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Who was your first childhood videogame crush? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by eru777@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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Pictured: Rikku from Final Fantasy X

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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They didn't have enough pixels when I was kid.

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[–] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Incoming hipster take

Nils from Fire Emblem 7

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[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago

358/2 Days plot tore 11-year-old me apart lol.

[–] andxz@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Kasumi from DoA, no doubt.

[–] eksb@programming.dev 5 points 3 weeks ago

Ms. PacMan

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

Tails, when I was maybe six? I had very confusing feelings about him.

Shameen from Quest for Glory.

Brandywine from Kyrandia.

Renamon.

I didn’t learn what a “furry” was until I was a young in the early 00s, many many years later.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

Anyone else remember how sexy Joanna Dark was in that two page advertisement?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Amicus.

I never really crushed on VG characters before or since. And it's not even really a video game (it's a VN). 🤷‍♂️

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[–] trslim@pawb.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

Leon Kennedy (RE4), Raiden (MGS2) and Lulu (FFX)

I wish leon would suplex me.

[–] CptOblivius@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Firiona Vie, is one that jumps out. Maybe not the first, but the one I can remember.

[–] HaunchesTV@feddit.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yuna has always and will always be my waifu4laifu

[–] afansfw@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

Coco Bandicoot surely

[–] missingno@fedia.io 3 points 3 weeks ago

Aika from Skies of Arcadia

[–] LazyPotato@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

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