Nintendo Childhood

HxGH

Born in 1992, I grew up with Nintendo.

They were the SH*T!

I got an N64 off santa... *wink wink*
Bought my own game boy colour...

Then moved onto PS2....
Then some PC gaming...
Finally XBOX 360...

If I had to decide which is my favourite gaming console I would still choose Nintendo 64!

What a great machine!


My girlfriend was cleaning her bedroom yesterday and she found her nintendo gameboy colour games...
Her nintendo advanced games...
Her nintendo SP...

It was quite the haul!

She was like a child again!

But finally getting to my point...

How much of your childhood was taken up with nintendo?

:pac:

corcaigh07

very little actually, was more of a sega fan. im catching up with the wii and Ds and i have an N64 to be played too.

o1s1n

If you were born in 1992 and started with an n64 you missed the best days of Nintendo I'm afraid

Retr0gamer

Very little of mine was taken up by nintendo as well. Always wanted a NES but never had one. Did have a Gameboy and loved that. Always wanted a SNES as well but got a Megadrive. First Nintendo console I bought was the Gamecube and by then I wasn't exactly a child since I was 18. I did play a good few snes games on emulator in 1998 onwards when I discovered them.

o1s1n

My best mate had a NES which eventually mades it's way into my posession around 1995/1996. Cousin had a Snes which I was always around in his playing.

Originally I wanted a Snes but was bought a Megadrive. The Snes was was about 30 pounds more expensive than the Megadrive. My mother wasn't willing to make up the difference :pac:

I remember when I was in senior infants one of my mams friends gave me a Donkey Kong game and watch. Great little thing that. None of the other kids knew what the hell it was. Either did I for that matter.

Vyse

Was never a big Nintendo fan (again more into my computers and Sega) but I did have a loan of a NES in the late 80s. Didn't find it great as it was a dated machine by that stage.

My brother did get a Gameboy around the launch and I most say the Tetris bundled with it was one of the most addictive games ever! Spent a lot of time on that one.

Again had a loan of a SNES but that was purely for SFII.

Banjo

Was a C64 kid, but Nintendo (specifically Mariokart on the SNES and Goldeneye & WCW vs NWO on the N64) is the reason I did so badly in college

EGriff

Anyone remember this snes game..

Sunset Riders.
Love the lil phrases the bosses used to say, "Me ready for pow-wow!"

Xluna

My first console was a NES and a gameboy when I was eight or nine,followed by a Snes when I was eleven. So yeah,it took up a lot of my childhood. I got sick of waiting for the N64 and went for a PS and a Saturn instead. I eventually picked up the N64 when it was cheap but I was severely dissapointed so I skipped the Game Cube. I did get the game boy advance though. How could I resist a portable Snes?

Josey Wales

I didn't own a Nintendo console until the Wii but my best friend had a SNES. I had a Megadrive and we used to swap consoles regularly.

We spent many, many hours playing Super Mario All-Stars, Zelda: Link to the Past and Mario Kart. Also have very fond memories of Mortal Kombat II for the SNES. Toasty!!!!

I had a Gameboy though and I thought Marioland was great.

HxGH

o1s1n wrote: »

If you were born in 1992 and started with an n64 you missed the best days of Nintendo I'm afraid

Don't think the only retro games I've played are the ones on your arcade machine Oisin!

Also, I hope you ain't stalkin' me. :pac:

o1s1n

WTF?!

/checks profile

Ah, YOU! For a moment there I thought I was the one who was being stalked.

That explains the text I got earlier saying a load of gameboy games had been found. Including my copy of Doom 2. Sweet, have been looking for that for years.

HxGH

o1s1n wrote: »

Ah, YOU! For a moment there I thought I was the one who was being stalked.

You're on my thread? Are you not?

Pedobear

o1s1n

Pedobear is coming for you. With the wrath of Sega

HxGH

o1s1n wrote: »

Pedobear is coming for you. With the wrath of Sega

Explaining pedo bear to your mum - "Pedestrian bear, to help me walk with my broken leg!" :rolleyes:

ghostchant

I was another raised on the NES and gameboy, we got a NES when I was 5, a gameboy the year after, played the hell out of them. All my NES games were stolen in a break-in during the SNES era though, have only been able to replace a fraction of them

HxGH

ghostchant wrote: »

I was another raised on the NES and gameboy, we got a NES when I was 5, a gameboy the year after, played the hell out of them. All my NES games were stolen in a break-in during the SNES era though, have only been able to replace a fraction of them

tman

That sucks, ghostchant

I missed out on the NES, but a friend of my dad had one when I was about 6, so have very vague memories of duck hunt.
Got a gameboy a few years later (never owned Tetris though!), then a few years after that got a SNES.
Sadly I became a bit of a Sony fanboi and missed out on the N64, but owned a gamecube and Wii, and would never consider getting rid of either (well, maybe the Wii if it didn't have all of the VC releases tied to it...)

HxGH

tman wrote: »

That sucks, ghostchant

I missed out on the NES, but a friend of my dad had one when I was about 6, so have very vague memories of duck hunt.
Got a gameboy a few years later (never owned Tetris though!), then a few years after that got a SNES.
Sadly I became a bit of a Sony fanboi and missed out on the N64, but owned a gamecube and Wii, and would never consider getting rid of either (well, maybe the Wii if it didn't have all of the VC releases tied to it...)

Trying to make up for missing the N64?

I was thinking of getting a wii.. (second hand)

Currently offering €80!

What do you think? Recommend it?

James Howlett

I have always had a gameboy in some shape or form; Original, then Gameboy Colour, skipped the Advance and went for a DS Lite.

Although I had access to a NES, SNES and N64, the only Nintendo Home Console I ever bought myself was the Gamecube... which I eventually traded in for my DS Lite.

The DS lite is amazing, I absolutely love it... but trading away my Cube with Double Dash, Wind Waker (inc Donus Disc) and Mario Sunshine still haunts me as the worst decision I have ever made.

InchicoreDude

Born in 1983;

Older brother got an Atari 2600 so that was basically my first console. All the way back into the 80's. Top games were centipede, pac man & star attacks. Cant remember the other ones...

Then I got a NES in the 90's (Around the time the SNES was released). I loved the NES. I still believe the Super Mario brothers 3 is the best computer game that I have ever played! And Faxanadu was a game "ahead of its time" for the NES. Other classics were Digger T Rock & Double Dragon!

My mate had a gameboy (Not colour) and there were some deadly soccer games on there. He had a mega drive too, good for racing games.

Then I progressed to a PS but the last console I had was a PS2 (Which I never really used). I think I have finally grown out of video games or just gotten bored of them...

Of all the consoles I have used, the NES is top of the list for me. Followed by PS1...

HxGH

InchicoreDude wrote: »

Born in 1983;

Older brother got an Atari 2600 so that was basically my first console. All the way back into the 80's. Top games were centipede, pac man & star attacks. Cant remember the other ones...

Then I got a NES in the 90's (Around the time the SNES was released). I loved the NES. I still believe the Super Mario brothers 3 is the best computer game that I have ever played! And Faxanadu was a game "ahead of its time" for the NES. Other classics were Digger T Rock & Double Dragon!

My mate had a gameboy (Not colour) and there were some deadly soccer games on there. He had a mega drive too, good for racing games.

Then I progressed to a PS but the last console I had was a PS2 (Which I never really used). I think I have finally grown out of video games or just gotten bored of them...

Of all the consoles I have used, the NES is top of the list for me. Followed by PS1...

You've grown out of video games or just gotten bored of them...?

Is that possible?

HxGH

James Howlett wrote: »

The DS lite is amazing, I absolutely love it... but trading away my Cube with Double Dash, Wind Waker (inc Donus Disc) and Mario Sunshine still haunts me as the worst decision I have ever made.

Surf the web and get another

It'll be like old times

wayne g

Found my xmas present in the attic a week before xmas, with the help of my older bro, i got nes with mario and duck hunt and he got nes with giroscope robot. progressed to snes with street fighter2 turbo, what a class game by the way. got a good few games fo snes but swapped it for a megadrive for a change and always regretted it. met my girlfriend who also had a snes from yonks ago so bought loads of games for about 4 euro a pop and re lived our youths for months, and then put it back in the attic. have a 3 year old son now and brought the snes down recently to dust off the cobwebs and now my son is hooked on it, cant even get him off it long enough to get a shot. What a console and still working fine apart from having to blow into the game the odd time, but remember even having to do that when it was only out:D

HxGH

wayne g wrote: »

Found my xmas present in the attic a week before xmas, with the help of my older bro, i got nes with mario and duck hunt and he got nes with giroscope robot. progressed to snes with street fighter2 turbo, what a class game by the way. got a good few games fo snes but swapped it for a megadrive for a change and always regretted it. met my girlfriend who also had a snes from yonks ago so bought loads of games for about 4 euro a pop and re lived our youths for months, and then put it back in the attic. have a 3 year old son now and brought the snes down recently to dust off the cobwebs and now my son is hooked on it, cant even get him off it long enough to get a shot. What a console and still working fine apart from having to blow into the game the odd time, but remember even having to do that when it was only out:D

Now i want a SNES....

InchicoreDude

This feckin thread.

I'm gonna have to dig up my NES & Atari to check if they still work!

HxGH

InchicoreDude wrote: »

This feckin thread.

I'm gonna have to dig up my NES & Atari to check if they still work!

Good luck!

o1s1n

InchicoreDude wrote: »

This feckin thread.

I'm gonna have to dig up my NES & Atari to check if they still work!

If your atari doesn't work, let me know. I have five 2600s taking up too much space!

InchicoreDude

If your atari doesn't work, let me know. I have five 2600s taking up too much space!

Well I know the joystick was well & truly fecked the last time I played!

jaykhunter

Although we had a C64 and NES for a short while, our first major console was the SNES. I just loved playing it; so many awesome games. I didn't take to "3D" and platformers had run it's course, and so I didn't bother with the next generation of games (N64, PS1 etc) and didn't really play any games until Resi 4 came out in 2005. So I bought a gamecube and slowly got back into gaming. I'm loving the current gen of games and also the huge retro push as well

Never got into sega because 1) only had the console for a lend for a few weeks) and 2) i didn't like the controllers or exclusive games for it. Just thought it was fiddly. I suppose i was a graphics whore because i thought the SNES versions always looked smoother.....had to get MK1&2 for the MegaDrive though :D

InchicoreDude

2) i didn't like the controllers

They were tough to get used to when it came out alright. So big!

Josey Wales

I was l listening to a podacast the other day and they mentioned something interesting. Apparently for Goldeneye on the N64 you could dual wield the controllers. Holding the controls in the middle (remember they were kind of trident shaped) one was for movement and the other for aiming.

I never knew this. I'd love to try it out.

WeleaseWoderick

First Nintendo was the original Gameboy in summer of 92. Then got a NES for Christmas that year just as the SNES was coming out. Picked up a load of games real cheap (£10 each) in Quinnsworth!!!

Think it was Christmas 1995 when I finally got a SNES. Again, at this stage the games had dropped in price a fair bit so built up a nice collection.

Picked up an N64 a coupla weeks after the launch date in '97 and for some reason didn't get Super Mario 64 (got Shadows of the Empire instead....). The N64 got more use than any console I've ever owned, particularly Goldeneye 007 and WWF No Mercy.

Got a Gamecube on launch day with Rogue Squadron 2. Somehow managed to avoid buying a PS2 while everyone else got one. Some absolutely amazing games on the Gamecube e.g. Metroid Prime, Zelda:Wind Waker, Resident Evil 4, Mario Kart/Golf, Pikmin...

Bought the original DS a few years ago and have since traded it in for a DS Lite. Great little machine!

And finally, bought a Wii a few weeks after it came out. It got a fair amount of play for the first year or so but not so much now.

Would very much say I had a Nintendo childhood!!! (only console by another manufacturer that I've owned is a PS3)

HxGH

Josey Wales wrote: »

I was l listening to a podacast the other day and they mentioned something interesting. Apparently for Goldeneye on the N64 you could dual wield the controllers. Holding the controls in the middle (remember they were kind of trident shaped) one was for movement and the other for aiming.

I never knew this. I'd love to try it out.

I'm sure you can!

I have my N64 set up and Goldeneye is up in my shoebox of love and happiness..

I'll give it a go tomorrow!

HxGH

WeleaseWoderick wrote: »

Somehow managed to avoid buying a PS2 while everyone else got one.

I don't know why I got a PS2?

It was almost as if we were expected to?

Darksaga87

My uncle gave me his NES when i was about 8. Born in 87 and my first console was an atari 2600, sadly wont work for me anymore, my nes needs a new PSU. My sega still works.

2600
Nes
SNES
Sega
PS1,2,3
Wii
Xbox 360.

No wonder i wear glasses.

O.o

InchicoreDude

There should be a thread where we look back at our childhood games (Rather than consoles) as well...

ghostchant

There's always the Arcade & Retro forum

Atavan-Halen

Got a Gameboy Colour when I was 5/6 and I still play it de temps en temps. My first handheld ever so it was. It was the clear purple one too which was awesome because I could see all the insides of it

tman

InchicoreDude wrote: »

Then I progressed to a PS but the last console I had was a PS2 (Which I never really used). I think I have finally grown out of video games or just gotten bored of them...

Funny, the same thing started happening to me back in 2005... Just found myself drifting away from games, hardly any game could keep my attention for more than 5 minutes, decided to sell my xbox which hadn't even been turned on in 6 months (still kept my GC of course!!!)
Then I decided to buy a DS for the laugh, and once again I was well and truely hooked and haven't looked back since!

Think I've bought around 200+ games since then actually (not including downloaded titles)

bp1989

Had a NES from when I was 6 (all I owned was Super Mario Bros 3, although I recall being lent the original Simpsons arcade game for it), followed by a Megadrive (even though I asked for a SNES). Then my brother got a PS. A couple years later I got a Gamecube, the only games I ever really played on it were Mario Kart: Double Dash!! and Super Mario Sunshine. Bought myself a Wii this Christmas past, really only play Super Mario Galaxy/Mario Kart/NSMBW, am awaiting Galaxy 2 though.

As for the handhelds, have owned a gameboy pocket, gameboy advance and nintendo ds.

I've always been a Mario fan more than a Nintendo fan. I don't care much for Zelda or Metroid.

storm2811

duckshoot was awesooome,the rare times my brother let me touch the nintendo..:pac: then playstation took over..

bp1989

You mean duck hunt?

storm2811

probably yeah,used to just call it "the duck shooting game"..

Darksaga87

The game with the gun that didnt work.

storm2811

mine did!:p

Darksaga87

Pressed against the screen it worked ok.

bp1989

haha, I always found it worked too.