Post by yunggoth27 on May 2, 2020 19:43:16 GMT
it was around the time the DS Lite came out. My parents gifted it to my big brother and this was how we got introduced to several of Nintendo's principal franchises. We previously owned a PS1, so I was completely unfamiliar with characters such as the Marios brothers, Link, etc. This is when my love for videogames really flourished.
Then again, the DS Lite technically belonged to my brother so I rarely had the chance to play. Most of the time i just observed.
Probably a year went by of me constantly asking my parents for a console of my own when they finally accepted. They told me my cousin had agreed to pass down his console to me as he was getting a new one. At the time, my cousin owned both the game boy advanced and the original Nintendo DS, so when my parents told me![]()
i was getting his console, I was convinced they were talking about the latter.
I was
immensely disappointed when my cousin handed me the Game Boy Advance and its accessories, but at the end of the day i was finally getting a console of my own so i had no right to complain (i still did tho).
Here's a picture of the gameboy advance i got, which i still keep to this day: imgur.com/RU5TS9I
My cousin had a lot of games for the Game Boy Advance, but he decided to keep them all thanks to the Nintendo DS Lite backwards compatibility feature, except for one.
It was a simple platformer, black and white and pretty rudimentary. I'm pretty convinced it had Mario (yes, the plumber) as the main character riding dinosaurs/dragons kind of sprites in order to access areas or to fight enemies that otherwise you weren't able to defeat. There were several types of creatures with different abilities and you were able to hop out of one into another. There were also a gems you could collect all over the map (imitating Mario's coins).
That is pretty much all I'm able to recall right now, might try to update every time I remember something new. I was five or six when this happened, so i might have imagined some of the stuff I've described, but I'm really really sure it wasn't a dream.
I've tried to contact my cousin, but he is a movie director now so he's pretty busy all the time. We were never really close, so I don't think i will get a response from his soon. If I ever get one, I'll be sure to let you know.
I've done my basic research and I'm convinced this game was a bootleg, there's no way a game involving a major character such as Mario has been this difficult to find. I've seen this happen with Kirby Red Diamond, I'm just hoping someone else to come out and prove to my family I am not insane.
There's also the possibility of me being wrong about the main character. It may have nothing to do with the Mario franchise.
I know this is not a lot of information, I am just taking this off my chest. I don't really have a lot of hope.
Thanks for your time
PD: The
cartridge had no sticker on it, that's why I'm pretty convinced it was a bootleg
xtremeretro.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Nintendo-Game-Boy-Advance-GBA-Cartuchos-Pixel-Art-Xtreme-Retro.png
This all took place in Mexico, 2007 aprox
Then again, the DS Lite technically belonged to my brother so I rarely had the chance to play. Most of the time i just observed.
Probably a year went by of me constantly asking my parents for a console of my own when they finally accepted. They told me my cousin had agreed to pass down his console to me as he was getting a new one. At the time, my cousin owned both the game boy advanced and the original Nintendo DS, so when my parents told me
i was getting his console, I was convinced they were talking about the latter.I was
immensely disappointed when my cousin handed me the Game Boy Advance and its accessories, but at the end of the day i was finally getting a console of my own so i had no right to complain (i still did tho).
Here's a picture of the gameboy advance i got, which i still keep to this day: imgur.com/RU5TS9I
My cousin had a lot of games for the Game Boy Advance, but he decided to keep them all thanks to the Nintendo DS Lite backwards compatibility feature, except for one.
It was a simple platformer, black and white and pretty rudimentary. I'm pretty convinced it had Mario (yes, the plumber) as the main character riding dinosaurs/dragons kind of sprites in order to access areas or to fight enemies that otherwise you weren't able to defeat. There were several types of creatures with different abilities and you were able to hop out of one into another. There were also a gems you could collect all over the map (imitating Mario's coins).
That is pretty much all I'm able to recall right now, might try to update every time I remember something new. I was five or six when this happened, so i might have imagined some of the stuff I've described, but I'm really really sure it wasn't a dream.
I've tried to contact my cousin, but he is a movie director now so he's pretty busy all the time. We were never really close, so I don't think i will get a response from his soon. If I ever get one, I'll be sure to let you know.
I've done my basic research and I'm convinced this game was a bootleg, there's no way a game involving a major character such as Mario has been this difficult to find. I've seen this happen with Kirby Red Diamond, I'm just hoping someone else to come out and prove to my family I am not insane.
There's also the possibility of me being wrong about the main character. It may have nothing to do with the Mario franchise.
I know this is not a lot of information, I am just taking this off my chest. I don't really have a lot of hope.
Thanks for your time
PD: The
cartridge had no sticker on it, that's why I'm pretty convinced it was a bootleg
xtremeretro.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Nintendo-Game-Boy-Advance-GBA-Cartuchos-Pixel-Art-Xtreme-Retro.png
This all took place in Mexico, 2007 aprox
