REAL roots

[aaron7]

Not like all those kids wearing NES shirts who aren't old enough to remember it!

This is a pic of me, Xmas day 1986!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v245/aaron7/roots.jpg

[rbudrick]

Shit, dude...in that pic you look like me when I was little. Weird....even the couch looks like the one we have now, that I got from my grandmother sometime in the late 80s.

-Rob

[aaron7]

haha that couch was old then LOL

Least I turned out OK, I mean, not like I have any money sucking obsessions with Nintendo or anything :D

[NE146]

Funny how all you guys were kids in the NES days... I think when NES came out I was about as old as most of you are now :P Which is why I kinda feel like the NES -> xbox360 is pretty much the same timeframe in my eyes.. since I've essentially been the same person through it all :P

Now hand me my cane!

[boatofcar]

Funny how all you guys were kids in the NES days... I think when NES came out I was about as old as most of you are now :P Which is why I kinda feel like the NES -> xbox360 is pretty much the same timeframe in my eyes.. since I've essentially been the same person through it all :P

Now hand me my cane!

Exactly. It's all relative. Most of the people that complain about kids wearing NES shirts are the same people in their 20's wearing Atari 2600 belt buckles, relatively speaking.

[roushimsx]

http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/6664/roushimsxpacmanjammies0sm.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

I miss those jammies, and I miss that damned chair. Hell, I miss that blankey.

The crown, on the other hand...I'm pretty sure we still have that around somewhere.

[cyberfluxor]

I'm one of those guys in his early 20's wearing a 1up or roots shirt. Although I like Atari (Grew up with the 2800 at my grandparents), I ended up with a SMS through my young years so I missed out on the Nintendo days at home, but got my fill at friends houses, who didn't own a Sega! Muhaha, but anyways. I don't really care if they're wearing old school gaming clothes under 1 condition:
They aren't just wearing it to be posers because it's sold at "Hot Topic" (Which I do call the poser store anyways).

[aaron7]

They aren't just wearing it to be posers because it's sold at "Hot Topic" (Which I do call the poser store anyways).

But I'm sure that 90% of them are like "Oh, Nintendo, that's cool right?"

[Captain Wrong]

http://www.41south-aquaculture.com/images/fresh%20roots.JPG
http://www.teachwithmovies.org/guides/roots-vol-i-DVDcover.jpg
http://web.stlawu.edu/news/theroots.jpg

Don't make me have to break out the picture of me playing some Odyssey 1 as a young sprout. Roots. Heh.

[Kroogah]

http://www.thebutterscotchthreshold.com/jimmy-smith-root-down.JPG

[Daria]

Exactly. It's all relative. Most of the people that complain about kids wearing NES shirts are the same people in their 20's wearing Atari 2600 belt buckles, relatively speaking.

:hmm:

I'd never be caught dead wearing an Atari belt buckle, or a novelty buckle of any sort but I'm 22 and remember playing Atari as a toddler. I don't see how my nostalgia really differs from say my brother's who's nearing his 30's.

[Push Upstairs]

I'd have to post a pic of an Apple IIc if i was going to show "mah roots"....as that is technically the first "game system" i ever played.

The NES was *MY* first game system so i suppose i'd have a right to wear a "roots" shirt, but i don't. I think those shirts are a bit much


I just have a sticker.

[retroman]

Forget Nintendo and forget Atari....for me it was the Intellivision.. Thats what i grew up on before i got my NES..and i would say cool to anyone wearing a INTV shirt or hat.. That u dont see to much

[Tan]

Forget Nintendo and forget Atari....for me it was the Intellivision.. Thats what i grew up on before i got my NES..and i would say cool to anyone wearing a INTV shirt or hat.. That u dont see to much

i agree

[AB Positive]

My first system played was the INTV, my older neighbor had one, and me and this kid jimmy would go over there after school to essentially be baby-sat. We'd both play Las Vegas Blackjack or... oh man, the game where you have to run across the bridge to the inside of the castle, jumping over flames sort of like Mario.

My first system owned was a 2600, two years after the fact, with around 16 games. Had this little cart-briefcase and I brought it around when my mom went to her home building jobs.

Been playing games since I was three, that's... er, 20 years ago. Life long gamer, but not a gamer from the start. Just wasn't born early enough.

-AB+

[Bloodreign]

My first system I ever owned was an Atari 2600, I never got a chance to play a real Colecovision back in the day. My uncle owned an Oddysee 2 up until a few years ago, then his house burned down taking the system wiith it. :(

And he'd never let me play it.

[GrandAmChandler]

omg. THAT IS MY COUCH! I kid you not, it's in my garage as we speak!!

[Captain Wrong]

Seriously, this whole "know your roots" with a picture of the NES thing is silly. Sorry kids, my roots go a little deeper than that.

[evil_genius]

I gotta pic of me playing Mega Man 2 somewhere...Ghostbusters pajamas and everything.

FYI: I still where pajamas when I game.

[Jackattack]

I wasn't quite as young when the NES first game out. I started playing it at around the same age... 5 years old or so, but I was born practicly at the same time as the NES game out. I just played it much later than you.

[rbudrick]

I was born in '78, so my first memories of videogames were around '82 or so. The first videogame I ever remember seeing is Pitfall! on the night we got the VCS. It seems like I got the NES ten years after that, but honestly, I was only 8 or 9 then. Time moves a LOT slower when you are younger.

-Rob

[Nukie]

Being born is 84, my first memories came aroun 88 or 89 with the original nintendo. My parents had an atari, but I never got into that much. I still have that original nintendo from 88, even though it no longer works. :(

[zerohero]

I think I'll post my pic like that. I have a pic of me with the NES, and SNES in my young days.

[boatofcar]

Exactly. It's all relative. Most of the people that complain about kids wearing NES shirts are the same people in their 20's wearing Atari 2600 belt buckles, relatively speaking.

:hmm:

I'd never be caught dead wearing an Atari belt buckle, or a novelty buckle of any sort but I'm 22 and remember playing Atari as a toddler. I don't see how my nostalgia really differs from say my brother's who's nearing his 30's.

Relatively speaking. It helps to read the whole sentence before you lash out. :roll:

[mr_nihilism]

When I was that age it was a Atari 2600 joystick in my hands. Despite that, it's the NES era that I look back fondly on.

[Sanriostar]

I've threatend to do this once or twice, so here's a Q&D 'clean' version...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v88/Sanriostar/bboxalt.jpg

[Daria]

Relatively speaking. It helps to read the whole sentence before you lash out. :roll:

Who's lashing?

[Nesmaster]

88er here, first memories being of the NES. Started out with Golf and SMB/DH, and slowly got newer games over the course of a few years, up until 93/94. Megaman 6 was probably the last game I bought for NES while it was still "alive"

My Mom rented me NES games ALL the time though, like 3 every 3 days (no kidding!) so I always had something to do. Then the year when Mario Paint/Allstars/World came packed in with a SNES, that was the year I moved on, though I did pick up a few more NES games after the fact, although my NES sat in a tupperware container in storage for many years.

SO I enjoyed the SNES as well, the last game probably being DKC3, bought in the SNES' lifetime. I got an N64 xmas 96, shortly before I turned 9. It was around 2000 or so when I started to wonder about my NES again, after finding Megaman 2 at a flea market. It was that day I vowed to hunt down and play the rest of the NES megamans, most of which I rented many years ago. Upon that quest, I ran into several games I remember renting oh so long ago too, so I picked those up. It was at that point when I started to research and come up with as many titles as possible, that I remembered renting. It just snowballed from there, and 5 years later I pretty much acquired every NES game I wanted to go after, except for Bomberman II. I'll eventually finish getting all the NES games, but for now it's 1-2 games away from being "complete".

That said, right now I'm really burned out on classic gaming, unless I pick up something I want to play again (finding Bomberman 64 for example), I'm sorta focusing on current stuff, and saving up for a 360 as we speak :)

[Retsudo]

[quote="NE146"]Funny how all you guys were kids in the NES days... I think when NES came out I was about as old as most of you are now :P quote]

Yep same here. When the Nes came out I was in the military. :(

[boatofcar]

My Mom rented me NES games ALL the time though, like 3 every 3 days (no kidding!) so I always had something to do. Then the year when Mario Paint/Allstars/World came packed in with a SNES

Woah! Mario Paint, Allstars, and SMW all came packaged with the SNES at some point?

[Nesmaster]

My Mom rented me NES games ALL the time though, like 3 every 3 days (no kidding!) so I always had something to do. Then the year when Mario Paint/Allstars/World came packed in with a SNES

Woah! Mario Paint, Allstars, and SMW all came packaged with the SNES at some point?

That was a long time ago, but I'd never forget playing Mario Paint for the first time. I thought it was the greatest thing ever, using the mouse and all :D

If I recall, the box was huge as well! @_@

[NiktheGreek]

My first gaming experience was on my dad's Atari 2600 when I was about three years old. Then my parents divorced shortly after I turned four, and the Atari went with him. The first system that was really mine...

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/denise.thorpe1/nikbirthday.jpg