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April 21st, 2019 at 10:04 PM ^
Legend of Zelda - Link's Awakening
I remember walking across the backyard to my older neighbor kid's house to dig through his game collection for games to borrow during summer break. I was probably 8, he was a teen. I'd always grab Link's Awakening and my parents finally bought it for me one year for my birthday. I've played that thing more times than I can count and can't wait for it to be on a current console!
April 22nd, 2019 at 10:28 PM ^
I remember buying this stuff for my kids.
April 21st, 2019 at 10:07 PM ^
Pokémon red blue and yellow
April 22nd, 2019 at 12:27 PM ^
I was in middle school when res and blue came out. They really did take over everything. I remember taking a field trip and every boy was playing and we had some trade cables. It was awesome.
April 21st, 2019 at 10:07 PM ^
Paperboy - surprisingly quite playable on that little screen!
April 21st, 2019 at 11:11 PM ^
Paperboy was a great game
I was solid at that game up until the dog came out then I was fucked
April 21st, 2019 at 10:08 PM ^
Pokémon pinball
super Mario deluxe
X-men wolverine
April 21st, 2019 at 10:14 PM ^
I’m was the ? at Alleyway
April 21st, 2019 at 10:16 PM ^
Actually, I thought that thing was cooler to own than using it.
April 21st, 2019 at 10:18 PM ^
I must be really old. I remember playing Pong on a black and white tv that had rabbit ears.
April 21st, 2019 at 11:15 PM ^
On the odyssey system?
Or maybe it was colecovision.
For the GameCube (which is quickly becoming another back-in-the-day system), there was actually a collection of emulated Intellivision games that was available, and I am sure I am the only person that I know that bought it and played it simply for the memories of that particular system.
April 22nd, 2019 at 12:47 PM ^
We had an Odyssey, I think my dad won it as a door prize at some sort of work thing. I can't imagine him actually buying it.
It was not that much fun. There were plastic sheets that clung (via static) to your television screen and the games depended on the alignment being just right. Our TV was not exactly the right size, so many of the games just didn't work. It didn't see a lot of use in my house.
I remember the Odyssey system. My neighbors had it. I believe there was some terrible version of a Pac-Man game on odyssey. We would race home through the snow in order to queue up with 6 or 8 other neighbor kids for a chance to play one game of odyssey before dinner. And now we have self driving cars.
April 24th, 2019 at 12:50 AM ^
As a kid, bought an Odyssey 300 (the yellow one) as a "gift" for the rest of the family. Preferred the "hockey" to the "tennis" (they of course could not call it Pong). Big fan of Pokemon pinball (with the funky rumble built into the cartridge) and Picross and its variations.
April 21st, 2019 at 11:42 PM ^
Same. Pong on 13 inch B&W. Watched the ‘78 World Series on the same tv and you couldn’t see the ball half the time. Those were the days.
April 23rd, 2019 at 12:02 AM ^
Same with hockey night in Canada in CBC from Windsor.
April 21st, 2019 at 10:30 PM ^
Played Zelda way late...while in middle school or so, and that was the late 90s...I enjoyed it but got to a spot I for the life of me couldn't get past. I still claim a glitch in the game. I can't really remember what that point was. It was probably not 'very' far into the game but also not like I gave up right away. I had other times I couldn't figure something out but worked my way through it. This particular spot, no bueno. That's my Gameboy story. I sucked.
This wouldn't be the same spot since it came nearly at the end, but in the eighth dungeon (Turtle Rock), there was a random wall you had to bomb to find a switch that let you go through a room way way later in the dungeon. There was no indication or hint about that wall and it took me what felt like years to find it.
April 21st, 2019 at 10:34 PM ^
Loved playing Tetris, but I wouldn’t wish “Tetris dream” on my worst enemy. I wanted the game to end when I turned it off.
And the music would get stuck in my head. For about three years, I was hopelessly addicted.
April 21st, 2019 at 10:35 PM ^
Breakout was my first game on Atari in '77. Jobs and Wozniak were on the design team. Not much more advanced than Pong, which was of course included as well. Later on we got a Frogger cartridge. I am old. Get off my lawn.
April 21st, 2019 at 10:36 PM ^
Donkey Kong (1994)
It built off the original with new stage types, each with unique obstacles. Plus, Mario can now do handstands and flips to make his way through the levels. One of my faves.
April 21st, 2019 at 10:39 PM ^
you kids.
everybody say 'pong'. yeah, 'pong'. that was the game when i was young and electricity was still a novelty....
April 21st, 2019 at 11:03 PM ^
That modern pong. That ball moved way slower in real pong and that paddles looked way less nice. And it was glorious.
April 21st, 2019 at 11:05 PM ^
Tetris. Castlevania.
April 21st, 2019 at 11:18 PM ^
Yep both of those. Also I have a bo Jackson game where you can choose baseball or football. Both were fun, it was 2 games in 1.
I was the first kid on my block with a gameboy. Only time in my life I was the envy of my friends.
April 22nd, 2019 at 12:09 AM ^
Gameboy actually doesn't make me feel old as I have never played it. Don't tell me when the original NES came out though.
April 22nd, 2019 at 12:28 AM ^
10-18-1985 (in America)
Always hard for me to believe that because none of my friends had one until 1988
Yep. Christmas '88 is when I got mine. I wish I still had it. And my Atari 2600.
I got mine Christmas 1987. We had wanted one the year before but my parents thought it was a fad. We visited my cousins in Seattle the summer of 1987 for a week. Surprise (it rained the whole week) so we played their NES non-stop between trips to national parks, etc. Parents finally thought we might play it a bit...then it became our punishment for anything we did wrong. They would take the power cord or the RCA cables. (So of course I went out and bought replacements so I could play even when we were "grounded" from Nintendo.)
April 22nd, 2019 at 12:12 AM ^
My game
I was always a big fan of the Mattel handheld electronic football and basketball games...
I got to the point with Mattel football that I scored every single play
Final Fantasy Legend, FF Adventure, Links Awakening,
Tetris: 227 lines was my record
I will dominate you playing Tetris.
Them's fighting words. Pretty much the only game I'm really good at. Many car rides were spent playing that game on my GB.
So, I'll date myself, last video game I played was ColecoVision baseball and I had the hand held football game.
I was already old when tetris came out.
Besides what's already been mentioned above, I recall burning a ton of hours playing
Metroid 2: The Return of Samus
balloon kid, megaman and kirby were my go to
Super Mario 6 Golden Coins. Gimme them bunny ears, bitch
Original Super Mario Land was good too, but Super Mario Land 2 was my game.
Out of non-sports games, Zelda was the only one I ever got in to other than Mario, but for some reason Zelda on a handheld never did it for me.
The biggest thing I remember about the original gameboy was needing to find the perfect lighting and it being a pain in the car if you got stuck on the wrong side of the sun and couldn't see anything with the way the screen worked.