Posted: 3/21/2024 5:11 PM
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BigBoyAdvance
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Do you have any vivid memories from your early childhood (below 5yo) that aren't fully real? As in, most of the memories are accurate to reality, but they are mixed with some memories that are not real? I have some fake memories related to video games. When I was around 2-3, my parents bought me a bootleg NES console. A vast majority of my memories of playing those games are genuine. I can replay those games today and I find no discrepancies with my memories of them. However... there are 2 games where my memories are very wrong, despite me feeling very confident about them. When I played the NES Spiderman, I clearly remember fighting a giant robotic spider boss at the end of the game. However, there is no such enemy in that game. There is no such villain in the entire Spiderman franchise even. Another game I remember spending dozens of hours playing, is a futuristic bike racing game. My vehicle was on the left side of the screen, and the screen would scroll sideways to give the illusion of movement. I could steer the car up and down to switch between lanes, and maybe even left and right to avoid obstacles. I loved playing that game, and I tried looking it up numerous times online. I don't remember the name of that game, and I searched through the entire library of NES games and bootlegs, and couldn't find it. My memories of that game are warped beyond reality, and I'm not sure if it even exists. It's all very strange, considering that my memories of dozens of other NES games are so accurate. I don't believe my bootleg NES console was capable of playing non-NES games, and I pretty much exhausted the entire NES library looking for the 2nd game. Anyways, this has always made me feel a range of complicated ways. Nostalgia is great and all, but I just feel a great sense of loss knowing that not all of my memories are real. As if I'm trying to grasp something that's in front of me that's very nostalgic, but it's just an illusion. I can't really come to terms with it.
Posted: 3/21/2024 5:53 PM
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CoolHandMike
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Memory is inherently unreliable. https://theconversation.com/are-memories-reliable-expert-explains-how-they-change-more-than-we-realise-106461
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Posted: 4/20/2024 5:57 PM
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KennyMan666
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That second one makes me think of Seicross, you really sure that's not it?
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Posted: 4/20/2024 6:33 PM
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BigBoyAdvance
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KennyMan666 wrote:
That second one makes me think of Seicross, you really sure that's not it?
Hard to say. It ticks some boxes for the gameplay, but it doesn't look familiar visually to me.
Posted: 4/20/2024 8:53 PM
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This isn't really related, but sometimes when I'm dreaming about a videogame, the game looks nothing like it actually does in real life
Posted: 5/29/2024 4:15 PM
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I was 10 or 11 and playing a bunch of Goldeneye. I vividly remember playing through Dam with my best friend. After the tunnel, before the security door with the truck, I hugged the left wall as always. The enemy hiding behind the metal boxes fired as normal. Using the AK, I blew off both of his arms. A special dying animation of him wriggling around as he slowly sunk to his knees and died played. No shooting blood, just the normal looking rash, with no detached arms or anything on the ground. To this day I do not remember this as a dream, but an actual event that happened. Indeed, 20 years ago I would have bet my life on it. I know now, of course, that it is impossible to shoot off a person's arms in Goldeneye, and I played the game enough to vividly dream about it.
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