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StarTopic Nintendo General Discussion |ST4 Jan. 2022| Resurrections

The next Switch model will be called...

  • Nintendo Switch 2

    Votes: 40 23.5%

  • Nintendo Switch Pro

    Votes: 1 0.6%

  • Nintendo Switch 4k

    Votes: 13 7.6%

  • Nintendo Switch U

    Votes: 1 0.6%

  • Nintendo Switch +

    Votes: 11 6.5%

  • Nintendo Switch Max

    Votes: 3 1.8%

  • Nintendo Switch Up

    Votes: 3 1.8%

  • New Nintendo Switch

    Votes: 5 2.9%

  • Nintendo Switch Advance

    Votes: 11 6.5%

  • Super Nintendo Switch

    Votes: 53 31.2%

  • Nintendo Switch Super

    Votes: 3 1.8%

  • Nintendo Switchxty Four

    Votes: 4 2.4%

  • Nintendo Switchcube

    Votes: 1 0.6%

  • Nintendo Swiitch

    Votes: 1 0.6%

  • Nintendo Change

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Nintendo Modify

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Nintendo Adjust

    Votes: 2 1.2%

  • Nintendo Wii U 2

    Votes: 6 3.5%

  • Other (Please specify)

    Votes: 7 4.1%

  • Switch Plus

    Votes: 5 2.9%
  • Total voters
    170
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Nathan Little said:
I'm 28 but feel much older. I'm sure that's not healthy.
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I'm 36 but thanks to several false starts in terms of both life and career, I weirdly feel much younger. Like this "barely getting started and figuring shit out" stage I'm at (again) makes me feel like I should be more in my mid-20s, like I lost a decade back there somewhere.

Time is weird.

Raccoon said:
Fruit Ninja is a classic retro game of my childhood
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Ooooh I remember when Fruit Ninja came out because I bought a Kinect for it and set it up and played it with my then-wife in a house that we bought because I was already a goddamn adult.

At least my back is great and I still have a full head of hair. 🤘
 
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This is literally the first memory that I have. I could barely walk or talk. I didn't know the alphabet, numbers, what a game was, but I remember that blue screen and the green pipe.

Gamer for life.
 
I’m born in 91 but I still feel pretty young. I definitely need my 8 hours though, gone are the days of getting 5-6 hours of sleep and feeling energized.

First game was Super Mario World, pretty sure I played it around 95, 94 at the earliest.
 
Josh5890 said:
SuperMario001.jpg


This is literally the first memory that I have. I could barely walk or talk. I didn't know the alphabet, numbers, what a game was, but I remember that blue screen and the green pipe.

Gamer for life.
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YES. My dad bought my mom an NES so she wouldn't be bored staying home on maternity leave, so I was born into a Mario 1 home. Good way to get started.
 
I grew up idolizing Rush and Neil Peart. I read everything he wrote and considered him a genius. When I was in high school that led me to reading Ayn Rand. Being a dumb child, I loved her work and I saw a ton of parallels to Neil’s lyrics.

I’ve now grown up and understand that Rand’s philosophy is selfish bullshit and much of Neil’s lyrics are also selfish bullshit. 2112 is a shining example of this - a story of one man railing against a totalitarian collective, symbolized by the famous Starman logo. Glorifying the individual and the struggle against the many.

I’ve outgrown that way of thinking. It makes me sad that the music that is so integral to my life is so inherently immature. But I’m still able to appreciate it. The music itself is still incredible at least.
 
I was born in 1980 so I’ve been on this ride since the Atari and NES. I realized I was an old gamer when I learned that basically everyone knows samus as a Smash character, and not from the original Metroid. Oh and Pokémon hit when I was in high school and I didn’t have a game boy anymore. I totally missed the boat and have no interest in the franchise.

My back is in good shape but my left knee is giving me some trouble when I run. Other than that, 41 isn’t bad.

edit: first gaming memories would be 2600 games: Kaboom, Pitfall, Combat. We had Donkey Kong too.
 
Mekanos said:
I’m born in 91 but I still feel pretty young. I definitely need my 8 hours though, gone are the days of getting 5-6 hours of sleep and feeling energized.

First game was Super Mario World, pretty sure I played it around 95, 94 at the earliest.
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I can still get by on 4~5 hours on a random night, but I have to get a full night sleep the next night.

I'm sure if/when I get kids that will all change
 
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Red Monster said:
I grew up idolizing Rush and Neil Peart. I read everything he wrote and considered him a genius. When I was in high school that led me to reading Ayn Rand. Being a dumb child, I loved her work and I saw a ton of parallels to Neil’s lyrics.

I’ve now grown up and understand that Rand’s philosophy is selfish bullshit and much of Neil’s lyrics are also selfish bullshit. 2112 is a shining example of this - a story of one man railing against a totalitarian collective, symbolized by the famous Starman logo. Glorifying the individual and the struggle against the many.

I’ve outgrown that way of thinking. It makes me sad that the music that is so integral to my life is so inherently immature. But I’m still able to appreciate it. The music itself is still incredible at least.
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Yeah, Rush (and most bands, really) have a LOT of dumb lyrics in their songs, but that doesn't really take anything away from the music.

Related, I had a similar thing happen to me (although I never read Rand specifically): I love SFF novels, and growing up I read basically every single fantasy novel I could get my hands on. This led me to the Sword of Truth books by Terry Goodkind, which to teenager-me seemed edgy and dark and full of stuff I thought was super adult and that you wouldn't see in classics like LOTR. But as I got further into the series and got older, especially Book... 6 I think it was? I slowly realized that the whole series was a massive self-insert ego trip by the author for his Objectivist beliefs. That book in particular, pretty much the entire plot of the book is "guy gets enslaved by the most evil invading society imaginable: Socialism! Gasp! And then he spends the entire book building a secret statue for the glory of the individual and personal freedoms. And somehow this majestic statue leads people in the society to have a rebellion and discover that socialism is bad, or something, and that everyone should be selfish objectivist assholes instead. The end." Or at least, that's the very very rough plot as I vaguely remember it.

Yes, it was that bad, and not subtle.
 
My siblings had an NES that they shared, but my first console was a Genesis. However, it was a model 2 Genesis, and for many many years I thought that was how the Genesis looked. It wasn't until the Genesis Mini came out that I found out I had a model 2 Genesis. I had managed to go most of my life without having ever seen a regular Genesis. Shows how not dedicated I was to Sega.
 
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I had a Sega Genesis growing up and I was a big Sega fanboy. I seldom wished that I had a Super Nintendo. Then I saw Shadows of the Empire and it was my most wanted thing ever. My parents got me an N64 and the game for my birthday in 1997 and I've had every Nintendo console since. Yes, Star Wars Shadows of the Empire made me a Nintendo fan.
 
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SammyJ9 said:
My first gaming memory is either Mario 1, or sitting in my dad’s lap while he and my sister played King’s Quest 4. King’s Quest was a huge part of my childhood, even if they were pretty bullshit looking back at it. I still love KQ6 to death.
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6 is easily my favorite, yeah. It has much much less of the bullshit the rest had.
 
Beginning of week 3
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    • How time flies! The pet raffle is over, I'll be choosing the winner thanks to the magic of RNG tomorrow at some point, then announcing it to y'all and figuring out how to give them eShop money which is way harder than it should be TBH.

    Meanwhile, raffle #3 has begun. This is the game merch raffle, post a picture of your favorite or most interesting game related merchandise.

    I'll post mine tomorrow, don't have a good picture of it yet, but it's The Game of Life: Mario edition. Which is essentially a much more boring version of Mario Party.


    Also the topic will change to- family/relationship related discussion. What to play with your kids/spouse/SO, how to deepen your relationships through the power of not playing Mario Party, your game themed wedding, which of you named your kids Waluigi, etc.

    I'll reset the poll and try to add a new one early tomorrow, way too tired for it now.
     
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    • Late Generation X here. I grew up on ColecoVision and NES so yeah I'm one of the olds. But I'm still playing 20+ year old games for the first time. Final Fantasy IX really is a great game. I hope the remake gets the young people into it.
     
    this might turn into a threaditorial by me but I can't believe how fucking good video game music is now




    games are getting full band performances now

    I know it's been that way for a while but it really hit me with paper mario
     
    Raccoon said:
    these are fucking siccckkk

    you can turn them into cheap oscilloscopes really really easily
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    I can always count on Raccoon to appreciate the finer things in life.

    However, I am now realizing that the raffle is for a picture of video game MERCHANDISE, so be right back with a picture of Sonic Legos.
     
    for the uninitiated, the way that a vectrex renders images is completely different from a normal CRT, giving impossibly crisp lines

    the signals these displays accepted internally had a channel for depth as well (I think?), which means that by connecting parts of an audio setup to different parts of the receiving hardware you can achieve 3D visualization effects with no processing
     
    @Skittzo Sorry, I got too excited to show off my Vectrex. This is my real entry for the raffle as it is actual merchandise. Enjoy all of the wires in the background.

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    Raccoon said:
    for the uninitiated, the way that a vectrex renders images is completely different from a normal CRT, giving impossibly crisp lines

    the signals these displays accepted internally had a channel for depth as well (I think?), which means that by connecting parts of an audio setup to different parts of the receiving hardware you can achieve 3D visualization effects with no processing
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    I'm almost tempted to forgive you for the sin of making me feel old by your mere existence.
     
    Josh5890 said:
    SuperMario001.jpg


    This is literally the first memory that I have. I could barely walk or talk. I didn't know the alphabet, numbers, what a game was, but I remember that blue screen and the green pipe.

    Gamer for life.
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    You know those GIFs that loop through a truck that's about to crash, but it never does? That's how I feel waiting for the mushroom to drop over the edge
     
    Started playing Control today. Not sure how I feel about it. It looks nice but it doesn't run well at times, particularly when going in and out of menu. The gameplay is fine if a bit loose feeling. The story has been gibberish so far. I am hoping it pays off in the end but at this point, it's a lot of indulgent talking that doesn't make much sense. Also, there is trash everywhere and by trash, I mean random documents half of which are kinda pointless.
     
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    Not sure what my first gaming memory is, but I want to say Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, and Duck Hunt all come to mind.
     
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    I cracked the whole thing open by never playing Angry Birds at all and now it’s a game that is simultaneously “newfangled” and “so ancient they should just let it die”

    if your sense of time is in perpetual chaos, you can be relentlessly outdated and chronically unfamiliar all at once!

    it’s a horrifying way to live!™
     
    Friends, loved ones, and everyone in between, I think I'm going to stop talking about video games for now and actually...play a video game. I'm scared. 😰
     
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