time on when I thought they didn't notice. Honestly the most important thing about PC games for me was having to think a lot. On the other hand, my console gaming experience was mostly about the physical execution requirements necessary to play Mario, Sonic, and Kirby games. Some of the puzzles in the Might and Magic (not Heroes, that's totally different!) series are still the most memorable RPG puzzles I've ever solved. The first game I owned (all the consoles and games were my sister's) was Super Mario RPG. Hold on, it might actually have been Yoshi's Island. I can remember having trouble understanding both games; in SMRPG I was confused by the meaning of 'level' in the mixed context of Mario and an RPG, and Yoshi's Island, while cool, terrified me by not telling me when it was saving. Sometimes I wonder if really careful game design could have ameliorated my confusion, or if being confused about stuff like that is actually an important part of growing up. Despite our basically stupid anger at games for going 3D, my sis and I were talked into renting an N64. Over the course of that weekend we both fell in love with Super Mario 64, and especially the Wing Cap. Unyielding as always, it was a long time before we could be talked into a PlayStation. Come to think of it, unnecessary resistance to the newest, shiniest thing has been a pretty big theme of my video game history. Having got my hands on the N64 and PSX, though, I had a fantastic time playing all sorts of things, from Final Fantasy VII, Spyro, and Crash to Ogre Battle 64, Banjo-Kazooie, and Rayman 2. Each game seemed to offer something new and exciting, but that's maybe just because I was being introduced to a new genre every other time I played a new game. By the time the Gamecube and PS2 rolled around, I was starting to take my gaming pretty seriously, tearing through Jak & Daxter and Metroid Prime with wild abandon. Although in more recent times I've tended to focus on just a few games and train myself to have extreme mastery, in those days it was all about hopping between games every few hours. Good times were had by all. |
Acey Wendy Koopa garbage-chan Level: 95  Posts: 862/2538 EXP: 8395051 For next: 273556 Since: 07-14-10 From: meme jail Since last post: 6.0 years Last activity: 6.0 years
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Taryn Passed away. Thanks for being a part of us, even if it wasn't always on the best of terms. 1987-2014 Level: 204  Posts: 14291/14742 EXP: 121751732 For next: 1598086 Since: 09-01-09 From: Seattle Since last post: 10.1 years Last activity: 9.8 years
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Acey Wendy Koopa garbage-chan Level: 95 Posts: 865/2538 EXP: 8395051 For next: 273556 Since: 07-14-10 From: meme jail Since last post: 6.0 years Last activity: 6.0 years
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Gabu Star Mario Placeholder Ikachan until :effort: is found Level: 172  Posts: 6850/9981 EXP: 67992667 For next: 109567 Since: 08-10-09 Pronouns: they/them, she/her From: Santa Cruisin' USA Since last post: 56 days Last activity: 4 days
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this heartily, or strangle you. 
I also never touched Metroid Prime 2 until the Trilogy came out, even though I had and have a Gamecube copy of it. Also, Super Smash Bros. Melee. I played that until my dad hated the game. Even if I did manage to get him to play it with me 
Do you know what type of computer it was, Anna?
