ITT: Comfiest vidya feels >Be 7 >Wake up at 5am on Saturday

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>be 10
>playing gameboy in bedroom closet while drunken stepdad crashes through house
>grandma got me light addon, so i could play in the dark
>would hide slightly behind dresser with clothes hanging in front of me
>stepdad never once found me
>get my PSP every now and then and play games in my linen closet
>put a lava lamp in there to complete the mood

had to pay a heavy price to achieve this level of comfy

>>3366770
Sounds like the best gift grandma could have got you would have been a call to social services.

>>3366708
I cant remember.
it was a lifetime ago and things never really picked up.

>be at my dads on saturday
>wake up at 5am
>walk into living room
>fire up SMW on my SNES
>dad walks in an drags me back into my bed

Love you, dad

>>3366839
Probably his grandmother on his fathers side. I've been in a situation where I was abused by my ex, she'd beat me and suffocate me and all sorts, yelling and screaming at me. At one point we were evicted and had to live with her mother, who could obviously hear (and see after) how she abused me yet she never stepped in to say or do anything about it. There'd be times where I'd be sobbing naked by the door and my mother in law was in the hallway walking by.

Anyway, comfy moment:
>Wife asleep
>Decide I'm going to just download a game and play it all night
>Download translated Monster World 4 and emulate on Wii
>It's fucking amazing
>Graphics, gameplay, sound, it's so polished and I feel so captivated
>Lots of cool gameplay elements, like the stage after you lose your monster ally
>Did I mention that sound track?
>End up beating the game in one sitting
>Basically feel like I'm a kid again, the same feeling as getting a new game for the first time
I still have very fond memories of that game.

>>3366887
Wow, that sounds pathetic.

>>3366881
And rapes.

>>3366887
Hahahah what the fuck, you couldn't break up with her or call relatives or friends? Why didn't you fight back?

>>3366917
I knew this would come.

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>playing Harvest Moon for Super Nintendo in 1997
>get my first cow
>wanna name it Berta, but game has a 4 letter limitation
>now have a cow named Bert
>milking like crazy, get emotionally attached to Bert
>winter comes
>7 year old me didn't consider there to be no gras in winter
>no hay left
>Bert gets angry, eventually gets ill
>out of desperation feed weed to Bert
>doesn't help
>one morning my character wakes up crying besides church in front of a grave
>guy who sells cows comes up to me and scolds me how bad of a farmer I am
>inspect grave
>"Here lies Bert"
>cry like a bitch irl

I'm so sorry Bert ;_;

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>too sick for school
>mom is cool and she doesn't think I'm too sick for video games
>a day when you're a kid is long as fuck, and especially when you're not in school and sick
>feeling like shit but comfy at the same time in my bed
>fire up SNES or Genesis
>playing Tiny Toon Buster Busts Loose or Quackshot

I don't think there's anything more comfy than that that I can remember. Being sick with fever and taking syrup also added to it, I guess.

It was also one of these times that I finally could finish Quackshot, it was a kind of long and complicated game for me at the time, I think I played through it the whole morning to the afternoon. Felt really accomplished.

>>3366708
Nice pussy, OP.

>>3366918
>Why didn't you fight back?
He'd be in jail if he did that you idiot.

>Grab the newest release on my checkout privilege working at Babbage's
>Get back to apartment and girlfriend has cleaned it
>Unlock the coin box on my arcade cab where I keep the weed
>Other couples drop by
>Drinking commences

>>3367620

sup gramps

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>Be 5/6 years old
>Go to great uncle's house
>Gaming room
>Filled with old trinkets, dimmed beige from the light of an old overhead fan
>Clown painting overseeing a high up bed next to an old exercise machine
>Could use the exercise machine to climb up to the bed
>Look around at the games and the old CRT mounted to the wall
>Has a Super Nintendo
>Usual games, Mario, Metroid, Zelda, etc
>Notice a game I had never seen before
>Kirby Super Star
>My cousins boot it up and jump straight into Great Cave Offensive
>I'm Kirby, my cousin's the partner
>holyshit.jpg
>Literally the most magical vidya experience of my childhood
I'll never forget the magic that this game brought upon me.

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This thread has great comfy potential.

>Be 8-10
>Summer break
>Basement is half-finished and really cool in the summer
>Have crappy old TV with awesome beanbags and DK64 edition N64
>Get lost in OoT and DK64, search every crevice, stare at all the atmosphere

I think I get stoned when I game nowadays cause it takes me back to that comfy feeling.

>>3367620
disgusting degenerate.

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>those memories of playing kirby's adventure when I was 6-7
Wouldn't trade it for the world.

>now 26
>wake up on a saturday morning, in my pajamas
>play little nemo: the dream master
>realize my childhood and even my shitty teenage years are gone
>realize I'm not happy at all with my life
Fuck

>be 22yo
>boot up deus ex
>lost in a cyberpunk world
>game is so good, literally the best I ever played
>savour every moment of the atmosphere/story cause I can only play it for the first time once
>morning comes
>5am, have a cig as the sun slowly rises
>I'm alone in the world having one of the best experiences of my life
>at 22yo, realize childhood/teen years of vidya weren't the peak, still more moments to come

Life is beautiful sometimes.

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>be 9 yrs old
>still have nes in 2001
>play with dad every morning before school
>we finish playing and he turns on the news station
>suddenly footage of a plane flying into a tower

good times.

>turn 8 in 1999
>have a birthday party, all guy friends buy me ps1 games, we spend the whole party playing multi of Gran Turismo, Syphon Filter, Tekken 2, Twisted Metal, Hogs of War, Metal Slug etc
>a lot of friends and you barely get any play time because you are in eastern europe and playstation is rare in land of NES clones so you let your friends have their fun, whatever
>BUT that feel when you wake up on sunday, the day after
>no school
>alone
>shitton of remaining cake
>ALL THESE NEW GAMES AW YISS NIGGER
>that initial euphoria where you try like 10 games within an hour in order to decide on priority games
>whole day of vidya and leftover snacks and cake and unlimited soda

top tier

>>3366770
>>3366887
Well, this got real real fuckin quick.

>be 10, playing SMarioRpg
>Get into the sunken ship part, Cant solve the 6 letter puzzle
>"oh screw this" and go play outside in the street with friends
>after a few minutes, realize the goddam PEARLS password
>immediatly abbandon team (as the goal keeper) on a middle of a soccer game

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>summer of 86 or something
>be downstairs at summer friend's dad's place
>"it's summer boys, go outside"
>"naw, we want to stay inside and play this bomber game on your amstrad cpc 664"
>ok

pic mildly related

> go outside to check mail cause I'm bored.
>Big yellow envelope with my name on it.
> Open it up and find Dragon warrior game with players guide.
> Came with a years subscription to Nintendo power.
That and the new NES I got the Christmas before were the best presents I ever got from my parents.
> fast forward and now I'm 33
> Dad wants to know why I still play vidya games

Nigga you bought me my first NES and a years worth of Nintendo power!
That's like buying a drug addict a cack pipe and a years worth of Crack then asking them why they have a drug problem.

>>3366887
>she'd beat me and suffocate me and all sorts, yelling and screaming at me.
hot

>>3366708

That cat looks like he's about to deal some high quality loud.

>>3366887
>being too much of a beta to stand up for yourself even a little.

I can never understand people like you. It's more common with women, but I guess guys can be like that too. Why didn't you break up with her the very first time she tried to suffocate you? If not way before... holy shit man.

>>3367223
Fighting back is for retards. Walking away is easy and police reports exist for a reason.

>12
>OoT just came out
>just got internet
>start frequenting zelda chat rooms
>bunch of other little shits like me were there
>same group of people day after day
>personalities clash and mesh and everyone gets to know one another
>virtually no global mods around most of the time so "ops" flowed freely among the regulars
>sometimes one guy would get ops, then quickly de-op all others, seizing total control of the channel
>stupid power struggles, e-drama, other fun preteen shit, ban evading all day erry day
>that time i learned what "flooding" is
>one day some guy showed up with a CB Wiz auto-scroller and spammed the chat for hours
>was like sorcery to me
>mods couldn't stop him, nobody could chat anymore so eventually they all left for the day
>since no one else was around, the flooder automatically obtained ops, was now sole operator on the channel
>align myself with the flooder because edgy teen contrarian, and he seemed like the cool new alpha male
>he ops me
>shit post nonstop to my fellow chatters and abuse the fuck out of my powers
>one guy in particular was a total bro and we kept in touch over the years, even after zelda chatrooms
>daily bantz on the mIRC, ICQ, various messengers
>both preferred our anonymity so never revealed too much about ourselves to one another, not even so much as real name or picture
>entire friendship was thus pretty much based on same principle of anonymous posting that governs image boards, ie value on the basis of ideas expressed rather than who is expressing them
>based online friend, basically
That was back when people used to talk to eachother on IRC. Good times mang. I guess it's not that /vr/ related but I've seen the occasional retro-internet culture thread here so yeah. Close enough, I hope. There's more to the story but I do'nt want this to get too tl;dr right now.

>12 or so
>sitting cross legged in our office chair
>playing Shivers all night drinking Pepsi
I was into Pepsi as a kid for some reason.

>maybe 7
>going to Software Etc with my dad to get a game
>have to go back a few days later for the hint book
>carefully scribbling that yellow ink in to reveal the answers without soaking the page

>my whole childhood
>going into CompUSA because parents needed toner or whatever
>literally half the store is games
>wander slowly, looking at nearly every box
>fascinated by the looping video of the Johnny Mnemonic game
>just smart enough to not buyit

I have tons of these. Always fond memories. Buying our second Tandy at Radio Shack. First time seeing SMW was at a furniture store of all places. Coming home from school one day and dad had set up the Genesis with Sonic running. I had a great vidya-filled childhood.

>>3369235
Just had a similar talk with my dad (I'm also 33). Except he accepts that he was just always trying to both make me happy and keep me on the cutting edge of technology. He rarely gives me much grief but we both know all that time could have been better spent.

>>3366708
OP, you might like this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQt0lcsMvgQ
>Friend's house method
Fuuuuuck

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>>3369548

>all these memories and people you had a lot of fun with on shitty java chats in the late 90s

Somehow, I still have a soft spot for all these faceless, anonymous people. It doesn't really compare to image boards, maybe age is a factor, and the novelty of the internet and interacting with people online when it was new also added to it.

I don't have any nostalgia like this towards the past. I'm glad I'm not a child anymore. There was nothing comfy about it.

>>3366887

I like how this dude's is actually a recent comfy memory... not just childhood nostalgia like the other 98% of this thread.

>>3369673

I could talk about how good or fun I feel when I smoke a blunt and enjoy a game while forgetting about work or other obligations, but I dunno... I think a part of enjoying /vr/ is indeed having nostalgia.

Nostalgia has been kind of demonized by the internet, with buzzwords like "nostalgiafags" or "nostalgiagoggles", as if having or not nostalgia would determine anything.
Nostalgia can be fun, maybe not all the time, but if I'm on a board about retro games, it's good to read other anon's memories and maybe it'll trigger something about my own past that I haven't think about in years or decades, and that little nostalgia trip feels good, in a bittersweet way.
That's real nostalgia, by the way, when you remember something that you though you had just forgotten. Circlejerking over old games that you still play today isn't nostalgia, that just means you still like the game today, or that you cling to it for whatever other reasons, but nostalgia is a feeling that's spontaneous, not planned. You can't say "OK, today I will have nostalgia by playing this game that I totally remember because I played it last week".

THAT SAID, it's completely OK to talk about recent comfy feels, I just don't get why someone would bitch about people having nostalgic memories of their childhood on this specific board.

>>3369548

Hnnnnnghhhhh

>IRC anonymous friends

>randomers on MSN messenger you barely knew, but at the same time probably knew them so much more intimately than any of their IRL friends

>Hours sat at the screen exploring the anarchic wasteland that was the early internet, where there seemed to be no rules, it was like a completely new frontier

>so many diverse communities, from creepy fanfiction GURPS worlds, fucked up grotesque humour sites like Rotten, the beginning of online gaming clans, the depravity of furfags and weeaboos and all their new exotic porn...

And then somebody let the normalfags in.

Comfy gaming memories?

>Long hot summer when I was like 10-12, sat there at the PC in the kitchen

>One of those groovy desks with the tray that comes out for your keyboard and mouse tucked into an alcove in the corner, speakers and rows of floppies/CDs crammed into the shelves above and to the side

>Window next to me letting me see all down the street as the sun set on an evening while still feeling hidden and cozy, had the serial modem sat on the window ledge because that's where the phone line came in

>Spend the nights playing Comanche 2.0 and Command & Conquer

Fuck yeah those were the days

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>>3369684
I kind of agree with this guy. Getting a blowjob while destroying people with Wonder Woman made for a pretty awesome comfy memory, but it doesn't feel like it would fit this thread. I have a fairly low opinion of nostalgia in general, but this thread is a decent way to get some stories out.

One of my comfiest memories was getting a Gameboy and Final Fantasy Legend the day before going on a long road trip. I played it so much that night that when I went to sleep all I could see were green blocks and all I could hear was the music. That's a pretty cozy memory.

>>3369692
>>And then somebody let the normalfags in.
I'm sorry we can't all be a special snowflake like you.

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>>3369692
>>Long hot summer when I was like 10-12, sat there at the PC in the kitchen
>>One of those groovy desks with the tray that comes out for your keyboard and mouse tucked into an alcove in the corner, speakers and rows of floppies/CDs crammed into the shelves above and to the side
>>Window next to me letting me see all down the street as the sun set on an evening while still feeling hidden and cozy, had the serial modem sat on the window ledge

To paraphrase the dying last words of so many nameless cannon fodder goons in Perfect Dark:
>you... got... me...

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>Dated a psycho bitch for 2 years
>Always bitched at me for playing games too much
>Eventually got tired of her bullshit and dumped her
>Woke up the next day wondering what I should do with my newfound freedom
>Sit in my underwear beating SMW over and over again all day

Euphoria.

I had been a reseller for a little while back then and had gotten a bunch of copies of SMW through package deals, so I went through 5 copies of the game beating all 3 save files 100%. Comfy as fuck.

>>3369752
>I went through 5 copies of the game beating all 3 save files 100%. Comfy as fuck.
>100%ing the same game literally 15 times in one day
>repeating the same behavior over and over again
Are you sure you didn't lose your mind that day, and that you aren't actually the crazy one? Because that sounds like the textbook definition of insanity to me.

Just kidding though.

>>3369771
>Because that sounds like the textbook definition of insanity to me.

I'm still mad at Dr Phil for repopularizing that idiotic statement.

>>3369771

Not him, but doing 100% on SMW over and over is fun as fuck, especially because you can take different routes every time.

>>3369771
I just love SMW, and I thought it'd be a good use of my first day of freedom in 2 years to see how many times I could beat it in a day. Was honestly one of the best days of vidya I've ever had.
Some temporary insanity may have played a part

>>3369548
Continuing the story
>9 years later
>now 21
>going through a rough time (loss of first true love/gf)
>the aforementioned online chum is just chilling online as usual
>saturday night and we both had nothing better to do
>end up deciding to play DKC2 using ZSNES's broken-ass barely-functional netplay
>finally get it working
>have a blast playing one of the most fun, and funny, multiplayer vidya sessions I ever had in my life
>this was also my first and only time before or since playing that game with someone who wasn't either an incompetent female or a complete and total casual
>online friend was actually good, which made the game a lot more fun
>instantly go from moping and being sad to laughing out loud at his unlikely, accidental deaths
>shit talking bantz to eachother using the emulator's build in text chat
>him getting legit mad at me cheesing King Zing Sting like a bitch
>both of us getting DK Coins one of us didn't know about
>arguing over the use (or not) of save states, and who got to be Diddy

We eventually beat the game over the next few weekends. Went on to play some other /vr/ games the same way, but that one was the most memorable. I ended up feeling a lot better after that, and while it was happening I completely forgot all about breaking up or whatever. Overall was comfy as fuck.

The unhappy ending to my story is next.

>>3369964
>this was also my first and only time before or since playing that game with someone who wasn't either an incompetent female or a complete and total casual

This made me kek pretty hard

>>3369964
>3 years later, age 24
>have been playing WoW together on the regular for a while by this time
>then he stops coming online one day
>several months pass with no sign of him (never happened before in 12 years)
>understandably, I wanted to know what happened but I knew it would be hard to find out because, like I said, we had always had sort of this unwritten agreement not to reveal too much about our personal lives
>never the less, using what little information I had pieced together over the years I finally started Googling one day to see if I could find out anything at all
>find his fucking obituary posted online
>this is the first time I had ever seen his name, or what he looked like
>knew that it had to be him based on the date and details in the description, all of which were consistent with the time of his initial disappearance from the web and everything else he had told me about himself

It didn't specify cause of death but deep down I know he probably hanged himself.

So... the end.

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>>3370239

I know there might be chances of this being made up, but if not, shit sucks. At least you got to have your fun.

I only know that my cyber gf from when I was a tween is now some sort of gaming celebrity in her own country now, and is married with a kid.
I wonder how my other cyber gfs are doing though.

>>3370345
I still have a couple different letters I received in the mail from my own cyber GF's from when I was a tween, roughly around the late 90's. That would have been right around the general timeframe for retro internet shit, right? So I guess those letters would qualify as relics from that time. I'm talking like writing and drawings and stuff made by legit kids-during-that-time; full of vapid stupidity for sure, but kind of interesting in spite of that. I know, for instance, that the one letter I have contains generous useage of the term, "rawr," -- written, I would like to believe, back in the fleeting period of time when it was possible to use the term unironically, before it became utterly obnoxious. Maybe I should scan that shit and post it some where, someday. Probably not here though,

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>>3370413

I also had letters and also printed photos of them, but I threw them to the trash after I realized how dumb I was talking to e-girls rather than chasing real pussy.

Now I regret throwing them, as you say they would make for good memories in a kind of naive, non-edgy teen way.

Thinking back, those relationships weren't as fake as I thought they were. Sure, no physical contact, but I remember talking about very personal stuff, and hanging out for hours on the phone, saying mellow things to each other, in a sincere tween way, it's sweet.

And to think, back then trying to hook up with people online was considered a "loser" thing, nowadays nobody can hook up without tinder or facebook or something.
I had a lot of cyber gfs when I was a tween, but later I also started meeting girls irl when I realized falling for girls from far away wasn't a bright idea.

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>>3366708
>be around 15
>highschool
>best friends with this one guy and his brother
>snes/megadrive are god
>they have Snes i have MD
>learn about copiers via guy i have classes with
>save up money
>he introduces me to his warez supplier
>I buy a super magic drive 24M
>invite best friend over
>we rent lots of games for one day from video store (got a weird look when i said just one day)
>copy them all
>enjoy them all summer vacation with best friend
>winter comes
>Christmas time
>He asks me to introduce him to warez guy
>warez guy tells him a new Snes copier is coming, the super wildcard DX
>best friend and his bro have paper route
>nearly Christmas
>they get these little Christmas cards from the paper company to "sell" to customers.
>ring doorbell, offer card. get money as thanks most of the time.
>Best friend tells me him and his bro nearly got the money for the SWC-DX
>help him deliver last papers while he also offers the Christmas cards
>at the end he knows exactly how much he got
>find phone booth (yes those days!)
>calls his bro
>tells him how much he has
>bro tells him how much he has
>they got enough!
>drive to their home on the ol' bicycles
>collect money
>bro says he will cook up something nice for us when we get back from the warez guy (was cold as fuck)
>we head out
>starts snowing
>frozen
>reach warez guy's house
>go inside
>magical moment
>he pays the guy
>also buys some games on disk that we couldn't rent
>put it all in the backpack with a towel wrapped around it
>we ride home
>freezing, snowing, wind, darkness.
>finally reach his place
>go inside
>brother tells us the food is all ready
>hot spicy meat with hot sauce and bread and tea
>freezing and burning at the same time
>we enjoy and go upstairs
>brother has set it up
>sit in front of it
>turn it on
>colorful Asian gui boots up
>we load the first game from disk/s
>best moment ever when it started
>life sucks now, but those were magical days.

>>3370441
>falling for girls from far away wasn't a bright idea.
Too right. And in more ways than one.

Aside from the huge issue of distance, back then video chat was barely even a thing. And to the extent that it was a thing, it sucked. At least, by today's standards it did. In terms of video quality and connection speeds.

At least now there's decent video chat for people that do want to do the distance thing, stupid as that may be.

>>3370239
>It didn't specify cause of death but deep down I know he probably hanged himself.

That's so sad, but what makes you think that?

>>3369476
>why didn't you just leave your abuser?

T. someone who's obviously never been in an abusive relationship

>>3366708
>Be 2
>Really early in the morning, when everyone is still asleep
>Bust out of my baby crib to play my brother's SNES
>Watch cartoons

My favorite morning routine.

>>3370962
Okay, then explain it to me because it makes no sense. If someone hit me or tried to suffocate me even once that would be the end of the relationship right there.

The closest I've come was a girl I was seeing for less than a month started yelling at me that I went out drinking with one of my female drinking buddies and I didn't tell her first.

That was enough for me to end things. I literally can't imagine someone physically hurting me and then not breaking up with them. Can you shed some light? Why did you stay with this girl after the first incident?

>>3370946
Everyone knows you only use this trip for trolling and samefagging. It's pretty cringeworthy that you still use it.

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>>3370946

>>3371839
He doesn't think he's improving the board culture even a little. If you pay attention to the things he says when he uses that trip it's 100% weak sauce trolling.

99% chance that was just him samfagging to bring it up again in the hopes someone else will take an interest in his spergy little story.

>be 14 or 15
>can't deal very well with fatty foods
>saturday evening, go to friend's house with other 2 buddies
>play N64 and multi tap SNES games all night long
>we order some mozzarella pizzas
>always end up the night with explosive diarrhea

Comfy for the most part.

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>playing this game at my cousin's house when i was too little to even justify buying me my own console
It was fun, and those guns looked cool. Is it true a second player can control the birds? Heard that recently but can't remember.

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>>3370497
Oh man, those early days when the internet created more mysteries than it solved. Cozy story, thanks!

>>3370497

Grea story anon.

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>>3366839

>Be 14 and buy a used SNES with SMW for $25 from a video rental shop that was shuttering
>Took it home and just fell in love with it
>About a year later we've moved and go to Funcoland to check out used games
>Kirby Super Star is in the demo SNES and I try it out and beat the final stage of Green Greens
>My dad laughs and asks if I'm really sure if I want to buy a game I just beat
>I had no idea just how much more game there was but I had already decided that I just knew I'd love that game

Honestly, that game became one of my favorites I've ever played. It's just so simple, and happy, and just allows me to feel happy and bask in delight. I have plenty of other memories, but, for some reason that time in Funcoland where my father watched me play and enjoy a game meant a lot to me. He typically wouldn't watch me play games so I suppose that might be why.

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>1992ish
>Uncle buys a Genesis, gives us his NES and game library
>I'm 4
>Spend Saturdays trying out these games with my dad
>Some of them suck or are just confusing
>Try Final Fantasy, can't figure anything out
>Discover strategy guide
>Oh you have to "Equip"
>Dad plays, but he lets me "navigate" even though I can't read shit
>Dad is an orthodox Low Level Runner tho
>Spend week(s?) dying in the Marsh Cave, desperately running from everything
>One day I declare "monsters terminated"
>"how do you know that word"
>"it says so on the screen, right there"
>jeremiahjohnsonnod.gif

>Get Airship
>6am, I turn on game myself
>Max out TV volume and dance around the den to the Airship music
>Mom and dad start putting the NES in a box on top of a high shelf from then on

>During Fiend battles, everybody stays silent because THE NES CAN HEAR YOU
>Don't say "LIT3" during Kraken battle
>DON'T say "Warmech" in the Floating Castle
>NEVER SAY "CUR4" during Chaos Battle

>Finally beat Chaos
>He slowly sinks away, unlike any monster before
>No victory music, then music that sounds like the Town theme, but sadder
>Epilogue text, my dad reads it out loud to my sister and I
>We think it's the end
>A small line starts making a crazy shape
>turns into a beautiful "The End" image
>It took us the whole summer
>Do it again the next summer with 3 fighters and a red mage

Still my favorite ending, still my favorite game.

>>3366770
Glad to know I'm not the only person who still likes to sit in small spaces due to memories of childhood spent hiding from adults.

>>3368962
You have to find new kinds of happiness and let go of childhood happiness. That specific feeling never comes back, so you have to find new ones.
When people grow from child to teen, they give up a lot of old stuff and embrace new stuff. New fashions, new media, whatever. But almost nobody does that after their teen years, they just become adult children. You have to be willing to go through another transformation like you did when you became a teenager or you'll spend the rest of your life (and beyond if there is such a thing) yearning for a feeling you can't ever get back.

If you're a certain kind of person, raising your own kids can bring back a bit of that childhood feeling, but its mixed with other feelings.

>>3369012
It honestly was pretty comfy as a kid. We all got to go home early from school and I pulled my first all-nighter wrapped in a blanket watching the biggest happening of our time on TV. Felt like I was in a Spielberg movie.

>>3371209
>Remembering anything you did when you were 2
I call bullshit.

>>3376591
I'm surprised that you guys can remember all this stuff, since I can barely remember things from last year.

>>3376605

I remenber A LOT, and i'm almost 40.
visited a friend of mine a couple years ago and reminisced with him about stuff in the past, his gf just couldnt believe how we remembered stuff from all those years ago.

I guess some people are just born with a good memory.

>>3366947
rip Bert ;_;

>>3366708
>5am.
>It's just you, the faint sound of the TV and the N64.
>The rest of the house is silent.

I still remember how the carpet feels when you sit down in front of the TV. Good memories.

>summer 199something
>dumped at grammas house while parents gallivant in Germany
>whatever, i have my game boy and I love my gramma, fuck Germany
>whenever we go grocery shopping, im perusing the electronics section
>so many great games, cant remember a single one
>always beg her to get me one
>i mean, c'mon, its only $30-40 and it keeps me quiet. nothing but upside!
>she can't deny my logic is flawless
>but this is the LAST ONE anon
>okaygramma.jpg
>the cycle repeats

Best summer ever. I made off with, like, six games. I'm 30 now and that woman has my undying loyalty. I still visit regularly.

>>3366708
>be mormon
>monday is family home evening
>in a random act of awesome parents buy goof troop and tetris attack for snes
>mom, dad, sister and I take turns
>we all snack, laugh and count our blessings
Those were such amazingly innocent and fun times.

>>3369235
I played NES like it was crack, but I do not have an addiction problem. I don't play it anymore and haven't in years.

I've moved onto /lit/ exclusively.

>>3366708
>Winter 1997
>wake up extra early so I can run down the street to my friends house to play n64 before school
>el nino is in full effect pouring rain for days on end
>friends mom always made breakfast like hashbrowns and pancakes
>wood stove heats the house
>play dkr and goldeneye with friend and his brother while the smell of delicious food fills the air
>walk to school wading through the flooded streets
I still play dkr just for this exact feel.

>>3366708
kitty

I remember every Christmas that we got a console, my dad would hook it up to the giant console tv and through his speaker system.. just for Christmas day. He would always tell me that Santa came and hooked it up to the living room tv. It was so much bigger than my TV in my room at the time, it felt larger than life to a 5 year old. Those Christmas mornings were always the best.

When I was either 10 or 11, parents split up and I had to live with my mom.
Her idea of punishment was to lock me in a room, and wasn't allowed to play outside or watch TV or anything all day. Sometimes i deserved it for begin a little shit, sometimes it was just because she wanted to go out that evening. I remember one time I was in this certain predicament... my dad came by while she was gone and knocked on the window. He gave me his old nes to play to get me through the weekend while my mom was in and out all weekend.

He passed away from cancer several months ago. All of the family got to go through and claim any belongings they wanted. It's been forever since setting foot in my old house. I walked into what used to be our old living room. Sure enough, the old console TV was there... What used to seem like towers of speaker modestly sit on each side of the room... and the shelf beside the TV with the Snes and Genesis he hooked up there long ago just like all those Christmas mornings.

I miss that guy.

>>3371834
Staying in an abusive relationship isn't rational, and for some people it's very hard to get out of. When you're in a relationship that's deteriorated that far you're likely severely depressed, and when you're abused you feel guilty, like it's your fault.

There's a cycle to it, and it feeds itself into creating a stronghold on you. First you fight, then there are apologies that it won't happen again, and you hold on to that and it makes your will to keep it going stronger.

>It won't happen again
>I'm sorry, I didn't mean it
>I love you

And so you believe it. You think the next time will be better and this time is the last, and in between there might be moments of happiness that sparks the memory of being happy in the initial stages of the relationship. If people know you're in a relationship and that you're committed it makes breaking up harder when you're in this mind set because you feel like everyone would look down on you. It's hard to reach out because you feel like the one to blame and you don't want to victimize the other person, despite them victimizing you.

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>>3377781
Except for the occasional lurk on /vr/ it seems.

It's ok if you've been using again, anon. We don't judge here.

>>3377817
wow thats good memories you have. Hold onto those and cherish them. Family goes too soon as we get older. I will always keep the few retro games I played with my brother.

>>3377837
I like to discuss the past.

I know you won't judge that.

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>>3366887
I have a friend like you.
You are both fucking retarded,grow a fucking pair.

>>3377817
don't do this to me goddamnit

My dad is bound to go soon, we hated each other for years
We're from the south, he loves god, andy griffith and college football (Tennessee vols)
I loved horror movies, metal, vidya and trading cards (edgy little shithead)

we disliked each other for years but about three years ago I got into fantasy football, I'd call him for recs on who to start
We've bounded over football and are p close now

Anyways he asked me to bury his ashes at the 50 yard mark on the Tennessee field

you made me feel man

>>3377817
Can you talk more about your mom.
Why did your parents split?
Did she ever married again?
Who she was going out with?
Did her boyfriends came while you were in the house?

Is this /vr/'s /r9k/ thread?

>>3377979
Sorry for the feels.
Glad you're getting along now though. Even if it doesn't seem for very long, it probably means a lot to both of you I'm sure.

>>3377985
That's some oddly specific questions there.

Short story long, my mom and I never got along too well. She was very primp, and proper and I was a little shithead that liked to roll around in dirt, dig holes and jump out of trees, help my dad at his av/computer shop and play those brain-rotting video games. I'm pretty much the spitting image of my dad, inside and out.

Mom had an affair and got caught, and my dad left because he knew no amount of work would of fixed their marriage. she admitted to only marrying him for money, and hated how he acted.

The divorce took a while for some reason, I got to stay with my dad sometimes during that time. But after it was final, she remarried and tried for custody for me and won. So, I never got to see my dad much after that.

Still talk to my mom some, and do things for her. She has changed some since then. For the better I think.

>watching my brother play OoT because I always got scared at the adult link section with the redeads
I would do anything to go back.

>>3366947
F

>>3376591
Either 2 or 3. I remember quite a bit from my toddler years.

>>3366881
hahaha
This happened to me a lot when I got my SMS.
> Why did you wake up so early? go back to bed
Then years later they wonder why we don't like to wake up early.

>November 2011, sunday afternoon
>raining like a bitch outside, first November in years where it's actually chilly
>playing Deus Ex HR while listening to the rain hitting the window
>minestrone soup heating up, fucking delicious