[General Discussion] Your most memorable moments in gaming.

1. My first vivid video gaming memory was when my mom beat Dragon Warrior before me. Her name in the game was "POO" which I thought was bloody hilarious. (interesting postscript - She's playing through Phantom Hourglass and named her character Poo for lulz)

2. My uncle had Street Fighter 2 for SNES, and we would play it all the time together. One day, the day he got Game Genie, he not only played as the same character as me, but he showed me the mid-air fireball cheat, and it BLEW MY MIND. He refused to give me the code because he was a little shit back then, but I'll never forget the first time I saw that for some reason.

3. My friends and I were huge Mortal Kombat fans, and I managed to get ahold of Mortal Kombat 2 for SNES the night before it was supposed to be released to the public. When I got home around 8PM, and called my friends and they all came running over to play till 10PM, well past our bed time.

4. The fiasco in getting Ocarina of Time is a downer moment I'll never forget. I went to reserve the game, and the guy at EB told me that all I needed to do was put my name down for a copy and I'd be all set. So I did that, and I was all psyched.

A few weeks later, I went in to EB to collect my game, and they refused to give me a copy, saying that I needed to put money down. I pleaded with the asshole, telling him that I was told I could simply put down my name, but he wouldn't hear it. I walked out of EB, extremely pissed, and to be honest, a little sad.

A couple days went by, and my mom came home to surprise me with a copy of OOT that she found at BJs. I was so excited I played it for 7 hours straight. It wasn't the gold cartridge, but it was still Zelda, and I loved the shit out of it.

5. Junior year of college, it was a pretty terrible year for all of us because of a shitty film we were working on. My friend Matt never hung out with us because he was so god damn busy with this film and he hated every second of it. The year before, we would all gather and play Mario Kart Double Dash nearly every night. We had rarely done that this year.

One day, Matt was sick of all the shit he was putting up with, and he said "guys, Mario Kart." So he came over, we ordered pizza, and we played Double Dash for hours into the night. It was a great night.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I have another one to add.

My friend and I were playing Final Fantasy VII and we got to the part where Aeris dies, and it made his little sister cry. Awesome.

How ya doing, buddy?