Gamer Thread

[remy_lebeau8]

Old enough to talk back. If they can do that you can tell them about how you remembered when games were in 2D Mario only had two girlfriends (as opposed to the four he's got now, he loans Daisy to Luigi cus his brother can't get laid, and Rosalina pretends she's not down) But that's old enough.



Yeah I remember renting NES and SNES and Gensis games and being pissed because with only the weekend to finish the game I couldn't be starting over every week, especially in Final Fantasy games! So I'm stuck fucking around with stuff I've already done trying to get back where I was. Only since I know the way and I'm in a rush I'm now lower level with fewer items (because I didn't get lost and level grind by accident nor did I open every treasure chest because I knew which way to go) and that boss is harder than last time!

Forget my life!

I occasonially rented for the snes but at the same time I had a sega and sega channel so I really didn't need to rent

 

[CandiCame]

Depends..can you rock a fez and hugh hefner robes? Also watch a video on pipe packing and lighting. Its way different from weed and will piss you off...and get real pipe tobacco. Captian black is a good one. In my area a lot of cig tobacco is labeled as pipe to get around taxes. The cuts and moisture are different

I can rock /anything/, but I'm more going for:

http://www.creativepro.com/files/story_images/20090724SAWG_fg10.jpg

There's cocaine in my sody pop!

 

[Sean Renaud]

Yeah, I didn't have a good library until I became an adult and two things happened at once. My Dad started going to garage sales and bringing back boxes that moms were effectively throwing out (Hense I have three Nintendos, four Mario 3s, 2 Ninja Gaidens, 2 Mega Man 4s and god only knows how Many Mario and Duck Hunts!) and I could spend my own money and started buying several games a year.

Until then rental every weekend. So I had to hope that what I wanted was even IN and then if it was a game with a save file I had to hope that the right cartridge was available.

 

[CandiCame]

Yeah, I didn't have a good library until I became an adult and two things happened at once. My Dad started going to garage sales and bringing back boxes that moms were effectively throwing out (Hense I have three Nintendos, four Mario 3s, 2 Ninja Gaidens, 2 Mega Man 4s and god only knows how Many Mario and Duck Hunts!) and I could spend my own money and started buying several games a year.

Until then rental every weekend. So I had to hope that what I wanted was even IN and then if it was a game with a save file I had to hope that the right cartridge was available.

I would steal it. I know enough about myself to know that I can not be trusted with that type of system. Especially tiny Candi. Nobody tried to impart any sense of morals on me for the vast majority of my childhood, so I know for a fact I would have stolen games. I'm pretty sure my mom stole movies from those people...

 

[Sean Renaud]

Believe you me I considered it a couple of times.

 

[CandiCame]

I think I've just had a psychological breakthrough. I think that my mother's neglectful parenting is the reason I can't watch Lets Plays or other people play games.

Oh, also, I haven't had a single customer all day so I have been burning up Rune Factory. I've gone through tree temples and gotten the entire town up to at least 3 friendship with me. I just can't decide who to court... I'm leaning toward the elf chick because she has a southern accent, and is an elf, and I can have me some redneck half-elf babies. Also I bought a kitchen and have not been able to cook jack shit.

Edit: It is so dead in here my boss and the secretary went to that Asian Nail Salon next door for $40 manicures. No, don't invite me, it's fine. I'll watch the shop. Alone.

 

[CandiCame]

So I was looking up those instructions, Remy, and I found this and it's awesome.

http://www.creativepro.com/files/story_images/20090724SAWG_fg02.jpg

 

[remy_lebeau8]

I can rock /anything/, but I'm more going for:

http://www.creativepro.com/files/story_images/20090724SAWG_fg10.jpg

There's cocaine in my sody pop!

so you want enzite?

 

[Sean Renaud]

That's it. Everybody dies.

 

[remy_lebeau8]

So I was looking up those instructions, Remy, and I found this and it's awesome.

http://www.creativepro.com/files/story_images/20090724SAWG_fg02.jpg

Never seen that kind. I've got a fondness for flake. It looks like jerkey

 

[Leeloo777]

I am eagerly awaiting Fallout 4.

 

[remy_lebeau8]

That's it. Everybody dies.

....?

Hey sean do you remember having to know dos to play computer games? How about commander keen?

 

[Sean Renaud]

I remember it in theory not in practice. Like my friends had one but nothing back then really caught my eye enough to bother. I'd play tag outside before learning that stuff.

 

[remy_lebeau8]

I remember it in theory not in practice. Like my friends had one but nothing back then really caught my eye enough to bother. I'd play tag outside before learning that stuff.

That's how you had to play wolfenstein 3d and I think doom. My cousin got sick of me asking how to do it so he ended up taping the code to the moniter. This was probably 94 or 95. So ya I was like 6 and rockin cos

 

[CandiCame]

My mom had some weird system when I was really little that I only remember because she got it the same day I got great mouse detective and we only had one TV and it pissed me off that she was hogging it. You had to actually program in the games- I saw the instruction book for it the other day, it was brown and... to tell you the truth the book looked 70sish. Maybe it wasn't new and she was just hooking it up to the TV or something? I don't remember any of the games, just that it existed.

The earliest computer games I remember were those weird point & click adventures like Myst. Unless you count the stuff from computer class at school where it's be like Oregon Trail or those weird "type faster or the kitty dies" games.

 

[AllyRose]

Chip's Challenge.

Jezzball.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Type faster or the kitty dies! I love it. I do remember there being a Mario Typing game and I was pretty shit at it. I didn't learn to type until two things happened, one I got a computer at home and the internet and this was back when we still had chatty rooms so I had to learn to read and keep up and in some cases look up stuff all without letting the screen scroll farther than I could keep up. REal sink or swim bullshit. The other was that my hands got big enough to properly type. I see my nephew trying to type and it's adorable but I can't watch because fucking up that bad hurts me to watch (I also can't watch my dad type, I'm the guy who pushes you out of the way and tells you to use your phone for research but I'll handle the heavy typing because I can type everything you want done and do what I want faster than you can do your thing. And it gives me a sad to watch you suck this hard.) but it's not really his fault with the tiny hands.


Now I occasionally play those typing games cus it makes me feel all manly, especially the ones that are like tanks coming about you and everytime you type it out they go boom!

I think someone should put out a Street Fighter game like that where typing sentences gives you hyper combos n shit. It would be very pretty!

 

[RjThoughts]

I am old. I was 13 when my dad brought home a simple Magnavox Odyssey 400, where we played tennis and squash for hours.

That was my first exposure to home video games. Until then, it was at the few arcades that had video games, though I was more into pinball then

 

[CandiCame]

Type faster or the kitty dies! I love it. I do remember there being a Mario Typing game and I was pretty shit at it. I didn't learn to type until two things happened, one I got a computer at home and the internet and this was back when we still had chatty rooms so I had to learn to read and keep up and in some cases look up stuff all without letting the screen scroll farther than I could keep up. REal sink or swim bullshit. The other was that my hands got big enough to properly type. I see my nephew trying to type and it's adorable but I can't watch because fucking up that bad hurts me to watch (I also can't watch my dad type, I'm the guy who pushes you out of the way and tells you to use your phone for research but I'll handle the heavy typing because I can type everything you want done and do what I want faster than you can do your thing. And it gives me a sad to watch you suck this hard.) but it's not really his fault with the tiny hands.


Now I occasionally play those typing games cus it makes me feel all manly, especially the ones that are like tanks coming about you and everytime you type it out they go boom!

I think someone should put out a Street Fighter game like that where typing sentences gives you hyper combos n shit. It would be very pretty!

Omg if that's not a thing it should be. The one that we played it would show you a sentence at the bottom, and you had to type it. There was this cat in a room, and if you typed too slowly, an amount of water came into the room, and if you typed waaay too slowly, the kitty drowned.

That's really disturbing, now that I think on it as an adult.

I think there was one with zombies too, somehow.

 

[Sean Renaud]

There is a relatively cute one where you are a soldier surrounded by tanks, soldiers and mechs and you have to type out what's written beneath each of them to kill them.

 

[CandiCame]

There is a relatively cute one where you are a soldier surrounded by tanks, soldiers and mechs and you have to type out what's written beneath each of them to kill them.

I wonder what it says about me that I'm more ok with killing multiple humans than one cat.

 

[Sean Renaud]

I wonder what it says that I want an angry tent drawn and your boss is getting her nails done and your talking to me and I want to put you in a room and type really really slow.

 

[CandiCame]

I wonder what it says that I want an angry tent drawn and your boss is getting her nails done and your talking to me and I want to put you in a room and type really really slow.

I think that is the best threat I've ever gotten in my entire life.

 

[remy_lebeau8]

I think I need beer to make that threat make sense

 

[Sean Renaud]

What you need is context.