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Those Were the Days: Why I Never Beat Conker's Bad Fur Day
I Still Remember His Laugh...
by Coop
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Back when I was a younger man boy I would rent games on a weekly basis from my local Bluckbuster. At that age, it wasn’t uncommon for me to grab the same game for several weeks in a row instead of buying them, trying to save what little money I had. I would usually rent a game for the Nintendo 64 and go over my friend Tom’s house, the house where our group of friends would usually have slumber parties, spending the night with whatever game I had rented. One such time the game was Conker’s Bad Fur Day, and we played the D-Day multiplayer mission for hours and hours.
The greatest thing about the game, and the reason I rented it four times in a row, was because it also had an awesome single player, which I would play alone. This was before I was at the age where I actually beat games, mind you, so the fact that I was actually trying to beat it was something special to me at the time – a rite of passage, so to speak.
Until one day I walked into my friend Tom’s room and heard Andrew Quist laughing and the game’s opening theme playing. For the record, that’s his real name, I’m not using a pseudonym or even asking his permission. I hope one day he gets bored, Googles "Andrew Quist," and sees that I’m still pissed. I walked in, and Andrew Quist had purposefully deleted my saved game file, which he thought was hilarious. I’d love to say I punched him, but I think that I probably whined, moaned, and walked away, never attempting to go back to beat the game.
Some 8 years later I now have my revenge, reminding the internet not to trust Andrew Quist around any saved game files. Be sure to check back in a few weeks for a similar story, entitled “Those Were the Days: Why I Never Beat Ocarina of Time.”
Seriously, I had the worst luck with N64 games.
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Comments
i remember the time when I was playing Ocarina of Time and I was at the Shadow Temple (and mind you, wasn't saving during the progress of the Shadow Temple, was playing straight through), and my two friends were rough housing and managed to accidentally hit the off button on the 64 XD
they were so scared, thinking i'd be pissed over this...I simply asked them, nicely, to turn the 64 back on and mentioned that if that'd have happened while I was in the Sun Temple (or whatever that temple is in the desert), I woulda killed them XD
I often did not finish games due to one of my five brothers saving over my save file...sigh.
My attention span is too
Wow, you should have beat the hell out of that guy. I remember the days when I actually started beating games, too--although rarely the ones I rented from Blockbuster.
When my brother and I first got our N64, we didn't have any games or a memory cartridge. I remember the cartridge being a big deal, because a lot of games you couldn't save without it. So, we went out and rented Mystical Ninja Gomen and left the system on for three days so we wouldn't lose our game. We just paused it and left it whenever we had to do other stuff like sleep. Then my dad noticed this and also that that N64 was getting EXTREMELY hot and shut it off. We weren't happy, but we feared the wrath of my dad for melting a new system more then we were sad about the loss of our game, so we didn't say anything at all.
Reminds me of Why It Took Me 4 Years To Beat Final Fantasy VII.
Long story short it was me and my brother and friend playing it. We were six at the time. Half way through the 2nd disc my brother and my friend got into a fight. Friend took his memory card where the game was saved [Ah so young and naive not saving in multiple places]. . . and deleted it.
That made us frustrated for about six months. We made up, got to Safer Sephiroth , said this is impossible and shut it off for like two years until we were actually the age where we understood wtf was going on