You know you grew up with the NES when...

Okay, so this started as a car game me and a friend were playing and he suggested I write them down. So I figure what better place than here?

Anyway, you know you grew up with the NES when

• someone asks you where your girlfriend is and you say "she's in another castle."
• Once, you were lost in a cave, and tried to get out by jumping into birds.
  • And the whole reason you were in the cave in the first place is because you were looking for Adamant.
    • Or a princess.
• You think Back To The Future is a movie where a kid runs around collecting clocks.
• You think the proper way to kill a monster is to trap it in a bubble and then pop it.
• You wonder why Mickey and Minnie never shoot stars at bad guys in the cartoons.
• You're afraid to get married because you think somebody is gonna bomb you on the way there.

When something isn't running properly, you try to fix it by blowing its underside.

^ Funny, that's how I fixed the R button on my D Si. By blowing on it. :/

• You are stuck in a Zelda game and try to burn a random bush.

• "If all else fails, use fire" became the motto of your life.

edited 13th Oct '10 5:09:00 PM by Nyarly

... you believe that all you need to survive the dangers of The Amazon and The Moon is a trusty cane that could double as a pogo-stick.

... you have this uncontrollable urge to smack a big guy onto a converyor belt.

... you are wary about how the chefs prepare burgers and always check the buns and patty for footprints.

When you have problems reading your micro SD card, you take it out from the adapter and blow into it.

Interestingly enough I saw somewhere that blowing into carts made things worse in the long run. Apparently blowing into it didn't get dust out, instead it got your saliva and junk in there to complete the electric connection, and the moisture eventually made the circuits worse.

I heard about the "Blowing into it makes it worse" thing too. Didn't stop me. The cotton swab he suggested as a replacement did not work.

Cotton swab + Rubbing Alcohol is the ONLY solution for especially dirty games though.

Every time I get a new came, I give it an alcohol scrubdown before letting it anywhere near my consoles. If it still doesn't work, I don't mind blowing in it. I've never had a game break that way.

edited 14th Oct '10 10:51:42 AM by Edmond_Dantes

Back on topic, if you think The Goonies had a mermaid in it.

If you wonder why raccoons don't fly.

You wonder why nobody uses a whip in Dracula movies.

You have no idea who this "Yoshi" is.

The phrase "Minus World" means something to you.

You've ever referred to currency as "Zenny", and you know what the hell a Yashichi is.

You ever had a log book of passwords, and the first thing you think of when someone mentions Guardian Legend is writers cramp.

You regard the NES Competition-PRO (the first ergonomic gamepad of any significance) as the real forefather of the Six Axis and X Box controllers.

edited 14th Oct '10 12:43:11 PM by Nonapod

You want to buy a ceramic car that survives any collision by tumbling end-over-end and automatically righting itself.

—R.J.

You simply refer to gambling as a "money-making game".

You pick up especially cool items and raise them above your head, wondering why you don't hear a fanfare.

• You jump into holes in your back yard, expecting to find a kick-ass tank.
• You spend all of Who Framed Roger Rabbit waiting for Eddie Valiant to call Jessica's phone number (now a sex hotline)
  • or get killed by a cat.
    • Or find pieces of the will in caves.
• You wonder why the Turtles don't just let Donatello do all the fighting, especially when there are stacks of crates around.
• You go to your farmer friend's house and pull vegetables out of his garden, and are surprised the fifth one doesn't stop time.
• You're not worried about wrecking your car, because it'll just bounce for a second and then you'll automatically be re-centered.
  • Also, you think you're supposed to drive in the dead center of the road unless you're trying to dodge other cars.
• When watching motocross races, you wonder if racers can jump so high that they come up the bottom of the screen.
  • Additionally, you wonder when they're gonna overheat.

edited 14th Oct '10 7:35:59 PM by Edmond_Dantes

When you owned a NES while growing up.

...you've converted your vintage Robotic Operating Buddy to work on the Wii.

You can remember passwords much easier than you can remember a phone number.

... you inspect every duck you come across in graveyards. After all, they may have the silk bag that will let you live longer.

... you believe that all you need for mountain climbing is a big hammer to smack any birds, icicles, polar bears, or sheep/seals you meet. (No, I don't care if Nintendo says they're meant to look like yetis. Those things are sheep I tell you! Sheep!)

... given the question "Who is your favorite wrestler?", you answer Star Man.

... the first thing that pops up when you hear Strong Bad isn't the character from Homestar Runner, but the the heel team that the Ricky Fighters go against (Guilty as charged! At least during the first years of Homestar Runner <<;)

edited 16th Oct '10 5:12:30 AM by Servbot

...you eat a mushroom and wonder why you're not 10 ft. tall.

...you wait for a falling star so you can be invisible for 15 seconds.

...you wonder why Megaman doesn't exist in the year 2010.

...you wonder if "extra lives" and "reincarnation" are the same thing.

...you find yourself awaiting the release of "Super Mario Bros. 4".

You have an intense hatred for hunting dogs.

edited 16th Oct '10 8:07:40 PM by MajorTom

Watching the Angry Video Game Nerd's reviews as a form of therapy for the psychological issues the sh- i mean, bad games of the past have caused you.

edited 20th Oct '10 8:08:37 PM by joerc45

Speaking of which...

• You consider Street Fighter II and its sequels Dis Continuity because none of them ever mention Ken becoming a scientist.
• You take up jogging and speaking like Bill and Ted because you think both will help you develop magical powers.
• You walk around on peninsulas hoping to discover dinosaurs.
• You wonder why real life boomerangs don't fly in an arc and return to you.
  • Or why they don't stay on course despite colliding with something.
• You break random blocks because you think goodies are hidden inside.
• After pulling an all-nighter, you can't help but think "the sunrise has come to vanquish the terrible night"

...you discard all your kitchen cutlery because you have a perfectly good bottle of what you believe to be holy water somewhere.

When you found out Samus is a girl, you were suprised.