I was fresh out of my tonsils removal operation... dang I still remember that year.
I had my tonsils removed in October 1992 at military hospital in Maryland and had to stay overnight at hospital. My issue with tonsils started in 1990 that landed me in emergency room. After refused to wear CPAP at sleep study, their doctor ordered us to see surgeon to get tonsils removed. I was closer to 5 years old at that time.
2 weeks after surgery, I went out for Halloween in total dark after DST ended on Oct 25, 1992. A lot of children on street and some rode on bike. Military housing were super old and ugly lol.
I saw a game called Conker's Bad Fur Day. I thought the squirrel was so cute. My 6 year old self wanted the squirrel game so badly. At that point in my life, my favorite games were all cute mascot characters--Bubsy, Sonic, Spyro. So I begged my mom to rent me Conker. We went in and the cashier looked at me, and my innocent face, looked at my mom, and told her, "no matter what, do not let your little girl play this game".
I was SO distraught. I might have cried, or something. And that lady, bless her heart, she got down to eye level with me and told me, there's so many video games with cute animals in them that are better than the dumb squirrel game. And she handed me a copy of Pokemon Silver and said to rent that one, because there were hundreds of cute animals in it. My mom was adamant that Pokemon was evil, and un-Christian, but because I was so upset, she got it for me.
My parents didn't bother to look at rating and when I rented GTA for second time, so my dad heard about how violent was GTA on local news and at first, he won't let me play but seconds later, he told me that I can play as long as I don't shoot at police. I'm just like... video game and it is all myth.
I started to play Pokémon in late 1998 and red version was my first one. I got GB Pocket for my birthday in December 1997. I remember about how extremely popular was Pokémon at school and there were too many thefts.
I remember about Warheads challenge at YMCA summer camp in 1998 lol.
I actually remember exactly what I was doing summer of 2002: Playing Final Fantasy X. The reason I actually remember this so well was because after playing FFIX (AKA The best one), it felt so weird that the characters all had voice acting. It was huge adjustment to make. Even at 11 years old, I still read the text faster than the voice actors read it and it drove me nuts back then. I think I tried Xenosaga too and that drove me even more nuts with cutscenes.
Games with too many cutscenes still drive me nuts too. I don't think there's much that tops Xenosaga though.
I rented FFX at Movie Gallery in early 2002 and liked this game but it is too linear. I remember about all PS2 saves are unencrypted and we used memory cards to do save exchanges, also used CodeBreaker Save program to inject the save. I copied completed saves to my friend's memory card. Good ole time lol.
Peeing and shitting on my diapers probably
It would be me in 1987-1988, lol. I had diaper blowout that got on my half brother's clothes and my parents made him go shower again.
I was in high school so probably getting stoned with my friends then walking a mile to Blockbuster to rent some games. After that we would hit up the comic book shop for some Magic the Gathering cards or play a few games. Then once we got home we would copy anime VCDs and DVDs to VHS, the quality was awful but none of us had high speed internet so that is how we got our anime. Played alot of roms and all the latest pokemon games via an emulator on an old HP pentium 3 with the speakers mounted on the monitor (Remember Nesticle!?!). Back then there was Gamespy, i played a lot of AvP on there online, it was a neat service. Before Steam there were several freeware game sites like Gamehippo that had hundreds of free games, which is where Cave Story got its start. Also grew up with brothers and some nights we would play 4 player Smackdown on ps1 with the boomarang multitap. Good times.
Good one, my friend ripped VHS version of Jeepers Creepers from Movie Gallery to blank VHS tape and I took it to home to watch it. Yeah, picture quality was awful when compared to DVD. I met one classmate know about how to solder the game console, so he is big one in hacking.
My parents were too nice to have cable TV with digital tier and all premium channels (no Play boy, sorry), so I recorded with VHS and my parents got bulk blank VHS tapes from Sam's Club. I watched shows on Toon Disney, Boomerang and Nicktoons when they aired old shows. I remember about Toonami on Cartoon Network and FoxBox aired anime shows. Pokémon shows were on Kids' WB. I do think Adult Swim aired mature anime shows.
