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Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by AZControversial:
smiley

Hmmm....
This brings back sweet memories....

I would start and finish Mario over and over.....

My reflexes on Duck hunt was super until the birds were moving at incomprehensible speeds....

Contra.....

Double dragon was my favorite....
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by akpumping7720(m): 11:28am On Sep 05, 2025
Boya lo ma de le. Ibi lo ma ku si.
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by CorperKola:
TyroneP:
I bought the my console way back then for N1,800 and the next console for N2,500.
I remember buying this stuff like 5 times sometimes in different forms over 15 years back then at different prices too obviously
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by onyxo76(m): 11:30am On Sep 05, 2025
Rapmoney:
I just stumbled on the Super Mario Bros game that was first released in 1985. Fond memories. I used my saved pocket money to buy the Terminator Game Console that we used in playing Super Mario and other games like Contra, Duck Hunt and Mortal Kombat.

I literally trekked to school for a long time just to save N850 which I used to purchase the game. This was in 1996. My house became a theatre, always filled with friends until Popsy seized the game and asked me to concentrate on my books. If you get this game console that year, you be sabi pikin.

How many of you saw the princess at the end in Super Mario?
lol...those were the times I even had an atari console with 100+ games in built then before getting this one after...the 80s and 90s were just fun...play game, table soccer with cassette and coke cover etc, wetin we no do then?
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by Kolocqua: 11:30am On Sep 05, 2025
Mario game was not in d 80's, it was in d mid 90's bro
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by Preator: 11:31am On Sep 05, 2025
Mendelssohn:
I still played it yesternight. Same one I bought in 1995. 43 years old man o. Emi boda agbaya grin
Chei. Do u av an idea if this is available anywhere in lagos?
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by Preator: 11:32am On Sep 05, 2025
Kolocqua:
Mario game was not in d 80's, it was in d mid 90's bro
He said 80s and 90s kids. Not the year of playing
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by D00msDay(m): 11:32am On Sep 05, 2025
Danielwhisky:
The console is called 8bit
After 8bit comes Sega. grin grin
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by onyxo76(m): 11:34am On Sep 05, 2025
there was one commodore 64 or so around then as well, I think it was a 16bit.
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by laivwire(m): 11:37am On Sep 05, 2025
I had this. Also had the Nintendo 64, Family com, PS 1, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Vita, Gameboy DS.

This was before the Vcd times or when we switched to NFSMW on computer.
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by Tijani009: 11:41am On Sep 05, 2025
Powerbandooo:
850
You be big boy then o

In 2006, my transport fare to school was #20
Pocket money was #60, my parent bought this game for us then, neighbour go come play
If them off light, dem come bring am back, if we dey far away from home, the speed we go take run come house ehh
Chai life was good then
I bought mine 2000 from a guy , he just acquired Sega , na my papa size the game till today I no know where him keep am , something parents do to kids are hurtful ooo I swear
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by Oblongata: 11:42am On Sep 05, 2025
ceejay80s:
Family com was first TV video game that arrived Nigeria back then,
There was no AV cable then, just TV out to tv in cable , then search on tv tuner,
There used to be a game house at ojuelegba in the 90s called UNDER GROUND, where we played arcade games street fighter mortal combat and the car race, back then game dey sweet to play while standing,
Police no let us rest there then
We also had Zoeys arcade centre at Allen avenue close to Chicken George.

In1996 I don’t think there was terminator console. We had nes, snes and famicom and sega. Terminator console was a copy of sega and famicom games and it came out in 98 (ps1 era).
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by kushme:
Nice one Mr Op. Sweet memories.
Played the following games then, only had a gameboy later wey my bro gave. But he used that game do shakara for me. I dey walker go Mega games that year Ikeja GRA just to play street fighter capcom, MK, KI on Arcade then. A coin was 10 or 20 naira. If you lose round one, round 2, your money don go. Aside, arcade, my friend's aunt bought him Nes, playstation and later Nintendo wii(for early 2000s), somehow those consoles dey spend some days for my house due to the extra tv wey dey our bedroom. grin

I sabi roll the joystick with bottons to hit combos, especially in Killer instinct.
I dey play console wella. Played sega but when i begin play Nintendo the british and American versions, enjoyed playing soccer deluxe on it, i begin dislike sega. Then playstation 1 came which i begin like that one, pes, enjoyed Donkey kong, mario kart on Nintendo 64. Kai Op you try.

Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by officialmario(m): 11:45am On Sep 05, 2025
Rapmoney:
I just stumbled on the Super Mario Bros game that was first released in 1985. Fond memories. I used my saved pocket money to buy the Terminator Game Console that we used in playing Super Mario and other games like Contra, Duck Hunt and Mortal Kombat.

I literally trekked to school for a long time just to save N850 which I used to purchase the game. This was in 1996. My house became a theatre, always filled with friends until Popsy seized the game and asked me to concentrate on my books. If you get this game console that year, you be sabi pikin.

How many of you saw the princess at the end in Super Mario?
My best game ever
Ofticialmario
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by djecstacy: 11:45am On Sep 05, 2025
Y’Alar Kung Fu. (Dunno if i got the spelling well), Tank Wars and Contra Force were my fave. 8 Bit. I’ll stay late after school in my friends house cos of this game. I finally got mine and friends were now visiting me. 🤣 😆
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by Demurray: 11:46am On Sep 05, 2025
The moment I read the headline, I knew that the op would be referring to Mario game.
Those days a few could afford it, those few used it as business, we used to pay.i even can't remember I how much.

Na so I go dey collect lives till I finish the game to go meet the queen

I remember one level that's so difficult to finish but with many lives , I pass the frog/ crocodile .

Later the game owner changed it, say na only 3 lives we go use, so we won't be able to stay long in the game before it came over.


Those day light plenty for Naija o


Good old days
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by Cigarini: 11:47am On Sep 05, 2025
Micro genuis...
Duck hunt
999 in 1
Good old days
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by Azzik: 11:47am On Sep 05, 2025
Rapmoney:
I just stumbled on the Super Mario Bros game that was first released in 1985. Fond memories. I used my saved pocket money to buy the Terminator Game Console that we used in playing Super Mario and other games like Contra, Duck Hunt and Mortal Kombat.

I literally trekked to school for a long time just to save N850 which I used to purchase the game. This was in 1996. My house became a theatre, always filled with friends until Popsy seized the game and asked me to concentrate on my books. If you get this game console that year, you be sabi pikin.

How many of you saw the princess at the end in Super Mario?
Kai this game na highest that year...my elder brother and I did save too to buy this Terminator game and same with Sega
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by Mirasteel: 11:47am On Sep 05, 2025
Sega mega drive, Crazy taxi.
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by deanoffaculty: 11:47am On Sep 05, 2025
Caaz:
My elder bro played this game those years,it was the ps4 of those days.
Nintendo game dey like hotcake back then.
I remember captain Majid, Mario and Luigi, super Mario Bros came after Mario. Also Tank wars, street fighter, mortal Kombat came after street fighter, ...this tomato game, can't remember the name.
Also Contra and super Contra. Contra was my favorite back then.....I love to dey Carry gun even till now 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by kayswag100(m): 11:50am On Sep 05, 2025
ceejay80s:
Family com was first TV video game that arrived Nigeria back then,
There was no AV cable then, just TV out to tv in cable , then search on tv tuner,
There used to be a game house at ojuelegba in the 90s called UNDER GROUND, where we played arcade games street fighter mortal combat and the car race, back then game dey sweet to play while standing,
Police no let us rest there then
Very very wrong about Familycom being the first.

Ever heard of Atari with joy sticks? I was rocking this back in early 90s.

There's also this stick-man video game that had knobs as pads (where you defend the ball against ur opponent) Cant remember the name. These were the eye-openers then b4 Familycom, sega and all
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by Creditalerts: 11:53am On Sep 05, 2025
Rapmoney:
I just stumbled on the Super Mario Bros game that was first released in 1985. Fond memories. I used my saved pocket money to buy the Terminator Game Console that we used in playing Super Mario and other games like Contra, Duck Hunt and Mortal Kombat.

I literally trekked to school for a long time just to save N850 which I used to purchase the game. This was in 1996. My house became a theatre, always filled with friends until Popsy seized the game and asked me to concentrate on my books. If you get this game console that year, you be sabi pikin.

How many of you saw the princess at the end in Super Mario?
this was luxury then u are a rich kid
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by ceejay80s(m): 11:55am On Sep 05, 2025
kayswag100:
Very very wrong about Familycom being the first.

Ever heard of Atari with joy sticks? I was rocking this back in early 90s.

There's also this stick-man video game that had knobs as pads (where you defend the ball against ur opponent) Cant remember the name. These were the eye-openers then b4 Familycom, sega and all
I owned game boy back then but I am talking about TV games not hand held games, u o play game reach me ooo back in the early and mid 90s,
Left and right games dey as we used to call them, brick game/Tetris dey, sega mega drive dey, Atari links dey
Guy I go bet my left blokos with u
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by Danielwhisky: 11:56am On Sep 05, 2025
D00msDay:
After 8bit comes Sega. grin grin
Iswearu God after sega, PS1
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by moshoodn(m): 11:58am On Sep 05, 2025
Stephen0mozzy:
Luxury became when Video CD Players also came with gamepads and 99+ games hehe.

Graphics that was weird yet they blow our young minds 😁
I loved to play "Contra". One of the best in the embedded 99+ games.
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by Biodun1929(m): 12:00pm On Sep 05, 2025
The console was also called Fammy Com. My neighbor had it back in the 90s. Me and my brothers had Atari, and then later, Sega Genesis. Great memories. On my Sega, my favorite games were Sonic, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, and Mortal Kombat. This was back in the early to mid 90s. We would play the game so much that the battery would get super hot, and then we would wrap in nylon and put in the freezer to cool it down. grin

I liked Mario, but not as much as I liked Sonic. I was a Sega fan to death, so I always stuck with Sonic, while Nintendo fans loved Mario.
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by traware(m): 12:06pm On Sep 05, 2025
Funnily enough,I watched a five minute speedrun of this game yesterday on youtube
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by Biodun1929(m): 12:06pm On Sep 05, 2025
Gbadugbakun:
I bought mine for 1k. It came with a gun which I used in playing duck hunt.

There were inbuilt games there like 1,500 games in 1. But most of them were repetitions. Mine had Olympics, Super Mario, car race, excite bike, duck hunt, soccer, wrestling and many more.
Lol @ the repeated games. I wonder what the concept behind that was. They will say 9,900 inbuilt games, but na only like 13 games dey inside grin
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by traware(m): 12:07pm On Sep 05, 2025
Biodun1929:
The console was also called Fammy Com. My neighbor had it back in the 90s. Me and my brothers had Atari, and then later, Sega Genesis. Great memories On my Sega, my favorite games were Sonic, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, and Mortal Kombat This was back in the early to mid 90s. We would play the game so much that the battery would get super hot, and then we would wrap in nylon and put in the freezer to cool it down. grin

I liked Mario, but not as much as I liked Sonic. I was a Sega fan to death, so I always stuck with Sonic, while Nintendo fans loved Mario.
Mine were Streets of Rage & Alien 3
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by Biodun1929(m): 12:08pm On Sep 05, 2025
ceejay80s:
Family com was first TV video game that arrived Nigeria back then,
There was no AV cable then, just TV out to tv in cable , then search on tv tuner,
There used to be a game house at ojuelegba in the 90s called UNDER GROUND, where we played arcade games street fighter mortal combat and the car race, back then game dey sweet to play while standing,
Police no let us rest there then
Atari was the first actually. We had Atari in my house in the very early 90s..maybe like.1990. Fammy Com flodded the market in like 93 upwards.
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by OriOko88(m): 12:08pm On Sep 05, 2025
Lol. I remember buying my first portable cassette radio player in 1998 for 800 naira.
Omohhh
Re: This Video Game Made Life Fun For 80s And 90s Kids (Throwback Photos) by trappatoni(m): 12:13pm On Sep 05, 2025
Finished the game like 4 times
Rapmoney:
I just stumbled on the Super Mario Bros game that was first released in 1985. Fond memories. I used my saved pocket money to buy the Terminator Game Console that we used in playing Super Mario and other games like Contra, Duck Hunt and Mortal Kombat.

I literally trekked to school for a long time just to save N850 which I used to purchase the game. This was in 1996. My house became a theatre, always filled with friends until Popsy seized the game and asked me to concentrate on my books. If you get this game console that year, you be sabi pikin.

How many of you saw the princess at the end in Super Mario?
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