Video game confessions...

[lordnacho]

I didn't beat SMB until Nestopia.  Felt good to get that off my chest

I did beat SMB2 and took a pic of the ending(it was all a dream) and sent it to Nintendo Power.

[SNAAKE]

pretty sure I never actually finished resident evil 3 on normal settings. I don't normal is actually "NORMAL" because you do run out of ammo quick and nemesis chases you around all over the place. its been forever, maybe its easier than it looked at the time. might give it another go lol..

[ChadTower]

I have never beaten a Metroid game.

[leapinlew]

Donkey Kong 3 is my favorite of all the Donkey Kong games.

And I mean ALL of them...

    Donkey Kong (1981)
    Donkey Kong Jr. (1982)
    Donkey Kong: Jungle Fever (2005)
    Donkey Kong: Banana Kingdom (2006)
    Donkey Kong Jr. Math (1983)
    Donkey Kong Jr. + Jr. Math Lesson (1983)
    Donkey Kong Country (1994)
    Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (1995)
    Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (1996)
    GB Donkey Kong (1994)
    Donkey Kong Land (1995)
    Donkey Kong Land 2 (1996)
    Donkey Kong Land III (1997)
    Diddy Kong Racing (1997)
    Donkey Kong 64 (1999)
    Donkey Kong Country (2000)
    Donkey Kong GB: Dinky Kong & Dixie Kong (2000)
    Mario vs. Donkey Kong (2004)
    Classic NES Series: Donkey Kong (2004)
    Donkey Kong Country 2 (2004)
    DK: King of Swing (2005)
    Donkey Kong Country 3 (2005)
    Donkey Konga (2003)
    Donkey Konga 2 (2004)
    Donkey Kong Jungle Beat (2004)
    Donkey Konga 3: Tabe-houdai! Haru Mogitate 50 Kyoku (2005)
    Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis (2006)
    Diddy Kong Racing DS (2007)
    DK: Jungle Climber (2007)
    Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-land Mayhem! (2010)
    Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (2007)
    Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (2007)
    Donkey Kong Barrel Blast (2007)
    Donkey Kong Country Returns (2010)
    Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again! (2009)

[Malenko]

Donkey Kong 3 is my favorite of all the Donkey Kong games.

I can believe that Chaddles isnt skilled enough to beat Metroid, but no one likes Donkey Kong:Bug Sprayer Edition.

[yotsuya]

Donkey Kong 3 is my favorite of all the Donkey Kong games.

I can believe that Chaddles isnt skilled enough to beat Metroid, but no one likes Donkey Kong:Bug Sprayer Edition.

I like Donkey Kong 3.

[Hoopz]

I have over 840 hours played in Black Ops 2 Multiplayer.  Not that I need to justify anything in this crowd, but I primarily play once the kids go to bed and the wife is at work.

And I would hit the reset button as a kid when I was about to lose a game.  A lot.  And I don't regret it.  At all.   

[deadmoney5]

I used to call the 1-900 Nintendo hotline to get help with games.

Me and my roommate in college used to get into HUGE verbal wars when playing SEGA Madden and NHL games.  "Yeah..nice ---smurfing--- goal..why don't you get a girlfriend loser..".  Nothing like coming home from the bars and playing the old EA "line" golf games totally wasted.

Madden is too complicated for me now. 

I actually went on the internet a few years ago to memorize Pac Man patterns.

[lordnacho]

I play Clash of Clans.  Mainly on the can

[yotsuya]

And I would hit the reset button as a kid when I was about to lose a game.  A lot.  And I don't regret it.  At all.   

My brother did that ---smurfette--- move on me once when I was about to sweep him on NHL'94. He had an undefeated season going, then we played head-to-head in the Finals. Right before I was about to win Game 4, in frustration he hit reset to preserve his perfect season. We listened to "The Crow" Soundtrack as we played. Good times. 

[jdbailey1206]

Hi my name is Jared and I still play PaRappa the Rapper til this day.

[HaRuMaN]

My brothers and I would get into fights over SFII on the SNES. 

[BadMouth]

Hi my name is Jared and I still play PaRappa the Rapper til this day.

Nothing to be ashamed of.
I haven't played it since it came out, but watch videos of it occasionally and reminisce.

[wp34]

My brothers and I would get into fights over SFII on the SNES.

I prefer SFII on the SNES over any arcade variation of Street Fighter.  As a matter of fact SFII on the SNES is probably the only fighter game I like.

[yotsuya]

My brothers and I would get into fights over SFII on the SNES.

I prefer SFII on the SNES over any arcade variation of Street Fighter.  As a matter of fact SFII on the SNES is probably the only fighter game I like.

We're like soulmates, bro. #nohomo

[wp34]

My brothers and I would get into fights over SFII on the SNES.

I prefer SFII on the SNES over any arcade variation of Street Fighter.  As a matter of fact SFII on the SNES is probably the only fighter game I like.

We're like soulmates, bro. #nohomo

 

[edekoning]

I actually preferred the MegaDrive version, but that probably had a lot to do with the 6-button controller.

[wp34]

I need to try Donkey Kong 3 again.  I played it for the first time on a dedicated cabinet on vacation in 2013 and was not overly impressed.

Diddy Kong racing was awesome.  So was the battle mode in Donkey Kong 64.

Donkey Kong 3 is my favorite of all the Donkey Kong games.

And I mean ALL of them...

    Donkey Kong (1981)
    Donkey Kong Jr. (1982)
    Donkey Kong: Jungle Fever (2005)
    Donkey Kong: Banana Kingdom (2006)
    Donkey Kong Jr. Math (1983)
    Donkey Kong Jr. + Jr. Math Lesson (1983)
    Donkey Kong Country (1994)
    Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (1995)
    Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (1996)
    GB Donkey Kong (1994)
    Donkey Kong Land (1995)
    Donkey Kong Land 2 (1996)
    Donkey Kong Land III (1997)
    Diddy Kong Racing (1997)
    Donkey Kong 64 (1999)
    Donkey Kong Country (2000)
    Donkey Kong GB: Dinky Kong & Dixie Kong (2000)
    Mario vs. Donkey Kong (2004)
    Classic NES Series: Donkey Kong (2004)
    Donkey Kong Country 2 (2004)
    DK: King of Swing (2005)
    Donkey Kong Country 3 (2005)
    Donkey Konga (2003)
    Donkey Konga 2 (2004)
    Donkey Kong Jungle Beat (2004)
    Donkey Konga 3: Tabe-houdai! Haru Mogitate 50 Kyoku (2005)
    Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis (2006)
    Diddy Kong Racing DS (2007)
    DK: Jungle Climber (2007)
    Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-land Mayhem! (2010)
    Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (2007)
    Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (2007)
    Donkey Kong Barrel Blast (2007)
    Donkey Kong Country Returns (2010)
    Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again! (2009)

[Hoopz]

I've never heard or played a lot of the games you guys talk about.   

[ChadTower]

I used to play with a kid who would get pissed when losing and throw the controller.  Somehow it would nearly always hit the NES and reset the thing just before the game would save our results.  "oops, sorry, didn't mean that" every time.

Yeah, I stopped playing with him, because as said above that's a total ---smurfette--- move.  Especially on NES games that clear their save memory easily.  Nothing quite like losing a whole season of Baseball Stars because the kid who lost a single game reset the system as it was trying to save.

[Le Chuck]

I got into a fist fight in college over Tony Hawk pro skater because I sandbagged the first half the round and then took the jerk to school in the second.  I may have gone to far when I threw down the controller and announced, "Now you're my ---smurfette--- bro!" 

Can't believe he came up swinging

[edekoning]

When I was young I used to keep a notebook, where I would keep track of every console game I had played: progress, level codes, etc. I also wrote a strategy guide for how to beat Street Fighter 2 Championship edition on the highest difficulty for every character against every other character.

[yotsuya]

I found a sweet spot in Bases Loaded on the NES where the computer could NOT hit the ball. I would throw perfect games every time. Of course, it made the game boring after a while, but hey - perfect game!

[Slippyblade]

I used to play with a kid who would get pissed when losing and throw the controller.

ROFL!  Controller throwers always piss me off.  One of my best friends back in high school did that.  Even after high school.  For Christmas one year I got him one of those Nerf Playstation controllers so that when he threw it, it just bounced.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/201171158245?lpid=82

[pbj]

I found a sweet spot in Bases Loaded on the NES where the computer could NOT hit the ball. I would throw perfect games every time. Of course, it made the game boring after a while, but hey - perfect game!

Reminds me of when my brother figured out how to get a touchdown on every play in Joe Montana Football on Genesis.  He would post scores like 230 - 7.

 

[lordnacho]

I found a sweet spot in Bases Loaded on the NES where the computer could NOT hit the ball. I would throw perfect games every time. Of course, it made the game boring after a while, but hey - perfect game!

Reminds me of when my brother figured out how to get a touchdown on every play in Joe Montana Football on Genesis.  He would post scores like 230 - 7.

 

Yep.  Pitch to running back.  Run to left side. 

[pbj]

I actually recall that working, but I believe his strategy was to take the Los Angeles team and throw a hail mary.  Touchdown every single play.

[wp34]

I found a sweet spot in Bases Loaded on the NES where the computer could NOT hit the ball. I would throw perfect games every time. Of course, it made the game boring after a while, but hey - perfect game!

I don't recall that trick but baseball games have been all down hill since Bases Loaded II for the NES. 

[Malenko]

I found a sweet spot in Bases Loaded on the NES where the computer could NOT hit the ball. I would throw perfect games every time. Of course, it made the game boring after a while, but hey - perfect game!

I don't recall that trick but baseball games have been all down hill since Bases Loaded II for the NES.

triple play for the genesis wasnt bad.  Well until you figured out that every time you hit a home run you had to watch the guy run around the bases.

[yotsuya]

I found a sweet spot in Bases Loaded on the NES where the computer could NOT hit the ball. I would throw perfect games every time. Of course, it made the game boring after a while, but hey - perfect game!

I don't recall that trick but baseball games have been all down hill since Bases Loaded II for the NES.

Tap the controller to the right twice to move the pitcher over a little on the mound. Throw the ball directly in the area under the batter's armpit. Change your pitcher after the 5th inning to get a fresh one in there, and they never make contact with the ball.

[Vigo]

I got my wife to swear off of playing video games with me in one swoop. She spent weeks playing Sims 2, making happy cute families and one day I decided to make a family of extremely ugly people using a glitch in the character creator. Wrote them a backstory as a runaway circus sideshow looking for suburban love. I had them all marry and breed like rabbits with her pretty people. The look of horror on her face when she saw her cute little people not only intermingled with InsectMan, NardFace and Roadkill, but birthing mutant offspring.....priceless.

[pbj]

My wife has taken to Tomodachi Life with an absolute vengeance.  I'm periodically expected to go in there and screw everything up just to keep it fresh.  Not my fault Shaq looks good in an elf outfit.

[lilshawn]

My wife has taken to Tomodachi Life with an absolute vengeance.  I'm periodically expected to go in there and screw everything up just to keep it fresh.  Not my fault Shaq looks good in an elf outfit.

(not safe for work BTW)



Edit: yes, he's drunk.

[wp34]

triple play for the genesis wasnt bad.  Well until you figured out that every time you hit a home run you had to watch the guy run around the bases.

When Genesis first came out I bought one with Tommy Lasorda baseball because I was desperate for a new baseball game.  I think I paid $300 for everything including a second controller.  After a weekend of buyer's remorse I returned it.   I looked at Triple Play on youtube and it looks like the games got a lot better later on.  I may have to try that on an emulator.

Tap the controller to the right twice to move the pitcher over a little on the mound. Throw the ball directly in the area under the batter's armpit. Change your pitcher after the 5th inning to get a fresh one in there, and they never make contact with the ball.

Thanks!  I wish I'd known that BITD.  I used to play Bases Loaded I and II pretty regularly with a friend of mine.

I got my wife to swear off of playing video games with me in one swoop. She spent weeks playing Sims 2, making happy cute families and one day I decided to make a family of extremely ugly people using a glitch in the character creator. Wrote them a backstory as a runaway circus sideshow looking for suburban love. I had them all marry and breed like rabbits with her pretty people. The look of horror on her face when she saw her cute little people not only intermingled with InsectMan, NardFace and Roadkill, but birthing mutant offspring.....priceless.

 That's brilliant! 

[yotsuya]

Back in '90, a friend of mine showed me a game he had gotten off a BB for his Commodore 64 (actually, a friend of his got it for him, because none of uu could afford a modem). It was a German game called "Party Girls".

After starting the game by typing Load "PartyG",8,1 you were presented with a digitized screen capture from a porno, rendered in full 320 × 200, 16 colors glory. Pressing the button on the joystick took you to a screen on a naked couple getting it on. Besides the male and female blocky characters, there was a stamina meter. To beat the level, you had to keep the stamina meter at the top of the screen while the couple engaged in action. In order to keep the meter high, you had to - yep, you guessed it, rock the joystick back and forth (in retrospect, a push-pull joystick would have been a better controller). Gently at first, then with more fury and speed the longer the game went. You knew you were doing fine because the girl would call out "Ja!" (via on-screen text) if you were at the top. If you lost steam, she would get mad and say "Schlaffi!!!" (which Wikipedia tells me is German for "wimp"). Beating the level would give you a different picture and a new girl (actually, the same girl with different colored sprites for hair).

[Louis Tully]

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[jdbailey1206]

Yot... I think you won, bro. 

I dont think this is a contest you want to win.   

[pbj]

Man, reminds me of those unlabelled floppy disks with the .gl files on them. 

[yotsuya]

Yot... I think you won, bro. 

I dont think this is a contest you want to win.   

Schlaffi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Vigo]

 Ich spiel Partei Mädchen mit ein Lappen.