TL;DR update:
unnamednewbie13 wrote:
blabbidy-blah intellivision, blabbidy-blah nes, etc
AVGN DoubleVision Pt 1r = fondly-remembered and/or frequent rentals
Nostalgic Gameplay Vids (for me)IntellivisionBeauty and the Beastmy favorite game for the console, and no...it really has nothing to do with the Disney movieBurger Timeanother good title. too bad i can't find the title of the 'death star trench' gameAction MaxCommercialbest possible graphics for a 100% repetitive shooter on rails, and I still played Mario 3 moreNES:Beetlejuice r
DuckTales (AVGN review) r (alternate cartoon
theme is a must-see)
Fester's Quest r (oh god...)
The Legend of Zelda r
I played this game mostly at a friend's house, and it figured largely into suger-induced all-night gamingLittle Nemo r
Skate or Die 2Super Mario BrosSuper Mario Bros 2 r
Super Mario Bros 3 (also:
this)
TMNT2: The Arcade GameTotally RadSNES:Battletoads r
Donkey Kong Country r
F-Zero r
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the PastThe Lion King r
The stampede map was tough for me then; easy now Mario PaintPilotwings r
StarFox r
Super Mario World (also:
this)
and this + the other threeSega Genesis:OMFG it's BLAST PROCESSINGAladdin r
Jurassic Park r (also:
this)
the new JP game better let you play as a raptor...Sonic the HedgehogStreets of Rage 2Game Boy Classic:Super Mario Land (also:
this)
Tetris (hell yeah)
These aren't all the console games I've played. Now that my collection's been reestablished as close to financially-feasible perfection as I'm willing to invest, I have some of the titles and systems I'd always been pining for, and some I hadn't even known about. But why would I have to reacquire them? I think I've already told this story once or twice on BF2S, but here goes...
Towards the end of my childhood console days, I was hit up with a parental ultimatum: if I was going to get a PC, I'd have to sell my consoles. So I did, and for a bloody pittance that even then I thought was a rip-off. I still had the boxes, manuals, papers and everything in near-mint condition, but parental consensus was that so many were manufactured that they'd never be valuable. I don't think I even got $100 for all the consoles and games I sold (making up very little for the cost of a Compact Presario), so one of my hobbies now is to occasionally e-mail a screenshot of an SNES or something going for an obscene collector's price. The "if only we knew" reaction is just like the stories I was told about now-insanely expensive comic books being sold out from under the boomer generation. If I have kids, I'm never going to devalue their trinkets.
I think the idea was a well-meant attempt to get me to stop playing tons of video games. Unfortunately for them, PC gaming was about to boom big time with the advent of mid-90's 3D gaming which, while nostalgic and played while I was still going to school, don't really fit in with my true childhood nostalgia. It's always been a point of regret, but I don't grump over it that easily anymore. After all, I was a kid and I had BOTH the Sega and the SNES, and instantly trumped any playground arguments over which was better by saying that both are awesome.
