Staff Blog: BaD - Gaming Under the Influence #4

BaD - Gaming Under the Influence #4

On 02/07/2018 at 09:47 PM by Matt Snee

Our next inebriated adventure takes place in 1998/1999 when I was living with Gregg in a shithole apartment south of San Francisco during the Dot Com boom. I wasn't doing a lot of drugs then, but we would go out and drink, and when we came back we would play Smash Bros on the N64 all night.

I think that was the first iteration of Smash, and it was a revelation. So fucking fun. And conducive to drunkeness. One time we had friends visiting and we stayed up all night walloping on each other, until Gregg (who is Jewish) made us Latkas, or potatoe pancakes, and we ate them with ketchup and Sriracha. Yum.

There was another "Gaming Under the Influence" moment around this time, where I was all fucked up on Dayquil and hooked up Gregg's Commodore 64 and played Maniac Mansion. He had figured out on the internet how to solder a device to connect the C64 to a modern hard drive and download games off the internet, so we had everything. But man, those C64 load times, you don't even know, man! I would just stare out into space, my grandma's knitted afghan blanket covering my cold legs.

Tune in tomorrow when we get stoned again!

KnightDriver

02/07/2018 at 10:28 PM

C64 in '99 hooked up like that. Wow. I can only imagine the load times. I'll never complain about XBO installs again. Well, I probably will anyway.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

02/10/2018 at 01:06 AM

it was kinda fun.

SanAndreas

02/07/2018 at 11:20 PM

That was pretty neat. Now they have emulators for all those old computers. I have emulators for TRS-80, Atari XL//XE, and TI-99/4A, which were the computers we had when I was a kid before I got my first IBM-compatible PC with MS-DOS.

I had a TI-99! That computer ruled!

Super Step Contributing Writer

02/07/2018 at 11:34 PM

Drunk smash is just asking for real life fights.

02/10/2018 at 01:05 AM

nah, we were too drunk to stand at that point...

goaztecs

02/08/2018 at 11:04 PM

I remember playing Smash with my cousins and wondering how the hell do you win at this game and why was I getting beat by little kids. Years later when I bought the Playstation version I kind of had an understanding.

South San Francisco. There's this spot I ate at one called Garden Club. Very mom and pop where everyone was drunk, the service was decent, presentation wasn't great, but damn the food was good. Did I mention everyone there was drunk?

02/10/2018 at 12:56 AM

South San Francisco is weird, dude.

02/11/2018 at 06:46 PM

I always thought the entire city was a bit odd. Super expensive meets hippie meets really dirty portions. I do like the weather.

02/11/2018 at 07:24 PM

It can be pretty. Not like it used to be.

Nicoleb1989

02/10/2018 at 12:01 AM

I played Smash Bros with my sister and we would honestly tear each other apart. Maybe that's why our bond is so strong today, we didnt let Smash kill us,lol.

02/10/2018 at 12:55 AM

ever play that game Risk with people you love? Bad idea. :)

02/10/2018 at 08:43 AM

No, and my dad tried to get us too,lol. Walked away from that trap,lol

PixlBit

BaD - Gaming Under the Influence #4

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