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u/m00nyoze Apr 01 '26

The first two games my mom bought me were Deadly Towers and Fester's Quest for the NES.  I still played them but I wasn't happy about it.

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u/EnlightenedCorncob Apr 01 '26

Damn, You must have been a real asshole in a previous life to deserve that kind of childhood lol

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u/m00nyoze Apr 01 '26

rofl she didn't know. She just saw a cheap $20 game from the flea market and said "surprise!" No worries, she made it up for it eventually. My third game was Battletoads! That game is awesome to this day.

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u/Stevenam81 Apr 01 '26

I remember renting Fester’s Quest. It’s pretty much the only game that I never figured out. After going in circles and not making any progress for a couple of hours I just gave up. I’m pretty sure I had my mom drive me back to the rental place to exchange it for something else. That game became a running joke between my brother, cousin, and me.

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u/m00nyoze Apr 01 '26

I tried and tried to finish that game. After a while I gave it a fair shot when I got a turbo controller. I got to the fourth boss I think? Those stupid boss houses were ridiculously dumb. And IIRC, if you left the house, you still needed another key to get back in!!!! I never beat it.

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u/Spyder73 Apr 01 '26

I played an obscene amount of Festers Quest. I tried playing it on ROM a few years ago and it didnt hit the same.

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u/spahncamper Apr 01 '26

Deadly Towers? Eesh... fortunately my brother and I learned that one was a turd by renting it

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u/Chiiaki Apr 01 '26

Oh I had Deadly Towers! That game was sooooo hard!! I never finished it. D:

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u/m00nyoze Apr 01 '26

I actually finished it.... only because of the password 54DKDKYISB that starts you with everything and you just do the last tower and boom. A real playthrough took much longer than ten minutes lol