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Offline Uglydot

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« Reply #25 on: April 24, 2003, 08:11:59 PM »
I lived in California from ages 2 to 6, one of my friends there had an atari 2600, we played every day.  I have played games ever since.  
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« Reply #26 on: April 26, 2003, 04:32:20 AM »
The first game I played was Space Invaders on an old Amstrad that my parents bought for me at the age of 5. After that I played some kids text adventure type games on that and then, at the age of about 7/8, something like that, I had a NES. I was pretty much hooked then, particularly by Mario. Then I had an Amiga and the real addiction set in, with games like SuperFrog. Since then I have never been without a game of some description - usually several in fact. For the past 5 years or so I have mainly been a PC gamer, and my favourite games of all time have been on the PC - Dungeon Keeper, Bard's Tale, Alpha Centauri, Quake, Fallout, The Longest Journey. Dungeon Keeper was a game I played after a short period of non gaming - it bought me back to full on gaming and kept me there, so I guess I have that game to thank/blame for me being where I am today - still addicted to gaming and addicted to posting on forums about it.
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« Reply #27 on: April 26, 2003, 04:47:21 AM »
My first exposure to games was when I was very young. My dad bought a regular Nintendo and Donkey Kong for it.  I was really young I think about 4 or 5 and didn't know how to read the instruction manuals, but I kept on trying to play over and over till i got it.  I think I made it past the first level of Donkey Kong after a LONG TIME, I'm talking like a week or two.  I was so happy when i finally got it.  Then when my dad got me Super Mario Brothers I was obsessed with NES.  The only thing I would do was wake up, then play, sleep.  I guess that's how i got to the way I am today.  When I'm really into a game I don't do anything else but play it till i beat it.  My only problems with games nowadays is that their too easy for me.  I need a challenge, something that will get me stuck for a while, not some stupid button mashing part cough*STARFOXADVENTURES*cough I need something that requires major skill.  Well anyways sorry for the rant but me talking about gaming brought me back to memories and such.

One more thing, sadly enough I never got to experience the Atari or Intellivision.
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« Reply #28 on: April 26, 2003, 05:56:06 PM »
On my sixth (maybe seventh) birthday, I recieved an SNES. I still have it. And I still haven't beaten Super Mario World. And I won't die until I do.
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« Reply #29 on: April 27, 2003, 02:55:46 AM »
games are probably easy for you cause you play them so much i mean you do anything for a long time and you develope a knack for it it becomes second nature (or in extreme cases first )
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« Reply #30 on: April 27, 2003, 02:12:38 PM »
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Originally posted by: Dirk Temporo
On my sixth (maybe seventh) birthday, I recieved an SNES. I still have it. And I still haven't beaten Super Mario World. And I won't die until I do.


Wow, the games that hard for you?  Tell me what part your stuck on and maybe I can help.
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« Reply #31 on: April 28, 2003, 09:33:36 AM »
I guess my connection previously was bad, and my post was not sent, so here we go again:

You have not really beaten Super Mario World until you beaten it to the point where you have 96* (96 with a Star) at the Startup screen, which means that you beaten every stage in the game all ways that are possible.
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« Reply #32 on: April 28, 2003, 10:05:37 AM »
wow.  you guys are old.  i think mine was like a sega genesis or gameboy or something.  i don't know half those systems.  (heard of them, know nothing more) i didn't know old guys went on video game forums.  guess i live up to my name.  hey, can anybody fill me in on a little info about some of theese systems?  since you're old and all.  
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« Reply #33 on: April 28, 2003, 07:01:08 PM »
Not old....wise
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« Reply #34 on: April 28, 2003, 11:32:39 PM »
not wise.. nerds

im only 18.. but ive grown up around gaming i cant remmeber a point in my life where there wasn't some form of electronic gaming available, mum and dad had an atari but before i could think it was sold, then we had the amiga 500, which i grew up on playing top down shootemups namely swiv the hybris and blood money (and others i forget the names of) from there we had a mighty 486 that i managed to completly screw up dont quite know how i did it, but it sort of imploded on its self in a software sence, but it rose from the ashes i caused, i got a snes soon after that (conincidence?) which was fine and dandy, shortly after that dad got a p1 233 and i got a 64 then dad got a 700 a bit later. i think i got a gbc around that time, cant quite remmeber. then came my gba shortly after it was released, then came my gamecube (as a christmas present... in october (again to get me off the pc )) and then an SP on release day.. a week after that i got a snes again

and so ends the saga of my buying stuff more to come rest assured
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« Reply #35 on: April 29, 2003, 04:53:30 AM »
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not wise.. nerds


I'm not a 'nerd', I actually have a life.  ...Ahhhhh...youth is wasted on the young..
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« Reply #36 on: April 29, 2003, 06:04:08 AM »
Yeah, I am not Old either... infact, I just turned 23 this past 16th of April.

However I know of other people in other Forums who are 43 and older that play games as well. Games are not really restricted to any paticular Age, but meh.

My memory of most of those systems is hazy, but I remember one game for the Coleco Vision, which was called "Dukes of Hazard" (The show) and it came with a Foot paddle, Steering wheel, and you used the Joystick that slided into a psection of the steering wheel as the stick shift and you drove around town and eventually Boss Hog would start chasng you and you had to lose him by jumping your car over a bridge under construction....... and me being 7 or so and not even understanding the sciences behind driving, I never made it and always landed in the water and such.

The Coleco Vision was actually made before the Nintendo and the Sega Master System and yet, had some decent graphics for it's time.
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« Reply #37 on: April 29, 2003, 10:19:03 AM »
to me, you're old.
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« Reply #38 on: April 29, 2003, 11:30:45 AM »
  Praxius....I still have Dukes of hazard for my coleco.  Its a great game.  My steering wheel is a little beat, but I still fire it up from time to time.
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« Reply #39 on: May 01, 2003, 07:53:46 PM »
My first gaming exposure was when my parents bought me my first system: the NES of course!!  It came with 2 controlers and 2 games: Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt, and Robocop.

Games
SMB1,2,3
Robocop
Donkey Kong
Days of Thunder
Snoopy Olympics (I think thats what it was called)
2 TMNT games (forgot the names)
Marble Madness
Metroid
Balloon Fight
Exitebike
and some other ones I cant remember

Damn I miss my NES...have to go out and buy a new one one of these days...
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