I'm going to try to not make this an overly fan-boyish Nintendo thread (dat thread title tho) but I'd like to just discuss the magic of Nintendo with you guys for a moment and share some of my memories from the various consoles.
For some reason I've been thinking about this a lot lately, just good memories of the past where I've had some of my best gaming moments. I've found that a lot of these moments always seem to revolve around Nintendo consoles.
A little backstory, I was born in the 90s so I pretty much missed out on the NES console and never had one. I would have probably also missed out on the Sega Mega Drive/SNES except that my older brother had a Mega Drive. I played this console almost exclusively and I loved it. I must have cleared Sonic the Hedgehog 1 50+ times.
Fast forward to the release of the Nintendo 64. I remember eagerly awaiting Christmas for months. I'd often see Banjo-Kazooie in my local Xtra-Vision (video/game renting store) and I'd state at the box art of it for such a long time. I remember my Mother asking me in a round-about way if I'd prefer Goldeneye or Mission Impossible (I think both were back in games so you could pick one or the other). I picked Goldeneye after some thought (I almost went for Mission Impossible).
That time was glorious. I poured hours upon hours into Goldeneye and Banjo-Kazooie. My father, who is not a gamer in the slightest, even played a bunch of Banjo-Kazooie too, he still talks about the bear with the bird on his back to this day.
I had other consoles around this time too, namely, a PS1. An oh-boy was I hooked on that too. In terms of singleplayer games I've definitely put more hours into my PS1 and there is a reason it's one of my favourite consoles of all time.
But this is where I want to talk about the magic of Nintendo which for some reason has the power to bring multiple people together to play games quite unlike other Companies and Consoles. Some of my greatest memories revolve around myself, my brother and my two cousins.
They often visited our house, at the very least once a week and sometimes more than that. They would bring their two Nintendo 64 controllers with them and we would play hours upon hours of Goldeneye. I couldn't tell you how much time was put into that game, it must be huge.
On top of that we would play Mario Kart 64 battle mode, WWF No Mercy and Mario Party. Mario Party was a bit rarer because I always insisted we would play the longest turns for the board (it had to be an epic adventure!) so the game would take us like 4 hours to do one board. So many fantastic memories of multiplayer on the Nintendo 64.
Fast forward to the launch of the Gamecube. I got both Super Smash Brothers Melee and Super Mario Sunshine with the console. Can you guess what my most played game on the console is? With the same two cousins and my brother, we poured hours into Super Smash Bros Melee. The minute they arrived in the door it was always "Melee?". I think the power on count for it is around 500 hours or so. We usually always did 1 v 1 v1 v 1 in Hyrule Castle with items. Sometimes we'd mix it up with 2 v 2 or 1 v 3 but the formula usually stayed the same.
During this time we also played some 007 Nightfire (and then a bit of From Russia with Love) on the Gamecube and while we put a lot of hours into it, it wasn't nearly the same as Goldeneye.
After the Gamecube, things got a bit quiet. We were all getting older and we kinda moved on a bit from Nintendo consoles. I did pick up a Wii and Super Smash Bros Brawl but I don't have any fond memories of playing much multiplayer in it. The same goes for the Wii as a whole. Also around this time my two cousins whom we played so many hours of video games, slowly grew away from video games.
Next up, we have the Wii-U. I bought this console on a whim because it was going dirt cheap a year after it's launch in an Argos near me (€199 including one game). I mainly stuck to single-player games on this until the next iteration of Smash came out, Super Smash Bros Wii U.
Around this time another cousin of mine who was a few years younger than me and my brother started hanging around us. We started playing a small few games of Melee while he was over and he got really, really into it. Then things got competitive and played more and more of it. A month or so later was when I picked up Smash Bros on the Wii U. The 3 of us played around 200 hours or so of Smash on the Wii U. Almost always 1 v 1 v 1 with no items and Omega stages. We've had so much fun with it and so many funny and fond moments. Moments of rage, moments of joy and just extremely funny moments. We would call over to us multiple times a week to play it and we all loved it and still play it to this very day.
And just the other day, I've created some new memories. This time with the Nintnedo Switch. I was at a BBQ with a group of my friends and our girlfriends. My friend who was hosting the BBQ asked me to bring my Switch along and some controllers which I did. I later found out he bought Pokken for his own Switch and decided we'd all play it, great! We had some good fun with it but the girls were kind of left out while we all played. That's when I decided to throw in Super Bomberman R and best of all, we had enough controllers for 8 people to play. It was absolute mayhem but we all had a blast with it, it was such a fun night. It makes me extremely excited for Smash on the Switch and hopefully many more good memories to come.
Whew. That was quite a long retrospective. I'd absolutely LOVE to hear any similar stories you guys might have.
My point of all this was, that every single person in these stories are people who generally had various consoles at the time (Xbox, PS2, etc. etc.) and while we did play some multiplayer games on those consoles, it was always the Nintendo consoles that really brought us all together and gave us some of the best memories.
There's just something about it.
For some reason I've been thinking about this a lot lately, just good memories of the past where I've had some of my best gaming moments. I've found that a lot of these moments always seem to revolve around Nintendo consoles.
A little backstory, I was born in the 90s so I pretty much missed out on the NES console and never had one. I would have probably also missed out on the Sega Mega Drive/SNES except that my older brother had a Mega Drive. I played this console almost exclusively and I loved it. I must have cleared Sonic the Hedgehog 1 50+ times.
Fast forward to the release of the Nintendo 64. I remember eagerly awaiting Christmas for months. I'd often see Banjo-Kazooie in my local Xtra-Vision (video/game renting store) and I'd state at the box art of it for such a long time. I remember my Mother asking me in a round-about way if I'd prefer Goldeneye or Mission Impossible (I think both were back in games so you could pick one or the other). I picked Goldeneye after some thought (I almost went for Mission Impossible).
That time was glorious. I poured hours upon hours into Goldeneye and Banjo-Kazooie. My father, who is not a gamer in the slightest, even played a bunch of Banjo-Kazooie too, he still talks about the bear with the bird on his back to this day.
I had other consoles around this time too, namely, a PS1. An oh-boy was I hooked on that too. In terms of singleplayer games I've definitely put more hours into my PS1 and there is a reason it's one of my favourite consoles of all time.
But this is where I want to talk about the magic of Nintendo which for some reason has the power to bring multiple people together to play games quite unlike other Companies and Consoles. Some of my greatest memories revolve around myself, my brother and my two cousins.
They often visited our house, at the very least once a week and sometimes more than that. They would bring their two Nintendo 64 controllers with them and we would play hours upon hours of Goldeneye. I couldn't tell you how much time was put into that game, it must be huge.
On top of that we would play Mario Kart 64 battle mode, WWF No Mercy and Mario Party. Mario Party was a bit rarer because I always insisted we would play the longest turns for the board (it had to be an epic adventure!) so the game would take us like 4 hours to do one board. So many fantastic memories of multiplayer on the Nintendo 64.
Fast forward to the launch of the Gamecube. I got both Super Smash Brothers Melee and Super Mario Sunshine with the console. Can you guess what my most played game on the console is? With the same two cousins and my brother, we poured hours into Super Smash Bros Melee. The minute they arrived in the door it was always "Melee?". I think the power on count for it is around 500 hours or so. We usually always did 1 v 1 v1 v 1 in Hyrule Castle with items. Sometimes we'd mix it up with 2 v 2 or 1 v 3 but the formula usually stayed the same.
During this time we also played some 007 Nightfire (and then a bit of From Russia with Love) on the Gamecube and while we put a lot of hours into it, it wasn't nearly the same as Goldeneye.
After the Gamecube, things got a bit quiet. We were all getting older and we kinda moved on a bit from Nintendo consoles. I did pick up a Wii and Super Smash Bros Brawl but I don't have any fond memories of playing much multiplayer in it. The same goes for the Wii as a whole. Also around this time my two cousins whom we played so many hours of video games, slowly grew away from video games.
Next up, we have the Wii-U. I bought this console on a whim because it was going dirt cheap a year after it's launch in an Argos near me (€199 including one game). I mainly stuck to single-player games on this until the next iteration of Smash came out, Super Smash Bros Wii U.
Around this time another cousin of mine who was a few years younger than me and my brother started hanging around us. We started playing a small few games of Melee while he was over and he got really, really into it. Then things got competitive and played more and more of it. A month or so later was when I picked up Smash Bros on the Wii U. The 3 of us played around 200 hours or so of Smash on the Wii U. Almost always 1 v 1 v 1 with no items and Omega stages. We've had so much fun with it and so many funny and fond moments. Moments of rage, moments of joy and just extremely funny moments. We would call over to us multiple times a week to play it and we all loved it and still play it to this very day.
And just the other day, I've created some new memories. This time with the Nintnedo Switch. I was at a BBQ with a group of my friends and our girlfriends. My friend who was hosting the BBQ asked me to bring my Switch along and some controllers which I did. I later found out he bought Pokken for his own Switch and decided we'd all play it, great! We had some good fun with it but the girls were kind of left out while we all played. That's when I decided to throw in Super Bomberman R and best of all, we had enough controllers for 8 people to play. It was absolute mayhem but we all had a blast with it, it was such a fun night. It makes me extremely excited for Smash on the Switch and hopefully many more good memories to come.
Whew. That was quite a long retrospective. I'd absolutely LOVE to hear any similar stories you guys might have.
My point of all this was, that every single person in these stories are people who generally had various consoles at the time (Xbox, PS2, etc. etc.) and while we did play some multiplayer games on those consoles, it was always the Nintendo consoles that really brought us all together and gave us some of the best memories.
There's just something about it.
