ITT: Wrong Shit you thought as a kid

>>3685491
>>I thought the company Apogee was pronounced a-PAW-gee, instead of AHPO-gee
Well I hope you're not still saying "Eye Dee Software"

I thought I was having fun playing the games I liked, but thanks to /vr/ I now know my taste was shit and I should feel ashamed.

>thought any Pokemon attack that didn't do actually damage was just in the game for flavor.
>Actually waited for the SS Anne to return

>>3685540
this. fucking this.

>>3685491
>>I thought the company Apogee was pronounced a-PAW-gee, instead of AHPO-gee

I thought this up until I just read this. I'm 30 years old.

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I'm not from US so I had some big misconceptions
> I thought SNES was Nintendo's first console and every other Mario game made for Dendy was pirated shit
> I thought MK games were base on the movie, not the other way round

>>3685491
>I though the berserk fists in Doom only lasted as long as the red screen
Wait, how long do they last?!

>>3687306
The entire stage. Once the map ends, it resets.

When I was a kid I was still learning to read so I thought digletts sprite in pokemon red was some kind of octopus or squid

When used by the mc

>>3686938
not quite the same but I had that point when I was little where I thought the Pokemon games were an adaptation of "the cartoon" instead of being the other way around; I didn't even realize Nintendo (well, GameFreak) made them until I saw Pikachu in Smash 64 because I never actually had a GameBoy

>>3687306
>>3687391
Does the red glow indicate ANYTHING? I can't remember, for the life of me.

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I has a friend who used to pronounce these guys as "Kay-ohs". I guess he thought it was pronounced like the word chaos, as in chaos emerald.

>>3687391
>>3687306
>>3685491
I was aware of this, but it's supposed to be a glitch, right?

>>3687391
Mind is blown

>>3688250
i pronounced them chows
sounds cuter

I thought the number next to your file in SMW was your completion percentage and spent ages looking for that last 4 percent.

>>I thought there was a secret Citadel level in goldeneye
There IS a secret Citadel level in Goldeneye, if you have a Gameshark.
http://web.archive.org/web/20081219165443/http://goldeneye.detstar.com/citadelfound/index.asp

>>3685540
Honestly I still really don't use stat booster/decreaser moves

>>3688343
this

>>3688250
they pronounce the name of their species so I can't understand this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzIw_g7F0uE

>>3688534
This

>>3688250
My childhood friend did this too. I didn't question it then, but I'm pretty sure he played through Adventure 1 by that time so I don't get why.

I still like to call them that. "Chow" just makes me think of dog food.

Because the graphics weren't as clear in the Genesis port of Altered Beast, I used to think the wolves that run across the screen were pigs.

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This one's really retarded, but I didn't know who Captain Falcon was because I never played F-Zero. So when I played him in Smash Bros. and I saw both Samus and Capt. had this glow around them when they did their "B" attack, I assumed they were related characters. So I went to a kids house and convinced them they could play Super Metroid in a 2 player mode, with the second character being Capt. Falcon. So I spent hours trying to try in a code on the title screen to unlock 2 player in Super Metroid.

>>3685532
HTFE can it be pronounced?!

For a long time I thought ether was pronounced "ehh-ther"

>>3688232
>>3688892
this

I thought in Sonic you fight Eggman since Robotnik looks exactly like him FFS DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE

Also thought that in sokoban the main guy got his payment in sex since every level had a female name on sega. I still maintain this.

>>3688885
"id", one syllable. Not the letters.

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>I always thought Dr.Robotnic aka Dr.Eggman was from our universe, the "human" universe, and was exiled to Sonics universe as punishment for being evil in the original games.

>I thought Sonic Adventure series was about the Sonic characters somehow ending up in the human universe.

>Thought Sonics brother was a secret hidden character

>I thought Mew was under that truck

>thought you could ride Yoshi in Mario 64

>thought you could get out of the cart in Pokemon Snap and walk around

>I thought Luigi was called Luigi-O

>I thought the black dude from Streets of Rage was a secret character I had unlocked already since I got the game used, and the demo version of the game didn't have him.

>thought Toads hat was part of his body

>thought Ryu was white (still looks white to me)

>I thought Donkey Kong from the original Donkey Kong, and Doney Kong from Donkey Kong country were the same character

>>3688950
>>thought Ryu was white (still looks white to me)
how about

>thought Ken was white
>which he apparently isn't
>even though he's blond and has blue eyes and lives in America and his name is "Ken Masters"

>>3688964
Really? Ken was white in the movie

>>3685491
>>I though the berserk fists in Doom only lasted as long as the red screen
Well shit, guess I just became an adult now then.

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I thought Zelda was a girl, specially because there's plenty androgynous art for Zelda II (pic related)

>>3689024

Not the same guy, but year, I too only found this out after I was in my mid 20's, years after playing the game.

>Pronouncing Mario as Meh-Rio.
>Pronouncing Ryu Hayabusa as "Rai-U Hey-A-Buu-Sa"
>Pressing X hard enough can't go any faster
>Trying to do a manual after a spine transfer/acid drop at the perfect timing continues the combo string.
Childhood gaming problems 101.

>>3688830
>you were That Kid
To think That Kid was often probably just confused and actually had no ill intentions whenever they'd try to bullshit me about videogames.
Reminds me of one kid at school who tried to convince me once that nintendo's then upcoming console would be called "E3". I could see where his confusion had come from but he would simply not listen to my explanations.

>>3689026
Is this bait?

>>3688250
It was the opposite for me. I pronounced the chaos in chaos emerald like "chows'

>>3688238
>>3688290

It would be annoying as hell if the red screen lasted the entire stage.

>>3688238
I think it's actually supposed to be a drawback to not make it OP?

>>3689040
>Trying to do a manual after a spine transfer/acid drop at the perfect timing continues the combo string.
that's what reverts are for

>>3685491
>if nes is 8bit, snes 16bit and n64 64bit, gc must be 128bit and 7th gen 256bit, am i right?

>>3691230
I'm quite sure either the GCN or the PS2 was actually advertised as 128bits very early on.

>>3685491
>I thought the company Apogee was pronounced a-PAW-gee, instead of AHPO-gee

You just changed my life.

>>3688830
I wasnt AS retarded as you but I didnt know who Captain Falcon was when first playing Smash either. Just thought it was some random.

>>3688238
>Does the red glow indicate ANYTHING?
If you mean the timer until it fades, no, it does not. But it's a nice indicator that you've picked up a berserk since you might think it was a medkit otherwise. I think the Doom manual says something about the redness being from the capillaries in your eyes bursting, so that's an amusing lore reason I guess.

An employee of the Nintendo hotline mocked me openly down the phone over my childlike pronunciation of Akklaim (in fairness i was about 9.)

I used to think writing game names on diskettes would allow you to play said game. So I wrote shit like Captain Blood all over my brothers pirate games in an attempt to play it.

>>3689278
Damn it, me too. I had forgotten about that. Even got into some fights in middle school because me and some other kids got so mad because other people were "pronouncing it wrong".

>>3688950
Boy, you sure were an easily bamboozled kid, weren't you? Or maybe you were just naive and "wanted to believe"?

>>3689040
>Mehrio
This is unironically a trigger for me. I get intensely buttmad when people pronounce it this way.

>Theme Hospital
>My brother and I were convinced that whenever a doctor's bio said "Who couldn't care less" it was a good thing

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>>3688950
>I thought Luigi was called Luigi-O
spicy

>>3690857
Now that I think of it, that's true. Explains a whole lot, thanks.

>>3691201
It was a drawback? Was it really that hard to see with it? I haven't played without a source port in the longest time, was the red screen more opaque in vanilla or something?

>>3691253
I think I remember something kind of like that, too. I just can't recall exactly where - maybe I'm remembering something that never happened.

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>>3685491
wew

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>>3691761
ups

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>>3688975
Ken is supposed to be mixed Japanese-Caucasian. He doesn't usually look it, but then again neither does Ryu.

>>3688885
As a word, not as an acronym.
It's not id as in identification, it's id as in id, ego and superego.

>>3691910
So "eye dee", "e jee oe" and "ess e jee oe"?

>>3689040
You're supposed to revert right as you come back down, then manual.

>>3688950
> Dr.Robotnic aka Dr.Eggman
They are not each other's akas you fucking retard. Robotnic is Eggman's granpa

>>3692601
>Robotnic is Eggman's granpa
whut

>>3692604
Check the cartoon you fucking nigger. Maybe grangranpa or something, but that doesn't matter.

>>3688950
>>thought you could ride Yoshi in Mario 64
Me too. I thought if you got all the stars, it would unlock Yoshi.

I was convinced that Dr. Eggman/Robotnik was called "Dr. Moustache".

Also that Sub-zero was called "The Freezer". I know his name was right there on his lifebar so don't ask about this one, I can't even remember myself.

Also that in the red portal stage (in MK2) you could fight the wizards in the background and go through the portal. Actually there was a kid in my neighborhood who supposedly had done it, he was kind of a legend.

That Castlevania was called "Caster Mania".

>>3692601
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Eggman

>>3692601
>>3692604
>>3692606
In game canon they are the same person. In sonic generations the name change is very briefly discussed in a cutscene.
In comic canon Dr. Robotnik created a robot in his own likeness called Eggman. After Robotnik dies in issue 50, and a few other events, Snivy, Robotnik's assistant, activates Eggman to take Robotnik's place.

as a kid i thought NeoRageX was a compilation of Wndows games and NeoGeo was a PC game company.

>>3692623
>and go through the portal

Technically that's what you did when you got to one of the secret fighters you activated on that level. I think it was Human Smoke?

>>3692701
What was the discussion? Why the name change?

>>3691253
Probably the PS2, because it has a CPU capable of 128bit SIMD instructions

Still, far from being an actual 128bit CPU

>>3693239
Robotnik is his family name. He's Ivo Robotnik, his grandpa is Gerald Robotnik. Eggman is a nickname Sonic gave him.

>>3689026
Link to the past was my first zelda so I naturally assumed link to be zelda.
>Mfw I legitimately thought it would make zero sense to name a game after the bitch u have to save instead of link the main character

>>3688950
>>I thought Donkey Kong from the original Donkey Kong, and Doney Kong from Donkey Kong country were the same character
and they aren't?

>>3695719
cranky kong is the original donkey kong

>>3685532
>Well I hope you're not still saying "Eye Dee Software"
:(

>>3688950
I think Toad's mushroom cap was only a hat in the SMB cartoon. It was never suggested as otherwise in the games.

>>3691230
Now, I actually am new here- just passing through- but what exactly do the different bit amounts signify for the CPU? I know how n-bit images and number strings work, but how does that apply to the CPU?

>>3691630
How did you pronounce it?

>>3687391

You just blew my fucking mind man.

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>>3691253
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Another one, and in better res

>>3689264
Why? Zelda indeed looked like a girl to me too, after hearing how he swing the sword i realized that is a boy, i dont understand why his name is Zelda,sounds like girl name to me tbqh

>>3695838
>>3693937

Wtf when did I miss so much lore?

>>3698876
Dunno. Cranky = original DK has been there since the beginning while Eggman was his Jap name and Robotnik was US and maybe elsewhere and everything in this thread is just retcon buttfuckery.