What are your Greatest Gaming Accomplishments?

[Tripredacus]

1. I had a 30 game winning streak on US East Starcraft Ladder.

2. I finished in 2nd place in a Quake 3 tournament that lasted for like 8 hours.

3. Modern I'd say I've had a couple of high finishes in pinball tournaments vs top ranked players. I did win the plaque from Stern for winning a Venom Launch Party tournament but I don't really consider that as a big accomplishment.

4. Outside of gaming ability, I was the first person to publish a tutorial on how to make NHL 08 (and other EA Sports games of the time) to work on widescreen monitors.

5. Didn't get locked in the war room on the neo geo forum

 

[famicommander]

at one point I think I was ranked like #12 in the world on Tetris DS

 

[Arcademan]

Arcademan, I have to ask because I've been curious for years and never bothered to, what does CLOW mean?

A reference to Clow Reed (rhymes with crow, not cow), the wizard from Cardcaptor Sakura, my favorite animator character as one can tell by my avatars, signature picture and birthday greetings. In other places online, I'm known as the Clow Master

 

[HellioN]

Having fun.
That's what this is supposed to be about isn't it?
Fun?

 

[Hattori Hanzo]

Stop this loser talk right now!

 

[Arcademan]

Looking at the world records posted at Twin Galaxies on Sinistar, I'm a bit flabbergasted that they seem pretty low in both the arcade and MAME version, not even close to 1 million, a feat I've done to win a cash prize back around 1982-83 or so and yes, it was done on default setting which was more impressive if I say so myself. Give you a hint on how I approached the contest I was in? In the game room I worked at, we had the stereo cockpit version of Sinistar, the owner made me practice on its hardest difficulty: LEVEL 10! Well, play it on that constantly and then play a factory level 5 game, it was like playing in slow motion with very little resistance. And now you know the rest of the story...

 

[Lastblade]

After reading Arcademan's exploits, I played some Sinistar (on Mister) and barely got over 10k.

 

[Taiso]

Hope those weren't MAME boards, Arcademan.

Because if they were, it's Milly Bitchell part 2.

 

[b-blanco]

I got head while playing street fighter zero 3 on Saturn when i was 22. This is an accomplishment because I took the game system to the girl’s house, set it up, got head (made it to like stage 5 with Sakura) then finally abandoned the game to do stuff. Came back to the game later. I also beat Burning rangers naked at my own house while waiting on a different girl to show up to fuck me. I told her I was doing this and she still showed up and fucked me no questions asked. I was elated to have first time finished BR. She just wanted the 21 year old D. Oh to be young drunk and not give a fuck (nothing has changed)

This is actually a legit accomplishment video games usually guarantee no pussy in most cases.

 

[Arcademan]

Hope those weren't MAME boards, Arcademan.

Because if they were, it's Milly Bitchell part 2.

Played in on the original Sinistar arcade machine which also has the 49 way joystick, the only way to play the game. I have played it on the PSX via William's Greatest Hits but it's not the same with the home controllers. Some fun facts about Sinistar:

* Has a 49 way joystick (8 directions at 6 different speeds plus neutral). Ditto for their other games like Blaster, Bubbles, Mystic Marathon to name a few.

* While holding down the fire button gives it a constant firing capability, manually firing is faster but can be tiring over time.

* Being by the still building Sinistar, you can use sSnibombs to keep it from being built and pick off crystals from worker ships and turn them into Sinibombs. Overdo this method and the Sinistar will show absolutely no mercy.

* Cool special effect: If you hide behind a big asteroid when Sinistar slams toward you at full speed, it will virtually knock you almost off the video screen and send you hurling out of control. It's hard to do but it's a cool sight to see.

* You can lose 2 lives at once: spinning wildly in Sinistar's mouth before exploding and being shot by a worker ship. However if you get caught by the Sinistar, then get shot a fraction of a second later by a worker ship, you lose 2 lives. If you have one life left and this occurs, the lives count as -1 and the machine reads this as 255. You have better odds being struck by lightning, a car or winning the lottery.

* Once the Sinistar is destroyed, you can shoot the bigger pieces flying from it for extra points (similar to the battleships on 1943), then when you warp for a few seconds to the next level, keep firing: you can hit ships and earn extra points doing that as well.

Except for the 60-in-1 game boards I've played, I've never MAMED a game in my life

 

[famicommander]

Played in on the original Sinistar arcade machine which also has the 49 way joystick, the only way to play the game. I have played it on the PSX via William's Greatest Hits but it's not the same with the home controllers. Some fun facts about Sinistar:

* Has a 49 way joystick (8 directions at 6 different speeds plus neutral). Ditto for their other games like Blaster, Bubbles, Mystic Marathon to name a few.

* While holding down the fire button gives it a constant firing capability, manually firing is faster but can be tiring over time.

* Being by the still building Sinistar, you can use sSnibombs to keep it from being built and pick off crystals from worker ships and turn them into Sinibombs. Overdo this method and the Sinistar will show absolutely no mercy.

* Cool special effect: If you hide behind a big asteroid when Sinistar slams toward you at full speed, it will virtually knock you almost off the video screen and send you hurling out of control. It's hard to do but it's a cool sight to see.

* You can lose 2 lives at once: spinning wildly in Sinistar's mouth before exploding and being shot by a worker ship. However if you get caught by the Sinistar, then get shot a fraction of a second later by a worker ship, you lose 2 lives. If you have one life left and this occurs, the lives count as -1 and the machine reads this as 255. You have better odds being struck by lightning, a car or winning the lottery.

* Once the Sinistar is destroyed, you can shoot the bigger pieces flying from it for extra points (similar to the battleships on 1943), then when you warp for a few seconds to the next level, keep firing: you can hit ships and earn extra points doing that as well.

Except for the 60-in-1 game boards I've played, I've never MAMED a game in my life

i think this guy might actually play video games, y'all

 

[Arcademan]

i think this guy might actually play video games, y'all

45 years later, I'm still working in a game room repairing them little shits

Most of my gaming accolades were done in the 80's and early 90's. The majority of arcades these days are redemption filled things but if I walk by and see a game from my time era, I'd put a coin in and play it. I'm trying to convince the powers to be at my store to get some retro games since that particular part of town sorely lacks. Bosses of course always saying "They can play those on the home systems or they wouldn't want to play something primitive. They just don't get it at times.

 

[Taiso]

45 years later, I'm still working in a game room repairing them little shits

Most of my gaming accolades were done in the 80's and early 90's. The majority of arcades these days are redemption filled things but if I walk by and see a game from my time era, I'd put a coin in and play it. I'm trying to convince the powers to be at my store to get some retro games since that particular part of town sorely lacks. Bosses of course always saying "They can play those on the home systems or they wouldn't want to play something primitive. They just don't get it at times.

Did you ever cross paths with the Milly Bitchells of the world back then?

 

[Arcademan]

Did you ever cross paths with the Milly Bitchells of the world back then?

Can't say that I did. There were a couple of record holders I did talk with but not in person since my records were via referee, not videotaped. I had to tell them how I accomplished the scoring, any tricks and have a signed paper verifying the score from the arcade owner, which was actually norm for the time until taping, then social media, then iPhones became the evidence needed.

At least locally, I met a few people that impressed me with their gameplay on certain games but I always though personally, I was the best simply because while there were people that were very good at some games, I was good at EVERY game I played...well, except Tron

 

[NeoSneth]

NBA showtime - Dreamcast
My roommate and I had 4 perfect seasons against Midway bullshit CPU nonsense.

 

[2Heed]

I have never played, let alone owned, any games in the GTA, Assassin's Creed, CoD, Gears of War, God of War, Metal Gear Solid (aside from a demo for the first one), Final Fantasy post-VII (which was overrated as hell) titles and could go on and on. These days I'm a much bigger fan of indie stuff with the exception of Elden Ring and much of Nintendo's first party IPs.

I did beat SaGa Frontier 2 about 25 years ago, and although the details are vague, I do remember the final boss lasting close to an hour. Either I hadn't leveled up nearly enough or the game was extremely difficult; probably some of both.

I've beaten Golden Axe: Death Adder's Revenge without dying. Trix is grossly OP. You also can't seem to ever get the top ranking in that game, no matter how good your run is.

Haven't played it in decades, but in Morrowind there's a Nord who has lost his axe and he fights you bare-handed. I decided to fight him bare-handed too, even though my stats in that field were woefully inadequate. The fight lasted about 20 minutes with a lot of grunting and an actual hit landing maybe one in 20 times. It happened during lunchtime, and for some reason I remember eating almost an entire container's worth of Hamburger Helper Beef Pasta.