Super Nintendo memories in webcomic form
Monday, July 28th, 2008 at 8:58am by David
Julia Wertz’s Fart Party webcomic takes a look at a great Super Nintendo memory. Check it out, and share your memories about the first time you played an SNES in comments.
July 28th, 2008 at 10:05 am
That comic made me chuckle, then made me say awwww. :<
But still, great find. Made my day so far.
July 28th, 2008 at 10:10 am
I first got my SNES for Christmas in 1991. I was 7 years old, and I don’t have to tell you guys that the feeling I got opening that gift, setting up the console, and playing Super Mario World for the first time is a feeling that can simply not be replicated. It’s the feeling that makes people wish they were a kid again. I was very, very excited when I got my Wii, but I’m not a bright-eyed, awe-struck 7-year-old anymore. It felt like my soul was overflowing with rainbows and puppies.
Of course, while I wanted to spend every waking moment of the rest of the holiday season playing my SNES, I obviously could not. It was Christmas day, and we were going to visit family and friends for the rest of the day. We were out for pretty much the entire day, and by the time we got home, it was already after midnight. I wanted to play my SNES so badly, and it wanted me to play it. Mario and Yoshi were poking out the top, saying “hey, we missed you!” Unfortunately, it was clearly time for bed.
Of course, the sooner I got to sleep, the sooner I could get up to play some more. On the way to my bedroom, as I walked by my SNES in the living room, I kissed it. Yes, I kissed it. Is there anything more nauseatingly adorable then a 7-year-old kissing his new SNES on Christmas night? I challenge you to think of something. Maybe a mouse riding a tiny motorcycle wearing a walnut shell as a helmet, but that’s it.
A lot of people would say you can’t love inanimate objects. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I swear to you all that I loved my SNES.
July 28th, 2008 at 11:41 am
No punchline?
July 28th, 2008 at 11:55 am
I kinda went through the same thing with my mom. I think my dad went behind her back and bought me one for my birthday, anyway. I think it came bundled with Donkey Kong Country. Either way, I played the crap out of that game, and rented Legend of Zelda: Link to the past a billion times to beat it.
July 28th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
The first video game system we got was the original Pong, followed by the Atari 2600. The good thing, was that way back then, nobody knew enough about video games to worry about them “rotting your brains”. By the time people started worrying about it my brother and I were already in our teens and had been video game-a-holics for so many years that it wasn’t worth the trouble trying to convince my mom that video games were bad for us. As it turned out, there was no reason to worry anyways.
My son is benefiting from my experience. Sure there are a lot of games that I won’t let him play, but in general, I have no problem with him playing video games (he does have to do other “real” stuff as well, though).
July 28th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
This comic was great - this was just like my memories, but of me and my brother wanting a NES instead! (I bought the Super NES with my own allowance, rubbing it in my bro’s face.
But seriously, this really is an example of how cool parents can be - they’ve continuously put the most desired present into something absolutely misleading, but it results in a larger display of surprise and enjoyment!
I like this comic. Much better than the last one displayed IMO.
July 28th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
HAHA!! I remember the exact OPPOSITE of this comic happening to me when I got my NES. My parents were dead set against videogames, “they will rot your brain” etc…
We were spending that christmas with my brother who was in the navy at the time. I remember going to the airport to pick him up, and when he got in the car I nearly crapped myself when he handed me the NES box. He quickly told me that it wasn’t ACTUALLY an NES, but a sombrero he had got me while stationed in Mexico.
I was 8. I fell for it. I was heartbroken.
Lo and behold we get back to the hotel we were staying in and I finally got to open it. It was a NES of course. My brother and I spent like 20 minutes pulling everything out of the box and hooking it up to the TV in our hotel room. Then we went to the video store and stayed up all night playing Fester’s Quest and the original Zelda.
July 28th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
For a year before we actually got it, my brother and I would rent one from the game store every couple of months. We couldn’t afford one, and my parents weren’t going to help. Finally one day we had enough money, and we were at Costco. We put it in the shopping cart when my mom wasn’t looking. A few minutes later she discovered it and said we would have to sell the NES if we really wanted it that bad. So we did. For the first year all we had was Super Mario World. I’m a kung fu master at that game now! We rented lots, but games were expensive back then in Canada, I remember paying $80 for FFII. That’s like $400 in todays money, or something like that. I loved the SNES. It finally died about 2002. I still have it though. Just to, you know, hug every once and a while.
July 28th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
@daverage - click through and read the whole thing.
July 28th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
the first time i played a SNES was when i was probably around 3-5 i cant remem it was at my grandparents house
i played super mario world i remember that i stunk at it and couldnt even beat the first level since tan ive beat that game and got everything woot
July 28th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
i remember 1991 like it was yesterday. my brother and i rec’d an SNES for xmas (i was 12 he was 10) and our buddy danny rec’d a Genesis that same year. it took him less than a day to discover the SNES’s potential and distant superiority after a few levels in Super Mario World. the next day i went to his house to check out the rest of his xmas stash only to realize he had convinced his mom and dad to return the Genesis for an SNES. my one up on the jone’s that time lasted only a day. little biting bastard…i still tease him today about that.
July 29th, 2008 at 12:15 am
Is this where we get a string of comments saying “this is stupid, comics are supposed to be funny”?
I hope not.
That was sweet.
July 29th, 2008 at 10:00 am
I remember seeing SMW on channel 1 (short lived grade school news channel)… it gave me chills and I begged the principal for WEEKS to get me a copy of the tape so that I could watch and hear the 5-6 second clip of mario in a haunted house. A friend of mine from Japan had the SNES imported months before it came out in America. The local newspaper had published a Genesis-glorifying 2-page article and at the time I was so pissed at Sega for their “Genesis does what Nintendon’t” ad campaign that I wrote a technical response to the writer of that article @ 6 pages long. I argued (at 12 years old)from ALL angles why the writer was an idiot, why you can’t compare apples and oil-based butter, thee difference in 8- and 16-bit, etc… and quickly got a response and a request from the newspaper for an interview. Needless to say, we were front page news trash talking the Genesis and hyping up the upcoming SNES. Best days of my life man… THAT was fun. Friends, games, and a common allegiance to the best console gaming system of all time. AH memories heh