Video game nostalgia

Pitfall for the Atari was the first home console game I ever played.

 

ive got an NES genesis and ps1 in boxes...2 360's and i picked up a ps4 in march...got the new wolfenstien preordered...as far as old games got though...loved me some castlevania, mario 1-3 and world...the mortal kombats...sonic games...road rash 2...contra 3...street fighter games...streets of rage was pretty fun on the genesis...goldeneye on the n64...metal gear solid, spyro and legacy of kain: soul reaver...too many to list all of them...

dont forget golden axe...

 

Zelda... Mario games for sure.

 

When I was a kid,,video machines weren't out yet. I used to love these pinball machines..3 plays for a quarter!- If you got some crazy high score you won a free game. -Man, the lights and noise ..it was really some fun shit. We used to gather up as many quarters as we could & on Sunday mornings(while we told the folks we we,re going to church) play for hours - I dont know if anyone here remembers Freedom Land in the N.E. Bronx- they used to have dozens,and dozens of these machines lined up ready to overstimulate our young minds and take all the change we had... - good memories.

 

remember this?

 

I had a red gameboy and a few years ago I found it and tried to play DK. Man the screen was so dark and bad no wonder I've got fucked up eyesight.

 

i remember the coin archades. every student union and most shopping malls had one. and every major bus and train station had at least a couple of pinball machines too.

i remember the first 2.5D zaxxon machines, and the vector graphics based first person tank. and of course after the first star wars there was asteroids, and before that digital equipment corporation's star castle.

my own nostelgia is less for even these, then when the first 8-bit computers were a little known niche market, inhabited almost exclusively by real nerds, and quite a large percentage, because the total population of people interested in them was so small, the actually engineers who designed the things themselves.

that when you saved up and bought one of those little 8-bit magical do anything box, you actually owned it utterly and completely. never mind that you had to store what you created for them to do as digital data on audio cassettes or paper tape, you owned every logic gate and location in their addressing space.

each machine was unique, once you got it home, you made it whatever you wanted it to be.

i always felt from the beginning, that the video games, even before they had their own dedicated machines to play them on, were a kind of robbery of that. because unlike the personal computer, granted they may have had a little better graphics, but all you could do with them, was play a game created by someone else.

so i've always seen this as being sold the idea of letting someone else do your thinking for you. just the same like television and radio. where as the real personal computer, was something you could put your own thinking into, instead of being dictated by someone else.

that was and is the attraction, that now corporate media is trying to rob our internet of as well.

so you know, i still see video games as a foot back in the door, for those who want to do everyone else's thinking and tell us what to think. just like tv and radio.

 

I remember the first time I saw that movie. Must have been around 10 years old, so it obviously made a very big impression. I thought it was the coolest shit ever :sunny:

 

this brings back fond memories...

 

haha i remember playin mortal kombat with my brother like 13 or 14 years ago on those machines and on sega genesis

 

I recall a friend of mine having a ps1 and wanted me to play mortal kombat and streetfighter against him, except he didn't want to explain how the combo attacks worked... I didn't like these games in the first place but if there's no chance of winning... I rest my case

 

I'm sure it was just a case of friendly fire


Hotwater

 

I remember the first time I participated in an online clan war in CoD 2'on PC, I was always german, always. If I couldn't be german I'd wait out the round until I could be. So the first time we switched sides and I was a US marine I laid out everybody in front of me because that's who I was used to shooting at. xD

 

I liked that Arcade game House of the Dead with the zombies that was pretty awesome.
I had a super nintendo, definetly like Super Mario, Mario Kart Racing, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Fifa, NHL.
NBA Hangtime with Michael Jordan and Scotty Pippen, was the best shit ever man

 

Secret of Mana was fuckin' dope as fuck....SNES was just a badass all around system period. They don't make epic games like they used to...I used to love the classic RPG games and they just don't make those types of games any more.

 

I remember on nab jam I went into like 5x overtime. And my basketball was on motherfuckin fire! Swish. Swish. Swish. 3 swishes = fireball.