Videogame traditions?

2006-01-01 03:43:14 pm

Never give up!

Okay, I had a thought out here at a relative's house.

Does anyone's family here have any sort of videogame-related traditions?

For instance, my extended family is a huge fan of Dr. Mario. Seriously, when we're together we'll gather around the NES (or N64 nowadays) and play Dr. Mario for hours on end. And we're pretty competitive about it.

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Dark

2006-01-01 03:47:29 pm

Nobody's except me and my step father in my family don't play video games, we don,t have much tradition or competition :/

YautjaElder

2006-01-01 03:56:41 pm

Speed is the key.

I´m the only one in the family playing pc/video-games, so we haven´t any gaming-related traditions.

Kibbo

2006-01-01 04:16:51 pm

TIOLET!

Well, sometimes my sister wants to play some games with/against me on GCN. The "tradition" is that I win like 20-30 straight rounds then she get upset and quit playing Tongue

Living on a farm I don't have many people to play with, since no one want to take the time to get out here.

-Suzaku-

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-Suzaku-: 2006-01-01 04:26:34 pm

2006-01-01 04:26:12 pm

Eternal Understudy

When I was 5 or so, we had an Intellivision with a ton of games, so my family used to have a bunch of competitions every year. Sadly, my parents sold that machine when I was 12 and away on a trip Cry

beanshaker

2006-01-01 04:55:42 pm

go the mighty swans

Not a tradition per-se, but im always competing with my mum for the high score on whatever new addictive puzzle game she is playing on the computer. And, much as i hate to say it, she routinely kicks my arse. I like to put this down to the fact that she spends much more time playing than i do, but it still hurts the pride a little bit.

Metallic Ghost

2006-01-01 05:09:46 pm

I agree with Prince, pomegranates suck.

yep we have a big tradition, I turn it on and my mum shouts: TURN THAT SHIT DOWN!!. *sniff* god i love my family..... Tongue

but nah, sista hates it cos i kick her ass.
And the dog dont know how to play yet....

yet.

Enhasa

2006-01-01 05:15:52 pm

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

The only thing was we used to play some sort of Jack Nicklaus golf around 1990 (for DOS, let you design your own courses and AFAIK invented the 3-tap golf swing wheel). Nothing more intense than that, and me and my brother would almost always win anyways.

Staralfur

2006-01-01 05:50:54 pm

hello there

My Dad isn't a gamer, but we've had some rather heated high-score battles on Microsoft Pinball in the past.

DLH112

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DLH112: 2006-01-01 05:58:38 pm

2006-01-01 05:56:31 pm

It's not really a tradition, because i always forget to do it, but on christmas I always liked to play Donkey Kong Country 3 with that christmas stuff code on. I haven't played it in so long i forgot what it is. Also, me and my brothers used to compete against one another for the Microsoft Pinball highest score. This started when we played it on my dad's laptop on a long ass drive to Florida. From here its about 1300 miles away.

Psychochild

2006-01-01 06:51:05 pm

Mario Kart 64 gets a lot of mileage in this household and for a good reason. One, it was my first N64 game ever, and two, it was an AWESOME N64 game. My brother, sister and father all get really involved whenever one of us brings the N64 down, but it's all a waste really, since I always win. Because I OWN at MK64.

When I ain't flinging people's asses into the abyss that is Banshee Boardwalk, we also play the original Mario games. My sister still prides herself for being the first one to beat Mario 3 (The only game she's ever bested me in, but I was like... six). I make it a point to cart our asses from world 1 to world 8 though, just to spite her OH IM GONNA GET TWO WHISTLES AND GO STRAIGHT TO WORLD 8 ways.

wired

2006-01-01 07:50:10 pm

like....gah... ._.

My family USED to all sit around and play Mario 3 and Zelda: LttP, but those days are looong gone. Infact, the last time I even played a game with anyone else was with my cousin when he visited last summer. Goldeneye marathons will always own. u_u

trihex

2006-01-02 02:55:12 am

Yoshi's eggs are at my mercy!

Practically nonexistant. Mom did buy that crappily made Namco Collection all-in-one joystick. Where me, her, and my stepdad would duke it out in Pole Position, Ms. Pac Man, and Galaga. I spank them all in the first 2, Galaga is the only decent challenge I get from the two. But my trigger finger is better, so I always win. Other tahn that, my parents think I'm "obsessed" with gaming, because they only see me play alot, and don't know/care what speedrunning is.

slYnki

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slYnki: 2006-01-02 03:38:58 am

2006-01-02 03:33:39 am

XXY

My videogame tradition is playing Mario Party 2 with my friends, one day in the summer, the whole fucking day. I have the same 7 friends over everytime. Brendan, Kyle, James, Charles, Andrew, and Larry. We sit in my TV room, which we move around for our benefit. After that, we bust out a shit load of junk food, and sit and play Mario Party 2 all day. Actually, we play a lot of other games if we get bored with MP2 (which is unlikely, but it happens). Super Smash Bros., in which people get their asses kicked by Charles and I. Then we plug in Mario Kart 64, which is actually really funny, because Brendan and James insist on killing themselves so they can be those annoying bombs. It's funny watching a mini little bomb chase down Donkey Kong (me), then watching him get run the fuck over with a star. Unfortunately for everyone there, I'm unbeatable at Mario Kart 64 in Battle. I am not kidding, I'm god. Yesterday before I went for the New Years sleepover party, I was playing MK64 with my buddy Sean. I kicked his fucking ass 49-0 o_O; So yeah, that's my little tradition there :P.

Another tradition, on no specific date, my family gets together and we play deathmatch on Duke3D, Doom/2 and Descent. Amazingly fun stuff. My uncle Guy, my dad and my brothers Sven, Sydney and Ian. Of course I've been practicing on all of those games, so when the next deathmatch comes around, they're getting owned @_@;

And lastly, a tiny little tradition is playing Halo with a few of my friends. It doesn't happen often, but it happened like, twice, so we considered it a tradition. In fact, I'll be playing Halo with them this Tuesday. Ehehehe, owning time.

My videogame tradition is playing Mario Party 2 with my friends, one day in the summer, the whole fucking day. I have the same 7 friends over everytime. Brendan, Kyle, James, Charles, Andrew, and Larry. We sit in my TV room, which we move around for our benefit. After that, we bust out a shit load of junk food, and sit and play Mario Party 2 all day. Actually, we play a lot of other games if we get bored with MP2 (which is unlikely, but it happens). Super Smash Bros., in which people get their asses kicked by Charles and I. Then we plug in Mario Kart 64, which is actually really funny, because Brendan and James insist on killing themselves so they can be those annoying bombs. It's funny watching a mini little bomb chase down Donkey Kong (me), then watching him get run the fuck over with a star. Unfortunately for everyone there, I'm unbeatable at Mario Kart 64 in Battle. I am not kidding, I'm god. Yesterday before I went for the New Years sleepover party, I was playing MK64 with my buddy Sean. I kicked his fucking ass 49-0 o_O;  So yeah, that's my little tradition there :P.

Another tradition, on no specific date, my family gets together and we play deathmatch on Duke3D, Doom/2 and Descent. Amazingly fun stuff. My uncle Guy, my dad and my brothers Sven, Sydney and Ian. Of course I've been practicing on all of those games, so when the next deathmatch comes around, they're getting owned @_@;

And lastly, a tiny little tradition is playing Halo with a few of my friends. It doesn't happen often, but it happened like, twice, so we considered it a tradition. In fact, I'll be playing Halo with them this Tuesday. Ehehehe, owning time.

grndino

2006-01-02 07:20:10 am

All throughout high school, me, my brother, my long time friend Nick, and my other long time friend Nick, would get together on weekends and play Magic the Gathering (yup, I'm a geek) and SSB Melee. It was great, four hours of Stock 5, random map. Dan (my brother) would play Link, the cheapest character ever (it a jam? Up-B your way to victory), Nick2 would play G&W or Peach (the Dress of Doom), I would play Yoshi or Sheik, and Nick1 would play random (he was really good...) or Falco if he was feeling cheap. We're also the only people to ever beat Four Swords Adventures with four people playing at the same time (probably).

Of course, everyone's graduated now, so we can't get together so often. In fact, Nick1's in the army and only gets to town for a week every year. He still kicks our asses at Melee.

Every once in a while, all the guys from the former high school computer club I was in will get together for a fair-size LAN. We usually play Halo Demo to warm up. Yes, the demo, but this is important, because everyone we get from online to get into our game is a noob. Hilarity always ensues, especially when we ruin the game by mass migrating to the same team. When everyone figures this out and goes to the same team, the TKing begins and lasts until we get bored, or they all quit.

We do play the full version for Bollo, which is basically warthog-ball. The setup is, rockets on Blood Gulch, infinite grenades, two tanks, two Ghosts, and a warthog (duh). The goal is to get the warthog to touch the other team's base, but the ball has to be yours (either have the other team score or get in the driver's seat to make the ball your teams'. The tanks must act as goalies and must always touch the base. The ghosts are for transport and can't fire. Great game Cheesy

At around two AM, AoE2 is played, usually taking until sunup. One time we played SC, but that never has a stalemate, so where's the fun in that? Tongue

All throughout high school, me, my brother, my long time friend Nick, and my other long time friend Nick, would get together on weekends and play Magic the Gathering (yup, I'm a geek) and SSB Melee.  It was great, four hours of Stock 5, random map.  Dan (my brother) would play Link, the cheapest character ever (it a jam? Up-B your way to victory), Nick2 would play G&W or Peach (the Dress of Doom), I would play Yoshi or Sheik, and Nick1 would play random (he was really good...) or Falco if he was feeling cheap.  We're also the only people to ever beat Four Swords Adventures with four people playing at the same time (probably).

Of course, everyone's graduated now, so we can't get together so often.  In fact, Nick1's in the army and only gets to town for a week every year.  He still kicks our asses at Melee.

Every once in a while, all the guys from the former high school computer club I was in will get together for a fair-size LAN.  We usually play Halo Demo to warm up.  Yes, the demo, but this is important, because everyone we get from online to get into our game is a noob.  Hilarity always ensues, especially when we ruin the game by mass migrating to the same team.  When everyone figures this out and goes to the same team, the TKing begins and lasts until we get bored, or they all quit.

We do play the full version for Bollo, which is basically warthog-ball.  The setup is, rockets on Blood Gulch, infinite grenades, two tanks, two Ghosts, and a warthog (duh).  The goal is to get the warthog to touch the other team's base, but the ball has to be yours (either have the other team score or get in the driver's seat to make the ball your teams'.  The tanks must act as goalies and must always touch the base.  The ghosts are for transport and can't fire.  Great game   :D

At around two AM, AoE2 is played, usually taking until sunup.  One time we played SC, but that never has a stalemate, so where's the fun in that?  :P

marshmallow

2006-01-02 07:39:08 am

Jack of all Trades

My mom dresses up as Princess Toadstool and I rescue her from the next door neighbors.

Mkt2015

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Mkt2015: 2006-01-02 07:39:33 am

2006-01-02 07:39:15 am

MGS for PS1 forever.

Not necessarily a tradition...but my high school has special classes every 4 years where you just focus on certain things like technology or music. Well, one year I got into a technology thing and the teachers set up an 8-player lan of Duke Nukem 3D. Way back then I didn't have any consoles, but I did have a computer and many different demos to play around with. I sat back and watched for a few hours...and then someone left and I joined in.

The whole thing was hilarious. I had developed a reputation for sucking at video games...since I didn't own a console...and then all of these guys assumed I sucked at PC games. Oops... Grin

Anyway...about 30 minutes in I have around 200 kills while the closest guy to me had about 50 something. They were all shouting at each other to take me out and none of them could since they could only use alt ctrl and the direction buttons. A few minutes later I got bored with killing them so I just gave up my seat to someone else.

Ahhh...memories.

Weird_Jon

2006-01-02 08:34:49 am

I have Fury!

I accually have/had tons of videogame traditions.

It started a long time ago, my parents had SNES and always played Actraiser over and over. Then my aunt got into videogames and became an expert Street-Fighting Mortal-Kombatent, along with my uncle, who she would play with every single hour of the day, "Sub-Zero, Wins" is still stuck in my head. Then we found Mystical Ninja, which my sister, aunt, uncle and I always tried to beat.

Along came my 9th birthday and I finnally got an N64, and once we got our hands on the Mario Party series, we had parties all the time, and I won against everyone nearly all the time. Me, my sis, and my cousins played that everytime we were together, it was always "One more time!" for the each minigame. And then I fell in love with Super Smash Brothers, and apearantly, so did my uncle and cousins, and it was match after match, which everyone tried to gang up on Ness (me). My only equal was my cousin Sidney.

Now that N64 is done with, all my cousins own at least one PS2. At every single party, Christmas, New Years, Birthdays, Graduations, where ever it was at, my cousins would bring every PS2's they could carry, take over every single TV, and either...

1. Have a Mortal Kombat tournament, or some similar fighting/shooting multiplayer
or
2. Have a DDR tournement, which was always fun to watch, wether the dancer cleared or failed (failed is funner ;D)

You'd walk into a room and find a whole bunch of kids crowded around the TV shouting "My Turn! My turn!"

I accually have/had tons of videogame traditions.

It started a long time ago, my parents had SNES and always played Actraiser over and over.  Then my aunt got into videogames and became an expert Street-Fighting Mortal-Kombatent, along with my uncle, who she would play with every single hour of the day, "Sub-Zero, Wins" is still stuck in my head.  Then we found Mystical Ninja, which my sister, aunt, uncle and I always tried to beat.

Along came my 9th birthday and I finnally got an N64, and once we got our hands on the Mario Party series, we had parties all the time, and I won against everyone nearly all the time.  Me, my sis, and my cousins played that everytime we were together, it was always "One more time!" for the each minigame.  And then I fell in love with Super Smash Brothers, and apearantly, so did my uncle and cousins, and it was match after match, which everyone tried to gang up on Ness (me).  My only equal was my cousin Sidney.

Now that N64 is done with, all my cousins own at least one PS2.  At every single party, Christmas, New Years, Birthdays, Graduations, where ever it was at, my cousins would bring every PS2's they could carry, take over every single TV, and either...

1. Have a Mortal Kombat tournament, or some similar fighting/shooting multiplayer
or
2. Have a DDR tournement, which was always fun to watch, wether the dancer cleared or failed (failed is funner ;D)

You'd walk into a room and find a whole bunch of kids crowded around the TV shouting "My Turn! My turn!"

Pweisger

2006-01-02 08:50:59 am

PwNzRd!

Whenever my sisters and I are together we play Mario Kart Double Dash battles. Whenever I am at my friend's house and there are at least four of us it is either Halo or Halo 2 multi. If it's just him and me, co-op. My dad and I have competitions on who can finish the most Paint By Numbers puzzles online. Don't know what I am talking about? Here...

http://pbn.homelinux.com/pbn/

Patricio

2006-01-02 08:40:03 pm

MarioKart64.com biotch!

Back in the day my dad played a good deal of Super Mario Brothers 1 with me. He also got into Twisted Metal 2, me and brother would win even when he was playing as minion.

Mario Kart 64 gets a lot of mileage in this household and for a good reason. One, it was my first N64 game ever, and two, it was an AWESOME N64 game. My brother, sister and father all get really involved whenever one of us brings the N64 down, but it's all a waste really, since I always win. Because I OWN at MK64.

I always play with my brother when he is home from college. We have had some good matches.

tenfoLd

2006-01-03 01:17:56 am

Well every christmas if i go over to my cousins house we usually play mario kart 64 (battling and racing) for awhile, but I don't know if you would call it a tradition :-/

Lam6ch0p

2006-01-03 01:34:51 am

$inner

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My family USED to all sit around and play Mario 3 and Zelda: LttP, but those days are looong gone. Infact, the last time I even played a game with anyone else was with my cousin when he visited last summer. Goldeneye marathons will always own. u_u

Could it be that your depressed and get made fun at school by your friends? Quite possibly Tongue

Very few times these days do anyone in my family play games, last time anyone did besides me was my mom and my sister playin Mario All-Stars (We always got our asses kicked, my lives were wasted cause I warped us to world 8 and they couldn't handle it too well)

Hitaro

2006-01-03 03:40:30 am

Not really a tradition, but when I was 5 or so, we had a Genesis with Sonic 2, and whenever I played it, I always get to Chemical Plant Zone 2 and get to where the water rises, then I panic and die. Every time.
Then my mother plays it for ahelluva lot (if my memory is correct...) and always gets to the laser boss thing, but she never figured out how to damage it. Then, one day, one magical day...some moron *censored* the Genesis.
And that's about it...

I'm sad 'cause I only know around 4-5 people who live in my area that actually plays games seriously. There are aheluva lot of "HALO LOL" and "YAY VIOLENSE!" people, though...

The closest thing to a tradition I have is that me and my brother often play SSBM for hours until I make him mad 'cause I say something incredibly dumb. He always kicks my ass, but he says that I could kick his ass incredibly badly. I can't concentrate enough, though. D';

Enhasa

2006-01-04 03:24:50 am

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

Quote:

Not really a tradition, but when I was 5 or so, we had a Genesis with Sonic 2, and whenever I played it, I always get to Chemical Plant Zone 2 and get to where the water rises, then I panic and die. Every time.
Then my mother plays it for ahelluva lot (if my memory is correct...) and always gets to the laser boss thing, but she never figured out how to damage it. Then, one day, one magical day...some moron *censored* the Genesis.
And that's about it...

I'm sad 'cause I only know around 4-5 people who live in my area that actually plays games seriously. There are aheluva lot of "HALO LOL" and "YAY VIOLENSE!" people, though...

The closest thing to a tradition I have is that me and my brother often play SSBM for hours until I make him mad 'cause I say something incredibly dumb. He always kicks my ass, but he says that I could kick his ass incredibly badly. I can't concentrate enough, though. D';

Um... "I are don't do sense" indeed.

Lag.Com

2006-01-04 10:42:05 am

sda loyalist

My family and I used to spend a lot of time huddled round the PC while we played the two Ultima Underworld games, and also point-and-click adventures such as Sam & Max; all of us were needed to decipher all the clues, offer advice etc. It was a great experience, and sometimes I wonder how The Avatar managed to solve all those puzzles without a team of people "thinking shit up" walking around with him.