Stupid gaming things you did as a kid.

[Emperor Inferno]

One time as a kid playing Mario on the Game Boy, I jumped too soon trying to squash a mushroom thing. I landed in front of it then stood there like a dumbass as it walked into me, killing me. Boom, Mario has a seizure and falls off the screen, start whole game over again, cry in frustration and disappointment.

 

[VeX1le]

I hate myself for this but when i was a kid i was stupid enough to trade in pikmin for like 15 bucks at game stop, i won't forgive myself until i buy it back =/

I sold 5 Gba game for about 30 dollars. I want my pokemans back

 

[Emperor Inferno]

Banjo Kazooie I'm like 8 or something really young. Takes me a month to work out that in order to climb that first hill you need to talon trot... -_- yeah seriously.

Oh, shit, I forgot about that.

Yeah, I used to do stuff like that too...

Pikachu uses thunder! *makes crappy thunderclap noise and does hand motion of violent lightning strike*

 

[The_Healer]

Trying to play Sim City as a little kid was just impossible. I never had any idea why people wouldn't build houses on my perfectly zoned & piped electricity grid. oO I need to find that old game. XD

I still don't know how to play that game. It makes me sad.

OT: Well I always used to lean with which way I'm driving or directing my character in a game. I got quite involved.

 

[Juven Ignus]

I played all fighters by mashing and for a few days I believed there were motion sensors in my NES.

 

[Chancie]

Oh, yeah, I forgot about that one. I used to lean in the direction the character was going too, as if by doing that, I could make him go faster. I also leaned if I was trying to see something better, like a platform I had to jump on or something. My sister's boyfriend/now-husband used to make fun of me for it. xD

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

I judged attacks solely on how cool they looked and just assumed "cooler" meant "better." Oh, and I have no clue how I beat pokemon yellow. It wasn't until years later after I had long since lost interest that I learned pokemon could level up.

 

[Valate_v1legacy]

I couldn't aim on an fps at all. Nowadays it's nonstop no-scoping.

 

[GoldenCondor]

When playing DooM with my dad Co-op, every time I got in the way of his rockets, I always went back to kill him because I decided "it was only fair", but it ended up sucking always because my dad always had all the weapons, armor, etc.

 

[ottenni]

I never figured out how to crouch in Half Life. Man i sucked. And i couldn't get of the train either.

 

[cheesemanxl]

Using only ONE pokemon to beat a game. I had no understanding of how a balenced team worked.

This.

For the longest time I thought the main character of the Zelda games was called Zelda.

And this.

Also im pretty sure when i used to play Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past i would just walk around and do random stuff with no idea what im supposed to be doing.... come to think of it not much has changed.

Edit: i also used to always look down at the floor when playing fps's needless to say i was always the worst at the game

 

[SantoUno]

In Star Wars Episode 1: Racer I always liked to take my pod to lava pits if the level had them xD I just sat there waiting for to catch fire and explode.

 

[Dark Prophet]

I played Dune on some Sega console when I was 9 or 10. I lost. I throw the controller out of the window. The console followed. I lived on the 3rd floor and down was concrete pavement. I no longer had a console. Pretty stupid move I then thought.

 

[fozzy360]

When I was young, I would actually get nervous, to the point of being afraid, when I knew a boss battle was coming up, so I would actually just have my character stand around and pace awkwardly for about 20 minutes. Mario really didn't want to fight Bowser when I was playing...

Same thing here, pretty much.

In Donkey Kong 64, I'd get everything ready, go to the huge door with the boss battle, and stand in front of it, thinking of if I should go into the room or not. Of course, this was when I was way younger. Though older me can't blame me when I was younger. I was particularly afraid of this demented jack in the box clown... But that's another story.

Point is... I was a wimp when it came to things like that.

That damn jack-in-the-box was the bane of my existence when I had Donkey Kong 64. To this day, I've only beaten him once, and I relished that win.

Stupid thing I've done: Madden '94 for the Genesis when I was 6. I would always beat the other team by 100 points. Only later did I realize that it was the other team that was winning since I had no idea how to control my team.

 

[Jackson - Deathclaw]

cracking the shits while playing Goldeneye with my cousins, throwing the controller at the cartridge and snapping it in half
yeah... my cousins were pissed

 

[Orange_Clockwork]

I remember wanting to buy a game simply because it was a game and it had a catchy title. I ended up with massive amounts of terrible games that I never looked twice at.

I also remember distantly how afraid I was of games with real dark and moody atmosphere. I can recall a time when I was playing Warhammer 40,000: Firewarrior and being dreadfully afraid of what would come when I reached the Chaos areas. Most of the problem was the lighting on my television, but it still got me bad when Raptors would appear out of nowhere.

 

[Pegghead]

Well, you know the stereotype of little ten year old faggots who have hardly any skill and use the mic freely. Sometimes I think I started that image a long time ago, before I wised up. Though back when Sims 2 had just come out, my sister was playing it 24/7 and I would often sit and watch her. I remember she made a family called the Clenerans, They were her labour of love. One day things started going bad for the family, so my sister worked furiously to fix things, and many gruelling hours later, of simulated bonding, self-educating and other pointless things She had finally gotten them back to normal, while I was sitting on a chair next to her, idly swinging my foot, when it hit the power button, shutting off the computer and the game before she'd had a chance to save. She ran to her room in tears, and frankly I don't blame her.

 

[setvak]

Oh jeez. If I got scared during a game as a kid, I would do everything in my power to avoid doing/killing whatever scared me.

I still haven't finished Majora's Mask because I was too afraid to go outside the city where you start out and now my N64 won't work and my copy of the game has gone missing. -sighs-

Of course, now I just charge into fights and stuff after coming up with a "strategy". Woo! 8D

The alien invasion part in the ranch scared the hell out of me when I first played it. I got it for Christmas right after it came out, so I was eleven. I had to wait until high school to go back and finish that section to get the mask, and eventually finish the game. I also pretty much depended on the strategy guide for that game, whereas now I try not to use walkthroughs unless I really need them.

Also, whenever I used the tow cable in Rogue Squadron (the original), I'd lean as I steered around the AT-ATs.

 

[dark-amon]

When poemon was new and hot I was still so young that I had close to no understanding of english. I just picked cool pokemon, and chose the attacks that sounded awsome. It turned out that I had a incredible weak team, and only half of my attacks actually inflicted damage

 

[Beartrucci]

Despite Ocarina of Time being my favourite game when I was younger (still is by the way), a lot of things in the game scared the shit out of me, most of them being pretty silly now that I look back on it. First of all, I was scared of the Game Over screen and the music that played when you died. I was scared of erasing save files (for example, if I needed to delete a file, I would have to get someone else to do it for me, stupid yes I know).

Another one would be the game freezing (well any game that froze back then would scare the crap out of me). Well one day I was making my way along the Forest Temple and as I was climbing some vine, I got hit by on of those skull things that spin around on them. As it hit me, the screen went a green-like colour, television started making this weird noise and the game just froze. I quickly got up, ran and turned the Nintendo 64 off and hid underneath my sheets. I also didn't play the game for a month or so after that because I was scared my file had been deleted when the game froze.