"I Love Nintendo" Thread

#1

"I Love Nintendo" Thread

Posted: 3/9/06 at 2:11am

Who owned the old Nintendo game system w/ the little duck shooting game that came with the gun? Good times...

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#2

re: 'I Love Nintendo' Thread

Posted: 3/9/06 at 2:18am

Duckhunt!

Part of the first Super Mario Bros.

Nintendo was the best! Super Mario 1, 2, and 3 (my fav), Q-bert, Bubble Bobble, Knockout, Tiny Toons, etc.

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#3

re: 'I Love Nintendo' Thread

Posted: 3/9/06 at 2:30am

I still have my original Nintendo in my parent's basement. I rocked at Duckhunt.

TRIVIA - You'd be surprised how many people don't know this. If you have the gun and another controller hooked up while playing Duckhunt, the other person on the controller can sort of control the ducks. I found this out just by f***ing around and started messing with my older brothers' heads. They couldn't figure out why my ducks flight patterns were always so much easier.

Akiva

#4

re: 'I Love Nintendo' Thread

Posted: 3/9/06 at 7:41am

Remember how awesome Super Nintendo was?

I love how the "scary" music on Super Mario World was just the regular theme song albeit slowed down to dirge rythm.

#5

re: 'I Love Nintendo' Thread

Posted: 3/9/06 at 8:24am

Two games, both for the original Nintendo, have never been trumped in terms of capturing my heart the way they did.
The original versions of "The Legend of Zelda" and "Final Fantasy."
ah! The White Wizard in his little robe. The memories...

#6

re: 'I Love Nintendo' Thread

Posted: 3/9/06 at 8:30am

I'm still addicted to Nintendo and love my Gamecube. I think I've had every Nintendo system since the original NES came out. Never bought a playstation or xbox. Now it's all about MarioKart and SmashBrothers.

#7

re: 'I Love Nintendo' Thread

Posted: 3/9/06 at 10:01am

I used to cheat and put the gun right up next to the screen.

Bway -- was the white mage supposed to be a girl? I always gave it a girl's name, but when it "grew up," it looked kinda manly. So did the black mage with the pointy hat, beady eyes and no face.

#8

re: 'I Love Nintendo' Thread

Posted: 3/9/06 at 10:05am

I miss the old school Nintendo. My friend had Super Nintendo, but my brother broke it. There was this game with little dinosaurs, and bubbles... it was so cute.

I have N64 at home, but now it only has one controller, so that's not very fun.

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#9

re: 'I Love Nintendo' Thread

Posted: 3/9/06 at 10:09am

Bubble Bobble! A classic!

What was that one where you were this Rambo-looking character, shooting a gun a throwing a grenade to blow up tanks and stuff while you kept walking and walking and walking up the screen? It was ridiculously hard, but there was an easy cheat where you could keep coming back to life when you died.

#10

re: 'I Love Nintendo' Thread

Posted: 3/9/06 at 10:11am

I have the old school Nintendo, I busted it out the other day but couldn't get it to work. When I get a little bit of extra money I am going to buy new pieces and see if I can't refurbish it. I LOVE THAT SYSTEM.

My favorite game was Contra (with the cheat that gives 30 lives, of course)

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#11

re: 'I Love Nintendo' Thread

Posted: 3/9/06 at 10:25am

My favorite game was Contra (with the cheat that gives 30 lives, of course)

Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A B A Start.

Colleen, I wouldn't refurbish it. The time and part wouldn't be worth it. Used game places like Gamestop usually have the old NES system for sale for like $30.00. It would save a lot of trial and error.

My favorite games for the NES are:
Super Mario Brothers 2
Contra
RBI Baseball 3
Mike Tyson's Punch Out
Zelda
Friday the 13th
and of course...
The entire Mega Man series!

Updated On: 3/9/06 at 10:25 AM

#12

re: 'I Love Nintendo' Thread

Posted: 3/9/06 at 10:34am

Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A B A Start

This was known as the Konami code. Basically, in every Konami game, it would do something good for you.

I am such a geek.

#13

re: 'I Love Nintendo' Thread

Posted: 3/9/06 at 10:36am

Even though I sometimes can't remember what I had for dinner last night, I take this to my grave:

007 373 5963

Anyone remember what that was for?

#14

re: 'I Love Nintendo' Thread

Posted: 3/9/06 at 10:37am

"Colleen, I wouldn't refurbish it. The time and part wouldn't be worth it. Used game places like Gamestop usually have the old NES system for sale for like $30.00. It would save a lot of trial and error. "

I've had a really hard time finding them around here. Gamestop won't buy old NES systems anymore, so none of them have any to sell. All I would probably need is the NES 72-pin cartridge connector, and you can get them off of EBay for fairly cheap.

I still think Nintendo should release like an anniversary edition of the NES or something.

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#15

re: 'I Love Nintendo' Thread

Posted: 3/9/06 at 10:37am

It was one of the Punchout codes. Was it the one that took you directly to Mike Tyson?

#16

re: 'I Love Nintendo' Thread

Posted: 3/9/06 at 10:38am

Mega Man was great. I also loved playing the original Castlevania game. Speaking of the black and white mages from the orginal Final Fantasy. I always thought the black mage looked like Orko from "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe". Another game I loved was Kid Icarus--just watch out for the Eggplant Wizard!

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#17

re: 'I Love Nintendo' Thread

Posted: 3/9/06 at 10:39am

oh my god. I love you (purely platonically) Calvin and Patronus. Geek out!
I loved Punch Out. It was so funny learning the routine of Tyson so you could take him down. And how funny was Punch Out, seriously, when they looked like massive giants and you were this little green twink with boxing gloves on?

#18

re: 'I Love Nintendo' Thread

Posted: 3/9/06 at 10:40am

Did you ever notice at the end of Kid Icarus, right before you get to Medusa, you can see the 8-bit bare breasts of the statues as you fly by them? Kinda odd, since Nintendo of America was a notorious censor. Compare the translations of the re-issued Final Fantasies to the original Nintendo versions, for example. There was a lot of "coarse" language cut out, if you consider a few damns and hells coarse. Which is why we were left with lines like: "You spoony bard!"

eta: Bway -- I never beat Mike Tyson. Never. I could beat everyone else, but not him. Probably because all my trainer did was tell me to join the Nintendo Fun Club and led me around on his bicycle.

Updated On: 3/9/06 at 10:40 AM

#19

re: 'I Love Nintendo' Thread

Posted: 3/9/06 at 10:45am

That's the code! Right to Mike Tyson.

I always enjoyed the Punch Out game after Mike Tyson got in touble that had a different guy at the end who looked just like Tyson in the game but was white.

#20

re: 'I Love Nintendo' Thread

Posted: 3/9/06 at 10:48am

Speaking of the 30-man code in Contra...do you remember the trick to getting unlimited men in Super Mario Bros by jumping on that turtle shell on the stairs

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#21

re: 'I Love Nintendo' Thread

Posted: 3/9/06 at 10:51am

Yep.

It was on world 3.1 and when you were getting close to flag and going up the big stair case you timed your jump just right so that would you jump on the turtle and cause him go in the stair and under you over and over...once your point count got over 1600 for one move you started getting 1UPs for it!

You eventually had to kill your self to stop it, but you were left with 98 lives!

#22

re: 'I Love Nintendo' Thread

Posted: 3/9/06 at 10:53am

Personally, I was a big fan of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Arcade. That and Duck Hunt. I was such a big cheater, I would always hold the gun up so that it was touching the tv screen.

Oh wait...I still do that

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#23

re: 'I Love Nintendo' Thread

Posted: 3/9/06 at 10:53am

In Mario, there was also a "minus world." I don't remember how to get there. It was somewhere in the first underground level. All the "minus world" was, was a water stage that went on forever. You'd just keep swimming until time would run out, and you'd die.

There was also a glitch where you could be small but still throw fireballs.

#24

re: 'I Love Nintendo' Thread

Posted: 3/9/06 at 10:55am

There was a secret way to get right to the end of one of the Marios from like the first level, too. My brother and I used to beat the game all the time.
I am still going with Zelda as the coolest Nintendo game ever.

#25

re: 'I Love Nintendo' Thread

Posted: 3/9/06 at 10:55am

I loved Super Marie 2 and Dr. Mario, which were the only games I was ever any good at. Mostly I just watched my sister play, she was much better than me.