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dtewi on 16 March 2010
O-D-C said:
no I was a sperm

I was going to say that!

*shakes fist*



Kimi wa ne tashika ni ano toki watashi no soba ni ita

Itsudatte itsudatte itsudatte

Sugu yoko de waratteita

Nakushitemo torimodosu kimi wo

I will never leave you

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superchunk on 16 March 2010
Tanstalas said:
cfr316 said:

To this day I still remember the cheat code for 30 lives for NES Contra.  

It was all about NES in the late 80's.

 

 

Someone that works at Facebook remembered it too :P

 

Oh - and Marvel as well

However, do either of you know where it actually started? Hint: it wasn't Contra...



alekth on 16 March 2010

I was pretty spoiled from being sick and staying home (king of the house) half the time, so my parents gave up on kindergarden for me.

Ended up going to dad's work and playing on the computers there.
I actually didn't own a console until the PS2 came out.



JGarret on 16 March 2010

@superchunk

Gradius?



The Ghost of RubangB on 16 March 2010

Born in 83, played Pong before I could walk. Got a NES probably in 87 or 88, and I rented every NES game that existed back then. I ate the cereal, I ate the ice cream sandwiches, I drank the juice boxes. I still have the first issue of Nintendo Power, but I guess when I was little I cut all my favorite pictures out of it.



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JGarret on 16 March 2010

Rubang, you think that, relative to its time, the 'Nintendo craze' with the NES was even bigger than nowadays with the Wii?



Tanstalas on 16 March 2010
JGarret said:
@superchunk

Gradius?

Yeah - what he said



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Chris Hu on 16 March 2010

I turn 38 in June and I started gaming in the late 70s. The first home console I gamed on was the C64 I also had a friend that had a 2600. The 80's had some great games.



Tanstalas on 16 March 2010
The Ghost of RubangB said:
Born in 83, played Pong before I could walk. Got a NES probably in 87 or 88, and I rented every NES game that existed back then. I ate the cereal, I ate the ice cream sandwiches, I drank the juice boxes. I still have the first issue of Nintendo Power, but I guess when I was little I cut all my favorite pictures out of it.

Nintendo Power rocked, did you get Dragon Warrior with your subscription (were you even subscribed at that time?)

 

That was the coolest gift ever... My grandparents renewed my subscription every year for my birthday :)



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gekkokamen on 16 March 2010

Of course, I played lots of games in the 80s, consoles including : Atari 2600, ColecoVision, Intellevision, Commodore 64, Sega Master System, NES, Sega Genesis, Turbo Grafx 16. Game Boy and Nintendo Game & Watch as portables.