>Here's that video game you wanted, son!

Thanks dad. I'll treasure it forever.

>>11855254 (OP)
sovl

I never had a dad.

>>11855276
Jesus Christ is your father and love you very much.

>We got you that James Bond game your friends all play!
t-thanks

Wow I will be the coolest kid in the cul de sac

>>11855285
It already worked once, so i guess it's worth a try.

I remember one of my friends just begging his mom to buy one of these back then, and when he finally got it I told him that DS was just released, so then he immediately started begging for that one and told his mom that the tribal SP was ¨lame¨, lol.

>>11855276
Same, 99% of snoys know this pain

>>11855489
I'd take a Tribal 101 anyday over the OG DS.

>>11855254 (OP)
thanks mom, tribal SP and minish cap were kino

>>11855254 (OP)
>>11855286

>Here's that playstation you wanted, son!

>we heard about those music games with the instruments all the kids are into, so we got you one!

>>11855276
Part of the reason why I love Majoras Mask so much is because not only did my biological father have nothing to do with me, but what followed was two physically abusive step fathers. That was one of the few games I had and one of the only routes of escape in a time where there was no other reprieve. Dunno if its worse to have no dad or a bad dad.

>>11855254 (OP)
Thanks dad!

>>11855286
Could do worse

>>11855276
>>11855623
>tfw have a loving kind and caring biological father I have a good relationship with, and realize how rare this is
Love you Dad. Thanks for spending way too much on Christmas for me

>>11855623
Honestly I wish I had any kind of dad, no matter how bad.

>>11855667
>>11855286
I remember first mission having a killer ost.
Btw why does it look like syphon filter?

>merry christmas grandson, here's your king kong game dong!

>>11855276
My dad had a secret affair with another family for seven years so at least you didn't have to deal with the pain of having yours gaslight you for a little under half of your life.

>>11855276
same

>>11855286
I remember my buddy quit gaming the Christmas he got this (99/00?). He was hyped and then got it and beat it in an afternoon, thought he was getting Playstations goldeneye and then told me he was done gaming

>>11855853
>tomorrow never dies
>because the fun dies by the end of today

>Here's the video game of that Hercules movie you wanted son!

>>11855623
Jesus Christ bro!

>>11855909
Looking back it's wild I didn't kill myself, start hurting animals, or some other crazy stuff like that. I had a pretty rough childhood all the way up to my teenage years.

MM really got me through the brunt of it though. Getting the wind knocked out of me at home, aggressively bullied at school, and sleepless nights due to the loud arguments kinda robbed me of a childhood outside of that.

In my 30's now and lifes a lot better. Got a huge and really supportive friend group, go to a small but nice Church, and am pretty social and well liked. There's some small ways the past still messes with me, mostly in learned failure, but you just be aware of that and give yourself some grace. Hold no ill will towards anyone, but sometimes you just wonder if your life could have been more stable and normal had you had two loving parents, but it could have also been worse so things like that are best not to dwell on.

>>11855973
God bless you, anon. I'm glad you're doing better now. I'll boot up Majora's Mask in your honor.

>>11855276
>I never had a dad.

>>11855986
Have fun, fren! Make sure you save Romani and help Cremia!!

>>11855789
I genuinely enjoyed bath games and I used to win free milkshakes and whatnot at fast food places and restaurants with the drop a coin game. I was so good at it that the bar I used to go to in college quit having the drop for a shot game because people would give me their quarters and I'd win shots over and over.

Wish my raw natural talent was something else, but I guess scamming a carnie-tier game is better than nothing.

>>11856193
At least it isnt the ability to perfectly spin pillows.

>>11856193
>on our app
lol

>>11855704
It's a Syphon-Filter-like

>Here's that Nintendo Dees you wanted son!

>>11856203
Or the ability to perfectly bite pillow like OP hahahahahaha

>>11855285
Disclaimer: Jesus may love you, but his not IN LOVE with you

>>11855276
you're a frog poster I could already tell

>>11856193
>on our app
that's so fucking sad

I wonder just how many /vr/ games are only beloved because a large group of redheaded stepchildren used them as escape from their horrible poor people lives and have formed an unhealthy attachment to them and stunted development

>>11856257
Every RPG ever.

>>11856257
Sonic 2006 fanbase

>>11855254 (OP)
>tfw I got the OG GBA instead of the SP and the screen was garbage

>>11856193
>on our app

So it's basically a roll of the RNG. Play an animation of a coin being dropped, having nothing to do with the outcome, get random number, fall into a predefined win range or not. Probably also can be set from the server to never-win-mode.

FUcking sad. Are they afraid that too many people will win when they cannot actually control the real physical boxes?

>>11855973
this post made me realise that you can't escape trauma, it will lead you to insanity, slavery, or death. you sounded so well-rounded i was confused at first, but then the christcuckery came in. see you either hand over your burdens to the cult, or to the void, but you don't cling because that would be resolving the past, that would be therapeutic but nobody has the time for that anymore.

>>11856982
>see you either hand over your burdens to the cult, or to the void, but you don't cling because that would be resolving the past, that would be therapeutic but nobody has the time for that anymore.

That sounded more schizo than anything in the Bible.

>>11856210
Suck on DS nuts.

>>11856993
oh yeah?
Numbers 31:
13 Moses, Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp. 14 Moses was angry with the officers of the army—the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds—who returned from the battle.

15 “Have you allowed all the women to live?” he asked them. 16 “They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the Lord in the Peor incident, so that a plague struck the Lord’s people. 17 Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, 18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.

19 “Anyone who has killed someone or touched someone who was killed must stay outside the camp seven days. On the third and seventh days you must purify yourselves and your captives. 20 Purify every garment as well as everything made of leather, goat hair or wood.”

>>11857001
I mean, there's at least a coherent story there. The end of your post doesnt make sense at all. Did you misspell something?

>>11857008
it does make sense you're just retarded. clinging to the past might have negative connotations to you but it's actually necessary to resolve past trauma and guilt. you don't need a kike therapist to hold your hand through it, or a church to recode the meaning, you need alone time and the ability to remember. i reiterate this statement because it is of use to people, i think you're just being obstinate.

>>11857013
No, I'm very serious. That sounds like schizo talk. Where did you even get that? Did you make it up?

>>11857013
>>11857031
Sounds like new-age self help.

>>11857031
It's not really hard to understand what he's getting at, even if I don't necessarily fully agree

>>11857031
>that sounds like SCHIZO talk
>>11857046
>that sounds like NEWAGE talk
ok fuckwits have a nice day

>>11857065
I'm trying to figure it out too. If its just to remember ones past that doesnt do much unless you're repressing it. If its coming to terms with it, that's the usual advice.

>>11855792
How’d he get found out? That’s crazy, sorry that happened to you anon.

Every time I see an SP, I think of the time I was sitting in a car next to this faggot with a lisp and a lazy eye that I hung out with as a kid. We were talking about games, and I mentioned that a new GBA called the SP was coming out. He insisted that I was spelling it wrong, and that it was actually the "XP". I tried to diffuse the conversation several times but he just wouldn't let it go for some reason. I went to see matrix 2 with this same kid and his best friend later on, and they decided to save money by splitting a soda and popcorn. After the movie I told them it was kinda gay that they were drinking the same soda and swapping spit. They got buttmad about it and the XP kid said in his faggy little self-important lisp voice, "It's not gay, it's suction", and proceeded to explain how there was no transfer of saliva because the straw was apparently a one-way corn syrup delivery device through which no DNA could possibly be exchanged. I mentioned backwash and how they were still sucking on the same piece of plastic, but he maintained that there was no residue and that it was not, in fact, gay. I never saw them again after that.

>>11855901
This game is actually more fun

Who was the main audience for this? Dads having a mid life crisis?

>>11859228
KEK

>>11857143
>because the straw was apparently a one-way corn syrup delivery device through which no DNA could possibly be exchanged
lol

>>11859228
During the gamecube era Nintendo was actually having a bit of an audience problem. Kids were growing up and they were trying to actually appear more mature, you can see that shift in their print ads out in the west. The tribal tat on the GBA is on an ad where Mario himself is tatted up. It took until the Wii for Nintendo to embrace the "kiddy company" look.

>>11855619
That was a pretty good game. Too easy and some of the songs were lame, but it's still pretty good.

>>11859504
Huh. I totally missed this at the time (was playing PC games). The abstract doodads on the GBA look pretty cool but this added "tribal tattoo for tough boys" meaning makes it seem lame again. If anything I would prefer the symbols to be branded as "Hylian runes" or some such crap, that would be fine.

>>11855254 (OP)
The SP was so cool. I loved mine as a kid and got one again last year. Honestly it's probably the best Game Boy and I have most of them.

>>11856460
I also hated the unlit screens as a kid. As an adult I don't think they're that bad. I find the black and white screens hard to see though.

>>11855623
Did you grow strong and beat the shit out of those assholes?

>>11856473
Bet it's not even RNG

>>11860404
>>11859504
I miss the Tribal tattoo era of the late 90's/ 2000's but mainly because I used to laugh at the type of people who had them.

>>11855276
Most father are not good anyway. he probably would have beaten you and treated you liek shit.
Mother are conceited, superficial narcissists, while fathers beat you.

>>11859504
>If it's for M
>cool enough Ario...
??

>>11855254 (OP)
>Wow, you bought me an RG35XXSP? How did you know? Thank you so much!

>>11859504
Nintendo really is pathetic. If only Sega would still be alive instead, then maybe we still could get real games.
I mean Nintendo had some talent. They made a lot of innovative games, but this whole fisher price toy philosophy of them is just pathetic.

>>11860934
if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle (or a poster on /vr/), Sega lost

>>11855254 (OP)
>be me
>8 years old
>spring of 1997
>my parents told me they bought me a Nintendo 64, and I could play it after my soccer game
>couldn’t concentrate on soccer because I was dying to play the n64, and had watched the Nintendo power promo vhs tape 1000 times
>finally get home
>it’s a SNES
Kind of disappointing, but I was still pretty happy. Set the tone for the rest of my childhood of always being a generation behind, which from the standpoint of a kid with no money is perfect since interest (and prices) for last gen stuff bottoms out

>>11860934
What the fuck is your problem dude?
Stop being a hater.

>>11859504
Did anyone ever think Mario was in any way cool?

>>11855623
Men have no obligation to children they did not create.

>>11855276
KWAB

>>11855276
>Biological father was a piece of shit
>Man my mom married after he died was kind of like that too

It's kind of a shame that the only real father figure I had in my life was a guy my mom dated for a while that was into comics and a heavy drunk. And not like a mean drunk either...

>>11862303
>the only real father figure I had in my life was a guy my mom dated for a while that was into comics and a heavy drunk
It's kinda nice that it doesn't take much to have a positive impact on a kid. A meaningful goal easily reachable for any not psychopathic man.

>>11862345
Well I had my grandfather too. Step dad was shitty for a real long time and made me feel like I wasn't a valued member of the family and would continually undermine me in front of my mother

It's a wonder I'm not a heavy smoker or a drunk

>yfw your face matches your eth pee

>>11855678
that is unironically really sweet. i wish my dad cared about me at christmas.

>>11861212
Your parents saved you from trooning out

>>11859504
Mario if he was COOL

>>11862010
Miyamoto had him stop doing peace signs because he felt it was making him more childish, so it's not like they weren't in that weird expermental approach to make him a little cool in the 2000s

>>11855678
Good lad, happy for you anon.

>>11857046
>What are you doing bud, trying to solve your own problems by thinking things through instead of just giving over your wallet to a professional or giving over your soul to a church? Are you fucking queer, bud?