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My childhood in a single gif... (i.imgur.com)

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[–]rootbreaker 7 points8 points ago

So... you ran right up to Metroids to shoot them instead of doing it from a distance?

[–]jevmorgan 5 points6 points ago

Came here to mention this. Who the hell shoots things point blank in Metroid?! It's not like it matters how far you are from it, it's going to do the same damage.

[–]da_homonculus 1 point2 points ago

Metroids can't be killed with your blaster anyway. Freeze them, then 5 missiles.

Or to make your animation easier, just tag them with your gun :/

[–]lesi20 17 points18 points ago

Even if this gets downvoted to hell...

Nostalgia fags... nostalgia fags everywhere

[–]gokukillnaruto 15 points16 points ago

repost...

[–]Zilveari 5 points6 points ago

How does someone include Pokeymanz with Mario 1, and Zelda 1? They are 10-11 years apart. Mario 1/Zelda 1 was my childhood. Pokeymanz was not. They are not within the same generation. Kirby is kind of in the middle...

If your childhood included all four of these games... how many times were you held back in elementary school?

Sorry for the troll... but it annoys me about as much as kids wearing those "know your roots" video game shirts from Hot Topic.

[–]Kinomi 3 points4 points ago

Yeaa.. I agree. MY childhood was pokemon, Super Mario World, Link to the Past, and Kirby's Dreamland. Along with Super Metroid.

THAT is the Pokemon generation

[–]Zilveari -1 points0 points ago

I would have linked it a bit closer to late SNES/early PS1 myself, since I got pokeymanz later than the east, living in the US, but yeah. It's a thin line, but a person's childhood gaming generation is a bit different than their global generation, and the console generations.

Regardless it's a cool little GIF.

[–]ghazi364 0 points1 point ago

Nailed it, some of these in the gif bother me. Those are the games I grew up on.

But to be fair, release doesn't mean much, especially for classics. I was playing duckhunt and Mario not long before Pokemon was released at my aunts. So much nostalgia.

(but I vastly preferred snes over nes anyways)

[–]eisfeld[S] 0 points1 point ago

Believe it or not but there are people out there who couldn't afford a SNES in the early 90's. I got my pre-owned NES in 1993. A couple of years later Pokemon was released. If you're born mid/late 80's it's possible that both "generations" were part of your childhood.

[–]coolcat23306 1 point2 points ago

Yeah, but you didn't make this, and the guy who made this probably wasn't in the same boat as you. Also, your comment started off dickish and I don't like you at the moment.

[–]fsckit 2 points3 points ago

Ah, so you were one of the rich kids that could afford more than one Nintendo game.

[–]Mattshyd 0 points1 point ago

You should try Retro City Rampage, such a cool game.

[–]jokubolakis -1 points0 points ago

If you repost a link, atleast don't you the same title

[–]BananaPeelPants 1 point2 points ago

Am I the only one that his childhood experience with games isn't purely consoles, specifically Nintendo consoles?

[–]frenchfrieskl 1 point2 points ago

Le nostalgic gems le 90's kidz amirite?!

[–]terriblecomic -2 points-1 points ago

Wow you had a shitty childhood. Nobody loves you.

[–]RaptorOnyx -2 points-1 points ago

You lucky bastard.Im twelve.at least i can play some of those games in the virtual console.

[–]shaggyturtle12 -5 points-4 points ago

dude I grew up with these too mang quit trollin. I was playin NES and GameBoy SP at the same time :D

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