01>Beating the JPN version of
Metal Gear Solid without any walkthroughs or cheats of any kind a month before the American release, started playing it at 8:30 at night and finished the game at 6:15 in the previous morning. *THE HIGHLIGHT HOWEVER, was when I had to beat the tank without using the "Chaff" Grenade and had to learn an alternate way of doing it {which I still now use}, since I didn't know that Campbell was telling you what to use to distrupt the Tank's sensors. I ended up having to belly crawl around to see where the blast radius of it's volleys would hit {'bout 14 tries} and when I had that down I figured out that I could HUG the wall on the far right hand side of the screen, there at a certain point the tank would be visible and then it was a simple matter of counting the loading times between the two volleys it sent. After timing it right I just bum rushed the tank and got close enough that the Machine Gunner opened up on me. From then on it was a piece of cake. But I probably spent more time on that boss {in fact for me the rest of the game including REX and Vulcan Raven} than any other. Took me 1 hour and eight minutes to perfect the "alternate method".
02>Beating
NAM-1975 ONCE, after a half hour battle with Dr. Muckley and his walking death mobile, zig zagging and getting off like two shots in an 8 second interval. The ending however, hardly seemed worth all the effort though.
03>Getting through 4 whole stages of
Shock Troopers on "Lonely Wolf" mode without using a single continue. Soon I will be able to beat the game on ONE life!
04>In the JPN Playstation game of
A.T. VOTOMS: Lighting Slash when I finally defeated Gyap in the "Blow Battle" where I had to buy the Coil Arm and arm it on an ATH-14 STANDING TORTOISE, after button mashing through the "Battling" Circuit in Uoodo City and Benam on Planet Astragius but not knowing the proper way to spend the gildans to upgrade the right Armored Trooper {A.T.} configuration. *Beating that bastid in his ATH-14 was a
Sweeeeeeet moment indeed. It helped knowing the storyline and some tech stuff for VOTOMS thanks to the animes and the OVAs never released in the R-1 Region, but the game wasn't easy.
MERCENARY X99
{Lonesome Bear}
