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Post by anayo on Jan 6, 2018 22:12:58 GMT -5
This doesn't really pertain to game rentals, but as a kid I almost completely beat Tonic Trouble on the Nintendo 64 in one go. I didn't have an N64 memory card, so I'd just turn off the TV and leave my system powered on when I was done. I can also remember a high school friend of mine in 2004 doing the same thing with Star Fox Adventures when he got a Gamecube for Christmas with no memory card.
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Post by Ex on Jan 6, 2018 22:28:44 GMT -5
I'm impressed someone mentioned Tonic Trouble on the internet. That's the first time I've seen anyone mention it ever, in my experience. Here's two relatively obscure games I rented as a kid:   Any of you folks ever play those? What'd you think? |
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Post by Sarge on Jan 6, 2018 22:56:46 GMT -5
They're... not great. Although I've always been fascinated by both of them. When you have magazines and just a couple of screenshots, you imagine what games are like... and are often disappointed when the reality smacks you in the face.  |
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Post by toei on Jan 7, 2018 10:01:16 GMT -5
This doesn't really pertain to game rentals, but as a kid I almost completely beat Tonic Trouble on the Nintendo 64 in one go. I didn't have an N64 memory card, so I'd just turn off the TV and leave my system powered on when I was done. I can also remember a high school friend of mine in 2004 doing the same thing with Star Fox Adventures when he got a Gamecube for Christmas with no memory card. I had to attempt the same thing with D & D - Eternal Sun on the Genesis, because I'd bought the loose cartridge for cheap and the save battery was dead. I plugged a fan on my old Genesis in case it might overheat and went at it for a few days, but eventually I got stuck in an unwinnable situation (my entire party was poisoned and I was very far from town with no antidotes) so I had to give it up. |
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Post by Ex on Jan 7, 2018 13:26:52 GMT -5
When you have magazines and just a couple of screenshots, you imagine what games are like... and are often disappointed when the reality smacks you in the face. So true. "Seriously? THIS crap is what I'm stuck with all weekend?! Oh well, time to run through SMB2 again."I plugged a fan on my old Genesis in case it might overheat and went at it for a few days, but eventually I got stuck in an unwinnable situation (my entire party was poisoned and I was very far from town with no antidotes) so I had to give it up. I'm impressed you thought of putting a cooling fan on the Genesis at that young of an age. My condolences that you lost all that progress though. In general vintage licensed D&D games tend to be sadistic, in my experience. I remember reading a lot of praise for Eternal Sun though. |
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Post by Sarge on Jan 7, 2018 23:31:29 GMT -5
I actually found that cart not too long ago. Pretty neat pickup. That would be absolutely brutal trying to push through without a metaphorical safety net.
I had a couple of NES carts where that happened. I got Maniac Mansion basically for free because "something" was rattling around in there. That something was the battery. I ended up opening it with a fish hook remover on a cheap Skoal Swiss Army knife, and taping the battery in place. Somehow it stayed working, and long enough to finish it up to boot.
The most I put into a game before I could save it was when I got a PlayStation for Christmas with FFVII, but no memory card. Just had to wait a day or two, so no biggie, but it did mean that I played through the intro a few times. I was afraid to leave it on, which was probably for the best. (That PSX still works, though, and quite well. Those late 9000 models hold up a lot better.)
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Post by Ex on Jan 8, 2018 10:44:27 GMT -5
I played through the intro a few times. Well considering Midgar is the best part of the game, you had nothing to lose doing so.  |
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Post by chibby on Jan 12, 2018 22:38:38 GMT -5
I highly doubt I would have been allowed to rent any haha. Same. Additionally, my family only had a computer to play games on (when we were allowed) until probably close to the demise of Blockbuster rentals. I don't know if it's worth creating a new thread over, but what I have in spades rather than rental memories is demos from Gamespot and or elsewhere online. I have all of these memories of games that I only played the demo for, but I played those demos to death. The ones that stick out to me right now are the old Max Payne games. If you put me in front of the first three levels of either one, I can probably still remember every goon in every nook and cranny. In fact, even though I played both of them to completion later, when I think Max Payne, I think Roscoe Street Station.  (Around this corner, and down the stairs there's a goon waiting before you get to the train tracks.) Now that I think about it part of what still fuels my retro gaming to this day is finding games, realizing I'd only played the demo, and then getting that sweet sweet sense of long unfulfilled satisfaction from seeing what happens next. As a matter of fact, I just put my hands on Iron Storm (on steam that is) and I think that's next on my list to get to.  |
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Post by Ex on Jan 12, 2018 22:45:03 GMT -5
I loved the original Max Payne (except the crying baby mazes) and Max Payne 2. Those games did third person shooting brilliantly. I am not so much a fan of Iron Storm though. I owned it at one point in my life, but found it to be overly punitive. I did enjoy its aesthetic however.
It's interesting reading about you guys growing up with gaming restrictions. I had zero growing up. My parents let me play what I wanted, when I wanted, as long as I wanted. In retrospect, it was probably just to keep me out of their hair.
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Post by Sarge on Jan 13, 2018 0:07:05 GMT -5
Yeah, I had the heavy limitations, too. An hour a day each for my brother and me. Sure, I wanted to play more, but I do appreciate the parents trying to keep us well-rounded. I'd have probably spent every waking moment that way otherwise.
They did start relaxing the restrictions as we got older, though. They would also let us share time, so often we'd give each other our own time and just watch so we could take out bigger chunks of games.
Oh, that reminds me, they kinda let me go a bit too long with Dragon Warrior III the first time I rented it. I played a ton of it, probably getting all the way to the pyramid and Isis. I'd played so much that I actually dreamed that night that I replayed all of that. And of course I make the mistake of saying as much the next day, so I got a lot less time with it at that point, haha!
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