Since I was a kid, I've loved...

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Ever since I first saw the show, I've been a massive fan of Starscream. I still have every incarnation of his toy in storage, even the shitty F-22 Raptor movie version. The only part of my once massive Transformers collection I didn't give away (to children).

My favorite happens to be the Masterpiece King Starscream.

 

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I don't have an answer for this thread. I grew up poor. We only got toys for Christmas, and usually not the popular thing. I didn't even play video games until I was a sophomore in college, unless you count the few we had on our C64 we got for free 5 years after it was released. Parents didn't let me watch cartoons, so I mostly know about things like Thundercats and Transformers from sleepovers and Toonami reruns. Not whining, just don't have anything particular I loved. Except books. They were good escapes, and they were free from the library.
 
Ever since I first saw the show, I've been a massive fan of Starscream. I still have every incarnation of his toy in storage, even the shitty F-22 Raptor movie version. The only part of my once massive Transformers collection I didn't give away (to children).

My favorite happens to be the Masterpiece King Starscream.

I will say that for some reason Starscream had the better toys than Megatron

^ Look at that crap.
But Megatron was definitely my favorite, alongside Soundwave in the series.


I replay it every year or so since I was 7 or 8.
I was a bit older when that came out, so it doesn't really strike me "child nostalgia" as it does "amazing rpg" nostalgia.
 
Yeah it's not so much a "I've loved it all my life" thing so much as it's a "I've loved video games all my life and this is the one I keep going back to from the old days" thing.
 

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I will say that for some reason Starscream had the better toys than Megatron
That's because Megatron turned into a gun. How stupid is that? Plus, the inexplicable shrinking thing was just as bad as Optimus Prime's trailer.
 
That's because Megatron turned into a gun. How stupid is that? Plus, the inexplicable shrinking thing was just as bad as Optimus Prime's trailer.
It was weird, mostly because Hasbro took Megatron from an entirely different toy line than the other Transformers.
 
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We only really had mario games as a kid. Did you guys every play the game where mario traveled through time? that was such a shit "game" I loved it hehe.
 
I don't really remember playing that one. But I do remember playing Mario is Missing, the other edutainment game exploiting the Mario license. I remember them mostly as cheap knockoffs of Carmen Sandiego.
 
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I still get the traveling song in my head


You traveled by surfing and this was the song that played. You also had to pick up mushrooms while surfing that in now way affected the game as far as I could tell. hehe god that was a shit game.
 

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Does anybody remember what a freshly opened NES cartridge smelled like, right out of the box? Oh dear god, it was the smell of absolute rapture. Perhaps it was mere classical conditioning, but for me, that was the smell of anticipation, eagerness, hope, joy, bliss and achievement all rolled into one.

I'd forgotten about it for a long long time.. then out of the blue I caught a random whiff of it a few years ago (when I was nowhere near anything videogame related, oddly enough), and it nearly brought me to tears. I've been searching on and off for what makes that smell ever since, with no success. I'm afraid to go down to the local game store because I'm sure they would throw me out if I started sticking my head in the piles of NES cartridges snorting like an asthmatic rhinoceros.
 
I did that like a fiend with every new game I purchased GasB, I know EXACTLY what you're talking about. My recommendation is spending 10-50 on an unopened NES cartridge on Ebay and get your 'fix'.
 
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I only got new cartridges one time, when I was 5. So I dont remember what it smells like
 
I still have my SNES. I loved the hell out of Battleclash (Giant Robot Problem, remember?) with the SuperScope 6, as well as Final Fantasy II and Final Fantasy III (as they were called at the time; I know they're IV and VI now).

And the cartoon I rushed home to see when I was in 1st grade?
 
Ogre Battle! I played it on the SNES (rental) and then bought the Playstation version. Had a game like 65 hours or so in - I think like the 11th level - saved on one of those multi-cards, and the battery on the damn thing died. I'd even gotten a unit of 3 werewolves and a vampire with a wizard for night fighting.

Anyone else bother getting Cloud and the other bonus characters in FFT?
 
Anyone else bother getting Cloud and the other bonus characters in FFT?
Yeah. I always felt Cloud was underpowered in FFT, especially compared to other characters in the game. The same goes for Reis, though she had her uses.
 
Cloud was overpowered if leveled correctly and given the right gear. Personally I used my "Immortal" Meliadoul to wipe out every map when I felt like being a bitch.

You want over powered? I purposely NEVER used TG Cid or Agrias because their sword arts were just cheap/lame.
 
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