The small little retro game console
A number of you might recall having one of these when you were little. In fact, I have one friend that insists his set is still working fine up till this day!
There were a few particular games I had and played so often that everything of it is still pretty much vivid in my mind right now.
Sonic the Hedgehog 1!
And 2! I used to always get Sis to control Tail on controller 2! But they tend to lose sight of each other quite often haha.
I used to spend much of my school holidays playing Sonic. Please don't laugh when you read this, I've never ever completed the 2 games before! I would always struggle for 2 hours or so just to reach the final stage. And when I do get there and fight the "King", I will eventually run out of lives and continues after dying a few more times. And in those days there's no such things as being able to save your games and continuing from where you left off another day. There were a few other games that I never did complete too namely:
Dick Tracy, a game I never quite manage to grasp hold of. I couldn't even get past the 5th stage.
Aladdin...ooh ahh
Lion King...Rooaar
Yup I played these kind of games then lol. Of course there were also other games that I did eventually complete. I conquered
Street Fighters 2! Trust me, I used to be able to execute those sonic booms, hadukens, scissors kick etc with ease. But if you were to challenge me to a game in the arcade now, you'll probably be able to trash me in no time at all haha.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Hyperstone Heist...Shell Shock!
Golden Axe 1. Remember bleh!? The sound of the enemies dying! Lol
Golden Axe 2..bleh bleh!
Bare Knuckles 1! Yeah remember being able to summon the police car and killing almost everyone on the screen? Lol
Then there was Bare Knuckles 2. I enjoyed this the most!
And Fifa International. Yes the game play was from top to bottom and vice versa, very retro indeed. Oh remember the trick to his game? You can actually stand in front of the goalkeeper and prevent him from kicking the ball upfield lol.
Wrestle Mania! The likes of Shawn Michaels, Hulk Hogan and The Undertaker were young then. And Mr Perfect, Owen Hart and The Yokozuna were still alive.
Being the only boy in the family, I always had a hard time persuading sis to play the games with me. Most of you won't know this but my sis' current room and my mum's and aunt's room used to be one big giant room. And thats where the 4 of us slept in while my uncle occupied my current room. Sis and I used to share a double decker bed with me on the upper deck and her on the lower deck. Mum's bed was beside ours and there was then this television in front of our beds where I plugged and enjoyed my Sega Genesis. Very often, I would fall asleep on sis' lower deck bed while playing or watching tv and mum would have to carry me back up where I belong lol.
If you like myself miss playing the Sega Genesis, there's always the gens emulator available for download on the Internet. I have like a huge collection of the games now, the quantity of games I never could have afford to have then. The emulator brings back those same delectable memories, less that need to blow your game cartridge every time it doesn't read!
