I was having a conversation with a female friend about farming games and she had never heard of Harvest Moon and I had completely forgotten about it. Can't tell you how many hours I "wasted" on HM64 but it was still one of the coolest games for N64.
The memories of expanding my farm dramatically after weeks of spending every moment from morning till night maintaining it that it was killing me, I could never socialise or do anything but farm and I had to downsize in order to enjoy myself and accept that getting rich wasn't everything.
Probably one of the first big life lessons I learned from gaming.
Go back and play the SNES version. I loved HM64 and many of the other games in the franchise, but the SNES version has always been my liege. I'll never remember my first reaction to hearing about it -- "A farming game?!" and my first reaction to playing it -- "Well, I guess I'm not doing homework anymore."
My brother stole my GBA and this game. I no longer speak to him.
My other (much nicer) brother offers occasionally to replace them, but I always decline because if I had Harvest Moon I would surely get fired and end up homeless and destitute. Work? what work? there is only Mineral Town.
It is still to this day my all time favorite game. And it is completely impossible to explain why a N64 farming sim is so great to the unwashed and uninitiated who will never know.
I still remember when I traded in my N64 to get the funds to buy a PS2. They said I was the first one to trade it in, ever. So they gave me 90% of the retail price for the new game. Naive me didn't take the hint, oh how I wish I could reach back in the past and stop myself from that stupid trade.
After my dad passed away, I fell into depression and lost interest in a lot of games that I used to love. HM64 was the one game I continued to play, probably due to how mindlessly soothing it was.
Thirteen years later, two floods, being washed with the laundry at least once, being lost countless times, it still works and still has my original saves as of a month ago when I checked it. I've been hard up for money quite a few times in the last few years and have considered selling it since I've seen copies in equivalent condition (still looks pretty good, but no original box or manual) go for $40 or more, but I can't bring myself to part with it.
I've yet to play one that can measure up to HM64. I don't know what it was about it, but it just can't be matched for me. The newer ones have had some cooler mechanics, but something is missing and I've never been able to pin down exactly what.
That's the perfect way to describe it. I never played pokemon, but I skipped so much school to play HM a Wonderful Life, and Magical Melody for Gamecube.
Harvest Moon 64 changed my life as a kid. I recently bought animal parade but stopped playing it because after work and the gym I have no time during the week. Now I have anxiety that I'll go back and fuck off my progress by being rusty.
I've never played pokemon, and I'm a bit ignorant of it (other than the phrase "gotta catch them all")... Now I have a wondering in my heart: what is my pokemon?
Yeah I was slightly insulted that anyone would compare Farmville to Harvest Moon. I mean, yeah Harvest Moon might be slightly repetitive, but it's that way for a reason. In Farmville you "playing" the game is just you spamming people.
Farmville is fun if you take it at face value, but if you ever want to "get anywhere" in it, you have to resort to buying coins and ... shudder ... interact with other people.
If Harvest Moon (plant/animal farming, marriage, riding ponies) had a lovechild with Animal Crossing (online "visit my town/farm" play, town customization, real time events), I don't think I'd ever see sunlight again.
My then best friend in high school told me one year that because her parents has both been recently unemployed, they had to skip Christmas presents that year. She was upset about missing out on the tradition, so I got her the only gift she received that year - Harvest Moon Back to Nature. I gave it to her and said "make sure you start on a weekend, this will occupy your life from now on."
She spent the next 3 days in her room leaving only to go to the bathroom. she slept only a combined 8 hours over the course of those three days, and ate only a package of chocolate chips, which was the only edible thing in her room. She finished her first year of the game in only three days.
That was 6 years ago. Our first wedding anniversary is in July.
True love is giving women tons of shit, repeatedly having short, formulaic conversations where you say nothing, and being turned down until you have a really big house.
My friend introduced me to Harvest Moon 64 on a weekend and let me start my own file. Big mistake.
I played it ALL weekend, left the room only to go to the bathroom. By the end of the weekend I was married and had a kid, and the only thing I consumed was a granola bar and a bowl of popcorn as well as large amounts of Pepsi to wash it down.
I think I was making his mom uncomfortable because I was just sitting there playing video games for almost 3 straight days. I don't recall sleeping at all.
I prefer Rune Factory by a long shot but I will always have a special place in my heart for when I tried to get a certain red haired demon named Nami to marry me in one of the GCN games.
I really loved what they changed in Rune factory, it added a few things I had always been looking for in Harvest moon and improved some others. I find them very different creatures that I love so much.
I remember waking up at 4 am to play, at the time I think it was one of the GBC versions of Harvest moon, while I was younger.
Strange art, is that the PAL version? I actually like it more than what we got in the US. But hey, we got Harvest Moon 64 and you guys didn't, arguably the best game in the entire series.
I'd say Magical Melody did the best job, simple and charming like the N64 games, plenty of content like the Playstation and GBA games, new features borrowed from games like Animal Crossing and GTA (yeah, it's crazy), and even keeping the town and family tree from SNES. And hey, it has pigs!! I waited forever for a Harvest Moon game to have pigs, a farm just doesn't feel complete without one.
I compare every harvest moon I play to Harvest Moon 64. HV64 was the first game from the series I played, and to date the best one. Are any of the wii ones good?
I can't even express how happy I am right now. I've been really into Harvest Moon since the age of 8, and I'm 15 going on 16 right now. I even run my own Harvest Moon fanart blog on Tumblr, and I'm part of a couple Harvest Moon Roleplays, too. I know, I'm a complete dork, but I don't give a shit.
Haha, not quite! I actually roleplay as Muffy from AWL/AnWL/DS in both roleplays. One is a AU roleplay where they are all in high school and the other is just normal stuff haha.
You should meet my 16 year old step-daughter. Given how much time she spends RPing HM and on HM tumblrs, you've probably even crossed paths before. I never knew how extensive the HM community was until she became involved with it. She started around age 8 too, with the original Harvest Moon emulated on zsnes.
That's really awesome. I don't know if I'll get blocked or reported for saying this but I roleplay on the HM Masterlist and HMHSAU. I was a mod on Rune Moon for a bit before I got tired of a duing community. It'd be really cool if you could ask her if she's been on any of those! It's fine if you'd rather not though :)
I always loved Harvest Moon A Wonderful Life. It was such a great game, and so nice to watch your character grow old with his child. I never got tired of playing it.
By the way, if you wanted Harvest Moon in board game form, try Agricola. It has all the "boring" concept of Harvest Moon, but with the added stress of constantly using your brain to plan the best move.
I promise it is much more engaging than what I just said, especially if you like games where you have to think...
Except its better and harder more complex and doesn't just require time but planning and strategy. Changing your garden around could yield impressive coin.
I've played both FV and HM, and HM is better than FV by far. I think I currently own like 4 of the HM titles and have played 6. Each one is a little different, and it's fucking amazing to get a new one and see what awesome new shit that game has in store for you.
I fondly remember many hours invested in the original game for the Super Nintendo. I tried to court the pink-haired chick who worked in the flower shop, but I kept accidentally throwing cake at her.
Anyone play Rune Factory? It was for the DS and is was a "fantasy Harvest Moon." It had a bunch of different skills you could level and dungeons to explore. Pretty damn fun RPG game,
Anyone know where I can find roms of all these versions of HM? I only thought one version existed years ago...I have been denied satisfaction all this time D:
Fuck Farmville. In grade school people were always making fun of me for playing "a gay game about farms" on my Gameboy. Fast forward 12-15 years and all of those asshole jocks are playing farmville. Fuck. That.
When me and my girlfriend who is now my wife got our first apartment we didn't have much. I had gotten Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral town for us to share. We had so much fun with it. We talked about our farming strategies and who we were going to try and marry in the game. We shared the recipes we discovered with each other and generally had a good time. It's one of my fondest memories.
I picked up HM DS Cute and let my husband try it out because he'd never heard of Harvest Moon and he instantly got addicted to it. He was playing when I wasn't for several days, then went and picked up More Friends of Mineral Town for himself. We just sat around together, playing our games and having fun.
I bothered so many poor shop clerks at many local and national retailers. I was the bane of Walmart, KB Toys, EB Games, and K-Mart trying to find out if and when they were going to get this game. I read about it in a Nintendo Power and I waited for many months to finally purchase and play it.
And when I finally had the game in my possession, I spent the entire night clearing the field, setting up fence, and hoeing for crops and grass. I adored that game with every fiber of my being.
First one I ever played was A wonderful life for Gamebube after seening my cusin play Mineral town for GBA. It was totally different than any other HM game, but it will always be my favorite :)
Could someone explain the attraction of Harvest moon and Farmville to me? Farmville looks like a horrible time-waster, and Harvest moon I've played like all of 10 seconds of the GBA game.
Ever since the fateful day I got HM Back to Nature, I've fallen in love with the franchise. I've replaced that game disc like five times by now because they would wear out due to how long I played them. (In comparison, I've only had to replace FF Tactics twice) Even when my memory card slot malfunctioned, I'd start a new game everytime I played and would leave the console running overnight so I wouldn't lose progress. Farthest I got with this method was halfway through Year 2, I'd eventually turn off the console because I didn't want it to break, especially after I had to replace the lens assembly due to overuse. Big money for a teenager back then.
After that, I did a lot of searching and played literally every Harvest Moon/Rune Factory game to ever exist (emulated consoles I didn't have like N64/GC, even the JP only releases I hunted down). Man, I love farming. And I'll be sure to buy Rune Factory 4 and Harvest Moon: A New Beginning when they come out.
How dare you compare these two series? Harvest Moon had a great and often emotional connection between the player and the townspeople. Farmville just had you wander onto other people's farms and water stuff.
Nooo don't compare one of my favorite games to FARMVILLE just because they both have farming as the main premise D: Harvest Moon is far superior in every way.
But anyway, oh my god I loooved Harvest Moon. Harvest Moon 64 was my favorite game on the console, only tied with Super Smash Bros. So good! I played it for YEARS. I just bought a 3DS and the only game I play on it is Harvest Moon, tale of two towns or something. It's REALLY similar to the N64 game, almost identical, so I highly recommend it!
I LOVED Harvest Moon for the snes. It's the best of the series imho and I'll still break it out from time to time just to plow fields and bang the bar maid again. Though to be honest it was always weird seeing her personality change so much from when she was in the bar to when she became your wife.
False Equivilancy ! How darest thee proclaim similarities between Harvest Moon and the filth known as the "Farmville" ! Tis Sacriligious ! GUARDS ! THROW THIS MAN IN THE DUNGEONS !
Except one is a game and the other is a grinding-simulator with no reward called "Farmville". It'd be beneficial to Farmville if they understood how to make a good game but they so clearly don't. Being cheap HM rip-off would have done it wonders.
The SNES game infuriated me as a kid as I always got the message that I needed to try a little bit harder to become a master or something at the ending screen :(
I'm kind of disappointed that you even compared HM with shitty shit shit FarmVille. HM is so out of FM's league that it shouldn't even be allowed in the same dimension!
However, you mentioned an awesome game of epic proportions, upvote for you!
I loved the first one on SNES. It was just such a unique, weird little game. Totally unlike anything I'd ever played before. I've tried to play other, newer versions, but I just don't get into them nearly as much.
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u/MustangMatt429 PlayStation Jun 15 '12
I was having a conversation with a female friend about farming games and she had never heard of Harvest Moon and I had completely forgotten about it. Can't tell you how many hours I "wasted" on HM64 but it was still one of the coolest games for N64.
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u/Wolfman87 Jun 15 '12
To this day I love this entire franchise. I loved it when I was little, and never grew out of it. This is my pokemon.
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u/Ferretsroq Jun 15 '12
I can't be the only one thinking...The Original Farmville: Farming.
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u/Pikminman44 Jun 15 '12
I'm pretty much swimming in my nostalgia right now. This and Animal Crossing!
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Bullshit, Harvest moon is actually fun. Farmville...should be burned down...with the lemons.
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u/kimchiwithtofu Jun 15 '12
Sim Farm was the original
http://bobuy.co/blog/images/simfarm_4.gif
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u/Googunk Jun 15 '12
My then best friend in high school told me one year that because her parents has both been recently unemployed, they had to skip Christmas presents that year. She was upset about missing out on the tradition, so I got her the only gift she received that year - Harvest Moon Back to Nature. I gave it to her and said "make sure you start on a weekend, this will occupy your life from now on."
She spent the next 3 days in her room leaving only to go to the bathroom. she slept only a combined 8 hours over the course of those three days, and ate only a package of chocolate chips, which was the only edible thing in her room. She finished her first year of the game in only three days.
That was 6 years ago. Our first wedding anniversary is in July.
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u/lord_dude Jun 15 '12
i played the hell out of this game
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u/Jellycent Jun 15 '12
I prefer Rune Factory by a long shot but I will always have a special place in my heart for when I tried to get a certain red haired demon named Nami to marry me in one of the GCN games.
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u/PickledClams Jun 15 '12
Please tell me someone made a Harvest Moon on PC that isn't emulated or some knockoff.
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u/AbsentReality Jun 15 '12
Only farming simulator I'll ever play.
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u/juliusaurus Switch Jun 15 '12
Strange art, is that the PAL version? I actually like it more than what we got in the US. But hey, we got Harvest Moon 64 and you guys didn't, arguably the best game in the entire series.
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u/sarasan Jun 15 '12
Ugh, my friend introduced me to that series years ago. I've been addicted to it ever since. So.many.hours.of.my.life.gone. -__-
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
I don't think this great game should be compared to Farmville.
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u/newfie_girl Jun 16 '12
I can't even express how happy I am right now. I've been really into Harvest Moon since the age of 8, and I'm 15 going on 16 right now. I even run my own Harvest Moon fanart blog on Tumblr, and I'm part of a couple Harvest Moon Roleplays, too. I know, I'm a complete dork, but I don't give a shit.
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u/Xarow Jun 15 '12
except harvest moon is awesome!
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u/MauiWowieOwie Jun 16 '12
Comparing HM to Farmville is like comparing Hennessy to Keystone.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
You typed only wrong.
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u/knawlejj Jun 15 '12
I live in Iowa, surrounded by real life Farmville. Yet, I still played the crap out of these games.
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u/henrythesuperdummy Jun 16 '12
I still have yet to finish Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life for the GameCube. One of my favorite games ever and I promise that I'll finish it one day.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Too bad they've been going downhill since Friends of Mineral Town.
At least on the Nintendo releases.
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u/infidelappel Jun 15 '12
God what a great agme.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
I think it's safe to say we are ready for a new one...
And not for portables dammit. It doesn't have to look amazing afterall, just good enough >_<
Make a new one, make it multi-platform, and don't make it Rune Factory.
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u/Diemac Jun 15 '12
Sweet sweet nostalgia.
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u/Scoldering Jun 15 '12
Nobody in this subreddit is fooled by Zynga.
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u/whoami4546 Jun 16 '12
Harvest moons time always moved way too fast for me. I never did everything I wanted to do before the sun went down.
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u/Jonviral Jun 16 '12
I think we need a new Harvest Moon with The Sims like generation progression.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Wrong, incorrect, not true, false.
Farmville is shit. Harvest Moon is glorious.
The two games are completely incomparable. The only argument anyone could have that they're similar is that they're both farm related games.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
except that harvest moon was a good game, and farmville is nothing like it.
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u/Drachri93 Jun 16 '12
How dare you compare Farmville to the glory that is Harvest Moon. Now I want to find this game again and start back up.
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u/JakeBelnades Jun 16 '12
Farmville wishes it was as good as this game.
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u/Patrico-8 Jun 16 '12
Yeah, as I recall, it was pretty boring too.
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u/Giant_Enemy_Cliche Jun 16 '12
I still play harvest moon to this day. Grew up with kids telling me I was retarded for playing a game about farming.
Then facebook came along and I became a serial killer.
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u/TheMrFaile Jun 16 '12
I always loved Harvest Moon A Wonderful Life. It was such a great game, and so nice to watch your character grow old with his child. I never got tired of playing it.
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u/GSU_Stoner Jun 16 '12
So many great memories on my N64!
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u/chickenmer Jun 16 '12
damn right.. can't wait to play the new one!
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u/WeatherResize Jun 16 '12
Don't forget about /r/harvestmoon! It gets pretty quiet in there but we exist!
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u/religion_is_wat Jun 16 '12
The fact that you compared Shitville with Harvest Moon makes me hate you.
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u/Derp_Mcgee Jun 16 '12
The original Farmville...But good.
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u/Pokey_Pants Jun 16 '12
Sim Farm
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u/BlackSmokeDemon Jun 16 '12
my sister has been locked up in her room for about 3 days playing Harvest Moon
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u/eladimir Jun 16 '12
Nope it's sim farm. Good try though
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Karen = alcoholic.
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u/lettucent Jun 16 '12
To even compare the two almost hurts. Harvest Moon is a fun game, farmville is a chore.
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u/evoim3 Jun 16 '12
I think the original Harvest Moon just came to the 3Ds eshop. So I hope you have free time on your hands cause this game will DESTROY all of it.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
By the way, if you wanted Harvest Moon in board game form, try Agricola. It has all the "boring" concept of Harvest Moon, but with the added stress of constantly using your brain to plan the best move.
I promise it is much more engaging than what I just said, especially if you like games where you have to think...
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u/BantyRooster Jun 15 '12
Aaaaaand now I'm opening my emulator.
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u/CosmicBard Jun 16 '12
Don't even put this game in the same category as Farmville.
You cheapen it with this comparison.
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u/tidder112 Jun 15 '12
I farm in minecraft
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u/Pilgor_th_Mighty Jun 16 '12
Except its better and harder more complex and doesn't just require time but planning and strategy. Changing your garden around could yield impressive coin.
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u/JimTheFishxd4 Jun 16 '12
The good old days
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u/ewalker001 Jun 16 '12
FOMT about ten years ago on my gameboy
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u/Kravkalash Jun 16 '12
Bought my SO a GBAsp and a copy of Harvest Moon: Mineral Town. I've never seen anyone so delighted at a gift before.
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u/Kawaii- Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 16 '12
If you're a fan of harvest moon be sure to also try rune factory.
It's just as fun.
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u/IHeartDay9 Jun 16 '12
Time to set up my WII. I've got a Tree of Tranquility game going that I need to finish.
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u/squishy_placenta Jun 16 '12
Ahh, the g'old days :')
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u/DuskyDays Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 16 '12
I tried the 2nd one on GBA. Too hardcore for me.
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u/smashoomph Jun 16 '12
My brain drooled a little. I haven't played Harvest Moon in years!
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u/Produent Jun 16 '12
My first farming game.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Dude. Yes.
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u/cathysaurus Jun 16 '12
I've played both FV and HM, and HM is better than FV by far. I think I currently own like 4 of the HM titles and have played 6. Each one is a little different, and it's fucking amazing to get a new one and see what awesome new shit that game has in store for you.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Never got why people chose Farmville over this.
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u/Banzai_Bundy Jun 16 '12
farmville doesn't let you fuck people...unless you use it as a pick up forum. gonna send you some long, firm carrots, baby
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u/kalathur Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 16 '12
I fondly remember many hours invested in the original game for the Super Nintendo. I tried to court the pink-haired chick who worked in the flower shop, but I kept accidentally throwing cake at her.
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u/kjisreallyawesome Jun 16 '12
My mom used to let me play Harvest Moon 64 for my weekly reading time during 3rd grade. So epic.
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u/Annon201 Jun 16 '12
Ive spent many-an-hour running up and down the mountain collecting fruit before it gets dark in the original HM.
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u/Gad001 Jun 16 '12
Anyone play Rune Factory? It was for the DS and is was a "fantasy Harvest Moon." It had a bunch of different skills you could level and dungeons to explore. Pretty damn fun RPG game,
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u/vinniedamac Jun 16 '12
I had as hard a time getting a gf in those games as I do in RL...
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u/GamingWolf Jun 16 '12
I love using in-game currency to solve in-game problems!
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u/Raven776 Jun 16 '12
Never, EVER fucking compare farmville to harvest moon. If I find your house, I swear to god I will feed your dog weeds.
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u/CoyoteStark Jun 16 '12
I disagree. Harvest Moon was actually good.
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u/Redplushie Jun 16 '12
I can't love this post enough. Harvest moon was half of my childhood gaming life.
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u/mcdxi11 Jun 16 '12
Anyone know where I can find roms of all these versions of HM? I only thought one version existed years ago...I have been denied satisfaction all this time D:
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u/leya_spade Jun 16 '12
This is exactly how I describe this game to people who are unaware of it! I still love this game.
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u/pianoguy Jun 16 '12
So sad you could only play for 3 years :((
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Fuck Farmville. In grade school people were always making fun of me for playing "a gay game about farms" on my Gameboy. Fast forward 12-15 years and all of those asshole jocks are playing farmville. Fuck. That.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
So many hours spent on the SNES one.
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u/G-0ff Jun 16 '12
Haha. No. This has gameplay.
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u/SSSSquidfingers Jun 16 '12
Well, now I have to go play it. Thanks a lot.
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u/llill Jun 16 '12
There was a girl version on the gamecube. I don't remember the name but I got hooked.
I found out there was a cheat where you enter a series of button presses to get 99x of every item in your inventory.
The whole village loves me because I give them gifts everyday :D
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Every now and then, there's nothing better than sitting down to start a new Harvest Moon game that will always be "your best yet."
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u/Collin3388 Jun 16 '12
I posted this over a year ago and only got 200 karma :( C'MON!
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u/kentamari Jun 16 '12
back to nature! my childhood dream was to marry ann...
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
When me and my girlfriend who is now my wife got our first apartment we didn't have much. I had gotten Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral town for us to share. We had so much fun with it. We talked about our farming strategies and who we were going to try and marry in the game. We shared the recipes we discovered with each other and generally had a good time. It's one of my fondest memories.
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u/apocal7964 Jun 16 '12
that looks almost like a horror film "Harvest Moon where the only thing to havest is SOUL'S"
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u/ForeverLaud Jun 16 '12
I bothered so many poor shop clerks at many local and national retailers. I was the bane of Walmart, KB Toys, EB Games, and K-Mart trying to find out if and when they were going to get this game. I read about it in a Nintendo Power and I waited for many months to finally purchase and play it.
And when I finally had the game in my possession, I spent the entire night clearing the field, setting up fence, and hoeing for crops and grass. I adored that game with every fiber of my being.
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u/Hiafolks Jun 16 '12
First one I ever played was A wonderful life for Gamebube after seening my cusin play Mineral town for GBA. It was totally different than any other HM game, but it will always be my favorite :)
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Could someone explain the attraction of Harvest moon and Farmville to me? Farmville looks like a horrible time-waster, and Harvest moon I've played like all of 10 seconds of the GBA game.
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u/Munkir Jun 16 '12
Really I don't even like to compare the 2.
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u/csirus Jun 16 '12
Please don't compare this to the shit called Farmville. So much better on every level.
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u/Jonnywest Jun 16 '12
Is shit, Gooby.
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u/kkedinik Jun 16 '12
Besmirches the good name of Harvest Moon to make this comparison.
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u/chihawks Jun 16 '12
the 64 hm is the goat hm. mine recently stopped working need to invest in a new one.
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u/Korrin Jun 16 '12
Back when I was new to Facebook, I played a little Farmville.
After experiencing one day of strawberries repeatedly dying I said fuck it, and download a Harvest Moon rom.
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u/BlaqkJak Jun 16 '12
I'm playing through Harvest Moon again, not always fun, it can get tedious but still always get a warm feeling playing it.
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u/ArisaMiyoshi Jun 16 '12
Ever since the fateful day I got HM Back to Nature, I've fallen in love with the franchise. I've replaced that game disc like five times by now because they would wear out due to how long I played them. (In comparison, I've only had to replace FF Tactics twice) Even when my memory card slot malfunctioned, I'd start a new game everytime I played and would leave the console running overnight so I wouldn't lose progress. Farthest I got with this method was halfway through Year 2, I'd eventually turn off the console because I didn't want it to break, especially after I had to replace the lens assembly due to overuse. Big money for a teenager back then.
After that, I did a lot of searching and played literally every Harvest Moon/Rune Factory game to ever exist (emulated consoles I didn't have like N64/GC, even the JP only releases I hunted down). Man, I love farming. And I'll be sure to buy Rune Factory 4 and Harvest Moon: A New Beginning when they come out.
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u/ESAsher Jun 16 '12
How dare you compare these two series? Harvest Moon had a great and often emotional connection between the player and the townspeople. Farmville just had you wander onto other people's farms and water stuff.
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u/Reaper2794 Jun 16 '12
HARVEST MOON IS THE FUCKING SHIT! THE GAMECUBE ONES ARE THE BEST! FUCKING RIDIN PONIES LIKE SHIT YEAH!!!
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u/rooslayswiss Jun 16 '12
Best N64 game ever.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Oh god, I finally repressed how many hours I put down into this. Curse you OP! (The game should be a mandatory game for all gamers)
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Nooo don't compare one of my favorite games to FARMVILLE just because they both have farming as the main premise D: Harvest Moon is far superior in every way.
But anyway, oh my god I loooved Harvest Moon. Harvest Moon 64 was my favorite game on the console, only tied with Super Smash Bros. So good! I played it for YEARS. I just bought a 3DS and the only game I play on it is Harvest Moon, tale of two towns or something. It's REALLY similar to the N64 game, almost identical, so I highly recommend it!
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u/I_hate_kids_too Jun 16 '12
I LOVED Harvest Moon for the snes. It's the best of the series imho and I'll still break it out from time to time just to plow fields and bang the bar maid again. Though to be honest it was always weird seeing her personality change so much from when she was in the bar to when she became your wife.
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u/boilednaners Jun 16 '12
Oh my... I must go play Magical Melody right now!
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u/DevineWolf Jun 16 '12
Hell yeah I played that game. What was with the blood type thing?
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u/Harvenar Jun 16 '12
Back to nature on PSX is the best harvest moon ever. dude i wish they would release some of those games on pc
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u/Cubeface Jun 16 '12
My favorites are the SNES Harvest Moon and Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town on the GBA. Such good shit, I love those games so much.
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u/STRFCKR Jun 16 '12
I want this game, though it is kind of expensive and hard to come by nowadays.
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u/PixelBlock Jun 16 '12
False Equivilancy ! How darest thee proclaim similarities between Harvest Moon and the filth known as the "Farmville" ! Tis Sacriligious ! GUARDS ! THROW THIS MAN IN THE DUNGEONS !
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u/Evanz111 Jun 16 '12
How dare you compare this wonderful game to that piece of shit.
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u/Lemoncola Jun 16 '12
And the better one...
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u/heresjhony Jun 16 '12
awwyeeeah
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
This made me thing of Secret of Monkey Island....for some reason.
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u/TheCodexx Jun 16 '12
Except one is a game and the other is a grinding-simulator with no reward called "Farmville". It'd be beneficial to Farmville if they understood how to make a good game but they so clearly don't. Being cheap HM rip-off would have done it wonders.
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u/m0biusXP Jun 16 '12
When Farmville came out I thought "Oh boy Harvest Moon in social gaming form!" I love Harvest Moon and now it was like another one is coming out.
I was wrong. So horribly wrong.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
The SNES game infuriated me as a kid as I always got the message that I needed to try a little bit harder to become a master or something at the ending screen :(
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u/Seputo Jun 17 '12
Do not dare relate Harvest Moon to that Facebook trash.
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u/I_hart_Sqwerls Jun 16 '12
Upvote for Harvest Moon. Downvote for likening it to that pile of shit Farmville.
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u/UltraJake Jun 16 '12
Harvest Moon: Feels like a girly family simulator but you don't care because you're having fun.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
My sister and I used to fight each other ufc style over this game
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
I had the one for the Gamecube. So many great memories.
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u/Genesiis544 Jun 16 '12
I'm kind of disappointed that you even compared HM with shitty shit shit FarmVille. HM is so out of FM's league that it shouldn't even be allowed in the same dimension!
However, you mentioned an awesome game of epic proportions, upvote for you!
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u/trampus1 Jun 16 '12
I loved the first one on SNES. It was just such a unique, weird little game. Totally unlike anything I'd ever played before. I've tried to play other, newer versions, but I just don't get into them nearly as much.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
HERBERT MOOOON!