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One of the very first games I played was Doctor mario for the SNES. I didn't like it, and the Snes didn't last long; it broke down pretty quickly. On the other hand, I have a great deal of nostalgia for the games of the past. I remember Sonic the Hedgehog, the original gameplay of which was very nice.

But the game, and series, that had the most influence on myself and my siblings was The Legend of Zelda. I hear that Ocarina of Time still tops the charts as the greatest game of all time. Well, I can't vouch for that, but it was an exceedingly good game.

I remember the original Transformer's series, which, not that I think about it, really wasn't all that good. Ah, well. Trips down memory lane. What do you remember from your childhood?

I vividly remember getting my first Nintendo. My parents bought it from some friends of theirs after they bought their kids a SNES. They brought it home late on Sunday (but it was the effing Sabbath so we couldn't play it that night) in a brown grocery bag. Little did I know that it had like 25 games along with it. That Monday, my little brother and I sprinted, literally dead sprinted, from the bus stop after school to play. I got there first, so I was Mario, and he got Luigi (or as I call him and every less talented younger sibling, Ashley. Examples, Ashley Simpson, of course; Ashley Buffer for Bruce Buffer, the UFC ring announcer, younger brother to the awesome Michael Buffer; Ashley Bush, for Jeb Bush in Florida; and finally Ashley Manning for Eli). We played until bed time.

Anyway, within a week, I could pass the original Mario Brothers in about 10 minutes after I found the vines. I then moved on to Super Tecmo Bowl. My older brother was a Tetris master. He could get like 300 lines. I played Dr. Mario, Contra (up up down down left right left right b a), Mario 3, Zelda and Baseball Stars.

/nostalgia

Hismikeness

Nintendo = awesomeness.  I may have been born the year after the Nintendo came out ... but I still have one.  Along with Mario and Duck Hunt, Mario 2, Mario 3, Zelda (my favorite) Bayou Billy, Metroid, Ninja Turtles, Battle Toads, Tetris (I sucked), Aladdin (I ruled), Tiny Toons (Loved it), Final Fantasy (FTW) and a few more I can't remember anymore.

I had a Sega Genesis also which my favorite game was the Sonic and Knuckles game when you attached the Sonic 3 game ^_^.   And I think I had the Lion King game (Though that may have been for NIntendo).

Ahh those games are great.  You are making me want to download an emulator and play those games again >.<

I didn't own a games console until I was grown up. My first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 when I was 8. It had 1K of RAM. Shows how old I am. I couldn't afford to buy any games for it. So I learned how to program it myself and started making my own games. I remember writing a game to teach my younger brother multiplication. And I wrote a game with a kangaroo that hopped around the screen and some space invaders clones. That's how I became a video game programmer. Yay!

If you have kids, I strongly encourage you to buy them a computer and teach them how to program it. An 8 year old really can learn that and they'll be sorted for life =). When you learn to program that young, it becomes almost like a reflex in later life.

A picture is worth a 100 Kb:

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Quote from: "Renegnicat"One of the very first games I played was Doctor mario for the SNES. I didn't like it, and the Snes didn't last long; it broke down pretty quickly. On the other hand, I have a great deal of nostalgia for the games of the past. I remember Sonic the Hedgehog, the original gameplay of which was very nice.

But the game, and series, that had the most influence on myself and my siblings was The Legend of Zelda. I hear that Ocarina of Time still tops the charts as the greatest game of all time. Well, I can't vouch for that, but it was an exceedingly good game.

I remember the original Transformer's series, which, not that I think about it, really wasn't all that good. Ah, well. Trips down memory lane. What do you remember from your childhood?

We had all the Zelda games, and my kids still think Ocarina of Time is the King of Games.

Memory Lane for some of us goes back so far that it's a dirt road.  :D

Also, great childhood memories from playing in the woods near my house, watching Gilligan's Island on TV, and playing "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" on the playground in 4th grade. Ahhhh, the good old days.

Speed Racer. 'nuff said. Although it was a huge bummer to learn that the Mammoth Car in the Speed Racer episode entitled, "The Mammoth Car", was red. Yep. Red. My friend Robert Constantini broke the news to me. I always thought it was gray. Yeah, we had a black and white TV until I was 15 years old! LOL!

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The Vectrex was the coolest system I owned - wish I still had one:
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I also helped build an Imsai 8080 in high school:
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Plus I had an original pong machine too.

Yeah, I'm an old geek!
JoeActor

:drool

kidding. But, I'm glad I was born when I was.

Quote from: "Renegnicat":eek:
lot's of old people here.
 ;)

Hee hee!

Who are you men?  And where's my soup?

There are advantages to each age, lemme tell ya...

The Vectrex was a unique machine.  True vector graphics (ie. lines, no pixels).  Like a little arcade for your house.
It also had some attachments that were ahead of it's time, like a light pen, and full color 3-d goggles (those were a trip!).

Still, the new stuff's way cool.  Currently playing the Metroid trilogy.

I've got Ocarina of Time somewhere - maybe I should actually play it?
JoeActor

Here is the first computer I learned to use:
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Dad got taken on that machine... No hard drive... dual floppy (program disk in top, save disk on bottom), console.  Wow... when I moved out on my own, I took that with me.  We did play games, but they were all text.

I've always wondered, what could machines like the IMSAI 8080 actually do? There doesn't seem to be any input or output...what were they used for?

Quote from: "Renegnicat"I've always wondered, what could machines like the IMSAI 8080 actually do? There doesn't seem to be any input or output...what were they used for?

It ran CP/M as it's OS, and had Fortran and Basic as languages.
There was a terminal (monitor and keyboard) you hooked up to it, and it had optional tape and floppy drives.

Ahhhh!  CP/M!

Y'know, I've often wanted to create my own operating system. It would be comprised of a complete microkernel, with memory management, drivers, graphics, filesystem, networking, and everything but process management run through user-space. My goal would not be to innovate or create something bizzarely new or fantastic. I would want it to be maximally stable and virtually bullet-proof when it came to security. Thus speed would take a backseat to stability, security, and ease of programming.

I would call it "Menschendros", the leek powered operating system.  

Quote from: "Renegnicat"Y'know, I've often wanted to create my own operating system. It would be comprised of a complete microkernel, with memory management, drivers, graphics, filesystem, networking, and everything but process management run through user-space. My goal would not be to innovate or create something bizzarely new or fantastic. I would want it to be maximally stable and virtually bullet-proof when it came to security. Thus speed would take a backseat to stability, security, and ease of programming.

I would call it "Menschendros", the leek powered operating system.  

Good luck, I hope you will be able to read Hex ^_^.  I looked at making my own OS a long time ago, but I would sooner have my nuts ran over by a car then attempt to make a OS.

True, but I love all that low level stuff.  :drool

Quote from: "Renegnicat"True, but I love all that low level stuff.  :drool

eww your an assembly person.  Hex, binary, and assembly give me a headache after I stare at it long enough.  

Oh and I imagine my nuts being ran over a lot like that Robot Chicken episode where the guy takes insane bets for money.  He gets his nuts ran over for like 2 million dollars and gets new ones put in for 2 million plus tax.  He jumps into a pot hole and sets his nuts on the road while his buddy drives his truck over it.

Sounds like his buddy wasn't too bright. He could've bet against the nut crushing and cleaned up.  

its official nostalgia has been replaced by nut crushing.  w00t!