For the Gamers...

I was in Nintendo Power for not only beating The Legend of Zelda, but for using graph paper to cover the entire wall in my buddy's bed room to map the game, including the second quest.

[Hangs head in shame]

Originally posted by thatguy:

Originally posted by TheDirector217:
I will be FAR more impressed if you can tell me that you were able to beat Contra with just 3 men. I think that feat got me in the pages of Nintendo Power in my youth . . . . .

i never made it into nintendo power, but i used to consistently be able to beat contra without dying.

Your coolness/"Q" rating is already certified, fam. This is merely icing on the cake . . .

Originally posted by vansmack:
I was in Nintendo Power for not only beating The Legend of Zelda, but for using graph paper to cover the entire wall in my buddy's bed room to map the game, including the second quest.

[Hangs head in shame]

I got Nintendo Power at like 7. Some kid beat the original Zelda without ever getting the first sword. I tried to replicate this a trillion times (upper right hand corner of map, 150 rubies), then buy the candle and make your way to the bow in dungeon 1 and pray for bombs/boomerang to work, but it was freaking impossible. I still wonder how that guy did it.

Originally posted by vansmack:
I was in Nintendo Power for not only beating The Legend of Zelda, but for using graph paper to cover the entire wall in my buddy's bed room to map the game, including the second quest.

[Hangs head in shame]

please tell me you have photos of this and /or links to this online somewhere.

Did that once, maybe. We were more speed players though.

Although I did get into Nintendo Power one time…I was able to do that trick in Super Mario Brothers where you repeatedly jumped on a ricocheting turtle shell (worked best on the steps at the end of each board) until you get a bazillion lives. I think the picture I took of the screen (that's right…nerd alert!) showed my extra lives as something with a crown and letters. Must have gotten 40 or 50 extra lives. I was always so proud of that*.

*PS Still am :(

Originally posted by TheDirector217:
I will be FAR more impressed if you can tell me that you were able to beat Contra with just 3 men. I think that feat got me in the pages of Nintendo Power in my youth . . . . .

*pumps Tiger Woods victory fist*

YES! :D

Originally posted by TheDirector217:
Your coolness/"Q" rating is already certified, fam. This is merely icing on the cake . . .

You've never seen him play Halo. Clearly, he peaked early….

Originally posted by vansmack:

Originally posted by TheDirector217:
Your coolness/"Q" rating is already certified, fam. This is merely icing on the cake . . .

You've never seen him play Halo. Clearly, he peaked early….

i'm still waiting for your reasoning as to why i can't really have a vag. how did i go from the reigning miss pink taco to not being able to be a chick? huh?

I feel you. My 2 proudest accomplishment gamer wise to this day may have been:

1) Beating Rambo. That game was hard as fuck.

2) Beating Mike Tyson. Getting past Mr. Sandman was nothing short of a bitch . . . .

I will place all on notice, that even after a 15+ year hiatus I will SLAY anyone here in some Karate Kid. In those bonus rounds, I used to catch the fuck outta some flies with those chopsticks. :(

Originally posted by TheDirector217:
I will be FAR more impressed if you can tell me that you were able to beat Contra with just 3 men. I think that feat got me in the pages of Nintendo Power in my youth . . . . .

*pumps Tiger Woods victory fist*

YES! :D

seriously. i still have a working nintendo.

do we need to ebay these games and have a battle royale or something?

Greatest/most ridiculous game ever: The Three Stooges game. I still LOL when I think about playing Curly trying to grab the beans from the oyster soup. Did anyone else play this?

Originally posted by miss pretentious:
please tell me you have photos of this and /or links to this online somewhere.

I know that my boy has the issue somewhere and that we took a ton of photos, but I've never seem them online. I'll see what I can find - maybe he'll post them on his myspace page or something.

I can tell you this, he swears that when he told the guys from South Park that this was one of his greatest accomplishments in life, they hired him on the spot. He ended up doing the animations for the mouths of the characters for nearly 7 years before starting his own company to do music videos.

And they say video games are a waste of time…

Originally posted by nkotb:
Greatest/most ridiculous game ever: The Three Stooges game. I still LOL when I think about playing Curly trying to grab the beans from the oyster soup. Did anyone else play this?

I rented it once.

Most ridiculous game: Wayne's World.

Originally posted by nkotb:
Greatest/most ridiculous game ever:

This is going to seem blasphemous coming from me, but Journey Escape on Atari was pretty bad.

speaking of uber-nerdy magazine submissions in high school:

one of my friends (ahem) was featured in 2600 for creating a credit card number generator for the TI-82

"these are the days, we'll remember …"

Originally posted by vansmack:
You've never seen him play Halo. Clearly, he peaked early….

until we get to backwash, where some people can't see anything and some people with nice big hd tvs dominate.

i'm so out of practice right now. i need to start a training regimen before halo3 comes out.

Originally posted by thatguy:
until we get to backwash, where some people can't see anything and some people with nice big hd tvs dominate.

Ouch. But I deserved that. The worst part was that I got a nice big TV and still can't see anything on that f'in level.