What's Your Fondest Videogame-Related Memory?
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Edit: because everyone else is writing such excellent and memorable follow-ups I wanted to expand on the quickie 30-second blurb I originally wrote.
I first played Ninja Gaiden as a rental in 1989, I asked for it, and got it for Christmas later that same year, along with Contra and two other NES games. When I had originally rented it, I got stuck at stage 2-2 despite unlimited continues. This hurt my young gamer's pride. By comparison: on Christmas Day, I had beaten Contra on my 3rd playthough with the code (within the first half-hour), and before the night was over, I could 1cc it without the code.
THIS WOULD NOT DO.
I played it. Got past 2-2, kept playing, got stuck a few more times, and got pissed at it. Stopped playing it for a few weeks. I played more and got better and got farther through the game. Ocasionally I would get stuck and put it away for wees or months as I hat other games to play (and school and shit).
Got to 5-2 and got stuck again at the "impossible" jump, after many, many, MANY, failures, I eventually found a way to glitch past it. Got to Malth, got stuck at him, until I figured that there is no secret because his attack is too hard to dodge, so you just run up and wail on him and hope that get enough hits in before he kills you. Then get past the next stage without too much difficulty (no holes to get knocked into), then: BAM! Stage 6-2 hit me like a ton of bricks. I couldn't get past it.
No matter what I fucking did: go fast, go slow, different sub-weapons, go carefully, take risks, alternate, nothing worked. Fucking birds, bats, jetpack-ninjas, pumpkinheads, those little green jumpy-things, that discus dude. FUCK ALL OF THEM. So many time I wanted to break the controller. So frustrating. FUCK FUCK FUCK. The Angry Video Game Nerd review of Ninja Gaiden expresses what I felt perfectly (well... minus his really creepy constant coprophilia, anyway...).
I had to put the game away for purposes of maintaining sanity. I didn't touch it for months.
Months pass. sometime around the spring of 92', I was at the house of one of my mom's friends, playing with her kid who was the same age as me, but who I didn't know. We were playing Nintendo quietly, until the kid's big brother comes home and kick off whatever game were were playing, and puts in Ghosts and Goblins. I objected as I hated the game, since I had rented it some time before and couldn't get past the first couple of screens since it's so goddammed hard.
I was getting bored, until I see him do this thing with Arthur : he got just before to Red Arima and ever so carefully inched forward, I asked him what he was doing, he told me; "watch" and inched forward one more time, and Red Arima got stuck, glitched, and disappeared.
He told me what he did was "suffocation", that there was a "magic" frame, where if you go forward half a pixel, instead of a full one, the game would glitch in a way advantageous to the player. He also told me it's easily repeatable as long as you memorize where the each enemy appears and are super careful when you try to activate it. He repeated it a few more times before I had to go home.
I was in awe. I had never considered such a thing, being a kid, with a kid's logic; enemies in games just "appeared" either in predictable patterns or randomly, that's how it worked.
After I had a little time to mentally digest what I had learned: I had a full-on video game epiphany: if my character's movement determined when enemies appear, if I carefully control my character's movement -I- can control when the enemies appear: reducing a formerly wild and chaotic system into series of predictable triggers.
It's like I finally learned the special move! The ultimate secret to finally bring down the, up-to-this-point, invincible, undefeatable foe!
I now finally had to will to challenge that game, which had been gathering dust in it's home in the stereo cabinet next to the TV. It took weeks of hours-long, thumb blistering, arduous sessions of gaming. Much trial and much error, I applied what I had learned. I progressed through the game with a new vigor, and in the process; essentially re-learning how to play video games, replacing my reactionary flailing with careful calculation and a keen eye for cause-and-effect (at least, has much as possible for a fat, nerdy, 14-yearold).
My progress through the game became like a specialized code of movement or a carefully choreographed dance: "... after climbing the ladder to the third floor, jump to the top, move right half-a-pixel, wait for the pumpkinhead to throw the second axe, jump onto the platform while the axe is at it's highest point, run right, slash punmkinhead, run and jump to the next platform, move two pixels forward, wait for the bird that appears in the upper-righhand corner of the screen to fly to left edge of the screen, run right and jump to the next platform, run right three more pixels, duck and slash right at the bat that appears, jump up to avoid the bird again, run right two more pixels duck and slash the bird on it's return, more right two more pixels... ect, ect, ect" (this is roughly four seconds of realtime)
After learning the timing to get past those shuriken-tossing jetpack-ninja, I finally progress to new ground: 6-3, which is no less difficult, but with my refined technique, I make rapid, if hard-won progress.
Now finally, the the showdown: as alluded to in the cinema scene, Ryu must defeat the crystal controlling his father...
...then face the Jaquio...
...and finally the Demon...
...and discovering the abject horror that if you happen to die fighting in this three-stage final boss, you are sent back to stage: 6-1!
I almost broke my NES Advantage that day... but my pride was on the line, and I WILL NOT let this game beat me! Fortunately, after my rage has abated, my skills were sufficient for a threepeat, and beat the game handily.
Actually, I mis-remembered (a lot apparently...).
During the final lock-in, I was determined to beat Sissy with Shintaro, but it was going badly because Shintaro has no projectiles and GameLand had no A/C (which is serious in Las Vegas). One of the NG.com Vegas locals: Fygee, along with Dash no Chris, Domino-chan, Ancient Flounder, and that other guy (I don't remember if Dinododo and Decpticreep could make it or not).
When I was beginning to wither, from the both the heat and being raped by Sissy's Abobo-in-a-box for roughly an hour, Fygee stepped in, and offered to alternate playing against her, where we would tag-off with each credit. After a while, it was determined that it was best method was to fake her out into doing her saw-kick then jump over and land a wall check
+
, repeating as often as possible without getting nailed, then play keep-away until time ran out.
He managed to pull it off first:
I managed to pull it off later that night, and again on Dash no Chris' AES at EVO 2007, and again, when I got my own Matrimelee MVS cart to play on my cab.
Also, from the same event: Neo Cakes!
I first played Ninja Gaiden as a rental in 1989, I asked for it, and got it for Christmas later that same year, along with Contra and two other NES games. When I had originally rented it, I got stuck at stage 2-2 despite unlimited continues. This hurt my young gamer's pride. By comparison: on Christmas Day, I had beaten Contra on my 3rd playthough with the code (within the first half-hour), and before the night was over, I could 1cc it without the code.
THIS WOULD NOT DO.
I played it. Got past 2-2, kept playing, got stuck a few more times, and got pissed at it. Stopped playing it for a few weeks. I played more and got better and got farther through the game. Ocasionally I would get stuck and put it away for wees or months as I hat other games to play (and school and shit).
Got to 5-2 and got stuck again at the "impossible" jump, after many, many, MANY, failures, I eventually found a way to glitch past it. Got to Malth, got stuck at him, until I figured that there is no secret because his attack is too hard to dodge, so you just run up and wail on him and hope that get enough hits in before he kills you. Then get past the next stage without too much difficulty (no holes to get knocked into), then: BAM! Stage 6-2 hit me like a ton of bricks. I couldn't get past it.
No matter what I fucking did: go fast, go slow, different sub-weapons, go carefully, take risks, alternate, nothing worked. Fucking birds, bats, jetpack-ninjas, pumpkinheads, those little green jumpy-things, that discus dude. FUCK ALL OF THEM. So many time I wanted to break the controller. So frustrating. FUCK FUCK FUCK. The Angry Video Game Nerd review of Ninja Gaiden expresses what I felt perfectly (well... minus his really creepy constant coprophilia, anyway...).
I had to put the game away for purposes of maintaining sanity. I didn't touch it for months.
Months pass. sometime around the spring of 92', I was at the house of one of my mom's friends, playing with her kid who was the same age as me, but who I didn't know. We were playing Nintendo quietly, until the kid's big brother comes home and kick off whatever game were were playing, and puts in Ghosts and Goblins. I objected as I hated the game, since I had rented it some time before and couldn't get past the first couple of screens since it's so goddammed hard.
I was getting bored, until I see him do this thing with Arthur : he got just before to Red Arima and ever so carefully inched forward, I asked him what he was doing, he told me; "watch" and inched forward one more time, and Red Arima got stuck, glitched, and disappeared.
He told me what he did was "suffocation", that there was a "magic" frame, where if you go forward half a pixel, instead of a full one, the game would glitch in a way advantageous to the player. He also told me it's easily repeatable as long as you memorize where the each enemy appears and are super careful when you try to activate it. He repeated it a few more times before I had to go home.
I was in awe. I had never considered such a thing, being a kid, with a kid's logic; enemies in games just "appeared" either in predictable patterns or randomly, that's how it worked.
After I had a little time to mentally digest what I had learned: I had a full-on video game epiphany: if my character's movement determined when enemies appear, if I carefully control my character's movement -I- can control when the enemies appear: reducing a formerly wild and chaotic system into series of predictable triggers.
It's like I finally learned the special move! The ultimate secret to finally bring down the, up-to-this-point, invincible, undefeatable foe!
I now finally had to will to challenge that game, which had been gathering dust in it's home in the stereo cabinet next to the TV. It took weeks of hours-long, thumb blistering, arduous sessions of gaming. Much trial and much error, I applied what I had learned. I progressed through the game with a new vigor, and in the process; essentially re-learning how to play video games, replacing my reactionary flailing with careful calculation and a keen eye for cause-and-effect (at least, has much as possible for a fat, nerdy, 14-yearold).
My progress through the game became like a specialized code of movement or a carefully choreographed dance: "... after climbing the ladder to the third floor, jump to the top, move right half-a-pixel, wait for the pumpkinhead to throw the second axe, jump onto the platform while the axe is at it's highest point, run right, slash punmkinhead, run and jump to the next platform, move two pixels forward, wait for the bird that appears in the upper-righhand corner of the screen to fly to left edge of the screen, run right and jump to the next platform, run right three more pixels, duck and slash right at the bat that appears, jump up to avoid the bird again, run right two more pixels duck and slash the bird on it's return, more right two more pixels... ect, ect, ect" (this is roughly four seconds of realtime)
After learning the timing to get past those shuriken-tossing jetpack-ninja, I finally progress to new ground: 6-3, which is no less difficult, but with my refined technique, I make rapid, if hard-won progress.
Now finally, the the showdown: as alluded to in the cinema scene, Ryu must defeat the crystal controlling his father...
...then face the Jaquio...
...and finally the Demon...
...and discovering the abject horror that if you happen to die fighting in this three-stage final boss, you are sent back to stage: 6-1!
[HIGHLIGHT]MOTHERPUSSBUCKET[/HIGHLIGHT]
I almost broke my NES Advantage that day... but my pride was on the line, and I WILL NOT let this game beat me! Fortunately, after my rage has abated, my skills were sufficient for a threepeat, and beat the game handily.
Actually, I mis-remembered (a lot apparently...).
During the final lock-in, I was determined to beat Sissy with Shintaro, but it was going badly because Shintaro has no projectiles and GameLand had no A/C (which is serious in Las Vegas). One of the NG.com Vegas locals: Fygee, along with Dash no Chris, Domino-chan, Ancient Flounder, and that other guy (I don't remember if Dinododo and Decpticreep could make it or not).
When I was beginning to wither, from the both the heat and being raped by Sissy's Abobo-in-a-box for roughly an hour, Fygee stepped in, and offered to alternate playing against her, where we would tag-off with each credit. After a while, it was determined that it was best method was to fake her out into doing her saw-kick then jump over and land a wall check
+, repeating as often as possible without getting nailed, then play keep-away until time ran out. He managed to pull it off first:
I managed to pull it off later that night, and again on Dash no Chris' AES at EVO 2007, and again, when I got my own Matrimelee MVS cart to play on my cab.
Also, from the same event: Neo Cakes!
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HeartlessNinny
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Hmm.. This is a pretty good idea for a thread.
Mine's an easy one: It's the first time I fought Mother Brain in Super Metroid. My heart was racing... Everything was on the line. The baby metroid was dead! It's hard to describe, but I've never felt so excited about a game in my life.
A runner up would be experiencing the climax of the story in Vagrant Story and learning what was really going on. That game has one of my all-time favourite endings, too.
Third runner up is waking up before school to play Final Fantasy III (VI) back in the day. I was a lazy kid and I never did that for any other game, and playing while the house was dead quiet sticks out in my mind as a fond memory for sure.
Mine's an easy one: It's the first time I fought Mother Brain in Super Metroid. My heart was racing... Everything was on the line. The baby metroid was dead! It's hard to describe, but I've never felt so excited about a game in my life.
A runner up would be experiencing the climax of the story in Vagrant Story and learning what was really going on. That game has one of my all-time favourite endings, too.
Third runner up is waking up before school to play Final Fantasy III (VI) back in the day. I was a lazy kid and I never did that for any other game, and playing while the house was dead quiet sticks out in my mind as a fond memory for sure.
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In 1992 not long after my family moved to Germany my dad took us to the bowling alley on Ramstein air base. Prior to that I handn't gone to a real deal arcade, I'd just played on Arcade machines at various places. The moment we stepped in that arcade my world got turned upside down and back up again. This was my first exposure to Street fighter II, Samurai Shodown, Captain Commando and Art of Fighting. Before I'd seen those games all I really played was Atari, vectrex and NES. When I saw those huge colorful sprites of all those fighting games it ruined me. From that point on I slowly became almost strictly a fighting game/beat-em-up player.
So yeah, seeing MVS and CPS1 fighting games for the first time in my life was life changing and probably my most memorable videogame moment. It made me the fighting game player that I am today.
So yeah, seeing MVS and CPS1 fighting games for the first time in my life was life changing and probably my most memorable videogame moment. It made me the fighting game player that I am today.
With my brother on a trip to the local Pizza Hut and seeing the brand new 4P Konami X-Men that had just been put on route. putting in the quarter and the opening narration of "In the 21st century.." Being 6 and 7 at the time and firing that game up, we lost our minds Didn't realize how repetitive it was at the time. damn that game was fun..
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Playing Fatal Fury (vs. Michael Max) at an outdoor beach arcade way back in the day. Waves on the screen. Waves outside. Salt air. It was really an experience.
Next best was playing Fatal Fury on my own cab, at home, thinking about the time at the beach.
Next best was playing Fatal Fury on my own cab, at home, thinking about the time at the beach.
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old memory: getting a crispy $100 bill from my grandmother for my 6th birthday so I could get myself a nes. I also received a gradius that day. The 2600 got really dusty after that. (second best present i got that year next to world series tickets 
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middle gaming life memory: when i got lunar: silver star story complete for ps1. I missed out on the sega cd titles at that time and this quickly became one of my favorite stories/ series' ever. I keep on buying these titles- Lunar games are like my catcher in the rye now and i tend to buy them when i see them even if i have that version.
Recent memory: I bought a super famicom from fox1. I bought a small bundle of games from someone else which included 'holy sword legend 2' (secret of mana in its u.s. release). This was one of my favorites from when i was a kid and i have beaten it countless times in my life. I do not speak nor can i read a lick of japanese. When I popped it in, I was able to beat the game completely by heart. That was pretty good in my mind.
)middle gaming life memory: when i got lunar: silver star story complete for ps1. I missed out on the sega cd titles at that time and this quickly became one of my favorite stories/ series' ever. I keep on buying these titles- Lunar games are like my catcher in the rye now and i tend to buy them when i see them even if i have that version.
Recent memory: I bought a super famicom from fox1. I bought a small bundle of games from someone else which included 'holy sword legend 2' (secret of mana in its u.s. release). This was one of my favorites from when i was a kid and i have beaten it countless times in my life. I do not speak nor can i read a lick of japanese. When I popped it in, I was able to beat the game completely by heart. That was pretty good in my mind.
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My fondest videogaming memory - as a kid, after owning Xmen on megadrive for YEARS and never being able to figure out what I was supposed to do at the end of Mojo's world, in a moment of frustration and enlightenment I hit the reset button on the console.
I had finally gotten to the next level and faced off against Magneto.
I had finally gotten to the next level and faced off against Magneto.
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Most of my earliest VG memories seem to be focus around the NES, First time actually beating Mario and Ninja Gaiden 2 and then the hours and hours spent playing MK3 on the MD....
Shit i feel old now....
Shit i feel old now....
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Easily the most important video game experience for me was when my mom took me to a friend of hers house and they had an Atari, I started playing asteroids and their kids came home and saw my score and starting freaking out, I had over 500,000 points and had a full set of lives. At first they only saw 88,000 but it rolls over at 100,000 so I told them I had flipped the score already 5 times. I left and gave them the controller. I never felt as boss as that since then.
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Great topic. Too many good video game memories. Here are a few stand outs from the 8 and 16 bit era.
NES - I used to watch my friend's mom beat Gradius and Contra over and over while smoking and breast feeding her child. Her NES skills were legendary.
SMS - The day that our promotional copy of Double Dragon came to the house. I forgot that it was coming. I have two brothers, so it was great to get a game we could play together.
My younger brother who couldn't read beat Miracle Warriors. The last boss was green and had her boobs out. As a young kid it was pretty epic.
SNES To promote the release of the SNES, Nintendo held an event at our local shopping mall. They had about ten machines set up with all sorts of games and everyone could play. It was my first time playing Street Fighter II against people. We formed two lines and one guy picked Chun Li and beat everybody. I almost beat him with Zangief. I remember walking away from that experience thinking it was an amazing new type of game.
NES - I used to watch my friend's mom beat Gradius and Contra over and over while smoking and breast feeding her child. Her NES skills were legendary.
SMS - The day that our promotional copy of Double Dragon came to the house. I forgot that it was coming. I have two brothers, so it was great to get a game we could play together.
My younger brother who couldn't read beat Miracle Warriors. The last boss was green and had her boobs out. As a young kid it was pretty epic.
SNES To promote the release of the SNES, Nintendo held an event at our local shopping mall. They had about ten machines set up with all sorts of games and everyone could play. It was my first time playing Street Fighter II against people. We formed two lines and one guy picked Chun Li and beat everybody. I almost beat him with Zangief. I remember walking away from that experience thinking it was an amazing new type of game.
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Getting "un-stuck" in Destiny of an Emperor on NES. I had been stuck at the point where you need to wake up Zhuge Liang for 2 years. No internet to run to for help. I had brought the game over to my friends house to try and figure it out. Turns out you have to talk to him and leave the dialogue box open for 60 seconds without doing anything (so stupid). It just so happened that my friends mom called us up for dinner at the exact moment that the dialogue box was open. When we came back from dinner, that fucker was awake and I was able to experience the 2nd half of that game after 2 years of frustration.
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Sitting next to my brother when he beat Mega Man 2 for the first time. Both of us had tried for DAYS to beat it, but we always came up short.
I still can't beat MM2 to this day, but I can destroy MM3 like a boss.
For the SNES, finishing FFVI and watching the long, satisfying ending after weeks of playing and grinding. The Nintendo Power guide was really vague and only hinted at where to go, so I was kinda sorta having to play it by ear. I also remember beating my older brother at SFII for the first time. We did a mini-celebration cheer and he passed the crown to me, so to speak
I have plenty of arcade-related memories, but the best is when my dad was visiting me in Vegas. We went to Sam's Town to catch a movie, but before we went in, he wanted to check out the arcade. This shooting game in front caught his eye, so he went over to see if he wanted to play it. A couple of kids walked by and started giggling, saying something about an old guy playing video games. Little did those kids know that he put his money in and proceeded to kick ass on the game.
I still can't beat MM2 to this day, but I can destroy MM3 like a boss.
For the SNES, finishing FFVI and watching the long, satisfying ending after weeks of playing and grinding. The Nintendo Power guide was really vague and only hinted at where to go, so I was kinda sorta having to play it by ear. I also remember beating my older brother at SFII for the first time. We did a mini-celebration cheer and he passed the crown to me, so to speak
I have plenty of arcade-related memories, but the best is when my dad was visiting me in Vegas. We went to Sam's Town to catch a movie, but before we went in, he wanted to check out the arcade. This shooting game in front caught his eye, so he went over to see if he wanted to play it. A couple of kids walked by and started giggling, saying something about an old guy playing video games. Little did those kids know that he put his money in and proceeded to kick ass on the game.
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Which WS did you go to, cdamm? I went to game 4 of the San Fran/Texas WS a couple years ago and the wrong team won.
As far as best video game memory, we got an NES and I really enjoyed beating the heck out of my Dad at Baseball Stars. He always played as the American Dreams and stuck me with one of the lower tiered teams. It just never worked out for him, ha.
As far as best video game memory, we got an NES and I really enjoyed beating the heck out of my Dad at Baseball Stars. He always played as the American Dreams and stuck me with one of the lower tiered teams. It just never worked out for him, ha.
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Hard to pick just one, but there are four that come to mind:
The first time I beat Dragon's Lair in an arcade. Had a crowd of about fifty people watching me. Strange, considering I hate QTE games nowadays, but back then it was a thrill being able to show off my 'skills' to a crowd of fascinated onlookers.
Beating Ninja Gaiden for NES. That was the game I bought a NES for, the first game experience I ever had of its type, and I knew I'd accomplished something noteworthy as it concerned the hobby.
Playing KOF '94 for the first time. We always wanted a fighting game crossover dream match. Ryo appearing in FFS was a great add, but we wanted more. KOF '94 was the game that finally pushed me to buy a Neo, and the home cart system and my collection of 25 games remain my prized gaming possession to this day. That all goes back to '94. Hard to believe we're coming up on 20 years.
But if I had to pick one that, to this day, still makes me feel the echos of that initial joy like waves rolling in on the beaches of my soul from some distant realm, it would be this:
The first time I played Wizardry on an Apple IIE. I didn't own an Apple IIE of my own, so I ended up going to my cousins' house on the weekends to play and it was the first time I'd ever played a video game that wasn't an Atari game. When I saw that you could make characters, buy gear, track stats, map dungeons and essentially play Dungeons and Dragons as a video game, I knew the hobby was going to stick with me. The joy I'd experience whenever that first Wizardry title screen lit up is something that, to this day, remains unmatched.
Good thread.
The first time I beat Dragon's Lair in an arcade. Had a crowd of about fifty people watching me. Strange, considering I hate QTE games nowadays, but back then it was a thrill being able to show off my 'skills' to a crowd of fascinated onlookers.
Beating Ninja Gaiden for NES. That was the game I bought a NES for, the first game experience I ever had of its type, and I knew I'd accomplished something noteworthy as it concerned the hobby.
Playing KOF '94 for the first time. We always wanted a fighting game crossover dream match. Ryo appearing in FFS was a great add, but we wanted more. KOF '94 was the game that finally pushed me to buy a Neo, and the home cart system and my collection of 25 games remain my prized gaming possession to this day. That all goes back to '94. Hard to believe we're coming up on 20 years.
But if I had to pick one that, to this day, still makes me feel the echos of that initial joy like waves rolling in on the beaches of my soul from some distant realm, it would be this:
The first time I played Wizardry on an Apple IIE. I didn't own an Apple IIE of my own, so I ended up going to my cousins' house on the weekends to play and it was the first time I'd ever played a video game that wasn't an Atari game. When I saw that you could make characters, buy gear, track stats, map dungeons and essentially play Dungeons and Dragons as a video game, I knew the hobby was going to stick with me. The joy I'd experience whenever that first Wizardry title screen lit up is something that, to this day, remains unmatched.
Good thread.
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The oldest memory, and one that sticks with me the most, is when I beat Super Mario Bros. on the NES for the first time. I was a little kid, and I used to wake up at 5am-6am just to play NES. Everybody would still be in bed so it allowed me to play for hours until they woke up. I had a black and white tv in my room (which was cool as hell back then), but I asked to keep the NES hooked up to our living room tv. Anyway, it was real early in the morning (sun hadn't even come out yet), and I had just beaten Super Mario Bros. for the first time. I flipped my lid. Back in the Atari days, games didn't end, and you didn't "beat them" --you just played over and over again. I was so excited over this triumph that I went through the whole house and woke everybody up to tell them. I wasn't met with the response I was hoping for, but I was so high on beating the game that I didn't care. All I knew is that if anybody ever asked me if I played Super Mario, I could puff out my chest and say "yeah, and I finished it." This was back in '86-'87, so I was only 6 years old.
EDIT - My face when I was typing this story out:
EDIT - My face when I was typing this story out:
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Dude, good call. That's certainly one of mine, too. It might be my fondest memory, actually. I clearly remember that Friday afternoon when I was 8 years old. Great times.
I also remember my sixth birthday pretty fondly. I remember it was a Saturday and my mom woke me up really early, before my dad went to work. They gave me two presents. One was Time Lord, the other was Little Nemo. I still have those two games. Excellent.
Also, the first time I beat Mike Tyson in Mike Tyson's Punch Out!! This was a bit more recent, but still over ten years ago. I was 15. It was the summer before high school started. Mike Tyson is, of course, tough in that game. It was just a great feeling accomplishing that with two good friends there to witness it.
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My single greatest moment had to be October of 1991. I remember my ol man used to come home with brown paper grocery bags full of cash. I used to ask him where he got it and he told me he had just built a house.♥
To me, it was believable back then, I had no clue what he did on the side. But this particular day was going to end up differently. He came home with 2 paper bags today. He took my mom and I to our favorite Mexican restaurant.
♥It was a great meal, good times. I remember him asking me what I wanted for my birthday, which was less than a month away. I immediately told him about the Super Nintendo. He asked how much it cost, I told him $200. (Keep in mind, my father is old school - I had to earn my keep, even when I was young. No free rides.) he said the price was a little steep, and the dreaded "we'll see." - then he asked if we wanted to go to the mall, that he wanted a rack stereo system.♥
So we left the restaurant and went home to clean up and whatnot. So we were ready to walk out the door when he stops me. He hands me $200. Needless to say, I flipped the fuck out.
I couldn't wait to get to the mall. It was the most awesome feeling ever. Software ECT was right next to Sears - he left me there and paid for the SNES, then went to Sears to grab his stereo. I played as much of the demo unit as I could for at least 45 minutes. Once he came back and got me, I got to hold my very own SNES (which I still have to this day) and walk around the mall with it. I held it horizontally, like a boss, showing it off.
Super Mario World was amazing. It's still my favorite console of all time. So many fond memories of that system.♥
To me, it was believable back then, I had no clue what he did on the side. But this particular day was going to end up differently. He came home with 2 paper bags today. He took my mom and I to our favorite Mexican restaurant.
♥It was a great meal, good times. I remember him asking me what I wanted for my birthday, which was less than a month away. I immediately told him about the Super Nintendo. He asked how much it cost, I told him $200. (Keep in mind, my father is old school - I had to earn my keep, even when I was young. No free rides.) he said the price was a little steep, and the dreaded "we'll see." - then he asked if we wanted to go to the mall, that he wanted a rack stereo system.♥
So we left the restaurant and went home to clean up and whatnot. So we were ready to walk out the door when he stops me. He hands me $200. Needless to say, I flipped the fuck out.
I couldn't wait to get to the mall. It was the most awesome feeling ever. Software ECT was right next to Sears - he left me there and paid for the SNES, then went to Sears to grab his stereo. I played as much of the demo unit as I could for at least 45 minutes. Once he came back and got me, I got to hold my very own SNES (which I still have to this day) and walk around the mall with it. I held it horizontally, like a boss, showing it off.
Super Mario World was amazing. It's still my favorite console of all time. So many fond memories of that system.♥
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Three pinnacle moments for me:
1. In 1986 for my 6th birthday, I got an NES. This basically formed my love for video games.
2. In 1991, there was an arcade that was within walking distance from our apartment. I started going there and the regulars, all much older than me, taught me how to play Street Fighter II. MK came out the following year. I ended up being one of those regulars, albeit at a different arcade, well into high school before the bottom fell out of that industry.
3. Around 1999, during my first year of college, a friend of mine sold me a Saturn for $45. It was mint in the box and it came with some games, but namely, Layer Section. After that, I pretty much tracked down every STG there was for that system, which trickled down to doing the same for Dreamcast, then PS2. My obsession with this genre started right there.
Admittedly, I'm not as much into fighters now, but that's just because I lack the time/dedication. I lack that same time/dedication to be any good at STGs, but I still "collect" them as sort of works of art that represent a dying genre of games I still love to play even though I'm fairly terrible at them.
1. In 1986 for my 6th birthday, I got an NES. This basically formed my love for video games.
2. In 1991, there was an arcade that was within walking distance from our apartment. I started going there and the regulars, all much older than me, taught me how to play Street Fighter II. MK came out the following year. I ended up being one of those regulars, albeit at a different arcade, well into high school before the bottom fell out of that industry.
3. Around 1999, during my first year of college, a friend of mine sold me a Saturn for $45. It was mint in the box and it came with some games, but namely, Layer Section. After that, I pretty much tracked down every STG there was for that system, which trickled down to doing the same for Dreamcast, then PS2. My obsession with this genre started right there.
Admittedly, I'm not as much into fighters now, but that's just because I lack the time/dedication. I lack that same time/dedication to be any good at STGs, but I still "collect" them as sort of works of art that represent a dying genre of games I still love to play even though I'm fairly terrible at them.
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I'll just copy/paste mine from the OG-thread.
http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showt...ite-moments-in-gaming-(nostalgic-or-otherwise)
http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showt...ite-moments-in-gaming-(nostalgic-or-otherwise)
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Probably beating Zelda on the NES.
My pops was out for two weeks (tonsillectomy at age 39). He was so bored that he took out graph paper and starting Mapping Level-9. It was a big help and together we beat it.
Probably the only thing that can compete is when I finally beat Midevil Madness on Williams Pinball HOF. That day will be a momentous occasion indeed.
My pops was out for two weeks (tonsillectomy at age 39). He was so bored that he took out graph paper and starting Mapping Level-9. It was a big help and together we beat it.
Probably the only thing that can compete is when I finally beat Midevil Madness on Williams Pinball HOF. That day will be a momentous occasion indeed.