"The Moment"

[NintendoLegend]

Do you have one particular Moment you can share -- when you realized that the NES was something special? Whether that means it was special to you personally, or you knew it was a historical console, or you just knew it represented the bigger picture of home video gaming as being a major player in world culture, I just wonder if anyone else has one particular event in mind.

[kevinleft]

Oh yes I do, growing up with such consoles as Colecovision and Atari we (my family) only played the games offerered in those systems in bite size gameplay, e.g. 20-30 minutes before we got bored.

When the NES arrived my family and I spent hours playing the games on it. Contra , Super Mario Bros. and of course Bubble Bobble. To this day my brother and I STILL play Bubble Bobble. I knew this thing was going to be big when I found out that I can literally sit there for hours and play (and hope it doesn't screw up which it did).

Also unlike the Atari or Coleco EVERYONE I KNEW growing up had a Nintendo. Which meant more games for us all because we would borrow each others game.

Useless Trivia about me : I thought for the longest time the game Pac-Man was Bat-Man growing up, I don't know why, one day my friend let me borrow Pac-Man and I was positive it was Bat-Man (they sound similar maybe?) so imagine my surprise when i though the yellow ball was supposed to be Bat-Man and the ghosts were the villains. I was a dumb kid.

[enjoyvideogaming]

Well, I was born a year before the NES came out in the US, so I've pretty much always been around it. My Brother used to play it to death, but I was usually the onlooker. We'd play two-player games together every once in awhile, but I knew I held him back so I would mostly watch.

I'd say it would have to be more recently that I decided to take on the NES myself. I found MY first NES next to a dumpster when I was in High School and still have it to this day. Even then, I didn't play it much.

Around April of 2009 I decided that I wanted to get more games and start collecting it. I believe it was that decision that made it "the moment" that NES became special. I got to discover the system for myself, not through my Brother. Not that anything was wrong with that, but it certainly is different to experience it for yourself.

So there you have it, around 24 years after the NES is released I decided to fall in love with it.

[MattWritesStuff]

My moment was bitter. It was the day I got a Nintendo Power in the mail, like I did every month, and realized that there were no NES games reviewed between its covers. Make no mistake, I love the SNES just as much, but seeing the old duffer finally slip away for good kinda sucked.

[NintendoLegend]

Aug 13, 2011 22:39:58 GMT -6 enjoyvideogaming said:

Well, I... found MY first NES next to a dumpster when I was in High School and still have it to this day.

Wait, what? Uh... awesome.

[Egg Says Whut?]

Much like enjoyvideogaming, I was usually a spectator, watching my older brother play the Super Mario games (his favourite was number three). As I mentioned in my introductory thread, my fondest memory from that game is the quite frankly terrifying Angry Sun.

I first realised just how big the NES was when I noticed a whole bunch of kids wearing Super Mario Bros 3 t-shirts one Summer. I thought only I knew about Mario, but suddenly - everywhere I went - these other kids just kept popping up wearing Mario t-shirts.

- Billy

[lorfarius]

For me it was when I had been kicked out of a friends house because we were fighting (we were only 6/7), only to sit outside and hear him play Super Mario Bros. I can still remember staring through the corner of the window desperate to play!