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StonedAutopilot
Joined: Aug 04 2010
Location: Milwaukee, WI
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I don't know about you guys, but some of my fondest memories were of the handheld systems, mainly Gameboy. Just thought I'd get a thread going on some of the good memories you have of the Gameboy, DS, etc. etc.
My first gameboy was a crappy pocket I got from my cousin in Florida. First game? Pokemon Yellow, which I still own to this day. Vacations, roadtrips, always had that sucker in my pocket ready to play.
Best memory is probably getting all 250 on Pokemon Gold. Proud day, indeed 
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Andrew Man
Title: Is a Funklord
Joined: Jan 30 2007
Location: Annandale, VA
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Metroid II, Tetris, and Pokemon Red were my favorite Gameboy titles.
I used to play my Game Gear a lot back in the day, though.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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I have never been a big fan of handheld game consoles.
I will admit though that the title of this thread is amusing.
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Ice2SeeYou
Title: Sexual Tyrannosaurus
Joined: Sep 28 2008
Location: South of Heaven
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I never got into handhelds much. I guess I just don't see the point of playing something on such a small unit when you can play of a full-size TV. Unless you're on the go, of course. But if I'm sitting around at home I'd rather play on a console.
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Sehkmaenzo
Joined: Jun 29 2010
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Well, I'm kind of reliving my handheld memories (wow this sounds like a how-to to wank one off)
Anyways, I got myself a Dingoo, and am currently playing some of the old GBA classics like some of the castlevanias and pokemon fire red.
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Mr Takosuke
Title: :bell:
Joined: Jun 30 2010
Location: Whore Island
Posts: 180
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AT one point I owned two copies of Pokemon Blue. One of them was owned by Jesus.
He sucks at pokemon. He never made it past the 2nd gym.
I was also the only kid at school back then to know about the Missingno glitch.
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Andrew Man
Title: Is a Funklord
Joined: Jan 30 2007
Location: Annandale, VA
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Big fan of handhelds, even at home, I love laying on the couch with my DS, it's a nice and intimate gaming experience.
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Ba'al
Title: Zerg Zergling
Joined: Mar 02 2008
Location: Uranus
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I loved handhelds since I played the Game Gear, but my fondest memory is beating Wario Land 3 for the first time. Damn I love that credits theme.
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Klimbatize
2010 NES Champ
Title: 2011 Picnic/Death Champ
Joined: Mar 15 2010
Location: Las Vegas, NV
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Growing up I never had a handheld, but my friend did and we would take turns playing Gameboy on the way to school. It was an hour-long trip so over the course of one year I played the hell out of some Tetris. Good times.
I like handhelds a lot more today. Currently, I play my DS more than any console. It's just more convenient, and with a kid it's hard to find much time to blow some hours on a console. I like playing the DS while I watch the news or TV in general.
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Andrew Man
Title: Is a Funklord
Joined: Jan 30 2007
Location: Annandale, VA
Posts: 5603
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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Did anyone else find it odd that you have to tell Professor Oak what his grandson's name is? Or that he seems to like you better?
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Drew Linky
Wizard
Joined: Jun 12 2009
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| Did anyone else find it odd that you have to tell Professor Oak what his grandson's name is? Or that he seems to like you better? |
No. No one likes Gary, that fucking bitch.
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Ba'al
Title: Zerg Zergling
Joined: Mar 02 2008
Location: Uranus
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I always named him ASS.
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SteelBallRun
Title: Kenka Bancho
Joined: May 05 2010
Posts: 227
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My laptop serves as the closest thing to a handheld for me. These days, I find that when I go somewhere, it's typically to do something other than play video games, rendering a handheld console unecessary.
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Thunderhorse
Title: This is DELICIOUS!
Joined: Dec 29 2009
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
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Shut up, Dorn
Title: White Chocolate
Joined: Jan 04 2008
Location: Grate Whyte Norf
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The first major handheld game I played (that wasn't a Tiger handheld) was of course Tetris. My buddy had Alleyway, Tetris, Super Mario Land and what I remember to be a damn good GB port of Space Invaders.
I didn't get a Game Boy until 1998, and I got a Game Boy Color and Super Mario Bros. Deluxe (which is one HELL of a game, by the way. I think that game really got swept under the doormat and it offered a new twist to SMB). I soon got Mario Golf and a Game Boy Camera (boy, was that a pointless thing or what - and I didn't even have the printer!). I remember, and this was sad and probably sadistic, renting Revenge of the Nerds and Swordfish just so i could get that one chick's and Halle Berry's tits on the camera! Mario Golf for GBC was better than the N64 version hands down.
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Klimbatize
2010 NES Champ
Title: 2011 Picnic/Death Champ
Joined: Mar 15 2010
Location: Las Vegas, NV
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Thunderhorse, that is hilarious. Hadn't seen it before. "You can't ignore my girth." 
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Hexen
Title: McFavorite Burger Clown
Joined: Jun 29 2010
Location: Texas
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Yeah... my good ol' red Gameboy Pocket was my second system after my Intellivision.
me and my brother each got one for Christmas with Super Marion Land and Donkey Kong Land 3. After playing the hell out of them I got Wario Land II which I played far more.
When I first got Pokemon, I was playing through viridian forest and for some reason it's one of my fondest video game memories. Then I lost my Pokemon Red for about a year after beating just Misty.
On the topic of Gary, in my first game I named him BITE ME. For some reason I thought it was hilarious back then when at the beginning of the game some text read "BITE ME: Gramps!"
Now I have about 20 or so different Gameboys, but my first red pocket is by far my favorite.
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MellowMeek
Joined: Feb 16 2010
Location: Texas
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I had a lot of RPGs on my handhelds, they were perfect for long trips and bathroom time.
Also, you killed Gary's Raticate.
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Drew Linky
Wizard
Joined: Jun 12 2009
Posts: 4209
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Thunderhorse made my day.
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Nekkoru
Title: Polish Pickle Wench
Joined: Jan 25 2008
Location: Warsaw, Poland
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I had a lot of RPGs on my handhelds, they were perfect for long trips and bathroom time.
Also, you killed Gary's Raticate. |
Oh man, you picked up on that, too? I like you already.
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Cameron
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| Andrew Man wrote: |
| Klimbatize wrote: |
| I like playing the DS while I watch the news or TV in general. |
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Ooh, thirded. In fact, I almost always play my DS with the tv running in the background.
I remember one time when I was sitting in my room at age nine, playing Pokemon Yellow in my Game Boy color, and I smelled the air and my room smelled like mushrooms (I hate the smell of cooking mushrooms), and for some reason I smelled the speaker on my Game Boy Color and I smelled mushrooms, so I didn't play my GBC for about a year after that. Mind you, I didn't find out until much later that someone was cooking mushrooms in the nearby kitchen, but I still didn't play it for a while.
Also, I must have an overactive left index finger or something, because every handheld console I own gets a broken L button after a couple years.
Handheld console games can be just as engrossing (if not moreso) than console games; given the fact that I've gone through Dragon Warrior III on GBC three times, I've probably logged at least two hundred hours into that game alone. And don't even get me started on Pokemon.
Oh, and speaking of Pokemon, my Game Boy Color is the yellow one with the the pokemon in the black border surrounding the screen (it came with Pokemon Yellow).
Also, fun fact: Killer Instinct on Game Boy is better than Killer Instinct on SNES.
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Andrew Man
Title: Is a Funklord
Joined: Jan 30 2007
Location: Annandale, VA
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Cam, I love to saute/smell/consume mushrooms.
Also, Killer Instinct Gold is the pinnacle of the KI franchise.
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Thunderhorse
Title: This is DELICIOUS!
Joined: Dec 29 2009
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
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| Cameron wrote: |
| Andrew Man wrote: |
| Klimbatize wrote: |
| I like playing the DS while I watch the news or TV in general. |
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Ooh, thirded. In fact, I almost always play my DS with the tv running in the background. |
Fourthed. I don't know what it is, but I can't stand playing my handheld games in my house without a TV on. On a vacation, however, I can.
My first Gameboy was a Purple Gameboy Color. Then I got a Gameboy Advance in Arctic White. Then I got a DS in Blue, but it broke, so I got another DS in Blue which also broke. After that I got a DS Lite in Black. Then I got a Gameboy Advance SP in the limited edition NES colors. I recently got a PSP 3000 in black.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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Only handheld I ever had was a purple GBA that my girlfriend got me for Christmas years ago, it came with some shitty port of Tony Hawk, fucking terrible game. 
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