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I loved my Nintendo. Probably a bit too much (I nearly held up my sister's wedding because my mom shut off my Legend of Zelda while I was playing it the morning of her wedding... and it didn't save my progress... and it was, seriously, the 35th time I was going through the game... and I was pissed... and I hid in my closet. Yeah, I was that kid.) I loved my Atari. I wish I hadn't sold it and 200 games for $60.
So, to facilitate my nostalgia, I'm putting up some of my finer moments and collectibles. I unfortunately sold a lot of my original stuff. But that doesn't mean I can't get'em back from EBay (just make sure my wife doesn't hear I'm collecting more shit. I've got enough junk the way it is).
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| Fan Club Letter | ||
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The Nintendo Fan Club gave out calendars at one point in time (most likely 1988) and on it, they had dates for things that were
happening. May 5th, Mario and Luigi Picnic; February 19th, Link's Birthday; cutsie stuff like that. Well, one of the dates was
the wedding of Marian and Jimmy Lee (of Double Dragon fame). If you're not a big Double Dragon fan, Jimmy Lee was the evil brother.
Billy Lee was the hero.
Well, this clearly needed to be corrected, so I wrote Nintendo a letter. Didn't think much of it until I got this letter back. Kinda cool that Mr. Studdard took the time to answer an 11-year-old's letter, but looking at it 16 years later, good freaking lord, how dorky was I? I remember thinking that even in my Nintendo-biased state when I wrote that letter, this was a pretty cheesy response. |
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| The NES Advantage | ||
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Who didn't have one of these things? Those who lost a lot, that's who. I remember offering 75% of my soul to anyone who'd take
it for just a chance to command the power of turbo and slow-mo. I saved and saved and saved for this thing. It was my master.
I tore through games that were previously unbeatable. Laughed in the face of ultra-large stage bosses. I conquered worlds and
destroyed opponents with ease. Then came Bases Loaded...
This game's jacked-up bat-from-the-view-of-the-pitcher setup was, in a word, infuriating. I spent weeks trying to get the timing down, only to have the game's AI switch its style. Man, it was annoying. So annoying, in fact, that I once was so pissed at the game, I started hammering (with my fists) the buttons, crying, screaming at the game "You cheating bastard!"... I then tossed my beloved across the room. When my tantrum had subsided, I found my controller didn't work quite like it had 5 minutes ago... no, the buttons were all pushed in and they didn't respond. Uh oh. It appears that while the stock "brick" controller would survive a nuclear detonation, the Advantage was a delicate southern belle... and I just broke her neck. I learned quite a bit from that. Lot's of people said Nintendo players were violent and exhibited more rage than the average kid. I was one of those kids, until this happened. It was going to cost more to fix the controller than to buy another one, so I started the saving process all over again. Having to go back to those old-assed brick controllers was a nightmare. Mom was never happy with me at any point in time during this episode, but she did recognize that after 6 months of saving again, when I got the new controller, I was much more calm when playing games... and I wasn't real keen on throwing things anymore, especially if I was the one paying for it. So in the end, I've owned two of these things. One gave its life for a valuable lesson: respect your stuff, especially when it costs a lot of bling. |
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| The Nintendo Players Guide | ||
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I remember ordering this out of Nintendo Power (of which I had a subscription for 5 years) and being all kinds of
excited about it. I think I slept with this book a couple of times. By the looks of it, I think I might have confused it
for a stuffed animal or something. It's falling apart, the pages aren't glued to the binding anymore... but what memories!
I even wrote down all the games I had beaten and any records I made in the process inside the cover. 80 games completed or
beaten in some fashion. I know there's people a lot more accomplished that I am/was, but 80 was a lot for me. And there's some
not-so-easy titles in there as well:
True, I probably cheated in some of the 80 games in the list, but a lot of them are 100% legit. You'll also notice my artisic improvement of the book with Snoopy and Mario stickers... A nice touch, if I do say so myself. |
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