[General Discussion] Your most memorable moments in gaming.

I remember the first time playing Mario on the NES. We had borrowed the NES from someone we knew and I didn't really catch what was going on at first, being like 3-4 years old, but after they plugged it in to the TV and started the first stage I gasped like I had never done before and I never will again :P It was amazing that you could actually control something on the TV.

Not long after my father, got a computer. It had a few games on it, like Wolfenstein 3D and others, so I sat there by the computer, 4 years old, killing nazis

Then for christmas a year later we got a SNES. Oh boy, what a joy it was. It was the true start of my life as a gamer. Playing the SNES was an activity for the whole family, I remember playing Super Mario 2 on the Mario Allstars game, taking turns with my mom, dad and sister. My father favored the Princess, my mom Luigi, while we two siblings just couldn't stop playing with Toad I remember when my dad found the shortcut with Peach in level 4, you know the one where you gotta leap over the water and hover, it was a real hallelujah moment. I tried afterwards to do the same with Toad but unfortunately, it didn't work :P

I remember getting Zelda 3 for the SNES while we we're away on a trip. I got it with a huge game guide, with lots of artwork in it and huge detailed maps and everything. But since we were away from home and I didn't have the SNES with me I spent almost every waking hour looking through that game guide, getting amazed by the pictures and the screenshots.

Then, 2 years later or something, with my father being a computer enthusiast heard about emulating on the computer and that you could play SNES games for free on the computer. "FOR FREE!?" I exclaimed Oh, how many great games I got to play because of that. If it weren't for that, I wouldn't have gotten to play all the great RPGs of the SNES.

I learned English initially by playing RPG games on the computer. I'm Swedish and at the time I were like only 7 years old, but I was so eager to know what they said in the games, so by always sitting there with a dictionary checking up all the words I didn't know I practically learned to speak English more or less. I remember how shocked everyone was when we started learning English in school, they even called home to my parents asking where I learnt all that English :P

Oh well, the memories are many, might write down some more later, need to go to bed now though.

Jam it back in, in the dark.