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I love my Gamecube. I absolutely adore the thing. It has games are that of class and of brilliant design, and that are unlike anything ever done before. It is a visionary masterpiece for the future of gaming.
But whatever Nintendo do with the box of fun, it could never match up to when the company were at their prime - a time when gaming was growing, running wild, letting it's imagination run free and take a game whichever which - way it wanted to. A time when violence in a game didn't make it sell in millions, and only something centimetres close to perfection could be named a 'classic'. A time when the Super Nintendo Entertainment System was king.
I vaguely remember getting my SNES, one snowy Christmas morning, unwrapping the green and red wrapping paper to unveil a bland box which contained the small package that my heart had been yearning for. Yes, I was a gamer before then, but not much of one - I had a NES, which had been of great use to me, and games like 'Duck Hunt' and Mario games had taught me to love wasting my spare time gaming, but, it had taken me as far as it could. Yes, it was a great console with brilliant games, but it had begun to get tedious - seldom was there a time where I didn't have to blow the cartridge and the inside of the console numerous times just to get it to work, which was a tiresome job for a hyperactive youngster like I was.
About 9 o'clock on Christmas Day I plugged in my SNES for the first time. By 5 past I was in love.
For the next 5 or 6 years the SNES took me for the gaming ride of my life - I could have called it a 'roller coaster', but that would be an insult to my memory, as never once was their a time where the SNES stop climbing and started to fall. All through it's life span it entertained me to the limit, and never once did I regret asking santa to bring me that for Christmas.
Super Mario World was probably my favourite game, and is probably now my best game ever - pushing aside even Mario 64 and Sunshine. It's not that it was the best game of the 3, but it was the memories which I have with it, and remembering thinking about it. I used to play it for the moment I got home from school to the second I went to bed. With me being an inexperienced gamer at the time, a level could take me days, or even weeks to complete.
I used to dream about many different ways in which the game could end, and what would happen to Mario. Every day would bring a new theory and every day it would get more and more off the subject that, when I did complete it, it was like nothing I could've ever thought of back then, though, in retrospect, the ending was obvious.
Even once I'd completed it all, I still went back to try and master those levels which I'd got stuck on and improve my gaming knowledge, which is something that I'd love to do now, but don't get chance to do often enough, as new games come and flood the market.
Multiplayer was at it's prime during the SNES years. Every day during the 6 weeks holidays me and my cousin used to blast each other at Bomberman until our tiny little fingers were numb. We didn't care that we'd played the same game for 4 years in a row. It didn't matter that the graphics weren't realistic. YES we tried different games, but we always went back to our homes.
If I am being totally honest I'll say, on the whole, the GC is a far better console, games wise, than the SNES was, but, with me looking through Rose Tinted Glasses, I don't get to see why. I don't get to see all of the crap games that were brought out, and disappontment.
I never got news of gaming develoments whilst I owned my SNES, as I never read magazines and the Internet wasn't used by many, and so new games weren't of my knowledge, and so I kept with my old ones, which made me play them more.
Take a look at the Bomberman paragraph. That situation would've been very different in todays world. I'd have probably traded in the game because I found the 1 player too Linear and I wanted a 'new game' which I'd get rid of in 3 weeks time, and all because of me being up to date.
I was FORCED to enjoy my old games, and that is why I love them. No peer pressure from people who think gaming is cool (as it wasn't then), no new games to tempt me away from my classics and certainly no scouring the Internet for great deals. Just Pure Gaming Bliss...
I'm feeling all nostalgic... MUM! Get the step ladders out! I want my SNES back.
But whatever Nintendo do with the box of fun, it could never match up to when the company were at their prime - a time when gaming was growing, running wild, letting it's imagination run free and take a game whichever which - way it wanted to. A time when violence in a game didn't make it sell in millions, and only something centimetres close to perfection could be named a 'classic'. A time when the Super Nintendo Entertainment System was king.
I vaguely remember getting my SNES, one snowy Christmas morning, unwrapping the green and red wrapping paper to unveil a bland box which contained the small package that my heart had been yearning for. Yes, I was a gamer before then, but not much of one - I had a NES, which had been of great use to me, and games like 'Duck Hunt' and Mario games had taught me to love wasting my spare time gaming, but, it had taken me as far as it could. Yes, it was a great console with brilliant games, but it had begun to get tedious - seldom was there a time where I didn't have to blow the cartridge and the inside of the console numerous times just to get it to work, which was a tiresome job for a hyperactive youngster like I was.
About 9 o'clock on Christmas Day I plugged in my SNES for the first time. By 5 past I was in love.
For the next 5 or 6 years the SNES took me for the gaming ride of my life - I could have called it a 'roller coaster', but that would be an insult to my memory, as never once was their a time where the SNES stop climbing and started to fall. All through it's life span it entertained me to the limit, and never once did I regret asking santa to bring me that for Christmas.
Super Mario World was probably my favourite game, and is probably now my best game ever - pushing aside even Mario 64 and Sunshine. It's not that it was the best game of the 3, but it was the memories which I have with it, and remembering thinking about it. I used to play it for the moment I got home from school to the second I went to bed. With me being an inexperienced gamer at the time, a level could take me days, or even weeks to complete.
I used to dream about many different ways in which the game could end, and what would happen to Mario. Every day would bring a new theory and every day it would get more and more off the subject that, when I did complete it, it was like nothing I could've ever thought of back then, though, in retrospect, the ending was obvious.
Even once I'd completed it all, I still went back to try and master those levels which I'd got stuck on and improve my gaming knowledge, which is something that I'd love to do now, but don't get chance to do often enough, as new games come and flood the market.
Multiplayer was at it's prime during the SNES years. Every day during the 6 weeks holidays me and my cousin used to blast each other at Bomberman until our tiny little fingers were numb. We didn't care that we'd played the same game for 4 years in a row. It didn't matter that the graphics weren't realistic. YES we tried different games, but we always went back to our homes.
If I am being totally honest I'll say, on the whole, the GC is a far better console, games wise, than the SNES was, but, with me looking through Rose Tinted Glasses, I don't get to see why. I don't get to see all of the crap games that were brought out, and disappontment.
I never got news of gaming develoments whilst I owned my SNES, as I never read magazines and the Internet wasn't used by many, and so new games weren't of my knowledge, and so I kept with my old ones, which made me play them more.
Take a look at the Bomberman paragraph. That situation would've been very different in todays world. I'd have probably traded in the game because I found the 1 player too Linear and I wanted a 'new game' which I'd get rid of in 3 weeks time, and all because of me being up to date.
I was FORCED to enjoy my old games, and that is why I love them. No peer pressure from people who think gaming is cool (as it wasn't then), no new games to tempt me away from my classics and certainly no scouring the Internet for great deals. Just Pure Gaming Bliss...
I'm feeling all nostalgic... MUM! Get the step ladders out! I want my SNES back.
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Tribbers loves his SNES, nerr nerr ner nerr nerr!
78 All out for Australia
Damn I love Super International Cricket
Damn I love Super International Cricket
The SNES was legendary, thanks for the memories *wanders off into daydream*
Good post mate :-)
Good post mate :-)
YOu have just acknowledged what I ALWAYS say.
SNES rules, and draws ellipses
SNES rules, and draws ellipses
I love my Gamecube. I absolutely adore the thing. It has games are that of class and of brilliant design, and that are unlike anything ever done before. It is a visionary masterpiece for the future of gaming.
But whatever Nintendo do with the box of fun, it could never match up to when the company were at their prime - a time when gaming was growing, running wild, letting it's imagination run free and take a game whichever which - way it wanted to. A time when violence in a game didn't make it sell in millions, and only something centimetres close to perfection could be named a 'classic'. A time when the Super Nintendo Entertainment System was king.
I vaguely remember getting my SNES, one snowy Christmas morning, unwrapping the green and red wrapping paper to unveil a bland box which contained the small package that my heart had been yearning for. Yes, I was a gamer before then, but not much of one - I had a NES, which had been of great use to me, and games like 'Duck Hunt' and Mario games had taught me to love wasting my spare time gaming, but, it had taken me as far as it could. Yes, it was a great console with brilliant games, but it had begun to get tedious - seldom was there a time where I didn't have to blow the cartridge and the inside of the console numerous times just to get it to work, which was a tiresome job for a hyperactive youngster like I was.
About 9 o'clock on Christmas Day I plugged in my SNES for the first time. By 5 past I was in love.
For the next 5 or 6 years the SNES took me for the gaming ride of my life - I could have called it a 'roller coaster', but that would be an insult to my memory, as never once was their a time where the SNES stop climbing and started to fall. All through it's life span it entertained me to the limit, and never once did I regret asking santa to bring me that for Christmas.
Super Mario World was probably my favourite game, and is probably now my best game ever - pushing aside even Mario 64 and Sunshine. It's not that it was the best game of the 3, but it was the memories which I have with it, and remembering thinking about it. I used to play it for the moment I got home from school to the second I went to bed. With me being an inexperienced gamer at the time, a level could take me days, or even weeks to complete.
I used to dream about many different ways in which the game could end, and what would happen to Mario. Every day would bring a new theory and every day it would get more and more off the subject that, when I did complete it, it was like nothing I could've ever thought of back then, though, in retrospect, the ending was obvious.
Even once I'd completed it all, I still went back to try and master those levels which I'd got stuck on and improve my gaming knowledge, which is something that I'd love to do now, but don't get chance to do often enough, as new games come and flood the market.
Multiplayer was at it's prime during the SNES years. Every day during the 6 weeks holidays me and my cousin used to blast each other at Bomberman until our tiny little fingers were numb. We didn't care that we'd played the same game for 4 years in a row. It didn't matter that the graphics weren't realistic. YES we tried different games, but we always went back to our homes.
If I am being totally honest I'll say, on the whole, the GC is a far better console, games wise, than the SNES was, but, with me looking through Rose Tinted Glasses, I don't get to see why. I don't get to see all of the crap games that were brought out, and disappontment.
I never got news of gaming develoments whilst I owned my SNES, as I never read magazines and the Internet wasn't used by many, and so new games weren't of my knowledge, and so I kept with my old ones, which made me play them more.
Take a look at the Bomberman paragraph. That situation would've been very different in todays world. I'd have probably traded in the game because I found the 1 player too Linear and I wanted a 'new game' which I'd get rid of in 3 weeks time, and all because of me being up to date.
I was FORCED to enjoy my old games, and that is why I love them. No peer pressure from people who think gaming is cool (as it wasn't then), no new games to tempt me away from my classics and certainly no scouring the Internet for great deals. Just Pure Gaming Bliss...
I'm feeling all nostalgic... MUM! Get the step ladders out! I want my SNES back.
But whatever Nintendo do with the box of fun, it could never match up to when the company were at their prime - a time when gaming was growing, running wild, letting it's imagination run free and take a game whichever which - way it wanted to. A time when violence in a game didn't make it sell in millions, and only something centimetres close to perfection could be named a 'classic'. A time when the Super Nintendo Entertainment System was king.
I vaguely remember getting my SNES, one snowy Christmas morning, unwrapping the green and red wrapping paper to unveil a bland box which contained the small package that my heart had been yearning for. Yes, I was a gamer before then, but not much of one - I had a NES, which had been of great use to me, and games like 'Duck Hunt' and Mario games had taught me to love wasting my spare time gaming, but, it had taken me as far as it could. Yes, it was a great console with brilliant games, but it had begun to get tedious - seldom was there a time where I didn't have to blow the cartridge and the inside of the console numerous times just to get it to work, which was a tiresome job for a hyperactive youngster like I was.
About 9 o'clock on Christmas Day I plugged in my SNES for the first time. By 5 past I was in love.
For the next 5 or 6 years the SNES took me for the gaming ride of my life - I could have called it a 'roller coaster', but that would be an insult to my memory, as never once was their a time where the SNES stop climbing and started to fall. All through it's life span it entertained me to the limit, and never once did I regret asking santa to bring me that for Christmas.
Super Mario World was probably my favourite game, and is probably now my best game ever - pushing aside even Mario 64 and Sunshine. It's not that it was the best game of the 3, but it was the memories which I have with it, and remembering thinking about it. I used to play it for the moment I got home from school to the second I went to bed. With me being an inexperienced gamer at the time, a level could take me days, or even weeks to complete.
I used to dream about many different ways in which the game could end, and what would happen to Mario. Every day would bring a new theory and every day it would get more and more off the subject that, when I did complete it, it was like nothing I could've ever thought of back then, though, in retrospect, the ending was obvious.
Even once I'd completed it all, I still went back to try and master those levels which I'd got stuck on and improve my gaming knowledge, which is something that I'd love to do now, but don't get chance to do often enough, as new games come and flood the market.
Multiplayer was at it's prime during the SNES years. Every day during the 6 weeks holidays me and my cousin used to blast each other at Bomberman until our tiny little fingers were numb. We didn't care that we'd played the same game for 4 years in a row. It didn't matter that the graphics weren't realistic. YES we tried different games, but we always went back to our homes.
If I am being totally honest I'll say, on the whole, the GC is a far better console, games wise, than the SNES was, but, with me looking through Rose Tinted Glasses, I don't get to see why. I don't get to see all of the crap games that were brought out, and disappontment.
I never got news of gaming develoments whilst I owned my SNES, as I never read magazines and the Internet wasn't used by many, and so new games weren't of my knowledge, and so I kept with my old ones, which made me play them more.
Take a look at the Bomberman paragraph. That situation would've been very different in todays world. I'd have probably traded in the game because I found the 1 player too Linear and I wanted a 'new game' which I'd get rid of in 3 weeks time, and all because of me being up to date.
I was FORCED to enjoy my old games, and that is why I love them. No peer pressure from people who think gaming is cool (as it wasn't then), no new games to tempt me away from my classics and certainly no scouring the Internet for great deals. Just Pure Gaming Bliss...
I'm feeling all nostalgic... MUM! Get the step ladders out! I want my SNES back.
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