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What game did you play when you were 8?
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>>721727436
is this an alpha build or something? that ui is ghetto
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>>721727436
all the goats. quake, duke3d, warcraft 2
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Most likely some game on Dendy.
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I would build my hometown in Simcity 2000 then fly around in it, was fun as fuck.
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>>721727436
Battlezone and Total Annihilation.
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It was too hard for me.
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>>721727436
I think I was playing Fire Emblem (7+8), Warcraft 3 and Prince of Persia.
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StarCraft
when we finally got a dial-up connection, i became obsessed with battle.net and playing custom maps; it was my first experience with online gaming and was unironically mindblowing
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prince of persia
the incredible machine
vangers
re-volt
some weird bomberman bootleg for the pc
and many others since my mum used to buy me pc gaming magazines that came with demo discs
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Fortnite
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>>721727436
Unreal Tournament and Red Faction, mostly. GTA III and Vice City too, I don't remember much beyond that.
By the way I am now a normal human being with a stable job, a home, and I have not committed any shootings. Wild how that works.
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Video games weren't invented when I was 8
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San Andreas, same as now.
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>>721727436
Warcraft 2
Doom and Heretic shareware
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First game I bought in a store, or well my dad bought it for me

Before that it was pirated C&C Red Alert, Hunters Hunted and some others I dont remember
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>>721727436
soundtrack still slaps today
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>>721727436
>1984
Nothing at all
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>>721727436
My feet hurts.
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>>721728656
You have to be 18 to post here, Anon.
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This was my first FPS.
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>>721733019
yup
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>>721727436
that didn't look like any of this on my CRT back then
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>>721727436
Wealth beyond measure, outlander
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Streets of Rage
Revenge of Shinobi
Golden axe
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>>721727436
https://youtu.be/RyzGEKRiVcY?feature=shared&t=140
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Back then I'd use cheat codes to unlock everything and then spend all day in create-a-park. Now I'd never consider cheats and would enjoy more accomplishing the actual objectives of each level and wouldn't bother doing create a park.
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>>721727436
i still remember watching my older brother playing it for the first time
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Played the shit out of this on my tv with the gamecube adapter, also SSBM and Kirby's Air Ride
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>>721735053
>create-a-park.
fuck I used to love that shut in THPS2. Spent so much time in that. Maybe nostalgia but was a really decent system looking back on it
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>>721727436
Pic related, and whatever other sharewares my dad somehow grabbed.
Mostly Raptor:Call of Shadows, Skyroads, Hocus Pocus and Pinball Fantasies (got them all in ExoDos).
But Jazz was by far my favorite.
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>>721727436
Probably Tiberian Dawn on the PS1
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>>721727436
I remember being 8 when my dad bought a computer for family-use, and Carmageddon 2 was one of the games that came with it. Civilization 2 also came with it and maybe Delta Force 2.
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>>721727436
>8
Dune 1. On a loop.
I was kind obsessed with the book too, and having read it first before playing, the game was making kid-me seethe with how massively inaccurate it was. Still played it again and again since the game was fucking cool. Knew pretty much all the secret Sietch's direction by heart in the end.
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>>721727436
the single greatest game on the genesis
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>>721737128
shadowrun is my favorite by yeah sf2 is up there
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>>721727436
for me it's the windows 95 version on cd rom
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>>721736174
You had a good childhood.
Golden one if you also had Dungeon Keeper to go with it.
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>>721737595
It was the only game i played on PC as it was the family computer. No idea where the game came from but it was that, XPs spaceman pinball and this bad boy especially.
Then I got a GBA.

There was a maze game where you tilt the board to get the marble through, but I can't find the name of it. Think that was on PC. It was like his but with a gloomier look.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsThHCG8xqs
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>>721738303
Sorry for kid-you then.
I do recommend grabbing a pirated copy of Dungeon Keeper then. Same studio than Populous, also an RTS (despite the FPS pic), completely different ambiance and mechanics.
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Red Baron
Space Invaders
Space/King's Quest
A little bit later I played Earthseige on our dial-up and successfully got into a clan
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>>721727519
I feel an intense unfair resentment towards you for still possessing your youth as my generation defines itself almost solely by its childhood experience and so being reminded that we are no longer young and have been replaced as the 'youth' feels akin to premature death, none of which is your fault and is sadly ironic because the primary cause for my disgruntlement are the generations older than me and yet I direct it towards the ones younger than me
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>>721727436
On the Amiga 500
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ocarina of time, banjo kazooie, mk64, wave race, crash bandicoot, pokemon, zelda dx, tomb raider, ps1 demo discs
gaming really was better back then
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>>721731578
same
bw custom maps were so sick
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Peak Cat Kino
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>go from overweight to skinny while I 24/7 starcraft at dads during long school break and I didn't even notice until I went back to school and friends asked wtf happened
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Some Quake and Duke. A lot of Crash and Spyro. A little bit of Tomb Raider and Twisted Metal.
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Forward march!
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>>721727436
I will forever remember that screenshot. I was 10 or 11 when I played C&C1.
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>>721727436
CnC sucks. War 2 rules
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>>721740634
Based as hell.
Also this, but not really since the cover art made me shit myself.
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SA2B
All day
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I played Civilization. I didn't know what tiles did what, so I just built cities, wonders, irrigation, and roads everywhere and attacked everyone with chariots and tanks.
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>>721741328
I remember being used to MSDOS games back then, seeing BG1 for the first time at a friend house, and immediately begging my dad to buy because that was the most awesome looking game ever and I couldn't even wrap my mind about shit looking so good on a computer.
Still look fucking great nowadays, unlike a lot of "visually impressive" old games.
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>>721742807
F15 Strike Eagle too
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The primordial times were pure suffering.
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>>721727436
>We are going to have to act.. if we want to live in a different world.

Why didnt you act, /v/?
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Ein VerletzterALARMALARM
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>>721727519
>haha I'm going to pretend I'm an underage fag so people get mad
Maybe you aren't pretending, after all.
In any case, kill yourself.
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>>721727436
For me it was Red Alert, I didn't actually play C&C1 for many years after
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I remember playing Hukus Pokus Pink, the Pink Panther point and click game at around that age.
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>>721727436
and F1 2000 with NFS Porsche
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>>721731578
me too, i miss it
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>>721745348
porsche is cool
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>>721730580
It was too hard for all of us, anon-bro.
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>>721731578
>>721740964
The zergling bounds were fun, especially the ones with sounds.
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NES games and other DOS games
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>>721727436
You already posted it.
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Jazz jackrabbit 2
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>>721727436
Fantasy World Dizzy.
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>>721729692
I desperately need a new-ish game that plays like a fusion of this gem and whatever Bokosuka Wars tried to be.
Also a third installment of either Uprising or BattleZone (even if in all but name) would also suffice.
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Diablo
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>>721732352
came here to post THIS!!!!
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>>721736281
Tranny
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>>721727436
Smash Bros Melee in 2001
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>>721727436
I played doctor with my uncle.
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>>721744096
Bro the game came out 12 years ago.
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So much Mario 3 and SMW.
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Torin's Passage
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I don't know about 8, but this little girl game for my sister was one of my first adventure games.
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>>721755164
>super slut Nancy
>for adventurous girls
>10 and up
The 90s were wild.
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>>721736174
Second this but on the Master System.

That Retro Core couldn't figure out how to play it properly at his age compared to me at 8 is hilarious.
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>>721755345
dude, you really need to go outside
you KNOW Beth was the bicycle of the group
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>>721727436
Back then we only had psx and old commodore computer. My favorite games were crash bandicoot, dune 2 and hired guns
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>>721727436
Likely still playing Mario 64, banjo kazooie, Bomberman 64, golden eye, oot, Mario kart 64, etc
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>>721731578
Broodwar was a near perfect experience, especially custom games.
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>>721733861
The first is still the best tom clancy game, and its not even close.
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Pokemon Blue
DKC3
Kirby Super Star
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Marathon 2: Durandal, it was a great series before they trooned it out, hopefully that abomination is never released, the damage is already done though.
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>>721741091
Hey, I remember playing that game at my friends house.
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>>721757330
This shit is hard.
Many NES games had no chill.
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>>721757417
Many games in that era and before had like 10 minutes of actual content if they didn't send you back to the beginning every 30 seconds.
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>>721727436
Golden Axe. I remember really liking the Dwarf.
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>>721757931
Sure, I still didn't finish Contra the legit way.
I know. Skill issue.
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>>721727436
Chess. Didn't have a computer until early teens.
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>>721730580
>>721737128
>>721740634
>>721742210
>>721742306
>>721743878
>>721757158
>>721757685
>>721758113
>/v/ is full of boomers collecting social security
holy shit
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>>721758701
That's early Millenial and late GenX's stuff at best.
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>>721757330
>wwrrrrh
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>>721749228
Got this one as a gift on GOG. Great game even in 2025.
>>721741995
No, just no. Blizzard games don't even make it to my top 10.
>1.C&C:Red Alert 2
>2.C&C:Tiberian Sun
>3.Homeworld
>4.BattleRealms
>5.Tzar:The Butrden of the Crown
>6.Warlords: Battlecry 3
>7.Kingdom Under Fire: A War of Heroes
>8.Age of Mythology
>9.Emperor:Battle for Dune
>10.Sacrifice
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When I was 8 I was playing my SNES, mostly. probably whatever was new so I guess ff3.
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>>721758701
I bet I could beat you up
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>>721727436
Browser games like Neopets and Club Penguin. Also Spore, I played Spore a LOT as a kid.
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>>721759370
> I played Spore a LOT as a kid.
I'm so sorry, Anon.
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>>721759532
Man, spore was not that bad. The caveat is if you look at it without the knowledge of what it was supposed to be beforehand. As it was, it was a fine little sim game with a funny character creator.
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>>721759237
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqWcm6MMiHk&list=PLD0D2EBCAC686A04A&index=10
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>>721758113
A woman with a sword? Holding up like some kind of warrior? Get that woke shit out of here.
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>>721727519
>8yr old playing Groom Troon Auto Online
This would just be bad parenting.
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I'm pretty sure this was around the time I was playing emulator games, likely when I was going through the GBA library
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>>721727436
No clue, it would have probably been something on the Commodore 64 or possibly the first worms game
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Not my pic but this exactly
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Playing some Jedi Outcast on the Family PC.
They don't make em like they used to.
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>>721727436
Literally CnC + Red Alert. Also Pokemon Red
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>>721759237
Play Homeworld: Cataclysm if you haven't. I personally like it more than the original, but it's very different in tone so its a toss up. Mechanically, its generally superior.
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>>721759237
>Tzar:The Butrden of the Crown
Based
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>>721760390
Atleast you played a gem
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>>721760025
I finally tried Halo recently. I don't understand how it got ever hyped, Half Life feel so much better.
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>>721764857
Only real RTS enjoyers know of that game.
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Didn't have many games back then
But I remember playing UMK3
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>>721767239
I only played them a bit growing up, but I played that one and I loved it.
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>>721761429
proud of you
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Crash Bandicoot, Spyro Year of the Dragon and whatever verison of jampack had tekken 2 on it. Those were the only games I had for years.
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>>721727436
SimCity on a black and white Macintosh back in 1995, and I was amazed by how detailed the graphics and simulation were.
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>>721761429
>They don't make em like they used to.
Sadly they don't. The nu-Star Wars games feel so hollow. We are never getting games like Jedi Knight Jedi Outcast, KOTOR and Racer ever again.
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>>721731578
Same and I still play it today
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>>721760025
I unironically remember thinking this game looked like real life and that graphics could never get better than this when I first saw it in 1998.
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UO and diablo
didnt get diablo 2 till like 2005
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the ultimate in poorfag technology
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>>721727436
Also C&C
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>>721727436
quake
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>>721768667
Good ol' shareware compilations that clog your Registry.
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>>721727436
You literally posted it.
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>>721727436
>2002
Counter Strike and Red Alert 2 mostly and a lot of PC and PS1 games.
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I was 8 in 1979 so nothing
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>>721727436
Took a quick look and Earthworm Jim 2 probably.
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>>721773463
I just played Akalabeth last month.
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>>721727436
Probably just arcade machines etc the NES wasn't even released where I lived when I was 8yo

tl;dr I was 8yo in 1984



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