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What are your Greatest Gaming Accomplishments?
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Middle school... I bounced his skull off the wooden gym floor
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Lufia II's ancient cave.
It's a randomly generated 99 floor dungeon that you have to beat in one shot. No saves. And when you enter the dungeon all your characters are reset to level 1, you lose all your weapons, potions, armor, and spells, your capsule monster reverts to its base state, etc. You level up and find equipment and spells as you go. And you can't backtrack, once you go to the next floor you can't go back.
You go as far as you can and if you want to quit you have to use a spell you find somewhere past level 20 to escape. Then when you return you have to start back at level 1 again.
Rarely (like once every 10-15 floors) you'll encounter special blue treasure chests which contain items you can take out of the cave and then back in, so you can spend several trips finding some decent weapons and armor and then at least have some basic equipment when you enter level 1 the next time. But no matter what you're losing your spells, your main game weapons/armor, all your levels, and your monster's progress.
The last ~20 or so floors are brutally hard. You can choose to avoid some enemies and just run to the next floor if you want, but if you don't kill most of the enemies you won't be strong enough to beat the encounters you can't avoid.
It's a randomly generated 99 floor dungeon that you have to beat in one shot. No saves. And when you enter the dungeon all your characters are reset to level 1, you lose all your weapons, potions, armor, and spells, your capsule monster reverts to its base state, etc. You level up and find equipment and spells as you go. And you can't backtrack, once you go to the next floor you can't go back.
You go as far as you can and if you want to quit you have to use a spell you find somewhere past level 20 to escape. Then when you return you have to start back at level 1 again.
Rarely (like once every 10-15 floors) you'll encounter special blue treasure chests which contain items you can take out of the cave and then back in, so you can spend several trips finding some decent weapons and armor and then at least have some basic equipment when you enter level 1 the next time. But no matter what you're losing your spells, your main game weapons/armor, all your levels, and your monster's progress.
The last ~20 or so floors are brutally hard. You can choose to avoid some enemies and just run to the next floor if you want, but if you don't kill most of the enemies you won't be strong enough to beat the encounters you can't avoid.
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As a kid during christmas break I started and finished Legend of Zelda in one playthrough.
As a teen - I got into the finals of a Killer Instinct tourney and won.
Then I went and played the game later and got my ass handed to me by the same guy that I beat. still tho. that free burger at the arcade was worth it.
As a teen - I got into the finals of a Killer Instinct tourney and won.
Then I went and played the game later and got my ass handed to me by the same guy that I beat. still tho. that free burger at the arcade was worth it.
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Rank 50 in Halo 3 doing Lone Wolves.
I used to be big into Achievements during the 360 days and some of the games I dug back then were brutal to perfect 1,000 on.
EDF 2017 and Bullet Witch were two that come to mind in particular.
I used to be big into Achievements during the 360 days and some of the games I dug back then were brutal to perfect 1,000 on.
EDF 2017 and Bullet Witch were two that come to mind in particular.
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I drew a map of the entire NES Willow game on graph paper
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So many categories for me, some people think I should write a book about them 
Some I mentioned recently in other threads. Here are but a few:
* Winning statewide tournament on Sinistar and getting a pinball machine as a prize (Joust and Stargate were also part of the tournament which the game play was set for 5 minutes. Once I saw a few people play those two games, I said "Fuck that! I can't compete with them! I'll stick with Sinistar!")
* Finding, then escaping the Secret Room in Gauntlet II. Finding the room was nearly impossible. Escaping it for the most part was futile. First 500 nationwide who did it got a cool looking Gauntlet II dragon t-shirt and a chance to win a $5k savings bond. Believe someone in Alaska won it but the game room I ran and played it: we had 10 winners (and during the promotion, less than 500 codes were verified by Atari).
* At one time, I had three world records verified by Twin Galaxies. Two of them fell, Double Dragon and 1943 (that happened recently). I still hold the record on Ninja Warriors (which may stay for quite awhile since there are hardly any arcade cabinets of it left in the wild, the three-screen monstrosity).
* Over 30 hours on a single credit on Gauntlet. After that, swore never to play the game again
Some I mentioned recently in other threads. Here are but a few:
* Winning statewide tournament on Sinistar and getting a pinball machine as a prize (Joust and Stargate were also part of the tournament which the game play was set for 5 minutes. Once I saw a few people play those two games, I said "Fuck that! I can't compete with them! I'll stick with Sinistar!")
* Finding, then escaping the Secret Room in Gauntlet II. Finding the room was nearly impossible. Escaping it for the most part was futile. First 500 nationwide who did it got a cool looking Gauntlet II dragon t-shirt and a chance to win a $5k savings bond. Believe someone in Alaska won it but the game room I ran and played it: we had 10 winners (and during the promotion, less than 500 codes were verified by Atari).
* At one time, I had three world records verified by Twin Galaxies. Two of them fell, Double Dragon and 1943 (that happened recently). I still hold the record on Ninja Warriors (which may stay for quite awhile since there are hardly any arcade cabinets of it left in the wild, the three-screen monstrosity).
* Over 30 hours on a single credit on Gauntlet. After that, swore never to play the game again
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gah damnSo many categories for me, some people think I should write a book about them
Some I mentioned recently in other threads. Here are but a few:
* Winning statewide tournament on Sinistar and getting a pinball machine as a prize (Joust and Stargate were also part of the tournament which the game play was set for 5 minutes. Once I saw a few people play those two games, I said "Fuck that! I can't compete with them! I'll stick with Sinistar!")
* Finding, then escaping the Secret Room in Gauntlet II. Finding the room was nearly impossible. Escaping it for the most part was futile. First 500 nationwide who did it got a cool looking Gauntlet II dragon t-shirt and a chance to win a $5k savings bond. Believe someone in Alaska won it but the game room I ran and played it: we had 10 winners (and during the promotion, less than 500 codes were verified by Atari).
* At one time, I had three world records verified by Twin Galaxies. Two of them fell, Double Dragon and 1943 (that happened recently). I still hold the record on Ninja Warriors (which may stay for quite awhile since there are hardly any arcade cabinets of it left in the wild, the three-screen monstrosity).
* Over 30 hours on a single credit on Gauntlet. After that, swore never to play the game again
bro really is the arcade man.
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Back when CvS1 first came out, I beat some uber Akuma player that was wiping the floor with everyone only using King. Want to say he had about a 20 game win streak so far. Dude was extremely pissed that he lost to a lvl 1 character in the hands of a King player that knew what they were doing. One of those things I'll never forget, and it's crazy to think it was about 24 years ago. Time flies...
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Sinistar remains one of the most stressful games of all time
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I farmed Pure Bladestone in Demon's Souls
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I never bought a Nintendo 64.
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* Over 30 hours on a single credit on Gauntlet. After that, swore never to play the game again
A person of fine taste. Gauntlet is one of those games where I really miss my brother. very few people are willing to put in the time and enjoy the experience.
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* Over 30 hours on a single credit on Gauntlet. After that, swore never to play the game again
There must have been no other players to grief you by shooting the food constantly.
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Actually played with a friend many of those hours and occasionally had people jump in and out during play (in case you're wondering, I played the elf hopped up on extra speed, fast little shit!). Cool thing about the original Gauntlet (why original? I'll tell you in a moment), two players can stay on, eat, drink and be merry indefinitely. Three player, one or two has to have quite a bit of health and share the wealth food-wise, all can stay on for quite awhile. Four...forget it. Not enough morsels to keep everyone healthy and wise. The game was actually in the Memorial Union at Arizona State University. There was an arcade that was accessible 24-7. My friend and I played on and when people wanted to hop in, we had a simple rule: cooperate and we'll keep you well-fed. Get overly greedy, die a painful death. Some rounds where shots stun and hurt other players, beware! Stun player in a roomful of ghosts? Congratulations, you became a human ghost vacuum!!! <INSERT EVIL LAUGH!>
Atari later came up with an alternate program for the game called a 'food chip' which drastically cut the calories from the game ultimately to the point where the game stopped putting food out on the table, thus ending the all-night 1cc playfest. Ironically, Gauntlet II was kind of in-between the food generosity so while you couldn't stay on forever on 1 credit, you wouldn't die simply by starving to death...well, hungry but at least one or two food sources per level.
Hmmm...maybe I should write a book before I lose my memory
