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The worst thing that can happen to you in a video game
WindDrake:
--- Quote from: mgb on June 07, 2013, 11:18:32 am ---Allowing your young kid to play Beat 'em & Eat 'em on the Atari, thinking its a Pac Man clone
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Augh. I remember finding that one, too. Nice!
Xiaou2:
In the Sega Gen. days when I was a kid, you couldnt easily rent or return a game. So, a bad game, was an expensive curse.
You felt compelled to TRY to play it, as much as you hat it... just to try to justify its lofty expense.
Sadly, I had amassed quite a number of garbage carts, and wasted time suffering with them.
One of the worst, was air diver. Followed by Technocop. Probably selectively forgetting a few others. Out of like 52 games... I think I only really enjoyed and replayed like 7 of them.
One 'so-so' stinker game was the Megadrive version of Alex Kidd. I played it all the way to the last stage, pretty much bored & disinterested..
and all the sudden, my Genesis overheated, and locked up! So many hours of work, down the drain. >.<
Most of my worst moments came from the Sega Master System games. They were brutally unforgiving. One split second off, and you couldnt make the needed long jump in Shinobi.
Winner of Worst Moment?
On Maze Hunter 3D, there was a Winter / Ice Level. You had to run 2 steps forwards, then immediately go diagonal 1 block, then immediately jump over a 2 block distance chasm. You often couldnt time the diagonal right... or didnt time the jump right after it. You coldnt walk, cause you needed the running speed. You couldnt stop or reverse, because it was ICE.. and you drifted right off the edge.
This was like the 2nd to last level, very deep in this very slow moving game ... so losing all your men on this part... was CRUSHING !!! I finally went out and bought an Epyx handheld controller for the C64, that worked with the master system. It had a joystick with real microcwitches in it.. and was far more accurate than the SMS Pad. My success rate went from like 20% to 87%.
2nd Worst?
Maybe the day I played so much Master System (Astro Warror), that my thumbs were on fire from the lightest touch. Took like a week to fully recover. heh
Gray_Area:
Hey, I'm still waiting on this one! ??
--- Quote from: Dawgz Rule on May 31, 2013, 04:42:24 pm ---looking up and realizing it's dark and the wife has gone to bed.
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--- Quote from: Cynicaster on June 04, 2013, 12:46:22 pm ---Being on a roll in Donkey Kong, and making a dipchit mistake, like missing a jump on the elevator stage. :banghead:
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Hah hah, yeah. Or just jumping early before a lone barrel - nay, right before the ladder to Pauline! - and getting it. ---fudgesicle---.
--- Quote from: mgb on June 07, 2013, 08:47:48 am ---When I go to Fun Spot and I get there right at opening.
I play Gyruss and get high score.
I think I played a pretty good game and then people show up. There goes my high score.
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As I like the game and I'm pretty good at it, I like stuff like that. I like to see how people play it.
--- Quote from: Malenko on June 07, 2013, 09:04:55 am ---My girl sat down on the controller unpausing it...
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--- Quote from: Vigo on June 07, 2013, 09:51:18 am ---My kid managed to find the controller I hid from him...
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....un-plug it and put it in a high place. Why am I the voice of reason, here??
--- Quote from: mgb on June 07, 2013, 11:18:32 am ---Allowing your young kid to play Beat 'em & Eat 'em on the Atari, thinking its a Pac Man clone
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Jeez, really? I don't know the game, but I wouldn't at all think Pac.......
Dawgz Rule:
--- Quote ---Hey, I'm still waiting on this one! ??
Quote from: Dawgz Rule on May 31, 2013, 04:42:24 pm
looking up and realizing it's dark and the wife has gone to bed.
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For me it typically is a time when my wife wants to do something and I give her the "I'll be up in a minute" only to find that the minute turned into hours.
lilshawn:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on June 07, 2013, 08:48:10 pm ---
Maybe the day I played so much Master System (Astro Warror), that my thumbs were on fire from the lightest touch. Took like a week to fully recover. heh
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My SNES D-pads where shiny after I bought Street Fighter II. Wore that + shape right into my thumb. So...much...HADOKEN!