My family went to Kelowna a couple of summers ago, My mom, stepdad, all the kids from both families, a grandchild (toddler). Aside from the grandchild, I was the youngest (I was about 33 at the time). The cabin (I should call it a really swanky house) was alone in the woods somewhere, in the middle of nothing. It was cold and raining outside, and we had nothing to do.
I was snooping around in the furnace room and discovered a brand new Wayne Gretzky tabletop hockey. We (my bro and step bro) had to set it up and we were ready to play, but we needed something tall to sit it on. I found a really good dresser in one of the bedrooms that had a tv on it. I moved the tv and discovered Genesis cables hanging from the back of it. I followed the cables to a hidden Sega sitting under the dresser, very well hidden. There was one game - NHL 96. This was equal to the discovery of television. We had a great time playing, Detroit was so dominant with Konstantinov on D.
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The best memories I have of playing video games were on the N64. It was the first major purchase I had my first year out of college. My room mates and I would always sit around drinking and playing it before we headed out to the bar on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. Lots of four player Mario Kart, NFL Blitz, and Golden Eye. The funnest was Golden Eye. Four players using proximity mines. Oh the Memories.
I have a few. This is a bad one. I remember when Super Mario 3 was coming out my local video store brought in a Japanese version of the game, I was the first one to rent the game it was a cartridge for the japenese version of the Nes (Famicom I think) which is half the size of a regular nintendo game. Anyway it came with an adapter and for the life of me I couldn't get this game to work on my NES. I ended up having to bring it back and couldn't play it and it wasn't until a few weeks later they brought a full cartridge japanese version in that worked for me
The other is when the N64 was coming out I was the first or close to the first person to rent the japanese version which was out before the US version. They had it in at the Video Game Trader (I was around when it was called the Toy Trader) anyway playing Super Mario on taht system was amazing, that game blew my mind even though I couldn't read the storyline, lol.
And every system launch up to and including the xbox.
Speaking about system launches, I had a friend that was a high up government customs guy, for a corrupt central american country. I used to get packages of video games prior to their official release. He would just take them from who ever was importing them, as a 'fee'. I remember getting a Dreamcast, several of all the launch games, lots of controllers, Playstations, Gameboys, you name it. He now works for a more normalized nation, and 'fees' are not part of their benefits.
I got a PS2 on launch day. I worked at Canadian Tire and we had 100s of people who wanted a PS2 but we only got 25 for the launch. So they were taking names and putting the names into a draw. My name was not drawn but there was a lady who was so upset that she wasn't allowed to buy more than one system for her 5 kids, and was upset that she had to wait until launch day to be able to buy it. She caused a huge stink.
Anyway, we had the draw and my name was not drawn, but that aforementioned lady was drawn. She wasn't able to attend the drawing, as were a few others, so the general manager took the names of the people who couldn't make it but got their names drawn and he called them. I was somewhat disappointed that I would have to wait to play the PS2, yet prepared to accept that possibility. Later that day I got paged to come up to the office... uh oh, what did I do? The GM asks me if I think I've been good. To which I replied "as far as I know". Then he said "Come see me at the end of your shift, I'm not calling that lady, you can buy the PS2 but nobody can know that you got one since you are staff, not even other staff". So he and I timed it so that I was at the auto-center cashier when nobody else was around to see it, but the one cashier (who also conveniently got to buy one). I also bought NHL 2001 and played for hours that night. The GM was razzing me the next day about the sleep bags under my eyes.
Edit: The cool part was I had a tonne of staff purchases that I had to have written up (you get 10% discount that you write up and claim at a later date). And I had a tonne of Canadian Tire money, so for a PS2, NHL2001, and a memory card I only payed about $30 out of my wallet.
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I used to get playstation magazine for the demo discs that it included
one day I took my playstation to a friends, and we got absolutely trashed starting around 9pm, we were up until probably around 5am the next morning playing the demo for fishermans bait
watching baseball sober, is like fishing......sober
man that was fun, getting loaded and spending hours playing a fishing game demo
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I recall renting a playstation with a friend of mine along with the original Twisted Metal. We found one map that was small and just tried to blow each other up for 3 straight days. By the time it was done I'd held the controller so tightly for so long that the pinky on my left hand was mildly numb for about 4 months.
The newest Super Smash Bros for the Wii... It was I think some time near the end of March just after it came out... I was playing with a couple friends... and I sucked at the game then
I was playing my friend (he bought the game and he is totally pro) and 2 other people and it was all of them vs. me (They're on the same team, with no team damage)... Playing on stock, 5 lives each... It ended with my defeat, but I held on pretty well, considering that 2 of them had 1 life left while my friend who is pro had 2 or 3
I remember hauling my computer over to a friends house on a Saturday, we built a home network with 6 other guys. Cracked open a beer and played 6 man death matches of Duke Nukem.
Best video game experience ever, because all of us were more into setting up evil traps then just shooting each other.
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Staying up the whole night playing Rainbow 6: Rogue Spear. I was trying to make the perfect plan on the opera level and play the whole mission in observer mode. I must have used 50 go codes and over 200 arrows to come up with the perfect plan. Good times =)
In first year University, in residence, some of us decided to start ghost recon on LAN... except we'd be playing bots since no one else except the 3 of us played and... we communicated using the conference call features on the res phones... and we use elastics to hold the handset against our head... because it hurts putting the handset between your ear and shoulders for long periods of time..
#1 - I think Bard's Tale, Dragon Wars and Wasteland ruined all hopes of getting a university scholarship. I loved frying Nazi's with giant fireballs in Bard's Tale III.
#2 - In university we hooked up a LAN all around our house. Two computers on the kitchen table, one on the kitchen counter, one in each of the three bedrooms and even one in the bathroom....... and play Warcraft II from dawn to dusk and then to dawn again.
BTW - I gave away my original NES last week to a coworker. I tried testing it out since it hadn't been turned on in about a decade. I had Ultima IV and FF1. The text in FF1 was soooooooo slow. How did I ever play that thing?!? I have great memories of playing my NES.... but I'm not nostalgic enough to suffer through that. However, I had FOUR strangers walk up to me in the street offering to buy it.
In 1989, just after Blades of Steel came out for the NES I spent a whole sunday afternoon sitting in my car in downtown Red Deer listening to the Flames play the Jets while waiting for it to be returned to the rental store so I could rent it. I remember it was snowing giant flakes, and I would turn my wipers on every once in a while so I could watch for people going into the store carrying games, so I could run in after them to check what they were returning. Turned out the guy snuck in through the back entrance and returned it at some point, and when I went inside just before closing time the guy handed me the game. I was a pretty happy guy that he hadn't rented it out on me.
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#1 - I think Bard's Tale, Dragon Wars and Wasteland ruined all hopes of getting a university scholarship. I loved frying Nazi's with giant fireballs in Bard's Tale III.
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I'd forgotten about those two. Thanks for reminding me. Good times....
When I was younger, all I wanted for Christmas was an Atari. I can't remember the model number, something like 2600(?). I remember going to Consumers and finally getting one, with the two joysticks and Asteriods. It took my dad awhile how to figure out how to install it, but once he did, he wouldn't get off! It was the hit of our Christmas dinner that year though. I can't remember, perhaps 1986 or so? Such a great memory...everyone gathered around the Atari and old TV with the wooden panels on it
How about the original Sid Meier's Pirates! It was around 1987.
My friend would bring over his Apple IIE and we would hook it up to the TV. We'd play all weekend, taking turns sword fighting and controlling the ship battles. We'd also play Wings of Fury and The City for days and days.
Later, we'd get IBM compatible machines, a 286 being my first. Pirates! was still a mainstay. Might and Magic I and II ... later, the Ultima series took over. During a university reading week, my brother and I did absolutely nothing except play Ultima Online and sleep (about 4 hours a day); we even ate while we played. We were hard core addicted but luckily snapped out of it once school started again.
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I loved frying Nazi's with giant fireballs in Bard's Tale III. 
