Games During My Childhood [Grab Bag]

It's fascinating how thinking back to our childhood days conjures up different images and eras for each of us.
In today's Grab Bag, I'll talk about how I enjoyed video games when I was still a child myself, back during the dawn of gaming as we know it.

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Can you imagine a store selling computers on the front and writing the software on the back like it was some sort of kitchen? The early days must have been wild.

[zekkyauditore]

The lore episode.
Sakurai probably can't even begin to imagine how much of an impact he has had on a LOT of our childhoods. A lot of hobbies and games have come and gone, but ever since I played Brawl in a CRT at my friends house, Smash has always been a constant in my life...

[lewiss]

I sometimes forget that Sakurai is 52 years old. He looks more like he’s 25!

[madbrogiraffe]

"It could be that I've had the same impact off someone else's childhood, perhaps."

"COULD BE"

This guy is the humblest of kings

[VictorTAnderson]

Sakurai lore is what the world needed today :)

[krimzenaraknid]

When he mentioned going to the store and his parents giving him change to go play games, that took me right back to my childhood. For me, it was a Pizza Hut that had a small arcade attached to it. It's how I was introduced to Street Fighter, the original TMNT arcade game, the weird Superman arcade game, and Bad Dudes.

[AerodynamicZebra]

The very first video game that I ever played was Super Smash Bros. Melee. It was 2002 and I had just moved into a new neighborhood. Naturally, I didn’t know anybody and was worried. But luckily, I met my childhood best friend and went over to his house to play video games. At this point I didn’t even know who Mario was, but I will never forget the first time I heard the announce scream “SUPER SMASH BROS. and the subsequent matches I played. It was magical.

And now thanks to Smash Bros, I met all of my closest friends in college who I still keep in touch with. Thank you, Mr. Sakurai. I hope you know just how much meaning your work has had to me and many others.

[RebelliousTreecko]

"It could be that I've had the same impact on someone else's childhood, perhaps."

Oh, you absolutely did.

[mjdevlog]

Sakurai saying "Who cares?" in that tone is unsurprisingly wholesome.

[SergeantLuke]

When I was a kid in Phoenix, AZ, my family would sometimes do their shopping in a big Fry’s Marketplace store, which also had a special (enclosed, supervised!) section for kids to play in while the parents shopped. Every time we were there, I always gravitated towards the same thing: the GameCube… with no less than Super Smash Bros. Melee running on it. It warms my heart and blows my mind to know that Sakurai inadvertently helped to give me the exact same childhood experience that he once had!

[laggalot]

Well this is just plain wholesome, isn't it?

[RangoTheMercenary]

Super Mario World, Super Mario Land, and Sonic the Hedgehog were three of my first games. Games like A Link to the Past and Super Mario RPG were pillars of my youth as some of the greatest games I ever played. Plus, Super Smash Bros. and every incarnation since the 1999 release has had me hooked and playing competitively.

What's even more interesting is how many series I got into after turning 14. How Golden Sun and Fire Emblem shaped my love for JRPGs or how my 2002 discovery of Metroid Prime and Fusion caused me to try every game in the series.

Many of these series have stuck with me to this day.

[KJR_Whatever]

Hearing Sakurai talk about his childhood and how much he may have left an impect on childhoods was so wholesome. Shows how far he's come.

[Pryexel]

My first video game console was the Nintendo 64, playing games like Diddy Kong Racing, Donkey Kong 64, and Paper Mario.

My favorite memory from those days was me being scared of Bowser's Castle as raised out of the ground.

[cerometralletta]

My childhood memories was me spending a week worth of saved up allowance so I have enough credits to finish Time Crisis on the local arcade. Good times.

[phdbot]

It's nice looking back at our childhood experiences with video games. I grew up with the PS1, PS2, GBA, and so on and so forth, but I grew to appreciate plenty of old NES games later in my life! ^^

[TheHylianBatman]

It's crazy to imagine Sakurai there as a kid. He doesn't look that old.
Simultaneously, it's crazy to imagine him getting into the industry so young!

[poweroffriendship.]

Sakurai lived to tell the tale of his own about how arcade games shaped his childhood is pretty sweet, especially how Space Invaders and Pong were so successful that both games made an impact to gaming throughout the years. And it all comes in circles when Sakurai's games also shaped anyone else's childhood too.

[JordansoBASED]

Sakurai's game development DEFINITELY positively impacted my childhood

[Brods]

Cool telling us about your childhood Mr. Sakurai.😄