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Here's a puzzler for ya... How did we all know, WORLDWIDE, with no help from the then-non-existent Internet, that blowing into a NES cartridge and inserting it precariously close to the rim of the console's slot would make it work?!
I also remember playing Zelda (or any other NES game) when I was 6, not knowing a word of English at the time... How did we know what to do next? Gamer's instinct, I guess...
And last, but not least, how did I find out about the obquitous Konami code?! I never bought a Nintendo magazine because there was no such thing in my country at the time (it only came to print, I think, around the time of the SNES). Word of mouth perhaps?

Boo
The spookiest time of game-reminesencing.
I still don't know what peach,Mario,toad and Luigi pick from the ground on SMBros. 2?
In our country we call it Mario Onions,but I don't know if they are turnips?

I played a strange game one time,my uncle had it,and I remembered he thought you were suppose to put your name in the password screen....we didn't have English skills in those days


Also .Ed you look like Simon Belmont.

I still remember the time when I shot the ducks using a gun came with NES.

i always loved playing those old games i remember always getting in trouble for staying up too late with my NES and my Apple IIGS back in the mid 80s

One VERY early memory was playing Sonic one at a Costco and asking my grandpa for it, he said we couldn't have it because we don't have Sega. I had a SNES. I remember not knowing there was a difference and thinking Grandpa just made something up so he didn't have to get it.

Knowing that if Donkey and Diddy Kong couldn't do something - no one could. I remember the commercial for Donkey Kong Country 2 blowing my mind. And I remember getting it for christmas - and probably remember ~ 80% of every minute I played it. I also remember the car ride to Sears knowing what we were going for - DKC3. I remember I liked to look at the illustrations in Mario instruction manuals - the cartoon version of Mario stomping Koopas is great.

I remember smelling the new games and instructions, but only reading them after I beat the game.

Pokemon blowing my mind hard the first time, so hard Grandma had to buy a Gameboy color for one game - Blue. and then a million items of merchandise like Pokemon Cereal just so I could keep the dang box.

I remember beating Pokemon Gold (actual cartrdige) in Japanese well before it came out in the US - How the "F" did a 12 year old do that?!

Having dreams: Super Mario World - Bowser flying me to his Pyramid to have the ultimate showdown because I was taking too long in Donut Plains. Mario 64 - Chasing Mario into the woods and into the metal pool, which I swear to this day made me dream in the fourth dimension.

Loving the only stage I could get to on Super Ghouls and Ghosts: The first one.

Recording all the music from sound tests onto a tape recorder so I could listen at recess.

forging pokemon cards

Playing as many half-hour matches on the original smash brothers as we could during my stay at a buddies house, the three of us spent 100% of the time battling during the sleep-over to see who was the ultimate champion of this weekend - and by how much.

Owning the Complex with Proxy Mines

Catching Tauros and completing my dex!

As my younger friends like to point out: We're old o_O hehehehehehe

Hmmm...about wasting untold numbers of quarters (25 cent pieces in USA)
at a video game arcade playing Pong, then even more quarters playing
Gorf! Ahhhh...Space Colonel!!
The Atari 2600---Missle Command, Frogger, River Raid, Star Pilot
Sheesh...anyone remember Commander Keen? I've got all 7 on my old PC!
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ps...almost forgot! Dragon Warrior and Dragon Warrior 4 on NES, along
with Mike Tyson's Punch Out.
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OK, I don't feel so old anymore hehehe... I never played Pong on an arcade I did, however, own an Atari 2600

Originally posted by Ariesptn:

I still remember the time when I shot the ducks using a gun came with NES.

It seemed like that dang dog never stopped laughing at me when I missed the duck!

(My early years were with the NES)

I remember playing Mario Bros. 3, it would always freeze so I nver got far, but I kept playing it. I also remember puss-in-boots well. Never beat that one. I hope it comes on the Virtual Console, I have quite a library and I've beat most of them.

I was a sega master system's enthousiast.
Same Era, but I guess, we weren't on the same front line

the picture in the blog that game tell me WHERE DO I FIND IT OMG I LOVED THAT GAME!!

Hello i vist just say hai.

Old memories
this post has made me nostalgic
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I once remembered the last time our TV got destroyed by just playing NES games. I was grounded by that and wasn't allowed to play NES games anymore because it destroys a TV.

Ahhhh, good ol' NES. Those were the days

How does this ol' NES play on PC? and a link down?

My parents bought a strange system,it was a combination of a nes and famicom cartrigde terminal
It was called polystation,and look just like the playstation,even the remotes,except no joysticks,but instead of a cd player,it was a nes and famicom carttridge player.

The God Old Nes Fun, I always play that games very often.

You can visit my blog to see a several old-school game reviews.

My best NES - memories are:

Leaving Castlevania paused going to school and being VERY afraid my parents would switch of the box, because the game had no saving system.

Working hard on Games like Gradius to get as close as possible to the coveted 999.999 score without rolling over to 000000...

Moving the joypad around in the air when jumping Mario over big holes...

Playing Metal Gear - and not having a clue about what to do

And:

Justin Bailey
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Teriso: Just for fun...

Remember duckhunt for nintendo?.. I never did figure out how the gun worked.

Aparently the screen would go blank everytime you pressed the trigger on the light gun (except for the target to be shot, which would turn black); the lens on the tip of the gun would then sense said black spot. If you were pointing at the target correctly, then you would hit it... if not, well, the dog laughed at you hehe
(I'm not 100% certain if this WAS the way it worked, so if anyone else has more accurate info I'd love to hear it BTW, if the info I have is true, then the urban legend that the NES Light Gun could give you cancer if you shot directly at someone with it, would seem totally dumb)

i remeber that, here in mexico , the nes arrived in 1985...

Originally posted by Spook81:

I also remember playing Zelda (or any other NES game) when I was 6, not knowing a word of English at the time... How did we know what to do next? Gamer's instinct, I guess...

Its also a zelda game and you explore. When I got Legend of Zelda OOT on the virtual console on my Wii I was playing that from little memory of it,tho it was still not easy. It was fun trying to figure things out just by exploring.