Epicenter
05-11-2004, 12:19 PM
Remember those days when you and your friends were little and into games, but all the info you could ever get back then was from half-assed magazine snippets, 1-900- help lines, game manuals and horribly overpriced hint guides? Before the internet and long-distance gaming communities? How everyone thought they were privy to some awesome tidbit of info?
Here are some interesting ones from my youth, I'd love to hear yours.
- An old game I used to play a lot for my NES was 'Mach Rider'. For the unfamiliar, you're a motorcyclist fighting alien invaders, who drive giant cars. You can shoot a gun to destroy them or just outrace them. Thing is, the game never ends, it just loops like many games from that era did. I was talking someone about it, asking if they ever found an end to the game. Their response: "Yeah, after the last course you fight a giant red lobster monster."
- I recall that me and some friends were riding bikes and had just stopped in a cul-de-sac (What kind of word is that..) and were discussing games. A friend of mine casually mentioned, "My friend's Dad opens his cartridges and takes out all the wires, plugs them into his computer and plays the games on there." I was 7 or so, but my response was simply that I'd believe it when I saw it. Despite that nothing but a prototype cart has wires; the individual in question must've had a self-built ROM copier and an emulator. At the time, the 486 was pretty much the fastest machine around, I suppose there was some primitive NES emulation in 1992..
- A friend of mine who was starved for attention once tried to convince me that you could connect Sonic & Tails 2 / Sonic Triple Trouble for the Game Gear to Sonic and Knuckles for the MegaDrive/Genesis. This is the same kid whose mother wouldn't let him "talk about Sega" before school. Otherwise he'd "be distracted" and fail all his classes. On a side note, she was a bitchy, annoying Christian fundamentalist.
- "Nudalities". 'nuff said.
Here are some interesting ones from my youth, I'd love to hear yours.
- An old game I used to play a lot for my NES was 'Mach Rider'. For the unfamiliar, you're a motorcyclist fighting alien invaders, who drive giant cars. You can shoot a gun to destroy them or just outrace them. Thing is, the game never ends, it just loops like many games from that era did. I was talking someone about it, asking if they ever found an end to the game. Their response: "Yeah, after the last course you fight a giant red lobster monster."
- I recall that me and some friends were riding bikes and had just stopped in a cul-de-sac (What kind of word is that..) and were discussing games. A friend of mine casually mentioned, "My friend's Dad opens his cartridges and takes out all the wires, plugs them into his computer and plays the games on there." I was 7 or so, but my response was simply that I'd believe it when I saw it. Despite that nothing but a prototype cart has wires; the individual in question must've had a self-built ROM copier and an emulator. At the time, the 486 was pretty much the fastest machine around, I suppose there was some primitive NES emulation in 1992..
- A friend of mine who was starved for attention once tried to convince me that you could connect Sonic & Tails 2 / Sonic Triple Trouble for the Game Gear to Sonic and Knuckles for the MegaDrive/Genesis. This is the same kid whose mother wouldn't let him "talk about Sega" before school. Otherwise he'd "be distracted" and fail all his classes. On a side note, she was a bitchy, annoying Christian fundamentalist.
- "Nudalities". 'nuff said.