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Xen said:
Euphoria14 said:

@ leatherhat

I always try so hard to get in Shining Force and hopefully one day it works. I am currently trying to play through Suikoden II on my phone.

 

@ Xen

I have never gone by score, with the main reason being that as a kid I would always read EGM or GamePro and only cared out flipping to the back of the magazine to read the RPG section. I remember going nuts when I saw pis of FFIX with Bahamut vs. Alexander thinking it was going to be the greatest thing ever. Then it would get like a 9 or above and after playing it and loving the card game (Triple Triad in FFVIII being my favorite) and everything else I knew it was the best game of the year, but they would never win.

From then on I just never really put any stock in review scores as 9 times out 10 they never lined up with my line of thinking, and I honestly feel that holds true with most people here, even if they don't realize it yet.

Dude, game high score, not review score :P


Oops, lol. Anyways I am still in the same boat as you as I no longer try to chase 100% completion or high scores and instead opt to just take my time, enjoy the game and then move onto the next one.



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I was like 5 or 6 and my brother used to have a turbo grafix (I think that's what it was called)

He played splatter house all the time which scared the living shit out of me.

I think it was Super Mario Bros. 3 that turned me into a gaming monster. I was never able to play when my brother had his high school friend over and they would play for hours, but I drooled every second I watched.  And boy when I finally got my hands on that game I felt like I was in heaven.

When I moved over seas ( I was like 8) I took my SNES with me. It broke down a couple months later. Unfortunately for me, no one fixed SNESs where I lived. I went for like 3 years without gaming. In 1997 my dad sent me a gift, a PlayStation. It destroyed my life.

That original PS is still at my granfather's house with a library of at least 80 games. If I ever go back to the Middle East, I'm taking them back!

Thank you for reading my life story.



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SHMUPGurus said:
Euphoria14 said:

Red Alert! My god, I remember staying at my friend's house until like 2am just playing it or watching him play. That game was absolutely ace. I still have yet to enjoy a C&C game in the same way I enjoyed Red Alert.

Yep, RA was a good series for C&C. Also, one of the greatest cutscenes ever:

Just as I did with Diablo 2 (Which absorbed at least 3 years of my life) I never watched cutscenes. I always focused on just the gameplay.



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Currently playing:

Final Fantasy VI (iOS), Final Fantasy: Record Keeper (iOS) & Dragon Quest V (iOS)     

    

Got a retro room? Post it here!

Euphoria14 said:
SHMUPGurus said:
Euphoria14 said:

Red Alert! My god, I remember staying at my friend's house until like 2am just playing it or watching him play. That game was absolutely ace. I still have yet to enjoy a C&C game in the same way I enjoyed Red Alert.

Yep, RA was a good series for C&C. Also, one of the greatest cutscenes ever:

Just as I did with Diablo 2 (Which absorbed at least 3 years of my life) I never watched cutscenes. I always focused on just the gameplay.

Baaah, that's not how a real gamer is supposed to play! You got to appreciate every little details!



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Why is Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 getting so much hate? We finally get a real game and they're not even satisfied... I'm starting to hate the gaming community so f****** much...

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hatmoza said:

I was like 5 or 6 and my brother used to have a turbo grafix (I think that's what it was called)

He played splatter house all the time which scared the living shit out of me.

I think it was Super Mario Bros. 3 that turned me into a gaming monster. I was never able to play when my brother had his high school friend over and they would play for hours, but I drooled every second I watched.  And boy when I finally got my hands on that game I felt like I was in heaven.

When I moved over seas ( I was like 8) I took my SNES with me. It broke down a couple months later. Unfortunately for me, no one fixed SNESs where I lived. I went for like 3 years without gaming. In 1997 my dad sent me a gift, a PlayStation. It destroyed my life.

That original PS is still at my granfather's house with a library of at least 80 games. If I ever go back to the Middle East, I'm taking them back!

Thank you for reading my life story.

A Turbografx in the middle east?

Was it, like, the ONLY one?



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First game I played was bubble bobble on my friends C64. Got a C64 that christmas and quickly grew out of platformers.

Elite, Archon, Pirates, M.U.L.E, Ultima (couple of them), Defender of the crown, Leaderboard, Skate or die, Kikstart, Wizard of Wor, Test drive, Infiltrator, Samantha fox strip poker (!), Maniac mansion, Arkanoid, Silent service.... and plenty more, so many good games.

It was so funny back then when those kids with NES were so proud of their "mario pros". :D



Xen said:
hatmoza said:

I was like 5 or 6 and my brother used to have a turbo grafix (I think that's what it was called)

He played splatter house all the time which scared the living shit out of me.

I think it was Super Mario Bros. 3 that turned me into a gaming monster. I was never able to play when my brother had his high school friend over and they would play for hours, but I drooled every second I watched.  And boy when I finally got my hands on that game I felt like I was in heaven.

When I moved over seas ( I was like 8) I took my SNES with me. It broke down a couple months later. Unfortunately for me, no one fixed SNESs where I lived. I went for like 3 years without gaming. In 1997 my dad sent me a gift, a PlayStation. It destroyed my life.

That original PS is still at my granfather's house with a library of at least 80 games. If I ever go back to the Middle East, I'm taking them back!

Thank you for reading my life story.

A Turbografx in the middle east?

Was it, like, the ONLY one?

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hatmoza said:

I was like 5 or 6 and my brother used to have a turbo grafix (I think that's what it was called)

He played splatter house all the time which scared the living shit out of me.

I think it was Super Mario Bros. 3 that turned me into a gaming monster. I was never able to play when my brother had his high school friend over and they would play for hours, but I drooled every second I watched.  And boy when I finally got my hands on that game I felt like I was in heaven.

When I moved over seas ( I was like 8) I took my SNES with me. It broke down a couple months later. Unfortunately for me, no one fixed SNESs where I lived. I went for like 3 years without gaming. In 1997 my dad sent me a gift, a PlayStation. It destroyed my life.

That original PS is still at my granfather's house with a library of at least 80 games. If I ever go back to the Middle East, I'm taking them back!

Thank you for reading my life story.


Yo, I want to play the new Splatterhouse!

Anyways, about SMB3, how did you play it? Me I preferred to complete world 1, get the P Wing, finish world 2, get the Cloud, then jump to world 8 and use the Cloud on the annoying castle level and the P Wing on the fast flying ship. 

Always made the game much easier.

 

 

Like you though my life was also destroyed by the PS1, mainly Square Soft... oh how I miss when Square and Enix were separate companies. Everything was so much better back then. Enix would make fun games with crap stories with great gameplay and Square would make great stories and great gameplay.

Now we still get some great gameplay but it is like they gave the stories to the crappy story makers from Enix.



iPhone = Great gaming device. Don't agree? Who cares, because you're wrong.

Currently playing:

Final Fantasy VI (iOS), Final Fantasy: Record Keeper (iOS) & Dragon Quest V (iOS)     

    

Got a retro room? Post it here!

Doom, Duke Nukem and Link's Awakening = Never look back. lol



hatmoza said:
Xen said:
hatmoza said:

I was like 5 or 6 and my brother used to have a turbo grafix (I think that's what it was called)

He played splatter house all the time which scared the living shit out of me.

I think it was Super Mario Bros. 3 that turned me into a gaming monster. I was never able to play when my brother had his high school friend over and they would play for hours, but I drooled every second I watched.  And boy when I finally got my hands on that game I felt like I was in heaven.

When I moved over seas ( I was like 8) I took my SNES with me. It broke down a couple months later. Unfortunately for me, no one fixed SNESs where I lived. I went for like 3 years without gaming. In 1997 my dad sent me a gift, a PlayStation. It destroyed my life.

That original PS is still at my granfather's house with a library of at least 80 games. If I ever go back to the Middle East, I'm taking them back!

Thank you for reading my life story.

A Turbografx in the middle east?

Was it, like, the ONLY one?

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My point exactly - you were 6 when you had it, and 8 when you moved overseas... pointing to  that you had it in the mideast...