The memory of breaking the screen of my Gameboy SP.l is burned into my mind forever.
What a great lesson to stupid kid me: Maybe don't keep expensive tech in your pocket as you wrestle the other kids π€¦
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The most unrealistic thing about this post is the idea that you might drop a GBA and break it's screen. Those things were practically indestructible.
Not unrealistic at all. I traded someone a shiny blastoise for one with a broken screen that still worked fine. Still think I got the better end of that deal.
Really curious what was broken about the screen. There is no glass, the LCD is recessed... Did a connection come loose?
Just no glass, it worked fine otherwise.
I once called Nintendo as a kid when my DS hinge broke for no reason. I had it for under a year and there was info about a warranty. They told me that they had already fixed that defect and they would not cover it.
Did you try flying to Japan to exchange it?
Blatantly fake. Anon is talking about Nintendo.
No. A random game shop
How the fuck did anon post from the future though?
Thatβs not the future itβs 26th March 2001.
No, 26 March 2001 was a Monday, not a Saturday. Something's very fishy here, the screenshot seems to be fake.
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Just America's stupid date format.
USians. The rest of America uses metric and normal dates
Fair point.
mm/dd/yy is a crime akin to min:sec:hour
There is min:sec:hour? I feel incredibly fortunate to have never interacted with it.
I think I heard the whoosh.
It makes sense with spoken English. You say March 3rd not 3rd March. You could say 3rd of March, but it's a bit uncommon
I get the increased efficiency of ddmmyy in a number based format, but it's not hard to see how it evolved the other way from the language
You say March 3rd not 3rd March.
If you are Yoda.
But why do US-Americans say March 3rd? The British donβt. They prefer 3rd of March. And the USA loves their 4th of julyβ¦
You are right we do still say 4th of July, but usually we tend to just prefer a different format when talking about everyday things. I'm going to visit on July 15th, I have an appointment May 12th, etc. This is much more natural in American English. Saying the "12th of May" just sounds overly formal. Which is fine for a holiday, but not everyday speech.
So I guess the question is when did this shift between American and British English occur in relation to the creation of our dating formats.
I assume, like most things English, Americans kept the language more or less the same while the Brits shifted how they use the language. The European languages that are spoken in the Americas haven't changed much since colonization while the Europeans have been changing their languages drastically in the past 4 centuries
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Who remembers where they bought their game consoles? Did he give the address of a Best Buy off the top of his head?
I do. Especially when I was young. This was 2002, so it's probably the same store he went to all the time to browse. (Assuming this is real, of course).
Its odd what becomes a core memory to an 8 year old.
Yeah OP says 12 year old. I guess I can see you remembering a purchase like that around that age.
And I guess I remember where I got the phone Iβm using right now.
Ebay?
I don't know where the consoles my parents bought me were from, because they were always surprise gifts. But I sure as hell remember where the ones I bought with my own money were from, where a I bought a few particularly important to me games, and where I used to browse with my parents. Not address off the top of my head but I could pretty easily look most up now, or even years ago with the internet.
Kirby's Dreamland 3 was from a discount bin at the Walmart where my family lived until I was 8. Death and Return of Superman for the SNES was from the video rental store we used to frequent after we moved, when they started selling off their old SNES games. Lots of games from one particular Gamestop in between the grocery store and the movie theater. Midnight release of Smash Bros Brawl there. Got a used N64 and some games for it there during the early 360 era too. PSP and some games for it was my first "real" purchase completely with my own money (no birthday or christmas gift money towards it) and was done at a Gamestop in the corner of a local mall. Moved 8 hours away with a GF and picked up Aladin, Starfox, and Super Metroid for the SNES for prices that would now be robbery from a local retro games store before the collectors started getting into retro games (still haven't checked if they're legit or repros, and I should because that store sold a few romhacks on physical cartridge from a different display area in the store). Moved back with my folks after a rough break up. Bubsy 3d from a new store that sells all sorts of used stuff out of what used to be an old Border's book store where I had previously been to for a midnight Harry Potter release (cut me some slack I was like 10 for the Potter and it was long before any of the drama). Switch from a Gamestop in the town where my wife grew up.
Yes, I wish I remembered more important stuff, but I think people have forgotten what buying video games was like in the "old days". You had word of mouth, experience with previous games in the series, cart and box art, and maybe a review from a gaming magazine to go off of. So it was an experience. Unless you were one of those kids that was going out to buy a brand new game, you used to actually browse and decide. It was a big deal because you'd get maybe one new game for 6 months at a time. I used to strecth things by trying to get a few used games instead of just one new one. Sometimes you got a flop, like when I bought Croc and Croc 2 because they looked fun and I liked the humor on the back of the box. Not bad games, but I already had experienced Crash Bandicoot 2 and Spyro 3. Early 3D platformer controls like Croc just weren't my thing by that point.
In some ways I miss it. On the other hand, I have a lot less "meh" games hanging around now.
"Fun" fact I just remembered. Shortly after I graduated high school, a former classmate of mine became the manager of the Gamestop I used to go to the most. While I was out failing out of university, 4chan's /v/ideogames board started the "meme" of prank calling Gamestops and finding increasingly roundabout ways to ask if they had Battletoads. This former classmate of mine had a total crashout when his store got hit and ended up rage dumping on Facebook, where he had his employment listed publicly. Eventually he started posting the numbers they were getting the calls from trying to get people to spam call back. Cost him his job.
My dmg was a gift from my father when i was 12.
I bought my snes from gamesworld. The wii from ebgames. The switch from catch.
I got my 2600 on ebay
To this day i know exactly where my first Gameboy color was bought. I even know the street name off the cuff, not the number tho.
Not as unlikely as you think i would say
thats nice dear
Im happy for this fake person
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