Edit: Some great comments here, I’ll be getting it framed as suggested.
Those were some good days back then, much simpler times. My parents took me to our local store to pick a game out, I recall it was dimly-lit in the electronics section, but like many others, I caught a glint from the gold cart peeking through the box. Genius marketing btw. This was back when you chose a game either because someone you knew had it already or because the box art looked cool. I was into computers/technology (dad was a computer teacher so I was very lucky to have a computer at home back then), so when I got home and realized it had a battery backup, my little mind was blown. Gone were the painful days of entering a long code a la Metroid, and I realized how the ability to save progress meant games could be made much more complex/dynamic moving forward. I spent so much time bombing/burning damn near every pixel in the overworld, hoping to find something no one else had found. Anyways, good times, and it’s cool this post made some of you smile, cheers.
My 7 year old just beat his first game too. He beat Pokemon scarlet and has since asked to watch the credits on YouTube like 25 times just to relive that feeling of awesomeness he experienced.
loztriforce on May 1st, 2023 at 21:54 UTC »
I was about 6yo, so yeah I died a lot
Edit: Some great comments here, I’ll be getting it framed as suggested.
Those were some good days back then, much simpler times. My parents took me to our local store to pick a game out, I recall it was dimly-lit in the electronics section, but like many others, I caught a glint from the gold cart peeking through the box. Genius marketing btw. This was back when you chose a game either because someone you knew had it already or because the box art looked cool. I was into computers/technology (dad was a computer teacher so I was very lucky to have a computer at home back then), so when I got home and realized it had a battery backup, my little mind was blown. Gone were the painful days of entering a long code a la Metroid, and I realized how the ability to save progress meant games could be made much more complex/dynamic moving forward. I spent so much time bombing/burning damn near every pixel in the overworld, hoping to find something no one else had found. Anyways, good times, and it’s cool this post made some of you smile, cheers.
Sumthin-Sumthin44692 on May 1st, 2023 at 23:07 UTC »
I just love that you included the “©” too.
burkechrs1 on May 1st, 2023 at 23:33 UTC »
My 7 year old just beat his first game too. He beat Pokemon scarlet and has since asked to watch the credits on YouTube like 25 times just to relive that feeling of awesomeness he experienced.