Childhood wishes & Adult achievements
As a child or in our early days of gaming, there must have been a fair few games that were on our hit list. We could have been reading up on a hot 90%-rated game from an Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine, or maybe the cover art was dazzling from the shops we had frequently bought from. We knew we just had to have!..
...But for whatever reason, these game(s) had eluded us, and were never in our childhood grasp. Maybe it was too costly? Maybe we got caught up with schooling and other family commitments?
Roll onto the present day into the age of adulthood, now with some spare cash and change in hand, finally we can buy that darn game(s) we've always been wanting!
Question is: what game(s) did you yearn to have as a child, and have finally achieved to own as an adult?
...But for whatever reason, these game(s) had eluded us, and were never in our childhood grasp. Maybe it was too costly? Maybe we got caught up with schooling and other family commitments?
Roll onto the present day into the age of adulthood, now with some spare cash and change in hand, finally we can buy that darn game(s) we've always been wanting!
Question is: what game(s) did you yearn to have as a child, and have finally achieved to own as an adult?
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On a related note, I've nearly recreated the set of nes games I had/rented as a kid. I'm missing Side Pocket, Rainbow Islands, Mario is Missing and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
I was like 10 at the time? I got a CDX and like a few copies of Sonic CD now. lol
As a child or in our early days of gaming, there must have been a fair few games that were on our hit list. We could have been reading up on a hot 90%-rated game from an Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine, or maybe the cover art was dazzling from the shops we had frequently bought from. We knew we just had to have!..
...But for whatever reason, these game(s) had eluded us, and were never in our childhood grasp. Maybe it was too costly? Maybe we got caught up with schooling and other family commitments?
Roll onto the present day into the age of adulthood, now with some spare cash and change in hand, finally we can buy that darn game(s) we've always been wanting!
Question is: what game(s) did you yearn to have as a child, and have finally achieved to own as an adult?
I used to fantasize about "if I could have 25 SNES games I don't have, what would they be", and then go through every RPG my rental place had that I couldn't buy:
Final Fantasy II
Chrono Trigger
Earthbound
Breath of Fire
Breath of Fire II
Lufia
Lufia II
Lagoon
Brain Lord
Ogre Battle
etc
What a nerd. Anyways, I have them all now.
When I was 6 or 7 years old, I remember wishing on a coin in a shopping mall fountain to one day have ALL the Nintendo games and ALL the Transformers. But I don't really care about owning a complete set anymore ... and back then I thought that maybe, MAYBE it would amount to a little more than 100 games. hahaha.
And I didn't like Transformers all that much, even back then, so that was just silly consumerism at work. The want for stuff. In a mall. In the U.S.
Like many of you, I was a cereal-eating machine and a victim of toy commercials.
One time, we were on vacation and went to a mall where they were selling Chrono Trigger loose for like $75 at a used game store (Funcoland?), this was around 2000-2001. I wanted to use my vacation money to buy it (Grandma gave us each $100 for the trip) and my parents vetoed my decision. Got one later in high school around 2006.
I recently got myself a SNES and I love it. I have never really played Super Mario World until a few weeks ago, but I had seen my friend's older brother play it when I was younger. I have 32 stars now. Haven't researched how many there are total....feel like a kid again! Gonna play when I get home in about an hour. WINNING.
I won't tell you the total (as it seems like it'd be a spoiler), but you'll know when you hit it because there will be a star in front of the number at the select screen.
example (that cliff scene):
Contra, Castlevania...basically anything semi violent my mom wouldn't let me have. Save for a single Castlevania game on the Gameboy...because the main character was a girl and she thought it was ok to let me play a violent game with a strong female lead. I have a lot of the ones I wanted but not all of them yet...
I never had Contra or Castlevania either. I had to play them at my friend's houses. Another one would be Metroid. I finally have the time to explore Zebes.
but toys that passed by which i always wanted, but never got:
- first Lego Pirate ship from 1989 "Black Seas Barracuda" (number 6285)
- Thunderbirds "Tracy Island" electronic playset '92/'93
- original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Megazord '93/'94
- original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Dragonzord '93/'94
- original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Falconzord '93/'94
i wanted these so bad, that to this day,
i still feel like wanting to buy complete ones in good condition for display purpose...
never anything game related,
but toys that passed by which i always wanted, but never got:
- first Lego Pirate ship from 1989 "Black Seas Barracuda" (number 6285)
- Thunderbirds "Tracy Island" electronic playset '92/'93
- original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Megazord '93/'94
- original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Dragonzord '93/'94
- original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Falconzord '93/'94
i wanted these so bad, that to this day,
i still feel like wanting to buy complete ones in good condition for display purpose...
I had the same thing with black seas barracuda. I finally bought one last October. It was worth it, it's great.
mose specifically, i wanted all the Mega Mans (1-6). had 3 and 6 and wanted the rest. some of my first purchases.
also, i thought the Virtual Boy was the coolest thing ever. Wanted one SOOOO bad as a kid. eventually did pick one up, and ultimately got the full library. never lived up to the hype, but i do love it for the novelty.
I finally bought the game in 2013, I have no idea why I didn't buy it earlier since my NES was never really unplugged...
15 years later, I finally got myself a Mega CD and a very healthy range of games for this system. Graphics nowadays obviously have far surpassed anything the 90s could muster, but that Sol Feace game on the big TV display was something that was a nostalgic moment that will forever be imprinted into my cerebral cortex.
SNES was Secret of Mana and Chrono Trigger. Again rented those games countless times but couldn't afford the $99 price tag.
I ended up buying all this stuff a few years into the N64 life cycle when no one seemed to care about NES and SNES anymore.