Topic: Retro Gaming Confessions

I was too afraid to get the hookshot in Dampe's grave in OoT. I always had my brother get it for me.

I bought too many bad licensed movie games for the NES, and not enough Mario and Megaman. It made me bitter about Nintendo for years after. Batman was decent, though. Just hard.

I claim to love Mega Man but I've never beaten any of the classic games. I've never even played Mega Man 2 long enough to beat it.

I haven't beaten Super Mario Bros. either.
I have an enormous backloggery (I don't have nearly any of my unfinished games on the website though)

Now two Pikmin confessions (if those are even considered "retro"):

I hadn't played the original until about two years ago (even though I played Pikmin 2 when it came out).
I haven't beaten 2's Challenge Mode, I've been advancing sluggishly since I prefer to play the actual game.

I've never owned a Game Boy.

I finished last summer!! I finished it last summer!!

...But I didn't get to finish any home console Zelda since Twilight Princess because that's when they started making the giant spiders too realistic and... I hate spiders. :/ I really do.
(That's probably another reason why I'm excited for WIND WAKER HD!!!!!!!!!)

I think I should create the League of Arachnophobic Zelda Fans on Miiverse when I get the opportunity.

I've never been on a NES, SNES or N64.

I never owned a NINTENDO handheld until the 3DS. And now the Game Boy Advance SP. Also I hate the Game Boy Advance Pokemon games. Also my favorite ZELDA game of all time (and the first I gotten into) is The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past. Alos Sonic the Hedgehog (dad's genesis) was my first game ever. I'm 16 so I grew up with the GENESIS.

I never finished a SINGLE game on my original GBA. I got to the Elite Four on Pokemon Sapphire with my cousin's help, though.

Quite a few Super Mario Bros. confessions. That game was hard and I always felt the need to use the cheat shortcut on 1 - 2. haha

I've never finished a Final Fantasy game but I'm not too big into JRPG's

Alright, I admit it, I borrowed and never returned my neighbors copy of the Legend of Zelda (NES) when I was a kid!

Well there's no shame in not being able to beat NES games (I've only beaten a few) as they weren't really meant to be beaten (well, only by the gaming ninjas), being based very much on the arcade model, where you would keep dying and thus keep putting more coins in to have another go. Obviously arcade games wouldn't have made much money if the kids put one coin in, completed it in one go and left. After all, most of them were very short (the games I mean, not the kids...) I'm glad that the next-gen SNES/Genesis began to move away from that model.

My retro gaming confession is that when I first played Super Mario 64, I couldn't beat the first level... It wasn't because I was too young or anything. I was 13 and had been a hardcore gamer for a number of years. I just couldn't quite get my head around it. Having been so used to just going from left to right, it just felt so weird and disorientating. I didn't really get what I was supposed to be doing or where I was supposed to be going. Luckily the next time I played it, it clicked, but it does kind of make me appreciate why the general public has never quite taken to 3D Mario as they have 2D Mario.

I am honestly fascinated that there are so many people who have never been able to beat the original Super Mario Bros.

I can't get past the first level of any Mario game without dying.

I think I got stuck on World 6-3 on Super Mario Bros. or Maybe 5-3? Either way, it's the one with lot of roped platforms. I always get so nervous on them and screw up near the end...

I own pretty much every FinalFantasy (from I to XIII-2). Only played Final Fantasy III for DS and Final Fantasy X for PS2 few years ago. BUT NEVER FINISHED THEM.

I've never own a Game Boy either. But Im planning on buying one soon (does that helps on anything?).

Yeah, no crap! I can't count the number of times I've beaten that game before I even learned how to drive.

Final Fantasy IX is one of my five favorite games ever, one of my two favorite RPGs ever and a game I've probably poured 800 or so hours into over the years.

I've never fought the final boss. I always just stop playing once I sense the end of the game is near.

EDIT: Oh, and I've never collected all of the Chaos Emeralds in any classic Sonic game. Not even in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, which I've cleared dozens upon dozens of times over the last two decades.