20 years later...

[dataDave]

?60 unboxed from someone on Loot hence its being in a carrier bag.

What a bargain! I think NES Double Dragon II cost my mum ?50 that year, well worth it like, but still.

[speedlolita]

Huh? If someone only likes Nintendo games, they won't have missed out on anything at all.

I don't lose any sleep over Battle Raper 2, for example.

Actually, that's a lie. It's on my 2012 must-play list.

Only joking, it's not.

->Open Spoiler<-

It is.


Not.

Battle Raper 2 is awful. I was expecting at least Soul Calibur 2 standards of fighting. There's like a button for punch and a button for kick and that's about it.

I guess it's not really about the fighting though is it?

[randombs]

What? No rape button?

Ridiculous!

my cousin let me borrow Mortal Kombat at the time and I was blown away with it.!

I remember renting MK from the local video shop and ringing my friend to get the blood code only for him to be at church. I had to spend the first 2-3 hours playing it without the blood.

It's the reason I frown at every church I pass by.

I suppose you were too young but MD MK was pretty awful even at that time. I think the SNES one was the best, even without the blood.

[speedlolita]

The raping comes after your victory in the fight. Garments fall off during battle too.

[randombs]

What a bargain! I think NES Double Dragon II cost my mum ?50 that year, well worth it like, but still.

That number's stuck in my head for some reason. Looking back on it, it can't possibly have been that cheap, even from Loot! This was around 1991, so the MD would've been about a year old.

[Colin]

The raping comes after your victory in the fight. Garments fall off during battle too.

I thought you were making both this and the game up, I can't believe it exists.

[MisterBubbles]

Its been great looking over these posts and memories, only one problem 20 just ain't enough for me.

[_SD_]

Twenty-ish years ago I was able to play Zelda quite well with four buttons and a D-pad. Now, I have more buttons than I know what to do with, and I have to wave my arms around like I'm trying to insult your Mum in Semaphore.

At least the Hookshot, Bow and Bottles are still the same...... 20 years later.....

[Decider-VT]

I got my NES for Christmas twenty years ago- the Duck Hunt/Super Mario Bros. pack, along with copies of Tetris and Kickle Cubicle. I'd asked for a Game Boy but my dad didn't see the point of me having something "with that tiny screen when you could have something in full colour on the TV", so my parents spent the extra cash on the NES. I also got issue 1 of Total! magazine in my stocking, which I pored over while my mum spent all of Christmas Day hogging the NES with game after game of Tetris. After Christmas was over I took my advent calendar down and put this up on my wall:

[Colin]

I remember that ad well! I used to sit staring at it saying "I'll have that............and that............and that.........." like my mum could afford my shopping list! Then I decided to get the master system instead! It worked out ok though, because me mate got a NES and we used to loan each other our consoles. I still always preferred the MS though.

[buster_broon]

Didnt have many consoles as a young whippersnapper family had binatone and a wooden Atari 2600, most of my games were handhelds like gunslinger, race n chase and space invaders.

Totally skipped the 8bit era and never owned or played a Nintendo or master system

After my first trip to the Falklands I saved a bit and bought myself a mega drive with sonic and bought my sister the street fighter snes and I didn't really touch the megadrive because street fighter took up a lot of my time

The next year I bought samurai shodown for the princely sum of ?140 and stuck with AES for a while

[Colin]

This is the first game I ever remember being properly addicted to.....


I think it was my older brothers though, not mine.

[buster_broon]

This is the first game I ever remember being properly addicted to.....


I think it was my older brothers though, not mine.

Yeah that was the one I had - had a few of those type of hand helds - loved them

[Decider-VT]

I remember that ad well! I used to sit staring at it saying "I'll have that............and that............and that.........." like my mum could afford my shopping list! Then I decided to get the master system instead! It worked out ok though, because me mate got a NES and we used to loan each other our consoles. I still always preferred the MS though.

I used to do the same. Excitebike always intrigued me as it was named as one of the "Programmable Series", never got it though. Bit stupid of me to not realise that my trusty Spectrum could offer me all of the programming I'd ever want, but by that time it seemed old hat and the lure of Mario was too strong to resist.

Fortunately I wasn't left wanting for SEGA either, as my friend in the next block over had a Mega Drive on day 1 and I was always around at his place after school on Tuesdays, before my dad picked me up to come home and watch Gamesmaster. Some cheeky sod asked him if he could borrow the MD on the day he got it and was promptly thrown out after a few games of Altered Beast. Good times!

[dataDave]

I suppose you were too young but MD MK was pretty awful even at that time.

Even arcade MK was pretty awful at the time.