I nearly jumped through the ceiling with joy when I saw it and immediately penciled down the address of the store. That cheered him up, but inside, I was afraid that Victor would find out and kill me.Īs luck would have it though, a commercial came on TV that night that advertised a video game store that fixes broken game cartridges for only ten bucks. He was very sorry and upset, but I told him that it was okay because it was just an accident. I got home from work the day after to learn that my dad accidentally stepped on the game and broke it while I was working because he was up in my room putting clean laundry on my bed for me to put away. I decided to play it through one last time though before I took it and the SNES back to Victor's house. I was happy but also a bit sad because I realized that EarthBound was really the only game that I enjoyed. It took me about three weeks, but I finally beat the game. It became my favorite passtime other than watching Star Trek. I was very happy because as previously stated, I didn't much care for other video games, so I didn't have any consoles except for an Atari 2600, my dad wouldn't let me play it though, it was just for him.Īfter hooking up the SNES to the TV in my room, I would play the game for hours on end when I would get home from work. Before I left though, Victor told me that I could borrow his SNES and play EarthBound because he was going away on vacation for a month in Florida. After that though, I decided to go home and eat dinner. I thought this was funny but I decided to name the main character Kirk, as that was my favorite character from the TV show Star Trek.Īfter I started the game, I played for about and hour because I really got into it. For those who have not played it, if you don't care about what you want to name your characters or abilities, you can actually pick an option called 'Don't Care'. Immediately, I got a kick out of it just by the character creation menu. The game was EarthBound of course, and I started playing by making a new file as you would with any game. It was Summer, I was out of school and didn't really have much going on other than work, which I only did part time because I was only 15, so I said 'What the heck,' and agreed to go over and play it at Victor's house. However, on June 5th, 1995, my friend Victor told me about a game he thought even I would enjoy as it was different from everything else ever released. Big whoop.ĬREEPYPASTA- Earthbound- Crypt of the Ancients You play as some overpowered guy who goes around killing strange enemies. I didn't much care though, all the games I had played up to that point were all the same. This often made them think I was rather strange. In fact, I would often say No to my friends when they asked me to come over and play Contra or Super Mario Bros. Back in the 80's and 90's I wasn't really a fan of video games.

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