Poll of the Day > Sports Discussion Topic #177: The Playoffs are the REAL Golden Nights

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Huh, I think I've heard of that, but don't think that was one we rented. Here's some of the random stuff I remember renting and not really playing again otherwise:

Mischief Makers
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon
Glover
Chameleon Twist
Vigilante 8
Space Station Silicon Valley
Quest 64

Also that "memory thing" you're making sound all weird and obscure was pretty common. It does seem like it was always the shittiest games that required it, though. All the first- and second-party games I can think of saved to the cartridge. Actually that was somewhat annoying too because most of them let you save only to the cartridge.

I've always wanted to play Goemon and Quest 64. Glover was a classic though. I'm not really sure of any other funny N64 games we rented or bought but there were plenty, though a lot are cult classics like Jet Force Gemini which I didn't like very much (though I believe Chewy was a fan)

I don't really think JFG is in the same category of those games. It's one of the lesser Rare N64 games, but it was still a prime Rare game.

There's just something about third-party games in that era that was very weird. And cheap. It might be the crappiest era of third-party games. Well, at least for the N64, I guess I'm being narrow here. All the third-party top dogs at the time like Capcom and Konami were going straight for the PS1.

You needed the memory card for Majora's Mask and DK64 but that might have been about it for real stuff. Oh and Perfect Dark. And everyone knows DK64 is pretty whack except for the fact that you played as an orangutan clown.

Another classic rental was whatever that weird 3D Castlevania was.

The coolest thing about that Castlevania was how there were two different Castlevanias and we rented them both and as far as we could tell one of them was just the original game but you got to play as a werewolf instead of a vampire hunter.

I bought DK64 just for the memory pack. I was annoyed with the game before it was released because of hearing that DK rap every 10 minutes for 2 months. I had to deal with the promo video playing on loop while working at Gamestop.
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Was that just a random game you played or are you Castlevania fans? I've only ever played it recently. Got 1, 3 and 4 under my belt now. They're kind of good I guess. That Bloodstained 8-bit game looks cool but I'm not sure if I'm a big enough fan

I've pretty much played all the Castlevania games but I didn't really like the 3d ones. I am thinking about getting that Bloodstained game because it looks a lot like an older Castlevania games.
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I'm not a huge fan of the series but I tend to enjoy them. The old school ones aren't that good. The "Metroidvania" style ones are the real winners.

I think this 8 bit Bloodstained is more of a NES style game and the upcoming one is in that Symphony of the Night style.

Yeah SotN came out at a good time. The Castlevania games were getting a bit stale for me and SotN was a nice change of pace. I had to buy SotN because I let a friend of mine in high school use it and then he moved off to college earlier than he said he was and took the game with him.
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That's rough. In 6th grade I lent my friend my copy of Kingdom Hearts and he didn't bring it back until the very last day of school and then I accidentally left it in my bookbag in my locker and never saw it again.

Do the Metroidvania ones have looser controls? The stiff controls of the old ones sound like they'd be weird in an exploration game. I don't mind them too much for a linear style, though. I was surprised something with such stiff controls could be so playable. But yeah, I definitely should check out later ones.

My buddy left Super Mario Kart on the last day of school as well, he got lucky that the teachers were still reporting to school the following week and he was able to convince a teacher to let him in to look for it.
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Yeah the Metroidvania games had a more fluid feel to there controls that was better than the robotic movements of the older games, in my opinion.
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STLCards1991 posted...

That's rough. In 6th grade I lent my friend my copy of Kingdom Hearts and he didn't bring it back until the very last day of school and then I accidentally left it in my bookbag in my locker and never saw it again.

Once I lent my friend my kingdom hearts. Months later we were sitting on his couch and for some reason my hand felt something between the couch cushions. I pulled it out and it was my KH game (just the disc). I took it home and never let him borrow anything again

One time my friend lent my other friend who he didn't really like his copy of Spyro the Dragon and the kid got mad at him so he threw it in a vent at his house and it's probably still in there

We borrowed Mario Tennis on GBC from our cousin and just never gave it back and one time we brought it up to him that we should give it back and he said "oh I borrowed that from my friend and he doesn't care" so we just kept it forever.

Somehow in college I ended up with a friend's copy of No More Heroes for Wii. I don't really even remember how. I think he loaned it to me because his Wii was at home (he was out of state) but I don't know why he had the game with him here or how I ended up with it since I've never been all that interested in playing it. I still have it and I have no idea if he wants it back

Oh I also just remembered, I'm pretty sure one of my friends has my copy of NSBM Wii and I even asked one time at his house if I could get it back. He said that was his copy. I didn't really try to fight it too much because I'll probably never play it again regardless and I do think he genuinely thought it was his

STLCards1991 posted...

We borrowed Mario Tennis on GBC from our cousin and just never gave it back and one time we brought it up to him that we should give it back and he said "oh I borrowed that from my friend and he doesn't care" so we just kept it forever.

This may have inadvertantly become a permatrade with our copy of Fire Emblem 7

What was the permatrade we did for Pokmon Crystal?

Another inadvertent permatrade: our copy of Donkey Kong Country on GBA for like Street Fighter Alpha 3 or something on GBA. Weird ass port.

No More Heroes: the game where you mow lawns to make money for your next assassination

Oh man, what was that. That was sophomore year and it too was a GBA game. I know it was sophomore year because the guy was in my chemistry class but almost never showed up until like the last week and asked me about games. It was something I didn't think he'd like but he did, like maybe it was Golden Sun or something along those lines.

I had DKC for GBA. All those ports were kind of weird. The GBA was a 32-bit system, but that seemed to mean very little for the games. The SNES ports I played were all downgrades. I can't believe they were still using mono audio by that point and that the OG models had no backlight

Remember the worm light

I had one of the shitty kinds that casts a giant reflection and ends up making it even harder to see the screen

What's up with the Twins sending Miguel Sano to Single-A? That's a thing teams do? You hear about Triple-A all the time, but that makes some sense. I guess he's getting #SanoRespect

https://twitter.com/AaronGleeman/status/1007356078437253120?s=19

He really is having a miserable season, damn. Not that I ever thought he was that good

Chewster posted...

What's up with the Twins sending Miguel Sano to Single-A? That's a thing teams do? You hear about Triple-A all the time, but that makes some sense. I guess he's getting #SanoRespect

I think Randal Grichuk got the same treatment last year.
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I'm still mad that my cousin never gave me back my copy of NFL Gameday '97. Whenever I saw him the next few Christmases I would bring it up, and then finally in like 2001 he was like "Okay dude, I sat on it and broke it a long time ago"

Then there was another cousin's boyfriend who wanted to borrow a bunch of PS1 games back when they were still new-ish. I said no because I had been burned a couple of times before in life (such as the Gameday cousin) and then a couple of weeks later I find out they broke up or he moved away or some shit. I don't know what it is with people borrowing games and then taking off but I've seen it happen a lot to other people.

It's sad enough that today's kid gamers will never truly know the joy of couch co-op and gaming sleepovers but it's also sad that with the switch to digital they'll never have the life experience of their friends breaking their games somehow and being flabbergasted by how they could have for example sat on the game they borrowed

It was a big part of playing video games as a kid. My parents didn't get me many games, and I obviously had no money, so borrowing was huge.

Sort of related, is having a little brother who would constantly break your games, erase your save files, and pester you to play your video games. When he was really little he went through a phase where he used to like to bite ps1 discs and break them. Somewhere in a box at my parents' house, there's one of those 90s CD folders full of broken PS1 discs.

I wonder how kids nowadays feel about getting new games, particularly bargain digital games or indies. When I was a kid I'd save up for months to get something and it was a huge deal, but now there are tons of quality games you can get at $10. That's pretty cool but it sucks the excitement out of getting those games. Then again that could just be because I'm an adult and can afford stuff much easier, but I'd say the last couple $60 games I bought still gave me some of that childlike giddiness

Kids grow up playing F2P nonsense now. That and Minecraft. They definitely don't get as hyped about big purchases as we did.

I remember when I got my first job after like a week I was like well I guess I'm going to buy every video game forever now.

plus when you did actually get a new game, reading the manual on the way home. Hurry the fuck up and finish your shopping mom

Oh hell yes. And if it's a JRPG, you read it and are flabbergasted that the hot girl with big tits is only like 14 years old.

I could afford to buy new games now but I haven't really been buying stuff recently. I want to get a bunch of games when I get a job but it seems silly to drop hundreds of dollars at once. IDK, I'm weird about my money, I should just spend it now, shouldn't I?

MNTwins1991 posted...

plus when you did actually get a new game, reading the manual on the way home. Hurry the fuck up and finish your shopping mom

You gotta enjoy that new game smell too.

It is up to you. I don't kick myself too hard for spending on games because I don't spend much on entertainment otherwise and I really enjoy it.

When I was a kid and I saved up my money for months to get a game, you better believe I played the crap out of those games whether they were good or not. I stupidly bought Bubsy 3D and the terrible port of San Francisco Rush on PS1, and even though I knew they sucked as a kid, I played them anyways. It was also a good feeling to find hidden gems you wouldn't have played if you didn't waste your money on it.

I'm not saying today is worse, because more variety is a good thing, but I think there's too many good and cheap games available that there's less satisfaction when you get a new game. For me, at least. If I don't like the game, I can turn it off and play one of 50 other games I heard were good and that I got on sale.

Another classic formative gaming experience that isn't nearly as common anymore: losing your save file. Ever since my Kingdom Hearts file got corrupted pretty deep into the game I've always kept at least two parallel saves in games where I can. And then there was DK 64 which just fully erased everything one day and I never really played it again.

Ultima_Dragoon posted...

When I was a kid and I saved up my money for months to get a game, you better believe I played the crap out of those games whether they were good or not. I stupidly bought Bubsy 3D and the terrible port of San Francisco Rush on PS1, and even though I knew they sucked as a kid, I played them anyways. It was also a good feeling to find hidden gems you wouldn't have played if you didn't waste your money on it.

I'm not saying today is worse, because more variety is a good thing, but I think there's too many good and cheap games available that there's less satisfaction when you get a new game. For me, at least. If I don't like the game, I can turn it off and play one of 50 other games I heard were good and that I got on sale.

I bought Star Wars Masters of the Teras Kasi, that was a horrible game. I also bought Alundra that same year, and I agree it was worth the risk of a bad game in order to find a hidden gem.
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I may have mentioned this before, but as a kid I generally didn't notice that a game was bad unless it was just hilariously weird (Alex Kidd) until after I was done with it or a month after I had given up on a bullshit level or whatever. I would always go back if a game was hard but good, but when I failed like three times on a game and gave up I would later realize it was because I didn't actually want to keep playing. This happened a lot with bad games with obscure directions, like the Shrek game on Xbox, I enver knew where to go

Idk if n64 did anything like this, but I got this PS1 "jampack" which had demos of msg1, some skateboard racing game, and a few others. I played those demos over and over, more than a lot of my actual games.

STLCards1991 posted...

Another classic formative gaming experience that isn't nearly as common anymore: losing your save file. Ever since my Kingdom Hearts file got corrupted pretty deep into the game I've always kept at least two parallel saves in games where I can. And then there was DK 64 which just fully erased everything one day and I never really played it again.

I had pretty good luck with that, other than my original Pokemon blue cartridge

Jampacks were the shiz. That Legend of Dragoon demo was the bomb. I never played the real game though.

I never had my own PS1 but I remember those demo discs. They'd come with the PlayStation magazine but I think you could also get them at Pizza Hut and shit. Sadly N64 didn't have anything like that, since I'm sure putting stuff onto a CD is dirt cheap compared to printing specialized cartridges.

I got my demo discs from the Playstation Magazine. When working at Gamestop we would throw away the older issues of magazines when new ones came so I was allowed to take the discs before recycling the magazines.
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I ended up stumbling into Grind Session on one of those jampack discs. Brought the full game back then. still play it occasionally.
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