Just a little backstory about my younger self before I begin this tiny little tale of memoirs. When I was in about third grade, my friend Michael and I were obsesed with writing poke'mon fanfictions, usually including ourselfves under various aliases. Now, these little stories went about 3-4 pages before we got bored with the idea and started a new one. As time went on, we moved on from poke'mon to the hit lego series, bionicles. Then from that to final fantasy, which went on for a humongous period of time. As you might imagine, our vocabulary was atrocious in the begining, and out skills in literature slowly devoloped over time. Then, tragedy struck. Me and Michael were to be moved to different schools, come the end of fourth grade. Little did we know we would never end up in the same school again. But to this day, we still keep in touch. We play online with eachother, talk on AIM, and visit eachother's houses whenever we can. But I digress, once we discovered that we may never see eachother again, we decided that we would unite our brains one last time to come up with a Zelda fanfic so amazing, that it would reach Miyamoto's ears and be published. As you can tell, we were very naive in how these things work. So, we decided to begin with a table of contense, which unfortunatly was as far as we got. We based it off of four swords and minish cap. We constently tried to see eachother to make the story work, but his mother and father were hispanic and firmly belived that a white boy and a hispanic boy should not hang out with eachother, outside of school. As we grew older this changed however.
This ends the childhood story. Today, I was going through my bookshelf and happened upon nine composition books filled with horrible grammer and tales from the simple minds of two childhood friends. And in one of them, I happened upon the table of contents from our "famed" Zelda fanfiction. The title, "The Legend of Zelda, sons of a hero". The cover was filled with crude drawings of various item obtained in Minish Cap, Ocarina of Time, and Four Swords. The table of contents contained thirty chapters, in which the four heros would obtain the first two stones from minish cap. The story was supposedly about the four sons of Link, who would rise up in place of their father, who was too old to save the world, and fight off Vaati once more. Im sorry if you find this just poinless rambling. But it brought back a lot of memories of my childhood dreams of being a famous writer, and saving Hyrule from evil with my best friend. I've even considered starting up the story and posting it here.
This may be a bit off topic, but you just brought up my memory of turning in a Pokemon fanfiction for the writing part of a proficiency test in fourth grade.
Hahaha, its completley on topic. This entire topic is about childhood memories/memoirs ;D
I've got a ton of old sketchbooks in a bag in my room filled with terrible drawings from when I was younger. Every so often I get them all out to look through them. It's great to see how much I've improved even over the years. I've also got a few old schoolbooks from primary school in a cupboard somewhere, which are great to read, I wrote some hilarious things, not on purpose though.
Yeah, I read a bunch of the stories and I was like, "What the **** was I thinking?"
You know those desks that had the top, but didnt open?
You jut slide things in and out?
I so played gameboy under those.
Remember when it was a CRIME to miss the next exciting episode of Dragon Ball Z?
Remember when Zelda used to be more CHALLENGING?
Remember when you didn't expect the ending of a movie?
Who remembers/still uses the old "fix nintendo games trick?"
the blowing on them.
Never. Freaking. Fails.
to this day I still do it for my 64.
Ah, the good old days. This gave me a pleasing wiff of nostalgia.
remember when Hannah Montanna's face WASN'T around every corner?
Yes....That was a golden age. Now I just can't stand her!
I was somewhat of an antisocial as a child, so I didn't really do much with other people. Perhaps that could explain my lack of people skills.
Did anybody else do the A+B+Down trick to catch Pokemon?
Quote from: Gamefreak on November 16, 2008, 05:03:08 PM
Did anybody else do the A+B+Down trick to catch Pokemon?
Hahaha, I most certainly did sir :D
Wait, down?
Son of a...I was told up. No wonder it never worked.
Oh, I thought that worked for firered. Guess not, eh?
That trick actually works?
Not sure, but I remember it being one of the biggest urban legends of Pokemon Red and Blue.
That and the Mew truck.
The ABDown trick actually worked. It was all in the timing of wht the ball actually hit the pokemon, not capture it. It was tricky. I used, or at least attempted it all the time in Red and Blue.
And what is this said Mew trick?
The Mew truck was real-- you just couldn't actually fight the Mew.
We don't even know if Mew had anything to do with the truck. It was just a truck that showed up randomly outside the port town of vermilion city.
Ah the wonders of old Gameboy glitches.
Did anyone every do Glitch City?
I didn't know about it untill 2 years ago.
Quote from: Davy Jones on November 18, 2008, 12:07:34 PM
The Mew truck was real-- you just couldn't actually fight the Mew.
I beg to differ. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxupLfajLQs)
Quote from: Zelda Vet on November 19, 2008, 03:48:22 PM
Quote from: Davy Jones on November 18, 2008, 12:07:34 PM
The Mew truck was real-- you just couldn't actually fight the Mew.
I beg to differ. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxupLfajLQs)
That's
FireRed, I'm talking about the ORIGINALS.
Quote from: Davy Jones on November 19, 2008, 03:55:53 PM
Quote from: Zelda Vet on November 19, 2008, 03:48:22 PM
Quote from: Davy Jones on November 18, 2008, 12:07:34 PM
The Mew truck was real-- you just couldn't actually fight the Mew.
I beg to differ. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxupLfajLQs)
That's FireRed, I'm talking about the ORIGINALS.
Did your argument ever state WHICH games you were talking about?
Yes, yes he did.
Then allow me to provide a counterpoint. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E757YbGVWoo)
No trucks, but it's actually a legit way to encounter Mew without using a cheating device. (However, knowing my luck, you already know about it...)
Whoa, I had NO idea about that one. Man, the old games were pretty glitchy.
How do I know those aren't ROMs?
Well, I know the FireRed video is a ROM. But what about the Original Red version?
Trust me--it is legit. A friend of mine did the trick once, and I believe I got one of those Mews from him. Heck, there's even a Web page somewhere that tells you what goes on in your game as you go through the trick and why.
Really?
Man, it's a shame you can't trade Pokemon from Red/Blue and Gold/Silver to the later generations.
I know, right? :P
It sucks, yes, but hey, remember that the Japanese get all the cool stuff.
If someone supplies the plane, I'll lead a strike force against Nintendo of Japan.
On topic, does any remember the good old days when dogs were better than cats? *sigh* I was such a fool back then.
This oughta bring back some memories. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FusFXxNGmE)
Yes. Yes it does. Dim memories, but memories nonetheless.
I remember discovering the Contra trick with my cousin by accident and then failing to replicate it.
You mean "Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start?" It must have been pretty awesome to discover that one accidentally. Reminds me of when I discovered how to get to the Warp Zone on "Super Mario Bros." That was accidental, as well.
Remember when you weren't frowned upon by the general public for not owning a cell phone? I do.
Is that the one that gives you thirty lives? If so, then yes.
I remember when liking rap or hip-hop wasn't a requirement to be "cool" and listening to Ol' Blue Eyes wasn't a crime.
Pokemon cards.
I still have mine. Somewhere.
Me, too. A big deck of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, too. Good times.
Quote from: Shika on December 10, 2008, 10:40:36 PM
Pokemon cards.
I still have mine. Somewhere.
I still collect them ;) so far, I have 4 three inch binders full.
I don't have the money for them anymore :/
I remember I was into the Harry Potter game more than anything. Harry Potter was my obsession in 4th/5th grade :p
Wasn't there some supposed secret in Pokemon Red/Blue where you could use the space shuttle in the Pewter Museum of Science to fly to the moon and catch Mew?
I never heard of it. But it does sound a bit too farfetched to be true.
It was probably just a local rumor.
There is a way to catch Mew, but certainly not in that way. :P
Quote from: Darth Wyndisis on December 12, 2008, 06:29:18 AM
Wasn't there some supposed secret in Pokemon Red/Blue where you could use the space shuttle in the Pewter Museum of Science to fly to the moon and catch Mew?
.....no?
I've never heard of that.
To catch mew I remember having to go to Toys R Us and doing somthing,
or some complicated long drawn out process in the game.
He was a reward you got out of some event or something. Can't completely remember. I also heard something about sneaking into the boat dock though.
Click here, plz? ^-^ (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jdonald/pokemon/mewglitch.html)