Crimson Ryan wrote: 15. Mum bought it for me from GAME after I saw it on that show GamePad on Bravo TV. Memories, man!
For context that was Shenmue IIx. I played the original on Dreamcast when I was.. 22?
Crimson Ryan wrote: 15. Mum bought it for me from GAME after I saw it on that show GamePad on Bravo TV. Memories, man!
Sailors? wrote: I think I was 10, pretty sure I picked up the game in 2001.
I was at my friends house when I first saw it played by his step-father and I was completely immersed even then and I wasn't even playing it myself. My mates step dad has always had the latest gaming gear ever since I first met him all those years ago and he was playing on this retro 50 inch TV (Which was unbelievably huge at that time.) Needless to say the game looked amazing.
But when it came round to 2001 with my birthday just around the corner I had somewhat forgot about the game and me and my mum went to the local Electronics Boutique (before Game bought it out and subsequently closed down) with the intention of getting an N64. Another friend of mine had one and that's all we used to play for hours, I loved Goldeneye and Banjo-Kazooie and most people I knew had a N64 not a Dreamcast. But they were sold out of N64s (I was gutted!), a store assistant suggested the Dreamcast, it was either that or wait for them to re-stock the N64. I wasn't sure what to do but in the back of my mind I remembered seeing my friends step dad playing that amazing game and I knew then that I would love the Dreamcast even more than I would the N64. It was the right choice of course, I loved every game I got for the Dreamcast and in that spur of the moment decision I allowed myself to experience the best game ever made.
Shenmue4lyf.
I keep telling myself kids are too young in their early teens to understand or enjoy the series, though it's just a different era with different general taste I suppose.
mue 26 wrote: I played it as soon as it came out in the UK, so I must have been 11.I keep telling myself kids are too young in their early teens to understand or enjoy the series, though it's just a different era with different general taste I suppose.
Nah, some kids will love it just like we did. But it will always be a niche thing, especially so for kids. I remember when my friend at school got the DC after it had become really cheap to buy and asked me what games he should get, so I thought I'd do him the biggest favor in the world and lend him Shenmue. I don't think he even made it down the street to Doubita. I can recall at the time being totally baffled as to how the qualities of a game that had charmed me so, were so very easily and completely missed by him. I never got that game back of him though
drunkensailor wrote: man there are so many beautiful stories in this topic! thank you all
Mitsuzuki wrote: We're probably about the same.
You shouting at kids to get off your lawn yet?
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