how i got my cube [Archive] - Retrogaming Roundtable

hbkprm

06-20-2007, 03:38 PM

round the xmas of 03, i wanted a gamecube but didn't get it untill a relitive passed away round the following easterthat when i got the cube.

skaar

06-20-2007, 03:42 PM

Perhaps a little more detail? As is it's not exactly a story that makes sense?

digitalpress

06-25-2007, 10:10 PM

Loozah.

Muscelli

07-01-2007, 12:07 AM

please publish this Digitpress..

bangtango

07-01-2007, 12:14 AM

please publish this Digitpress..

round the 31 of july 07 is the deadline for this contest. we'll knowthen if this made it.

Bassgrabber

07-01-2007, 06:43 PM

Must be taking lessons from RugalSizzler... or whatever that clown's name is.

zektor

07-02-2007, 01:39 AM

Is it possible to rate negatively?

bangtango

07-02-2007, 09:22 PM

Maybe we could make it better by adding to it. Each of us do a sentence or two.

round the xmas of 03, i wanted a gamecube but didn't get it untill a relitive passed away round the following easterthat when i got the cube.

minute i got the cube i plugged it in to the wall than turned it on but ti didnt turn on then i found out i plugged in my n 64 in stead :?

XYXZYZ

07-03-2007, 10:41 AM

Maybe we could make it better by adding to it. Each of us do a sentence or two.

minute i got the cube i plugged it in to the wall than turned it on but ti didnt turn on then i found out i plugged in my n 64 in stead :?

so i plugged in my gamecube for real this time and i forgot that they dint give me a game so i went to gamestop. i wanted zelda but they dint have it

The Shawn

07-04-2007, 02:05 PM

Sew i had ta go to eb were hte manimals roam.

Apollo

07-04-2007, 03:17 PM

Sew i had ta go to eb were hte manimals roam.

So I walked into EB and found a game and I bought it.

Lemmy Kilmister

07-04-2007, 04:52 PM

Buying a GameCube around Easter had to be amazing. Sensational story, hbkprm.

The Shawn

07-04-2007, 06:16 PM

So I walked into EB and found a game and I bought it.

So much for a joke.......

Apollo

07-04-2007, 06:55 PM

Joke? What is Joke?

Were you seriously expecting it to go on forever? Come on, now...

bangtango

07-04-2007, 06:59 PM

Buying a GameCube around Easter had to be amazing. Sensational story, hbkprm.

Get it right. It was "round" Easter, not around ;)

8-bitNesMan

07-05-2007, 12:15 AM

Where is that Dr. Dan Boleo when he's really needed 'round here?

skaar

07-05-2007, 03:35 PM

Apparently that relative died of SIDS. Which I don't understand, as they must have been an infant with a gamecube.

(I got a PM from the poster when I "made fun")

Phosphor Dot Fossils

07-06-2007, 01:13 AM

http://www.thelogbook.com/wishlist/hbkprm.gif

Gapporin

07-06-2007, 01:14 AM

http://www.thelogbook.com/wishlist/hbkprm.gif

ROFLROFLROFLROFL

You are da man, PDF.

Phosphor Dot Fossils

07-07-2007, 10:45 PM

It's even better if you imagine Don LaFontaine saying all that.

Dan Boleo

07-07-2007, 11:23 PM

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bangtango

07-07-2007, 11:39 PM

I'd like to see this thread moved over to Modern Gaming for it to receive maximum exposure.

8-bitNesMan

07-08-2007, 12:49 AM

round the xmas of 03, i wanted a gamecube but didn't get it untill a relitive passed away round the following easterthat when i got the cube.

Could this be the next calm the beef min? Round the summer of 07, a legend was born... :)

CreamSoda

07-09-2007, 12:12 AM

10/10 What Suspense!!!

Nesboy43

07-09-2007, 02:03 AM

Stop giving it good votes as a joke, no offense hbkprm, this story didnt take much effort.

Pantechnicon

07-12-2007, 01:26 PM

Stop giving it good votes as a joke, no offense hbkprm, this story didnt take much effort.

It could use a little more detail, but I think he did his best, though.

bangtango

07-12-2007, 01:40 PM

Stop giving it good votes as a joke, no offense hbkprm, this story didnt take much effort.

It is a dark horse candidate for post and thread of the year. Thus I will vote on it as such.

round four days ago i placed my vote than rated this thread 5.

PSerge

07-12-2007, 07:31 PM

Well, if this thread wasn't good for anything else, it was good for a needed laugh..

Great post..

DigitalSpace

07-12-2007, 09:18 PM

EDIT: Nevermind.

Pantechnicon

07-12-2007, 09:53 PM

bangtango

07-12-2007, 10:11 PM

Come on now, everybody. Responses in the Lore forum are supposed to provide constructive criticism. Granted, hbkprm's entry doesn't give one a lot to work with in a constructive manner but I think the point is made that it's too short. Let's give the wisecracks a rest, yes?

@hbkprm: You could provide a little more detail about the Cube, such as why you had to wait and how you felt when you finally got it after the extra wait time. Try to build it up some more.

The only real criticism I have is that this needs to be about a classic system to make it into the book. I wrote mine on the Dreamcast but that was only because this forum was put up here, I never intended for my Lore story (now on Page 3) to make the book. I just figured putting mine here while this subforum was up would be a better alternative than having it get buried after 24 hours in Classic Gaming. It was a story I always wanted to share.

If he were adding to it, a good place to start would be X-Mas of 2003. Did he ask someone to get it for him? When he didn't get it, how did he feel? What gifts did he get instead? Then he could fill in the blanks from there.

Sothy

07-30-2007, 07:12 PM

I say this should make the damn cover.

bangtango

07-30-2007, 09:34 PM

I say this should make the damn cover.

Better yet, it should become a full blown book with a bunch of different stories about how other people got their cube.

I'm not making fun, though, hbkprm's a good cat. I just liked the first post.

ProgrammingAce

07-30-2007, 09:44 PM

"Digital Press Collector's Guide: round the xmas of 03, i wanted a gamecube but didn't get it untill a relitive passed away round the following easterthat when i got the cube"

That might be too long to fit on the cover. We'll have to abreviate.

DP CG: RTXO0IWAGBDGIUARPARTFEWIGTC.

8-bitNesMan

07-30-2007, 11:54 PM

Better yet, it should become a full blown book with a bunch of different stories about how other people got their cube.

I'm not making fun, though, hbkprm's a good cat. I just liked the first post.

QFT! Thank you HBK for being a good sport about it AND making me laugh! Keep them short posts comin!

LimpBizkit

08-18-2007, 05:09 PM

its not gamecube but i had a relative, too, and i got my Super Nintendo 64 when he went to jail last year. he's still in there so it looks like i'm playing Super Nintendo 64 for awhile. until he gets out or excapes.

RPG_Fanatic

08-18-2007, 06:16 PM

8-bitNesMan

08-18-2007, 10:21 PM

round the summer of 06, i wanted a Super Nintendo 64 but didn't get it untill a relitive went to jailthat when i got the Super Nintendo 64.

Fixed it for ya ;)

PentiumMMX

08-19-2007, 11:07 AM

What makes the Nintendo 64 so super? :?
Diddy Kong Racing. 'Nuff said.

Anyway, I'll share my Gamecube story as well (I know is had no chance to get in the guide, but I want to share why I hate the Gamecube).

Around the summer of 2001, I was reading about Gamecube at Nintendo's website, thinking it'll be the best thing since sliced butter. Then November came, and no matter how much I complained about how lame the N64 was compared to Gamecube (I was a blind fanboy, and the N64 was automatically lame because it was now old), my parents refused to buy me one. They where considering a PS2 more because it's backward compatible with PSX (Good...but I have an N64, not a PSX), but because of how much my sister & I argued over which is better, so they desided they won't get either one.

I didn't get one for Christmas or even a GBA (At least I got Super Smash Bros. for my N64). I asked every year (Even the year they had the $80 system bundle that had the Zelda compliation).

In 2005, I desided to save up my money and get a Gamecube, and by December, I had won a Gamecube on eBay for only $60. Although I only had Luigi's Mansion, I eventually added on Super Smash Bros. Melee. But things took a turn for the worse...

In January 2006, I bought Super Mario Sunshine, and everything changed. The game was so shitty...so stupid, I was back to the N64 in no time. I held out and tried Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, but it was worse (Piss-poor camera compared to Dreamcast version). I just couldn't find anything I liked for Gamecube other then SSBM and Zelda, because most everything else was better on other systems (Phantasy Star Online, Sonic Adventure, Lego Star Wars, Soul Calibur II, Resedent Evil 4, etc.).

Later that year, I sold the Gamecube to my sister along with all the games & controllers for the same price I paid: $60. The money went towards more PS2 & Dreamcast stuff.

However, I bought a Wii in April 2007, and took back my Wavebird and SSBM, and started to build up the very few GCN games I like (Mainly the Zelda games and PSO). I still stand by the fact the Gamecube had very few games worth playing (N64, Sega CD, Odyssey2, 3D0, and CD-i all had more then GCN)

RPG_Fanatic

08-19-2007, 11:49 AM

Diddy Kong Racing. 'Nuff said.

Apparently you didn't see I was trying to be a smart ass as he said "Super Nintendo 64" look below and see what he wrote.

Originally Posted by LimpBizkit
its not gamecube but i had a relative, too, and i got my Super Nintendo 64 when he went to jail last year. he's still in there so it looks like i'm playing Super Nintendo 64 for awhile. until he gets out or excapes.

PentiumMMX

08-19-2007, 02:58 PM

Apparently you didn't see I was trying to be a smart ass as he said "Super Nintendo 64" look below and see what he wrote.

Originally Posted by LimpBizkit
its not gamecube but i had a relative, too, and i got my Super Nintendo 64 when he went to jail last year. he's still in there so it looks like i'm playing Super Nintendo 64 for awhile. until he gets out or excapes.

Oops...I tend to do that...

Bluteg

09-25-2007, 12:56 AM

i bought my gamecube in o3 it was raining eating burger king and ridin in a ford turck it was neat i plugged it in and plays for hours

bangtango

09-26-2007, 09:44 PM

my first date.

my first date the fall of 98, my palms were sweaty and i had bo then i puked. but i had a game boy there in the car and i played it while i waited for her parents to pick her up she didnt want to be on a date no more.

PentiumMMX

09-26-2007, 11:34 PM

An adapted version of How PentiumMMX got his Nintendo 64, based on "how i got my cube":

round the summer of 97, i wanted a nintendo 64 but didn't get it untill some junk sold on ebay round the following xmasthat when i got the n64

Bluteg

09-28-2007, 12:47 AM

Syrup!

grolt

09-28-2007, 12:23 PM

This story would have been a lot better if he killed a relative for his Gamecube, only to have s/he rise again on Easter Sunday, draped in parchment, to reclaim the lost system. You'd have to find a way to write that without punctuation or grammatical syntax, but I think it could be done.

Nate Nanjo

09-28-2007, 09:22 PM

PentiumMMX

09-28-2007, 10:15 PM

There is always room for a sequel.

Yeah...How does this sound?

how i got my cube part duex: attack o teh clonez
(Coming Summer 2008...)

bangtango

09-29-2007, 07:50 AM

Yeah...How does this sound?

how i got my cube part duex: attack o teh clonez
(Coming Summer 2008...)

Like Star Wars Episodes 1, 2 and 3, the sequel to this story would fail to measure up to the original. Here is the scripted sequel.

cube died so i got a nother 1.

Barbarianoutkast85

09-29-2007, 09:05 PM

How I got my Gamecube:
I wanted one for Christmas a few years ago but didnt get it. Then I spent my Christmas money to buy one the next week.

Good story Aye?

8-bitNesMan

01-06-2021, 04:57 PM

I logged back on to DP because I missed this post. I wonder whatever happened to that Gamecube from the Christmas of '03?

gbpxl

01-06-2021, 07:40 PM

It became a miserable little pile of secrets

8-bitNesMan

01-07-2021, 12:47 PM

Yah! You betcha! :)

YoshiM

01-08-2021, 02:30 PM

Ranks up there with a letter to IGN64 mentioning Goldeneye 007 as "eye tat is golden".

Dat cube prolly got traded on sexxbox siries exx, or went to a rilitive

Gameguy

01-10-2021, 03:11 AM

I assumed this was related to Time Cube.

https://timecube.2enp.com/

gbpxl

01-10-2021, 06:07 AM

I assumed this was related to Time Cube.

https://timecube.2enp.com/
I skimmed most of that but I noticed the author invoked the name of God quite a few times there. Any time you involve religion with empirical evidence, you lose all credibility.

Earth doesn't have 4 days. A day is defined as the amount of time it takes for a planet to make a complete revolution. Anyone who says otherwise is wrong and should be barred from teaching or working at a university in any capacity that requires research.

Gameguy

01-14-2021, 01:51 AM

I skimmed most of that but I noticed the author invoked the name of God quite a few times there. Any time you involve religion with empirical evidence, you lose all credibility.

Earth doesn't have 4 days. A day is defined as the amount of time it takes for a planet to make a complete revolution. Anyone who says otherwise is wrong and should be barred from teaching or working at a university in any capacity that requires research.
Just because the author was literally diagnosed with schizophrenia doesn't mean his ideas are crazy, no matter how much evidence suggests so.

He gave a lecture about the Time Cube theory at Georgia Tech in 2005.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMZdNyRIATo

And a lecture at MIT in 2002 which I can't currently find.

If he was really crazy and his theory was "stupid" like countless people are saying, could he really have been invited to have multiple lectures at such prestigious US schools?