Games You Were Addicted To

[manofonetitle]

If we're talking about our whole lives, then I think I'd have to go with Mario RPG for the snes. I played that game for the first time when I was 9 when I rented it from blockbuster. My parents didn't buy me videogames very often and I only got like 5 bucks per week for allowance so I couldn't really buy games unless I saved up like 10 weeks worth (which is like an eternity for a 9 year old). But if I did my homework and all that shit, my parents let me rent a game for the weekend every Friday, and I picked Mario RPG one weekend and played it like a damn fiend. By the time the weekend was over and I had to bring it back to blockbuster, I had only gotten to the Forest Maze. So what I did was write down the SKU number for that particular blockbuster cartridge, went back there the next weekend, found the cartridge that I had rented earlier and rented it again so I could keep playing from my save file I started. I did this for five weekends until I finally beat the damn thing and it was all I could think about that whole month....have you ever beaten a really long rpg that you spent a lot of time on and just became really depressed during the credits? Like "Fuck.....I beat it. I finally beat it.....now what? What am I going to do with my life???!?" I've gotten those feelings before from beating other games, but beating Mario RPG was the first time I ever experienced it and to this day I have never felt it harder than that time (especially with the way the ending was in that game.....geno T_T). I stared at the ceiling trying to go to bed for like an hour or so just replaying the ending credits in my brain....pretty damn dramatic looking back on it but whatever I was in fourth grade lol.

Some other games that I remember being completely hooked on:

-Smash Bros
-Guitar Hero
-Guilty Gear
-Bulletstorm
-Soldat
-Megaman X

[WeaponTheory]

(09-26-2016, 04:47 AM)manofonetitle Wrote: If we're talking about our whole lives, then I think I'd have to go with Mario RPG for the snes. I played that game for the first time when I was 9 when I rented it from blockbuster.  By the time the weekend was over and I had to bring it back to blockbuster, I had only gotten to the Forest Maze.  So what I did was write down the SKU number for that particular blockbuster cartridge, went back there the next weekend, found the cartridge that I had rented earlier and rented it again so I could keep playing from my save file I started.  I did this for five weekends until I finally beat the damn thing

Wow, that's very smart of you. I would have never thought of that. And you got that lucky to obtain the same cartridge each visit?

[manofonetitle]

(09-26-2016, 04:11 PM)WeaponTheory Wrote:

(09-26-2016, 04:47 AM)manofonetitle Wrote: If we're talking about our whole lives, then I think I'd have to go with Mario RPG for the snes. I played that game for the first time when I was 9 when I rented it from blockbuster.  By the time the weekend was over and I had to bring it back to blockbuster, I had only gotten to the Forest Maze.  So what I did was write down the SKU number for that particular blockbuster cartridge, went back there the next weekend, found the cartridge that I had rented earlier and rented it again so I could keep playing from my save file I started.  I did this for five weekends until I finally beat the damn thing

Wow, that's very smart of you. I would have never thought of that. And you got that lucky to obtain the same cartridge each visit?

Yeah, they didn't even have that many copies of it, but I found it there every time.  This was when blockbuster just put the copies of the games in plastic boxes behind the game's display case so that people could just grab and take it through the checkout, and I think they only had three or four copies but i always found the one I started with, luckily enough.  I made sure to erase every other file when I got it so in case anyone else rented it and I was s.o.l., they could start a new file and leave mine alone.