[General Discussion] Your most memorable moments in gaming.

One of the most memorable things in gaming for me was being able to afford my own games. I was a poor kid, so my mother bought a lot of the stuff for me.

In 1990, she bought me a Fountain Tunix which came with a bunch of games. In 1992, she bought me a Mastersystem. I remember staying up until 11 pm playing Alex the Kidd. We both played a bunch of games.

The Megadrive came along, which we rented from time to time. I loved renting Aladdin, Cool Spot and Sonic 2. They were really fun games to play. Eventually she bought my own Megadrive and I managed to get myself a handful of games. A lot of game trading occurred because I didn't have enough money to purchase my own. Games were really expensive back then.

I remember seeing a 64, PS1 and Saturn in a store. I saw the Saturn playing the original Rayman, and instantly knew I preferred 2D games over 3D. Cool Boarders was playing next to it, but I didn't like how it looked.

However, the says of owning a Saturn came and went, and I jumped from 64, to PS1, to Saturn, to 64, to Saturn, to PS1. I only stayed with the PS1 because of it's variety. The Saturn didn't do very well here. But really, what I wanted was a Dreamcast.

On December the 4th, 1999, the Dreamcast was released. I had $200 saved, which I even took to school so we could go there afterwards and purchase one immediately. They had a kiosk playing Soul Calibur. Weeks prior they had a kiosk with House of the Dead 2 which my mother and I both loved playing.

The bad thing about this was, they didn't release memory cards for the DC at the same time as launch, making it impossible to unlock anything in the two games which my mother bought for me - Soul Calibur and Sonic Adventure. We ended up returning the Dreamcast when we received a letter saying Sega was going bankrupt.

Then came the PS2, which I had to pay off each week for two years. It came with MGS2, which I played through, followed by Jak & Daxter. I had a paper run and wasn't earning that much money, but enough to pay off the console and buy a game once every few months. It was nice.

This went on for awhile, until I turned 18 and got a real job. I bought a PC, which was an insane amount of freedom from using my mother's computer for such a long time (since 1999). About a year later, I got myself a credit card, and started importing games almost exclusively. I think this was the best time in my gaming history, as I could finally afford my own stuff.

I didn't like to do it, but I had my PS2 modchipped. I could finally play games without having the hassle of using a Swap Magic and such.

Then along came the limited editions, box sets, imported consoles, you name it. I think the most memorable purchase would have been the ANUBIS Zone of the Enders 2 Premium Box Limited Edition which someone was offering me (only discovered through conversation) since he was coming up to Auckland anyway. I grabbed it. There's only 1000 of these things created. I'm also very happy with my Ice Blue DS Lite, Felicia Blue PSP and Japanese 360 which I all purchased this year.

Also, my big box of stuff Enkidu sent me from Japan this year. Great fun.

But mostly, shmups have been my favourite genre of all, and 1ccing Mushihimesama in August 06 was my first real achievement. I was proud. I've improved so much since then, 1ccing Mountain of Faith and Imperishable Night both on Lunatic.

Any console or expensive purchase should be celebrated, I think.

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Alright so it's 1996 and I'm playing my favorite video game, Super Mario Kart. It's the special cup 100cc and I've been having an epic battle for the lead and in the lead up for the final race I did some calculations. For me, Luigi, to win, all I had to do was just beat Yoshi, everyone else was out of contention and I was a point behind Yoshi. Rainbow Road. So the race starts and it's an epic struggle, I'm just about crying as I'm in forth place going around the final corner, Yoshi nowhere in sight and when. OH WHAT?! THERE WAS YOSHI BEING LOWERED ONTO THE TRACK! THE CLOWN HAD FALLEN OFF! What an epic moment. I raced past him, swerved around the thwomps and took third place but more importantly the gold cup.

Im pretty much running around the living room punching the air and yelling during the credits. The trophy proclaims that I am now a Super Mario Kart EXPERT. And then, then it returns to the title screen, WHAT'S THIS?! 150CC!?!?! that shit wasn't there before!

Oh man, epic.

I gurned this one but it's gone. This year's Pokémon tournament.
I promised myself when the tournament was first announced that I would get myself a battle on the big screen and open with a FEAR Pokémon (if you won’t understand the term, bear with me.) Apparently they had been discussed at most of the tours around the country but at the end of the day, nobody yet had the audacity to use the most hilarious, humiliating and reckless tactic in the Pokémon world. I had made myself a level 4 Ratatta who was a good candidate but the day before my friend Dan called me to say he wont be coming to Pokétour, choosing Harry Potter instead. However he said that his sister who wanted to go but found herself stuck in Kalgoorlie had trained up a FEAR Phanpy for the tournament and he asked if I wanted it. I said sure as Phanphy is generally regarded as the ideal FEAR Pokémon, being able to withstand sandstorms. He sent it over and I lolled when I saw it’s nickname was XBOX-360.

The setup for round two was different. If you were one of the 64 contestants left remaining you simply walked up to one of the battle stations with a partner and away you went. The main screen cleared out and some kid eagerly stepped up “We need one more” the attendant announced and I pushed my way through for the second spot. My opponent was one of those dorky 11/12 year old kids who reckons he’s tip top but is in actual fact a total loser, ie. He was perfect for FEAR.

I am trembling with anticipation at this point and busily swapping around my team and items to accomodate XBOX-360 into the party. The kid is getting agitated “yeah sorry just saving now” I innocently reply. The other thing about big screen battles is that one player (in this case me) has the oppurtunity to view his opponents Pokémon prior to battle. The kid understood this and tryed to negoiate looking at my Pokémon in return. I declined and quickly chose my team. Being the good sport I am I looked away and chatted to the small crowd that had formed.

Battle begins.
“Roland sent out XBOX-360” the screen announced. The nervous giggles from the crowd at the sight of the nickname quickly turned into outright laughter when XBOX-360 turned out to be a Phanpy, at level 1.
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Phanpy, n/named XBOX-360, Lv 1
Original Trainer: Rachael
Fissure
Endeavour
Ice Shard
Rollout
Hold Item: Focus Sash
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“Don’t laugh I just caught him” I told the crowd. I did however, over the laughter, hear a few gasps of joy and excitement from the maybe 2 or 3 people watching who knew what was about to happen.
He sent out Gyrados and the crowd was in stitches, even the attendants who Nintendo just hire through local modelling agencies were amused at what appeared to be the biggest missmatch since David and Goliath.
“Are you serious? How did you get to round 2 with a level 1 Pokémon?” the kid asked with a snear.
“Oh I dunno, I have a couple of others”
Gyrados attacked with Hydro Pump, hitting poor Phanpy. The crowd is still laughing their heads off, and the noise was getting louder as other people stopped to look at what the fuss was about. Phanpy’s health bar was plunging downwards and then stopped! “It’s super effective!” the screen proclaimed. In this second or so, the crowd was just gasping in amazement, a Nintendo rep stopped in her tracks, stunned “Woah!” she says. “Hax?” someone watching nervously asks. “XBOX-360 hung on with Focus Sash!” the screen explained to the stunned crowd.
“XBOX-360 used Endeavour” the crowd started up again but this time instead of laughing they were CHEERING! “OH MY GOD MAN” some kid is yelling at me. I have this huge smile on my face, my opponent is totally flabbergasted. Gyrados' HP bar plunges to match mine at 1HP. Facing the crowd, I triumphantly raise two fingers in the air and bring them down again, selecting Ice Shard, an attack that always goes first. “XBOX-360 used Ice Shard” as the screen fills with the blue Ice Shard effect the crowd has gone totally crazy, a couple of guys pretty much mobbed me, wanting to shake my hand and swap high fives. Nintendo reps are telling everyone to get back behind the white line. Everybody is laughing their heads off, even the people in the other battles who had paused to watch. Everybody except my opponent who was absolutely livid in anger, the colour draimed from his face.

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1)Decimated a kid in UT 2004......and he was literally crying.....

I dunno if I should have felt good or bad at that time.

2) Beating Battletoads. Dunno how it was possible when I was a kid.

3) When playing F.E.A.R, a friend of mine, whom was on the opposing team, just came out of no where, blasted me in the face, then someone blasted him in the face, he re-spawned in the same area and killed his killer, and then I came in to kill him for killing me. Double Revenge if you understand it.

4) While playing a Counterstrike match, I got killed by a random flashbang hitting me in the face.

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Originally Posted by RABicle

Pokemon Battle

LOL my brother went to the Pokemon Tour this year and used his "haxed" Magikarp (nicknamed Tyrannosaurus). Because it was the last day in Victoria, he decided to used hacked, shitty Pokemon like Bidoof and whatnot. Hilarity ensued when after splashing a few turns, my brother accidentally used Hyper Beam. KRUNCH!

Promising his opponent that he'd throw the match though, my brother used Explosion and sacrificed his place for a few laughs. Priceless.



Oh, and I've only listed past memories. More recent memorable moments for me are mostly Nintendo related (lol *cough* fanboy fag *cough* XD rofl), but anyways they are:

1) Playing Ico (PS2): After Zelda, games had never filled me with a fantastical feeling. Ico brought that all back with atmosphere, subtle/dreamlike graphics and ingenius gameplay. It was then I decided to break away from being a "Nintendo consoles only" guy and, with the help of my girlfriend, brought a PS2. I played all the great games I missed out on, but jumped to get Ico when the opportunity came.

2) Nintendo DS "clicked" into my mind: I blame the Gamecube for my slow falling-out with Nintendo. So when the DS first came out I never got the concept. What were Nintendo thinking? Luckily, my girlfriend brought it for me (so I couldn't say no) and although I was initially unimpressed, Nintendogs changed my perception of Nintendo's new strategy. Alright, there are a HEAP of games out there that utilise and show the DS's strengths better than Nintendogs, but it was while playing that game when I though, "Y'know what? Nintendo's BAAAACK". DS Rocks.

3) Announcements of Super Smash Brothers Brawl: Ooo... I was originally going to put the announcement of Zelda Twilight Princess but my hype for that ended up in disaster, so I'll put the equally as effective SSBB announcements as a great memory. The trailer rocked my world: all the characters were getting an upgrade and the new characters seemed awesome (PIT!!!). The biggest punch came not from Captain Falcon (cause he's unconfirmed as of this post), but the inclusion of Snake. I thought that Nintendo decided to show a separate Wii Metal Gear game at the same time, but as soon as the box was shown in a bit of gameplay, I creamed.

And dojo has made me go crazy with a few announcements. Online, Sonic and stage editor are the more memorable posts and will most likely stay in my mind for now and in the future (when the SonyWii60 zaps our brains with hyper-reality machine thingies... oh my!)

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by RABicle

Pokemon Battle

Dear sweet Jesus, that's priceless.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Even with all the shit gaming experiences lately I still have some gaming memories I'm proud to have experienced. Believe it or not this is a short list:

1. Space Harrier: first game that ever gave me an adrenaline rush as a kid and also the first game I ever completed oddly enough. The classic first and second level music is now forever burned in my mind.

2. Trading my bike for my sister's sega genesis, my hardcore gamer status pretty much started there... and someone stole the bike not long after

3.Streets of rage: because me and my dad played the crap out of those games, when you can kill enemies without looking at the screen you've been playing too long

4. Choas Engine: Because I was a dumb kid and the boss speaking at the end scared the crap out of me at the time "OMFG! IT TALKS!"

5. duke nukem 3D and zombies ate my neighbours: the only 'scary' games I've played, zombies I've outgrown and managed to finish both games in the end but duke nukems facehuggers still have the strange ability to turn me to a suicide bomber as long as I kill them too

6. street fighter alpha 2: doing a near perfect run and then me meeting shin akuma for the first time who handed my ass to me. Little did I know at the time online gaming would soon make me feel the exact same way on many occasions...

7. sonic 3 and knuckles: argued the best sonic game ever made, the last few acts were awesome... only now every sonic game tries to recreate them somehow -_-

8. Tomb Raider: First 3D game I played, I laugh thinking back to me turning in circles to look at the poorly rendered 3D textures now.

9. Serious Sam2, ragnarok online, and jediknight: why all 3 under one title? Because they were my first online games so a large amount of my newb years were spent on them, plus name me a game besides gunz that let's you do real time online sword fights with near fighting game precision... not an easy thing to do...

10. Lan + unreal tournament + college class = EPIC LAWLS, Plus throw in a guy who screams like a girl whenever he dies and one of the best team death match comebacks in 30 seconds ever when you're on the underdog team and you begin to get the picture.

11. In a similar vein to the previous point beer+timesplitters+ monkeys+flamethrower. You'd have to have been there to get it, but I proudly say I wet myself laughing at my friends freaking out the sight of "pyro monkeys"

12. The weird shit that's happened to me in online games. Although bullshit at the time they would probably be hilarious if I got the delivery right as stories.

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1. Getting my Commodore 64. The Odessy was my first system, but the Commodore 64 was what originally cemented me as a gamer. I still played alot of those games up until the SNES came out even though I had an NES. Heck... my Halo 3 unit number is C64.

2. Beating Super Mario 2. This may not seem like a big deal, but to me it was at the time. This was the first time, I realized it was actually possible to beat a game or that there was actually an end to a game. All games I had previously played either seemed to be endless or just too hard to beat.

3. Beating Chaos in Final Fantasy 1 without getting hit a single time. Somehow, when I had my ninja cast hold on him for whatever reason, it actually worked. He never broke out of it and neither my friends or me have been able to reproduce this occurance again.

4. Playing Guardian Heroes on the Sega Saturn. Me and my friends had some epic moments in that with the 6 player vs mode.

5. Playing Everquest for the first time. It was my first MMORPG and basicly anyone who has played those would probably agree that the first time you play one of those, there is just this "magical" feeling about it. Of course after awhile it just kind of becomes routine like everything else.

6. Finding Valkyrie Profile used at Playsource. I honestly didn't know anything about it, so it was kind of an impulse buy. Probably the greatest impulse buy of my life, I was in awe at the art and stories when I played it later.

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Originally Posted by chaofan

LOL my brother went to the Pokemon Tour this year and used his "haxed" Magikarp (nicknamed Tyrannosaurus). Because it was the last day in Victoria, he decided to used hacked, shitty Pokemon like Bidoof and whatnot. Hilarity ensued when after splashing a few turns, my brother accidentally used Hyper Beam. KRUNCH!

Promising his opponent that he'd throw the match though, my brother used Explosion and sacrificed his place for a few laughs. Priceless.

Yeah that one got youtubed man. It was fantastic to watch.

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#1) The day we got an SNES and EarthBound. I was 5, and I loved playing that game. We had also gotten PGA Tour Golf (correct name?), Final Fantasy 6, A Link to the Past and Super Mario World afterward. I hadn't beaten any of them (And for future reference, I sucked at the golf game. xD) from then even until Event #2, but I still had a lot of frigging fun playing the SNES anyway. Speaking of Event #2...

#2) The day my sister wanted to lend the SNES and games to a friend.

The last time we saw it, we went over to her house to get it back, only to be told it was lost, until I found it. It was fucking ruined. Coke spilled all over it, cracked, dirty. It was a really sad day for me. Assholes. (Never again was a console lent out until I made sure that the person was going to bring it back in the condition it left the house in. Present-day, the consoles are in excellent condition, and are lent out sometimes, excluding the Wii and the Xbox 360.)

#3) The day I played Super Smash Brothers.

I had gone over to a friend's house to play some Mario Kart 64, but they were playing a game called Super Smash Brothers. One friend gave me a quick lesson on the controls and another handed me the fourth controller. When I went to choose my chracter, I freaked out and said "Ness is in this game?!" only to have everyone say "Who the heck is that?". Won five matches in a row with Ness that day.

#4) The day I played Doom.

My uncle had put the shareware version on my computer. My dad wasn't into shooting games that much, and my mom got a small case of motion sickness while trying it out. They were really surprised to see me flying through the game while kicking some imp ass. xD

#5) The day I played Twisted Metal.

We had gotten a PlayStation, and I wasn't really playing it that often (I got tired of playing Crash Bandicoot, it was the only damn game we had for 3 months.), until my parents had rented Twisted Metal. Me and my sisters played this non-stop until we either had to go to school, or return it.

A while later, I had gotten Twisted Metal 2 as a birthday present. ;D

#6) The day I beat EarthBound.

Fast forward to a few years later, we bought another SNES and I got another EarthBound cartridge. This took a while, but I finally had both of them back. This is when I played EarthBound non-stop, as I had lots of experience with video games by now. I had finally gotten to Giygas, and I was ready. Whooped Pokey's ass, only to have the Devil's Machine get turned off (I saw Giygas when we had the first SNES. My sister was playing, and when I saw him, I ran out of the room screaming. It scared the shit out of me.). Kept swinging at Giygas and firing Multi-bottle rockets him, and then I used Paula's praying to seal the deal. After 7 years of waiting, I finally. Beat. EarthBound. Probably the greatest moment in my video-gaming part of life.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Here's my most memorable gaming moments:

Getting the SNES
I got the SNES for christmas in 1995. Coincidentally it was the reason why I stopped believing in Santa. I heard dad sneaking out of their room and putting the presents under the tree. Go figure. I was stoked I got the SNES though XD

Selling the SNES....to get an N64
A few years later, the N64 was launched, and I saw the Super Mario 64 demo at the store for the first time. My God it was so beautiful. I went into another store, and they had Lylat Wars...WITH THE RUMBLE PAK. OMG WHAT WAS THIS?!?
I knew I had to have one. I asked my folks, but the only way I was getting it was if I aced my Year 8 maths test.....and if I sold my SNES.
I made the choice...and got the N64 with Mario 64.
I was happy.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Oh. My. God.
I had never anticipated a game as much as this. I don't even know how I started lusting after it. I had never played a Zelda game before this, nor had I even heard of the Zelda games. I just knew deep down in my gut that it was gonna be one special game.
I bought it, and when the intro came up...with the moon setting below the horizon and Link rode past the screen on his horse......I was instantly in love.

My N64 getting stolen
In 1999, we had moved into a flat because our new house was being built. The area we lived in wasn't well known for it's safety or low crime rate, and it was with great shock that I woke one morning to find my N64 stolen as well as Mario 64, Ocarina or Time, and Rogue Squadron. It was a kid who did it, cause they climbed in from the small window in the kitchen, took everything, and just walked out the front door. Mum was working night shifts at the time, and when she came home the door wasn't shut.
Fortunately, it was the only thing taken, which was quite heartbreaking for me.

I got a second hand N64 a few months later. I've been buying games for it ever since.

Gamecube's Unveiling
Spaceworld 2000. Man I was totally stoked. I still remember watching that games showreel hundreds of times.
I trolled every single website I could and literally printed out hundreds of pages of information on games, hardware, pictures, interviews...all so I could read at night and dream peacefully. I actually still have those pages in my drawer here.
It takes me back to a time where I was so naive and so at ease in my own world.

Reggie @ E3 2005, and the new Zelda trailer
Reggie made a HUGE impact that day. It could not, and has thus far never been beaten.
And i remember nearly crying when I saw that Zelda trailer.

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Beating the first boss in Sonic 1; my friend at the time had a lot of trouble figuring it out lol!

Getting the facility cheat on GoldenEye; you all know the one

Seeing Aeris die; and then finding out all my hard work to level her as a character was for naught.

Finishing DMC3 on the default difficulty setting and trying to understand why so many people had trouble with it; DMD was of course painstakingly hard.

That's all I can recall right now.

Oh wait, dicovering that there was a gaming forum here . . . I originally saw this place as purely a videogaming music one lol!

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Originally Posted by Torte

Getting the facility cheat on GoldenEye; you all know the one

I still have freaking nightmares. 2:05 in 00 was insane.

That reminds me of one more memorable moment.

BEATING THAT DAMN "CHALLENGE 30" IN PERFECT DARK. King of the Hill with expert sims and pistols only. That was insanely hard to finish not because of the computer skills, but because of my teammate skills. He was so retarded running without guns towards the enemy. I had to be extremely fast to cover his ass. The only way I could finished it was with two maulers, charged shots and a looooooot of luck.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Beating Breath of Fire II: Breath of Fire II was one of those seminal games for me. The first Breath of Fire was also my first RPG, and I beat it fairly easily, but the sequel was another matter altogether. The biggest pain was Barubary, the second-to-last boss and royal pain all around. My brother and cousin would gather around as I attempted to beat him go after go, but but it never happened. Easily took a whole month before he went down, his sprite disappearing from the screen with no sound effect, and my heart stopping for a few seconds. Everyone was stoked; it was great! You can imagine my excitement when I found out about Breath of Fire III years later (aka, the sole reason I bought a PS1).

Getting my GameBoy: My eighth birthday would have been pretty bland If I hadn't gotten this. My grandparents got me this, Super Mario Land, and a polyester carrying case I still have and use to this day. Tetris was insanely engrossing in of itself, by the whole package was really special

Playing Bad Dudes: It's not a great game, really, but I remember the day my brother and I, on a mission probably inspired by God, were determined to beat the arcade version of Bad Dudes vs. Dragon Ninja. Fueled by soda and pretzels we played on, and five dollars a piece later we left with failure, but oddly enough, we felt like we had actually accomplished something that day.

Playing Duke Nukem 3D: Not my first FPS, but the only one I've ever enjoyed. I guess because it doesn't play like a normal shooter; there's just so much to find, so many secret areas to explore, weapons that, although not exactly useful, are insanely fun to use. The codes, the deep-as-you-want-it level editor, the humor, the bots; it was all so well done. I hadn't played the game in forever, and was still able to beat my friends at it during my first death-match session in college (My home internet was never good at that sort of thing). Easily my most played PC game.

There are plenty more, but I'll save 'em for later!

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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.

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I have many memories but here are just some of them that I do remember.

Getting Duke Nukem: Zero Hour for the N64.
Duke Nukem: Zero Hour was one of my first games that I have owned and played. I absolutely loved that game and was very addicted to it because of the story and some of the interesting boss battles.

Getting over 200K in RE 4 Mercenaries.
This was a complete shock to me. I was intent on getting over 200K on that. I managed to get this one day hoping that I was gonna do it. You guys can imagine my shock when I finally achieved it. I did it with Wesker. I just went crazy and had nearly a 200 enemy combo!

Getting out of the map on Crackdown.
I finally was able to get out of the map which was awesome to finally do. After several attempts I finally got out, of it and did a death drop into the ocean.

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Originally Posted by RABicle

Yeah that one got youtubed man. It was fantastic to watch.

got the url for that one?

anyway
Final Fantasy 6 (or 3us)
Four words - Best Final Fantasy Ever.

Tales of Symphonia
All of it, seriously. Evey last one of the 30 hours it took to complete it were brillant to behold, sure the story wasn't deap. Sure it was a bit ham fisted in it's story but god. the Voice acting, the battles, the music. Everything.

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1. First console:
Of course getting a new system for the first time is gonna be awesome especially when every system back then was trying to be progressive. I remember when I got a Sega Game Gear and playing a hand held in the dark was pretty mind blowing. My Sega Genesis, SNES, N64, Playstation, Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox and 360; all of them were pretty fun to crack open.

2. Split screen fun:
I read one dude here mentioned playing some mad Goldeneye bouts with his bros. Yeah those were some good days. That never happens anymore. Mind you that Halo eventually came out and brought back the golden days for quite some time. Which reminds me, the first time I hooked up two Xbox's together for a crazy network fight was pretty kick ass. I had always wanted to do that. When I did it with my 360 for the first time was unforgettable.

3. Halo 2 tournament:
It was my first and only tournament and we played in a Galaxy theatre. It was me and my two friends who went. It was huge competition to see who was the best in Canada and it had come to Saskatchewan. That was a friggin' cool expirience. Every possible Halo scenario was touched (when it came to Slayer). I seen every strategy and trick known to Halo 2. Mind the fact that you weren't allowed to use gltches to give yourself an advanage over the competition; I'm talking about getting to places on the map, using weapons smart and on and on. Then this one Asian dude's turn came up and then everything went to shit for everyone. This guy goes and turns up his controller sensitivity to 10, grabs a plasma pistol and assault rifle and begins to mutilate everbody. This guy got every spree possible and went over 50 kills, the most that anyone got that day. It was just plain cool. I got a poster with the date on it from the whole tournament.

4. Game completions:
-Final Fantasy VII- it took me a while since I was new to RPGs at the time; but man was the whole story and ending was stuck in my mind for days. Mostly because after I finished it, it felt like there was nothing as epic to finish for a while. Of course I could've start the whole thing all over, but it wouldn't be the same.
-Metal Gear Solid franchise- any of these was a trip to complete. From the first one on the Playstation to the third for the PS2. I'm still trying to follow this clusterfuck they call a storyline.
-Kingdom Hearts- just the whole expirience of this game was unique at the time so I enjoyed it quite a bit. I mean Disney and Final Fantasy together was oddballed enough that I actually enjoyed it.

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Hamlet in Illusion of Gaia, by far. ;________;

(Also, sup massive thread necromancy, but it's a cool thread so whatever.)

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

1: Although it's fairly recent, beating Infinite Undiscovery for the first time will stay with me for a long time, I loved every minute of that game.

2: When I first got my original Playstation I didn't have any games or a memory card, all I had was a demo disk that contained Metal Gear Solid in japanese. I played through that demo at least 50 times till I saved up enough money to go buy a memory card and the actual game, which I enjoyed every moment of.

3: When I stayed home from school because I was "sick" just to keep playing Goldeneye for the N64.

4: When I beat SaGa Frontier 2, Still one of the hardest last bosses I've ever been up against. Those who have beaten it might know what I'm talking about.

I have a lot more, but I don't wanna make the list go on too long. Great topic for bringing back old memories though.

Most amazing jew boots

1: Fucking Rogue. Back on our first old DOS-Based computer, I played the hell out of it. Still haven't beaten it, but yeah.

2: Atari 7600. Yeah, I had one of THOSE Atari machines. A crapload of games (including E.T. (!!!), which somehow I managed to beat). I'd get up early on Saturday mornings and try to go through my collection in some sort of order.

3: Playing Final Fantasy IV. My first JRPG and I <3ed. Still do.

4: Discovering Emulators. Holy fuck now I could play games I couldn't afford back when I was a kid. Holy fuck I can play stuff that's been fantranslated!

5: Corrollary: Finishing Terranigma for the second time. So beautiful, and there's a reason it's probably my favorite game ever. Best game on the SNES by FAR.

How ya doing, buddy?

-Finding a hard copy of and beating Chrono Trigger for the first time. Yeah, it was like a year and a half ago, but it was such a long time coming it felt all the better when i finally did it.

-Finding a hard copy of and beating Super Mario RPG for the first time. This happened probably about 6 years ago. I used to rent that game a lot when i was like 8 years old, but i could never beat the game start to finished when i was that young.

-any of the times i've played through the Forest Temple in Ocarina of Time. That one, to this day, stands as my favourite Zelda dungeon. I love its over grown castle/mansion look. It's exactly the kind of environment i look for in a game like that. Those games need more (pseudo) creepy environment more like that.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Helloween

Finding a hard copy of and beating Super Mario RPG for the first time. This happened probably about 6 years ago. I used to rent that game a lot when i was like 8 years old, but i could never beat the game start to finished when i was that young.

Oh man, similar story here. A couple years after getting an SNES (first console) for my birthday, I saw Super Mario RPG at a KB Toys and just had to have it despite not knowing what the fuck kind of game it was; I just really liked the style of the graphics on the cover, haha. But as a kid who had only played platformers and beat 'em ups, obviously an RPG was way over my head and I had no idea how to play the game. Although I ended up having some fun just doing random shit, I didn't seriously play it until a couple years later when I actually understood how to play. But even then I still didn't beat it . . . I literally saved before the final boss and then just never played it again. Fast-forward about 8 years later and out of boredom during my senior year in high school, I popped it in and beat that shit in 15 minutes. Even though I had forgotten almost all of the storyline and the final boss was so easy, it was still so satisfying to finally complete something that I had started so long ago and something that I wanted so badly as a child.

FELIPE NO

Alright, here goes:

1. When i was small my parents were big time gamers but we were very poor so we only had a snes. My grandma got me a copy of earthbound for christmas one year. It was the pack with the game and the book in i nice little box. As soon as my mom brought over her snes i was playing it going through the dungeon fighting mice and the giant ant. Well i was about 6 or 7 so it took me about a year or so to go through. The first time i got to the last boss i paused the game and ran down the street about 2 blocks or so. I told my sister and her friends and my grandma that i was about to beat the game to come and watch!! I was sooo happy!


2. I know this is cliche but when Aeris died on ff7. I was at my dads house and it was about 1 in the morning. She got killed and i went down and woke my dad up and cried to him that she was gone. About a week later some stupid kid was playing Crash Bandicoot and erased my game. I had to watch her die all over agian!


3. Playing Brave Fencer Musashi on the psx with my dad. I would always stay the night over at his house on weekends. We decided to start playing games together. I would fall asleep around 11 or 12 and he would sit there and play for a few more hours. When i woke up i would ask him what i missed and we went back to playing (honestly i was glad i feel asleep when he hit the forest maze). We also did this with parasite eve. One reason why ill never get rid of those games...


5. As far as memorable scary moments go i would say my mom playing RE directors cut when i was a kid. I watched her for hours then go to bed. I would have zombie dreams and for 4 months straight i could not go to bed without checking the lock on the front door at LEAST 4 times.


4. Getting my ps2. About a year after they came out i still didnt have one. Well one year for Christmas i got a gift with ffx inside. I was confused and i looked at my dad and asked what it was for. He said that he as able to get the money for the game but he had a coupon to rent the system. I was happy! I could actually play a game i wanted to! He finally told me and my sister to check downstairs. I went downstairs and saw the ps2 with grand turismo pack at the bottom of the stairs. I was so happy i was crying!


To this day i have a strange habit of every game i own i can never get rid of just because when i played them it felt like a little piece of me went into them. I still have all my snes games and all my psx as well. I love them.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Holy shit how did I forget: beating Descent I without using codes. Holy god that game was brutal even on the easiest difficulty settings.

Jam it back in, in the dark.