Feats in gaming

[Eduardo]

I'm not talking particularly about high scores, since they rae so cut and dry and don't hold as much anecdotal entertainment value, but more about stories were you have done something out of the ordinary, maybe not even going for it.

During college there a span of about one year where I played SNES Super Mario World everyday. I have a Gameboy Color in my bathroom and I play Tetris almost every day, this has been going on for a couple of years. I've passed a bunch of games in one sitting on the first time I've played them but mostly sequels or games within the genres I'm skilled at.

Lately I've been getting into the Mario console platformers, so I'll try to pass them all continiously. I still don't know ho wlong would games like Sunshine and Galaxy would take me because I've never played them but I got a good handle on the NES and SNES games.

[Leo_A]

From early 2001 to about the end of 2006 when I slowed things down, I spent about three hours every evening racing Papyrus' line of NASCAR simulations online.

Accumulated hundreds of wins at dozens of tracks in pickup races (Random races with whoever wants to join, like a Xbox Live match), 8 league championships, 150 league wins (I've kept track of those), full length race wins (Including a 600 mile race at Charlotte) and at least 300,000 miles in simulated stockcars during those 6 years.

There were even a few weeks where I'd log 1,500-2,000 miles at one track in preparation for a upcoming race. I was out for perfection and largely accomplished it by the end before I started to take a more sane approach to sim racing.

And I've raced against over a dozen professionals over the years, including Formula One, IndyCar, NASCAR, and GrandAm drivers.

Now I just race for fun in iRacing when I race (With occasional trips to Papyrus' 1998 classic, Grand Prix Legends). Not as fast as I once was, but it's much more relaxing this way.

[Dangerboy]

a. I beat SNES UN Squadron using only the starter plane, never buying another one. You haven't lived until you realize you need to wedge a 3 inch plane into a 3.01 inch wide space in order to shoot the final boss' core. Was awesome...

b. In Xbox Burnout Takedown, there was a race that no matter what I did, I always crashed into this fucking trailer truck that was in the worst part of the last turn (in which the finish line was literally the end of the turn).

On my very last "Just one more time" run, I hit the corner, and all I saw was trailer, so I shut my eyes in frustration awaiting the crash and the loss, and instead heard the Takedown sound effect...and opened one eye...

What happened rocked my world: A CPU car that was on my bumper going into the turn essentially rammed me from behind - this caused me to crash into the back of the trailer, but the impact sent me UP AND OVER the truck, my car *literally* flew over the finish line banner mid-air, and as it landed on the other side of the line upside down, you could tell the Xbox didn't know what to do as the camera just sat there for a few seconds, all of the sudden 1ST PLACE appears on screen and I won.

Apparently since I was the first to crash and the CPU second, it respawned me after the line, and the CPU where it hit the truck, before the finish line.

I think I saved like 40 times in that one moment, just be sure it took. :)

c. Beat Final Fight 3 in one try, without even realizing it.

d. Bowled a 300, 3000, and 300 series in Wii Sports Resort's 3 Bowling modes :D

[Rickstilwell1]

I beat the Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy (normal NES version) without losing a single life in one sitting, and videotaped the whole playthrough luckily. Sould I put it on youtube in segments?