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Post by aka Cthulhu on May 14, 2021 2:45:35 GMT -5
Hold up what do mean Ryu has fought Mario?!" No lie, I had a Sega Mega Drive (I think that was the Sega I had in the 90s) and I had a cartridge of Street Fighter 2, and Mario was there. Considering the shady 99/9 games in one cartridges available then, it was probably a hacked game, but it still drives me insane that I can't find any info about it making me look insane.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2021 19:27:58 GMT -5
My Dad was cool. He bought me a Link to the Past for 39.99 when we were at Lowe's one day and it rained that night when I first played it, just like in the game.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on May 14, 2021 20:14:54 GMT -5
Parents got me an SNES in 91 or 92 without me asking for it. Owning that system was one of the seminal experiences of my childhood, so while I understand where she’s coming from I hope she reconsidered her opinion.
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Post by smokinvokoun86 on May 14, 2021 21:27:02 GMT -5
Strangest thing. From what I remember, my Dad actually bought the system for himself. I guess when I was a kid I didn’t start getting interest in video games until a few years later. But the first time I ever saw a SNES was at my aunts house and my Dad and my Aunt play Sim City.
Years later when my Dad and Mom divorced, he bought another one for his apartment. That’s the one that would eventually become mine. But all he had initially was sports games, Sim City and Vegas Stakes. No Mario of course. But my Dad wouldn’t have cared for that. But he loves to play sports video games so that makes sense. I have a lot of nostalgia for all those SNES sports games, even though they haven’t aged very well. But Sim City and Vegas Stakes has real strong childhood memories for me.
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Post by MrBRulzOK on May 15, 2021 0:15:21 GMT -5
Mothers like this are a big reason why the Wii U failed, IMO. Kid: Mommy, I want a Wii U! Mom: No, sweetie, you already have a Wii. You don't need another one. That was more on Nintendo for not doing a better job marketing the thing as an actual new system as opposed to a glorified tablet. It also didn't help that they were coming off the absurdly popular Wii, which they were going to struggle to outsell no matter how hard they tried.
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Post by mattyy on May 15, 2021 0:25:08 GMT -5
Mothers like this are a big reason why the Wii U failed, IMO. Kid: Mommy, I want a Wii U! Mom: No, sweetie, you already have a Wii. You don't need another one. That was more on Nintendo for not doing a better job marketing the thing as an actual new system as opposed to a glorified tablet. It also didn't help that they were coming off the absurdly popular Wii, which they were going to struggle to outsell no matter how hard they tried. It's both, honestly. The year the Wii U came out was my first year working in retail at Christmas. Almost every half hour I was explaining that the Wii U wasn't an expansion for the Wii and was a whole new system. I mean, I still get people coming in and asking for Wii and DS games.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on May 15, 2021 0:59:54 GMT -5
That was more on Nintendo for not doing a better job marketing the thing as an actual new system as opposed to a glorified tablet. It also didn't help that they were coming off the absurdly popular Wii, which they were going to struggle to outsell no matter how hard they tried. It's both, honestly. The year the Wii U came out was my first year working in retail at Christmas. Almost every half hour I was explaining that the Wii U wasn't an expansion for the Wii and was a whole new system. I mean, I still get people coming in and asking for Wii and DS games. Yeah, it got so bad that Nintendo released an ad with the line "We already have a WII!" "It's an all new system!"
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2021 15:01:51 GMT -5
My dad never did the Christmas shopping, he let my mom do that. We had an NES. Our second one actually. My parents thought it was broke the first time a game starting glitching when you put the game in.
Anyways this Christmas my dad bought the presents. I opened Mario Kart and screamed “WERE GETTING A SUPER NINTENDO!!!” By brother a few years older says “That’s for the wrong system...” At that point I heard my dad say “Shit!” under his breath.
My dreams were crushed. We were lower middle class, so I knew a SNES wasn’t coming our way. The next day we went to Meijer and exchanged Mario Cart for Bart Meets Radioactive Man and WWF Steel Cage Challenge. Two the worst NES games ever made. I was sad at the time, but I appreciate my dad paying a little extra to try to make it up to us getting us two games to replace the one.
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Post by The Ichi on May 15, 2021 15:08:27 GMT -5
In fairness, she wouldn't be *entirely* wrong about how Nintendo do business.
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Post by unc40 on May 16, 2021 14:20:08 GMT -5
The mother should have just said that she's not going to buy everything her kid wants because she is not going to raise an entitled brat.
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