sonikokaruto
06-26-2008, 05:26 PM
So, this is like around 93 or 94, not sure wich year. Probably even 95, but that kinda doesn't matter.
So there i was, a little kid, who loved his nes to the bone. We hade pretty stellar flea market at the time, and we could get nes games for about 5-10 bucks (sometimes cib) and i had already a nes. So there i was happy with the nes. Then i saw the ads for the SNES, there i was, shitting my pants for the first time in a lot of time. Sure i did knew about the Turbo Graphx, and the genny, but, the snes was where i had to be.
Like any other kid at the time, i was all jumpy for one, and i had to have one.
But my mom was kinda bored watching me play mario and mario and tetris and mario.
So she told me if i wanted a new system, so i told her that yeah, i wanted a SNES, because it had the new mario game and the pilotwings game and all sorts of cool stuff that was gonna come out. And she kinda consider it.
So here comes the 3rd wheel on this topic: my sister's boyfriend. He was the geek. Used Fidonet, and loved playing games on nintendo, pc, etc. And he suggested a Genesis to my mom, because it was better, didn't had the blinking points on the screen (the kinda blinking you saw on games like dragon warrior when you moved) and had better sound, arcade games, etc.
So one time they told me, hey, let's go and get your xmas gift (i was like w00t!) and i hopped on the car, waited for 2 hours on the border, and got to montgomery ward at about 9:40 pm (they were about to close) and i saw some kind playing sonic on the demo station. I was floored, something ust clicked and i stared at the guy playing.
And then i saw them coming with a shopping cart with a genesis (wich had the logo that it included sonic, i believe it was a sale at that time, i'm not really sure) so we went back home. I fell asleep on the way back. But when i woke up, we were home and i went to my room.
I was thinking at the time "now, where will they hide it, i have to play it, i just have too". But BEHOLD! i go to my room, and there is the genesis box. On my room. By itself.
Now i don't know what their plan was, but, i really i really wanted to give it a go (remember that this might have been around september). So i ask my mom if she wasn't gonna hide it, so i couldn't play it. She just tells me "no, but it's not supposed to go open until xmas!".
So there i was, in my room, with the thing that i most lusted for sitting on front of me, mocking me, just staring with sonic running off a cliff...
And i knew i wasn't supposed to, so i took a very long look at the back of the box, dreamed about the games that were there (castle of illusion, joe montana, altered beast) and i went and put it on top of a rack, from wich i could see it every day.
It probably was around october/november when i could not stand it anymore, i felt desperation (wich can only now i can compare: it was like having the girl of your dreams in your room, ready and willing, but coudn't), so one day i got home from school, and ...
THERE WAS NO ONE HOME! YEEEEES!
so i went to the top, opened the box, started hooking it all up, then got it ready. And it was time to slide the power switch. It was just me and it. Alone, no one would ever know.
But when i had my fingers on the switch ... i just kinda felt bad, and started having thoughts, like what would they think of me if i gave up and just busted it open and played it. I would have probably let my mom and pops down, cuz the thing they got me for xmas, an expensive toy, would just have been that, something else.
So i felt kinda sad with myself, and i started unpluggin' everything and storing it back in the box, and there it went, back to the top of the rack it was.
When xmas finally got here, i was all crazied up at around 11 just to bust it open and play it. It was incredible, i felt all giddy inside, AT LEAST, CURFEW WOULD BE BROKEN! AT LAST I WOULD HAVE THE OBJECT OF MY TORMENT AND DESIRE FOR A VERY LONG TIME!
But i fell asleep.
Next morning i woke up, and my brother was setting it up, because he grew tired of waiting for me and told me that he also wanted to try it out. So all exited i helped him a lil bit more, and in less than 2 minutes we were experiencing the perfection that was sonic in all it's 16 bit glory. It was the awesomest feeling ever, and sometimes when i feel kinda intro retro gaming, i look for a way to play sonic (i have the mega collection on gamecube, because even though i have the genny and games, it broke like 3 years ago) and i get that same feeling i got when i played it for the first time.
It was later after a while that i knew that my dad and brother used to hook up this thing sometimes and have a blast with it on the nights ._. but it was all ok, i didn't knew, i kept my word, and it made everything ever so better. Kinda like the feeling you get when you know you did something good with yourself for once in a while.
Sorry if it was a long post, but i kinda had to post it after seeing the lore section, and started getting all those memories from my younger years, eventhough i'm 25, i've always been a gamer. I also was a member here, but got banned, i don't even remember why really, but i went back when one of digitpress members passed away.
So there i was, a little kid, who loved his nes to the bone. We hade pretty stellar flea market at the time, and we could get nes games for about 5-10 bucks (sometimes cib) and i had already a nes. So there i was happy with the nes. Then i saw the ads for the SNES, there i was, shitting my pants for the first time in a lot of time. Sure i did knew about the Turbo Graphx, and the genny, but, the snes was where i had to be.
Like any other kid at the time, i was all jumpy for one, and i had to have one.
But my mom was kinda bored watching me play mario and mario and tetris and mario.
So she told me if i wanted a new system, so i told her that yeah, i wanted a SNES, because it had the new mario game and the pilotwings game and all sorts of cool stuff that was gonna come out. And she kinda consider it.
So here comes the 3rd wheel on this topic: my sister's boyfriend. He was the geek. Used Fidonet, and loved playing games on nintendo, pc, etc. And he suggested a Genesis to my mom, because it was better, didn't had the blinking points on the screen (the kinda blinking you saw on games like dragon warrior when you moved) and had better sound, arcade games, etc.
So one time they told me, hey, let's go and get your xmas gift (i was like w00t!) and i hopped on the car, waited for 2 hours on the border, and got to montgomery ward at about 9:40 pm (they were about to close) and i saw some kind playing sonic on the demo station. I was floored, something ust clicked and i stared at the guy playing.
And then i saw them coming with a shopping cart with a genesis (wich had the logo that it included sonic, i believe it was a sale at that time, i'm not really sure) so we went back home. I fell asleep on the way back. But when i woke up, we were home and i went to my room.
I was thinking at the time "now, where will they hide it, i have to play it, i just have too". But BEHOLD! i go to my room, and there is the genesis box. On my room. By itself.
Now i don't know what their plan was, but, i really i really wanted to give it a go (remember that this might have been around september). So i ask my mom if she wasn't gonna hide it, so i couldn't play it. She just tells me "no, but it's not supposed to go open until xmas!".
So there i was, in my room, with the thing that i most lusted for sitting on front of me, mocking me, just staring with sonic running off a cliff...
And i knew i wasn't supposed to, so i took a very long look at the back of the box, dreamed about the games that were there (castle of illusion, joe montana, altered beast) and i went and put it on top of a rack, from wich i could see it every day.
It probably was around october/november when i could not stand it anymore, i felt desperation (wich can only now i can compare: it was like having the girl of your dreams in your room, ready and willing, but coudn't), so one day i got home from school, and ...
THERE WAS NO ONE HOME! YEEEEES!
so i went to the top, opened the box, started hooking it all up, then got it ready. And it was time to slide the power switch. It was just me and it. Alone, no one would ever know.
But when i had my fingers on the switch ... i just kinda felt bad, and started having thoughts, like what would they think of me if i gave up and just busted it open and played it. I would have probably let my mom and pops down, cuz the thing they got me for xmas, an expensive toy, would just have been that, something else.
So i felt kinda sad with myself, and i started unpluggin' everything and storing it back in the box, and there it went, back to the top of the rack it was.
When xmas finally got here, i was all crazied up at around 11 just to bust it open and play it. It was incredible, i felt all giddy inside, AT LEAST, CURFEW WOULD BE BROKEN! AT LAST I WOULD HAVE THE OBJECT OF MY TORMENT AND DESIRE FOR A VERY LONG TIME!
But i fell asleep.
Next morning i woke up, and my brother was setting it up, because he grew tired of waiting for me and told me that he also wanted to try it out. So all exited i helped him a lil bit more, and in less than 2 minutes we were experiencing the perfection that was sonic in all it's 16 bit glory. It was the awesomest feeling ever, and sometimes when i feel kinda intro retro gaming, i look for a way to play sonic (i have the mega collection on gamecube, because even though i have the genny and games, it broke like 3 years ago) and i get that same feeling i got when i played it for the first time.
It was later after a while that i knew that my dad and brother used to hook up this thing sometimes and have a blast with it on the nights ._. but it was all ok, i didn't knew, i kept my word, and it made everything ever so better. Kinda like the feeling you get when you know you did something good with yourself for once in a while.
Sorry if it was a long post, but i kinda had to post it after seeing the lore section, and started getting all those memories from my younger years, eventhough i'm 25, i've always been a gamer. I also was a member here, but got banned, i don't even remember why really, but i went back when one of digitpress members passed away.