Author Topic: the "back in the day" gamer thread (Read 23932 times)

shivadee · « **on:** May 18, 2006, 05:29:09 PM »

NES and Pre NES days

Remember when
1. Yuh didnt know anything about game reviews. Yuh just see a game, it looking mad on the box, and yuh buy it?
2. When yuh padna would bring to school the LATEST nintendo power magazine (which was 1 year old) and sell the pages for 5 dollars like porn? LOL
3. From the time the game have something with Contra, Mega Man, Mario or Zelda on it, yuh buying it. Yuh eh even care if it good.
4. Having the WIERDEST name games that NOBODY hear about was a BOSS way to get a trade and borrow for Super C.
5. when any kinda spinoff from Contra or POW (SCAT and Bad Dudes) was considered "just as good as dem"
6. when the FIRST question yuh ask yuh padna when yuh get the game was "Iz a two playah game?"
7. When games made from movies were good, because we didnt know jack sh!t about reviews or anything about games, we just want to play Mission Impossible
8. When the graphics in the arcade was the BEST graphics you EVER see in yuh LIFE.
9. ESWAT was the SH!T!!!!

oho

10. When you used to go by a padnah (if you didnt have one) to play Comodore 64 games like Comando, Hunchback, Pharos Curse, frigging SILENT SERVICE.
11. Some of them games used to have to load from a tape and take an hour. SO yuh BUSY playing with the A TEAM scalextric track untill it ready.
12. When Street Fighter 2010 was supposed to be Street Fighter LOL!!!

feel free to add more.

EDIT: Double-posting, man.

Carigamers · « **on:** May 18, 2006, 05:29:09 PM »

Kaizen · « **Reply #1 on:** May 18, 2006, 05:39:11 PM »

lawd memories and more
sigh i remember games like no escape on snes , judge dred on genesis and game gear that was on snes to ah think ,
DOH FORGET THE TWO PLAYAH GAME
SUPER DOUBLE DRAGON IYMC

w00t sigh so much memories ah gamin history
lawd the original gauntlet for nes ,
all the two player games on genesis and snes ploi

shivadee · « **Reply #2 on:** May 18, 2006, 06:04:16 PM »

WOY Super Double dragon but BEFORE DAT
was Double Dragon 2 for NES......lawd a mercy.......helicopter kick and hyper knee iymc. This game actually better than the arcade version.

Redlum08 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 18, 2006, 06:10:21 PM »

Commodore 64? Remember Apple II 5 1/4" floppy's, with games like Winter Games, Frogger, Karateka, W1nTry knows what I talking bout...

suzieboy · « **Reply #4 on:** May 18, 2006, 06:12:59 PM »

...an man used to real fight for who wud get the "Blue hero" or the "Red Hero"......lol
wat were their name again?

Carigamers · « **Reply #4 on:** May 18, 2006, 06:12:59 PM »

disciple · « **Reply #5 on:** May 18, 2006, 07:05:20 PM »

dread, i remember since cartridges were expensive, you'd have to write yuh aunty in 'new york', the one who send the 'nintendo' in d first place,
and she would promise to get you more games if yuh come 'first in test'

or that of the <5 games you had, you beat all , or at LEAST reach second to last level boss..

blue or red ? if is double dragon, is billy or jimmy , not so?

shivadee · « **Reply #6 on:** May 18, 2006, 07:32:37 PM »

apple 2/e and c

choplifter, moonpatrol and LOAD RUNNER dread

anyone remmeber TANDY computer? with TREK?

New Era Outlaw · « **Reply #7 on:** May 18, 2006, 07:48:51 PM »

I remember when:

1) To get secrets in certain games, you had to actually yank the power cord from the system and quickly plug it back on without actually turning off the system. Try this with a Japanese Famicom, and one of those 100-in-1 games.

2) The Nintendo Outlet used to be THE place to game. Arcades were a luxury you were lucky to go to when your parents went to the mall or your partners headed into town.

3) You used to blow on cartridges when the system giving trouble.

4) You used to run down by your partner to borrow games. Probably still done to this day, but most fellas just burn the games nowadays.

5) You had to rely on your partners and Gamepro for codes and secrets.....Gamefaqs?! What de a$$ is DAT?!

6) The biggest sweat you could ever had was six fellas, a SNES, and a copy each of Mortal Kombat 2 and Street Fighter 2.

And disciple, you hit the nail on the head with that one. Used to beg my parents for games allll the time whenever they went abroad.

suzieboy · « **Reply #8 on:** May 18, 2006, 07:56:33 PM »

for real....the NES did come in a real Big a$$ box.....

On weekdays u cudnt play ur games dem,only on weekends, unless u sneak......like when ur parents go to church after work,u does find de NES hide away somewhere and sweat..and hide it away quick quick when ur folks drivin into de garage....lol

New Era Outlaw · « **Reply #9 on:** May 18, 2006, 08:11:17 PM »

Remember when the worst punishment you could ever get was having your game system confiscated and put away?

shivadee · « **Reply #10 on:** May 18, 2006, 08:17:11 PM »

yea boy....man used to cry.
i remember when i got my nintendo man peung Super Mario so much he fingers start to hurt and bleed. Anyone rememember WRATH OF THE BLACK MANTA?

suzieboy · « **Reply #11 on:** May 18, 2006, 10:08:51 PM »

OH gawd shiv u buss ah retro on we dey....lol....i rember like if it was yesterday.....it was a ninja that used to charge some kinda blade he had he became two ninjas or project some kinda fireball....i used to build meh jones on de first boss,some big fool jumpin up and down de screen...lol..that was a cool game....

An games like these u cudnt really save(except for zelda), u hadda beat out dey game in one sittin or leave de system on and dem games was dam long.....lol

shivadee · « **Reply #12 on:** May 19, 2006, 05:17:18 AM »

well LAWD look what I find

Who remember THE LAST NINJA..... LOL
http://www.1980-games.com/us/old-games/nintendo/ninja-games.php

shivadee · « **Reply #13 on:** May 19, 2006, 11:03:24 AM »

aye yea. I had a Genesis with the Altered beast

Remember when you would buy a system and it always had 2 controlers and a game.

To this day people in trinidad STILL want that LOL. "IS A TWO PLAYAH?" LOL LOL

And when yuh uncle and aunt bring back some game yuh never hear about "AH went in the store an tell them i want the LATEST game it have"

LOL i think ppl does still do that too

EmpireKing · « **Reply #14 on:** May 20, 2006, 04:56:59 PM »

choplifter waz d sh!t........it had anodda game where two monkeys waz pelting bomerangs at each odda..yuh had to input altitude an velocity...it waz bbadd

BeoBear · « **Reply #15 on:** May 20, 2006, 05:01:22 PM »

ahaha , my mother had get so vex with my brother an meh cousin for playin super mario whole day that she fling one of the controlers out the window......*

shivadee · « **Reply #16 on:** May 20, 2006, 06:01:02 PM »

aye them NES controlers like iron. pillowfight with my cousin when i was small and the controller was hookup in a pillow. Ting chip out half the man front tooth yes LOL. Nuttin happen to the controler....is like it watch he mouth an say "wahm?"

New Era Outlaw · « **Reply #17 on:** May 20, 2006, 06:31:50 PM »

Remember when controls used to be shaped like phones?

I swear to God, when I was playing Donkey Kong on my old Collecovision, I couldn't tell if I was pyonging game or ordering pizza.

....I miss that system.

Arcmanov · « **Reply #18 on:** May 20, 2006, 07:38:42 PM »

Gettin 'Guile-itis' from playin too much Street Fighter 2 on SNES.

BeoBear · « **Reply #19 on:** May 20, 2006, 10:13:37 PM »

aaaah , good ole guile and ryu , i remembah my brother used to come home an tell me how man unlock secret endings for ryu in the arcade , and that guile could freeze the game.....aaaah arcade rumors...

Carigamers · « **Reply #19 on:** May 20, 2006, 10:13:37 PM »

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