![]() Even as a child, video games were a controversial entertainment choice – I'm thankful my parents never once saw them that way.ĭavid Hinkle DaveHinkle): Like James, I was lucky enough to get a NES on Christmas. Suffice it to say, I spent a lot of time with Super Mario Bros. When I first fired it up and showed her with no shortage of maniacal glee that I could scale a building, smash a window, retrieve someone from the shower and put them into my giant and totally realistic lizard mouth, she nearly fainted. Yes, the super violent and totally realistic Rampage accompanied me to my aging, and let's say upper crust grandmother's house (for example: we called her grandmother). And so, when we got to DC and rented a car, we made a stop at Toys R Us (or was it Lionel Kiddie City?) first and I walked out with a new NES, replete with light gun and combo Super Mario, Duck Hunt cartridge. I think, in the short train ride, my father realized that occupying my time was going to be a serious challenge. I was accompanying my father to Washington DC on the train from New Jersey to stay with my grandmother for a while, following my grandfather's death. Definitely one of the more memorable Christmases in my 31 years on the planet.Ĭhristopher Grant ChrisGrant): What's more interesting than the story of my first NES is the story of my second NES. Then my grandma sweetened the deal by giving me Double Dragon and Clash at Demonhead. For real.Ĭhris Buffa ChrisBuffa): My parents were never fond of video games, so I had to go through my grandpa to finally score an NES. Also, those crazy floating masks gave me nightmares. I've always been a sucker for precision platforming, and the twist that SMB2 gave to that with character selection blew my mind at the time. 3, the second game in the series (at least here in the States) was probably my first major love affair with video games. And not just any women, but floating women - the Princess Peach herself. My best, most important memories with the NES were spent learning about women. ![]() To my young mind, the wiles of The Legend of Zelda and Dragon Warrior were baffling, while games like Wizards & Warriors and Rygar taunted me with their relentless antagonism. Thank goodness there were no online leaderboards back then!īen BigBossBgilbert): Like Griffin, my greatest gaming memories as a youth were spent with NES' older brother, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Trying to find the perfect sheet of white paper, combined with the right light to cheat the game. My favorite NES memory had to be figuring out how Duck Hunt works. (Granted, none of them had you riding around in a shoe!) None of the recent 2D Mario games have endued the same magical feeling as that one. It really wasn't until Mario Kart came out on SNES that I became what you'd call a gaming "addict," but I remember tons of evenings grabbing flutes and P-Wings in Mario 3. It wasn't until I saved up the money for a Super NES that I owned a Nintendo console.Īlso, I apologize to Danny, Peter, Aaron, Justin, Josh, Other Josh, Amani, David, Other Aaron, Johnny, Sean, Adam and anyone else I was friends with so I could get in some NES time.Īndrew Yoon scxzor): My very first system was a NES, the one that included Duck Hunt and Super Marioīros. This, along with the fact that I never had a Mr. Join us after the break, and play with the power of memory.Īlexander Sliwinski XanderSliwinski): I never had an NES during my childhood. Kids, and the cashier at Merv's Burger Joint (smiles are free!). It's as good a date as any for the Joystiq staff to reminisce about the system that introduced us all to Link, Samus, Simon Belmont and Mega Man, not to mention Lolo, Kid Niki, 3D WorldRunner, Bayou Billy, Black Mage, Master Higgins, the M.C. Most of us didn't actually see the thing until 1986, with the system merely an exciting rumor before that. Or, at least, the 25th anniversary of the system's launch in Nintendo's test market of New York City. Today marks the 25th anniversary of the North American launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System.
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