Man soooo many memories came flooding back reading your post. Chuck y cheese. Oh man i remember bring terrified of that animatronic band. They creeped me out for sone reason. But i loved the games there.
I agree with contra the spread was the best. King of the guns.
For mortal combat im pretty sure in interviews that raiden was inspired by the three storms. By the way big trouble in little china is still the greatest movie ever made.
Then you dug extra deep into probably all of our collective memories and brought up the mario brothers tv show. I remember staring at that show for a good year or two of my childhood. Along with tailspin and ducktails.
Super Nintendo. I was a Nintendo fanboy as a kid. My buddy a sega fanboy. I remember memorizing all the stats and facts about the super Nintendo and why it was superior to the Sega. And I'd scoff at the sega boys who obviously didn't know any better.
I found something in common with you. I suspect we have a lot in common actually but your martial arts back ground. I too was inspired g the karate kid and jumped in martial arts around the same age. Stuck with me for a good part of my life.
Beautifully written post and the amount of nostalgia and memories that came flooding back brought a massive smile to my face.
Dude, thanks for the thoughtful and expressive comment. Yeah, this whole contest got me like a kid all over again. I didn't forget all these things but took them more or less for granted. I knew i was a nerd and now i can tell how much! hahahha
I think a lot of kids got into karate over that movie. I sometimes wish we could go back to those good 'ol days! I wouldn't trade so many of those long nights for anything. I didn't even fully go into the next wave of games starting with PS1 and all that. Bond Golden Eye was fun and so many many more!
I am glad this helped you, and hopefully others, to remember some of these kinds of memories. The good times. We got an emulator when i was in Sweden and i played a lot of Shinobi and Ninja Gaiden. I really liked on Shinobi the round where you throw the Chinese Stars. Hope you have a great day/night bro. I am sure we will catch up more. =)
Right on Castle. Your emulator. Which was is? I used to have a raspberry pi. But i gave it yo a special young boy. His favourite game was UN squadron. Side scroller where you fly a fighter jet. Classic arcade style but stupid hard.
We were gifted a raspberry pi. It had a bunch of old classic Nintendo games on it and a few Super Nintendo ones as well. We spent a lot of time playing that during the Winter when it was very cold. Super cool that you gave yours to a special young boy. I bet he really appreciated it. Paying it forward!
Yeah he made good use of it. At first the controller was pretty weird for him as he was used to playing rogue legacy on pc. So a mock Super Nintendo controller took him some getting used yo. His favourite game besides un squadron was zombies ate my neighbors. He loved that game.
Id give anything to be playing next to him on the couch again.