how did you feel when you saw the box??

[Aqua.]

@Aqua: That was a REALLY long post. xD

@LS22: I was embarrassingly excited. Well, it would've been embarrassing, had I any inhibitions. I'm an obsessive fanatic of Kingdom Hearts, out and proud. :]

OO DID YA READ IT? D

 

[Nishia]

My history began 4 years ago more or less, in november 2006, I was at the videogame shop with my mum to buy a game for my birthday and I saw Kingdom Hearts I. I bought it and I beat the game in two weeks. Kingdom Hearts II was released in that year and for christmas my parents bought me KH2. I was so happy in that moment. I bet the game in a month because I would play more deeply and I was on holidays. I played CoM thanks to a friend of mine because I borrowed him the game. But the first game that I bought with my money was Days, the first day the game had released. Now, I'm waiting for 10th september for KHBBS.

 

[Silver_Soul]

my dad got me the game along with the super big strategy guide, I almost wet my pants when I saw it.

...then I spent the next three hours playing as roxas and was like eh :\

yeah my dad got me the same but with kh1

kh2 was a different story

i went to live to mexico

and everytime my parent went to the US

kh2 was on my list
heheh

i didnt even know when it was coming out

or any other detail about it

 

[Raiinu K.D.]

OO DID YA READ IT? D

...>>;...

No, sorry. <:3

*goes off to read it*

EDIT: Wow, lol! That's exactly what I did to my elder brother. xD We were both into it, and the more I got into it the more he got out of it, and nowadays he calls me a "NEEEERRRRD" whenever I do anything Kingdom Hearts related, and he HATES when I mention it, even telling me why: "I might like it more if you didn't talk about it every five seconds."

What a meanie. :[

But yeah, anyway your story was quite interesting xD

 

[Sephora]

Lolz this thread is like story time. *noms on milk & cookies*

Well, since everyone else is telling stories, lessee here... you have a choice because I have this habit of making ridiculously long posts. XD

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I was about 15, it was late at night and I was chit chatting to friends online, talking about various things and video games came up. My friend asked if I had ever played a game called Kingdom Hearts. I said no, then proceeded to explain why (I believe I called it a baby game. I was at that age when Disney was considered childish and "uncool" or some poo) then he was all :O you must play it!! then he started telling me about how it had this dark plot and such and that even though it had Disney worlds in it, the game was cool and it had Final Fantasy characters in it. I was intrigued. So the next day I took a stroll over to Blockbuster and went down the aisle and found this game with a ~dark and mysterious~ cover that had darkness and emoism (lolz new word) oozing off of it. I remember thinking (more like muttering quietly to myself) "Well this doesn't look like crap" and I believe I bought it (as opposed to renting it) then I briskly walked home and popped it in. Again I remember saying out loud to no one in particular "I really hope this game doesn't suck". And it was indeed a very good game! Many hours were devoted to vegetating infront of my tv battling heartless and the like. And eventually battling Rikunort again and again and again and again ... a quick break punctuated this seemingly endless failure due to a necessary trip to Best Buy to replace the controller I had just broke by tossing it in frustration ... and again and again and again... and about 40 tries later I moved on... and then it ended D: and there was sadness and even more sadness at the fairly unhappy ending.

But there was an emotastical ray of sunshine in my time of sadness. KH2 had already come out. So once more I made that ever so brisk walk to Blockbuster and again I walked down the familiar row of PS2 games, and this time I grabbed a silver box and my mind went "Ohhh shiney!" and I was momentarily distracted by the shiney cover. When I recovered, I made a hasty purchase (well, I rented it this time. I didn't buy it until my birthday a few months later, but I had the same reaction) and even hastier walk home. I popped that sucker in and soon after wanted to bash my head against the wall everytime someone said "Sora! Donald! Goofy!" (is this an official drinking game yet? or is it illegal due to the risk of alcohol poisoning?) Much button mashing later, I kicked Xemmy's ass, saved Riku and returned home. And the sadness of the game ending followed and the depression stayed because there were no more games to purchase. :'(

Many years passed (I think like 2) and I was in Gamestop one rainy night. I don't remember what I was looking for, but I didn't find it. But what I did find was *gasp* A KH game I did not already own. It was Re:CoM. Not only didn't I own it, but I wasn't even aware of it's existence so naturally I was confused when I saw it was already a Greatest Hit. So you can safely assume I bought it and played it and whatnot. Struggled with the damn card system, etc & so forth.

And then Days came out. I remember this day clearly. I skipped my math class (stay in school kids) and hopped on the train to Best Buy, where I marched purposefully over to the DS section and promptly circled it ten times because glasses or no, I am firetrucking blind and couldn't find it despite the fact that it was right in front of me. But there it was and I went HAJSHDKJASDAJD ROXAS!! AXEL!! ... WHO THE HELL IS THAT GIRL?!? BUT ZOMFGWTFBQQROFLCOPTER AKUROKUUUU! (No, I did NOT mutter this out loud. This was all mental jizzing) I snatched that sucker and then proceeded to circle the actual store ten times looking for a sales person so I could grab a DS. They circle you like vultures when you don't need them, but god forbid you do and they all firetrucking vanish like you have cooties. 2hrs and $170 later, I was playing it and I was happy and sad and all that stuff.

Short version:

KH1: "Well this doesn't look like crap"
KH2: OHHH SHINEY
Re:CoM: OMFG WHATS THIS? A KH GAME I DONT OWN! HAPPY TIMES ARE HERE AGAIN!!
Days: HAJSHDKJASDAJD ROXAS!! AXEL!! ... WHO THE HELL IS THAT GIRL?!? BUT ZOMFGWTFBQQROFLCOPTER AKUROKUUUU! WOO!

 

[gavinh2007]

My friend brought the game guide for KH2 in to school back in 2006 and I love Pirates of the Caribbean and I saw that world in the guide and just knew I had to get the game, so I asked my mum it for christmas, and she got me it and let me have it early because I couldn't wait to play on it.

 

[AlbertJ]

I was first introduced to KH in early 2003 when I was in 5th grade. I was watching G4 (back when G4 was actually about video games) and they had a show called Cheat and one episode was just Kingdom Hearts. After I watched it I knew I just had to get the game. My dad took me to Media Play (they dont exist anymore) and I bought it one night after my basketball practice. And I just could not stop playing it. I knew that I would never play another game this good. I bought CoM from that same store. And for KHII, my dad took me and my friend who also loved the game to the mall to buy it the day it came out. We both got the game and the deluxe strategy guide. So yeah, thats my story time haha

 

[Hamster Lord]

My bro bought the game. I got into it when he got to the RikuNort fight. And so he said "Keep the game paused and do not fight Riku!" and I was 5 and my temptation got to me. I would move 2 inches and pause and I did that over and over again and then finally I fought Riku and lost and got pissed off. So my bro came on home and flipped on me. But once he reached the End of the World part he said "Screw this it's gay!" and I beat Ansem SoD. Fun times...and I got really into the game and all.

Then the year later I found out about CoM and KHII. I got CoM for Christmas, but I never beat it. The case was really shiny though. And so that was my experience with CoM

Then in 2005 when the GameInformer came in the mail that had the exclusive 10 page sneak peak at KHII, I cut the pages out and made a little book out of them! And so I got the game the day it came out. The case blew me away. I was like "Who is the blond kid? And where is Riku?!" and I got the strategy guide too. After I got it we went to Pizza Hut and I kept saying "C'mon! Let's go home! I need to play this game!" and when I played it I stayed up till 3AM till my dad got pissed at me and said "Save it and turn it off. Good luck with school tomorrow." But I dealt with it. I beat the game four days later. On my original copy (I've had five copies of the game for various reasons) I had 200 hours of gameplay. It was that damn good.

So I heard about BbS, 358/2 Days, and coded. And then I heard about KHIIFM+ and how it had Re:CoM. I flipped out about Re:CoM. So I pre-ordered it and got the pre-order bonuses. I beat the game in a few days. I loved the cover. It was so damn shiny! But sadly my little sister's friend was jealous of how I had GameCube and PS2 so somehow he deleted all my files on both systems...and then I let a friend borrow the game and I haven't seen it since...

Anyway in 2008 I bought a DS. To this date I only have 1 game that works on the DS which is 358/2 Days. The cover was not shiny, I didn't get the guide, and I was heavily disappointed by the game. I beat it though.

I had a PSP before BbS was announced so I wasn't too excited about that (Now I am!) and so any 358/2 Days update to me was like a drug. I didn't really care much about coded, but I watched some gameplay footage on youtube. But now since were getting Re:coded the game looks awesome! Hopefully the cover is shiny. And hopefully BbS's cover will be shiny too.

KH has a special place in my heart and always will.

 

[denizenofevil]

My uncle bought KH1 and I went over to his place to play it. I was young back then so I couldn't get past Wonderland. I got bored and I didn't look at it again until he gave me his old PS2 (he bought a new game system) about 4 years later and I played it again. After I finished it (or rather, my sister finished it and I watched), my sister and I were so excited over the ending that we wanted to play a new KH because we heard that KH2 was released a few years ago. The next day, we went to Gamestop and bought it brand new. I seriously fell in love with the box art. Unfortunately, that PS2 had overheated the same day we finished up KH1 so the only time we were able to play before we got a new PS2 was when we drove to my uncle's house.

 

[State]

I was like Wow!! This looks sooo cool!! The characters, the background, everything!! I always check the back of the box and the manual just for a distraction until I get home... I was even more exited!!

 

[simple&cleanxiii]

Well, when I saw The Box, I thought that the original Twilight Zone episode was pulled off so much better B)

Anyways, I remember seeing the box and thinking the KH1 cover was so much better but being so excited that Roxas and Namine were on the cover and loved the artwork.

 

[Vani]

i first saw chain of memories and im like thats so cool! lets get it lets get it lets get it. but then kh2 came out so i stared at kh and kh2 and grabbed the one with the nicer cover. thats how i beat kh2....
anywyas. awile later i wanted to play the first one but i could not find it anymore! then i saw it one day, lunged at it and grabbed my mom. thats how i played kh...
but i wanted to play CoM so bad! that was the real game that got me intrested. i saw its cover one day at gamestop and was lik "CHAIN OF MEMORIES! CHAIN OF MEMORIES! CHAIN OF MEMORIES!" and i kept saying that every time we went to gamestop hoping id convince my brother to buy it. i didnt go to gamestop for four months. anyways reCoM came out and i wanted it sooo bad. the cover was sooo tight but i had n money
two weeks later my brother got it for me for christmas. i was so excited i ripped off the covering thing on accident. i realized what i had done and grabbed some glue. but it was too late...i dont know were the shiny cover is to this very day...

 

[Jelai]

When I first saw the KH1 box, I really wanted to go get it after watching my friend play it. But my mom wouldn't buy it for $50, so I was disappointed. Then a few years later, KH1 Greatest Hits version got released and my mom finally bought it for me. But I didn't like how the box no longer had that shiny tint to it lol.

for KH2 though, I was so glad that I finally had a box with the original shine and no ugly red Greatest Hits tag slapped onto it. XD

 

[MomentoMori]

at gamestop or target or walmart or where ever you bought it

i was like so excited and i didnt hav any money to buy it i was 10 and my dad was with me at target and i was like look kingdom hearts 2 and he told the guy who worked ''could you give me that game please'' i yeahh thats how i t happened now tell me how you got it and felt )

I was so excited when I first saw it. Me and a friend had gone into Wal-Mart to get a few last minute groceries, but we took a detour through the games aisle. As soon as we saw it we KNEW we had to buy it. So we did. And we literally squee'd; some of the employees looked at us very weird...

 

[Kupo]

my first time was actually when my older sister took me to her friends house, and i sat with her brother (probably 15/16 and i was like 8/9) he was playing kh1 and i got really interested by it. i watched and i asked questions, and by the time i had to go, he asked me if i wanted to borrow it, i nonchalantly said sure, while in my head i was thinking OH FCUCKING SWEET!!!!(in little kid speak though lol)....he never got the game back!!! its been years and i still wonder if he wanted it back and if he still likes kh..i even remember showing my mom something super cool in HB xD

when CoM came out i didnt really pay much attention to it, i didnt have a gameboy and it didnt look that exciting... i finaaly got it after some time...the box is trashed, and it took me years to beat sora

i was still really into kh and so when kh2 finally came out, i bought it the exact day it came out...or a day later, my story always changes lol...but i almost jizzed on the box because i was soo happy

i kept up with the news a little bit and so when Days came out i preordered it OF COURSE!!!...but sadly i had to wait a few months to play it cause i needed a ds, and that came at christmas

and when re:com came out i played it like a mofo, cause i despised CoM so a new version should've been good... im stuck before halloween town because it got uber scratched and i just keep forgetting to replace it

future: i cant effing wait to get BBS...but like days, i need to get a psp first

final note: i own no original copies of the games besides days/kh2/CoM but CoM's box is gone, and kh2 cover is ripped...i have my third copy of kh now... someday soon i hope to get all the original boxes for my collection :3 and of course im going back through all the games before BBS comes

 

[kingdomkey96]

i played/bought kh2 first.it was my birthday so my mon carried me and my sis to but a game.i think i wanted to buy tekken or sumthing but when my sister saw kh2 she said"tht was advertising on didney channel.you should but it".reluctantly i bought it and from the minute i put it on i was hooked

i couldnt find hh 1 anywhere so i didnt play it then a few years later i saw re:com and bought it.
then i bought 1 from amazon

ps.my sister never actually played it

 

[Zero]

KH: Like in 2002 or 2003 I was sitting at home on a Sunday and my dad said he would buy me a game so he took me to Best Buy and I looked around at the games and saw Kingdom Hearts. I looked at it and noticed Goofy and Donald were on it so I picked it up and looked at the back and saw other Disney characters. So I thought maybe my sister might like it too cause it has the Little Mermaid on it. I got it and I think they had some kind of special offer cause I remember getting a Game Informer or some magazine with it. Went home and got hooked on it but on the way home I started getting kinda sick so my parents told me to stay home the next day and since I was sick I got to play KH the whole time.

COM: Walking around the mall so I went to EB Games and looked at the Gameboy Advance games and I saw Sora on it and I was like FTW? It said coming soon or something and my birthday was two days after it came out so on my birthday I went to Walmart and got it.

KH2: I had a computer by 2006 and I started checking stuff out on it and found a website that had pictures that Square released on it and I followed that website until KH2 came out and my friend was into KH2 too so I wasnt surprised when I saw it. When it came out I was waiting for school to be over to get it even though my dad didnt want to take me so I had to wait two days to get it. My family and I were at a store and there was a Gamestop near it so I asked my dad if I go to it and he did. I walked in and looked for KH2 and found it and to my luck they had it playing on the PS2 so I started playing it. It was the beginning when your playing as Roxas but I didnt want to play it there cause I didnt want to be spoiled. My dad came in a couple minutes later and I showed him KH2 and he didnt want to pay $40 for it but in the end he did and I got it and I went home and played it.

RE: COM: I already had COM but I just wanted to play it again so I got it for my birthday and it was meh.

 

[NamiSora]

My brother introduced me to it. He rented KH1 from blockbuster and I usually watched him play games, since I was eight and I had nothing better to do. He put the game in and when the opening scene played I was already a fangirl. Lol. I remember saying: "He's cuteee! <3"
Referring to Sora.