Get me my cane...

[Drtooth]

It's interesting. While I can access virtually any old video game for any system or arcade ever made within seconds, there's something fun about the "click" of popping in an actual cartridge into a SNES or Genesis and playing it on a tv. Playing emulated games just lacks something, even with the right controllers. I remember having an atari that was given to me, but really was not too thrilled with the primitive graphics...especially since I was used to arcades. Plus the controller was so primitive as well. I loved the NES when I finally got one, but SNES is probably my all time favorite. Strangely, or not so strangely, I seem to always have gotten systems a few years after they come out(part of the fun of being raised poor) Tho if I had been some rich kid with everything handed to em, I probably wouldnt have had as much of an appreciation. Im glad theyve put Genesis, SNES, etc compilations on modern systems.

I love cartridges. Unfortunately, that's why the N64 didn't last too long (at least according to that book I read, Game Over), because everyone was transitioning towards cheaper to produce disks. Too bad the Dreamcast didn't do too well, but I never really liked 3-D games. They're great for fighting, but I never quite cared for Super Mario 64 like I did the original ones. I wanted a Gamecube or PS2 specifically for the Ultimate Muscle games they released on them. That was a great summer, having them on demodisks to play in stores... the Gamecube demo was even UNTRANSLATED! Too bad those games were impossible to find, but you could find Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen games EVERYWHERE! I have that terrible M.U.S.C.L.E. game on the NES, and that was the first classic M.u.s.c.l.e.. collectible I had collecting them in my adult life. I wish I got into them when I was younger.

But there's so much magic in those old Disney Afternoon Capcom titles. They were far superior to most video game adaptions of cartoon shows. Other than Goof Troop being a little Link to the Past-like (without a sword), I really enjoyed playing them all. Darkwing Duck especially. I like games that you can buy and by the end of the week you can master. I always replay the easy games first.

 

[bazooka_beak]

I wish I could say I saw at least one of the Star Wars movies in the theater... unfortunately I wasn't born until '81, and the only way I saw them was through my dad's VHS collection.

As For Pacman, I can still remember playing the game with friends while waiting to be seated at the Pizza Hut in Midlothian, Virginia. I also remember seeing Ms. Pacman at some arcades, but the memory is fuzzy

 

[robodog]

I was in my late teens before I saw my first Star Wars movie. I grew up around the period the first movies were coming out but as a kid I just had no interest in it. I did watch the Ewoks cartoon but that was about the extent of my childhood Star Wars experience.

I was all over the classic video games at the time. I got one of those Coleco Frogger mini arcade cabinet things for Christmas one year and spent a lot of time playing that. The following year I got an Atari 2600 and quickly got hooked. When our school took it's yearly trip to Rollerworld, the local skating rink I spent more time in the arcade than I did doing any skating. I had Pac Man toys and T-Shirts, a Frogger T-Shirt and a Q-Bert plush I got in my stocking one Christmas.

I'm one of the rare few that actually enjoyed Atari ET. It helped that I was hugely into all things ET at the time. I also liked the Atari Pac Man well enough but I may have been too young to see the flaws in both cases. I also liked Haunted House ( the original survival horror game ) and Kangaroo.

Later came the NES and I was even more addicted to that than I was Atari. I was a huge Zelda and Mario fan. I was also big into Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest, the TMNT games, River City Ransom, Double Dragon and Rampage.

 

[Katzi428]

Today I was looking at some clips on You Tube & one was of the show "Happy Days" . Fonzie was in it. .So one of the comments was "Who's the guy in the leather jacket?" (it was Fozie, naturally) Everyone PLEASE tell me you've heard of "Happy Days" & Fonzie before I cry!!

 

[Puckrox]

Today I was looking at some clips on You Tube & one was of the show "Happy Days" . Fonzie was in it. .So one of the comments was "Who's the guy in the leather jacket?" (it was Fozie, naturally) Everyone PLEASE tell me you've heard of "Happy Days" & Fonzie before I cry!!

I wasn't born until six years after Happy Days had ended, and I most certainly know who the Fonz is! I used to watch Happy Days with my mom growing up. I grew up watching a lot of older shows (and movies too), now that I think back on it. The other day I made a reference to I Love Lucy and my friends didn't get, so when I explained it to them I got a "sorry I wasn't born in the 1950s" response. It pains me that a lot of people my age don't realize what quality movies/television shows were made decades before we were born.

 

[Sgt Floyd]

Today I was looking at some clips on You Tube & one was of the show "Happy Days" . Fonzie was in it. .So one of the comments was "Who's the guy in the leather jacket?" (it was Fozie, naturally) Everyone PLEASE tell me you've heard of "Happy Days" & Fonzie before I cry!!

I've honestly never watched the show and know who he is

 

[CensoredAlso]

Today I was looking at some clips on You Tube & one was of the show "Happy Days" . Fonzie was in it. .So one of the comments was "Who's the guy in the leather jacket?" (it was Fozie, naturally) Everyone PLEASE tell me you've heard of "Happy Days" & Fonzie before I cry!!

I used to watch reruns all the time and I loved Fonzie, lol.

 

[CensoredAlso]

The other day I made a reference to I Love Lucy and my friends didn't get, so when I explained it to them I got a "sorry I wasn't born in the 1950s" response.

Tell them it's not an excuse. They weren't around when their parents were born either, yet they still know who they are.

 

[Luke kun]

"Some game, huh?"
"SOME GAME!!!!"

The people in Wolf of Wall Street were doing Atari Star Wars.