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I got my nes on november 5th1990.
I was 9 years old and around this time friends of mine were gradually getting nintendos as well. I remember kids in school would tell lies about random things related to what toys they had etc. I always found that really strange. It never occured to me to lie about the toys I had. Why would I? I remember a guy in school said he had every ninja turtle figure. Not only that he said he had an army of the foot clan! Yeah thats right he had got his parents to not only buy him every turtle figure, but also buy like 30 or 40 copies of the foot clan action figure!
Back then every so often Id go to random friends houses to "play". This basically meant play with their video games etc. One day I agreed to go to his house, but it wasnt until I got there that I said "so wheres all your turtle figures". He said he would show them later. I bugged him about it later and finally he said "Ok actually I just lied about that".
Pathetic. At the time I was like "why the fuck would this kid do that. It makes him look like a douche. I dont understand how other kids minds work at all!"
Anyway this leads to my question. Do you remember any lies you were told by other kids about nintendo? The problem was that back then it was really hard to verify anything without the internet. The lie could be like the one about about a kid owning stuff he didnt, or it could be about nintendo stuff which literally didnt exist! Here are two of my memories.
A kid names James who went around saying he had every nes game made. I wasnt really friends with him so I had no way to verify this. I had got Gremlins 2 for the nes so I asked him if he had Gremlins 1! He said he had! At the time I was pretty sure there was no gremlins 1 on the nes but I had no way to check this
Then this other kid marc (who Im still friends with) claimed that you could get Nintendo Easter Eggs. These were chocolate eggs with a suprise nes game inside. He claimed he got them at easter from his parents!I had never seen these but had no internet to prove him wrong. Everyone fucking believed the bastard too!
I was 9 years old and around this time friends of mine were gradually getting nintendos as well. I remember kids in school would tell lies about random things related to what toys they had etc. I always found that really strange. It never occured to me to lie about the toys I had. Why would I? I remember a guy in school said he had every ninja turtle figure. Not only that he said he had an army of the foot clan! Yeah thats right he had got his parents to not only buy him every turtle figure, but also buy like 30 or 40 copies of the foot clan action figure!
Back then every so often Id go to random friends houses to "play". This basically meant play with their video games etc. One day I agreed to go to his house, but it wasnt until I got there that I said "so wheres all your turtle figures". He said he would show them later. I bugged him about it later and finally he said "Ok actually I just lied about that".
Pathetic. At the time I was like "why the fuck would this kid do that. It makes him look like a douche. I dont understand how other kids minds work at all!"
Anyway this leads to my question. Do you remember any lies you were told by other kids about nintendo? The problem was that back then it was really hard to verify anything without the internet. The lie could be like the one about about a kid owning stuff he didnt, or it could be about nintendo stuff which literally didnt exist! Here are two of my memories.
A kid names James who went around saying he had every nes game made. I wasnt really friends with him so I had no way to verify this. I had got Gremlins 2 for the nes so I asked him if he had Gremlins 1! He said he had! At the time I was pretty sure there was no gremlins 1 on the nes but I had no way to check this
Then this other kid marc (who Im still friends with) claimed that you could get Nintendo Easter Eggs. These were chocolate eggs with a suprise nes game inside. He claimed he got them at easter from his parents!I had never seen these but had no internet to prove him wrong. Everyone fucking believed the bastard too!
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A friend of mine told me that with the Nes advantage if you pressed the slow button you stayed at the same speed but the enemies slowed down!!
I got the Nes advantage for christmas 1990 and when I pushed the slow button all it did was repeatedly press the pause button over and over. I thought this was a malfunction. The only game it vaguely worked with was paperboy cause it didnt make a noise everytime you pause the game. Whats weird is that on the box it showed a picture of SMB1 with a title "outsmart the fire breathing dragon [sic] and easily dodge his hammers using the slow motion feature with Super Mario Bros".
You literally can not use the slow button with SMB1 cause of the way pause works in the game!
Damn! Looks like that kids lied to me but not only that but the box for the damn nes advantage lied to me too!
Originally posted by: GameboyRicky
Sometime around the early 90s, I remember playing mario 3 with my older cousins and them talking about how Japan has a ton of nintendo games and we in the US just got a small fraction of those released over here. They went on to tell me how they read that nintendo just released mario 9 in japan while we obviously only got the first 3 here. I remember feeling pretty jealous and asking them if they had any idea what mario's 4-9 are like. They claimed to know all about them and would tell me a ton of details about each one. I distinctly remember them claiming how you flew around on an airplane in Mario 7 and fought enemies in different countries. It wasn't until about 10 years later when I realized they were full of crap at the time.
You should ask them wtf were they thinking at the time. Interesting to see their reactions.
I asked my friend marc about the nes easter eggs recently and he burst out laughing. I think he was as shocked as I was at the memory of having said that.
Originally posted by: cosmicjim
I had an uncle that told me he didn't play video games because they were too easy and that he beat super mario 1 on his first try. He had to have been in his 40s.
When I tell people I play video games.. cosmicjim's uncle edition.
This is what my Nephew thinks I do.
Originally posted by: bearcat-doug
I remember Nintendo Power saying Sim City and Deja Vu II: Lost in Las Vegas were "coming soon" for the NES. I'm sure those weren't the only games that they had in their Coming Soon section that never were released.
Hah, yeah I swear it seems that Nintendo Power was saying Ace Harding(deja vu 2) was coming soon for years.
...I've heard all kinds of stuff like this as a kid it was really hard to tell what was true and what wasn't
I know its not NES related but its still sort of funny
Got our bikes and rode up to his house. Sure as shit that kid had done it. About 20 years later the same kid is now the Lead Technical Animator for Call of Duty, he's been on the team since COD4, and we are still friends and joke about the games and how crazy it is he's part a big part of the most succesful video games ever made...not a lie but a really cool story. Also, this is where my name comes from.
Yep.
Originally posted by: cosmicjim
Originally posted by: bearcat-doug
I remember Nintendo Power saying Sim City and Deja Vu II: Lost in Las Vegas were "coming soon" for the NES. I'm sure those weren't the only games that they had in their Coming Soon section that never were released.
Hah, yeah I swear it seems that Nintendo Power was saying Ace Harding(deja vu 2) was coming soon for years.
I will be one happy gamer if that ROM ever surfaces. For whatever reason, the GBC version just doesn't cut it.
What a load of crap that was! If I only knew then what I knew now..
Originally posted by: nothingface023
I will be one happy gamer if that ROM ever surfaces. For whatever reason, the GBC version just doesn't cut it.
I've searched for info on that for a while and haven't had any luck. Considering how long it was "coming soon" my guess is that it may have actually been finished, but it was too late in the NES life span to get released. I didn't care for the GBC version and how they completely changed the interface from the NES games. I had Deja VU II for the PC and I thought it was a great game other than the PC versions didn't have any music which basically sets the entire mood for all of the ICOM point and click games IMO. If someone ever found a finished prototype for that game and dumped the ROM I'd be thrilled to finally get a chance to play it. From what I've read ICOM went out of business in 1993, which given the timeframe might explain why it never got released. The rights to all of their games went to Infinite Ventures which apparently went out of business as well in 2007, so I have no idea who even owns the rights to these games anymore. I found a list of people that worked on the game so if I could actually get ahold of one of them I might be able to learn if it was ever finished and if a copy does exist somewhere.
Originally posted by: JosephLeo
When I was a kid I was told that Sega does what Nintendon't. On the other hand, the more I think about it I realized that Nintendon't drop out of the console market.
But.....SEGA did make some killer games like Iron Man 2, and Fantasic Four: Rise of the Silver....awww....
WHO AM I KIDDIN?!?!?
Sega lied even worse, they said that my SNES nintendon't certain stuff such as high speed games, yet Road Runner Death Valley Rally out ran stupid Sonic, and I was told they had better audio-visual output as well which was a joke. They hammered it home so often for so long I banned Sega from my part of the house and refused to touch a damn thing of theirs until the very late 90s as they disgusted me.
Then in sixth grade, a friend of mine introduced me to my best friend Carson on the PE field, and told me Carson was rich and had over 100 NES games. I was jealously disgusted, and discounted it as childish fibbery. I later found out it was crushingly true, along with him having every popular toy imaginable. He gave me the 84 or so we could find in his garage in 1999 or so, plus his Ninja Turtles and He-Mans, and a bunch of other random figures.
Sorry mine weren't lies.
www.gametrailers.com/video/episode-4-pop-fiction/701748
Then there was another friend who said he mashed buttons on his PlayStation controller and somehow entered a secret code to get Lara Croft to strip down naked, jump into the nearest pool of water and float around on her back.
And lastly... my old college roommate that said he was level 60-something in World of Warcraft after 3 days of playing. Turns out he was telling the truth on that one... and soon flunked out.