In my post in the Wipeout thread, I wrote about a new Great Gaming Memory. We probably all have dozens and dozens of great gaming memories. So in the interest of not writing books, post THREE great video gaming memories (any system) you have. I'll go first:

1 - Wipeout HD: Flying around Moa Therma while "Sexy MotherFuc&^%r" by Prince blasts out of my Surround Sound... LOVE the random music feature!

2 - Duke Nukem 3D: First time ever playing online. Fighting my buddy on a custom map, and watching the chain gun impacts on the wall behind him as he ran right to left, then leaped out a window from the second floor.

3 - Combat Mission (PC): the first time I squared off against a German Tiger tank. I got the drop on him and bounced two shells off his armor before the 90mm shell slammed into my turrrent. That wasn't pretty.

Great thread! Let me add a couple of my own, but more of overall experience:

1) Ridge Racer - On the PS1, seeing 3D accompanied by CD-quality soundtrack, I was mesmerized for months. I remembered driving beneath an overpass for the first time in the game & suddenly heard an echo of my engine. I couldn't believe my ears.
2) Tekken - Once again, first time I saw that game running on the PS1. I believe that might just be the first home console 3D game that perfectly mimicked the arcade. Back then, 3D 60fps at home was the holy grail, & Tekken probably opened the floodgate.
3) SSX - That first giant, super-hang-time jump, landing on a downward slope waaaayyy below. I felt as though I was flying.

1. SNES Zelda a link to the past, just finding all the secrets and playing the whole game.

2. NES Finally realizing that you can never go past about level 4-1 in Adventures with LoLo, man that game was hard.

3. PS2 the whole Shadow of the Collossus experience, every thing in that game was great, even with the sometimes choppy frame rate.

Sure, i'll bite.

1. Running and gunning from Minion in Twisted Metal, after finally beating the others in the Rooftop level.

2. Reading the Keepers Diary in Resident Evil, and the great jump right after.

3. Fighting Psycho Mantis in MGS.

1. Tetris on the original fatty gameboy. addiction to go.
2. Legend of Zelda on Super Nintendo.
3. Pinball Hall of Fame: Gottelieb Collection. I played this on the orginal xbox version. this is without a doubt the best pinball simulator. why cant they make more? sure, there's the new williams collection but its only for the wii. All Hail Far Sight Studios!

When my controller start vibrating.

1. Running and gunning from Minion in Twisted Metal, after finally beating the others in the Rooftop level.



1+

That was a good time.

1. When I got Legend of Zelda : Ocarina Of Time for christmas on N64... spent the whole night playing :) One of the best game I have ever played.

2. Shadow of the Colossus... the whole game is an amazing experience.

3. Golden Eye on N64 playing with 3 other friends, countless hours spent playing that during summer vacation :D

4. First playthrough FFX.

Those are the one from top of my head for now :p

1. Hacking into the NORAD defense system and playing Global Thermal Nuclear War against WOPR. No wait...

2. Late nights taking turns trying to defeat Mike Tyson on the NES.

3. Late nights launching my Golem Bomber up and down the ice mesas in online PC Battlezone matches.

Crap that reminds me... I'll have to add three more:

1 - Gateway to Apshai on the Coleco Adam (Vampires were brutal!)

2 - Scoring 960,000 on Pacman after getting a book with patterns :) (Arcade record!)

3 - LIterally staying up all night playing Civ II (till the Sunrise!)

1. I still have images burned into my memory from marathon sessions of KC Munchkin and Pick Axe Pete on the Odyssey2. Yes, I'm that old.

2. Late nights at a friend's house taking turns trying to beat Mike Tyson on the NES. Yes, the exact same memory as kkrambo (thanks for the flashback!).

3. Seeing far too many sunrises while playing Alpha Centauri on the PC. I wasted an awful lot of vacation days that way.

1. Clocking bubble bobble on the C64 with my bro - one credit each.

2. Being the first in Australasia to set up a DC quake 3 server and playing on it from the Dreamcast.

3. The whole FF7 experience.

1) Spending many a night playing Counter Strike at a buddy's house. 3 of us side by side playing counter-terrorist. We were unstopable, mainly because when one died he could free run and find the camping terrorists.

2) 3 computers on a network (on the non Counter Strike nights), an hour to build up resources and your base, and LAG when we actually started going after one another. We're talking down to 1 fps lag too. But that's what happens when you bring a fleet of 30 prism tanks into a massively overbuilt and defended base.

3) FF VII and VIII. Need I say more?

Karateka
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1. Playing the Ace Combat series.

2. Playing the original Homeworld - that soundtrack was freaking awesome.

2a. Modding Homeworld. I gave the mothership nearly infinite range, and multiplied the mass of its bullets by 10. This made it push back waves of ships and - interestingly enough - spin the research station.

3. Building warships in Naval Ops Warship Gunner series.

4. Playing Civ4

5. The MGS series (only played 2-4 + twin snakes on GC)

6. Mario Kart 64. Destroyed a buddy in 30 seconds once. He burned out; I rammed him on Big Donut (-1). Then I picked up a ? block - red shell, fired (-1). Ran over another ? blocck and got a starman. Ran him over while he was still tumbling (-1, turned into bomb). Ran him over w/starman when he was a bomb. He got so pissed he reset the 64. Owned :).

7. Playing online RTS games with a buddy in college. We'd be next to each other as we joined "FFA" games. Hella fun!

Off topic, what about expected good gaming memories?!

1) Killzone 2 - seeing a level beyond what has been seen up 'til now

2) Super Street Fighter HD - Just-one-more-match midnight madness

3) Little Big Planet - upon completion & sharing of a complete level

Stay awhile, stay forever

A great moment, but it's from "Impossible Mission," (Epyx) not "Karateka" (Broderbund) :)

Let's get in the Wayback Machine, Sherman:

1. Bringing home an Atari 800 and playing "Star Raiders."

2. Having the monster jump up in the windshield (and practically peeing myself) after several lulling hours playing "Escape from Fractalus."

3. Winning "Shanghai" on the Amiga and having the screen crack away and the dragon's eye peer through the opening; and then my cat, who was sitting on my lap, starts swatting at the eye onscreen.

Oh, let's have one egocentric moment, too...

4. Winning several magazines' "Best of Year" awards for composing the score to "Rocket Ranger" on the Amiga. (Hey, we old guys have to bask in past glories once in a while. :) ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6vIHcxGyIA&feature=related

And back to the future:

5. Loading MGS4 for the first time on the PS3 and marveling at how far realtime graphics have come in the past 25 years.

Off topic, what about expected good gaming memories?!

1) Killzone 2 - seeing a level beyond what has been seen up 'til now

2) Super Street Fighter HD - Just-one-more-match midnight madness

3) Little Big Planet - upon completion & sharing of a complete level

I think you just entirely missed the point of the thread.

2. Having the monster jump up in the windshield (and practically peeing myself) after several lulling hours playing "Escape from Fractalus."



I haven't even thought about that game in 20 years or more. Now I remember that moment for the first time too. I think I screamed like a little girl the first time it happened. :o

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EDIT: Didn't you have to turn your engines on (and fry the sucker) before it cracked your windshileld?

1. Beating the NES version of Bionic Commando on the date posted at the end of the game. August 8th, I believe. I had to beat it again the next day just to see if they could read the date or not.

2. Discovering the "twitch" needed to beat Street Fighter 2010 A.D.

3. Getting the speech add-on for our Intellivision and playing the whopping 4 games that supported it. TRON being one of the best.

4. Playing the Atari version of Defender for 4 hours on one life.

I haven't even thought about that game in 20 years or more. Now I remember that moment for the first time too. I think I screamed like a little girl the first time it happened. :o

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EDIT: Didn't you have to turn your engines on (and fry the sucker) before it cracked your windshileld?

AWESOME!! Atari 8-bit madness!!! Let me add:

-- Ballblazer
-- Spelunker
-- Lodeunner

1. Playing Yars Revenge on Atari 2600 (The first game I was truly crazy about)
2. Finishing GTA3 - Two co-workers and I would take turns playing every day during our lunch break. When we finally finished it...we were at a true loss at what to do now that GTA3 was over.
3. Wheeling my 13 inch B&W TV to my front porch and hosting Space Invaders tournaments with the rest of the kids on my block...priceless.

-Renting the Genesis to play Lakers vs. Celtics
-Seeing the mode 7 effects on the SNES (Pilotwings, the plane flying towards the screen in Contra 3, rotating bosses in games)
-Playing Civilization and Doom on the labs at school, long before I owned a computer

No one's mentioned any old school Sierra games on PC: King's Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest. I have such good memories of playing King's Quest I on a PC Jr. Also a game called Jumpman, anyone remember it?

The closing FMV from Onimusha: Warlords on the PS2...to this day the greatest FMV I have ever seen.

1 - FFVII - i think i put approx 150 hours on that game after my calculations...
1b - the beer i drank during the game in my bachelor apartment, while my buddy;s gave me Sheit for not being ready to go out when they got there.

2-faxanadu when it was brand new. Me and my pal (still to this day) talk about when we used to rush home and play that after school...lol.

3-getting my 3 year younger sister to agree that she wanted an NES for our birthday back in 87 or so...LOL. Her b-day is 2 days before so i conned her into getting my folks to pick that up as a gift for both of us.

damn - how could i forget the original final fantasy. the most recent memorable experience is the first time i played online ....burnout revenge on the 360 racing against all these french guys on my then 130" projected screen.....lol..that was creepy at first.

1. Ocarina of time, beating the first three dungeons and then to be transported to the future. I was young, and this was the most amazing thing I'd ever played.

2. Warhawk, mining up my jeep and then launching it into a group of 8 enemies all fighting each other, AND I made it out alive.

3. The first time I played Mario 64.

- The countless sleepless nights playing Counter-Strike with my 3 other friends right next to each other. The one night I remember was when I was sitting in my chair upright, waiting for a map to download. 3 hours later, I wake up ... still sitting upright and the map is still downloading lmao. And then I started playing a few more rounds before I had to get ready for work. How did I not die with the loss of sleep amazes me.
- The addiction I developed from playing World of Warcraft. South Park style. Waking up to power up my PC without brushing my teeth and begin the daily grind and play non-stop (only when I went down the block to buy some McDonald's or Taco Bell) until very late at night. Being so addicted that I purchased a near $3,000 Dell laptop solely to play WoW at work.
- Finding out someone was actually paying me $800 for my World of Warcraft character ... craziness!

http://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/1055285470-00.jpg

Someone PAID you for your WOW character? Never heard of that before. Crazy!

- The countless sleepless nights playing Counter-Strike with my 3 other friends right next to each other. The one night I remember was when I was sitting in my chair upright, waiting for a map to download. 3 hours later, I wake up ... still sitting upright and the map is still downloading lmao. And then I started playing a few more rounds before I had to get ready for work. How did I not die with the loss of sleep amazes me.
- The addiction I developed from playing World of Warcraft. South Park style. Waking up to power up my PC without brushing my teeth and begin the daily grind and play non-stop (only when I went down the block to buy some McDonald's or Taco Bell) until very late at night. Being so addicted that I purchased a near $3,000 Dell laptop solely to play WoW at work.
- Finding out someone was actually paying me $800 for my World of Warcraft character ... craziness!

Someone PAID you for your WOW character? Never heard of that before. Crazy!

You serious? A lot of people buy WoW accounts so that they don't have to bother leveling, but I didn't have any idea I would get that much.

Mmm So many great times...

1/ The whole MGS Experience from 1 to 4.
2/ Legacy Of Kain, mainly Blood Omen the first and Soul Reaver.
3/ Shenmue experience
4/ Oblivion, the clan of the assassins part was the best part of the game imo.
5/ FF7.
6/ FIFA games with friends Mainly 2008.
7/ Ninja Gaiden on NES
8/ Resident Evil on PS and the 4th on Game Cube
....
Metal Gear is my top video game best memories. The other are in no particular order.

No one's mentioned any old school Sierra games on PC: King's Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest. I have such good memories of playing King's Quest I on a PC Jr. Also a game called Jumpman, anyone remember it?

Played through all the King's Quest games in the school computer lab. Also played the original Alone In The Dark series. Castles and Castles II were big too. There was also a racing game that allowed you to build your own tracks but I really can't remember the name of it.

1. The Cave in MGS3
2. The motorcyle portion of MGS3
3. Killing my first zombie in RE4
4. Finally beating Ninja Gaiden on NES
5. Seeing the first cutscenes from Oddworld and Abe's Exodus (loved these games!)

and many many more!

Watching my buddy fall out of his chair after a 50 hr. straight session of PGA Tour 92' for the Sega Genesis. He curled up next to the heating vent and was out.

...and my old man cheering me on trying to beat Blaster Master(NES).

1. The music and entire experience of Final Fantasy 3 on the SNES.

2. Getting on the horse for the first time in Zelda:Ocarina of Time.

3. When Mr.X burst through the wall in Resident Evil 2, that was the first time a video game actually scared me.

4. Tomb Raider, the entire game experience, but especially when you slide underground into a lake/tomb with the huge Egyptian statues, epic.

5. Shadow of the Colossus, everything about that game, IMO, the most underrated game EVER.

6. Resident Evil 4, too many awesome parts to name, but Imma have to go with the beginning of the game when you get trapped in the house and the townspeople are trying to break in and get you, and then you hear the chainsaw....OMG!

7. Halo 3, playing Coop with a friend and working together to take down the mechanical Spider.

The whole FFXI experience.

I played a 99 stock game of Smash Brothers for N64 with 4 people. It took over four hours!

For my last kill, I grabbed my opponent (as D.K.), and walked right off the level, dragging him with me. Great fun.

1. Playing Super Mario Brothers with my Dad and Brother for the first time when I was 5, and beating my brother at a level!

2. Red Alert for the PS1, playing linked games with friends until 6 am every weekend.

3. SOCOM many, many nights a few beers under wandering aimlessly in the shadows killing people after they get the jump on me, you can't explain that kind of humor.

4. Playing Blades of Steel on a 13 inch Black and White TV at a "guard shack" while working as a Lot attendant, we'd meet up and bet dinner on games, so much fun.

Three off the top of my head:

- Ultima III (Apple ][). Literally burned through it in 2 weeks of marathon sessions before school started up again in the fall. A major step up in presentation from RPGs at the time...even came with a cool cloth map. Upon completion I then wrote a world/city editor.

- Doom (PC). Probably my most-played game (including expansion levels, Doom 2 sequel, etc). How many late-night deathmatch sessions on our company LAN ended with "sun's coming up, we should probably stop soon?". Also spent much time recording LMPs for the "Doom Honorific Titles" (DHT) thing online, back when online meant FTP and NNTP. Oddly, I don't play FPS's these days - was burnt out after Quake II.

- GTA III (PS2). Bought it on a lark, didn't know anything about it ahead of time, it sounded vaguely like "Driver" which I had kinda enjoyed (lol). The 'sandbox' gameplay, the visuals, the 'feel' of the city all worked.

There are many other games I've really enjoyed (GT series, Zelda, SSX, Burnout for example) but those three top the list.

1. beating a friend in NHL '94 with Hartford- he used the all stars. He was banned from that genesis for the rest of the semester.
2. maxing Bo's stats in Tecmo Bowl by taking EVERY snap back my own goal line, and then making a hundred yard touch down on every play. thank you buggy stats!
3. Wizardry Knight of Diamonds- using graph paper to map all the dungeons manually

1. In college, being snowed in and playing about 18 hours of Twisted Metal and Tekken. Twisted Metal soooooo good.
2. Resident Evil at the beggining where the dog jumps through the window. Scared the jebus out of me and my friends.
3. Calling in sick to work soley to play Return to Castle Wolfenstein on xbox live.
4. R.B.I. baseball hours a day, every day during one summer. My friend and I would play an entire season, trade off, rinse, repeat. Do do do do do, do do do do do do, do do do do do do do deet.....

1. In college, being snowed in and playing about 18 hours of Twisted Metal and Tekken. Twisted Metal soooooo good.
2. Resident Evil at the beggining where the dog jumps through the window. Scared the jebus out of me and my friends.
3. Calling in sick to work soley to play Return to Castle Wolfenstein on xbox live.
4. R.B.I. baseball hours a day, every day during one summer. My friend and I would play an entire season, trade off, rinse, repeat. Do do do do do, do do do do do do, do do do do do do do deet.....

Yeah, that damn dog scared the crap out of me. Playing all alone in the dark.

#1 The first time I saw Super Mario 64 on display in Toys R Us. One of the water levels. It was such a quantum leap above my SNES I will never forget it..

#2. Playing Resident Evil on PS1...the dogs in the first hallway. ;)

#3. Final Fantasy 7..the scene (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7339715306463755288&ei=fEXhSLS1LqC4-wG9xfQF&q=aeris+death&vt=lf) where Aeris was killed by Sephiroth. She was one of my main characters...the one I was relying on to heal my party and keep us alive till the end of the game. Needless to say I was shocked when it happened.

What the hell, I'll add three more:

1 - The original Tomb Raider, when the T-Rex FIRST appeared. Freakin' awesome.

2 - Archon on the old Atari 800XL!

3 - Playing Harball, on the Atari ST (yeah, I said it!), 2 in the morning with my buddy, and in the bottom of the 13th inning, tie game, man on second: Base hit to center, here comes the runner, here comes the throw.... FREEZE!!! Huh? What?? NNNOOOO!!!!!! THe whole F'ing system locked up!!!! Arrrggghhhhh!!!

- Finding out someone was actually paying me $800 for my World of Warcraft character ... craziness!

Nice! I sold mine too, but only for $700.

Some of my fondest video-gaming memories were also in World of Warcraft. Our guild was a very close and tight-knit family and were really competitive and ambitious. If you've never played the game before, a lot of the 40-man and 25-man boss encounters took days and days of practice and learning before being able to defeat the boss. Killing a tough WoW boss with for the first time is the most rewarding experience in all of video games.

We established ourselves as one of the top guilds in the world, and we achieved one of our ultimate goals, which was to be the first guild in the world to kill a raid boss. Not even 0.01% of WoW players get the honor of a world-first kill. I'd have to say that was the most exciting moment in video games for me.

Others:
We had a really tight Street Fighter community in our area that played competitively. I live in a small city in Canada (750,000 pop). We would have monthly tournaments with about 30-entrants, often people who travel from other cities to compete. Competing and meeting other Street Fighter players from our area and other cities was really fun.

Zork on the C=64. Many hours spent completely immersed in that game.

Jet over a modem with a buddy on the Atari ST. Graphics were lousy, but it was COOL at the time to be able to play head-to-head "online". Later games like F16 and Gunship upped the graphics ante, but they never had the impact that Jet did when head-to-head. The next head-to-head game that really got me going was Populous on the ST. SO much fun!

MidiMaze on the Atari ST was my favorite party game, even though you had to haul all your crap over to someone's house.

There were so many other great games, though. BallBlazer and Galaga on my Atari 7800 still get played.

Karateka
'...Another visitor, Stay awhile, Stay FOREVER!...'

Haha, the "SQUAWK" sound from kicking the hawk is forever burned in my brain :)

http://media.strategywiki.org/images/e/eb/Karateka_Palace_Hawk.png

And I'll never forget my shock of anger and amusement when the princess kicked me in the head...

Zork!!! How could I forget!! Oh - and finished Planetfall too!! Aww Floyd!!!

Zork on the C=64. Many hours spent completely immersed in that game.

Nice! I sold mine too, but only for $700.

Some of my fondest video-gaming memories were also in World of Warcraft. Our guild was a very close and tight-knit family and were really competitive and ambitious. If you've never played the game before, a lot of the 40-man and 25-man boss encounters took days and days of practice and learning before being able to defeat the boss. Killing a tough WoW boss with for the first time is the most rewarding experience in all of video games.

We established ourselves as one of the top guilds in the world, and we achieved one of our ultimate goals, which was to be the first guild in the world to kill a raid boss. Not even 0.01% of WoW players get the honor of a world-first kill. I'd have to say that was the most exciting moment in video games for me.

Others:
We had a really tight Street Fighter community in our area that played competitively. I live in a small city in Canada (750,000 pop). We would have monthly tournaments with about 30-entrants, often people who travel from other cities to compete. Competing and meeting other Street Fighter players from our area and other cities was really fun.

Yea, my guild was the top guild on our server. Beating BWL, AQ40, and doing some good progress in Naxx. I sold it right before Burning Crusade came out. Another great memory was killing Alliance as they rolled into their raids ... such good times. Also, playing as my rogue, being able to sneak into Alliance places and killing them ... fun.

Oh, I can't believe I forgot (and no one else mentioned) Baldur's Gate. Counting from the original thru all the sequels, I must've put in 300 hrs, easy. Maybe 350.

#3. Final Fantasy 7..the scene (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7339715306463755288&ei=fEXhSLS1LqC4-wG9xfQF&q=aeris+death&vt=lf) where Aeris was killed by Sephiroth. She was one of my main characters...the one I was relying on to heal my party and keep us alive till the end of the game. Needless to say I was shocked when it happened.


tear drop for Aeris :(

1. I would have to say the entire FF experience from NES days

2. The day I realize I got a Sega Genesis and realize I should of gotten a SNES (thank you dad for allowing me to have both) Oddly enough, i enjoyed the Genesis slightly more...

3. The whole waiting on line thing for a video game LOL!

Waiting in line for 12+ hours for a PS2 at Worst Buy and being forced to buy crap I wouldn't buy (SSX) Turns out, SSX is lengedary. Waiting in line i thought would suck but with Dunken Dounts, gameboy or whatever i had back then, kept me busy. Oh plus my girlfriend of only a year or so waiting in line with me...gave her made credit for that. I eventully married her as she was into games too (our first date consisted of Tekken button smashing buttons on her end). People were playing PSX in front of me in line. It was quite a night. At the end, I had 4 PS2 systems. To top 12 hours, I only waited a mere 10 mins for PS3 and Wii. 360 came in at 2 hours online.

1. Beating Double Dragon at my local bowling alley on a single quarter.

2. Playing Mario 64 for the first time and realizing I really could go in any direction.

3. Playing Street Fighter II at the local arcade when a 12-year-old Asian kid came up and plunked a quarter in. He was one of the local arcade rats and I was prepared to die, but surprisingly I pulled out a victory. Then he went and got friends. They took turns challenging me one after the other and I was in some sort of otherworldly zone -- laying down the smack left and right. I eventually lost, but only after beating each of them at least twice. Frankly, my arm was tired. My friend George calls this "the day John beat up an Asian gang."

4. The day I bought a null modem cable and networked my roommate's PC to my own and we played Duke Nukem head to head.

I remember this one fondly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbZ-chrOgGg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDlCtjRxHs&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HiUUJqJvqg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HiUUJqJvqg&feature=related

You mean to tell me Ryu was a wrestler before he became a ninja?!?! :D

C'mon. Zaxxon anyone? I was like "Ooooooo 3-D graphics! This is much better than Defender!" (Technically I guess they were 'isometric' graphics -- whatever.)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/Zaxxon.png

1) Twisted Metal 1 and 2 in college. A buddy and I still get together every few years for a game of TM2. We played about 8 years ago and I remember killing Darktooth in Hong Kong is near zero life left on Thumper. I shot with full turbo accross the harbor gaining huge air. My bud is screaming "No!" because it's out last life (rusty), I say it's him or me, throw on a shield at the last moment and hit the flamethrower pounding into his side and taking him out before the shield goes down.

2) First time I played Pitfall on the 2600 walking on Christmas day up to a friend's house after he called me to tell me he got it. It struck me as so advanced and expansive.

3) Atari 5200 - really happy with the game quality moving up from 2600

4) Morrowind - amazing world. I remember walking in the Ascadian Isles or some such near Vivic on a beautiful sunny day with the nicest music. Sunrise near the Shrine of Azura was also amazing. This is a game that makes you want to smell the roses and I think it actually has a carryover to real life.

5) Ultima 4 - my friend choosing to rest his hand around the back corner of the Apple IIc and consistently turning off the power. Autoduel was also great for this system.

6) Kelly Slater Pro Surfer - please please remake this. I need another surfing game. I'll pay any price.

7) Karateka - first game I played on the Apple II emulator and damned if I didn't win the whole way through the first try, eagle, master, and all. I also remembered not to get kicked in the head :)

8) Halflife Teams - years later I actually moved 300 miles and right next door to the guy who used to admin the server I played on. Had no idea until it came up in conversation one day and I barely remembered the server name. We are now close friends today. Loved CS and DoD too. Maybe the best single game ever although Doom got some play.

9) My first online multiplayer experience after being out of computers for years - Daikatana Deathmatch Demo. It was a free download and let me put my new PC and top of the line $150 Voodoo3 3000 to work.

10) Real arcades circa late 70s and early 80s. I still love the games. I have a Mame project all spec'd out for someday. Need a man cave first.

Too many....

To rehash a few:

- N64 Ocarina of Time
-FF3 (SNES) and FFVII
-Uncharted (PS3 ...actually a new memory but worth it)
-I talked all my friends into getting Socom 2, headsets and adapters for PS2. The first day we were all hooked up (about 8 of us) we played for 12 straight hours and in was a blast.
-Mario 64
-Tomb Raider - Me and a buddy switched on and off playing through levels on that game one summer. Never played a game like that before.
-It's emabarrassing to admit but the dogs in the first hallway of RE scared the crap out of me too.
-Beating the second Zelda on NES
-Beating TMNT arcade game with 3 friends.

1. typing in code for games out of the back of a computer world magazine on my VIC 20...of which, they very rarely worked :mad:
2. Getting my NES and then playing techmo bowl for hours upon hours with my buddies
3. Duke Nuke'm 3d online. First online gaming experience and would play for hours. This was back when the wife and I first got married and she would complain about being an online widow :o

man my memories are a little older....
1. Being so unstopable on triple action (intellivison) on the tanks that i could bounce the bullets all around the stage and kill anyone before they could get close to me.
2. Playing super mario bros. on nes for the 1st time, i was in a trance.
3. Playing multiplayer nintendo games with my 2 bros and sis. goldeneye, mario kart, Super smash bros. etc....
4. Playing bump n jump, tron deadly discs, beamrider, frog bog, for hours upon hours...

1- Finishing Gears of War in one go with my Brother at 8am (all nighter), and having my girlfriend asking me what the hell I was doing when she woke up. Playing the Beserker level for the first time was particularly intense.

2- Playing Montezuma's Revenge on the caleco vision at my uncle's house... that game was awesome.

3- Hitting one of those damned squirrels in Oregon Trail.

Awesome stuff - I love reading this. More:

1 - Getting beat 105-0 by my friend on Intellivision Football, with his Dad in his living room watching. It's a wonder I ever recovered psycologically (debateable, really).

2 - Playing Day of Defeat WAY too much. Would go home on lunch hour from work and play, going back like 3 hours later. Something special about sniping from an elevated perch and as soon as someone just *peeked* their head around the corner: BLAM!!!! That still holds true in most online war games. :)

3 - Baldur's Gate / Icewind Dale. Played and finished both - great, great, games. "The Eyes Boo!! Go for the eyes!!!"

1. Nes Zelda, Staying up all night passing game at friends house
2. Nes Contra, Up up down down left right left right select start
3. Psx GT, souping up the Skyline
4. Ps2 Fatal Frame, Gettin the crap scared out of me
5. Pc and Ps3 Battle Field lines, Freedom of an open enviorment

C'mon. Zaxxon anyone? I was like "Ooooooo 3-D graphics! This is much better than Defender!" (Technically I guess they were 'isometric' graphics -- whatever.)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/Zaxxon.png

I even had a Zaxxon console, gave it away in working condition 4 years ago. Never did like that game, though. Defender beats Zaxxon. I like Galaga better than either one, though ;)

No one's mentioned any old school Sierra games on PC: King's Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest. I have such good memories of playing King's Quest I on a PC Jr. Also a game called Jumpman, anyone remember it?

Those Sierra games were so glitchy it's a wonder anyone finished them. I think I actually finished Police Quest 1, but I had all of them.

I finished Leisure Suit Larry on my ST.

I can't believe no one has beating Metroid on the NES and finding out Samus was a chick!!

A buddy and I are in an arcade and I am playing 1-player as Kano. This guy comes up just as it says Finish Him so I proceeded to rip my opponents skeleton out. We then hear, "Oh sh*t, what the f^%$!" Then he called to his buddy and said, "Dude come here, you've gotta see this sh*t" Good times man, good times...

Montezuma's Revenge....ah. That brings back good memories. Loved that game!

I'll add another.

Following Cheryl down the ally in the first Silent Hill....


It was such a creepy and classic gaming moment. Confusing and scary.