You have arrived at my CoG-blog, the home of my weekly-or-so "Scrapbook" column. 'Tis a very nostalgic journal wherein I reflect on a game from my past, often embarrassingly, and I then invite the community to respond with their own fond memories. That is my goal, at least.
Scrapbook, Vol. 1: MEGA MAN 2
Here's the first of a new column I am considering. Here's how it works: I pick a game and share a story relating to it, a fond memory perhaps, and then I invite readers to share their own memories of the game. You could call it a scrapbook or a time capsule, a journal or whatever.
The first game I have chosen is MEGA MAN 2. Now, community, I invite you to share your memories of the first time you played a MEGA MAN game and what, if any, impact it had on you as a gamer.
The year was 1991. I was five years old and my brother, one year my senior, had the chicken pox. In order to console him and help pass his time home from schools, my parents bought us our first gaming system: the NES. This was the beginning of my life as a gamer.
We would go to the video store to rent games, especially often during the following summer. I saw a line of games on the wall called "MEGA MAN." There were four of them at them time, and the one they had in stock was the second. I took it home.
Blowing on the cartridge and plugging it in, I was greeted by an opening far more epic than Super Mario Bros. or Duck Hunt. The boy, standing on the building, his hair in the wind, set to that now-classic music made quite an impression on me, the young gamer. Upon starting the game, I messed with the controls. He jumped. He shot. He moved left and right. Then I let him stand still... and he blinked! I thought that was the coolest thing I had ever seen in a game. Mario didn't blink, but this guy does. And he's a robot! And he has a gun!
When the time came to return MEGA MAN to the video store, I refused. And eventually, we had kept it long enough that the late fees were more than it would have cost to buy the game, as my mother clearly indicated to me.
I would go on to play the other MEGA MAN games, X being my eventual favourite. I adored that game. I would go to school and draw Mega Man on my notebooks, and play his games when I got home. The character still has a special place in my heart.
The first game I have chosen is MEGA MAN 2. Now, community, I invite you to share your memories of the first time you played a MEGA MAN game and what, if any, impact it had on you as a gamer.
The year was 1991. I was five years old and my brother, one year my senior, had the chicken pox. In order to console him and help pass his time home from schools, my parents bought us our first gaming system: the NES. This was the beginning of my life as a gamer.
We would go to the video store to rent games, especially often during the following summer. I saw a line of games on the wall called "MEGA MAN." There were four of them at them time, and the one they had in stock was the second. I took it home.
Blowing on the cartridge and plugging it in, I was greeted by an opening far more epic than Super Mario Bros. or Duck Hunt. The boy, standing on the building, his hair in the wind, set to that now-classic music made quite an impression on me, the young gamer. Upon starting the game, I messed with the controls. He jumped. He shot. He moved left and right. Then I let him stand still... and he blinked! I thought that was the coolest thing I had ever seen in a game. Mario didn't blink, but this guy does. And he's a robot! And he has a gun!
When the time came to return MEGA MAN to the video store, I refused. And eventually, we had kept it long enough that the late fees were more than it would have cost to buy the game, as my mother clearly indicated to me.
I would go on to play the other MEGA MAN games, X being my eventual favourite. I adored that game. I would go to school and draw Mega Man on my notebooks, and play his games when I got home. The character still has a special place in my heart.
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First Mega Man game I saw was 3, and I saw it when I was 6 or 7, at my older brothers friends house. Wow - the idea that you could absorb the power of another robot and become more powerful? I was sold, instantly. Remember, back in those days, South Africa, due to import restrictions, didnt get Mega Man, we got Rockman. As a result, there was a lot of confusion as to what the story was about, although rumours abounded that he used to be a boy that was converted to a robot, and that doctors called Light and Wily were involved somehow.
Later, I bought my very own Rockman game, Rockman 5. For some reason, I didnt play it much, I preferred to watch my older brothers play it. I dont know why, I suspect it might have been too hard for me. Or I thought it was too hard. I remember many good times getting far at it, and it was a very social activity. Well for my brothers and I, not our parents. And then the dog (our huge Alsation) would walk past and bump the console, thereby crashing it and making us lose our progress. |
Posted 03-11-2009 at 10:27 AM by Ancalagon
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Addendum: I just recalled a time, after Mega Man X came out, that I got hold of some posterboard and colored a large Mega Man on it. I somehow angered my brother enough to take my poster and rip it into pieces! How dare he!
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Posted 03-12-2009 at 07:03 PM by Suave Peanut
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I used to invent and draw my own Mega Man robots. I even made a select screen with all of their portraits (on paper). There was Laser Man, Spike Man, um..... I cant remember the rest.
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Posted 03-13-2009 at 05:38 AM by Ancalagon
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