Your Most Memorable Moment In Gaming?

[JMike]

Has anyone had that moment while playing a video game that will sort of stick with you forever? I'm looking for some people's experiences to discuss on my PS2 Blog (removed). I have two of them...


Resident Evil, PS1: I always loved (and still do) playing these games in the middle of the night in the dark with the volume up. This being my first Resident Evil experience got me hooked on the franchise. It was durring a calm moment in the game. You're just walking down a hallway not expecting anything, at least until you get to the end or go through the next door. Out of no where a zombie dog comes crashing through the window scaring the **it out me. The sound effect was created extra loud too. After that moment the rest of the game had my heart pumping every time I played.


The other significant moment was in Metal Gear Solid: PS1. I remember a lot of hype leading up to it's release and read a lot about it in the PlayStation Magazine. I hadn't played any of the previous Metal Gears on the older systems. The boss battle against Psycho Mantis was memorable to me at the time because I remember thinking how creative it was. The battle made it seem like Psycho Mantis was "reading your mind" by moving your controller with the vibration function, reading your memory card and telling you how many saved games were on it then would mention a genre of games on your card and make a comment about it, and by making you think the channel changed by turning the screen black.


Well those are my two...what are some of yours?

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[RCM]

The first time I played Sonic on Genesis in 1991. That moment changed my life.

[Red Warrior]

The final battle with Mother Brain in Super Metroid. THE defining moment of my gaming career. I honestly don't think I breathed once during that whole battle on that unforgettable night of April 23, 1994. Yes... I still remember the exact date. It was just that special.

[Push Upstairs]

Battling my way to the final boss in "Serious Sam: 2nd Encounter".

After trudging my way through that big ass castle (and all the fights within) only to have one last big open field battle. Epic only for the fact that the sky grew dark and fireballs fall from the sky while you are frantically running around.

[exit]

The entire experience of Silent Hill 1 and 2 are etched in my brain forever, especially the very effective storytelling that Silent Hill 2 had.

Portal is another game that I will remember forever, one particular part towards the end really caught me off guard and also had me laughing out or irony.

Castlevania 2 for it's very mysterious townspeople and their very cryptic conversations, the guy on the boat was especially creepy.

The part in Zelda Twilight Princess where everything was black and white was stunning when I first saw it.

The original Metroid was the first game I remember striking my imagination as a child and made me want to explore the world, even tho I found it frightening at times.

[Pantechnicon]

Finding a sealed copy of Supamu Toimaru (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3434/3771709605_bb7a80e283.jpg) for the Playstation 2.

[jcalder8]

Too many to count:

Some that stand out though:

Playing Shark! Shark! for the Intellivision and the Jaws music comes on letting you know that the shark is coming

Renting an NES and Double Dragon 2 and staying home instead of going out to a concert.

Staying up all night playing Mario Kart 64 with a friend. Final score in battle: 101-100

More recently playing Fifa 06 on the DS and doing a bicycle kick, I was amazed that my did it on a handheld. I remember when it was a big deal on the Genesis.

[vivaeljason]

Let's see...

The first time I beat Ganon in the Legend of Zelda; there was just this huge feeling of accomplishment to trudge through the entire game.

All of Super Mario Bros. 3. The fact that I went nearly fifteen years without playing it, picked it up, and still remembered the entire game level by level says a LOT about the impact it had on me.

Getting to Nick Bruiser in Super Punch-Out!! and failing every time.

Beating King K. Rool in Donkey Kong Country.

Super Mario RPG. 'Nuff said.

NiGHTS. 'Nuff said.

The first time I played GoldenEye in multi-player with my friends. We selected proximity mines, and that's been my weapon of choice since.

[BHvrd]

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[Sabz5150]

I beat Sonic 2 before a crowd in Circuit City the day it came out.

My dad's words: "I *was* gonna buy that for you."

[JMike]

These are great to read...
Another moment for myself that I forgot about was the day I beat ToeJam & Earl on Sega Genesis. When you finally got back to their home planet and got to walk around it...it was so satisfying. I don't know about anyone else, but I loved that game.

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[Nesmaster]

- Not having a huge library of NES games of my own, but I swear I had 1 or 2 rentals out for the entire duration of me owning a NES.

- Super NES received for christmas and playing Super Mario World until I just couldn't any longer.

- Playing Super Mario 64 for the first time on a display unit months before getting my own 64 and Mario that Christmas and playing until sunrise the next day.

- Goldeneye 64 and the countless hours spent in single player, multiplayer, unlocking cheats and just generally mucking about in this game with goodies like paintball mode and unlimited ammo. :)

- Zelda OoT. Everything about the game, from the feeling of opening it and seeing the gold cartridge, intro, cheery Kokiri Village music while just roaming around town, obtaining the first sword and shield, and being totally creeped out by the Skulltula in the Deku Tree. This game totally consumed me until Ganon fell. Still don't like the Water Temple to this day. :p

- Numerous other 64 titles that I lost many hours to, including Banjo Kazooie, Rush, Rush 2, Bomberman 64, Mario Kart, Diddy Kong Racing, Tony Hawk 2 to name a few.

- Spending my entire Christmas vacation playing my newly received Gamecube with the likes of Smash Melee, Tony Hawk 3, Dave Mirra BMX 2 and The Simpsons: Road Rage.

- Buying a PS2 and GTA III, the first console and game bought with my own money and not as a gift or with gifted money.

- Renting GTA: SA from blockbuster and never returning it.

- Playing GTA: SA for every waking moment for the three days that followed said rental until completed.

- Finishing ICO on nothing but Tylenol 4 and Gatorade after having my wisdom teeth yanked.

- Saving up for a month to buy my 360 and then not being able to find a Premium version for another 2 or 3 weeks, but then spending all day playing Marble Blast Ultra. Yep, $500 spent on a new console and the first thing I play is this. :D

- Oblivion. I had never played a game with a scope as big as this one. Stepping out of the sewers for the first time and my jaw hit the floor.

- The hype I felt when Saints Row gameplay was shown, and playing the demo religiously daily for a solid month before the game shipped.

- Grand Theft Auto IV and nearly everything to do with the game BEFORE it launched. Hype, sleepless nights, overanalyzing trailers and screens, going to my first midnight launch and playing the game for the first time... After finishing it twice I would come to personally prefer San Andreas but this is still a very good game and will never forget the effect it had on me.

#1 gaming moment? I would give a nod to the third on my list, playing Mario 64 for the first time. Still one of the most magical, memorable moments in my life.

[heybtbm]

Most memorable? Probably beating Pitfall II for the first time (we're talking 1984 or so). It was one of the few 2600 games I owned that actually was able to beat.

Most of my current memorable moments revolve around online multiplayer or co-op sessions with friends. COD, Battlefield, Halo, Rainbow Six...just too many to list.

[drummy]

My many amazing sticks in Halo 2. I just wish they had replay saving like they do in Halo 3...

[The 1 2 P]

One of my most memorable moments happened earlier this year in Halo 3. I was playing online in a 4v4 game and when the score was 12-10 my entire team quit, leaving me to play 1v4. The game was close for awhile but in the end I won like 43-35 or something like that. I absolutely saved that film:)

[carlcarlson]

There are a lot, but here are a few. Reading some of the above reminded me of a few of these.

-Stepping out in Seyda Neen after being granted my freedom at the beginning of Morrowind. I had no idea what to do, so I just started walking. I kept walking for three months.

-Emulating Pokemon: Blue on my computer one Christmas break. We had huge blizzards so we were pretty much snowed in for four weeks. I heard about this game on the news of all places and was instantly hooked.

-Playing various n64 games at friend's houses (I never had one). The first time I played Mario 64 I was absolutely blown away by the 3D world that we got to explore. That was topped, though, by the time I showed up at a birthday party to discover four friends playing this new game called Goldeneye. That was the best birthday party I've ever been too.

-I've had a lot of good COD4 games, but one recently was especially satisfying. I had been playing with two friends on Team Deathmatch for awhile, and we kept getting absolutely murdered by this other group. The current game was Bog, which is a favorite of mine because I'm a pretty decent sniper. I was doing well but the rest of my team was still getting killed. We were down by nine kills and the other team only needed one more kill to win the match. And then I got a chopper. I called it in and started yelling at my team to hang back. Bog is a very open map and my chopper started reeking havoc. I saw one of our guys was about to get shot so I yelled at my friend to flash the enemy player, and as he did my other friend shot him. It took about twenty seconds for my chopper to get the winning kill. I've never had a win feel that good.

-This one sticks in my mind the most, but is hard to explain. I was playing Giants: Citizen Kabuto as one of the space marine guys. I was winning pretty handily when I came over the top of a hill. Down below me in the valley were bunch of burrowers and some tank things. And they all saw me. As I stifled an "oh shit!" I quickly backed up over the hill. It was too late though, and as I began to run two furious mounds of dirt appeared over the crest of the hill on both sides, flanking two huge fireballs fired down the middle. I was toast.

[Nebagram]

Playing Oblivion and emerging from the sewer for the first time. I walked up the hill to Bruma, and turned and looked back at the Imperial City, and my first thoughts were: 'holy shit'. For obvious reasons.

200/200-ing Pac Man CE on XBLA (my first ever 100% on a 360 game), just nailing the final achievement with one life left and ghosts bearing down on all sides. Get in. :-D

[Porksta]

Two thinks from Morrowind because that was the first game I was really stoked about playing.

Walking around in a swamp I hear a faint screaming. I keep walking and it gets louder. Then HOLY SHIT A GUY JUST FELL OUT OF THE SKY IN FRONT OF ME. Scared the crap out of me.

Spending about 10 minutes walking around a desert (I think) to some isolated town so I can complete a quest (I think I had to visit all the gates or something). In the town is a massive statue, or rock or something. A big memorial. I talk to one of the people walking around, and this is what he had to say:

After I kill you, I will rape your dead body. Don't worry, I'll be gentle.

I was laughing so hard.

[heybtbm]

Why was the OP banned? Just curious.

[The 1 2 P]

Why was the OP banned? Just curious.

Probably for spamming his PS2 blog on every thread he made.

[Cobra Commander]

Kind of a weird one, but it really sticks in my mind.
In grade school, my frined and I were nuts about Nobunaga's Ambition on the NES. We'd play for hours and hours uintil like 3 in the morning.
My favorite part was when my ninja finally successfully assassinated a rival daimyo.
I nearly died when he snuck in, jammed his katana in the guy, and wiggled it around. God, that felt so satisfying.

[PentiumMMX]

One that was more recent involves Super Mario World. Just days prior, I had finished a weekend-long 100% speedrun through Super Mario World with my sister's then-boyfriend, and when I went to church later in the week; I saw they now had a Super NES with Super Mario World and other games setup in the room.

Everyone was taking turns on Super Mario World; the game was 100% finished, so we just jumped from stage to stage as we pleased, eventually deciding to see who can beat Bowser. Everyone failed, but as a crowd of people watched, I took down Bowser effortlessly using the knowlage I gained just days prior. That felt awesome; even better than when I was playing Rock Band a few months later; getting a full band together as we 5-stared Green Grass & High Tides in front of that same group of people (Only one of us was on Expert mode, though, and that was our drummer. He was awesome).

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Easily the most memorable moment for me, even more so than the very first time I every played a video game, would be when I finally beat Diddy Kong Racing; that fateful Wednesday night in mid-to-late 2000. After beating Wizpig once, tackling the Future Fun Land Silver Coin Challenges, and getting all the pieces of the TT Amulet, I moved onto the final race against Wizpig; just him on a giant rocket (A crotch rocket turned to 11), myself in an airplane, and a track littered with sharp turns, electric fences, and laser turrets.

It took a few tries, but eventually I got the hang of the track; saving up my blue balloons through each lap to build up a nice, powerful boost to sent me rocketing from the exit of the throne room (The single most dangerous area on the track; where most of the turrets are) and across the finish line in 1 second. After that, I finally beat it, and one little bit of the ending had me eagerly awaiting any chance of a sequel (After all, it showed that Wizpig managed to survive his rocket exploding, leaving it open for him to return), but the chances of it ever being made are slimmer than that of Mega Man Legends 3.

[kupomogli]

My most memorable moment actually has to be on Dragon Warrior 3. After defeating Baramos, you actually don't complete the game and go down a pit into the ground. This was the world of the original Dragon Warrior. I thought this was the coolest thing I've seen on a game at the time. It's still one of the coolest things I've ever seen on a video game.

Then there are others.

Before Dragon Warrior 3, I played Final Fantasy. Aside from Castlevania, the original Final Fantasy is my most played NES game. Everything on this game was extremely well done and the first time I've ever played it it was my favorite game. To this day I still play the game regularly, but instead of just the NES version, it's been the NES, PSX, GBA, and PSP versions that I'll put time into.

When the SNES came out, Super Castlevania 4 was and still is my favorite game for the system. I received the SNES on my birthday(December 31) and could choose one extra game from the store. Having owned all the NES Castlevania games and it being the one I saw in the store, that's the game I ended up picking up. The graphics were amazing and still are some of the best on the SNES. The whipping multi directional while still keeping the similar gameplay. I played it to finish the very first day I got it, loved everything about it, but the best thing about the game will always be the battles against Slogra, Gaibon, and Death, then the candles lighting themselves as you walk past towards Dracula. It was a truly amazing experience for me.

Finally, there's Vandal Hearts. It's not the first TRPG I've played, but it's what really got me into them. So nearly every tactical RPG since then for that generation I've picked up as a higher priority than most every other games. Luckily I didn't notice Eternal Eyes and I saw it on sale one day for 3.99 on clearance and picked it up, which is also memorable to me because I'll never forget selling it the same day and gladly accepting one dollar for it at Gamestop.

[Enigmus]

Hey Guys,
My memorable moment is first time i have played cassette video game in
that i m only 10 yrs.with doing good lunch also.i m doing both work eating
and gaming also..so it is nice time on that but now nothing else...

Thanks..

Ever seen my pic in that red bar? I'm led to believe that's you due to your sig. Go spambomb somewhere else.

[Sonicwolf]

When my sister and I got Ocarina of Time back in 1999, we were blown away. Soon after we encountered our first ReDeads. When the ReDead started humping Link, we both screamed and shut off the console, losing all progress up to that point. LOL