Most memorable gaming moments in your life

[craptest]

Most memorable gaming moments in your life?




I'll start.....

- Beating my brother at 'Combat' on the Atari 2600. I believe it was select mode '7' 2player tanks with the rebounding shot.

- Finishing 'Ghost n' Goblins (C64). Took me ages. The journey was the reward, cause the ending sucked. Some cool 'Skate or Die' sessions on the old C64. 'Way of the Exploding fist', 'Green Beret' and 'Bruce Lee'= ditto.

-Seeing 'Defender of the Crown' and 'Marble Madness' running on the Amiga 1000 in Grace Bros, then realising it would take a few years to con my folks into buying me an Amiga 500.

- Finishing Double Dragon (arcade) with no continues.

- Playing 'Doom'

- The first time I saw 'Mario 64' at an import shop. "So that's real 3D!!" Going to the N64 launch and being blown away by the water in Wave Race 64. Finishing Mario 64.

- 4 player Goldeneye (N64) with a big divider splitting the screen so you could only see your team mates screen. License to kill, no radar, no crouching while moving. Playing till 3am. Still undefeated!!!

- Getting to the top of the mountain in 'Zelda Ocarina of Time' and looking down. Quite simply the greatest gaming moment in my life .

- Finally buying a PC and discovering the A.I in Half-Life.

- playing Soul Calibur on the DreamCast as a certain kickass samurai

-First carjacking in GTA3 (PS2)

- Seeing the Grass in 'Halo' (XBOX) and realising there really was a next gen console this side of the DC.

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[Tsargrad]

GOOD THREAD DUDE..


Reaching 1500 on Donkey Kong (G&W). Which really is clocking it once then up to 500 again. I died right on 1500 and never did it again but was a milestone.

Owning my first console. A Nintendo 64 and playing Wave Race 64. A terrific game.

Also seeing Mario 64 for the first time. I felt like I had gone to heaven, it looked so wonderful at the time.

4 Player GoldenEye and Mario Kart 64, some great times with 3 other mates, not long out of High School then.

4 Player Super Bomber Man on SNES after school with 3 other mates. (Half the time the same mates as above)

Finishing Final Fantasy X. I honestly never thought I would do it.

Scoring my first century on Ian Botham's Cricket on the PC.

Building an enormous city on Sim City 2000 and the original PC version without cheating, and making a packet of money each year with a really low tax rate.

Playing my PS2 for the first time with FIFA 2001. (still a game I love).

Winning a round of Street Fighter II against a mate on the SNES. He was a pro. I only ever won 2 or 3 rounds, but man it felt good. Would lose perfect the next round after though :mad:

That is just a few. I am sure I'll share some more in a future posting.

[Sauceman]

One very memorable moment occured just the other day involving myself, my younger brother, and Tekken Tag.

the Scenario: My bro challenges me to a single round 1 on 1 match of tekken Tag. If he wins, he gets the bottle of coke i've got. If I win, I get nothing more than the satisfaction of beating him (he tends to 0wn when it comes to this game).

the Outcome: I, as Law, score a Perfect victory . I then proceed to rub the defeat in as much as I can. Being 11, He gets very angry with me. :D Nyehehehe :D

Other more classic moments:

- Getting a Sega Master System II for christmas when I was 8, and playing Alex Kidd in Miracle world and Sonic the Hedgehog.

- Bubble Bobble on the C64. Keep your fancy shmancy next gen games powered by flashy consoles with their fancy this and that processingmajiggers. Nothing will ever beat this game in terms of greatness.

[Tsargrad]

Originally posted by Sauceman
One very memorable moment occured just the other day involving myself, my younger brother, and Tekken Tag.

the Scenario: My bro challenges me to a single round 1 on 1 match of tekken Tag. If he wins, he gets the bottle of coke i've got. If I win, I get nothing more than the satisfaction of beating him (he tends to 0wn when it comes to this game).

the Outcome: I, as Law, score a Perfect victory . I then proceed to rub the defeat in as much as I can. Being 11, He gets very angry with me. :D Nyehehehe :D

Other more classic moments:

- Getting a Sega Master System II for christmas when I was 8, and playing Alex Kidd in Miracle world and Sonic the Hedgehog.

- Bubble Bobble on the C64. Keep your fancy shmancy next gen games powered by flashy consoles with their fancy this and that processingmajiggers. Nothing will ever beat this game in terms of greatness.

and here I thought this was going to be a lovely story of your younger bro winning and getting the coke.

[Sauceman]

Like hell he was gonna get it :D

[skitz]

Hehehehe awsome thread bro, i got a couple of cool moments.

- Finishing Half-Life without cheating....awsome ending

- Buying my Original Nintendo and playing iron tank for hours on end.

- Finishing Quake 3 within a couple hours of buying it.

- Finishing Lylat Wars on N64 every way possible

thats all i can think of atm...

-skiz

[craptest]

Originally posted by Sauceman


- Bubble Bobble on the C64. Keep your fancy shmancy next gen games powered by flashy consoles with their fancy this and that processingmajiggers. Nothing will ever beat this game in terms of greatness. [/B]

I wasn't too impressed with Bubble Bobble on the C64. My friend had it on his Japanese import Famicon and it was perfect. The C64 version always seemed a tad off with its collision detection. Somehow looked worse. Hard to imagine I know.

If you have or plan to buy a GBA(-SP), you'd probably want to get Bubble Bobble (Original and updated versions on the same cart). It's out in Japan already. I don't know about the USA. Hopefully it has link up two player.

[MrMacabre]

- Finishing Impossible Mission II on Commodore 64.

[Marty003]

Wow, what an excellent thread!!! Ill only list some old-school memories for starters...think of more tommorow when im not so tired!!!

Getting my first console, The Sega Master System and playing my first game on it - Transbot (which was actually on one of those cards you plugged into the console!)

Beating the spinning statue guards for the first time on "Shinobi" for the Sega Master System!

Seeing Double dragon for the first time after hearing so much hype about it being the best game ever! (at the time!)

[Marty003]

oh and maybe this is just a fetish or sumthing??!!
but opening the packaging of a console for the first time and smelling that mixture of plastic and foam, mmm, the smell of sumthing new and exciting! heheh

[Watcher]

Good thread mate!
The new machines/formats were some of my biggest memories.

My earliest memories would be seeing Space Invaders and then Pac Man arrive at our local Milkbar and having my initials in the Hi Scores lists.

Then our family would go visit friends and they had a Caleco Vision (I think that's what it was called) and I didn't think Home Entertainment would ever get any better.
Well it did!!!! Dad came home with an Atari one day. Whoooaaaa!

Next memory was the nerd next door having a TRS-80 PC from Tandy I think, and we played this very advanced text based RPG and completed it.:rolleyes:

Then the C64 days arrived...I don't think I owned a single original game. Shhhhh!!!! Don't tell anyone. :D

Got out of computers and went for the NES (wow! An advanced light gun game called Duck Hunt), then SNES etc..... I spent a fortune on Aussie and English mags in this era.

Years later, I go visit my brother and he as a PC and some game called Command and Conquer. I chucked sickies for the rest of the week and went and spent 4 grand on a computer just to play this game at my place. I'd never seen anything like C&C before and I was so amazed.

[MrMacabre]

Originally posted by Watcher
Years later, I go visit my brother and he as a PC and some game called Command and Conquer. I chucked sickies for the rest of the week and went and spent 4 grand on a computer just to play this game at my place. I'd never seen anything like C&C before and I was so amazed.

Hahhaa, agreed there! The Command and Conquer games kick @$$.

I'm hoping they'll make it to XBox one day... :dD

[Sauceman]

Originally posted by Watcher
Then the C64 days arrived...I don't think I owned a single original game. Shhhhh!!!! Don't tell anyone. :D

I'm not sure I did either :D
Although back when i was 7 it was hardly something i realised ;)

[MrMacabre]

I had about ten legit games, and they were around fifty bloody bucks a pop!

Legit games I had were:

WWF Wrestlemania
Batman: The Movie
Ghostbusters (Cartridge - faster loading!)
Ghostbusters II
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Impossible Mission II
Leaderboard Golf
and a couple more.

[linton]

Haha, I remember everyone having one of those disc copy discs in the box, as well as half a dozen blank discs.

I remember mum and dad would never give me a go of the C64 because they where busy playing a game called Kaiser.

We had a few original titles:

Grand Prix - I remember dad was ****ed off cos the drivers wheren't right cos he wrote a program that changed the drivers names to the names at the time, ie. Senna, Prost, ect.

Pajamarama (i think thats what it was called) - I still have yet to play a worse game.

And some 6 pack thing that had one of my all time fav's:

the one with the building on fire and you climb putting them all out.

Actually thats one of my best moments. Getting to the top of the building twice in a row.

Another one was playing Wizards of war. The monsters got so fast they where pretty much a blur on the screen.
:eek:

But, my all time most memerable moment would have to be when the keyboard packed it in one day, the whole family jumped in the car, and went down to myer, got a new keyboard and found out the new disc drive had just come out, then dad said to the checkout guy, "we'll have one of those as well". Damn how my eyes must of light up. :D

Well, thats about it for the C64. I'll go to the next console when I can be bothered thinking again.
:) :)

[craptest]

It's great to know there are people out there with a bit of history. Often you'll visit gaming boards and they'll be talking about about the 'good old days' and the conversation won't get past the PSX.

I feel lucky to have grown up when games were so basic. To see the leaps in technology. Makes the stuff now even more exciting..

Anyone who only just got on board should definately look into MAME, Nesticles and other emulators. Questions of 'intellectual property' aside, these programs provide a great history lesson. They're the closest thing gamers have to a library.

[scorezero]

Ah! The good ol' days!!

I remember an old Intellivision game called Triple Action.

It had 3 games spanning a 4k cartridge, so you can imagine how blocky the graphics were!

But the first day I got this game, a friend turned up unexpectedly, and we were so engrosssed in it that I forgot to meet another friend in the city to see a movie! (I was unpopular with him until he saw the game for himself)

Other great game experiences were Discs of Tron and Space Harrier at the arcades, Super Metroid for SNES and Red Faction for the PS2, which I played solidly until the end. (Luckily my partner still talks to me!)

And to MRTE, I know what you mean about the smell of new electronics, I like it too!!:D

[Watcher]

PONG!
How could I have forgotten PONG!
We'd spend hours and hours on this at a friends place.:rolling:

[scorezero]

Didja ever play the yuppie version of PONG, where you had the option of actually moving the bats forward and backwards, as well, as up/down?

Now THAT was cool!!
(Pity we only borrowed it!)

[Tsargrad]

and the old Combat on Atari 2600. The best game. I hope this one is on the new PS2 game w/ all the atari titles. ooo I cannot wait...

I thought of some other good times whilst at work today but I forgot them