The Glade 4.0

Doesn't make me feel old at all to learn that the NES is 25.

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A winner is you!

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“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general”. - Mark Rippetoe

Did you play it when you were a kid? Don't talk to me about feeling old, I was in grad school when that came out, still plugging quarters into video games in the basement of the student union.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

Ah, Nintendo.

They say you remember your first true love. That may be, but I also remember my first true addiction. And Nintendo, you were it. Specifically, Super Mario Bros. I didn't have a Nintendo until 1987. So I would make friends with kids at school who owned a Nintendo, just so I could play some SMB. I was a hardcore junkie.

Then when I finally got my own? Yeah, I played a lot. So much, that at age 9 I could beat SMB without using a single cheat (turtle tipping) or warp pipe.

So many great games, so many great memories. SMB 1, 2, & 3. Pro Wrestling (nice one, Dash). The Zeldas. I actually enjoyed Zelda 2, unlike most. When I was 11, my friend and I sat down and spent several hours mapping out the final dungeon on graph paper (it was pretty massive). I had never done that before with a game, and I don't think I've ever done it since. But it was effective.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

Makes me wonder where Mom found one for Christmas in 1985, then.

It may seem odd that I remember that, but keep in mind that I was three years old and my older brother had just gotten the coolest thing I had ever seen in my entire life.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

I saw a little kid at Boo at the Zoo dressed up as Luigi. My brother and I paused to wax nostalgic about racing out of bed in the summer to fight over who would be Mario lol.

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Nothing was wrong with Zelda 2 other than it required level grinding, a concept ahead of it's time and alien to the Zelda demographic at the time.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

If you had one character who already beat the game, you could level up your other characters with it. You can replay the game as your high level self (early bosses die in two hits). And when you get the level crystal, it gives you a massive amount of experience. What you do is pause the game right as you get the experience counting up, hit buttons to take you back to the login screen (don't remember the combo, or if it was on the first or second controller) and then sign in as another player. The experience will transfer to the new character. Sometimes enough to give them 5+ levels.

Yet more concepts ahead of their time. Powerleveling, alts, and twinking.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

I have memories of grinding out levels (and especially gold) in Dragon Warrior! That was a very old game. I still remember my grinding spots quite well.

It... it has apparently trained me well.

Lol I remember walking up and down the same halls in Dragon Warrior too. If I recall the fights were all evenly spaced like every 5 squares.

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749 NES games in 15 minutes:

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You can really see the graphical difference in early vs. later releases.

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Wow! who knew you could pack so much Nostalgia into 15 minutes! I know this sounds sappy and probably a little pathetic, but it's like watching my childhood flash before my eyes. I'm half temped to go back through with a lap counter and see what percentage of those I've actually played. Probably too many, but not near as many as I expected.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

I don't know if the stillshot of Rodahn's posted Youtube vid is the same for everyone, but I can't believe that I remember the name of the game that is shown...

Dr. Chaos.

Friend of my brother's lent me the game because they weren't able to beat it and they knew that I was the one who had beaten so many Nintendo games. I did beat it for him.

Ah, so many memories.

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

RC PRO AM FTW!

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

Yup! I remember that game-- used to play the hell out of that thing when I was little.

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Ron Paul 2012

I remember being stationed in Germany in 1989 and waiting at the gates to the PX early in the morning on the days they got new games. About 100 NES owners on base, and the place would get maybe 60 cartridges a week. Given the limited supplies, we pretty much bought whatever hit the shelves as long as it wasn't something we already had. The only exception was Taboo: The Sixth Sense. I have never personally met anyone who has owned that title, or even 'played' it.

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

Screw that game. It cheated.

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The Dude abides.

I also loved me some RC PRO AM, but good lord did it cheat at the high levels. I'm pretty sure I learned how to curse because of that game.

It cheated big time. Some levels if you couldn't get bombs to blow that guy up as he came screaming past you were hosed.

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The Dude abides.