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Nerds Without Pants: We Love the '90s


On 03/28/2013 at 11:34 PM by Julian Titus

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Hello again, PixlBits!

We're gearing up for another recording of NWP, and I'm really excited about this one. It's all '90s, all the time in the next episode. I'll be joined by Patrick and JD as re wax nostalgic on the decade that gave us the Super Nintendo, grunge, Wayne's World, and Right Said Fred. Um...some of those are better than others.

Anyway, this show is going to be broken down into three segments: 1990-1993, 1994-1996, and 1997-1999.It's going to be an epic podcast with tons of music, memories, and stories, and we'd like to add some of your own into the show. Give us a great gaming memory from any of these three sections of the decade and I'll try to work in as many as I can.

I'll leave this right here to get you in the mood:


 

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Super Step Contributing Writer

03/29/2013 at 04:23 AM

'90-'93 - I was born in that first year. I don't think I was actually gaming yet, but my older brother did have a Nintendo and Super Nintendo. Or a Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Or a NES and a SNES, or an NES and an SNES, depending on if you prefer your 'e's to be long or short.

'94 to '96 - Actually played my older brother's NES and SNES, mostly Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt, Double Dribble, 10 Yard Fight (NES), Super Mario World, Street Fighter II: Turbo, and countless SNES rentals; they'd always let you rent an SNES with Star Fox and F-Zero in hotel rooms for some reason. They also let you rent Virtual Boys from Blockbuster, and though we never wound up buying one, I actually liked it at the time.

Neighbors had a Genesis, and I always felt a ping of jealousy playing Sonic 2 at store kiosks. A nearby VHS and videogame store was still in business. 

Also, as a kid I thought Earthbound was awful and made me cry (not a JRPG fan, especially then, and had somehow been hyped for it by TV ads, which I thought were for N64; maybe there were ads for the unreleased Mother 3, and I wanted to play its prequel?), avoided Super Metroid even though its cover looked cool, cause dragons = JRPGs in my head at the time, and I didn't like them, and LOVED Rise of the Robots for its graphics. My older brother and I found it in a bargain bin much later, and thought it was broken, not realizing it always had been.

'97 to '99- My own first system to myself was N64 in Christmas of '97, and I legitimately thought Star Fox 64 had come out as the system seller in place of Mario cause I was so much more hyped for it by ads, one of them really selling the Rumble Pak. My brother would adopt Playstation instead, creating a familial fanboy rift; I remember Driver and Metal Gear Solid the most of what he played, and I really liked playing Tekken kiosks at local stores and with friends, but in my head at the time, due to what I saw advertised the most, I thought it was between PaRappa the Rapper and Star Fox 64, and Star Fox 64 won handily for me.Tenchu was also a cool series I remember my brother and I playing.

  One of my friends was really into Jet Force Gemini and everyone loved the first Smash Bros.

And of course, in '99, I was wowed by Sonic Adventure when my neighbors had it.

I know I just said a lot of crap, but I love the 90s, it was my childhood, so I'm really looking forward to this one. I'm listening to an Everclear Greatest Hits CD I traded in for at Best Buy yesterday, so my nostalgia juices are flowing, I guess. lol

Cary Woodham

03/29/2013 at 05:55 AM

As much as I love the 80's, my favorite game console is in fact, the SNES.

smartcelt

03/29/2013 at 11:39 PM

The 90's brings back fond memories for me. A huge decade in my life and a time for growth. Music,movies,and gaming was out of this world. I had so much fun. Found myself in Portland,Oregon at the height of grunge. So this series will be very interesting to me.

avidacridjam

03/30/2013 at 03:49 AM

90-93: I spent a lot more time playing computer games than console games. My brother would find some good deals on certain titles and because of him, I had access to Wolfenstein 3-D, Doom, Jack Nicklaus Golf, Joe Montana Football, X-Wing, Where In Europe is Carmen Santiago and most importantly: Star Trek 25th Annivesary. This is the best Star Trek game to me and while I wasn't terribly good at it (I usually got destroyed by the Romulans in the third episode), it was a joy to play through every time.

Also, Street Fighter II for the SNES meant all in the world to me. Rarely did I get to go to arcades so getting this for my birthday was fantastic. I recall initially being frustrated at not pulling off any of the special moves until my brother showed me how to correctly make the motions with the directional pad (eh, I was a noob at fighting games in general). I devoured any EGM issue that featured game coverage and finished the game with every character on every difficulty. These days I'm so rusty that I forgot most of the character moves.

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