Comments | madd74: Pick it up for...

madd74

Pick it up for...

Mar 05, 2013 15:09

As most humans who know me, they know I am a gamer. Being a gamer might have something to do with my brain’s fixation on technology at an extremely young age. It could be due to ties that I have with my childhood, as having a connection with something in most people’s past is important to them. Some might say that most important adult goals have ( Read more... )

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Destroy the Core! darealmillah March 18 2013, 17:30:00 UTC

Ah, the question of Gradius... a good one indeed. I believe it started when I lived in Michigan in Rochester Hills. I don't know my exact age, but can really tell time best by all the places my family moved during my childhood. So, I believe it was in Michigan, 1986-7? We used to go to this pizza place called Mr. B's with my brother and mom. Mr B's was most memorable, not necessarily for their pizzas, but more fore their small collection of arcade games. I played the game Marble Madness over and over despite its crazy difficulty along with a Play Choice machine that had a bunch of NES games inside of it that you could choose to play, one of those, was of course Gradius ( ... )

Re: Destroy the Core! madd74 March 18 2013, 18:48:02 UTC

You know that is funny because Salamander, the JP game that started it all for me (and obviously known as Life force in the US) was not based on the power up meter, and both of us have been known quoting that rather frequently ("Pick it up for..."). Of course, even the JP Gradius used the power up system ( ... )