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 On 02/01/2018 at 10:19 AM by Matt Snee See More From This User » |
Put on your BaD-O-Vision goggles, ladies and gents, cause it's that yearly time of BaD again! Woohoo! This year I plan to various series of blogs based on some ideas I have, and my first series is "Gaming Under the Influence," where I regal you with tales of inebriation and hallucination!
When I was in high school, I did a lot of drugs. Not the best time for such experimentation, but not the worst either. Anyway, I sacrificed my soul to the three pillars of Fucked-Upness - alcohol, weed, and hallucinogens. Sometimes by themselves, and sometimes all together!
While I played a lot of damn games when I was a kid, once I was about sixteen that puttered out. I was into girls, drugs, and music mostly. There was the occasional gaming, like Street Fighter or Madden with friends, but mostly this hobby fell by the wayside. Instead, my friend and I fucked ourselves up.
However, there was some instances. One night, a school night no less, I had a terrible idea – I would take all six hits of LSD I had been saving for my friend and I for the weekend. Yes, I did it. And it was insane.
During this night, I did turn on my Sega Genesis and powered up Sonic and Knuckles. You might not think such a game could be especially psychedelic at first, but once you load up the first screen and see the dancing mushrooms and pattern-based robots, you’ll see you were wrong!
I think we forget sometimes what the experience was like back then, with the colored light streaming out of our analog tube TV’s. Was the color warmer than now? I don’t know. It had a certain look though that LED screens don’t have. My eyes basked in the glow of the pretty colors as I ran through the level, which switched from spring, to summer, to fall, before I faced the boss.
Sure, it’s an easy boss, but I don’t remember if I bested him that night. Maybe I got distracted, I don’t know. I just remember the earlier parts of that forest level, and how it changed seasons, and its beauty.
It’s funny – that was so long ago now, and while I keep it as a memory, it’s hard for me to believe it was really me. So much has happened, and technology has changed to such a degree, that those days almost seem farfetched.
But regardless, they did happen, and I was fucked up on LSD at the time. ??
I mean, I'm sure it was brighter on LSD, but I get supremely annoyed with the gamma settings on modern games. Fuck you, icon I can barely see that always makes the game too dark if I follow instructions. I prefer gaming with a light on in the room and the developers' suggestions about a good brightness setting are insane to me.
I actually get a warm feeling when I see news footage I can tell is from the 90s. Something about things that came from my childhood ...
Yeah my eyes arent so good so i know what u mean.
I get nostalgic for the nineties too. I was older than you but it was still my formative time.
Hot damn dude six hits sounds like a lot.
I kind of miss the look of games on a tube screen. There was something about it, it wasn't super clear like it was today but back then just seeing the jump in how good the graphics looked from previous generation was mind blowing. Hell having a Game Gear and realizing that the graphics on that hand held looked just as good as what was on the NES was amazing.
I had a game gear too. Goddamn battery vampire.
LCD screens tend towards cooler light I believe. Plus you have a higher color gamut in a lot of those older 2D games.
Im not sure what it was but the light had more... life to it.
Games tend to just not be as colorful these days, especially last gen. Things are getting better like [insert shameless Gravity Rush 2 plug 'cause everybody should play that game]. I find being on drugs necessary for life...and by drugs I mean caffeine (which is a drug, technically). Being a parent is exhausting 
I drink a lot of coffee and smoke a lot of cigs these days. Caffeine is great but nicotine is a bit insidious.
Have you ever thought about vaping? Cigarettes are just so bad for you...
I know... I'm gonna make a serious effort to quit again soon....
I can only imagine what Sonic is like on LSD. Did Sonic like fly off the screen and around the room and stuff?
Hmmm, maybe if i had eaten a ounce of mushrooms.
I've never had a desire to do drugs or even smoke. Heck, I don't even like drinking that much. But mainly because it all tastes awful to me. But then, soda tastes bad to me most of the time. I usually just drink water. I'm very boring.
Boring is relative my friend!
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