The 'I used to think...' about Video Games Thread

Started by A Pixy March 17th, 2009 10:11 AM
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Let me try to explain this to you. When you were a kid, did you used to think something that you would think completley insane when you think about it now about video games.

Example

"I used to think if you put a Sonic game and a Mario game near each other, they would start fighting." RandomPCSchlub32.9

Get it?

As for me...

I used to think if you put two discs in your console at the same time they would combine into a super game. Like Ratchet and NBA 04 (I never did try it).

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When my dad brought home a laptop from work for the first I thought that if I could managed to fit my NES cartridges in the floppy drive that they would have better graphics. XD
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I used to think the pokemon could hear me, So If a pokemon lost or anything, Id Go "Oops sorry pikachu D: Plug your ears."

Also I spent 60 bucks on a ton of plushies,

Then i got a new one, So i thought the other Plushies were jealous, So id plug the Azurills ears, and say "Its okay guys, Shes new so i want her to feel welcome" LOL

Im such a tard, I know.

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For some reason I thought that the Final Fantasy series was some weird exclusive series. Like, when I first rented FFX-2 (my introduction to it XD) and then bought X, I felt like I shouldn't be playing it because I hadn't been a gamer for very long or something, lmao. I still have no idea why.

I'm pretty sure I also never knew there was a difference between consoles for years. I vaguely remember my cousin telling my exasperatingly that his Sega Genesis was not a Nintendo console so I should stop asking to play Duck Hunt or something, I don't even know.


paired with professor plum.

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In grade school someone had a Sega GameGear and told me that it could play Game Boy games in colour. Which was news to me and I believed him temporarily.

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I used to think the Computer team that kicked my butt in Madden was actually played by some guy at a remote location, not AI or anything like that.
I actually did used to believe that al computer opponents were paid employees by the game makers because in Mortal Kombat they used to retaliate if you beat them once.

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I used to threaten to break the discs/ game cartridges if something happened to me in the game that I didn't like, actually addressing my PSX/ N64 when I did that. D:

And I also used to think that you had to play Final Fantasy games in order from I to whatever- this was 'proven' when I rented out VII, only to find that the disc didn't work. XD
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I actually did used to believe that al computer opponents were paid employees by the game makers because in Mortal Kombat they used to retaliate if you beat them once.
Wow i believed this until i was about 14. Damn AI so hard to beat!


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Blowing into video game cartridges would always get the game to work, lol.
Hold up now! It doesn't? 0_0

Anyway, I used to watch my brother play Pokemon Red, and whenever he found an item on the ground, I thought he got a Pokemon.

...They looked like Pokeballs! After telling me they weren't Pokemon for maybe, about, one hundred times, I realized.

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Hold up now! It doesn't? 0_0
Short term: Yes, it works.

Long term: It speeds up the process of rust forming on the important connectors in your cartridges, thus making the cartridges not work later on.

Back on topic, I used to think it'd be great to have games where you could move the controller to control them (I was always the type to lean my body right while playing Sonic the Hedgehog).

And thus, the Wii was born. Due to Shadow's greatness.

*Disappears for another two years.*
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On Pokemon Red, I thought that Pikachu evolved into Zapdos. (I was 5, forgive me! >.>)
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As for me, I thought Tails from the Sonic games was a girl until I saw the cartoon.
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