Man wtf is it with these young kids who can't game...

[Art Barr]

All you have to do is run an emulator (or virtual console) with Mario 1 & 2 from the NES days. Let some of these young kids try playing that so they can learn how to show respect to their gaming elders.

I guarantee they will be hooked on that shyt.
then, if they ask if there was a Mario iii.
then, you show them that.
they will be hooked, for life.

my daughter is always taking my phone and playing Mario iii, and Mario ii.
just emulating the addict I was about those games.

my daughter likes the games I play.
I got her six guns last week, and she is totally in love with horse nab'n.

she sits for hours just blowing fools away, or saving the princess.
just like I do, when I play.

she got the dragon revolver in a few hours.

now, she really horse nab'n....



art barr

 

[Art Barr]

I was playing MK by myself in the early days at an arcade and some older dusty dude stepped up and demolished me with endless combos.

Then he looked at me like want a rematch?

I went to NBA Hangtime instead and put in work.

at msu, I learned how to play coin op sf, like a Asian pro.
from a collective of Asian experts and the lansing local champ at safari joe's and pinball pete's.
I was completely humbled.
seeing as I was the regional blockbuster champ and all.
then, that cotdamn killer instinct coin op came out.
that, took away all the vic's and fodder from the sf crowd.


I was so notorious at both arcades.
I had a chick, from ny.
who, first came on to me and called me spider, from using spider man in marvel.
then, she became my girlfriend.
with the great east coast snow storm destroying our communication, during xmas break.
when all the phones went down during the entire break.
after break, she turned into my stalker.
later the next semester, from the lack of communication over that break.


art barr

second semester sophomore year in college, sucked't...
I had bad feet, had to get a night job cause no bread was really there in the arcades.
all from that cot damn killer instinct.
I got carpal tunnel, that ruined my coin op gaming career.
plus, I had a stalker.
who turned out to be my ex girlfriend.

 

[Art Barr]

Man I hated the arcade

I sense a story you need to tell your coli-breh's, breh.


art barr

 

[Art Barr]

I don't recall Double Dragon 2 being that hard. Actually, IIRC it was the easiest of all those Double Dragon games. Double Dragon 1 was hard as fukk, as was 3. And the SNES one was godly and gotdamn difficult too. 2 was a breeze though. Me and my crew used to run thru that game like 1nce a weekend at least.

double dragon was just easy because the level of gamers, we were at that time on beat'em up's.

go play that shyt on a touch screen, and emulator.
watch you get the shyt beat out of you.



art barr

 

[Art Barr]

Same shyt when I was growing up. Everyone met up every Friday afternoon after school and every Saturday and played the living hell of MK II and MK3. Them shyts was crazy on how people were doing all kinds of combos and all kinds of fatalities/ babalities/ friendships. shyt was the ultimate joke back in the mid 90s.

for me and the ultra violet squadron, my tag crew back in the day.
we played fukk'n turtles...
so, I was to hyped when that was one of the games announced for the blockbuster championships.

if I would have actually practiced on that bullshyt clay fighter.
I would have easily won the whole fukk'n thing......

I was so stubborn back then, like fukk that game.

shyt is what fukked me up from winning the whole fukk'n contest.


art barr

 

[Art Barr]

Bruh I'm fukkin WEEEEAAAAK how we all agree that kids these days fukkin SUCK at games


I'm a grown ass man at this point, but I've gotten literally fukkin furious and had to leave the room watchin my little cousin play Mario Galaxy before cause I was starting to cuss n get ignorant at the little nikka

yeah, it teaches complete patience to teach this gen games.
back in the day, after the intellivision.
no, standard parent played games anymore.
although, the greatest dad that ever lived.
my dad's best friend who pretty much created most of the polymers at DuPont, kojo.
kojo was the black bible on the nes.
before Nintendo power released the black bible.

we would call him and he would give us the tips to all the games back in the day.
he used to flip all the games in like a day or two.

he beat Zelda, way before anyone.
he was the perfect excuse to play games against parental angst towards video games.

it was always,..well kojo is a genius and he tells us how to beat the games.

my parents would be looking like,....did this little nikka rationalize and use an adult example.
to allow us to let him stay up and play Zelda, some more.

hell the fukk yeah, I did...


art barr

 

[Art Barr]

The crazier thing is that the old internet FAQs of the 90s was basically words. You had to follow instructions and there was no youtube to see anything. You literally have to talk to ya gaming buddies face to face to find a solution. Especially when saved games was a luxury that a few games had.

this is why my dad's bestfriend was a god to us.


he used to sit on the phone, with us.
with complete knowledge and know all the block to push, walls to bomb.
plus, all the extra secrets, swords and maps.
way before, the bible came out.

art barr

 

[Art Barr]

Lol the hunger to complete a game? Shouldn't we be motivating kids to get out and play outside? Whatever happened to wiffleball?

wiffleball, breh....

nobody played with a cotdamn wiffle ball or a wiffle bat breh, breh.
nikkaz had real baseballs, and Eastman's in the hood, back in the day.


I still got my Eastman, breh.
I found that shyt in rainbow beach baseball lot at like eight years old.
easily the best item I found in the park, ever.




art barr

 

[Art Barr]

I seen my brother in law get mad at his son playing scarface on ps2.

Lil man just wanted to cruise around Miami

He was hitting him with lines like:

"man you playing for 30 minutes and you ain't move no bricks yet"


"They hating ass gonna tryna mess ya money up bussin' in front the law like that, catch I'm in that alleyway when they make that block"


The drugs ain't gone just come to you, thats why you aint no money now.


Then he sat back an thought about it...
his face legit went from:

......... to the hell i taught thIs boy


then made him play marvel ultimate alliance. the rest of the day.

I was like

lol,....
yo, I went through the same shyt with my daughter on six guns.
except it was not as hardbody as the dialogue over scarface.

this post was hilariously epic.


art barr

 

[Art Barr]

I remember at my local arcade as a youngin tons of older teens around the mortal kombat machines, just loud and wild, I had my quarters in my pocket as a lil snot nose bobby from bobbys world looking lil fukk, I wanted to compete and show how I got down. It was my turn stepped up and got destroyed. Teens hit me with and laughed... I bounced felt like this theme was playing in the background http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rccD1EWenio
but hey it made me stronger..

yo, the imagery you dudes have in this thread is legendary.
I seriously imagined you riding up to the bobby theme song, on the big wheel and the whole nine.
then, you getting served at mk.
then, ya mom's consoling you... like it will get better, don'tcha know....


art barr

 

[Art Barr]

What you nikkas know about leaving your Nintendo on overnight so that you wouldnt lose your spot because the game had NO saves and NO continues. I'll never forget I felt like killing my moms one time when she took off my OG nintendo when we left it on overnight because we had been trying to beat that OG TMNT game. (fukking shyt game btw). I was furious! Nearly got a whooping that day cause I was yelling so much...

I completely imagined you like the angry video game nerd at your mom's.
my mom's did that to me on, bayou billy.
plus, the second golgo thirteen the mafat conspiracy.

on another note,...
nikkaz was sleep on the second golgo 13, game.
it was every hof game in one, damn near.
the driving scene game was better than rad racer, and sega's cruise'n.


art barr

 

[Art Barr]

Arcades were no joke back in the day. They put an arcade near my moms place in Washington heights in a fukking BASEMENT.
When I first went in there it was weed smoke all over and you'd just hear those street fighter sounds...I went in there like I'm going to kick everyone's ass.

Needless to say some cat playing with Fei Long kicked my ass easily and everyone laughed at me

I didn't even win a round...shyt motivated me to train hardcore on the SNES to come correct...I could never beat him consistently but I held my own fukk that.

the only way to get good at sf coin op.
was to get somebody to teach you how to play the coin op version.
the snes version on a pad was different than joystick at a coin op.
if you never learned to play with the joystick between your two middle fingers.
you was never gonna beat anyone who was known for putting up mad gwap and being a champion.


art barr

 

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I hate art barr

 

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Art barr you are beyond tiresome

 

[duncanthetall]

yeah, it teaches complete patience to teach this gen games.
back in the day, after the intellivision.
no, standard parent played games anymore.
although, the greatest dad that ever lived.
my dad's best friend who pretty much created most of the polymers at DuPont, kojo.
kojo was the black bible on the nes.
before Nintendo power released the black bible.

we would call him and he would give us the tips to all the games back in the day.
he used to flip all the games in like a day or two.

he beat Zelda, way before anyone.
he was the perfect excuse to play games against parental angst towards video games.

it was always,..well kojo is a genius and he tells us how to beat the games.

my parents would be looking like,....did this little nikka rationalize and use an adult example.
to allow us to let him stay up and play Zelda, some more.

hell the fukk yeah, I did...


art barr

My pops was gaming all my life. I used to get every system day 1 only because he wanted that shyt himself. When he took a job in NJ for a year or two he got a N64 for himself and a N64 for me and my sister so we could talk over the phone about Mario 64 levels.

This dude used to beat Super a Metroid once a month or so for me just so I could see him escape the planet, cause he always goofed around and I'd scream, "Run, daddy! It's gonna explode! Stop messing around and run daddy!"

To this day he still plays a little, but not anything too recent. Just the Mario games on the Wii. But we used to have MK and SF2 tournaments with me and my friends against him when hed come home from work sometimes. Thinkin back, I had it made. Games were like magic back then breh.