being sat round a tv with my bro and 2 cousins watching my older cousin play Sonic on the sega =D
no idea how old i was..
no idea how old i was..
Your earliest gaming memory
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Playing my all time favorite game, Yoshi's Island.
Oh, and playing Super Mario World 3 with my brother.
Oh, and playing Super Mario World 3 with my brother.
Playing against a huge battleship boss in Fire Shark for the Sega Mega Drive. Such a good old game.
oh god haha playing syndycate wars on the sega mega drive. Was watching my brother play it and then he went "hey wana see something cool"
he handed me the controller and told me the walk here *pointed at the screen* and then went "see that guy there ya, with the big target around him"
"mhm"
"press a" or b cant really remember when I did I heard this blast and the guy disapearred I was like O.O what did I just do?
"you blew him apart with a laser"
:O and havent looked back since haha
he handed me the controller and told me the walk here *pointed at the screen* and then went "see that guy there ya, with the big target around him"
"mhm"
"press a" or b cant really remember when I did I heard this blast and the guy disapearred I was like O.O what did I just do?
"you blew him apart with a laser"
:O and havent looked back since haha
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That stuff was hard; get one bit wrong and then you'd have to start the entire game again...
That stuff was hard; get one bit wrong and then you'd have to start the entire game again...
my very earliest gaming memory was when my dad used to let me stay up late and watch him play doom with him...somtimes he let me shoot while he ran around
My first vivid, indelible gaming memory came a few years after I'd actually started gaming. Everything before then is "there was an NES/an arcade cabinet and I played it", but nothing I could tell a story about.
Anyway, cut to the summer of 1989. As anyone who's ever been to Boston in the summer knows, you can set your watch by the afternoon thunderstorms. My brother and I had prepared for just such a moment and said "when it starts raining let's all go to our house, we're gonna show you something cool."
As expected, it started raining right around five, and the whole neighborhood (about a dozen boys aged 8 to 12) assembled in my mom's basement where the NES was set up. A few blows on the cartridge and Contra was ready to go. My friend Jared made the first key observation:
"Don't you know about up up down down left right left right B A select start?"
Said my brother: "You don't need it if you're good. Just watch." (this would become a catch phrase among our friends for a couple of years afterwards when we played sports against other neighborhoods)
My brother and I then proceeded to beat Contra in front of all of our friends from the neighborhood without dying once. Said Jared: "How did you do that?" Said my brother: "We're the Doucette brothers. We're just awesome." Coolest thing a ten-year-old kid has ever said as far as I'm concerned.
Anyway, cut to the summer of 1989. As anyone who's ever been to Boston in the summer knows, you can set your watch by the afternoon thunderstorms. My brother and I had prepared for just such a moment and said "when it starts raining let's all go to our house, we're gonna show you something cool."
As expected, it started raining right around five, and the whole neighborhood (about a dozen boys aged 8 to 12) assembled in my mom's basement where the NES was set up. A few blows on the cartridge and Contra was ready to go. My friend Jared made the first key observation:
"Don't you know about up up down down left right left right B A select start?"
Said my brother: "You don't need it if you're good. Just watch." (this would become a catch phrase among our friends for a couple of years afterwards when we played sports against other neighborhoods)
My brother and I then proceeded to beat Contra in front of all of our friends from the neighborhood without dying once. Said Jared: "How did you do that?" Said my brother: "We're the Doucette brothers. We're just awesome." Coolest thing a ten-year-old kid has ever said as far as I'm concerned.
I was 5 I believe, my dad was at the computer and I asked him what was he doing? He then got me a chair, I sat on it and watched what he did. He was playing Solitaire, so I asked if I could play. "Sure!" he said, and there I was playing Solitaire, my first game ever. Also, I never "beat" Solitaire 'till I was about 13 or so.
I remember my sister playing a game which was set in a graveyard which shit scared me, because I was frightened of graveyards, so I used to close my eyes and turn the other way when she got to that level.
When my brother used to baby-sit me, I remember the lights been off, I was sat in the floor in my old house and I'd watch him play RE1 and FF7.
And I remember sat in my old bedroom playing Rayman on my PS1.
Good times :')
When my brother used to baby-sit me, I remember the lights been off, I was sat in the floor in my old house and I'd watch him play RE1 and FF7.
And I remember sat in my old bedroom playing Rayman on my PS1.
Good times :')
I remember how terrified I was of the shark pen in Pac-Man. Seriously, it still gives me the chills.