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I was just talking with a friend, and the subject of Local TV Channels got brought up, which reminded me of my young preteen days when I used to stay up late at night to watch something unlike any of you have probably ever heard of.

Keep in mind, this is before Youtube or even Google was a thing; has to have been more than 24 years ago, we barely even had an  internet back then let alone "social media". Back then, our idea of "social media" was the AOL Group Chats, or small community websites with forums or crude chatroom programs.

I was up late flipping through channels one night, something a gamer like me would almost  never do, as I always had some kind of great game on hand I could be playing; and I suddenly catch a glimpse of (you may have guessed it) a video game. You see, being a child and growing up with games meant that we gained a sort of superpower; this uncanny ability to recognize when a video game or video game related merch was present in any situation. I'm sure you know what I mean.

It turns out these two guys at the local TV station decided that rather than displaying a blank, black screen during the late evening hours before the local news at 6 AM, they might as well just play video games; and that's what they did. I watched them playing Punch-Out on NES while the guy described Glass Joe and how he was gonna kick his 'glass'. This was better entertainment than anything on the market or internet at the time, and way funnier than anything the Game Grunps or similar Internet Video Clowns put out ever since; my young mind was blown away by the fact I was watching people play video games on TV.

To this day, I've still never found out anything about who those guys were or what they were doing playing video games and making jokes on late night (after 12, before 6 AM) television when hardly anyone is awake and watching; but they were my literal heroes. I used to tune in to them every chance I got, opting to watch them joke about games rather than see the new episode of DBZ or whatever was on Toonami at the time. I loved it. Best show I've ever seen to this day, and it never even had a name or official channel or anything, even the guys remain anonymous. Thank you, gamers.

What are some of your fondest childhood memories? Discuss.
 
My cousin changing the language in the first Harry Potter game to Spanish, which we didn't understand so everything sounded funny to us.
Tell me about it; I used to sometimes get stoned and watch the spanish channel for hours.
No clue what they were saying, but man they got some good entertainment. ?
 
Tell me about it; I used to sometimes get stoned and watch the spanish channel for hours.
No clue what they were saying, but man they got some good entertainment. ?
Oh, um alright. I can't really relate since I don't do drugs.
 
Hm... one of my fondest memories was getting a Mega Drive for Christmas, one of the earlier models, the pretty ones with good sound output.

Its funny because my more well off cousins at the time had gotten a SNES instead and were being pretty petulant about it.

I loved the MD since, and that was my induction to the console wars.

It was 1991.
 
I was up late flipping through channels one night, something a gamer like me would almost  never do, as I always had some kind of great game on hand I could be playing; and I suddenly catch a glimpse of (you may have guessed it) a video game.
As far as TV goes one of my fond memories was when my dad and I were flipping through channels and we accidentally came across some Spanish or Italian gaming programme (Hotbird and Astra satellite programming for the win). It was around 1999-2000 and they were running a segment on Age of Empires II. We intuited that they were going to give out cheat codes and we furiously scrambled for a piece of paper and something to write with. We got all the resource cheats and a few others. It was a glorious time.
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I'm basically as old as the 2600, so there's a lot of stuff that I can look back on fondly. But a lot of it, you had to be there for. I know it's possible to look back and recognize that something was a new feature or a visual leap, etc. It's not the same as living it and not already knowing how much better it could be, and would be.
 
It'd have to be when my mom wanted to try video games with my brother and I. She decided to play Dragon Quest I for a while.

Rambette...you were a kick-ass hero.
 
Halo LAN parties in high school when the first came had just come out. Me and like a dozen other friends would get together and get 3 TVs in 3 rooms with ethernet cables stretched all through the house and would go to town for hours. I loved the feeling of being in a separate room than the people you're playing against. Really heightened the team spirit of who you were playing with and after the round was over we'd all come out into the main area to trash talk and mix up the teams.

I will say that I stopped getting invited to these parties because I was admittedly not very good at Halo lol. I'm just not a competitive person but I always had fun just palling around the maps with my buddies.
 
Playing and finishing a Sherlock Holmes game in German,i didn't understand anything ,but i did learn that Ja is yes.also playing Tennis and Battle city nes with my brothers when I was a kid
 
Beating Diablo 1 with my dad will always be my favorite.
 
Something I remember rn is that one night me and step-brothers just played Sonic for the entire night. It was the Mega Collection and Shadow the Hedgehog it was fun from what I remember. And while I didn't play any video games I remember seeing my aunt who lives in the country side for a bit and just watching Clements Mega Man Maverick Hunter X LP and also Vanoss Gaming cause I used to be really in to his videos.
 
Many epic memories I will tell you 2


1-in WarCraft 3 one day I was playing melee offline as orcs I had an army of tauren and met a massive human knight formation I engaged not very confident in me pulling it off to my surprise my outnumbered tauren destroyed the human army in matter of moments knight after knight fell the battlefield was littered with dead knights in armor along their lifeless horses atop them stood my proud and powerful tauren a moment so epic I would draw it as an image if I can.

2-one day I was playing Sudden strike 2 Soviet campaign mission 6 its about battle of berlin I push and pierce the first german defense line , instead of consolidating my new gains I move my artillery forward and start taking out german howitzers when done I confidently move my infantry force forward and to my shock a massive german counterattack hits....my artillery is low on ammo , my supply trucks don't have much supply due to previous artillery barrages , a sizeable and capable Germany infantry force heads towards my men at this moment I have 2 choices retreat hastily and risk losing my artillery or hold my ground against the fearless whermacht I choose the latter and hold my ground an epic firefight ensues as my infantry desperately hold their ground against the german onslaught , my IS2 tanks can't support the infantry due to them being low on much needed ammunition so its only infantry after a deadly exchange of bullets few of the hardened Soviet soldiers stand up victorious against what would have been a decisive setback.
 

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