Captain of Fun
02-12-2012, 12:34 AM
Did you have a gameboy when you were a kid?! Which one?! What games did you have?! DID YOU LIKE THEM?!
I had the ol' spinach screen brick. I remember having Kirby and Megaman 5. They were awesome. Had the first ninja turtles game too. Wasn't as good as the previously mentioned titles, but it was competent. A lot more fun than the first NES game, I'll tell you that, boy howdy.
And I also remember the innate rage I felt, when I got chicken pox, and my parents decided to take me to my grandparents chalet (away from my precious NES, which I was very much looking forward to playing for a week straight). Luckily, as a "you're so sick I am going to buy you something" present, my mom got me Metroid II: Return of Samus. Spent a whole week playing it, and beat it, just as my chicken pox cleared up. Also spent my time not playing, constructing my own metroid game on graph paper. Thing was fucking huge. Bigger than super metroid by far. That week might be my fondest gaming memory.
Aaaaaaaand the rest were all shit. Had that practically unplayable spider-man game. Fucking pile of turds, that one. On levels that were on the ground, dude would web swing on almost every jump, no matter how loud I screamed at him not too. Whenever you needed to use the web swing to get over a pit the thing just wouldn't work, as if the game knew how badly it was bending you over, and took pleasure in every thrust.
Also had this game called Sumo something or other. Was not a sumo wrestling game however, but a 2-d platformer, where you play as some fat shit trying to save his kidnapped honey, in some oriental fantasy land, from a large number of asian stereotypes. Oh, and it played like ass.
Got a gameboy advance when it came out, and never owned a single shitty game, for that one. Didn't own many, mind you, but whatever.
I had Circle of the Moon, and while I prefer classic castlevania, the "metroidvanias" are still a blast. Since I went N64 instead of playstation,(the 12 year old me would shit fucking bricks, knowing that I now own all 3 consoles on the market btw) Circle was my first Metroidvania. Had Harmony too, but I liked circle better.
My favorite series on GBA, was the Megaman Zero series. Megaman is my favorite franchise in all of gaming. And the zero series was a return to form after the last few shitty X games, and the battle network shit which I fucking hated. Game was hard, too. Like, X3 hard. Girlfriend at the time got reaaaaaally pissed at me, because I stayed up till like 2am to beat it. Whatever. That relationship ended anyway, but my achievement still stands, so it was totally worth it. BOOSH and or KA-KOW
Don't have a DS because instead of trusting 2 decades of blissful memories, I instead opted for a PSP. Used it like twice in the span of a year, and then sold it to a friend, dumping it's useless ness on him.
And then Megaman Powered up, Maverick Hunter, Rondo of Blood, Crisis Core, Dissidia, and Peace Walker all came out. Mother fuckers.
I had the ol' spinach screen brick. I remember having Kirby and Megaman 5. They were awesome. Had the first ninja turtles game too. Wasn't as good as the previously mentioned titles, but it was competent. A lot more fun than the first NES game, I'll tell you that, boy howdy.
And I also remember the innate rage I felt, when I got chicken pox, and my parents decided to take me to my grandparents chalet (away from my precious NES, which I was very much looking forward to playing for a week straight). Luckily, as a "you're so sick I am going to buy you something" present, my mom got me Metroid II: Return of Samus. Spent a whole week playing it, and beat it, just as my chicken pox cleared up. Also spent my time not playing, constructing my own metroid game on graph paper. Thing was fucking huge. Bigger than super metroid by far. That week might be my fondest gaming memory.
Aaaaaaaand the rest were all shit. Had that practically unplayable spider-man game. Fucking pile of turds, that one. On levels that were on the ground, dude would web swing on almost every jump, no matter how loud I screamed at him not too. Whenever you needed to use the web swing to get over a pit the thing just wouldn't work, as if the game knew how badly it was bending you over, and took pleasure in every thrust.
Also had this game called Sumo something or other. Was not a sumo wrestling game however, but a 2-d platformer, where you play as some fat shit trying to save his kidnapped honey, in some oriental fantasy land, from a large number of asian stereotypes. Oh, and it played like ass.
Got a gameboy advance when it came out, and never owned a single shitty game, for that one. Didn't own many, mind you, but whatever.
I had Circle of the Moon, and while I prefer classic castlevania, the "metroidvanias" are still a blast. Since I went N64 instead of playstation,(the 12 year old me would shit fucking bricks, knowing that I now own all 3 consoles on the market btw) Circle was my first Metroidvania. Had Harmony too, but I liked circle better.
My favorite series on GBA, was the Megaman Zero series. Megaman is my favorite franchise in all of gaming. And the zero series was a return to form after the last few shitty X games, and the battle network shit which I fucking hated. Game was hard, too. Like, X3 hard. Girlfriend at the time got reaaaaaally pissed at me, because I stayed up till like 2am to beat it. Whatever. That relationship ended anyway, but my achievement still stands, so it was totally worth it. BOOSH and or KA-KOW
Don't have a DS because instead of trusting 2 decades of blissful memories, I instead opted for a PSP. Used it like twice in the span of a year, and then sold it to a friend, dumping it's useless ness on him.
And then Megaman Powered up, Maverick Hunter, Rondo of Blood, Crisis Core, Dissidia, and Peace Walker all came out. Mother fuckers.