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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Dec 20, 2023 12:01:18 GMT -5
A friend at university gave me his Xbox 360 because he had an Elite now.
The first one I actually paid for? The Xbox One I bought for Fallout 4 and still use to this day
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Ultimo Gallos
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Dreams SUCK!Nightmares live FOREVER!
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 20, 2023 12:12:47 GMT -5
Guessing I am one of the few old enough to remember going into Toys R Us and seeiing 2600,5200,intellivision and Colecovision games on the wall? Or how within a year of release Friday the 13th on the NES dropped to 20 bucks at every Kaybee Toys and Circus World toys stores. So that Xmas pretty much everybody I knew with a NES got a copy from an Aunt or Grandparent. I’m too young for those, but I do distinctly remember my dad checking all over town every day for like a month trying to get a copy of Super Mario Bros 3. Which included buying a Famicom copy of it that somehow had found its way to Brandon Manitoba. That not working crushed our dreams, but luckily it was pretty quick after that that Dad managed to get a copy. That $20 Friday the 13th story probably explains why almost every random lot of games I’ve bought over the years has had a copy of that f***ing game. I’ve had at least 5 or 6 copies of that, I believe I still have 2 copies. Friday the 13th,Jaws,Jekyl and Hyde and one other game were the 20 buck games for the longest time. Where a normal NES game wasa 40 or 50 at those stores. Kind of like how at least locally when the Genesis was out DJ Boy was the cheapest game. It was 20 bucks when every other Genesis game was 50 or 60. So piles of us had a copy.
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Post by An Dog On An Skateboard on Dec 20, 2023 12:13:10 GMT -5
A Nintendo 64, with Goldeneye, WCW/nWo Revenge (natch), and I think Snowboard Kids.
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Post by Duke Cameron on Dec 20, 2023 14:25:25 GMT -5
NES
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ERON
Hank Scorpio
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Post by ERON on Dec 20, 2023 20:37:54 GMT -5
I had two brothers, so any consoles my parents bought us were shared between the three of us. The first one that was mine and mine alone was the SNES I bought with the money from my summer job at Walmart when I was 17.
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Dec 23, 2023 15:14:38 GMT -5
My first one was an SNES, that I bought partially with pocket money I'd saved up and my mom chipped in for about a third of it. Man, that was a great console.
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schma
El Dandy
Who are you to doubt me?
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Post by schma on Dec 23, 2023 20:14:44 GMT -5
The nes and atari were more my older brother's. Officially the Sega Genesis was for all of us, but we all knew it was mine. I had campaigned for it and was the one who got to open it on Christmas.
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