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holy crap, I remember that game!
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That probe droid was hard to kill!
ZOMG! BATTLETOADS! Man, I don't think I ever got past that hoverbike level. In my defense, we didn't own the game, we just rented it occasionally from whatever was the game-renting equivalent of Blockbuster at the time (or was Blockbuster renting out games by then? I don't remember). So I didn't get a lot of time to practice.
You know what else was hard (at least for the 7-year-old I was at the time)? Dragon Warrior. Don't get me wrong, I liked it, I just didn't really get the concept of RPGs. If the slimes didn't get me, a wyvern would. It's not that I didn't get the turn-based combat, it was the upgrading my weapons and armor sufficiently that I had trouble with. I could make it to the first town, where you go up and left a bit, and I bought the leather armor but beyond that I always got killed. And I didn't know what to do with the pond that cured rheumatism. What was that for anyway? I got some cheat codes eventually and wandered around - the Swamp Cave definitely rings a bell - but that wasn't very satisfying.
As with Battletoads, this one wasn't mine, it belonged to a friend so again I didn't get a lot of chances to play it. I did have some games, although I vaguely remember the NES technically belonged to my younger brother. I don't know why. Because girls don't play video games, I guess. I was damn good at Mario 3.
That probe droid was hard to kill!
ZOMG! BATTLETOADS! Man, I don't think I ever got past that hoverbike level. In my defense, we didn't own the game, we just rented it occasionally from whatever was the game-renting equivalent of Blockbuster at the time (or was Blockbuster renting out games by then? I don't remember). So I didn't get a lot of time to practice.
You know what else was hard (at least for the 7-year-old I was at the time)? Dragon Warrior. Don't get me wrong, I liked it, I just didn't really get the concept of RPGs. If the slimes didn't get me, a wyvern would. It's not that I didn't get the turn-based combat, it was the upgrading my weapons and armor sufficiently that I had trouble with. I could make it to the first town, where you go up and left a bit, and I bought the leather armor but beyond that I always got killed. And I didn't know what to do with the pond that cured rheumatism. What was that for anyway? I got some cheat codes eventually and wandered around - the Swamp Cave definitely rings a bell - but that wasn't very satisfying.
As with Battletoads, this one wasn't mine, it belonged to a friend so again I didn't get a lot of chances to play it. I did have some games, although I vaguely remember the NES technically belonged to my younger brother. I don't know why. Because girls don't play video games, I guess. I was damn good at Mario 3.