Dumb things you did in video games as a kid.

"Yeah, I'm the best at Smash Bros! I can play a match against three AIs and win! I can beat anyone!" -> Young me not realizing level 3 AIs aren't exactly the most clever of the lot.

I had a tendency to use items in Mario 3 as soon as I got them, especially the Jugem's Cloud. Often this led to me dying on the level after the one I skipped, negating any progress.

I put two different discs in the PS 2.

I tried playing a racing game while upside-down.

That doesn't sound dumb. That sounds like a Self-Imposed Challenge.

No, it was dumb because I had thrown up the night before.

When I was very, very young, I played a difficult platformer. (I forget which one) I was too scared to move forward because I didn't want to be killed, but my brother would hold an action figure near the TV and pretend to fight with me, which gave me the courage to fight.

Anytime I saved, I had to save more than once. I have no idea why.

I still do that!

I always button mash things, even though I ended up getting killed.

Many a cry was had with Super Smash Bros. Melee back then...

I was a very energetic buttonmasher in the Super Smash Bros games. Always got a good sweat up. Didn't really press things entirely at random though. I rarely got killed. It was pretty fun because it was so difficult...

I used to push Donkey to the edge of every platform, just so I could watch the animation of him trying to ballance while his eyes popped out of their sockets! Plus, do you remember the checkpoint bird in Skullmonkeys? I used to jump on that thing again and again just to listen to the weird noise it made. One more thing, Crash died one too many times on my hands. Usually upon collision with Nitro crates.

Unsorted memories :

- The first time I played on an arcade (dunno what game it was, some cute japanese platformer, but that's it), my total playtime was of two minutes. Why ? Because even if I understood that the joystick was making my character walk, I didn't realize I had to push the other buttons for jumping, attacking or whatever, so I constantly walked straight to the first enemy and died.

- The first time I played Street Fighter 2, I picked Ken because the demo movie was showing him throwing fireballs. I didn't know I actually had to make some manipulations for doing this.

- I spent hours on one of the first levels of Goldeneye, the one where at the end you escape a military facility by piloting an airplane. Why ? Because there also was a tank you could pilot there, and all the enemies could throw at you at this point were footmen. Cue me squashing hundreds of them under my tank's tracks, even going so far as waiting for them to respawn for doing it over and over again.

- I once bought a second lightgun for playing House Of The Dead, even though there were no friends or siblings willing to play with me, just so I could play with one gun in each hand, John Woo style. Wait a second, that's not dumb, that's awesome !

- I was another member of the "BRAKES ARE FOR PUSSIES" club.

edited 13th May '13 1:21:33 PM by purplefishman

Mario 64: When I first saw Bowser's model I immediately turned off the game.

^ Why?

^^ BRAKES: With you there, Comrade!

I don't have time to re-watch Longfellow's LP of Super Mario Kart, but IIRC that's actually true in that game.

It's also true in F Zero Maximum Velocity, and these were the only racing games I ever played "enough to say I played them without blushing".

edited 14th May '13 4:30:11 AM by Medinoc

Where to begin...

• Kept using only special moves in Super Smash Bros. Melee.
• My Venusaur still knew Tackle when I was at the Elite Four.
• I was scared from Seafoam Islands because I thought that if I took the wrong route I would be stuck forever inside the cave.
• I was also scared from the Olivine lighthouse, because the whole "falling into holes" made me fear that my character could die while doing it.
• Also, I was scared from the Ecruteak Gym. Why? Because the strategy guide said "if you don't follow the path you will be back at the start", and I thought it was literal, so if I did it wrong all data would be cancelled from my save.
• I was a jerk with grumpy villagers in Animal Crossing, thinking they hated me, while staying all time around jocks.
• I didn't knew that I was able to run away from Mario!Doopliss when he blocks you in front of Twilight Town, so I was stuck in that point for months. When I got past it, I got stuck on the island because I didn't knew that Bobbery was on the palm tree.
• I didn't knew that Link could jump while holding a bomb, so years passed before I could actually enter in the Dragon Roost Island dungeon.

Spent hours trying to get up that endless staircase in Super Mario 64.

Hours.

Ouch.

I know dat feels, bro. Have a cyberhug.

I have blown myself up in Bomberman a total of 142 times. Yes, I counted.

I used to play through RPG's without changing my equipment once.

Kirby: Repeatedly dying by spark enemy in gravity section of the last level because I was to stubborn and thought I could just jump through it(I could've if I took my time) flying over it takes too long(I was impatient) and almost getting a game over.

In Pokemon Red, I gave all my Pokemon moves that were the same type they were.

At least they got Same Type Attack Bonus.

I used to play Mario 3 with my mom but we hardly ever made it past world 1 due to fighting over who'd go first in the minigames.