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So, we all have some stories I think relating to video games. That one hilarious glitch in Super Mario World, what your brother did in GTA yesterday, etc. It doesn't even have to be about something that happened in the game, maybe. I don't know. Gonna share some of mine(sorry, some are a little lame), you guys go ahead too. As long as you want!
So, if you look at my game collection you'll see Atari 5200 Dig Dug. For a retro collector in the works this is no big deal, but notice it's my only A5200 game and notes say acquired via "eBay shenanigans." So here's the story behind how I got it: So, I wanted to get the Atari 2600 version of Dig Dug (frankly, the Famicom or A5200 versions would have been a better deal for my money), preferably with at least the manual or something and for cheap. New eBay deal found: "Atari 260 Dig Dug WITH MANUAL." $7. This looks good. I buy it. After waiting a loooooooong time for it to arrive(or what seemed like one), I got it, but it looked different. What the heck? What's this weird thing? (A5200 cartridges look pretty weird. But at the same time, pretty rad.) Turns out...yeah. So what the heck, they said it was the VCS and we got the wrong game. So we contacted the seller (my dad and I, I don't have an eBay account despite my countless purchases[mainly because I don't have a bank account{I should get one soon}]), and it turns out the guy's wife listed it wrong or something. So we got a full refund and they let us keep the game. Yay! (I did end up buying the 2600 game. For $10, new-sealed-in-box is a great deal.)
So, it's well-known that the NES is very prone to game errors. The famous red-light-blinking thing is a good example. (ARRGH!!!!!!!!) But I've had a lot of...let's call them "analog errors" with mine. I don't know what it is, but sometimes games will sort-of work with major glitch issues. I've taken some 3DS videos, but the post doesn't accept videos except from YT(I guess I could upload them), and I'm too lazy to get them off as this requires using my piece of crap slow-butt laptop as a median (this computer doesn't have an SD card port, and if an adapter exists I don't have it). In any case, sometimes it's amusing, sometimes it's frustrating, and other times just baffling. (And sometimes very scary.) In one case, The Legend of Zelda wasn't working right, where in the opening sequence it would repeat the story multiple times (the story of Link, Zelda, Ganon etc. and its words showing up randomly in the list of items sequence) and that just really confused me. I started to play. The name entry screen gave me major trouble. A ton of the letters were missing, and only some of the ones that showed up would actually make letters. And those weren't even the right letters most of the time. Then, only certain characters in the name would show up! I settled for "I GGY " or "D O GG Y " or whatever it was. And when I finish...the first and last letter are changed to Es. Infuriating. And playing the game? Whenever I got to a new "room," it changed to look like the first one after a while. (Fun note: The text of the "DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE" guy was missing a few letters, so it said "DANG ROUS" which amused me) In the first dungeon, the transition from room to room was sometimes slow and processed, and it looked very creepy on video. Hard to describe, I hope I get around with those videos. Super Mario Bros. was debatably worse. The cartridge (Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt) has glitched many times, and two instances stand out. One time, it was really messed up and extremely slowed down, and the sound was played in slow motion as well as the action. The other time: The cartridge skipped straight to SMB, like something out of a creepypasta, and it only got weirder. The title screen even was messed up, and in the game it was just not right. Everything would appear earlier and discolored, although just the image. The actual objects and their behaviors were in their normal places. I.e., if you saw a pit early, you could walk over it, but later you'd fall into the ground. Sometimes it'd half-glitch so you could see some of the original scenery, but it'd be glitched up with chunks missing. It was actually pretty fun to play that way, until 4-1 where I kept falling into the same invisible pit. So at that point I restarted, and the game played normally with a minor graphical glitch or two on the title screen. But at a certain point in 1-1 it froze holding the sound, and I panicked and shut it off immediately. (The worst nightmares I've had are of games glitching and cutting to showing something scary, one of which was during SMB. Needless to say I always panic when it freezes.)
I'll save more stories for later posts in here, for maximum Viz(just gave all mine to a friend recently so she could get the PS1, and I'm now almost V-broke).

So, we all have some stories I think relating to video games. That one hilarious glitch in Super Mario World, what your brother did in GTA yesterday, etc. It doesn't even have to be about something that happened in the game, maybe. I don't know. Gonna share some of mine(sorry, some are a little lame), you guys go ahead too. As long as you want!
So, if you look at my game collection you'll see Atari 5200 Dig Dug. For a retro collector in the works this is no big deal, but notice it's my only A5200 game and notes say acquired via "eBay shenanigans." So here's the story behind how I got it: So, I wanted to get the Atari 2600 version of Dig Dug (frankly, the Famicom or A5200 versions would have been a better deal for my money), preferably with at least the manual or something and for cheap. New eBay deal found: "Atari 260 Dig Dug WITH MANUAL." $7. This looks good. I buy it. After waiting a loooooooong time for it to arrive(or what seemed like one), I got it, but it looked different. What the heck? What's this weird thing? (A5200 cartridges look pretty weird. But at the same time, pretty rad.) Turns out...yeah. So what the heck, they said it was the VCS and we got the wrong game. So we contacted the seller (my dad and I, I don't have an eBay account despite my countless purchases[mainly because I don't have a bank account{I should get one soon }]), and it turns out the guy's wife listed it wrong or something. So we got a full refund and they let us keep the game. Yay! (I did end up buying the 2600 game. For $10, new-sealed-in-box is a great deal.)
So, it's well-known that the NES is very prone to game errors. The famous red-light-blinking thing is a good example. (ARRGH!!!!!!!!) But I've had a lot of...let's call them "analog errors" with mine. I don't know what it is, but sometimes games will sort-of work with major glitch issues. I've taken some 3DS videos, but the post doesn't accept videos except from YT(I guess I could upload them), and I'm too lazy to get them off as this requires using my piece of crap slow-butt laptop as a median (this computer doesn't have an SD card port, and if an adapter exists I don't have it). In any case, sometimes it's amusing, sometimes it's frustrating, and other times just baffling. (And sometimes very scary.) In one case, The Legend of Zelda wasn't working right, where in the opening sequence it would repeat the story multiple times (the story of Link, Zelda, Ganon etc. and its words showing up randomly in the list of items sequence) and that just really confused me. I started to play. The name entry screen gave me major trouble. A ton of the letters were missing, and only some of the ones that showed up would actually make letters. And those weren't even the right letters most of the time. Then, only certain characters in the name would show up! I settled for "I GGY " or "D O GG Y " or whatever it was. And when I finish...the first and last letter are changed to Es. Infuriating. And playing the game? Whenever I got to a new "room," it changed to look like the first one after a while. (Fun note: The text of the "DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE" guy was missing a few letters, so it said "DANG ROUS" which amused me) In the first dungeon, the transition from room to room was sometimes slow and processed, and it looked very creepy on video. Hard to describe, I hope I get around with those videos. Super Mario Bros. was debatably worse. The cartridge (Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt) has glitched many times, and two instances stand out. One time, it was really messed up and extremely slowed down, and the sound was played in slow motion as well as the action. The other time: The cartridge skipped straight to SMB, like something out of a creepypasta, and it only got weirder. The title screen even was messed up, and in the game it was just not right. Everything would appear earlier and discolored, although just the image. The actual objects and their behaviors were in their normal places. I.e., if you saw a pit early, you could walk over it, but later you'd fall into the ground. Sometimes it'd half-glitch so you could see some of the original scenery, but it'd be glitched up with chunks missing. It was actually pretty fun to play that way, until 4-1 where I kept falling into the same invisible pit. So at that point I restarted, and the game played normally with a minor graphical glitch or two on the title screen. But at a certain point in 1-1 it froze holding the sound, and I panicked and shut it off immediately. (The worst nightmares I've had are of games glitching and cutting to showing something scary, one of which was during SMB. Needless to say I always panic when it freezes.)
I'll save more stories for later posts in here, for maximum Viz(just gave all mine to a friend recently so she could get the PS1, and I'm now almost V-broke).

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I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but I'll start off with my story! This IS a true story by the way.

I was ten years old, battling the champion Gary on my Pokemon Red game for the GBC. It was a treacherous battle, and after half an hour we took out all of eachothers' pokemon out, except for one. He had his Blastoise, and I had my Arcanine. I didn't have any ethers or healing items left. Soon, both of us were down to red hp, using struggle. It was a super close fight. Finally, I used struggle one last time, and made him faint, while the recoil left me with 1 hp. You literally cannot get ANY closer than that. It was an AMAZING battle, for sure.

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