Gaming Memories

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

- When Mortal Kombat came out on SNES (nobody had a Genesis in Germany) me and some friends played it for hours every day because of the great graphics, the cool sounds and the characters. The thing was: we didn't know that there were fatalities! We always just tried to hit the other guy somewhat spectacularly when the game told us to 'FINISH HIM!'. And then one day another friend came along and brought a move list with him...OMFG!

 

I bet you did a lot of uppercuts? My bro and I did the exact same thing.

 

A lot of these are pretty recent actually, what with beer ruining the majority of my memory, and often complimenting gameplay:

 

- My brother and I finally beating Mario 3 in grade 2. We did so accidentally after getting bad advice on how to beat it.

- My brother's ability to complete 8-1 in Mario 1, including the double jump with the really thin ledge halfway, and moreso, my dad getting mad at his inability to do so.

- My parents pre-divorce getting home at 11 pm, with my bro and I long asleep, staying up till 3 am playing Kid Niki.

- NBA Jam, both in my basement in my new home in a new country, and it being a common denominater to meet some of the new kids in the year I lived outside Canada.

- My incredibly poor skills at Halo 1 the first time I played it.

- Midnite Madness for Halo 2. I still can't believe I got talked into that. First night it snowed that year.

- Our ESPN 2k5 hockey league, including our website featuring actual post-game interviews and pictures of us wearing suits and on the phone.

- My never, ever, ever beating my buddy Matt at NES Open. My most famous loss was a Sunday afternoon before a party, when I was up by four with three to play. He said how he always got hot late and caught up(true), and I said "Yeah, I'll prolly be to careful, overdo it and lose". Sure enough, he forced a playoff and made a BOMB to birdie the second hole. I overread a two foot putt to keep the playoff alive on the same hole.

-I had him on the ropes about a year later, including an ace at the 16th to tie for the lead. At this point, The Darkness' "I believe in a thing called love" began playing at the party we were at, and I PLEADED with people to shut up so I can focus. They didn't. I lost.

- Settling a silly debate over who could physically bag a purchase better with a co-worker by playing drunken No Mercy. Winning, and then, ahem, bagging a girl who cheered for me when I won. Learn more here.

- Our ridiculous love of Mario Party for about eight months, including my calling the operator specifically to tell her I finally became the Party Star.

[Special K 0]

Mega Man 3: After years of mastering nailing him over and over with the snake search, learning that one fucking top spin (most useless move ever) killed him.

 

And I've brought this up many a time, but it always bears mentioning: X-Men, Genesis. Fun, difficult game. You have to be fairly good to get to the boss of the second to last stage, who is Mojo.

So you beat his ass, and Prof X says destroy the computer!

There's a computer in the room. One hit destroys it.

 

Professor X: Reset the computer!

So you wander around this big empty fucking room, there's nothing to hit. There's nowhere to teleport to. And there's a timer running down, like a minute long. If it ends, game fucking over, after a couple of hours playing.

 

What do you have to do? Physically go to your Genesis and PRESS THE RESET BUTTON. ASSHOLES. What the hell were they thinking? "I want to make kids cry." That must have been it. GOD.

 

Oh, and not being able to make it past the second enemy in Bayou Billy. Thank God that was a rental.

[Guest wildpegasus]

Mega Man 3: After years of mastering nailing him over and over with the snake search, learning that one fucking top spin (most useless move ever) killed him.

 

And I've brought this up many a time, but it always bears mentioning: X-Men, Genesis. Fun, difficult game. You have to be fairly good to get to the boss of the second to last stage, who is Mojo.

So you beat his ass, and Prof X says destroy the computer!

There's a computer in the room. One hit destroys it.

 

Professor X: Reset the computer!

So you wander around this big empty fucking room, there's nothing to hit. There's nowhere to teleport to. And there's a timer running down, like a minute long. If it ends, game fucking over, after a couple of hours playing.

 

What do you have to do? Physically go to your Genesis and PRESS THE RESET BUTTON. ASSHOLES. What the hell were they thinking? "I want to make kids cry." That must have been it. GOD.

 

Oh, and not being able to make it past the second enemy in Bayou Billy. Thank God that was a rental.

 

I've heard that story a few times. That is so awesome.

 

I bought Bayou Billy a couple years because I always heard it was so tough to beat. I had a fun time playing it.

[Guest Fook]

I have to mention some of that old school Westwood goodness - Command and Conquer and Red Alert. The first RTS's I ever played.

[10 Pounds 0]

Here are some more :

 

- My dad generally hates video games. He came in my room when I was playing Goldeneye, nothing but the Facility and the Frigate stage, killing helpless scientists and hostages. I gave him the controller and we spent an entire evening just killing innocent people. I didn’t know the scientists would shoot back at me when I would play on hard, so that was cool. The only game he plays now is Grand Theft Auto, just doing random stuff.

 

- When my brother bought his PS1, we spent days playing Resident Evil and Rebel Assault II. RAII sucked, but it had FMV, something we had never seen. I was actually scared of playing Resident Evil and, when I came to the part with the spiders, I paused the game and it took me a while before I played again. Man, I’m such a pussy.

 

 

-In the –Strike series ( Desert, Jungle and Urban), you could get your chopper to blow up stuff like casinos in Vegas or monuments in Washington. It’s sad that the post-16 bits games sucked.

 

-The first time I shattered a window in NHL ’94. Seeing melees in Ice Hockey or fighting in Blades of Steel.

 

-There was a time where nobody I hang out with knew what the Konami Code was, so when we finished games like Contra or TMNT II with only three lives, we felt like kings. On multi-player TMNT games, we always fought over whose character would get the pizza.

 

-I once rented Harvest Moon 64 because I couldn’t get my hands on the game I wanted. I didn’t think too much of the game at first but later, and I don't know how it happened, I was completely addicted to it and I wanted to finish the game within my renting time. I began playing in the afternoon and turned off my 64 at maybe 5 AM. That was my longest time ever playing a game and there’s no way I would ever do that again.

 

 

 

....Hooray for the virtual console on the Wii !

[Ced 0]

- I got a moral victory off my buddy that gets really frustrated really easily in Street Fighter Alpha 3 with my Karin vs his Ryu. I turtle in the corner and he's getting kinda pissed because it doesn't look like I'm fighting.

 

He jumps in, I counter-hit. He jumps in, I counter-hit. He jumps in, I counter-hit. He jumps in, I counter with her QCB+P and link it with her anti-air super. 75% of his health is gone and he basically mumbles about how cheap I'm being he soft resets and leaves the room.

 

- Having the hardest time of my life trying to beat Super Ghouls 'n' Ghosts WITH a Game Genie.

 

- Not a gaming moment per se, but while playing Brutal on the SNES, a swarm of hornets ate a hole in the ceiling and began flooding into my bedroom, forcing me to run and scream in bloody terror. I loved the rat's one-punch bingo KO move.

[Rendclaw 0]

I have so many, its going to take me at least an hour to make the post, so I am going to do it either tomorrow or saturday.

[Guest DRH 502]

I think it was Scorp on SNSM that did this sweet little boot to the gut, then flying through the air like a rocket and dropping down on the back of dude's head with a headbutt...Craziness. I also loved playing Rasta the VooDoo Man because he had that sweet diamond cutter off the top rope...god damn I want to play that game now.

[Frosty 0]

Favorite gaming memory I can ever remember is the first night that WCW vs NWO World Tour came out for N64. My buddy was the only one of us with a system and he had rented the game and a few controllers so we had 4 players on the go pretty much the entire night, but the memory specifically was a match where it was me against him I was Ultimo Dragon and he was DDP and it was a battle, actually it was more or less a squash for me where I beat him pillar to post for like 15 minutes with him getting barely any offence and kicking out of every attempt that I made at a pin, and then reversing one move and making me tap to a chinlock. I was so disgusted. He prolly landed 2 moves the whole match and then I tapped nearly right away to a fuckin chinlock. I still hold a grudge.

[AndrewTS 0]

Mario 64. Wing Cap. Nuff said.

 

Oh--and I'm definitely going to get this if I can't get the cream of the crop on Virtual Console:

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[Special K 0]

beat him pillar to post for like 15 minutes with him getting barely any offence and kicking out of every attempt that I made at a pin, and then reversing one move and making me tap to a chinlock. I was so disgusted. He prolly landed 2 moves the whole match and then I tapped nearly right away to a fuckin chinlock. I still hold a grudge.

 

The chinlock was the best move in the game, actually. it tapped anyone immediately if put on after a decent-length match. One of the big flaws of the game, other than you can't be pinned if you wiggle the analog stick, not even by special pin moves. We had a long-standing house rule of no chinlocks.

 

My best moment from that game: I'm Scott Norton, don't know which character I was facing, it was computer-controlled. I hit a running clothesline straight out of the gate, pick him up, powerbomb, knockout.

 

Norton rules.

[Hawkius Maximus 0]

It was Stingray with the torpedo headbutt...I believe it was called the Jalepeno Comet.

 

I know way too fucking much about SNSM.

[Guest Princess Leena]

And some more...

 

- John Madden Football. The first one on Genesis. I was wee little and sucked at this game... and my dad loved kicking my ass. So, he decides to be a fucknut and play as Atlanta (the worst team in the game) vs. me as All-Madden. He kicks my BUTT early on... until I realize this blitz play that never gives him a chance with the slow-as-molasses Falcons. He swears up a storm about the 9-year old killing him then. I won like 25-14.

 

- Final Fantasy IV. Will forever be my favorite game. I never owned a SNES, so this was on emulator around 2000. I just got so involved in this game. And the sequence before the final boss put a tear in my eye.

 

- Skies of Arcadia. This was the first real long game I ever beat on Dreamcast. And it's the first console I bought by myself, so it has a little meaning to me. Anyway, I'm beating the game comfortably, and loving it... until I get to Zoltis, the last huge city. I get near the end... and the game freezes on me. And I never had a game freeze on me before. Plus, I hadn't saved for like 2 hours. I get so angry that I rip the disc out of the DC, and snap it in two. Was a painful lesson, also... as SOA wasn't the easiest game to find back then, and took a few weeks to get another copy. And another $20, which hurt a little back then. I still play SOA every year. Such a beautiful, and relaxing game.

[Special K 0]

- Skies of Arcadia. This was the first real long game I ever beat on Dreamcast. And it's the first console I bought by myself, so it has a little meaning to me. Anyway, I'm beating the game comfortably, and loving it... until I get to Zoltis, the last huge city. I get near the end... and the game freezes on me. And I never had a game freeze on me before. Plus, I hadn't saved for like 2 hours. I get so angry that I rip the disc out of the DC, and snap it in two. Was a painful lesson, also... as SOA wasn't the easiest game to find back then, and took a few weeks to get another copy. And another $20, which hurt a little back then. I still play SOA every year. Such a beautiful, and relaxing game.

 

I bought this game over a year ago, and it needs to be fixed. I need to do that, seeing as I haven't played a good new RPG in forever.

[DangerousDamon 0]

Choking out Triple H with Stone Cold to win the WWF title on No Mercy was so awesome for me, because Triple H was such a cheap bastard on that game.

[Prophet of Mike Zagurski 0]

beating Super Mario World with my friends - I was stuck at Bowser for a couple of days/weeks/ can't remember. My friends came over and I finally beat it. I couldn't beat Bowser cause I wasn't holding up while throwing the mecha-koopas Bowser threw. Also beating the Star Road way later on was huge.

 

Beating Final Fantasy VII - I spent sixty hours on my first game and i didn't beat it. I had no real concept of materia so I pretty much wasted a lot time. After reading a strategy guide, I was go to go. I beat Final Fantasy on a twenty hour save.

 

Losing at Street Fighter II Turbo - I sucked at Street Fighter II. I think I could do the charge moves but not the fireball/dragon punch etc. My friend had party and his cousin came over. He killed me and everyone at the party. It's all about the dragon punch I guess. I was on vacation reading a Gamepro, when I had a revelation. I wasn't reading about Street Fighter but maybe God showed me the way. You roll your thumb down towards. Now I job on Xbox Live.

 

Winning at Mortal Kombat II - This one is special. The school I was at had a Skate-a-Thon fundraiser. I hated skating but they had an arcade there and there was MKII. Some kids at my school saw me heading towards it and they thought I was new at it. So I was Mileena and Michael was Reptile. What he tried to do was so stupid. He tried to uppercut me but I was out of range, so I swept him. I think that how I won both rounds. I couldn't pull off her fatality though. People were impressed.

 

 

Last one

 

Playing ESPN 2K5 and scoring a TD on a return kick.

[Guest wildpegasus]

Punchout -- SuperMachoMan doing that superspin punch/clothesline thing that knocks you down in one hit. Often times, he'll do it numerous times in a row. 3 times or 6 times and so on. Well, one time he did it about 16 times to me. No joke. I went down on about the 17th revolution.

 

Final Fantasy II or IV or whatever you want to call it -- Every single time Rydia comes in with the mist dragon to save you in your big fight against Golbez I get shivers up and down my whole body. In fact, even in writing this I got some goosebumps. The ending battle where everybody you met through the game comes back and helps you also gets to me. Man alive, I love this game.

 

The pure freaking awesomeness of the entire first Resident Evil game for the Playstation.

 

Just going through with a speed run on the invisible mode with the Resident Evil remake and trying to remember where all the enemies were is a really good memory.

 

The complete awesomeness of playing SuperSmashTv on the SNES on the most difficult levels. Either by yourself or with a partner. It would get so, so intense.

 

The difficulty of Gunsmoke for the NES.

 

Marking out for all the different moves you could do in Pro Wrestling and the WCW game for the NES.

 

Blaster Master -- What a game but my lasting memory of it is not the actual gameplay but how long it would take to get through a game and you wouldn't even realise it because it was just so engrossing.

[Guest InuYasha]

I've been playing games since the Intellivision way back when, so I've had a lot of gaming moments. My personal record stands at something around 350 games.

 

I'd say my first real memory was when I got an NES, and Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt. I was just goofing around on SMB, and having fun. It was when my mom got to World 8-4 that I finally got serious. How sad would it be to be beaten by your mom on SMB? Needless to say, I got serious, and beat it a week later, about 2 days before she did. I still don't know if she took longer to beat it than me just so she wouldn't show me up or not.

 

The next game I got when we beat that was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It seems I was setting the bar high for myself without even knowing it. I never beat it straight. My cousin and I had to use the Game Genie to finally beat it. I also got the Nintendo Power/Dragon Warrior bonus deal. Stupidly, I gave the game to my cousin when I found out what the game was like. I didn't truly discover the pure joy of RPG gaming until I rented Super Mario RPG. I needed the training wheels, okay?

 

The next one I beat was Breath of Fire II. Once again, I was setting the bar way too high for myself. After that, it was Final Fantasy III (VI), and then Chrono Trigger. Finally, I made the jump to the PSX, and Final Fantasy VII. After beating that one, I haven't looked back since. While I still enjoy Action/Adventure games, the odd Tourney Fighter, and just about anything Star Wars, RPG's have been my gaming bread and butter for going on 15 years now.

[AndrewTS 0]

Stupidly, I gave the game to my cousin when I found out what the game was like. I didn't truly discover the pure joy of RPG gaming until I rented Super Mario RPG. I needed the training wheels, okay?

 

I don't consider RPGs that are well-paced and thoroughly playable the entire way through to be "training wheels."

 

I'm really surprised IY likes Chrono Trigger...

[Aero 0]

Also beating the Star Road way later on was huge.

 

The second level of the Special World... Tubular. This was just insanely frustrating. It's the level where you have to inflate Mario through the entire level, and it's loaded with the baseball throwing football players and those plants that shoot.

[Guest InuYasha]

Stupidly, I gave the game to my cousin when I found out what the game was like. I didn't truly discover the pure joy of RPG gaming until I rented Super Mario RPG. I needed the training wheels, okay?

 

I don't consider RPGs that are well-paced and thoroughly playable the entire way through to be "training wheels."

 

I'm really surprised IY likes Chrono Trigger...

Well, when you consider it next to others like BoFII, FFVI, and FFIV Hard Mode, Super Mario RPG is rather easy and simplistic. I don't mean to knock on a good game. I'm just saying as far as RPG's go, SMRPG is on the easier side.

[Vampiro69 0]

The old school NES playing Baseball Stars with my friends. We each would create a team with the players in the majors we liked and make them the best they could be.

 

Tecmo Super Bowl 3 for SNES. Having four friends play as the teams from the same divison to see who would make the playoffs.

 

Tecmo's Deception for the PS1. Was a great because you got to capture or kill people as an agent for the devil.

 

Ahhh Good times.

[The Amazing Rando 0]

- Losing only three times in a span of about 500 games on NBA JAM: TE

 

- The first time I beat MK3 as Sub Zero and marking out at the ending.

 

- Taking close to a year to beat FF7 (with some long breaks between playing stints) and being so glad it was finally over. As an offshoot, I got stuck bad in the Wall Market early on, i think before you climb the wall up that mansion or whatever. The part where you had to exit the Market (sort of) to the far right...I couldn't figure that shit out for DAYS.

[Guest wildpegasus]

The old school NES playing Baseball Stars with my friends. We each would create a team with the players in the majors we liked and make them the best they could be.

 

Terrific game.

[Guest InuYasha]

- I got a moral victory off my buddy that gets really frustrated really easily in Street Fighter Alpha 3 with my Karin vs his Ryu. I turtle in the corner and he's getting kinda pissed because it doesn't look like I'm fighting.

 

He jumps in, I counter-hit. He jumps in, I counter-hit. He jumps in, I counter-hit. He jumps in, I counter with her QCB+P and link it with her anti-air super. 75% of his health is gone and he basically mumbles about how cheap I'm being he soft resets and leaves the room.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but that's about as cheap as you can get. That's what I really dislike about the newer versions of the Street Fighter games, especially Street Fighter III. When it comes to cheap-shit, Bison can't even hold a candle to Gil. The characters people tended to gravitate to were the cheap characters: Cyclops and Cammy in X-Men vs. Street Fighter, for example.

[Guest ABOBO]

Just shut the fuck up. You know nothing about anything.

[Guest ABOBO]

Just shut the fuck up. You know nothing about anything.

I actually clicked on view post after this and I was right.

[Guest Princess Leena]

Crono likes Chrono Trigger OMG FROG ENDING~

[MillenniumMan831 0]

The Giant Swing in Tecmo World Wrestling for NES.

[Anya 0]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but that's about as cheap as you can get. That's what I really dislike about the newer versions of the Street Fighter games, especially Street Fighter III. When it comes to cheap-shit, Bison can't even hold a candle to Gil. The characters people tended to gravitate to were the cheap characters: Cyclops and Cammy in X-Men vs. Street Fighter, for example.

 

 

Besides Gill, who is a boss, what is cheap in SF III 3rd Strike?