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[RAIDEN1]

I can't believe you were still gaming on an Amiga in 1994.

Well yeah, I mean PCs weren't exactly cheap...and that was the last year I think before I switched over

 

[AGRacing]

In my days, games were rarely bought, they were mostly rented. So, it's not really a game, but it's a traumatic part of my childhood... I'll just leave these two pictures...

P.S - I got my Game Boy, but it was much later, as a New Year's gift, and it was a Game Boy Color. So, story has a happy ending.

There were many victims of this grift , unfortunately.

 

[LectureMaster]

Wanted:

Got:

 

[nush]

Wanted, Commodore 64 or Spectrum.

Got, used Tandy TRS 80 with a box of copied games.

 

[6502]

I finally got:

But my arse of a little brother kicked my Nes breaking it. I had to wait till Christmas for a replacement Nes and after much nagging and agreement the shop stopped stocking it and instead I got :

This to play on said little shits Master System instead.

Next Christmas my older brother had turned into a total c*nt so instead of getting a me MD or Saturn, he was bought a Psx and I had his hand me down snes. Which after he got bored of his demo disk and Fifa the twat suddenly had to play Krusty Super Fucking fun house (which he had years prior) and I had to share. This was the sort of spiteful greedy shit that bastard would do.

Needless to say this terrible parenting continued and led to both of my brothers becoming utter failures in life whilst I do not speak to any of the family.

 

[Artistic]

Asked for this:

Got this instead:

Initially was upset until I played Halo:CE on New Years 2002. Life changed from that day.

 

[DarkShadowXI]

Asked for this:

Got this instead:

Initially was upset until I played Halo:CE on New Years 2002. Life changed from that day.

Nice surprise!! Halo was such a magical experience back then.

I'll never forget walking around Walmart with my dad a few months after the Xbox came out. They were really really hard to find in my area at the time and they had one left in stock.

I showed my dad and without hesitation, said "well let's pick it up then!" I couldn't believe it! I wasn't expecting getting an Xbox for a while, since I had a PS2.

Without my dad even asking, I ended up waking up early to shovel snow and clean off the cars all winter to make up for it and show my appreciation. It was 100% worth it

 

[Gameplay Gods Bless]

The Bubsy 4D thread got me thinking: We've all had that one game we begged for as kids and never got. We would get a substitute game, instead.

Either our parents or grandparents didn't understand what we meant, couldn't find it, or some dude at the store talked them into something "similar."

What I Wanted

What I Got

This was my birthday gift. I smiled and said "thank you," but inside I was dying.

Yo! Noid was awful. It had weird mechanics, random difficulty spikes, and just…why was the Noid even a thing?

I'd fire it up when friends came over, hoping it would somehow be better, and it never was. We'd last 10 minutes before switching to literally anything else.

You know, I never got Royal Rumble. Still mad about it. Goddamnit.

What substitute game or toy crushed your dreams as a kid?

I got socks instead of literally any video game. I would have taken a $.99 used licensed game from GameStop but I guess that's too much compared to socks.

 

[Mobilemofo]

I mean there are constant beatdowns during hockey matches so in a way he fullfilled your request

. It's true. The most fun part of that game was the handbags at dawn fights.

 

[Emedan]

I wanted Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone for PC and sure enough I did get it for Christmas morning though my dad had pirated it from the net, printed a label and even the CD itself though he had to spend like 3 hours trying to get the crack to work so there were for sure som disappointment that morning.

 

[CashPrizes]

My Parents were smart I guess, only got me games I asked for.

Most of my NES games just kind of showed up, I don't remember asking for specific titles really. I know when Castlevania III came out I asked for it and got it within like a month of release. Same with Super Mario 3
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I remember asking them to buy X-Men on NES and I regretted that one lol. I also remember one time at a KayBee toys they bought us the Civil War game North and South because they figured it would teach us historical facts.

I remember one Christmas I asked for Shining Force and got it, and the next I asked for Rocket Knight Adventure and got it, but I knew where they had hidden it so I stealth snuck it out of their closet and played it for like 2 weeks before Christmas.

I got Resident Evil 2 as a birthday gift like a week after it released which was a surprise. I never asked for specific things for my birthday, it was just kind of understood we may get a party or we may go out to dinner. I think my Brother dropped some hints.

The last videogame thing they gifted me was a Playstation 2 the Xmas it came out. I didn't even ask for it, but my Dad was at a BestBuy and they just received a shipment, and a sales guy like literally came up to him and was like "if you are interested, we have PS2's in the loading dock...." and he knew how in demand they were and thought I would want it. He bought Madden 2001 along with it which I barely played, I went out the next day and got SSX which was awesome.

 

[Mownoc]

Asked for this:
[Gamecube Image]

Got this instead:
[Xbox Image]

Initially was upset until I played Halo:CE on New Years 2002. Life changed from that day.

Cube, Box. Easy mistake. One of the rare cases where you ask for one thing and get something a lot more expensive instead.

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

In my days, games were rarely bought, they were mostly rented. So, it's not really a game, but it's a traumatic part of my childhood... I'll just leave these two pictures...

P.S - I got my Game Boy, but it was much later, as a New Year's gift, and it was a Game Boy Color. So, story has a happy ending.

I kinda forgot about this aspect but yes! Between my sister and I, we owned very few games. We rented or coordinated with school friends. Say if this guy had SFII, everybody else wouldn't buy it and instead get something he wants to borrow as well and you'd trade.

 

[RCX]

Oof! Man, that's rough I feel your pain with getting "games on sale".

I got this instead of Street Fighter II because it was on sale. I talked my dad into returning it and getting SF instead.

It's the main reason why I never got into Fatal Fury. As I got older, I realized just how good that series is, too. I need to play the newest one.

Why would you return this? it has "simultaneous two player action"!

 

[diffusionx]

I have a brutal one and it's 100% true.

Wanted:

Got:

My older sister was present at the purchase and told me way later that my mom couldn't afford Street Fighter and asked for a cheaper game just like it. Rise was on sale.

Rekt.

holy shit that is a bad beat

I am sending my sympathies to 1994 you.

 

[RCX]

What I wanted for my 10th birthday

What I got

I was quietly pissed at my parents at the time but in retrospect I think they did me a solid favour.

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

holy shit that is a bad beat

I am sending my sympathies to 1994 you.

Yea I got wrecked. I ended up selling Rise secretly for like $10 a year later or so. I kind of feel bad about that considering it was a gift lol