• @jpreston2005
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    7311 months ago

    For me it was Nintendo 64, Goldeneye sleepover party. Pure, unbridled, unadulterated happiness. A time with what felt like genuine acceptance and kindness.

    • TWeaK
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      2311 months ago

      Goldeneye was classic, but Perfect Dark was always better IMO.

      Man, I wish Rare never sold themselves to Microsoft. They tried to get Nintendo involved and start a bidding war, but Nintendo didn’t bite. Conker’s Bad Fur Day is still perhaps my favourite game of all time, all the timely movie references, and the juxtoposition of a cutesy squirrel character actually being a hungover reprobate. I played so much of that teddies v French squirrels on the beach landing multiplayer.

    • Troy
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      1211 months ago

      I still dream about those parties. We would gather in the youth centre, supervised, with a digital projector borrowed from the school (with permission), in sleeping bags, lying on the floor, projecting onto the roof, staying up until 4am…

      Slappers only, no Oddjob. ;)

      No, usually it was: autoaim off, pistols, one-hit-kills, no Oddjob.

        • Troy
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          311 months ago

          The youth centre was an old church (that the church had outgrown). So it had a huge white gabled roof at exactly the right angle for comfort. Was a blast