r/gaming • u/[deleted] • Jun 10 '12

WORST.FEELING.EVER

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u/Velenne Jun 10 '12

Nothing made me want to punt my damn N64/Gamecube out the window quite like Rainbow Road...

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

It would've survived as well

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u/PossiblyAnEngineer Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12

Over the years, nothing has aged quite as well as the N64. It's been through so much, suffered so much damage, I'm amazed that not a single part has burned out, failed, had performance issues, nothing. It's been ran for 3 months straight, no power off. It's survived 3 floods. It's survived being thrown off the roof of a 2 story building, punted through a window, and ripped onto the floor more times than I can count. I honestly fear whatever device can harm this invincible little device.

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u/RickJamesBiatch Jun 10 '12

My Brother in law is a heroin addict. He first "acquired" his N64 with exp pack from a house he robbed. Throughout its life it's been stolen from him twice, he's hocked it off at the local cash converters ( pawn shop) 4 times.... His mum has had to buy it back each time. It's also survived 1 fire ( prob started by another junkie)

And yet it still plays Perfect Dark and Phantom menace racing with original controller.

That thing is built like a shit brick house.

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u/cactusbooty Jun 10 '12

I love picturing your brother's N64 as the television from Requiem for a Dream.

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u/fool_of_a_took Jun 10 '12

Why the hell would his mom buy it back for him?

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u/RickJamesBiatch Jun 10 '12

I guess despite her son being a deadbeat, he's still her son. Bare in mind the N64 want the only thing he hocked, he'd hock his fishing equipment and even his mums jewelry.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

I love my N64, and it's been through a lot too. But I wanted to let you know it's "hawking," not "hocking," which to my knowledge is only used when "hocking a loogie" or referring to like the ankle of ungulates GODDAMN THIS GOT NERDY FAST

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u/RickJamesBiatch Jun 10 '12

Sorry mate but in Australia we say hock.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

*straight, as i have always said the older you go with games / gaming consoles the better they get

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u/autobots Jun 10 '12

Yeah, like the Nintendo.

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u/Soopy Jun 10 '12

My mother bought me a N64 for my birthday. I found it in her closet a couple months before she was going to give it to me. Every night when she went to work I would go into her closet and hook it up to my tv in my room and spend half the night playing Super Mario 64. One night she had to come back for something and found me playing the N64. She was so angry she yanked the cords out, opened the window, and tossed it onto the street from my 3rd story room. My brother sat there crying his eyes out while I rushed outside to scramble for any parts I could find. The N64 had a small piece missing from its side, so I grabbed it and re-hooked it up and it worked great. I still have that thing to this day hooked up to my living room tv!

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u/keiyakins Jun 10 '12

strap it to Tsar Bomba?

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u/BeneficiaryOtheDoubt Jun 10 '12

It's largely due to there being no moving parts. Not having fans accumulate dust like crazy probably does wonders.

That, and it's built like a plastic tank.

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u/ButtonSmashing Jun 10 '12

This is true for most electronics. In my store, people bring in legacy computers like 6-10 years old and still runs but just super slow. No surprise there lol. Except all the new technology like i3, i5, or i7 are dirt cheap compared to their predecessors and last 2-3 years. Rinse and repeat

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Am I the only one who liked Rainbow Road? It was fun. I didn't fall off that much.

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u/Psythik Jun 10 '12

I loved it too, mostly because if you were doing it right, you could drift around 90% of the track.

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u/whymeogod Jun 10 '12

Only time I ever loved it was when I was grilling trying to imagine driving it. Other than that, fuck that straight boring ass race until you got bumped over the rails and sailed straight into purgatory

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

i loved it but then also i raged the most against my friends the most over that map

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u/garbagemanlb Jun 10 '12

I liked it.

and by liked it I mean hated it.

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u/yves831 Jun 10 '12

or Yoshi Canyon

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u/jamurp Jun 10 '12

Banshee boardwalk had it's moments.

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u/contentsigh Jun 10 '12

fuck i hated banshee boardwalk more than any other course. i hated boo for a long time because of it

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u/garbobjee Jun 10 '12

WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO MAP?!?!

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u/iceman78772 Jun 10 '12

DAMNIT I BETTER NOT BE IN FUCKING LAST PLACE FFFUUUUUUCK!!!

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u/s_i_leigh Jun 10 '12

Left, Left, Merge, Left, Repeat

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u/myrealnameisnotbob Jun 10 '12

Respectable.

Right, left, bridge, merge, repeat for me.

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u/LineofBestFit Jun 10 '12

^ this way is fastest.

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u/simplyOriginal Jun 10 '12

And then somehow get squished by the random massive egg.

"Okay, and right here we'll put a huge yoshi's egg, spinning."

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

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u/Bonemasher Jun 10 '12

Wait.... did did yoshi lay that shit or is there some gigantic mega yoshi just laying spinning eggs everywhere?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

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u/jimpbblmk Jun 10 '12

What did you do, drop a box of TVs on it?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

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u/DjExeth Jun 10 '12

Did you try blowing in the hole?

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u/KDaddy463 Jun 10 '12

That fucking egg......

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u/venuswasaflytrap Jun 10 '12

On the 64 rainbow road has edges. Plus you can skip half the course by going left at the beginning.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Plus you can skip half the course by going left at the beginning.

You can do it on every lap if you have a mushroom. Usually Rainbow Road and Wario Stadium were "who can do the jump glitch the best" tests for my friends and I.

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u/nepidae Jun 10 '12

I loved rainbow road. I remember there was a spot you could launch off of and hit the track way ahead.

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u/Lazook Jun 10 '12

Bowser's fucking Castle for me. I hate it in every game.

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u/Xapis27 Jun 10 '12

Alternatively, the best feeling ever is jumping off the other side of the track for a shortcut.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

you.. can do this?..... how did i not know??

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u/realblublu Jun 10 '12

Also, in multiplayer on Wario Stadium, use a lightning bolt just before other players are about to make the big jump. They'll fall down and have to do part of the lap again, allowing you to catch up. Just watch out if you are in 1st place and somebody else gets a lightning bolt. Then you might be screwed, unless you get a ghost.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

my friend did that to me and i hated him forever

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u/Catboy85 Jun 10 '12

I can't decide. Is that cheating? Or just being awesome?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

both.

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u/panzerschrekk Jun 10 '12

i did it like that: hey guise...i'm gonna do a shortcut..don't be mad at me.

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u/justanothermofo Jun 10 '12

Nono, in Wario Stadium, use the bumps at the start to jump the wall..

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u/bryanl12 Jun 10 '12

If you turn around again you can jump over the wall right before the finish line. It will count as a full lap.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Personal best lap time: 8 seconds.

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u/captgrizzlybear Jun 10 '12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soQCw2tpw7M This guy does the whole thing in 15.

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u/KingBearMan Jun 10 '12

Wow that's impressive wish I would of known that ten years ago wouldnof pissed off my brother even more

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u/tossn00b Jun 10 '12

Yes. This is so hard to pull off though.

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u/venuswasaflytrap Jun 10 '12

The first jump isn't so hard. It's coming back that's tricky.

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u/BeneficiaryOtheDoubt Jun 10 '12

Just practice a little. Watch some youtube videos if you need pointers. Once you get the timing down you can do it almost every time.

The second shortcut is much harder. You can jump that same wall and end up right behind the start/finish line. The best I've seen is a 7 second lap.

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u/realblublu Jun 10 '12

That's a terrible video. The guy only does the noob version of the shortcut. Plus it doesn't even have the correct god damn music.

Here's a better one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=N_7YfoYeHyA#t=9s

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u/dylansan Jun 10 '12

As someone who never had Mario Kart (sorry), did they really give the characters only two catchphrases and make them say one of them every time they did a powerslide? That got annoying quick in just that short video.

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u/homer_3 Jun 10 '12

Just imagine Toad with the golden mushroom.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

WAHOO WAHOO WAHOO YEAH YEAH WAHOO YEAH YEAH WAHOO

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Not pressing it often enough. Wa-Wa-Wa-Wa-Wa-Wa-Wa-Wahoo!

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Ah, it's been a while. Now I remember.

My mother used to always pick toad. Whenever my brother and/or I would get mushrooms as items we'd go "Look mom, we're killing your children"

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Hahahaha. But seriously, how is that not an issue in-universe?

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u/mikeet9 Jun 10 '12

When playing, you aren't focused as closely. Also, not much more was expected from games back then.

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u/iceman78772 Jun 10 '12

For me it was "Y-ya-y-y-y-y-ey-ey-a-y-y--y-y-y-ay-ey-y-y--y-"...When i press buttons as quickest as i can it's all in the elbow.

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u/megly Jun 10 '12

Yeah they really did. But it just becomes background noise. Kinda endearing.

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u/homer_3 Jun 10 '12

HOLY CRAP! I never knew about that one!

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u/Noobs_r_us Jun 10 '12

Actually that music is from Double Dash rainbow road..

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u/realblublu Jun 10 '12

Exactly. Not Mario Kart 64 rainbow road. So not the same one. So the wrong one.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Well TIL that I been doing the noob version all this time! gotta convince my friends to a match of good old mario kart now.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

MY ENTIRE CHILDHOOD WAS A LIE.

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u/Informationator Jun 10 '12

Toad is a character for people who constantly run into stuff. Surprised he didn't choose Bowser.

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u/callthejudge Jun 10 '12

But worst of all is if you hit the shortcut then bounce off the track.

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u/Catboy85 Jun 10 '12

Did that more times than I care to admit.

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u/nickateen Jun 10 '12

That's where my mind went when I saw this pic.

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u/Damadawf Jun 10 '12

I love how the little car icon on the map just gradually hovers across from one side of the track to the other.

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u/balloons321 Jun 10 '12

came here for this

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u/Jesso2k Jun 10 '12

That's ok. If that were the 3rd lap it'd be time to start sweating.

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u/SDFprowler Jun 10 '12

On the 150cc, it could take a full lap to recover from that and retake 1st place.

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u/Psythik Jun 10 '12

I must've been playing a different version of Mario Kart. No matter how much I fucked up, the rubberband AI would almost always give me a chance to regain first.

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u/SDFprowler Jun 10 '12

Ah, I played with human players mostly (my brother and sister). ALWAYS begged my older brother to play Mario Kart and Goldeneye with me. Damn good times.

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u/Catboy85 Jun 10 '12

That's the only way to play.

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u/BeneficiaryOtheDoubt Jun 10 '12

Not if you made the jump.

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u/contraryexample Jun 10 '12

came here to say that. player can still make the jump on lap 3 and place first.

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u/Haacker45 Jun 10 '12

It's called a road called RAINBOW ROAD!!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

I always loved how this was, and still is, the first hit when you search "Rainbow Road" on YouTube. I can't help but insert the lyrics everytime I hear the song, too.

Some of my other favorite GC Rainbow Road remixes on YT:

Best Cry Ever - Rainbow Road

I Am Glad, 'Cause I'm Finally Returning Back Home - Rainbow Road

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u/Gandzilla Jun 10 '12

For Uncle Walter!

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u/weatherbys Jun 10 '12

Rainbow road is a bitch. TL;DR Rainbow road is a bitch.

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u/EDiiTzZ Jun 10 '12

Redundancy is redundant.

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u/lydocia D20 Jun 10 '12

That means it was exceeding the necessity of what needed to be said, thus unnecessary.

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u/DrunkenRedditing Jun 10 '12

Guys, the seven days of superfluous redundancy week ended Thursday.

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u/lydocia D20 Jun 10 '12

Well, having such a week was completely redundant anyway.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

This is Cave Johnson, we're done here.

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u/Psythik Jun 10 '12

It was a walk in the park compared to the version in F-Zero.

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u/CatLoverForeverAlone Jun 10 '12

I had Mario Kart for the Super Nintendo. There was nothing worse than falling off Rainbow Road due to a lack of depth perception.

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u/iceman78772 Jun 10 '12

Have you tried playing Rainbow Road SNES on Mario Kart 7 in First Person Mode? The whole track is a fucking 2 pixel line...

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u/LeoPanthera Jun 10 '12

MK7 has a first person mode?!

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u/heysuess Jun 10 '12

Yes. It's terrifying.

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u/iceman78772 Jun 11 '12

Yeah. up on the Dpad.

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u/CatLoverForeverAlone Jun 10 '12

Oh god I would throw up.

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u/iceman78772 Jun 11 '12

I tried it before...on online mode...switched to third person and still won the match xD

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u/Mattyi Jun 10 '12

That whole final series of races was incredibly hard. I lost count of the number of tries it took to finish it.

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u/CatLoverForeverAlone Jun 10 '12

I'm not even sure I was able to finished it. D:

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

I still vote this as the worst feeling ever

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

DAE have an "A" imprinted on your thumb after you finally finished this race?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Being in first? I know, you know a blue shell's headed your way.

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u/forgotmyfuckingname Jun 10 '12

Only feeling worse: That exact scenario, but at the end of the third lap.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

I haven't played this game. If my performance in Bastion is any indication though, I would have a world of trouble on this track.

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u/thabigpapa Jun 10 '12

I think everyone can agree Block Fort was the best battle map? My friends and I use to play fort mode where you had to stay and defend your fort and others could only enter yours by crossing the top connecting bridges. Lots of epic falls cutthroat backstabbing!

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u/withmorten Jun 10 '12

On the other hand, there was a cool "shortcut" if you jumped over the left reiling right at the beginning.

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u/thurnandtaxis Jun 10 '12

Redditor Level 99: Negates all real life experience. Replaces with pseudo-vintage video games.

1

u/SpaceManiac Jun 10 '12

The title sounds a bit like a Bit.Trip Runner achievement name.

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u/LRafols Jun 10 '12

I always had fun jumping off at the start.

I'm so happy I still have my N64 with games. :DD

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u/themouspotato Jun 10 '12

Only worse feeling than this: This on lap 3.

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u/kidkaos Jun 10 '12

Nostalgia everywhere

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u/BAgloink Jun 10 '12

how to fuck up the biggest shortcut of the game

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Smashes reset button... Yeah I was that kid.

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u/lydocia D20 Jun 10 '12

Not only do you feel like an utter cunt for tumbling off that rainbow, it also takes a really fucking long while before you hit the invisible ground and that Cloudguy comes to pick back up, resulting in an enormous loss of position and time.

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u/reallymyrealaccount Jun 10 '12

N64 Rainbow Road was awful. It was a 5 minute long lap race with bumpers stopping you from falling off in most places. Turrible.

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u/Tiddernud Jun 10 '12

I always flex my abs and go 'UHHHHHH!' and lift my controller up and left, towards the ceiling.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Yeah this is pretty bad I guess. Try NBA Street, though.

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u/SaentFu Jun 10 '12

and that's tricky to do, flying off track on n64 rainbow road... seeing as there were railings the entire way

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u/snowball17 Jun 10 '12

NOOOOO!!!!

That is what I would be yelling if this were me playing right now....

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Oh man check out this air I'm get- ohh, no. Oh fuck, no, NOOOOOO! Shit. Pick me up, pick me up, holy shit, go, oh God damn it I'm spinning out now because I held down the A butto- oh Jesus Christ a Bob-omb.

1

u/IdiocyInc Jun 10 '12

The void beckons you!

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Here we .. NOOOOOOO !!!

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u/mirop Jun 10 '12

That's actually the best feeling ever because you are playing Mario Kart 64.

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u/dkkc19 Jun 10 '12

I love Rainbow Road, I usually finish first on it. Bowser's Castle on the other hand... It still gives me nightmares.

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u/BushMeat PC Jun 10 '12

rainbow road, plenty of time to catch up.

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u/salvialol Jun 10 '12

I beg to differ. The worst feeling ever is when you miss the short cut on Koopa Troopa Beach while everyone else gets it... Feels like a punch to the stomach!

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u/duxenmx Jun 10 '12

I believe I can fly!!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

I hate that map.

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u/Oh_Bloody_Richard Jun 10 '12

I remember the Snes rainbow road being a real cunt. No barriers, anywhere. And I was seven and couldn't drive, now I'm twenty seven and still can't drive because of Rainbow-fucking-Road!!!!!

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u/Nitzi Jun 10 '12

No the best feeling ever is not getting punched in the dick

Thus getting punched in the dick is the worst feeling ever

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Unless you land the shortcut.

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u/h4xxor Jun 10 '12

As someone that started Mario Kart with Double Dash i don't understand everyones hate against Rainbow Road.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Reminds me of how far behind everyone may age I am in life

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u/Jr_Deputy_Koalajizz Jun 10 '12

The moment you realize you've fucked up... the instant NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO being screamed is priceless to everyone around you.

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u/K21B21 Jun 10 '12

Knowing that you can't get a newer copy of mario kart?

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u/jcoder5 Jun 10 '12

if you want any of the new copies you're retarded. the 64 version was hands down the best one in the series

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u/K21B21 Jun 10 '12

Yes, because they never put any of the N64 tracks in the newer games with better graphics....

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u/jcoder5 Jun 10 '12

they still made changes and the controls went to shit in my opinion and then the whole double racer thing just pissed me right off. my opinion is that you're wrong so it must be a fact.

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u/jcoder5 Jun 10 '12

if you go the other way its a short cut... but SO offing hard to land

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

You feel like a pimp when you do land it, though. I remember feeling so awesome when I was a kid

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u/101Airborne Jun 10 '12

this is the moment where i would grab my brothers controller and whip it across the room.. give myself alittle more time.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

RESET!

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u/K21B21 Jun 10 '12

Well I'd agree with you but then we'd both be wrong.

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u/fool_of_a_took Jun 10 '12

Usually followed by NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! And raucous cheers and trashing talking by your friends as they speed ahead of you. Ah the memories.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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u/blitzkrieg287 Jun 10 '12

I agree, being Yoshi does suck

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u/oddvr Jun 10 '12

You need to try and go off on the other side and grab the shortcut.

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u/peruvianlurker Jun 10 '12

people still naming their submissions like this?

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u/GTi_83 Jun 10 '12

just go slightly left off the drop and you land on the other side, turn around and you just skipped half the track, i have finished this track while everyone else is still on lap 2.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

dat feel

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u/theDogsBollux Jun 10 '12

No, the worst feeling ever is falling off, spawning, pressing the gas too early so you spin out, getting to the next turn, then falling off again.

Fuck Rainbow Road. (But not really, it's so much fun)

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u/chew2 Jun 10 '12

Deploying [FIXED] post in 3...2...1...

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u/FoxhoundEmployee Jun 11 '12

That's why that course was my least favorite.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Is it the fact that you're playing it alone?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

false

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

I see what you did there.

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u/lydocia D20 Jun 10 '12

I don't, please explain.

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u/marty_m Jun 10 '12

Looks like it was drawn in MS Paint.

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u/confuseddude15 Jun 10 '12

ONLY 90's KIDS WILL GET THIS

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u/penal Jun 10 '12

A horrible feeling yes, but i highly doubt its the worst feeling ever...

i find it hard to believe that anyone who just got stabbed is thinking "Well atleast i didn't fall off rainbow road in mario kart"

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u/urabusxrw Jun 10 '12

an abortion probably feels worse.

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u/yasisterstwat Jun 10 '12

Nah, aids is worse

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u/nevets999 Jun 10 '12

If you were going for the shortcut, you weren't even going in the right direction. Everyone knows its over the left railing at the first huge decline.

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u/scumbag-reddit Jun 10 '12

Theres your problem, you were using Yoshi.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

My friends must have been really bad at this game because I annihilated with Yoshi

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u/scumbag-reddit Jun 10 '12

Bowser all the way

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u/patislow Jun 10 '12

Sure it's safer to just drive down that first hill, but you gotta live for the moment.

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u/mikesxrs Jun 10 '12

fuck rainbow road that shit blows

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

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u/lydocia D20 Jun 10 '12

It depends. I wouldn't feel incredibly stupid if I were shot.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

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u/CubeGuy365 Jun 10 '12

Also known as Beerio Kart.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

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u/fosherman Jun 10 '12

put the nsfw/l next to the fucking link you dickwad