Dumb things you did in video games as a kid.

I thought Sudowoodo is a Grass-type. To be fair, the game that I had was in Japanese.

Edit: How careless I am.

edited 10th Aug '15 2:58:35 AM by flamemario12

He is.

In Hamtaro Rainbow Rescue, I restarted every time I reached Flower Ranch because I didn't know that the ham-hams could climb up the fence.

edited 11th Jun '18 4:39:35 AM by TroperNo9001

When I was less than 10 years old, a friend of mine lent me a Japanese version of Pokemon Red for the original Game Boy. I had no idea what I was doing, but I loved it. Of course, I had no idea you could catch Pokemon either. I think I managed to get to at least the fifth gym using only Charizard and choosing which move to discard completely at random each time it learned a new one.

In the old Nokia Snake, I would kill my snake everytime I reached triple digits by letting him eat the very end of his tail. He would wrap around the area in a straight line.

In Wolfenstein 3-D (Second Encounter), I accidentally saved while dying; it was in the room with the big crazy man in white that tried to kill me with cherry bombs. That's not all. It happened when I was being swarmed by enemies, and I was so scared by it I would hide under my desk until it ended.

When I played Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga I didn't know you could increase stats other than HP, so that was all I increased.

I somehow made it to Bowser's Castle, but was never able to beat it.

I did the same thing when I first played. What's really interesting is the Japanese version, which came out a few days later, has an up/down prompt for selecting stats when you level up! I guess we weren't the only ones! I think even Chuggaconroy said he made that mistake as a kid!

edited 9th Aug '15 10:19:46 PM by Nintendork64

I did something silly like that too, except with 'Stache points. I think my mindset was that I'd be able to get really good prices in the shops, so I could just use items in battle to win. In reality it was my absurd crit rate that allowed me to win most encounters.

I did something like that, too!

I also did something similar in the first two Paper Mario games where I would only level up HP and a little bit of FP. If it wasn't for my massive HP in both games, I would've had my ass kicked by the final bosses.

In relation to Superstar Saga:

I hardly ever battled if I could avoid it, and never bought anything, so I was shit in battle. Couldn't beat the first Cackletta encounter in the Hooniversity, never played the game again because I thought that I had reached the final boss.

Dupe post.

edited 10th Aug '15 1:52:57 AM by TroperNo9001

I played through to the third to last boss of Kingdom Hearts 2 without ever realizing there was a main menu.

It took me six months to realize the PS 2 controller's keys were pressure sensitive. I was suddenly much better at MGS 2 once I did.

In Pokemon Ruby, I dove underwater to search for a Relicanth. Two hours later, I decided to give up and resurface because I thought that I would drown.

The part I find the funniest here is that you figured you could waited for two hours before worrying about breath

Your character is surrounded by a magical invisible air bubble. Or something like that.

I caught an Unown and I tried to train it. Let's just say that the effort isn't worth it.

At least I didn't grind it to Level 100.

The reason why I never beat the Elite 4, let alone challenged them in Diamond was because of my very flawed team:

• Empoleon - I never put my starter in the PC.
• Pachirisu - Soo cute! I don't wanna put you away!
• Dialga - Oooh, a legendary! I'm sure I'm gonna wreck the Elite 4 this way!
• The Lake Guardians - More legendaries, therefore more POWAH!!!

Then I realized that grinding wasn't enough, and also that my team had lots of gaping weaknesses...

edited 31st Aug '15 4:08:17 AM by TroperNo9001

Essentially anything I do in a game that's dumb now. I'm a child, waah.

when i played harvest moon very frequently, i didn't bother brushing my cows

or feeding them

i was very surprised when they fucking dropped dead ( at least in a wonderful life. )

oh, and when i had pokemon sapphire, i had a level fucking 100 swampert.

i went into the elite 4

and actually fucking won.

still, it took me forever, so ????

edited 10th Aug '15 6:38:27 PM by fancywig

There is a lot of dumb things I done in Pokemon as a kid that we all came across in our lifetime:

- In Pokemon Yellow, I thought it was a good idea to fight Brock right away with just Pikachu (I didn't considered the RPS system the game has and assumed that the battle will go out exactly like the anime).

- Also in Yellow, not catching any Pokemon but the one Ash catch in the anime. Seriously, I was stupid to ever considered Ash a great Pokemon trainer. All he did was use the friendship bs to win most of his Pokemon battles and catching Pokemon. I learn the hard way that I have to drain the Pokemon's health to catch it, and Pokeballs weren't cheap either. Also, it is impossible to have a team of all starter Pokemons to the team without using the trade system.

- Again in Yellow, Pikachu can't surf. The commercial and intro lied to me that Pikachu can surf. Why the fuck I get this game? Red and Blue allows me to play as Pikachu with the gurantee that I can start off with an awesome starter Pokemon. I guess you could say me getting Pokemon Yellow is a dumb thing I did in video games as a kid.

- In Pokemon Ruby, waste a Master Ball. At the time I thought all Pokeballs are the same and each different naming balls is just a gimmick to spend extra money. God, was I wrong. If only I paid extra attention to the explanation the NPC give on Master Balls, then I could of capture myself a Grounden and use it to wreck my opponents shit! Alas I wasted it on that grass brontosaurs Pokemon.

- Pokemon Ruby, the whole hold item systems . . . actually to be fair, I still understand that system to this day. I tried to understand, I just don't get it.

Now for some non-Pokemon examples - In Super Mario Advance, I didn't quite get that I have to pick up and throw to defeat the enemies. It was my first platformer Mario game since Super Mario 64 so of course I don't know this game's main mechanics (I assume I can just punch things like in 64, Super Smash Bros and Paper Mario).

- In Super Mario Advance 2, honestly I didn't get the classic Mario platforming format. I thought jumping on enemies won't do anything until I press B to pick them up, I thought I get multiple health points instead of three, and again I believed I can punch the shit out of my enemies. Only mechanics I get easily are Yoshi and Fire Flowers.

- Street Fighter 2, I assume it plays the same way as a Marvel vs. Capcom game. So I did not expect the slower more critical thinking strategy put into the game's logic. So imagine me mashing buttons away thinking that I will get a super on somebody.

- In any beat em up ever, I always assumed there was no penalty in using the special move that clears out all enemies that surround me. Boy was I wrong.

- Many Rare games, I didn't collect everything in the stage. Though I should say the same for any game where I am rewarded for hording shit.

- A lot of kart racing game, pressing the gas button at the very start of the countdown. Thank god my older cousins showed me how to correctly start in these racing games.

When I was little I spent a monstrous amount of time in the older Pokemon Generations catching Dratinis and training them up to be Dragonites.

I was a veritable Targaryen.

At one point my team involved 3 Dragonites, a Dragonair, a Dratini and a Charizard because I thought he looked dragon-like.

edited 11th Aug '15 2:23:48 PM by NickTheSwing

Lance would've been proud.

There was one time when I was playing a custom campaign in Age of Empires II and got so bored I selected everyone in my village, soldiers, villagers, every single NPC I could find and had them attack the nearby enemy kingdom. Believe it or not, I actually won.

Here's one when I played Rogue Leader, wasting all the Proton Torpedoes in the first level.

You know, the famous Death Star scene. The one that everybody should know by now. The one that ended with Luke firing his weapon at the weak spot in the Death Star to blow it up. I wasted it right away at the beginning of the trench . . . I don't watch the original trilogy as religiously as most Star Wars fans at the time. It was also the time where I thought the Phantom Menace was a cool movie and my opinions of Jar Jar is no different from my opinions of him in the Clone Wars cartoon (you know, the better version of Jar Jar).

I would of added the elevator thing in Carnival Zone from the game Sonic the Hedgehog 3, but that turns out to be a problem everybody is faced with and not my own dumbassery.

Better than the time I played Rogue Squadron 3, made it to the end, and MISSED. i got to see a special scene of Yavin IV blowing up.