What Are Your Awesome Game Moments?

[junglehunter]

Mine are:

Getting a free Famicom
Getting a free Virtual Boy (who cares about the crap system, it's free!)
Trading half a slurpee from 7-Eleven for a Game Boy Color.

What are your awesome game moments? They don't just have to be regarding free stuff and what not.

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

My next one's going to be getting the original 1972 Magnavox Odyssey with 99% of the goodies. I kid you not, I'm going to videotape myself opening that box, hooking up the machine, and playing it for the first time. Kind of a lifelong collecting goal, y'know?

[simonbelmont7]

finding a 100% complete MIB Stack Up at FuncoLand for $4.99 =)
Mark

[Sylentwulf]

Probly my BEST would be getting an intellivision setup complete with about 40 games including Diner, Stadium Mud buggies, pro golf, and almost every other late release boxed and complete for FREE from someone I've never met (even free shipping)

Also got 2 Glibs in one week for less than $20 each.
Got Panzer Dragoon Saga for $40 shipped complete

[tom]

Winning a boxed 3DO Blaster on Ebay for around $35.00.

[junglehunter]

Another thing I got was about 39 Atari 2600 cartridges and most of their manuals for free. I didn't have to pay the shipping fee. :)

[kainemaxwell]

A friend giving me his Sega CDX and lasy year his PS2 and all his games was pretty amazing for me.

[buttasuperb]

By game moments, I thought you meant gameplay, not getting stuff.

Anyways, best gameplay moment in recent memory, me and a friend were playing NBA2k3 online on the same team against some asshole, who kept on changing the camera angle even though we let him have his way in the first half, so it was only fair for us to use our camera angle in the second half. We were the Bulls and down 1 with about 10 seconds left. I had the ball, couldn't get a good shot, so I passed it to Eddy Curry and he rumbled down the lane and dunked it with 0.1 seconds left. The other dude paused for a few seconds, probably due to total shock as to what just happened. He unpaused it, and we got our victory.

[Retsudo]

Beating Mission 10 in socom Navy Seals after failing the mission so many times. If theres anyone out there that played this game and got through mission 10, they should know what Im talking about >:( It's a BITCH!!!

[petewhitley]

Several years ago, a good friend who was feeling supremely confident in my Mario Kart 64 skills bet an aquaintance $50 that I could beat him in a "first to 10 wins" scenario. When I was down 8-4, he left the room in disgust, only to return some time later to watch my stunning 10-8 come-from-behind victory. The aquaintance (who was on his luch break) dropped his $50 and returned to work as my friend and I slapped high-fives. LOL

[WiseSalesman]

When I went to college two years ago, I didn't take any video game systems with me. Eventually, I found out that my roomate had once had an N64, and he was "so damn good at smash bros. as link". I told him I'd bring mine back from home next weekend, and on went the bragging about how he was going to "kick my ass with link". I think he undersestimated something; the summer before college there was squat all to do in my town, and my best friend and I played at LEAST two hours of one-on-one Super Smash Bros. EVERY NIGHT...and usually it was more like four or five hours (my job at that time was at a rec. center....we closed at eight). Anyway, when I got back after the weekend home, we loaded up smash bros. , and I proceeded to use fox, and then falcon to mop the floor with his link on evertyime out. That wouldn't be so cool, except for the fact that in the first five macthes HE NEVER LANDED A HIT ON ME. Man, I wish I were still at that skill level, I had that game down to an art. Unfortunately, when I got my gamecube, I stopped playing the N64....ah well.

Another favorite gaming moment happened just a few weeks ago, when I managed to beat a 14 year old girl at DDR in a technical tournament....by ONE POINT. That got me second in the tournament. I lost to this 12 year old kid.

By the way, I'm 20.

[junglehunter]

My favorite character in Super Smash Bros./Melee is Captain Falcon. Whenever my friends and I play, I like to pick the Pokemon Stadium level because it's a flat surface and there are no obstacles to get in the way of true contenders.

Before the match would start, I would be on the ground and my friend would start on one of the ledges. Right as the match starts I always run and kick my friend (Link) right off the ledge and he wouldn't be able to come back up. Ahh...those matches were classic! LOL LOL LOL

@buttasuperb - Game moments can be regarding gameplay if you want. Make it whatever you want.

[zektor]

Well:

When I bought my Sega Master System, took it home, and played Ghost House...and everything smelled new :)

When I used to stay up all night with my best friend in freezing cold air (his dad loved the a/c's on at full blast ALL THE TIME) playing with the good old Amiga.

Playing tetris on the GB when the system/game first came out and thinking it was so damn amazing that they fit a whole real game on this little tiny cartridge. The future looked bright :)

[jjhudson63]

The day the world stood still for me was beating The Legend of Zelda! I was king and who cares if I still can't beat Mike Tyson. "I'll eat his children!"

As for finds: I found an Astrocade system with Boxed Basic Interface and 13 games for $8.

[briskbc]

When my brother and I got our first system that could play games - a Vic 20
When we got our first Atari
When I was able to buy my own NES
When I beat Metroid
When I got back into gaming back in 1997
When I started collecting in 2000

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Playing Robotron at 6:30 this morning after my wife went to work and getting to the tenth board. I give all the credit to that monster double-joystick I got for the Playstation. And anyone who's wondering why this is such a big deal should know this: I suck at Robotron. But for some reason this morning - and no, I wasn't mad or otherwise upset, I was just getting a quick gaming fix before going back to sleep - I was in the zone on this one. What a thrill! In the arcade, I'd never gotten past the first Brain board. The only way I'd seen any of the game's later levels before was by using MAME's cheat mode to give myself infinite lives.

I'll now step aside and let everyone tell me that they routinely get to level 27. :P LOL

[hamburgler]

Getting my TG-16
Getting xbox with xbox live and mechassault and NHL 2K3
Having Panzer dragon saga,Shining force 3, and dracula x for saturn before the games were rare and were sold for high prices.

[norkusa]

Beating Golgo 13 for the NES. Took me 7 years of playing it off-and-on to finally do it. I didn't have many problems getting to the final act (act 13), but that entire last stage was a total bitch, especially the end boss. Finally beat him on my first attempt through the level though. Man, that was a tough game.

As far as awesome game finds go, I would have to say getting Peek-A-Boo Poker and Hot Slots at a local video store complete for $5 each. Don't think I'll ever be able to top that one.

[tom]

thta's what i thought about the greatest moments, playing stuff....

mine was, all around early 80's:

finally getting the trophy in 'Enduro' on VCS
finishing 'River Raid' on VCS after seven long hours
level 20 in H.E.R.O. on VCS
finishing Pitfall II, seeing the 'dance' (not perfect score though)

[RetroYoungen]

Wow, I just realized that I truly am still a n00b.

My greatest achievement is a simple one: I was playing a good game of Tetris and I scored 10 lines in 3 turns: 2 Tetris-s in a row, something I'd never done before. What can I say, I'm easily amused. I felt so proud 8-)

Oh, and maybe getting through Matsuri Japan on Maniac on DDR 5th Mix. That was a bitch to finally get through.

[Achika]

Everytime I reach that "zone" when playing Puzzle Bobble (or any variation of) and nothing or anyone can stop me. (Tetsu can vouch)
The first time I beat a game: Aladdin for SNES.

As far as finds:
When my Space Channel 5 Part 2 LE set showed up in the mail (I don't care how much I paid ^_^)
When a friend gave me about 100 Atari & Coleco games with a Colecovision for free (Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes, Stampede, Wabbit, Dishaster, etc.)

[rbudrick]

I have so many that come to mind, but one in particular Is beating Batman for NES on one life....with the videotape to prove it....still can't believe I got that on tape by accident.

Yeah, that was a good day.

-Rob

[digitalpress]

A few great moments, in no particular order:

- Meeting Nolan Bushnell and Al Alcorn.
- Recovering the relics of Katz, Kunkel, Worley.
- Finishing my TG-16 collection.
- Finding a boxed Atari Video Music in my local Salvation Army store.
- Beating the hardest Guitar Freaks song after 100's of attempts.
- Finishing Final Fantasy III.
- Meeting anyone I've met from these forums.

[Neonsolid]

Gone.

[NE146]

Winning a "real" Atari VCS by winning a VCS Pacman tournament.. Yeah I kid you not. I was even on the news. LOL p.s. I call it "real" because prior to that I had the Sears Heavy Sixer.. and I considered it a fake atari.. :roll:

Rolling the score in Space Invaders for the first time.

Beating Vega for the first time in snes SF2 after about a thousand attempts LOL

[wberdan]

here's one-

i placed an add in the paper looking for atari stuff, and a local guy called me up- i went to his place, he had like 100 or so atari 2600 games, and the system with various stuff.. there were some good carts like miner 2049er in there.
he asked me to make an offer- i swear to god- i said ....hmm.

me: "80 dollars?"

guy: (shocked type look) " no, no that is not right. how about 40 dollars. "

no shit.
i have NEVER had reverse dickering happen before or since.


willie

[Quickclaw]

I have so many that come to mind, but one in particular Is beating Batman for NES on one life....with the videotape to prove it....still can't believe I got that on tape by accident.

Yeah, that was a good day.

-Rob
Impressive. Could I get a copy?

[tritium]

Buying my first Import Game ikaruga[DC]
Adding a modchip to my DC successfully!

Buying my first genesis (earlier this year) and starting to collect all the games I've wanted when I was a kid.

Getting Ghouls and Ghosts for the Genesis.
Getting Double Dragon for the Genesis.
Getting Street Fighter 2 for the Genesis.

I never owned a 16-bit system, I was needing it =)

-Tritium

[fergojisan]

Beating Super Mario 2 all by myself! (I watched my younger sister beat Zelda, and I have yet to beat the other two SMBs and Zelda 2)

Finding 5200 Meteorites boxed for a dollar (paid 35 bucks years later for the directions. Christ.)

Finally getting past the elevators in Donkey Kong (the guy who owned the store told us to shut up or he would throw us out)

Finding the Kid Vid 2600 Smurfs cart and cassettes at a flea market after 5 years of nothing (in the wild)

Ferg

[Nez]

Finding, a complete sonic LE and Shenmue LE in 2 weeks time.

Fixing a Turbo Duo, and saving my friend from buying a new one.

Defeating Krizalid, on KOF evolution for the Dreamcast. Oh on expert mode. One of the Hardest Boss fightes ever.

[Dr. Morbis]

I don't know if I've posted this story before, but...

Back in about 1989 I got SMB2 for my birthday and subsequently mastered it. I could finish it easily and used to brag to the other grade-sixers about my SMB2 accomplishments. Well word must have got around because one day after school a bunch of older scarry looking guys (I was 11, they were high school age; maybe 16) backed me into a corner on the schoolgrounds. I thought they were going to beat the living shit out of me, but they didn't. One of the guys says "I hear you can beat Mario 2". I swallowed the lump in my throat and replied with a feeble "yup". So he says "prove it".

They took me back to one of their houses and popped the SMB2 cart into the Nintendo. I grabbed the controller and proceeded to beat the game, without warping, in front of these guys. Every so often one guy would yell "holy shit" or "how did you do that?".

So there I am afterwards sitting there with these older guys who all have this look of astonishment on their faces. As I'm leaving one guy says "Hey kid". I turn around to face him and he says, "you're pretty good". I reply "thanks" and walked out the door feeling like a king. ....and that was my greatest gaming moment.

[VinnyT]

I don't know if I've posted this story before, but...

Back in about 1989 I got SMB2 for my birthday and subsequently mastered it. I could finish it easily and used to brag to the other grade-sixers about my SMB2 accomplishments. Well word must have got around because one day after school a bunch of older scarry looking guys (I was 11, they were high school age; maybe 16) backed me into a corner on the schoolgrounds. I thought they were going to beat the living shit out of me, but they didn't. One of the guys says "I hear you can beat Mario 2". I swallowed the lump in my throat and replied with a feeble "yup". So he says "prove it".

They took me back to one of their houses and popped the SMB2 cart into the Nintendo. I grabbed the controller and proceeded to beat the game, without warping, in front of these guys. Every so often one guy would yell "holy shit" or "how did you do that?".

So there I am afterwards sitting there with these older guys who all have this look of astonishment on their faces. As I'm leaving one guy says "Hey kid". I turn around to face him and he says, "you're pretty good". I reply "thanks" and walked out the door feeling like a king. ....and that was my greatest gaming moment.

For some reason, that old Coca-Cola commercial where the kid gives his Coke to the football player, who then throws his jersey back at the kid played in my head after I read this.

[RetroYoungen]

I remember at CGE this year when I was talking to somebody (I don't remember his name, sadly) and he brought up that he'd heard the Twin Galaxies high line score for Nintendo Tetris on the NES was 204, then realizing that my personal best was 214. And I remember playing to 214, that was a BITCH. @_@

So was this one: I'm the only person I know of (as of right now, anyway) that has beaten Intelligent Qube for the PS1. I did, got about 950,000 points, and an I.Q. of about 393. I need to get back into that game and beat it with on video so that I can turn it in to TG and earn my rightful world record high score. :D

[charitycasegreg]

here's one-

i placed an add in the paper looking for atari stuff, and a local guy called me up- i went to his place, he had like 100 or so atari 2600 games, and the system with various stuff.. there were some good carts like miner 2049er in there.
he asked me to make an offer- i swear to god- i said ....hmm.

me: "80 dollars?"

guy: (shocked type look) " no, no that is not right. how about 40 dollars. "

no shit.
i have NEVER had reverse dickering happen before or since.


willie

Then you said, 40? How about 55? jk...
You offered $80? LOL I would have offered $30 at first saying taht "the old atari carts aren't really worth anything, I just like collecting them and playing them". Luckily you got them for 30.

I loved when I first beat super mario 3 for nes, then sonic 3 & knuckles for sega. The first times were so great feeling. If I beat a newer gen game I wouldnt care that much. I love beating the old ones though.

[Dr.Yang]

beating viewpoint on the neo geo (homcart of course :D )

playing wipeout for the first time ( i was shocked :eek 2: )

the appearance of the mode 7 fighter plane in super contra level 1 @_@

[Lord Contaminous]

>Beating Final Fantasy III (Famicom) and Final Fantasy V (Super Famicom) in Japanese on console. I got videotapes of it too.
>Beating Megaman X2, with a crowd. I took my Super NES to the Y, hooked it up to the huge high projection monitor and everybody in the room was watching me beat it from beginning to end.

[racecar]

@ the arcade there was this broken(coin slot door=free play)MVC2.. spend a few week there and play the hell out of that game !!!!

[Lord Contaminous]

Ah! Long win streaks in fighting games at the 'cade. Priceless.

[Fuyukaze]

First was getting such a high score in Megamenia on my 2600 that the game froze. Second was when I beat pitfall (ok, no real ending but the game stoped). The latest was beating Gunvalkry on the x-box. Its hard, but oh so good. If only they had mapped out the controls better.

Game purchases? Finding Ogre Battle with box and instructions for 5$. Thats not all, but one of the best. Way to many to list off for that.

[Ninja Blacksox]

I've previously mentioned my "Mortal Kombat" and "Mortal Kombat II" prowess in eariler posts. Seriously. I was untouchable. I miss those days.

However, the best video gaming moment of my life was something that's now referred to as "The 2001 'Power Stone' Pornography Classic."

The story begins with me and my two friends hitting up the 7-11 before a night out. I noticed there was a nice selection of Asian-themed pornography behind the counter, and thus, make a remark about it to my Asian friend.

"Hey Atsushi! Look! 'Young Asian Gash!' Check it out!"

Atsushi is an odd fella. He usually has no problem buying pornography. However, he COULDN'T STAND the idea of buying Asian-themed porn; especially from the young Korean guy working at the 7-11, as we had established a friendship with him. We had a conversation about this very subject after leaving the store. He just thought it was "weird" for an Asian guy to be buying Asian porn from an Asian clerk.

Cut to a few hours later... We're back at my place playing "Power Stone." I've beaten Atsushi without losing a round in five matches. He appears upset. Thus, I begin taunting him. Eventually, we begin to speak of a bet.

The bet was as follows: If I won 20 consecutive matches without losing a single round, he would have to go back to the 7-11 and buy me "Young Asian Gash," or whatever, from his Korean clerk pal. However, if at any time Atsushi won a SINGLE ROUND, I would have to drive to Tower Records and buy him gay pornography. It should be noted that neither Atsushi nor myself are gay males. It was agreed however, that the humiliation I would exeperience from purchasing gay pornography was greater than or equal to the humiliation that Atsushi would experience from purchasing Asian pornography.

Hey. We were younger.

Anyway, I think you know how the story ends.

In Match 20, Atsushi had me down to the tiniest sliver of life left. He had about 3/4 of his meter full.

I rallied and beat him. 20-0. Not. A. Single. Round. Lost.

We all piled into the car and drove to 7-11. Of course, upon approaching the counter, Atsushi said to the clerk "Hey, it's not for me. It's for a friend..."

To which the clerk replied, "Yeah whatever, you perv."

-A Boy

[Neonsolid]

Gone.

[izret101]

Does Violence in the media affect you?

"Totally! Last week I projected ice out of my hand and froze my friend Kumar and then I punched him with an uppercut and he shattered into a thousand pieces."
LOVE THIS SIG
Anyways my best moments collection wise would be getting a Complete Colecovision a sealed copy of Captain Skyhawk and Marble Madness.
Getting 3 NES/lightguns and 9 controlers and approx 40 games free.
and getting a copy of Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance Promo for PS2 and another copy not promo for Xbox.
Best moments in actual gaming
Going 54 and 0 in Worms World Party with my team. I was playing 2 worms on 14 i think and gave up before i got a loss after testing my fate and getting close way to many times.
Getting 63 kills 5 deaths in 10 minutes against 3 people teaming up against me in Goldeneye.
Beating every game i owned plus many others owned. At the time it was around 250 titles on 5 systems.(This was 4 years ago then i got more games)

[izret101]

Sorry that 58 not 63. 2 different things got mixed up there.

[Ed Oscuro]

no shit.
i have NEVER had reverse dickering happen before or since.
o_O

Good goin'!

My best free catch...an old Mac Classic II; it's got more memory than any website I've found says it can POSSIBLY have! Only a few megabytes, but hey.

[Black_Tiger]

After devising each plan I successfully completing them-

I got into Tiger/Lion Man's level using Mouse Man in Wonderboy III/Dragon's Curse, made it to and beat the boss. It morphed me straight into Bird Man(with all of the morphs inbetween available).

I used the Panthor form in Shapeshifter to jump up and at the height of each jump I morphed and jumped and repeated until I made it up to where you enter the final are with the Phoenix.

In both games I pretty much jumped to the end of each game after the second boss.

[izret101]

After devising each plan I successfully completing them-

I got into Tiger/Lion Man's level using Mouse Man in Wonderboy III/Dragon's Curse, made it to and beat the boss. It morphed me straight into Bird Man(with all of the morphs inbetween available).

I used the Panthor form in Shapeshifter to jump up and at the height of each jump I morphed and jumped and repeated until I made it up to where you enter the final are with the Phoenix.

In both games I pretty much jumped to the end of each game after the second boss.

What the hell are you talking about???

[Black_Tiger]

After devising each plan I successfully completing them-

I got into Tiger/Lion Man's level using Mouse Man in Wonderboy III/Dragon's Curse, made it to and beat the boss. It morphed me straight into Bird Man(with all of the morphs inbetween available).

I used the Panthor form in Shapeshifter to jump up and at the height of each jump I morphed and jumped and repeated until I made it up to where you enter the final are with the Phoenix.

In both games I pretty much jumped to the end of each game after the second boss.

What the hell are you talking about???

Well, if you've never played these games, I'll try to use a couple mainstream games as examples.

I basically beat the first dungeon in the original Legend Of Zelda, then used mad skills to get into the last dungeon and immediately finish the game.

After escaping Midgar at the beginning of Final Fantasy VII, I right away jumped down the crater that doesn't exist yet and murdered Sephiroth.

[Dr. Morbis]

I basically beat the first dungeon in the original Legend Of Zelda, then used mad skills to get into the last dungeon and immediately finish the game.
What "mad skills" did you use to get past the guy who won't let you in unless you have all 8 pieces of the triforce?

[suppafly]

- The first time i played Super Mario Bros 1
- The first time i played Super Mario Bros 3
- The first time i played SOnic 1

[Black_Tiger]

I basically beat the first dungeon in the original Legend Of Zelda, then used mad skills to get into the last dungeon and immediately finish the game.
What "mad skills" did you use to get past the guy who won't let you in unless you have all 8 pieces of the triforce?

That's the example I used as an equivelent to explain my original post(someone asked "what I was talking about").

I got into and beat Tiger/Lion-Man's area as Mouse-Man in WBIII and used the Panther morph to 'fly' into the final area of Shapeshifter.

[Ruffie]

It was the end of the summer of 1986. I had just bought and started playing Ultima IV on my Commodore 64.

It was time, however, to move to the city and into my first apartment at the start of my sophmore year of college. My roommate and I moved in and set the place up. Then he went back home for a week, because school wasn't set to start for 2 more weeks.

So, I had the apartment to myself for a week.
No friends around.
No girlfriend.
No job.
No school.

Just me, Ultima IV, a bag of...um herbs, and a lot of vodka.

It was a week in paradise.

Another moment in gaming greatness:

It was the early eighties. As usual, myself and two friends were staying overnight in my parent's finished basement, for a night of junk food and Atari and Odyssey 2 gaming.

My one friend Andy and I went on the snack run to the local convenience store, leaving Barry behind to play Atari. When Andy and I got to the conveneince store, we spotted a new video game where the old Frogger machine had been.

This was a noisy sounding space game. We walked over and took a look at it. The first thing that struck us were the controls. There were a lot more buttons than we were used to at the time. An up-down joystick, a fire button, a hyperspace button, a reverse button, a smart bomb button.

We were a bit dumbfounded at first. We watched it's attract mode a bit and then decided to try it. It was insanely hard at first and we were ready to dismiss it. But, we tried it again and both did better.

And better, and better, as the hours faded away. Finally, after some time playing, we remembered our mission to get munchies and made our purchase and returned home. Barry had long since fallen asleep.

We told him about the new game, Defender, the next morning, and returned to play it in the afternoon.

Ruffie

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[suppafly]

I have so many that come to mind, but one in particular Is beating Batman for NES on one life....with the videotape to prove it....still can't believe I got that on tape by accident.

Yeah, that was a good day.

-Rob

Now thats a good challenge. One of my best video game moments ever is when i beat batman for the first time...i was 10 or 11 years old at the time, and it took me 6 MONTHS to beat this game....the jumping is kinda challenging!

[ldkspardante]

My most memorable moment was playing smash bros for 64. you know how sometimes you get in the "gaming zone?" like when you're playin unreal and you spawn w/ 50 enemies next to you and you take em all out by yourself, then you infiltrate the other base taking everyone else one by one, then grabbing the flag, using the impact hammer (cuz ur out of ammo) to kill 3 or 4 more tryin to kill you, then teleporting to the redeemer, then runnin out and firing it behind you to get a couple of monster kills, then seeing someone with your flag and kill them with the impact hammer, and then you finally get the winning point.

well, that's how i felt when i was playin with my 3 other friends (the best smash bros players that i know). i use fox, and we had the match on 5 lives. i dont remember what happened after that, but, when i came to, the match was over, i had 15 kills, and 5 lives left. it was kind of weird, cuz usually, i come out w/ around 9 kills and 2 lives left. it was like i "achieved the glow" (G4, for those who watch). That was a great day.