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Post by bkltc80 on Feb 22, 2021 9:29:59 GMT
Can't believe I am looking back at over 30 years into my childhood. I have recently turned 40 but it's funny I look at someone who is say 30 and think them old as I still think I am 20.
There really wasn't a legit way back then of judging how good a game was. Nowadays a quick Google search can give us all the info needed. Back then part of the fun and the experience was no knowing what you were going to get.
Word of mouth was very important getting together with friends in the playground and discussing the latest must have game. Also you could go round a friend's house and play a game together in the same room.
Also arcades to me were still very important. I have had to describe to my kids the whole premise regarding video arcades. If you enjoyed a game and it got released onto a home console you wanted it.
I wouldn't change things back then for now. For me the experience was saving up pocket money picking up a game taking it home not really knowing what you were going to experience.
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Post by segamasterdude on Feb 22, 2021 10:58:13 GMT
I think my luckiest ever pick up was Psycho fox, I remember seeing it on the shelf and the artwork caught my eye. I got it down and the screenshots looked good, it was those combined with the blurb that convinced me to part with my hard earned baby sitting/paper round and pocket money.
I remember reading the manual on the way home and by the time I got off the bus I must of read it about 10 times lol. As soon as I saw the title screen I knew i'd picked a good one and it didn't disappoint.
Im glad I was an 80s kid it was an exciting time in the world of computer games but we still built dens and made dams.
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Post by kungfukid on Mar 1, 2021 23:10:13 GMT
Don't know how I missed this first time around. Some of the time I was in the same boat as many others piecing together reviews from different magazines, and word of mouth from other kids at school. But, and I've mentioned this elsewhere before on the forum in the past, I was lucky that there was a kid from the year below me at school, who lived just two streets away from me, and he was one of those kids whose parents bought him the latest system and the latest games all the time. He had a huge collection of games in general, and when he moved on to the Megadrive he was happy to sell off his Master System games for only a few quid each, even if he'd only played each of them a handful of times. I could go round to his house and, say I had a £10, he'd let me try, say six games and choose three of them to buy for that £10. If I got pocket money the next week I could buy another couple. It was mainly through him that I managed to have quite a big Master System collection as a kid, I was pretty lucky.
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Post by segamasterdude on Mar 2, 2021 8:44:59 GMT
Don't know how I missed this first time around. Some of the time I was in the same boat as many others piecing together reviews from different magazines, and word of mouth from other kids at school. But, and I've mentioned this elsewhere before on the forum in the past, I was lucky that there was a kid from the year below me at school, who lived just two streets away from me, and he was one of those kids whose parents bought him the latest system and the latest games all the time. He had a huge collection of games in general, and when he moved on to the Megadrive he was happy to sell off his Master System games for only a few quid each, even if he'd only played each of them a handful of times. I could go round to his house and, say I had a £10, he'd let me try, say six games and choose three of them to buy for that £10. If I got pocket money the next week I could buy another couple. It was mainly through him that I managed to have quite a big Master System collection as a kid, I was pretty lucky. My cousins had a sms collection and when I was on about 8 games they were on about 50!! They had a bookshelf full of games but it was good for me to because I never bought what they had, instead i just borrowed them. My cousin still has his original collection with around 80 games. Hes never added to it but he has it on display. I recently put him onto a chinese everdrive clone and hes blown away by it.
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Post by Sinistral on Mar 2, 2021 17:17:03 GMT
Don't know how I missed this first time around. Some of the time I was in the same boat as many others piecing together reviews from different magazines, and word of mouth from other kids at school. But, and I've mentioned this elsewhere before on the forum in the past, I was lucky that there was a kid from the year below me at school, who lived just two streets away from me, and he was one of those kids whose parents bought him the latest system and the latest games all the time. He had a huge collection of games in general, and when he moved on to the Megadrive he was happy to sell off his Master System games for only a few quid each, even if he'd only played each of them a handful of times. I could go round to his house and, say I had a £10, he'd let me try, say six games and choose three of them to buy for that £10. If I got pocket money the next week I could buy another couple. It was mainly through him that I managed to have quite a big Master System collection as a kid, I was pretty lucky. It's funny, towards the end of my SMS days I had amassed what I thought was a pretty huge collection. (Something like 35-40 games) It was more than any kids I knew apart from people who collected tapes for C64 etc. My parents deffo weren't rich, it's just that I had pretty much asked for games every year at birthday/Christmas. My dad was one of those guys who tended to buy the cheapest games he could find, and due to this I had pretty much all the "budget" games of the time like Fantasy Zone, The Ninja etc from Argos. These are not bad games by any means, some very good memories there. I remember being amazed at the selection when What-Everyone-wants started selling at £12.99 each. That's where I got some epic games like Phantasy Star, Alex Kidd in Shinobi World etc. 1st Picture was around 1991 before an epic Christmas where I got loads of games... Cyber Shinobi, Alien Storm, Rambo 3, Running Battle, Shadow Dancer and possibly more.
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Post by Batman666 on Mar 2, 2021 19:05:26 GMT
Awesome pictures! Your expression on the first one makes it look like you did something you shouldn't and got caught. And +1 for the (what looks like) Masters of the Universe poster
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Post by kungfukid on Mar 2, 2021 20:08:16 GMT
Don't know how I missed this first time around. Some of the time I was in the same boat as many others piecing together reviews from different magazines, and word of mouth from other kids at school. But, and I've mentioned this elsewhere before on the forum in the past, I was lucky that there was a kid from the year below me at school, who lived just two streets away from me, and he was one of those kids whose parents bought him the latest system and the latest games all the time. He had a huge collection of games in general, and when he moved on to the Megadrive he was happy to sell off his Master System games for only a few quid each, even if he'd only played each of them a handful of times. I could go round to his house and, say I had a £10, he'd let me try, say six games and choose three of them to buy for that £10. If I got pocket money the next week I could buy another couple. It was mainly through him that I managed to have quite a big Master System collection as a kid, I was pretty lucky. It's funny, towards the end of my SMS days I had amassed what I thought was a pretty huge collection. (Something like 35-40 games) It was more than any kids I knew apart from people who collected tapes for C64 etc. My parents deffo weren't rich, it's just that I had pretty much asked for games every year at birthday/Christmas. My dad was one of those guys who tended to buy the cheapest games he could find, and due to this I had pretty much all the "budget" games of the time like Fantasy Zone, The Ninja etc from Argos. These are not bad games by any means, some very good memories there. I remember being amazed at the selection when What-Everyone-wants started selling at £12.99 each. That's where I got some epic games like Phantasy Star, Alex Kidd in Shinobi World etc. 1st Picture was around 1991 before an epic Christmas where I got loads of games... Cyber Shinobi, Alien Storm, Rambo 3, Running Battle, Shadow Dancer and possibly more. Yeah, I would have been around the same probably, around 40 game or so, I was just lucky to know the guy I did otherwise it would have been half of that. I managed to get some games from him that reviews aren't always kind to, but I always enjoyed - Strider, Basketball Nightmare, Golden Axe, Running Battle, are just a few. Great photos. I wonder if I should set up a more personal Twitter account, as I pretty much just use my account for work-related stuff.
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Post by Sinistral on Mar 2, 2021 20:45:30 GMT
Yeah, I would have been around the same probably, around 40 game or so, I was just lucky to know the guy I did otherwise it would have been half of that. I managed to get some games from him that reviews aren't always kind to, but I always enjoyed - Strider, Basketball Nightmare, Golden Axe, Running Battle, are just a few. Great photos. I wonder if I should set up a more personal Twitter account, as I pretty much just use my account for work-related stuff. Strider could have been a good one if it wasn't for the slow-down on the boss scenes and the "leap of faith" mechanics. I never had Basketball Nightmare back in the day, but really enjoyed both Golden Axe and Running Battle. The latter gets a lot of criticism, but for me it was okay, I quite liked doing that slightly buggy, stupidly long flying kick attack I setup the Twitter when I was a bit bored during the first lockdown, I'm using it pretty much exclusively for gaming/collecting chat, staying away from politics and all the rest of it with that account! Amazing how many SMS fans there are out there, I was hoping to try and entice some of them to the forums so I name-drop and point people to the forum whenever I get a chance
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Post by segamasterdude on Mar 2, 2021 21:15:23 GMT
I loved strider but in those days you learnt to love your games because it was a damn long time before you'd get another! That's the problem with emulators - to much choice its just so easy to switch to another game when you get stuck. I remember getting stuck on transylvania level on megadrive quackshot for days and I was over the moon when I cracked it.
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Post by Chunkchenko on Mar 3, 2021 0:06:05 GMT
Yeah, I would have been around the same probably, around 40 game or so, I was just lucky to know the guy I did otherwise it would have been half of that. I managed to get some games from him that reviews aren't always kind to, but I always enjoyed - Strider, Basketball Nightmare, Golden Axe, Running Battle, are just a few. Great photos. I wonder if I should set up a more personal Twitter account, as I pretty much just use my account for work-related stuff. Strider could have been a good one if it wasn't for the slow-down on the boss scenes and the "leap of faith" mechanics. I never had Basketball Nightmare back in the day, but really enjoyed both Golden Axe and Running Battle. The latter gets a lot of criticism, but for me it was okay, I quite liked doing that slightly buggy, stupidly long flying kick attack I setup the Twitter when I was a bit bored during the first lockdown, I'm using it pretty much exclusively for gaming/collecting chat, staying away from politics and all the rest of it with that account! Amazing how many SMS fans there are out there, I was hoping to try and entice some of them to the forums so I name-drop and point people to the forum whenever I get a chance Facebook has some pretty decent groups too. On topic for me I was really young when I had the master system and pretty much skipped the 16bit era. My older brother mainly had the sway on choice was a lot of word of mouth or buy it because the megadrive version is popular. Used to play it at other peoples houses and I remember getting a few of my childhood games because I played them elsewhere, borrowed it and never got around to returning them haha I remember always looking out for them at car boots and bought a fair amount of the games I originally owned based off the cover art and the screenshots on the back.
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Post by flatapex on Mar 3, 2021 14:51:11 GMT
Yeah, I would have been around the same probably, around 40 game or so, I was just lucky to know the guy I did otherwise it would have been half of that. I managed to get some games from him that reviews aren't always kind to, but I always enjoyed - Strider, Basketball Nightmare, Golden Axe, Running Battle, are just a few. Great photos. I wonder if I should set up a more personal Twitter account, as I pretty much just use my account for work-related stuff. Strider could have been a good one if it wasn't for the slow-down on the boss scenes and the "leap of faith" mechanics. I never had Basketball Nightmare back in the day, but really enjoyed both Golden Axe and Running Battle. The latter gets a lot of criticism, but for me it was okay, I quite liked doing that slightly buggy, stupidly long flying kick attack I setup the Twitter when I was a bit bored during the first lockdown, I'm using it pretty much exclusively for gaming/collecting chat, staying away from politics and all the rest of it with that account! Amazing how many SMS fans there are out there, I was hoping to try and entice some of them to the forums so I name-drop and point people to the forum whenever I get a chance Given you a follow mate, easy to guess which is me as it’s an author account
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Post by Sinistral on Mar 3, 2021 16:57:50 GMT
]Given you a follow mate, easy to guess which is me as it’s an author account Gotcha! Cheers mate.
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Post by Kaunisto on Mar 5, 2021 15:41:21 GMT
I would always stare at the artwork and screenshots then hope for the best. £30 back then was a lifetime of saving for me so was always hit n miss. Luckily one time I spent well and chose Wonderboy 3: Dragon's Trap. Had no idea what it was about but looked awesome and turned out to be one of the systems best games! Another time I completely made the mistake of picking The Ninja. I can still remember sitting there week after week and not being able to get past that first level! The Ninja was my first game and I was mostly happy with it. In retrospect I'm sorry I traded it away being frustrated on not being able to finish, not having found the scrolls. WB3 I'm fortunate to still have. I didn't really have anything to go on beyond Sega catalogs and few of Finnish Sega Club magazines - I think the only least bit informed choice I ever made was Asterix. Though I'm sure I had heard of multi-system games like Rampage, Afterburner, Double Dragon, Super Kick Off, Populous and Lemmings (come to think of it, I got quite many of those). But mostly I just had to pick by screenshots. I don't think I had ever previously played any game I got.
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