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like i was saying i had just bought my first nes and was playing it to death. back where i am from we had these 100 in 1 game cartridges... which i didnt even know at the time were obviously pirated. anyway i had a few of those 100 in 1 games so i probably owned the entire nes library. so you can just imagine how i used to rape the bloody thing. then, when i was starting to get bored of the bloody thing, came along the gameboy. once again i got a boner when i saw the lil mario on the lil green screen for the very first time. i knew then that i had to fuckin have it. lucky for me my family was going to singapore for the vacations and guess what i picked up? yes a brand spankin new game boy and a couple of 10 in 1 game cartridges (once again obviously pirated)... and once again i had the entire gameboy catalog of games up till that point to my disposal.

lets fast forward a few years... super nintendo comes out... i get a boner after seeing mario in all his 16 bit glory... 16 bit... enough to make a kids legs quiver.. god dayemmm!! anyway at that point my family was going to hong kong for a vacation and i picked up a.... super famicom... what the fuck? me being the dumbass that i am didnt even realize that a super famicom looks nothing like a goddamn super nintendo. i also happened to pick up about 10 games which i later found out were all in chinese. so i spent the next year or so playing goddamn games like lemmings and sim city in chinese... lovely.

for those of you who dont know super famicoms cartridges were shaped like n64 cartridges so the cartridge slot wasnt shaped for snes carttridges (i spent days trying to fit in copies of mortal kombat in it).

so while all my friends were enjoying games like royal rumble, mortal kombat, and super mario world i was stuck playing fucking lemmings in chinese. super famicom or its games werent even sold in pakistan... so i was playing the same goddamn 10 piece of shit games that i had gotten in hong kong almost a year prior.

then finally i found a solution. a removable convertor... as soon as i saw it i bought it went straight home after borrowing royal rumble from one of my friends and shoved it into my famicom. when i turned it on i still remember the black screen. fuck me that 2 seconds or so seemed like a lifetime. then came the rainbow logo of the developer of royal rumble.... don't even know who the fuck the developer was. after seeing that logo i knew i'd finally be enjoying my super famicom...



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There might be something awesome hidden in this blog, but... I can't read it...
*Wall of text falls over.
look harder asswipe
Dig up stupid.
Look, I know you're enthusiastic about being a member of our great community, but could you please slow down and take time to format and space your blog evenly next time? Not to be the blog police or anything, but people are gonna start to label you as one of the people who just spams c-blogs with crap and will either ignore you or whatever.

And yes, I read the entire thing. =P
thanks for the tip
so basically you didnt read up on or learn about the product before you bought it? you didnt notice the Chinese on the game or the box figuring the game would be in chinese? did you think it would magically convert to english when you touched the controller?

weird thing is you can easily modify a snes to play super famicom games by cutting 2 little plastic tabs in the snes.
The reformat really helped the legibility. Thanks for that.

Your story is pretty entertaining. I got a kick out of trying to imagine myself enjoying Sim City in Chinese. Is that even possible?
i was 8 at the time. i just wanted a snes and i wanted it fast. and i think my parents just wanted me to shut the hell up so they didnt bother looking into it either. when the shopkeeper told them it was a snes we bought it immediately. learned my lesson though
lol you cant imagine how fucking irritating it was to play that game. after months of playing it i figured out that the blue squares were for commercial properties and i think the green were for residential areas. but i'd get 10 minutes into the game and suddenly the game would cut into a sequence where this small guy would be pulling out his hair and blabbing something in chinese. next thing you know my money would be into the negatives and then game over... sucked ass
I approve of this blog!

it just starts so randomly and so awesomely

I remember those 100in1 carts although I never owned a NES.
I did have a Mega Drive (Genesis) for my first system though and I was wondering why some of the carts had cheap stickers on it while the others seemed to be sturdier. I didnt take me long to figure out the difference between pirated carts and stuff

so yes, everyone is a pirate and I dont understand where all the pirate hate comes from. They probably have never lived in Asia...
I'm not sure if I would still be gaming today if I only had Chinese versions of Lemmings and Sim City at age 8. It's crazy you even managed to figure that much out. Chalk it up to human intuition.
ahh ok that makes a little more sense. i had a similar experience begging my mom to buy me secret of mana ,when it first came out ,just by looking at the cover of the box. and it was $70 at the time. but i begged and got it. good thing it was in english!

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