Y CANT METROID CRAWL? or Was i this dense when i started gaming?

[Bells]

http://i41.tinypic.com/55p3bs.jpg

Sources here, are hilarious

http://kotaku.com/y-cant-metroid-crawl-guy-beats-metroid-is-hilarious-510191575

http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=202820


So, originally when i saw these i laughed. I wasn't frustrated, nor angry... i just laughed. Thought it was silly.

Now, when i was around 8-10 i played my NES, and i had 3 games... a Multi-Sports cartridge, MIG 29 and Super Mario.

And i played Mig 29 (the cartridge was Golden for crying out loud! Awesome) and Tennis. I loved tennis cause i could play it... wasn't so keen on Mario cause i always died shortly after reaching around world 3.

I see these kids having trouble with Metroid (which i wasn't so Keen on it either... but that was more because of pacing. The slow atmosphere didn't click with me.) and the WiiU allows then to, what was supposed to be ask for help, but now is pretty much a cynical window for older gamers.

But i can't laugh of these kids (just the situation) because i have a nephew, 9 years old, with a PS3 who tries to rationalize the fact that he likes GTA cause he likes to blow stuff up, and that he only plays the first levels of NFS Hot Pursuit because he likes it better (instead of unlocking content).

Bullshit. Gaming bullshit, i know. He just doesn't like people to think he can't advance in the game... but fine, he is a kind. Games should be mindless fun now, not chores or obsessive fetch questing now... that's for later! :dance:

But i did sprung to mind... were you guys like this when you were young gamers? Whats your experience around younger games today?

[phil_]

My older brothers had a baseball game for the NES. Mike and I would sometimes try to play it, and we'd spend a while choosing our lineups, doing the best we could to choose the biggest numbers without understanding baseball stats at all.

Thing is, nine times out of ten, the game would crash when you started the first inning. It was rather discouraging. This is my experience with videos as a lad, before I had Sonic to memorize.

[Ryong]

When I was 8 I had been playing Sonic 2 for 3 years.

I still can't win the final boss fight.

I was also spending my days getting my ass kicked by my brother on mortal kombat 2 and bitching at him for renting out racing or soccer games.

When I was 11 I was playing seiken densetsu 3 - a JRPG translated into english - without knowing english at all and I actually beat it and then I started playing priston tale a bit later...I was pretty gullible, yeah, but I usually figured stuff on my own.

...Except for the noob bridge in super metroid.

[Bells]

Hell, i learned english by playing Robin Wood Prince of Thieves on NES, then Chrono Trigger than Final Fantasy 6 (yeah, played Trigger first! Thought it was weird as all hell).

I learned stuff and managed myself quite well, i just didn't like the overly hard stuff. I preferred the more quirk "poke-it-to-learn-it" games. Probably why i had a heap of Japanese PS1 titles laying around...

[akaSM]

I preferred the more quirk "poke-it-to-learn-it" games. Probably why i had a heap of Japanese PS1 titles laying around...

This but, since the NES era. I learned most of my english through games too, mostly Pokémon Red, my first regular sized GB game...which wasn't a bootleg ::V:

Actually...I played mostly pirate games when I was very young, I had a famiclone :D...don't hate me, I live in Mexico >_>

Now, all my games are legitimate copies and Steam stuff. I haven't gotten a pirate game since I had my N64.

On Metroid stuff, my uncle would let me play Metroid 2 on his Game Boy, and I, not knowing any english AT ALL at that time, would (unknowingly) delete his save files because of said "poke-it-to-learn-it" method of trying things.

[RickZarber]

I bought a Super Nintendo in summer of 1992, which means I would have been eight years old oh god that was 21 years ago my SNES is old enough to drink ahhhhhh. (And that wasn't with an allowance or anything, my family didn't do allowances. I worked for that dang thing, washing cars and mowing lawns all summer long. The SNES cost US$199, which would be... dang, $329.82 today, adjusting for inflation. Way to go, little me!)

So of course, it was packaged with Super Mario World, which was and remains an amazing game, but for a long time (probably until that Christmas) it was my only game. Oh, and the only video games I'd played previously were a half-dozen or so of my dad's Atari 2600 games (I really liked ET... shut up, don't look at me like that) plus whatever MS-DOS games would run on our old PC (we're talking, like, Reader Rabbit or Treasure Mountain (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HAxdTacsgQ) here).

Point being that eventually I got a little tired of Mario World, so I rented my first game from Blockbuster, which was none other than A Link to the Past. Now, I was only tangentially aware of the Zelda franchise at that point. Mostly I knew it as That Other Show That Used to Come On After the Mario Cartoon for a While but Which I Never Watched. (Additionally, as the other type of cereal in the Nintendo Cereal System (https://www.google.com/search?gs_rn=14&gs_ri=psy-ab&tok=SGT992oTWLBr8TKguSFPjg&cp=12&gs_id=aa&xhr=t&q=nintendo+breakfast+cereal&safe=off&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47008514,d.dmg&biw=1280&bih=880&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=l2imUY23EvSv4AO09YEg#um=1&safe=off&hl=en&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=nintendo+cereal+system&oq=nintendo+cereal&gs_l=img.1.1.0l3j0i24l7.2262.2262.0.3393.1.1.0.0.0 .0.54.54.1.1.0...0.0...1c.1.14.img.Dl5z6n00q7Q&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47008514,d.dmg&fp=6a088f11725f0e09&biw=1280&bih=880)... shut up, I was convinced that shit was good. It had Mario on the cover, how could it not be? This line of reasoning also led to being convinced the Super Mario Bros. movie was awesome.)

Anyways, I plugged in LttP, couldn't figure it out (like, I don't think I ever even made it out of the rain and into the castle) because all I knew was platforming, and returned it the next day. And then I didn't touch another Zelda game until Ocarina. Way to fail, little me!



oh hey, you can totally get the short version of the story by only reading the first sentence of each paragraph. what do you mean, "didn't ask for my life story"?

[PyrosNine]

A lot of games from my childhood made no sense, because you were supposed to figure out what to do from visual contexts and stuff like that, audio cues, blah blah blah, and try as I might, I couldn't wrap my little mind around game mechanics or what I was supposed to do. Now that I'm older, I can work out what to do based on stuff I've done elsewhere, or my slow acclimation to the specifics of certain genres, though certain oldy games still vex me, as they were user unfriendly to begin with, and still are.

Sim Earth still puzzles me to no end.

Link to the past troubled me, as when I was young, certain things in the game were 'scary" and I loathed to actually confront them- The thieves in the Lost Woods, Boo ghost houses (just ran/flew through them).

Most of the early games we got were somewhat understandable, SMW and LTTP, because my Mom played them first, and I watched her play- so very shortly I too could run my way through them. Super Mario World made me play SMW2, which was a very, very different game, and everyone but me hated the sound of Baby mario crying (also the toadies kidnapping baby mario scared the daylights out of me).

THe games that gave me the most trouble were usually the stuff my uncle had: Magic Carpet, Stonesiege, Phantasmagoria, yeah, no comprended. Mickey's Quest was also a perplexing puzzle, as I rented it with no instruction manual, and they didn't tell you how to do most of the basic things needed for victory without it.

A lot of my first experiences with games was without manuals, now that I think about it, and so if I couldn't understand how to play the game without one, I didn't play the game again until I was much older.

Other things that scared me:

Mario 64's Demon Piano. Heck, all of Big Boo's Haunt. Also, that damned monkey. Also, Bowser's laugh. And that damned Eel.
Banjo Kazooie: Having Gruntilda comment on everything you did. EVERYTHING."The video game character knows what I'm doing playing the game! THe 4th wall cannot protect me!" Also, the "save and quit while inside Grunty's Castle" cutscene.

Alot of Majora's Mask was pretty scary, but I guess I kinda grew up a bit while playing it, and played it to completion. Certain quests were particularly hard because something in them was inherently terrifying in nature. Also, damn that fish boss! Water is always scary in Video games when there's something bigger than you and you're mostly helpless in the water.

[tacticslion]

So, the first time I ever rented an RPG - it was Chrono Trigger from Blockbuster - I couldn't figure out how to do anything. Anything. It was so boring and frustrating because there were no enemies, I couldn't swing my sword (though the menu assured me that I had it equipped), and, after a while, I gave up, returned the game without ever completing a single quest, and extremely frustrated.

Later, I found Final Fantasy III in a bin for $2 bucks, and begged my parents for it, which they relented, despite "fantasy" in the title (I also got FF Mystic Quest and FF II at about the same time, if I recall correctly, though I think it was just a little after III). I was extremely frustrated with it at first. And then... then I learned. That opening series of forced battles was something like a revelation from on high. After seeing FF II and Mystic Quest in action, I acquired a number of RPGs (fortified with new knowledge of how to play) including Chrono Trigger from Blockbuster again about ten times (I think I got somewhere around the middle ages) before my parents bought me a copy for Christmas for my very own.

While not my childhood, at all, the dumbest moment, for me, was probably Final Fantasy Tactics. I hated that game for most of the first year I had it... such a disappointment. I mean, the first battle is a set-up, guaranteed-to-win thing, and the second battle sends you up against five guys (several of whom are more powerful than you and who have better equipment) when you have only two. And such a long cut scene in between! ARG! THIS GAME IS STUPID! WHY WON'T IT LET ME USE THE REST OF THE CADETS?! I even almost beat the battle once, managing to kill everyone but that daggum chemist, but then he revived the one guy who killed Delita, and even though Ramza took him down, the chemist punked me! He had two hit points! It was impossible! I practically threw it away. A few months later, we had some Missionaries stay at our house for a few hours on their way through town. I showed their daughter my games library, and she immediately zeroed in on FFT. I was really leery about it, as it was "boring and impossible". Still, she loaded up my save (much to my chagrin, as she missed the first battle), and sat through the long, long, long boring text that preceded the impossible first real battle... and then added four more people to the battle. By pressing "R" and "L" and then enter. I felt like a grade-A moron. See, I wasn't used to using those buttons. I'd forgotten they exist. I never have since. I'm so incredibly glad she taught me that the game rocked. (The girl, who's name I don't recall, and who I've never seen again lost the first battle pretty badly, though she had an absolute blast doing so, and won the third time through while I watched itching for the chance to play my own game again.)

If I'm allowed to brag, at all, I never understood why people thought Ninja Gaiden was so hard, when I was young. Once you get past the first stage (and that first boss who CHEATED LIKE A CHEATING CHEATER), I found it pretty easy. (NOTE: it would totally murder me nowadays, I have no doubts whatsoever. Additionally, I've no idea why the first boss always gave me so much trouble, but the rest never did.)

Similarly, Megaman 1-3 (I've still proven I can beat those, though, no help or cheating, on a very-poor-control emulation/keyboard set up, so, there's that.)

Battletoads, on the other hand, was arbitrary, cruel, and sucked. It sucked big time. I hated it. I still do. (Stupid jet skis/bikes/whatever they were.)

[mauve]

So, the first time I ever rented an RPG - it was Chrono Trigger from Blockbuster - I couldn't figure out how to do anything. Anything. It was so boring and frustrating because there were no enemies, I couldn't swing my sword (though the menu assured me that I had it equipped), and, after a while, I gave up, returned the game without ever completing a single quest, and extremely frustrated.
The first time I played a turn-based RPG (it was FFX, sadly) I remember being instantly disgusted that I had no control over whether my characters got hit by enemies. I couldn't fathom how anyone could enjoy a game where you have to just sit and watch characters stand in one spot and politely take turns attacking each other.

I grew out of this phase, obviously, and eventually came to understand and enjoy turn-based games.


I didn't start gaming until I was a teenager, so I didn't grow up playing any of the older console games like Chrono Trigger or the Mario classics. My intro to games were PC titles like Tomb Raider, and then GameBoy Advance games, until I got my PS2 when I was 17.

My first "big kid games" were Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation and Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine for the PC. I was always annoyed that Lara Croft was able to walk through a hailstorm of bullets like nothing happened and do cool backflips while firing dual pistols, yet Indiana Jones could get his ass handed to him by a single dude with a revolver and couldn't move while using his whip.

[Arhra]

The first 3D game I ever played was Ocarina of Time. We'd rented it from the video store and I remember my brother and I couldn't even walk in a straight line, we were so unused to the controls.

Particularly frustrating seeing there was that long bridge with the twenty rupees at the end you could get to from one of the houses, and it was literally impossible for us to grab.

That and we took forever to find the crawl space to the bit with the boulders where you get the sword. I can't remember if we even managed to beat the deku tree dungeon before we had to return it.

[Red Mage Black]

Lessee, first games? Had to have been around 4-5 starting with Nintendo, then to Sega, moving on years later to N64, Playstation... that's about it really.

Nintendo year(s):
First games I had were Mario and Double Dragon. I don't really remember the first one all that much, but DD stuck in my mind. As young as I was and from what I know now, I probably still can't get past the first level. (Also, we had a Three Stooges game, but none of us figured out how to actually play it.) Not much else past that that I can remember.

Sega year(s): Sonic, everything Sonic(2 and Pinball). We also had a game, not sure anyone will remember Eternal Champions? My sisters and I would obsess over that game and we certainly liked it better than Mortal Kombat(that stuff was scary to us). We also managed to rent out some stuff from Stop & Shop, before they shut that part down. Some of it was pretty fantastic, like The Pagemaster game(that Jekyl and Hyde fight scared me) and Zombies Ate My Neighbors(those chainsaw dudes did the same).

N64 year(s):
Super Mario 64, Bomberman(64, 2nd one, etc), Ocarina of Time(only rented Majora's Mask)... by far I think this was the console that I had the most games for. All particularly fun times. Sometimes I even just went to the third Bowser fight in SM64 to kill time. Heck, I even remember writing a story on a word processor machine based on the story it gave you in the instruction manual. Those were the days. I think I'd also rate the N64 the most fun console I played with up to a point.

Playstation:
Didn't own this one for a WHILE. Not many games, probably except Jampacks and some old football game for a bit. Where I first got into the MGS series, it was the best. Legend of Dragoon(so much nostalgia here) was also a big hit with me. Though I think nowadays, I might have more fun with it since I figured stuff out.

Growing up with this stuff was pretty cool. Got to experience other genres and found out what did and didn't mesh with me. I can certainly say that I had some of the same difficulties that others did when first playing, but it was all part of the experience.

Guess it's time to go and nostalgia again.

[tacticslion]

The first time I played a turn-based RPG (it was FFX, sadly) I remember being instantly disgusted that I had no control over whether my characters got hit by enemies. I couldn't fathom how anyone could enjoy a game where you have to just sit and watch characters stand in one spot and politely take turns attacking each other.

I grew out of this phase, obviously, and eventually came to understand and enjoy turn-based games.

Heh, yeah. I really hated FF6's (called "FF3", at the time) battle system at first. After about five tries, though, I finally got it.

It... didn't help that I bought it without the manual. I couldn't figure out how to do anything, and when I could, I thought it was the worst way of handling things ever. Hahahah. I was so dumb.

I didn't start gaming until I was a teenager, so I didn't grow up playing any of the older console games like Chrono Trigger or the Mario classics. My intro to games were PC titles like Tomb Raider, and then GameBoy Advance games, until I got my PS2 when I was 17.

My first "big kid games" were Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation and Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine for the PC. I was always annoyed that Lara Croft was able to walk through a hailstorm of bullets like nothing happened and do cool backflips while firing dual pistols, yet Indiana Jones could get his ass handed to him by a single dude with a revolver and couldn't move while using his whip.

Hahah! Yeah, I remember wandering why guys in one game are so easily punk'd while guys in the other are so tough as to be nearly invulnerable. Drove my OCD wild for a bit until I apparently just got over it or something.

[PyrosNine]

Now that I think about it, much of my game savvy for a lot of games came from emulation, because then I had infinite lives and save states, and trial and error, and access to a wider variety of games than what I could afford. This gave me the experience and awareness to deal with new games, especially after playing a Japanese or Spanish version of a game- me and my brother played this card based DBZ rpg that is still a lot better than most modern DBZ games- and though we couldn't understand what the game told us, we could understand the cards and what was going on- (more stars or fireballs on the cards meant they were more powerful, if we picked bad cards or didn't use strong enough cards with weak party members, there would be a battle cutscene showing the attack proving ineffective, or worse, Frieza counter-curb stomping yamcha.)

We managed to beat that entire game, AND figure out how to get secret stuff on our own, like managing to defeat Raditz, Nappa, and Vegita without letting anybody die, so then we had a full party to level up on Namek! And then Yamcha was curb stomping Recoome. ;)

Now that I'm older and richer (in theory) I actually bought physical copies of anything I ever emulated on my family's first Windows 98 pc, from Kirby's Adventure to all the other NES classics.

I do find that because of this, most of the "cool hip mcawesome" retro games or "gamer history games" like FF7 and Tactics and Ultima, I've only recently begun playing, as it took awhile before I had a playstation or a pc version or a cheap/free version. I beat FF7 in College, on my third year!

Chrono Trigger I beat early though, same with Super Metroid. Also, getting called out on my actions in the Faire during Chrono Trigger scared the BS out of me, as y'know, we all tried EVERYTHING in that faire to push the plot forward, and it turns out apparently everything we did was Illegal enough to get us the death sentence.

Illusion of Gaia is a game where I NEVER got past that STUPID Demon head first boss until my junior year of High School, and then discovered how AWESOME that game was and could be! That, and I thought the game was broken during the "raft section" for the same reason Tactics Lion didn't beat Chrono Trigger when he picked it up, because the game was using an unseen timer and few other games ever do anything in real time, even today!

[Roland]

As a little kid, I thought Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest was impossible. I would get all the way to Falls Basin, push those blocks up into corners, and then shrug because I had no idea what to do after that.

And yet my friends still thought I was badass for being able to beat the Flamerus Rex.

Man, those were the days...

[Shyria Dracnoir]

The first email I sent on my own was through my AOL Kids account in early middle school to Insomniac Games asking where to find the very last dragon in Lofty Towers in the original Spyro the Dragon.

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[Seil]

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u59/Poetisch/cad-20130520-1edd9_zpsceacbe0b.png

[Ecks]

i was too broke even for that. i basically had to figure it out on my own or hope i could get a game guide.

also... from here on out many people will not understand the nintendo power reference. sadface.

[Revising Ocelot]

I used to be scared watching my older brother play Super Mario World through the ghost houses with Big Boos, and Bowser would literally make me leave the room.

4-year-old me was a wimp.

[Bells]

isn't there a better source for that commentary that is not needed of CAD posting? =/

That being said, it WAS awesome figuring stuff out on my own. Even games today (much more rare, but still) do that. I loved learning to parkour on my on playing Warframe, made me feel super badass...

On the other end, i got bored with Metroid and frustrated with Castlevania cause one was too much for my child-sized noggin and the other had some goddamn bullshit staircases....

By the time i played Symphony of the night i would Moonwalk with Alucard all over those stairs just cause i COULD

[Bard The 5th LW]

I think the first game I ever just legit beat on my own was Super Mario 64. Games were hard as a kid! I was just content to play them. I dont have nearly the patience for some games now as I did back then. My first game was Duck Hunt on my Grandparent's NES, I also had Mega Man 3 and Zelda II but then Grandpa took it back because he was just heartless. I never had a Sega Console, but I did have a big batch of sonic games on my computer, as well as some ancient point and clicks. My Dad had Half Life and it gave me nightmares at first but its one of my favorite games to go back and play now.

[Ramary]

The first game I ever played and beat was Kirby's Dreamland on the gameboy, and that is the reason I love Kirby so much today (also because Kirby has never ever had a bad game). I actually only recall one game series I could never get as a kid which was, ironically, Zelda.

I use to try a lot of the Zelda games and each time I use to think they were terrible games because I always would get lost in them. I believed that the game series was terrible but the other kids were like NO IT IS THE BEST, but I truly believed that it was overrated.

Then I rented Majora's Mask when I was 10. Kid-me was a fucking moron.

[Ryong]

Since we're talking a bit more now:

I hated fighting and racing games because I was terrible at them and I never played it with anyone my age or younger and everyone older than me was better.

Then I played the crap out of Soul Calibur 2 and Street Fighter 3 3rd strike.

I now realize that Mortal Kombat wasn't that good.

With racing games, I think Cruisin' World and Mario Kart 64 was the one that finally made me stop hating them. I liked Rock 'n' Roll Racing I guess, but never was such a big fan of it. Super Hang On had nice things, but I guess the overall thing with racing games is that I couldn't get past the draw distance, rubberbanding and all the crazy effects to try and make the game look like you're actually moving.

I can't remember getting stuck in games because of not knowing what to do, usually it was just something I simply wasn't skilled enough to pull off - see: Sonic 2 final boss.

...Oh wait. Illusion of Gaia. Fuck that game was bad with directions.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

First gaming console I ever owned with the PC Engine/Turbo Graphix 16. First game I ever remember playing though was Sonic The Hedghog on the Mega Drive/Sega Genesis.

I never beat that game nor Sonic 2 legitimately as a kid... The Egg Robo at the end of Sonic 2 was like an invincible god to little me.


I'm so ashamed... :ohdear:

[Ramary]

Kid-me feels super superior now because he beat the Sonic 2 final boss. Pretty sure kid-me bragged to his brother about it too back in the day.

[phil_]

He deserved to brag; that last boss is hard.

[Arcanum]

I started gaming on the good ol' NES, straight out of the womb. I'm only half kidding here, my parents always told me that my mom played a metric buttload of Mario and Mega Man on the NES while she was pregnant with me, and they joke that's why I'm so into video games.

Anyway, one of my most vivid memories of games and difficulty on the NES as a kid was when I finally beat Mega Man 2. I played the ever-loving fuck out of that game because kid me didn't want to bother writing down passwords. So every time I played MM2 it was from scratch, and I could get to Wiley's Castle no problem. However, the dragon was a huge pain in the ass because I was dumb and didn't use the Quickarang because it was pink and who the hell uses something pink that's for girls. Instead I was determined to kill the dragon with the Heat shot, and I could actually manage it if I got lucky.

I honestly don't even remember how I cleared out the bosses of the later stages of Wiley's castle, but I did, and through trial and error I found out Alien Wiley was weak to bubbles and finally when the credits were rolling with that badass changing of the seasons spritework, my mom called out that it was time for dinner. I tried to stall, I worked so hard to get to this point and I wanted to see all the seasons. But no, my mom was getting angry and I needed to go upstairs and eat right that minute, so reluctantly I turned off the NES and went upstairs. I never beat MM2 again, despite many more attempts, and only managed to do so in my late teens when I discovered the wonders of emulation.



I also couldn't beat Wart in SMB2, and I needed to get my mom to beat him for me.

And finally, later when I had a SNES, I couldn't beat Donkey Kong Country 2 because of that one level in the swamp with the constantly rising water with that snapper fish that dashes right at you if you touch the water. After who knows how long of being stuck on that level, when some family came down from Ottawa to visit (8 hour drive to where I live) I got my cousin to beat the level for me.

Except before I could beat the game, something happened to my save and I had to restart from scratch and still couldn't get past that level in the swamp.


So really, I'm in the same boat as Ryong here. It wasn't so much not knowing where to go or what to do, but just lacking the skill to pull off the required feats.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Oh man, Wart in SMB2 (Gameboy version) was my greatest triumph. That was easily one of my favorite games ever. I never really got far in Mega Man 3 though because my illiterate child brain couldnt grasp the concept of different bosses having weaknesses.

Somehow my illiterate child brain DID beat Pokemon Red though.

[Bells]

wat's hard about Pokemon red? Get Charmander to Charmeleon and get a Butterfree with Psy beam before the rock gym.

You're set for life.

[Arcanum]

Bells, you're assuming kid-selves knew that bugs evolved super fast.

Also, my first time through pokemon Red I beat Brock with an overleveled Charmander, using pidgeys and rattatas as shields while I healed Charmander, because fuck his stupid rock pokemon I'll show him not very effective.


Also I remember that my brother, his friend, and one or two of my friends would always get lost in the Safari Zone and thus couldn't get the Surf HM unless I did went through the Safari for them.

Pretty sure I laughed at their horrible senses of direction.

[Bells]

I'm assuming your kid-selves watched Pokemon and knew that butterfree was freaking awesome!

I never had a problem with late game Pshychic and Ghost pokemons because my over leveled butterfree could destroy an Alakazam or Gengar.

Also, i was a grinder by nature. I had 90hours on Final Fantasy Tactics before reaching chapter 4.

[Bard The 5th LW]

wat's hard about Pokemon red? Get Charmander to Charmeleon and get a Butterfree with Psy beam before the rock gym.

You're set for life.

I just said I could barely read at the time! Pokemon is very word dependent.

[Doc ock rokc]

Apparently the first game I ever played was Super Mario Bros 1&2 (plus Duckhunt) for the NES. I have no memory of this because I was like 2 or something.

Apparently I was good. Like Really good. Like I managed to beat SMB1&2 without dieing good. and this was all before I could speak. Last week I played SMB2 emulation...didn't make it past the first level. I still kick moderates amounts of ass in SMB1 though.

[akaSM]

I just said I could barely read at the time! Pokemon is very word dependent.

lrn2getlost

I didn't know english when I first played pokémon red but, getting lost in the Viridian Forest helped me get high level pokémon :V

One of the first games I beat on the NES was Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers. I used to play that a lot with my brother and, while we beat other games together (Contra, TMNT 2), I beat Chip 'n Dale by myself :3