The best game you never completed...

[ChipEaterMan]

PM me your email address or hit me up at dscicala ... gmail ... .

I lived in a duplex a block away from Astoria Blvd and Steinway. Super awesome neighborhood with so much food and that mosque that made national news by being peed on. I had to walk a few blocks outside of shariah law to get pork or alcohol though. I'm sure you mean you would live on the other side of Astoria, though, where some strange breed of smelly Mediterraneans from some random broke-ass country live. That part's not as cool.

I think he's talking about Greeks Aubrey

[aubreymcfate]

I think he's talking about Greeks Aubrey

Man, I'd be fumbling through life like a cat in the dark with its whiskers cut off if it werent for you.

I'll email you later today surviva. You'll recognize the Greek last name.

I actually want to live by the Steinway/Broadway or Ditmars areas.

Oh, and to remedy the thread derailment...

FF7. Never finished it. Sacrilege!!!

[surviva316]

I'm pretty sure I never finished any of the NES Final Fantasy games, even though I poured a massive part of my childhood into it. I think I might have lost files a few times and had to start over again or something, but I don't even think I got particularly far. I remember in like 6th grade or something, I used to stay up every single night until 2 in the morning playing Final Fantasy on the computer with NBC playing in the background until the Conan O'Brian show was over.

I actually never had any idea whatsoever that I was a nerd growing up, so there are two things about this that were kind of strange and amusing to me:

1) I was playing on an emulator that had like every NES game ever, and I just accidentally stumbled on this game series listed as FF1, FF2 and FF3 in my emulator having no idea that I was playing some insanely vaunted game series. By the time I was in middle school, they musta been releasing Final Fantasy 8, and I was like Jesus, how many of these games do they need to release, and what's so great about it that makes all these nerds go bananas for it. I got hooked on a couple of FF games in college (I think VII and X), and when I went to play the NES games I was like, "WHAAAAAT?! I was a FF fanatic the whole time?"

2) I had no idea Conan O'Brian was a thing. I thought he was just some random dude who came on between the guy everyone's heard of (Leno) and infomercials. I was always surprised by how little the guy I'd heard of was funny and how funny the guy I hadn't heard of was. Fast forward a few years, and in 9th grade someone in my high school responded to a silly joke of mine by being like, "Cicala, I bet you're a Conan O'Brian fan. You seem like the type who would have Conan O'Brian as like your favorite comedian ever." I was seriously fucking floored. It might literally have been the first time I ever heard anyone mention the name Conan O'Brian, and now apparently there was a whole "type" of person who watched him, and in the first soulread I'd ever experienced, I was being placed in that type.

Point is, as much of my childhood I spent on the NES FF games, I don't think I ever beat any of them. I think between switching PCs, having files crash and switching between the 3 games. That's right, 3 games. I even played some of FF3, using trial and error with what the different windings meant.

[ChipEaterMan]

I'll email you later today surviva. You'll recognize the Greek last name.

You mean like the history channel ancient aliens dude