Lunar fan from old-time
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 3:28 am
Hey, you, guys! It's me VidKid369! I used to post at the old-time Althena's Court Online, back when America Online (AOL) was made or mainly popular! I used to visit you guys everyday at the board almost all the time! I made, I thought, I felt I ended up making a lot of friends there! We mainly RP'ed/or, role-played a lot of the characters and it was super fun with all the colored account profiles and rolling dice and things of that nature. I was still very, fairly young at that point in time so most of my RP's mainly involved me going into a "Black Raven's Guild ~Pub" and going up to the barkeep's countertop-side and ordering a glass of milk and sitting at a nearby barrel that was next to the wall! Haha, old-times! But, anyway, that's besides the point. I just mainly wanted to say, "hi", again, and to bring up the subject of Lunar.
I remember it was back in Middle School where I first got the Internet, and I somehow, randomly started to search for the subject or the topic of, "Videogames", in the Forums search feature and I made my way to the Antagonists forums where a lot of people, kids, and posters mainly conglomerated or hanged out, or just plain hung out there together! I just thought they were all busy-bodies, though! Haha. There was also another forum that was linked to there called the Moogle Caverns, but, I wasn't that totally interested in it, really. But, I searched through the forums and I found my way to ACO (or, "Althena's Court Online"), where a lot of the Lunar fans and fanatics mainly hung out. I wasn't that too into the game I thought it was really long but I ended up going online, and signing online much mainly pretty much everyday and saying "hi" to all of y'all and it was really a pleasant experience for or from my part. Just talking to you guys made me love the game that much more!
I think a few of you all helped me with LUNAR: Silver Star Story Complete. I had a ton of questions and I'd ask you guys on AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), sometimes! You all were really quite helpful in that department in that regard! I didn't know if I was being annoying but I asked anyway, - Haha!
Anyway, to make the long story short. I was told that I should get Lunar: The Silver Star for the Sega Cd. It was really hard for me to find one in real life. I ended up finding this one website called something like, "VideoGameTradez", where you could trade game-for-game and I had traded Final Fantasy III Complete-In-Box-Perfectly-Mint-Condition for a same, like-wise Lunar: The Silver Star for the Sega Cd. The bro I had talked to was really nice as we had only wanted perfect, mint-conditions of each one of the games we had wanted. Anyway, I received the game in the UPS/USPS about a week or so later. I didn't know that you had to have a Sega Cd in order to play the game, and since I didn't have one yet, my Mother/My Mom and I had to go videogame console hunting for yet another piece of paraphernalia I had wanted. Since I couldn't play the game, I just popped it into my CD Player which was a blue Discman that was flat and I just mainly, "played", the game that way!
I ended up moving to a new High School the following summer of that year around (This was in the year 1999.) and there I had found a shop that sold videogames that were really old called, "Game Crazy". I saw that they had a Sega Cd I think it was Model-Type-1 on display so I urged my Mom to go buy me one. We bought it. I ended up talking to some of the sales associates since they were always seen busily cleaning and repairing the old consoles/machines, but, when I brought it home, I plugged it in and it exploded so I returned it but they had a crazy return policy where they won't refund your money back with cash but they did ended up giving me two Sega Saturn Games. I think it was Nights... Into Dreams and Guardian Heroes or something like that. Maybe it was Nightwarriors/Darkstalkers Revenge. So, I ended up still having to wait to play Lunar.
I had forgotten about this endeavor.
Fast-forward to the year 2011. I had just gotten out of the hospital they told me I had food poisoning and I was browsing online and saw that they had a Sega Cd Model 2 for used at around $80.00, American. I quickly bought it since I had forgotten about this endeavor and that I was wanting to play this game. It arrived in the Post Office and the box was too big to be delivered to My Parents' House at the time so I had to go walk there to get it or to retrieve it myself. It was an endeavor, or - It was a hassle. I popped in, - I quickly popped in Lunar which was sitting in my collection for years and it worked and I played it. I also ended up buying Lunar 2 for the Sega Cd and I played it too as well but I'll talk about that elsewhere since it's off topic for this sub-forum.
Anyway, I just mainly wanted to say, "hi", again and that yes I have finally gotten to play Lunar for the Sega Cd after so many years of wanting to, finally! Fast-forward to now.
Well, the Sega-Cd-Model-Type 2 ended acting up so it started to not work again anymore. I couldn't really play Lunar. It's been about 6 years since I've played it.
I ended up moving with My Parents elsewhere and here I have an Uncle I've never met before who's really solidly into construction or electronics or something and I had asked my Dad to ask him over the dinner table to if he can please fix the Sega Cd. He said he'll take a look at it and over the past weekend or something I watched him as he took a look at it.
I showed it to him and he said, "[He'd] never seen anything like that before." He thought it was mostly just dust at first. We have transformers here because the electricity is a lot more stronger but he said he'll look at it again over the weekend when if he had time. So I waited. And, waited. And waited. He finally got around to fixing it. Do you all know what the problem was? It was the ends of the wires that were loose and cut up on the inside of the plastic that was holding it in together in place. He opened it up with my permission. He ended up soldering the ends-pieces together and he used a glue gun to make a new end-piece to where you stick it into the actual machine. And he used electrical tape to hold it in together even more. It worked on his tester T.V. so we tried it on my T.V. and after fidgeting with the wires it ended up working brand as spanking new! I'm currently playing Lunar: The Silver Star right now, too! I just arrived in Meribia.
Anyway, I tried to make that as short as possible but I hope you all enjoyed the story. I just wanted to say, "hi", again and tell you all that I'm still playing Lunar. I'm on my second run of the first game right now and I just got the Flame spell for Alex and I'm just about to make it down into the sewers. Haha!
I remember it was back in Middle School where I first got the Internet, and I somehow, randomly started to search for the subject or the topic of, "Videogames", in the Forums search feature and I made my way to the Antagonists forums where a lot of people, kids, and posters mainly conglomerated or hanged out, or just plain hung out there together! I just thought they were all busy-bodies, though! Haha. There was also another forum that was linked to there called the Moogle Caverns, but, I wasn't that totally interested in it, really. But, I searched through the forums and I found my way to ACO (or, "Althena's Court Online"), where a lot of the Lunar fans and fanatics mainly hung out. I wasn't that too into the game I thought it was really long but I ended up going online, and signing online much mainly pretty much everyday and saying "hi" to all of y'all and it was really a pleasant experience for or from my part. Just talking to you guys made me love the game that much more!
I think a few of you all helped me with LUNAR: Silver Star Story Complete. I had a ton of questions and I'd ask you guys on AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), sometimes! You all were really quite helpful in that department in that regard! I didn't know if I was being annoying but I asked anyway, - Haha!
Anyway, to make the long story short. I was told that I should get Lunar: The Silver Star for the Sega Cd. It was really hard for me to find one in real life. I ended up finding this one website called something like, "VideoGameTradez", where you could trade game-for-game and I had traded Final Fantasy III Complete-In-Box-Perfectly-Mint-Condition for a same, like-wise Lunar: The Silver Star for the Sega Cd. The bro I had talked to was really nice as we had only wanted perfect, mint-conditions of each one of the games we had wanted. Anyway, I received the game in the UPS/USPS about a week or so later. I didn't know that you had to have a Sega Cd in order to play the game, and since I didn't have one yet, my Mother/My Mom and I had to go videogame console hunting for yet another piece of paraphernalia I had wanted. Since I couldn't play the game, I just popped it into my CD Player which was a blue Discman that was flat and I just mainly, "played", the game that way!
I ended up moving to a new High School the following summer of that year around (This was in the year 1999.) and there I had found a shop that sold videogames that were really old called, "Game Crazy". I saw that they had a Sega Cd I think it was Model-Type-1 on display so I urged my Mom to go buy me one. We bought it. I ended up talking to some of the sales associates since they were always seen busily cleaning and repairing the old consoles/machines, but, when I brought it home, I plugged it in and it exploded so I returned it but they had a crazy return policy where they won't refund your money back with cash but they did ended up giving me two Sega Saturn Games. I think it was Nights... Into Dreams and Guardian Heroes or something like that. Maybe it was Nightwarriors/Darkstalkers Revenge. So, I ended up still having to wait to play Lunar.
I had forgotten about this endeavor.
Fast-forward to the year 2011. I had just gotten out of the hospital they told me I had food poisoning and I was browsing online and saw that they had a Sega Cd Model 2 for used at around $80.00, American. I quickly bought it since I had forgotten about this endeavor and that I was wanting to play this game. It arrived in the Post Office and the box was too big to be delivered to My Parents' House at the time so I had to go walk there to get it or to retrieve it myself. It was an endeavor, or - It was a hassle. I popped in, - I quickly popped in Lunar which was sitting in my collection for years and it worked and I played it. I also ended up buying Lunar 2 for the Sega Cd and I played it too as well but I'll talk about that elsewhere since it's off topic for this sub-forum.
Anyway, I just mainly wanted to say, "hi", again and that yes I have finally gotten to play Lunar for the Sega Cd after so many years of wanting to, finally! Fast-forward to now.
Well, the Sega-Cd-Model-Type 2 ended acting up so it started to not work again anymore. I couldn't really play Lunar. It's been about 6 years since I've played it.
I ended up moving with My Parents elsewhere and here I have an Uncle I've never met before who's really solidly into construction or electronics or something and I had asked my Dad to ask him over the dinner table to if he can please fix the Sega Cd. He said he'll take a look at it and over the past weekend or something I watched him as he took a look at it.
I showed it to him and he said, "[He'd] never seen anything like that before." He thought it was mostly just dust at first. We have transformers here because the electricity is a lot more stronger but he said he'll look at it again over the weekend when if he had time. So I waited. And, waited. And waited. He finally got around to fixing it. Do you all know what the problem was? It was the ends of the wires that were loose and cut up on the inside of the plastic that was holding it in together in place. He opened it up with my permission. He ended up soldering the ends-pieces together and he used a glue gun to make a new end-piece to where you stick it into the actual machine. And he used electrical tape to hold it in together even more. It worked on his tester T.V. so we tried it on my T.V. and after fidgeting with the wires it ended up working brand as spanking new! I'm currently playing Lunar: The Silver Star right now, too! I just arrived in Meribia.
Anyway, I tried to make that as short as possible but I hope you all enjoyed the story. I just wanted to say, "hi", again and tell you all that I'm still playing Lunar. I'm on my second run of the first game right now and I just got the Flame spell for Alex and I'm just about to make it down into the sewers. Haha!