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"Emotional Packing..."

I was packing up the contents of my room yesterday as I am (bad joke) 'changing rooms'...

..packing my old consoles and games was believe it or not very emotional, the room which I had played thousands of console games in and spent my entire life playing consoles in was no longer going to be my haven for all things Nintendo. I was moving on.

Each Nintendo and Super Nintendo game I came across actually reminded me of a time when I was playing it. Timelord on the Nes, well just packing the cartridge and finding the manual had reminded me of when I couldn't find the orb on the western level, which at the age of six I phoned the hotline and got the answer! Marble Madness reminded me of when I invited my old best friend around and we played it for hours. Duck Hunt reminded me of when I was cheating at the age of four by holding the gun to the screen.... memories that I will probably never forget, but the packing had revived them from the inner depths of my brain.

After a few hours of packing hundreds of games into boxes, I took a few steps back and looked at the pile for about five minutes, I shaked my head and told myself it had been worth it, all of it. Many of you may be smirking, but I assure you packing up nearly everything you would die for was very emotional. When I was young there were problems at home, I used games as a way to escape from these problems, they comforted me and I owe a lot to them. I have packed all the console games I own into the new room, when I unpack them I think I will give nearly all of them a quick go.

The memories that most of us will have from games and gaming will stay with us till our grave, completing this packing of all my magazines, games, posters, standees and collectables just reminded me of how lucking I am to have had all this great stuff.

Guys, don't take these old or even new games for granted, they will probably give you some of the best moments of your life, some great moments which can't be repeated but will continue to live on in you memories.

I will tell you one thing now though, packing will be a forever memory for me, unpacking will one of the best few days of my life...

Thanks for reading.
Joby

New Jimmy wrote:
> That'll bring a tear to your eye ;-{

Thanks for your comments Jimmy, they were a great bonus to the original topic post...

:)

Oh yes i remme,ber playing Dalek attack on the Amiga the good old days!

That'll bring a tear to your eye ;-{

SHEEPY wrote:
> I'll bum you all!

Especially you...

*RBS runs screaming... into a wall*

I agree many a happy memory has come from playing games on my consoles and PC. One i think of most lately is the time I was playing Final Fantasy 7 on the PC, I will never forget the video sequences from that game. I can remeber watching the sequence when the woman in the pink dress, i think she was called Aerial or something, died when Sepheroph drove the blade of his sword through her. And then there was the sequence when the giant machine thing was walking towards that harbour and all of those missiles were fired at it to send it packing back to where it came from. If i have one regret in my gaming life it is that i never completed that game. I went all the way through it wright to the end enjoying ever step of the adventure all of the way only to give up at the final battle against Sepheroph. Still Cloud will always have a place in my gaming heart.

My proudest gaming moment cane when i completed Zelda: Ocerina of time on the N64. I will never forget how nervous i was fighting Ganon in the castle, then when i thought i had beaten him and the castle started to shake and fall down I thought i'd never make it out in time.

In a couple of my past topics and replies i have said some horrible things about nintendo and the N64, i would now just like to say how sorry i am for those coments and i take them all back.

*Stick whipes the corner of his eye where a tear was begining to build up*

Ok the N64 might not have been nintendo's most successful console but it was by no means a failure as i had said in previous topics. The N64 has given me some very happy gaming memories, for example playing and completing Perfect Dark was agreat experience even though i only did it on the easiest setting. I spent many a happy hour on that game playing on the multiplayer levels against the sim opponents, i enjoyed throwing every last poisened knife into their computer generated bodies. Also I have had many happy multiplayer memories on games such as Super Smash Brothers and Super Mario Kart. I can remeber the excitement as me, my brother and two cousins would try and seak and destroy each other on the Mario Kart multiplayer levels.

All fond memories that i will treasure with me for a long time and i like er-no owe a lot, but no all of them to nintendo.

*Now the tears come, Stick is powerless to prevent them from streaming down his smiling face.*

Thankyou er-no for writing this topic so that i could remeber those golden gaming moments.

cry, sob, cry.

ah bum to you all!

Especially you...

cookie monster wrote:
I didnt
> mean to be rude or that, but that is the most unusual name i have
> ever heard.

I love the name Joby! And so I constantly annoy Joby by calling him Joby rather than er-no :-D

er-no wrote:

There is no abbreviation from my name, it has and
> always will be Joby... I thought that after such a topic I should
> sign it with my name and not my user name!

I didnt mean to be rude or that, but that is the most unusual name i have ever heard.

Thanks for that er-no, youve certainly hit a chord with me. I to have had to pack away many of my old consoles and computers, and each has played an important part in my life.

Every game tells a different story, particularly as for me anyway, gaming has always been an thing to enjoy with friends and family.

My earliest gaming memory was playing on Outrun on my new Commodore64, emotional that because for some reason my younger brother always stuffed me at it. I was better at the other games like Bionic Commando and ThunderBlade...but he always had the upper hand on Outrun.

The C64 was part of my early years, I remember days playing with it inviting friends over and figuring out together how to complete Treasure Island Dizzy. Dizzys success was perhaps that it appeared on every big computer format of the time...ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC 464, Commodore 64 and even the lowly IBM PC compatible. It didnt matter what machine you had, you always had Dizzy in common with other users.

The C64 was a lovely toy, the fact that when you turned it on the machine you were straight into its COS (Cassette Operating System ...or whatever the C64 equivalent of DOS was) meant that you were encouraged to type letters, write little programs and copy out the code painstakingly from the latest C64 magazine. All this was fun, perhaps not the pinacle of gaming but we could dream of a version of Golden Axe that was Arcade perfect. Back then we still argued over each machines superiority, the Spectrum had a low number of colours but a decent resolution, The Commodore 64 had more colours, and the Amstrad seemed to have the best of both worlds.

Things moved on for me the NES, Megadrive, Amiga500, Amiga 1200, Playstation and the N64 have all graced my life. With each game I can recall a part of my life and the enjoyment that me and my friend had playing these games. Whether it was my Ian or Gareth trying to complete Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the Nes, Laura impressing me and my brother with her impressive times on MicroMachines on the Amiga, or me and my brother fighting because I had perfected my cheesy combos with Ken on Streetfighter2 on the Megadrive. Even my first sight of Tekken running on a Playstation brings back memorys of my teenage years and cider drinking contests (Cider makes the graphics look better!).

Gaming is an emotional thing, and at its best when its an experience that is shared with others.

The Future of Gaming is Bright, but we have the past to thank for getting us there. :-)

Turbonutter wrote:
> It is Joby, but I'm sure it is an abbreviation.

There is no abbreviation from my name, it has and always will be Joby... I thought that after such a topic I should sign it with my name and not my user name!