Classic gaming memories, what are some of your favorite times as a gamer?

[Manga4life]

Okay, I'll start!

I remember the year being around 1990 or so and my downstairs neighbor got an NES for the first time, it came with Mario/Duck Hunt and that was the only game he had. Since I knew the game a little bit (had not beaten it at that point) I remember going downstairs and helping him set up the NES and he fired up some SMB for the first time, boy was he enthralled by it having only had an Atari 2600 leading up to that point. I knew some tricks but not many and we both kind of learned the game together, we literally played for hours and before you knew it it was like 9PM and my mom came down stairs to get me, I was 10 at the time, and she said I could stay there the night if his mom was okay with it (she was). We stayed up until about 3am continuously playing SMB and Duck Hunt, it was a really special time for me and we had a lot of fun. I'll always remember that, those are memories today's systems just can't offer.

Time to share some memories of yours!

[bb_hood]

I remember renting Castlevania II when I was young. Over the course of 2 days me and my sister found all the items and beat the game without tips or nintendo power. I always think of this when people complain about Castlevania II being too hard or cryptic because I was able to beat it when I was probably less than 10 years old.

[TecmoBowlTerror]

I still recall the 1st time I beat Mike Tyson. By the time I got to the 3rd round, I was really nervous and shaking. It was the deepest I had ever gone into a fight with him, and was scared out of my mind. Previously I had only got into the 2nd round like once or twice, so I was really in uncharted waters. I managed to beat him by decision. My buddy was trying to keep my calm between rounds and coax me on to victory. It was probably the most ridiculous interaction of all time.

In the next few weeks I mastered beating Tyson. I would go to Walmart and play the NES there and put on a show for other kids, as I beat Tyson.

[Guru of Time and Space]

I remember renting Castlevania II when I was young. Over the course of 2 days me and my sister found all the items and beat the game without tips or nintendo power. I always think of this when people complain about Castlevania II being too hard or cryptic because I was able to beat it when I was probably less than 10 years old.

I'm not exactly gonna call bullshit on this, but...
I love Castlevania 2, it's one of my favorite games, but the complaints are warranted, I feel, if you are simply trying to beat the game (my perspective on that is down below). The garlic in the graveyard summoning a stranger is easy enough to figure out, as are some of the others, but a lot of the clues are way too skewed to be figured out outside of trial and error. The villagers lying and saying cryptic shit is all part of the charm and aesthetic of the game for me, but I can recognize it as being fucking annoying and hindering gameplay to the point of where, if you choose to play through without any outside guide, the game would become an infuriating game of trial and error.

With all that being said... Castlevania 2 was the first game I became completely immersed in the atmosphere of and it was the first game to genuinely creep me out. I was really into roaming the Romanian countryside and feeling the heavy wave of depression that seemed to hover over the villages of Transylvania. It was a weird juxtaposition, the freedom to roam the land while the people were still recovering from the reign of Dracula while still being terrorized by beasts and monsters in the countryside and at night. A lot of the shit the villagers said really stuck with me as I first learned to read. Everything was so odd. Now I can recognize it as a shoddy translation, but back then I didn't think or know that at all. I thought these folks were just fucked in the head and odd because of them still feeling the rule of the Count. The green floating zombie women that came out in the villages at night were the first aspect of any video game to ever frighten me. I would avoid going into the towns at night because of them. Even to this day I'll play through Castlevania 2 once a year around Halloween time and I still think they're still eerie. The entire game is eerie and I think the poor translation into English helped that aesthetic out rather than hindering it. When I played Castlevania 2 it was never to get the end and kill Dracula and to be done with it, but to immerse myself in all the odd shit going on. The aesthetic holds up to this day and it's a very unique game for me.

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-GoTaS

[BricatSegaFan]

I remember having a NES as my first system and loving it. It was around 1990 I had went to friends house and they had a Sega Genesis. I played Sonic for hours until I had to go home for dinner. Suffice to say my birthday was coming up soon and I begged for a Genesis. That was a birthday I will cherish forever! The Genesis was the first system I really wanted, the NES was a crapshoot on my parents part.

The following Christmas of 91 I got another system I didn't ask for but was blown away by it. That system was my NEOGEO AES with Fatal Fury and magician lord. Ahhh the memories. All my friends were green with envy and my older sister wanted to trade my Aes for her Snes....I said no LOL.

[Manga4life]

Another NES specific memory I have is of Punch Out and one Saturday afternoon when me and a friend at the time spent probably 2 or 3 hours trying to figure out how to dodge Tiger's barrage of punches, he knew there was a way and we tried what seemed like everything to stop him but we just kept failing over and over. It sucked! Finally, after all of that I was able to knock him down 3 times before he went into his barrage and won the fight. We cheered so loud that the neighbors banged on the ceiling of their apartment up through the floor to shut us up, we were that loud. Even my mom ran in to see what the racket was about, it was definitely a classic gaming memory for me.

[PreZZ]

I remember going to a friend's house when I was 9 years old, and we played the original Castlevania. When it was my turn to play, I made it all the way to Dracula but I lost the fight! My friends were all anxious and amazed that I made it to the final boss, and I was too! When I got killed, they said: do it again!, but I could never reach it! Guess that was one of those days when everything just works for you, but I got my streets respect for my mad skills!

[otaku]

first games I played were at a cousins he was a teenager I was 7 so I thought he was so cool having all these systems and a tv in his room. He had an NES and genesis maybe a master system and a virtual boy. I hated the virtual boy visuals but still thought it was neat. Loved contra on the nes. And of course sonic on the genesis. in less than a year I convinced my parents to get me the n64 at launch

[bb_hood]

I'm not exactly gonna call bullshit on this, but...


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-GoTaS

Nope, not bullshit at all. Only 3 tricky parts in the game: 1st where you have to hold the 2nd crystal orb to reveal a mansion. Second is using the diamond on the river-guy and 3rd is using the 3rd crystal to summon the tornado. By tricky I mean confusing, especially if you dont know what the crystals do. Gotta talk to the villagers to get clues, which is essential to progress without outside hints.
Otherwise its just making sure that simon belmont is leveled up enough to kill the monsters with 1 or 2 hits. Not too hard.

[Edmond Dantes]

First time I tried to play Romance of the Three Kingdoms II multiplayer. A friend of mine had attacked this one warlord (I forget who it was) and kicked his ass, but the dude escaped... right into a state bordered by hostiles on two sides. So naturally, dude got attacked again... and escaped... and attacked AGAIN... and escaped... and AGAIN... and escaped... until finally this dude (who we had been trying to kill) managed to get to the opposite side of the map and set himself up a solid foundation.

We still make jokes about that to this day.

Also, did anyone else ever used to rent games from local gas stations? I remember this was how I first discovered Gargoyle's Quest. At another one, they had Little Samson... which I was not interested in because I thought it was a bible game. Sigh... if only I had known...

[Zing]

Nope, I will call bullshit on the Simons Quest thing. I played through the game recently after not touching it for 20 years. I talked to everyone, wrote down all clues, tried everything to make it through the game without outside help. Even having played through the game dozens of times as a teenager didn't give me enough info to complete this. I was very thorough. There simply are not enough accurate clues to know what to do. Unless you are playing this in native Japanese, where there may be enough accuracy to figure things out, the game is essentially impossible to complete. You'd need an enormous amount of time invested trying absolutely everything; 100 monkeys for 100 years.

[BricatSegaFan]

Nope, I will call bullshit on the Simons Quest thing. I played through the game recently after not touching it for 20 years. I talked to everyone, wrote down all clues, tried everything to make it through the game without outside help. Even having played through the game dozens of times as a teenager didn't give me enough info to complete this. I was very thorough. There simply are not enough accurate clues to know what to do. Unless you are playing this in native Japanese, where there may be enough accuracy to figure things out, the game is essentially impossible to complete. You'd need an enormous amount of time invested trying absolutely everything; 100 monkeys for 100 years.

Maybe there was a game genie involved.

[Peloquin17]

Playing below the root nonstop on the apple IIc

[Manga4life]

Another memory I have is about a year and a half after I sold my original Nintendo I got the itch to buy another one and with some money I had saved up I went to Funcoland to pick one up in mid-1995 and bought it alongside Mario/Duck Hunt and The Legend of Zelda. It was fun because for some reason I remember being so excited to play the system and I raced home and caught every bus I could to get there as soon as I could so I could play, and aside from the two games I bought tha day I got the console again I focused mainly on games I've never played before and discovered some true gems such as Faxanadu (which became a personal favorite). It's weird, back in early 1994 I sold my NES and the 20+ games I had for it because I had a Super Nintendo, but in only about a year and a few months later I realized that I loved my NES and I absolutely NEEDED to own one, that year or so I didn't have the system really felt like multiple years because when I played the system I felt as if I haven't seen or played one in 10 years and instantly felt nostalgic.

But yeah, that feeling I had when I was buss hoping to get home fast to play is the kind of feeling that you just don't get with todays games and systems.

[treismac]

I still recall the 1st time I beat Mike Tyson. By the time I got to the 3rd round, I was really nervous and shaking. It was the deepest I had ever gone into a fight with him, and was scared out of my mind. Previously I had only got into the 2nd round like once or twice, so I was really in uncharted waters. I managed to beat him by decision. My buddy was trying to keep my calm between rounds and coax me on to victory. It was probably the most ridiculous interaction of all time.

In the next few weeks I mastered beating Tyson. I would go to Walmart and play the NES there and put on a show for other kids, as I beat Tyson.

Hahaha!!! Dude, I just beat Tyson on Puch-Out for the first time in the past year, by decision as well. I was freaked out and so nervous the whole time, and I went crazy when Mario called it for me. Such a high, let me tell you. I can put Kid Dynamite down in the second round now, but that first win melted away years and years of anxiety towards Tyson as an unbeatable force of programming.

Other amazing memories I have are playing two different games with my cousins who lived next door: The Secret of Monkey Island on the PC and Double Dragon on the arcade. Both of those games had many loving hours poured into them by me and each respective cousin. Both games are such epic quests in such different ways: Double Dragon required my cousin and me to ride our bikes up to the local Circle K every Saturday morning, plunking quarter after quarter in, while Ron Gilbert's masterpiece held us transfixed in front of a glowing monitor well past night fall, day in and day out, while we worked our way through the different puzzles. Magic, man. It was magic.

[Polygon]

I didn't get my first video game system until I was 11. I wanted an NES so bad. My first real gaming memory was going with one of my best friends to Toys R' Us to buy his NES with his mom. We got back to his house and proceeded to play it all day.

[SpaceFlea]

One of my fondest memories was finally receiving an NES Christmas of '89. I had already been playing SMB for years at various friends' houses, but never really had a chance to beat it. I was a pretty lucky kid back then because I didn't know many other kids, particularly my age, who had a TV let alone an NES hooked up in their bedroom. It didn't take too long, perhaps a couple weeks, before I called my parents and sister into my room as I entered the final castle and they all watched and cheered as (my five year old brain worked out that damn loop and) I beat the game.

[TheRetroVideoGameAddict]

Wow, I can remember getting my original Atari as early as age 4 and setting it up with my dad on a small television in my room. We played Real Action Sports Boxing as well as Megamania, E.T, Pac-Man, some racing game (Grand Prix, maybe?), and Defender. We both had a blast and were laughing when we died in the games and whatnot, it was a really fun time and I'll always remember this great catalog he had where we ordered games from. Gosh, those memories are almost 30 years old now.......where did the time go? I'm just glad I remember that kind of stuff, memories such as that will stay with me for the rest of my life. :)

[Rickstilwell1]

As hard as the system is to look at now with color/backlit options available to play the games, a lot of good memories came from my first Game Boy Pocket system. This system alone was the key to sneaking in gameplay at odd hours of the night using a flashlight undercover, or in the space between the foot of the bed and bookcase pretending to work on my homework while procrastinating because of Pokémon being more important to me at the time. Never before was I able to get away with things like that. It would take four more years to figure out how to pull it off using a console that was connected to the TV and turn off the TV when footsteps were near.

[SpaceHarrier]

When I rented Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, I'd already been playing games for about 5 years. This game was a revelation to me, though. It was the first time I ever experienced atmosphere in a game. I was no longer just moving a character around the screen, instead actively participating in a gripping, mysterious, epic (to me, anyway) story. The sound design added a lot to this, the wonderful music, and sound effects I can still clearly hear all these years later. The splash splash of walking through puddles, the sound a guard made when he noticed you, bwockbbbock when you whack a chicken. That eerie scene where the kid on the stump fades away gave me chills. I'm sure there were other games that had a sense of atmosphere out at or before this time, but they never got to me, or I never played them. This was the first, and Super Metroid was probably the second to elicit this sense of wonder and urge to explore, discover, and experience the environments painted before me on the screen. It became less about 'beat the level, beat the game' and more about the thrill of adventuring through an ancient land, interacting with strange characters and generally forgetting that I was playing a game at all.

I didn't get this feeling was from the first LoZ, and as a kid, the second one just struck me as 'weird', though I like it now.

[Dr. BaconStein]

Every summer I used to visit my cousins in south Jersey, who had tons of games. It was fun because we all had different systems. My older cousin had all of the SEGA systems, Genesis, Game Gear, Saturn, and later Dreamcast, and my younger cousin had PlayStation and Nintendo 64. We used to spend literally all day playing video games non-stop.

My cousins got me into a lot of different games that I didn't know about until I talked to them. Now they just play FPS games and "hardcore" Smash Bros. battles. Kind of disappointing.

[TheRetroVideoGameAddict]

I love threads like this, so I think I'll add in another gaming memory I have.....

I remember a friend of mine spending the night one night back in 1992, we played a lot of NES back then and that night we stayed up all night and played Contra for the NES but kept dying over and over and over. It was so frustrating! He called his brother at like 2AM to ask him what the code was for all the extra lives, he woke him up and everything, but in the end we got the code and finally beat the game. It was so exciting! We were jumping up and down and were slapping high fives and just going bonkers, and it was all thanks to waking up his brother and getting the "Konami Code", I'll never forget that for as long as I live. I recently did a Contra review for my blog, the link is in the sig at the bottom of this post so check it out!

Another fun gaming memory I have is of the SNES. My buddy once stayed up all night to play a game called Brain Lord and I sat and watched as he put a huge chunk into the game until he came to a puzzle he couldn't solve. We sat there and tried almost everything, back then there was no internet to look stuff up so we sat there for hours trying to solve the puzzle so he could keep on going and after enough was enough it was time to end the game. It was a frustrating ordeal, and at the time it wasn't so fun, but now as I look back I can see that we were having fun doing this and it created another fond moment for the memory bank.

:)

[animus222]

I've got MANY great classic gaming memories (too many to recount), but two that come to mind right away are:

1) I mentioned this in my post in the thread where everyone new to the site introduces themselves, but I'll mention it again here anyway. I will never forget my first introduction to gaming in general---the year was 1991, the place, Sears department store. My parents and I were there one day and we happened to walk by the electronics section. They had a Sega Genesis on display with of course Sonic the Hedgehog plugged in and available to play. I was 4 at the time and the display immediately caught my attention. I walked over to the display, grabbed the controller with my little hands, and played and played and played. I remember getting through Green Hill Zone and facing Eggman (I would later know him only as Dr. Robotnik until my discovery of his original Japanese name). It was around that time that my parents told me it was time to go. Upset that I had to stop playing and leave, I asked my parents if I could take the game home and play it some more. They told me that perhaps Santa could bring it later that year for Christmas. Sure enough, Christmas came and I opened up a large present containing the Genesis and Sonic. I was so happy and could not wait for my dad to set it up. That Christmas was the beginning of many awesome ones.

2) Playing the original Pokemon games----I remember getting Pokemon Blue (my little brother got the red version) right around the US release date and always being glued to my Game Boy both before and after school. During summer vacations, my brother, friends, and I would meet each other outside and battle each other and trade monsters with one another, from sun up to sun down. The days, and even the summers, seemed to last forever. It was great.

[BlastProcessing402]

I'll never forget how my friend wanted an NES so much, and his mom made him wait so long to get one (entire months! lol), that he made his own little mini replica of an NES out of cardboard. He even made controllers and a couple of cartridges. The door on his "NES" opened properly and the carts could slide in (but not push down, he wasn't THAT good). The controller was just permanently attached with a string, though, if I remember right.

[needler420]

Here is a copy and paste of a post I made awhile back. Too much to say to retell the story.



I do.
For me it's MGS.

Having had got to play it in it's prime vs when it became hyped up makes me feel very privileged and blessed.

I'm not 100% when I got the game but I know I got it when I lived with my Grandma which was before 2001
so I'm 99% sure I played the game within it's first 3 years of release. How I got the game was so random. I was shopping at a department store with my grandma and went to look at the video games and was allowed to pick out a game as I sometimes would when shopping with my grandma. The box art was completely bland and I had no information on the game before buying it. This was in a time where if you had internet all you had was dial up and the only way to pick out games was from the box art. It really weirds me out just how random this purchase of a game was.

I remember the store employee reminding my grandma about the mature rating and the content. I was like less then 10 years old and my grandma like 70 so I get why she was informed. Anyway after a brief argument telling her my dad would still let me play it she purchased it any how and said she would discuss it with my dad. She ended up reading the back of the case and saw nudity in the content rating and told my dad about it. After a grace period I was finally given the game within a few days after purchase. From here I would only play the game a handful of times for reasons I don't know why.

It wasn't till probably 4-5 years later after moving out of my grandmas house that I meant friends who played video games as much as me. After having had made little progress we kind of gave up and moved onto other games. It wasn't in till some out of town kids came in for vacation that we would be taught the fine skills needed to play such a game. I remember these two brothers to this day. Their names was Bobby and Arty and they taught me and at the time my best Friend all the secrets we needed to know to further progress in the game. After that me and my best friend became addicted to the game. Almost every summer we would spend the whole summer sleeping over each others house back and forth pulling many over nighters. Our parents were really cool so we got to run a muck. Not many kids at age 13-14 got to smoke good pot and play MGS. In all this game is my all time favorite game ever and left a forever lasting impression.

I have many other cool video games stories that I want to share along with hearing yours. I was thinking about blogging this but then no one would read it so I figure post it here or else I would have probably tried to make a youtube video of it. This is my most significant video game story. My next best story is about how I got my a PS2 the day I got suspended from school in 7th grade for having marijuana in my markers. Stay tuned if you want to hear that one and all my other crazy video game adventures.

[TheRetroVideoGameAddict]

Another great series of memories I have would be of renting games from small video stores in the late 80s and early 90s. Back then it was a great way to discover new games and at least 6 or 7 of the games that were bought for me back then were because I fell in love with them while renting them as a child. Saturday morning rentals were a norm for me, I would get to choose a game and a movie and I would invite friends of mine over to play the games I've rented, it was just really fun and something that had a charm to it. Chalk it up to something people did during the life of the NES/Genesis/SNES. :)

[MetalFRO]

The summer after my 6th grade year was when Super Mario Bros. 3 was released. A friend from school got it from his parents, and I spent almost the entire summer at his house (literally) playing that game. I'd get up in the morning, eat breakfast, and ride my bike over to his house and play until it was time to go home for lunch, then I'd go back after that & play until my parents expected me home for supper. We uncovered every inch of that game, and it was fantastic. We figured out (w/o Nintendo Power or other help) how to find the 3rd warp whistle in world 2, and played through every level in the game, even if it wasn't all in one sitting. What a great summer that was!

Another fond memory was during a Christmas break. The local burger place always had at least 1 arcade game, and for a time, they had Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. My younger brother, myself, and 2 of his friends trudged all the way across town (about 2-3 miles) through the snow to get to the place and all took a turtle. I was Leonardo, of course, being the oldest. In any event, we played through the entire game, continuing whenever our turtle bit the bullet, and had an absolute blast. I think between the 4 of us, we spent around $15 in total to accomplish the task, and all these years later I still think it was worth every penny.

[TheRetroVideoGameAddict]

That what was so great about video games back in the day. You're entire day revolved around when you could get home and play that certain game, I mean, I would stay up late and wake up early just to play video games and that's a feeling that nothing modern has ever truly given me. Not in many years at lease, probably since the N64 days.

[parallaxscroll]

The summer of 1989 through the summer of 1990.

This was the time that I learned about the Sega Genesis (and TurboGrafx-16). Going into 8th grade Junior High, I was resolved to get the Genesis. During Winter vacation I got the original Phantasy Star for the Master System.
By spring 1990, I got the Genesis, with the help of my dad, for doing so well in school. All wonderful memories.

From there I became more of a "hardcore" gamer. I got most of the best Genesis games including Phantasy Star II and Herzog Zwei. This was my favorite time as a gamer.

I was looking forward to Sword of Vermilion, Thunder Force III and Strider. I had my eye on getting a TG-16 and the future looked amazing with the Neo-Geo and SNES on the horizon.

[Cloud121]

1998 was the greatest year of my life, and with this year being the 15 year anniversary, I've been almost buying nothing but the games from 1998 that I wanted as a kid, but never had.

Hell, I've been putting in such an effort, that there are times I honestly think it IS 1998. Started watching the original DiC dub of Sailor Moon again, as that was all I did during the summer of 1998. Reading my old GamePros and Nintendo Powers as well. Buying games in a specific time frame (During Spring of this year, I was focusing on buying games released in Spring 1998. Now I'm buying the last few Summer 1998 games. Once October hits, gonna start on Autumn 1998 games). Right now I'm limiting myself to just games released up to this point in 1998.

Also watching all the old Monday Night Raws, and Monday Nitros and Thunders from 1998 as well. 1998 was the absolute PEAK of the Monday Night Wars, and that is just adding to my nostalgia.


My other great memories include getting my MegaDrive for Christmas 1990 (My first game console. I was 4). Renting games with my father for Super Famicom back in 1992. Going to the arcades almost every saturday night with my father from 1995 - 1996.

I could go on forever, but that's just some little bits. Gotta things to do today, so I add more later.

[TheRetroVideoGameAddict]

I was reminded today about a time the day after Christmas of 1994 when I went over my friends house and we played Bevis & Butthead on his Genesis for what seemed like hours after hours while pounding down popcorn from one of those Christmas pop corn tins that everyone gets around the holidays. We had so much fun just sitting there and finding pieces of the Gwar tickets and trying to solve the little puzzles you came across throughout the game, it's a memory that I've actually forgotten but now I remember clear as day and will cherish it for quite some time. They don't make memories like they used to.....if that makes any sense....

[Alpha2099]

I remember beating Pokemon for the first time. I felt pretty proud, since at that time it was probably the longest game I'd ever played. That was probably around 1998 or 1999, when the Pokemon craze was at its peak.

[yanclae]

pretending to be half-dwarf, half-elf

[TheRetroVideoGameAddict]

I remember walking 2 miles every Sunday morning to a local flea market to buy Atari 2600 games in 1994 and it seemed like it was a blizzard each time I did it. I remember buying an Atari 2600 at the flea market a few weeks previous for nostalgic purposes and every week I would buy 2-3 games for it and me and my friend would walk all the way there in a storm just to spend $10 on 2600 games and walk back, seemed so worth it then. And you know what, it really was because I have fond memories of doing so and we still talk about them to this day.