Things You Misunderstood At First

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[quote]florelius wrote:

[quote]Spock81 wrote:

[quote]florelius wrote:
perfect dark was much cooler than goldeneye IMHO.

When I grew up my parents wouldnt allow me to get a Nintendo 64 or a playstation, but after some
time I got a gameboy. Anyway I had friends who had Nintendo 64 and we used to play multiplayer on Goldeneye
wich sucked for me because the kid who owned it where 100 times better than me and my friends who didnt have it, so he killed us before we even had a chance to move. When Perfect Dark came you could have dumb as shit bots in the multiplayer game and the owner kid where on our team kicking bot ass with us, it was much more fun + the graphic and the special effects where better on perfect dark than it was on Goldeneye.
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Ah, yes, the “meat sims”.

One summer I would stay up until like 3 every night and play perfect dark all by myself with a bunch of meat sims. I was practicing so that during the day I could win against my brother and his friends.

I still lost.
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Ah the golden age of video games, I pitty the kids today who havent played the classic nes, snes, 64 and gameboy games. Good graphics doesnt make up for shitty gameplay. ( I havent played consoll games for ten years, so dont really know if the gameplay today is shitty or not )

Lol at you still lost haha ;)[/quote]

I totally agree! I think the games I played as a kid are WAYY more fun than the games my kid is playing on his wii or whatever. Not a big fan of the game cube either.
I should buy a used N64 and teach him what awesomeness really is… HmMm.

Super mario RPG the legend of the 7 stars, CLASSIC!! Still my fave after all the zillion other mario games they’ve put out since…
SNES mario kart, remember when rainbow road was like impossible, then they added WALLS to the track?! WALLS! Rainbow road was about falling off every 6 seconds, ha-ha.
The first DK country, gooood times. Even Diddy’s kong quest was great, then the 3rd one they added that weird baby monkey thing.

Sorry for the hijack nards, but it’s kinda what I do…

ocarina of time, sigh. That song link played, epona’s song, brings a tear to my eye.

K DONE.

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[quote]Spock81 wrote:

[quote]florelius wrote:

[quote]Spock81 wrote:

[quote]florelius wrote:
perfect dark was much cooler than goldeneye IMHO.

When I grew up my parents wouldnt allow me to get a Nintendo 64 or a playstation, but after some
time I got a gameboy. Anyway I had friends who had Nintendo 64 and we used to play multiplayer on Goldeneye
wich sucked for me because the kid who owned it where 100 times better than me and my friends who didnt have it, so he killed us before we even had a chance to move. When Perfect Dark came you could have dumb as shit bots in the multiplayer game and the owner kid where on our team kicking bot ass with us, it was much more fun + the graphic and the special effects where better on perfect dark than it was on Goldeneye.
[/quote]

Ah, yes, the “meat sims”.

One summer I would stay up until like 3 every night and play perfect dark all by myself with a bunch of meat sims. I was practicing so that during the day I could win against my brother and his friends.

I still lost.
[/quote]

Ah the golden age of video games, I pitty the kids today who havent played the classic nes, snes, 64 and gameboy games. Good graphics doesnt make up for shitty gameplay. ( I havent played consoll games for ten years, so dont really know if the gameplay today is shitty or not )

Lol at you still lost haha ;)[/quote]

I totally agree! I think the games I played as a kid are WAYY more fun than the games my kid is playing on his wii or whatever. Not a big fan of the game cube either.
I should buy a used N64 and teach him what awesomeness really is… HmMm.

Super mario RPG the legend of the 7 stars, CLASSIC!! Still my fave after all the zillion other mario games they’ve put out since…
SNES mario kart, remember when rainbow road was like impossible, then they added WALLS to the track?! WALLS! Rainbow road was about falling off every 6 seconds, ha-ha.
The first DK country, gooood times. Even Diddy’s kong quest was great, then the 3rd one they added that weird baby monkey thing.

Sorry for the hijack nards, but it’s kinda what I do…

ocarina of time, sigh. That song link played, epona’s song, brings a tear to my eye.

K DONE. [/quote]

Seriously walls, thats beyond dumb hahaha…

I want to add my list of favorit games to this nostalgia trip: the super mario bros games( obviously ), super mario world, super mario land 2( on gameboy ), Zelda on gameboy and the original pokemon games( red, blue and yellow ). There are more fun games offcourse, but I am not listing them all LOL.

I wish I was 10 years old again when playing a video game was beyond awesome xD

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Fuck pokemon.

As for mario and zelda fuck yeah!!! I hasd Mario all stars on my snes, it came with it. 4 games in 1 baby!!

ocarina of time has to be the greatest game ever made. Ever. Ever.

Also street fighter 2 turbo, mine came in a limited edition metal tin. Love those days. Fuck COD

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DId anyone ever play the game battletoads? WTF was that?!

Could not beat.

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[quote]Spock81 wrote:
DId anyone ever play the game battletoads? WTF was that?!

Could not beat. [/quote]

yes! awesome game! it was my fav when i was little

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[quote]Spock81 wrote:
DId anyone ever play the game battletoads? WTF was that?!

Could not beat. [/quote]

I remember that one. Even to this day it is considered one of the most difficult games ever made. I used to play it in college when I should have been studying or trying to develop social skills. There was a flaw in the game code that made it impossible to get past level 10 most of the time. There was supposed to be only a slight chance of a girder not falling to alow the player to continue the game, thus forcing the player to restart the game, but the programmers screwed up a random number generator (this was before crap like Java came about with random number generators pre-coded and debugged) causing the probability of the girder not falling to be above the 99th percentile. It took most people so long to get to the 10th level that the issue was not found until the production run was almost over. A lot of people thought that it was done on purpose. I fixed mine myself, so I was able to beat it.

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I wish I could say I was a kid when I did this but I wasn’t. As part of my job I used to have to review reports in which people’s names were recorded. I kept seeing the same name appearing over and over again, Lnu. I thought this was perhaps just a very common Asian family name. Didn’t know it stood for last name unknown.

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[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:

[quote]Spock81 wrote:
DId anyone ever play the game battletoads? WTF was that?!

Could not beat. [/quote]

I remember that one. Even to this day it is considered one of the most difficult games ever made. I used to play it in college when I should have been studying or trying to develop social skills. There was a flaw in the game code that made it impossible to get past level 10 most of the time. There was supposed to be only a slight chance of a girder not falling to alow the player to continue the game, thus forcing the player to restart the game, but the programmers screwed up a random number generator (this was before crap like Java came about with random number generators pre-coded and debugged) causing the probability of the girder not falling to be above the 99th percentile. It took most people so long to get to the 10th level that the issue was not found until the production run was almost over. A lot of people thought that it was done on purpose. I fixed mine myself, so I was able to beat it.[/quote]

Holy crap battletoads was(is) insanely hard…I never got very far, got too frustrated lol.

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[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:

[quote]Spock81 wrote:
DId anyone ever play the game battletoads? WTF was that?!

Could not beat. [/quote]

I remember that one. Even to this day it is considered one of the most difficult games ever made. I used to play it in college when I should have been studying or trying to develop social skills. There was a flaw in the game code that made it impossible to get past level 10 most of the time. There was supposed to be only a slight chance of a girder not falling to alow the player to continue the game, thus forcing the player to restart the game, but the programmers screwed up a random number generator (this was before crap like Java came about with random number generators pre-coded and debugged) causing the probability of the girder not falling to be above the 99th percentile. It took most people so long to get to the 10th level that the issue was not found until the production run was almost over. A lot of people thought that it was done on purpose. I fixed mine myself, so I was able to beat it.[/quote]

I remember this! Of course, I was just a kid and unable to fix mine =p

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When I was 6 or 7 my brother went to college to study engineering…I thought he would study out in the woods in a cottage!

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[quote]Nards wrote:
When I was 6 or 7 my brother went to college to study engineering…I thought he would study out in the woods in a cottage![/quote]

Quit while you ahead Nards lol please.

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[quote]Nards wrote:
When I was 6 or 7 my brother went to college to study engineering…I thought he would study out in the woods in a cottage![/quote]

I was probably a teen before I discovered that a person could be an engineer and NOT drive a train.

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The most retarded thing I remember was thinking telephone poles were for skiing on, somehow. This all came from a misunderstanding when in the car with my parents and they were pointing out the artificial ski slope on the hills to the right. I was looking out the left however, where there were just endless telephone poles.

“Why is there no one skiing now then?”

“You can see them if you look close, they’re just really far away.” WTF? TINY SKI PEOPLE?

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goldeneye, with proximity mines and rocket launchers.

I spent endless hours playing this with the kids, and had a blast, always laughing.

we would even put in our own dialogue.

a few times we did the slapping only option - we all laughed so hard our stomachs hurt~

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[quote]Duwatsrt wrote:
I wish I could say I was a kid when I did this but I wasn’t. As part of my job I used to have to review reports in which people’s names were recorded. I kept seeing the same name appearing over and over again, Lnu. I thought this was perhaps just a very common Asian family name. Didn’t know it stood for last name unknown.[/quote]

It is. They tend to name their kid FNU.

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[quote]Edgy wrote:
goldeneye, with proximity mines and rocket launchers.

I spent endless hours playing this with the kids, and had a blast, always laughing.

we would even put in our own dialogue.

a few times we did the slapping only option - we all laughed so hard our stomachs hurt~[/quote]

0_0 you played video games.

WTF

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[quote]batman730 wrote:
As a kid I didn’t know the difference between “guerrilla” and “gorilla”. I didn’t even know that guerrilla was a word.

When I would hear about “gorilla attacks” on the news I’d be really surprised that people weren’t way more worked up about giant apes attacking towns and trains and soldiers and whatnot. This seemed like a really serious problem to me.[/quote]
lol me too…

And you’ve also just reminded me of another one - “battle rockets” instead of “bottle rockets”

4th of July used to be the scariest holiday for me

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[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]Edgy wrote:
goldeneye, with proximity mines and rocket launchers.

I spent endless hours playing this with the kids, and had a blast, always laughing.

we would even put in our own dialogue.

a few times we did the slapping only option - we all laughed so hard our stomachs hurt~[/quote]

0_0 you played video games.

WTF

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ummm - yeah…it was for the kids, I swear it was~

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Here’s something to blow your mind…

What are the things you still don’t know you’ve misunderstood???

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[quote]bucephalus wrote:
Instead of “Black Hole Sun” I thought the song went “Like the Sun”[/quote]

Haha the song still completely works with that though, maybe even better!

I’ve got a couple from myself and from friends when I was a kid:

I didn’t know girls had nipples until I was ten and some older guys showed my a playboy.

I used to think that there was an office underneath every intersection where people would control the street lights, using a camera to see how many cars were there.

There were these really big nuts (or something) that fell off the trees at my elementary school, and the kids would always throw them and stuff. One day, to get us to stop, a teacher told us they were poisonous. Everyone stopped, because they thought they were poisonous to eat, so there was no point in messing with them. Well I thought they were poisonous to touch, spend the rest of the day freaking out, and cried on my way home because I thought I was going to die that night. My mom told me they had special soap that would save you, but only if you covered yourself in it to scrub out the poison. I must have spent a half hour scrubbing myself and praying for god to let me live.

My friends thought that when you got change back that the cashier was just giving you free money, but I knew the difference.

Everyone thought that dogs were boys and cats were girls, but I had a girl dog and a boy cat, so I knew the difference.

Everyone thought that the plural of child was childs, but I knew it was children. I still don’t know why though.

I was 17 when I found out my middle name was “Jordon” and not “Jordan”. I thought I was named after the Jordan river because my family wanted a religous name. I was also upset bc when I was younger I had a pair of Jordan sneakers that I thought were so cool because that was also my middle name (I knew they were made by michael jordan).

Jordan was also my favorite athlete when I was a kid. I wanted to be michael jordan when I grew up. My grandma tried to correct me and say that I wanted to be LIKE michael jordan when I grew up, but I assured her that I literally wanted to be him when I grew up.

I never understood why he had an earring though. That was for girls? My grandma told me that if I was as good at basketball when I grew up as him that I could wear an earring and noone would care, but I didn’t want people to think I was a girl.

I knew for a fact which hospital I was born in, until last year when I found out it was a different one.