Whats your fondest video game memory?

[mattpfeil]

I just wanna know what everyones fondest memory of video games is, it doesnt have to be directly related to playing one..just something that resulted via video games.
I know exactly what mine is.
1985 i was 5 or 6 and the family had a 5200 that we all played all the time (mostly my father and my though:P)
Anyways, i was in little leage at the time, and at a game earlier that day i had heard some kids using the F-word...i didnt know what it meant, but it must be cool if i never heard it.
So later that night me and my dad were sitting there playing Pac-man on 5200. My dad had gotten to one of the key levels, and he was doing really well, considering he never read books or learned patters or any of that garbage:P
Well, he had just ate a Mega dot or whatever they are called and the ghosts turned blue, right when he was about to eat one, they turned back and he died...
"FUCK!" i yelled...and my father..with a confused look on his face turned to me and said very quietly "What did you say?"
And i replied "fuck...whats the big deal about that"...
That was followed by a swift smack in the mouth and a "go to your room!"
Anyways, i still think about that moment all the time, i remember it so clearly as far as my memory's from that age are concerned...i dunno
just thought i could share this with you all, cause its kinda a funny story:p
BTW, my dad didnt like beat me or anything...but he wasnt afraid to gimmie a smack in the mouth when i did something stupid:P

[Raedon]

My greatest video game memory was from the early 90's and centers around Mortal Kombat.

I was doing a year at a community college my first year after high school. Still living at home and all, basically high school grade 13.. anyway.. Mortal Kombat was just released but NONE of the arcades in my home town had it yet but a small 7-11 quick e mart next to the college got it the day it was out. Me and my good bud Wayne were hanging out there between classes playing a SFII and when Mortal Kombat came in we got a full 5 days of game play before anyone in my town saw the game.

Now if your to young to remember Arcades in the early 90's SFII and fighting games in general were BIG time, and S.T.U.N.N. runner was your best 3D. You could play a SNES in a game cabby with f-zero, SMW and tennis still at the time.. I remember that.

So I had mastered one Fatality and all of Raiden's moves. and I walked into the big local arcade at the time, Fast Track Games N Carts, there was a growing line of people at the Mortal Kombat machine that had just arrived a few hours earlier. I stepped up to challange some poor sap at around 6:00pm and turned the game over to some kid at 9:15pm with no one to Test my Might.

Now this was a new game, so the volume was cranked and they did something only the cool games got. There was a monitor put up on top of the cabby.

I dominated the Mortal Kombat that night and killed off every opponent with a Fatality to the delight of the kids around me as FATALITY boomed out over the TIGER-TIGER UPPERCUT of the SFII game no one was at.

I will never forget the faces of the people around me as i knocked opponents off the bridge and down into the pit of spikes. It was a rush and it's my greatest gaming moment

[kevincure]

When I was younger, me and my sister would play some Olympics game on the NES. You had to press A-B-A-B in quick succession for the running level. We eventually figured out to rub your index and middle finger across the two buttons back and forth, moving your forearm. However, this caused wicked blisters.

We would bandaid our fingers every time from then on.

No more injuries.

[biggamer]

My fondest memory is never being able to save a game on the nes . Icant remember which game it was i was playing but I would play the game every day and when it was time to go to school i would just pause it and turn off the tv.eventually after 2 weeks of the nes being on, i finally finished the game . Wish i could remember what game it was.

[ashbourn]

A memory i have when i was real little i just got a NES for x-mas and would play every night with my dad, mom and sister 2 player games and who ever lost go off and another person played next we played super mario bros the most it was just a good memory i have with my family

[Wayne Ryder]

Reading about the 'camera' in Mario World for the N64. Couldn't afford one, knew nobody who had one, found a shop with a unit with the game running and the pads plugged in... And found a mirror.
Wonderful. Pure genius.

[Sylentwulf]

Well, for arcades it was winning either the soul edge, or Tekken 2 tournaments for the state.

But what blew my mind the most.... Was watching Sephiroth drop from the sky and stab Aeris.... Acatully, at the time, that whole game blew my mind, but I don't think I'll EVER feel that stunned silence like that ever again. Probly the ONLY time my jaw has EVER hit the floor!

[The32xMemorial]

In 1982, I had owned a 2600 for about a year, but really wanted to upgrade to a 5200. I asked my parents for one for my birthday, but they didn't seem real thrilled, saying "You have an Atari already."

A few weeks before my birthday, my Mom dragged me to the country to pick blackberries from near the railroad tracks. When we were finished, she open the trunk of the car to throw in some buckets...

There was my brand-new 5200 resting comfortably the trunk.

She slammed the trunk down and said "you didn't see that."

Oh yes I did!

[Ancient]

My favourite game all-times was/is MKII.
When I bought it for snes i played for more than two weeks in a row without playing any other game :shock: . With a friend of mine I mastered all fatalities and some other moves for every character in the game...
(I still remember all fatalities and spec. moves today)

And after this intense training on the snes.
I had a day in the local arcade. After 30 min. getting used to the joystick i had the hang of it, and pulled fatalities and moves like no problem.
That when people started to challenge me in a 1 on 1 fights.
A little sign on the cabinet said "winner stays, Loser pays"
And people were dying :P to see me lose a fight. (litterly).

I changed characters a lot, pulled fatalaties almost every time.
I was a legendary MKII warrior. 8)

THE END

[Kroogah]

Hmm...the first time I played through SNATCHER was unforgettable. Talk about your slept-on games....I was obsessing over that game for WEEKS afterwards! The story is just...WOW.

[MankeyMan]

I would have to say it was the first time I played Zelda on the N64. I'd been sort of weened off videogames when my parents saw how much i played them, plus they firmly believed TV was bad for you (nonsense), so after my NES broke in 1994, the only sort of video-game fix i got was at friends houses, which wasn't very often.

So, when I got an N64 in 1998, all I could really remember about videogames was that I had loved the first Zelda, and seeing Link in 3D, with all the jumping and slashing was a joy to behold. Then, when I heard the music when you open a new dungeon or secret in the original everything came flooding back to me and I was ecstatic for about a week.

[HeadRusch1]

These were all equally joyous for me :D

1) The first time I actually managed to make the bus-jump in Ataris STUNT CYCLE (Circa 1979 or so) without crashing...like I always did.

2) The first time I actually managed to land the Lunar Lander in Ataris LUNAR LANDER game on ONE quarter! (Circa 1980)

3) Listening to my buddy yell "commentary" as I played AFTERBURNER at a local bowling alley cocked off my ass.... Every time I'd crash (AFterburner had this long crash sequence where you'd see your plane going down with huge plumes of smoke coming out of it and this loud engine-whine until you exploded on the ground, he'd be yelling out real loud "AAAAAA! I'LL SEE YOU IN HELL!!!" and I'd be pissing my pants laughing)...

[Captain Wrong]

Almost all of them involve the 2600.

1)Making the family late for church because I was racking up a killer score in Space Invaders and my pops didn't pull the plug on me.

2)Hours of Video Pinball with my pops.

3)Pac-Man on the 400, while my best friend at the time had to deal with the crappy 2600 port (haha!)

4)Me and my sister cracking up over the clowns wiggling their feet in the air in Circus Atari when you missed the platform.

5)Trying in vain to solve Swordquest with pops (again.)

6)Chase HQ in the arcade with my best friend in High School Chris. The voice that was supposed to be your partner ("Awww man! Push it harder!") sounded just like our assistant band director. We used to crack up all the time.

[tynstar]

Playing Circus, Super Challenge Baseball and Lock'N' Chase with my grandma on the Atari 2600.

[NE146]

Most definitely playing Space Invaders Part II (cocktail version) at the local carnival and having a crowd gasp as I got that "fifth" life by doing the 255th shot rollover trick. I forgot how I figured it out but I think I was the only person who knew about it (and quite honestly it seemed no one on the net knew about it either until I submitted it to a local easter egg site (RCATT) about a year or two ago). Now it's all over the place of course, but at that time it was pretty neat to do it and have everyone freak out about it. :)

[FABombjoy]

Toss up:

As a 6 year old standing on a milk crate playing Tron in the arcade, surrounded by college students watching me blow the high scores out of the water.

OR

When I discovered a strange inconsistancy in the initials listed for "High Score" and "1st Place" on Space Harrier for the SMS, and after acting on a hunch, being rewarded with the secret Space Harrier contest screen. I was floored, having not really won any sort of contest in my life. I wrote in to the address, but didn't win anything cool except a letter from some guy from Sega of Japan (telling me to buy a Genesis).

[coleco_chris]

I'd have to say playing Major League Baseball for Intellivision w/ my mom. My parents didn't usually get into playing the games, but she always enjoyed this one. I'm pretty sure she always let me win as well! Since I've got an Intellivision again, we played a couple of months ago-this time I took it easy on her!

[RJ]

Too many to list; here's 3:

One summer on a family vacation at a lake resort my cousin & I discovered the original "Mario Bros." at their office/store. We played it for hours every day all week! They also had Gyruss, the first time I ever saw the arcade version.

In '97 I went to Vegas & visited GameWorks. They had Xevious in the "Classic" area w/ the cabinet encased in old, weathered wood. I played until my buddy got bored & said he was leaving! He went back not long ago to see if my score was still up...

In high school the local arcade gave tokens for good grades: 3/A, 1/B. I often got the 10-token limit, & my friend would be PO'ed as he wasn't as good a student. We'd bike to the mall to see a movie & spend the rest of the afternoon at the arcade.

[sphereman]

My fondest video game memory is when I
first started collecting and thought I had a
large collection until I met Wayne Dunphy
and when he showed me his collection I
felt like a kid in a candy shop. That was
back in 1995. My collection has grown
by leaps and bounds.
Tim 8)

[johnny arcade]

It's pretty sick and kind of twisted, but it's without a doubt.

Circa late 80's or '90 (I was in elementary school) I was over at my best bud's house, his Dad was going through a divorce & they lived at Grandpa and Grandma's. Anyway, they had this cool rec-room area set up in the basement, with pretty much all the cool stuff and a NES with like 80 games (which is a totally ungodly amount for a freakin' 10 year old kid to have). Anyway, the point is that us and all of our friends were always over there jammin' out the games. I forget what we were exactly playing, but it was something on the NES, and everybody over there was really into it. My best bud Dave's little brother was trying to get our attention real bad. He was pretty much unsuccessful, so he must have figured to try something drastic. Anyway, Dave had a semi furnished basement which had a toilet. The toilet was just kind of concealed by this half-wall thing enough for privacy, but it was basically exposed if you really wanted to see what somebody was doing. Anyhow, Dave's little brother is standing across the basment, probably almost 10 ft. away from this toilet. He whips it out, and starts to attempt to take a piss into the shitter. Somebody caught this, and starts yelling, "LOOK! LOOK AT WHAT HE'S DOING!!!" Well this successfully got everyone's attention. Needless to say, a piss of that distance in pretty much not humanly possible so like 97% of it goes all over the floor. We're all laughing so hard that Gramps decided to come down stairs, and see what the commotion is all about. Well he sees what had happened and kicks us all out.

AND that tale actually made it into the ClassicGaming.com mail-bag!... as well as one other by your's truly. If you want to check it out, go look at mailbag 190, or is it 191?, and look for the very last letter by John Martynski. Me.

[punkoffgirl]

I have a lot of terrific memories about my family playing the 2600. I can't even rightly remember if we got it for the family as a birthday/Christmas gift, or if my dad just decided to buy one & bring it home out of the blue, but it got a LOT of play.
Star Wars, Frogs and Flies, Freeway, Star Master, Jungle Hunt... Those are the title names that jump out at me upon first thought. We played until we wore the rubber grip off the joysticks, and my dad upgraded us to the newer versions with the suction cups on the bottom (very handy for me especially.. I was always one of those players who had to LEAN left to actually get my character to move left ;) )
And then someone's birthday would come around, or one of us would merit some kind of special reward (with five kids, it was fairly often for one of the two to occur!), and dad would ask us if we wanted to take a ride. Into town, to the furniture/appliance dealership, and down the stairs to what I remember in my mind as a 2600 mecca. I'm sure there were other games there, but it was still a year or so away from me discovering anything else existed (the day I met the Coleco at my best friend's house..), so to me at that time, nothing else DID exist. We'd get to pick out a new game to take home.
Strangely enough, I don't think ANY of our decisions were based on any information about the actual games themselves.. I don't remember asking anyone if they'd played game x, or reading about any other games. Box art, screen shots, and awesomeness of title were how we made our choices :) . That being said, to this day I'm still pretty surprised we never had a copy of ET at our house, considering how much we loved the movie. Maybe someone was looking out for us ;)
Oh and... I call next turn.

[GENESISNES]

I remember playing my babysitters Sega Genesis 24/7. I must have beaten Streets of Rage with my friends Nick and Blake about 100 times. Also, she had road rash, and NBA Jam. We couldnt play sonic, because it we must have played it too much, and one day, it just didnt work. she recently gave me all of her old video games, and for some reason sonic worked. weird.... :?

[Mr. NEStalgia]

My fondest memories of video gaming had to be the Christmas I got a SNES. Me and my sister used to play Super Mario World for hours together...you know, when at was at the age where we don't get on each others nerves after 5 seconds. :roll: :lol:

-=Mr. NEStalgia

[geekgirl101]

My fondest memories where when me and my friend Stella were buying Dizzy games at WHSmith in Manchester. She bought Bubble Dizzy for the C64 and I got myself Kwik Snax for the Spectrum. I remember adoring the collectors card of Grand Dizzy that came with it. :) I later drew pictures of Dizzy from all the games and I gave a couple to her for keeps (I still have the ones I kept here and will be uploading the scanned images to the Dizzy site soon.) I'll never forget having a magazine advert for Dizzy's Excellent Adventures pinned up above my bed, and the numerous Michael Jackson posters surrounding it. :P

[Atar1G1rl]

One of my fondest memories will always be the time my brother Chris, my dad, and I stopped in at Utotem or MajikMarket (some kwik-e-mart type store) and laid our eyes upon a Pac-Man machine for the very first time. I was just a little one at that time, but I remember how much time we wasted there because nobody would read the "instructions" and my dad kept trying to have Pac-Man eat the ghosts before eating the power pill! hehehe Didn't take him too long to figure it out, though. We took turns, but my brother Chris picked it up really quickly and I think my Dad and I ended up just watching him play for the longest time.

There were many others, but that memory comes to mind quite often because we had so much fun. :turn-l:

[Britboy]

After graduating high school in 1985, me and a buddy spent the summer in France. Karate Champ had been released in the U.S. a year or two earlier and we had mastered it months ago, but it was the hot new thing in Froggyland. Since 17-year-olds could drink legally over there, naturally we spent a lot of time in the local "bar-tabac", where there was a Karate Champ game. We easily destroyed all of their high scores, and replaced them all with "USA". They tried to be pissed about it, but they were too excited to watch us play. They even occasionally bought us beers and gave us those disgusting Gauloise cigarrettes!

[zemmix]

I remember playing Double Dragon II with a friend of mine on the NES when a big earthquake happened only a mile away. Ahh....I miss the 80's. :(

[odysseyzine]

One of my fond memories involving video games was purchasing my NES at the tender age of 11. I saved and saved all summer, and managed to get my dad to take me to the nearest Kay Bee Toy store -- which was about 1 and 1/2 hours away from my home. I paid for the system (I think it was all five dollar bills -- since that was what I was paid for each time I mowed the lawn). We got home too late at night to hook it up (with permission) so I snuck downstairs a couple of hours after my parents went to bed and opened up the box. I still remember how the new Nintendo plastic and packing foam smelled. I remember plugging in Super Mario Brothers and being amazed that I COULD PLAY A REAL ARCADE GAME AT HOME.

Another Nintendo memory: I would always ask for the hot Nintendo game at Christmas, like Super Mario Brothers 2 or 3 or Zelda, etc. My mom, who was a bargain shopper, would always buy me some obscure game that nobody my age would think of asking for and was likely cheaper than the latest and greatest hit. Stuff like Mighty Bomb Jack, Isolated Warrior, Kung Fu or Joust. Of course, I was a big enough video game addict that I loved the games regardless of whether or not they were on my xmas list, and my mom was actually responsible for expanding my game horizons a bit. My mom was just being thrifty, but I always get nostalgic when I'm playing one of the less-popular NES games, because I think "some kid got this from their mom -- instead of Super Mario 3."

[mikec_ct]

Throughout all of elementary school my best friend Matt would sleep over all the time. My favorite gaming memory was back in early 1993. That was when I finally got Sonic 2 for the Genesis, and we would stay up all night playing it. (me as Sonic, him as Tails. Good friends sacrifice for each other, haha!)

I have all sorts of nostalgia for that period of time, it was so much fun. Nothing to worry about except getting the next emerald or beating Robotnik or trying to continuously fall down the "endless pit" in Metropolis Zone without hitting the walls (smile and nod if you don't know what I'm talking about. Does anyone else remember this?)

[lionforce]

I remember going to the local video rental store and playing the original Street Fighter alot, and I could never ever get past "Mike", perhaps the horrible controls might've had something to do with that, but none the less, it is a fond memory and thank god for Street Fighter 2 :D

[OptimusPrimeVCS]

I have 2 that jump to mind.

Cocktail Asteroids at the local general store in Nowhereville (Pop. 13 and one dog) The very first arcade game I ever laid eyes on and I remember every detail of that moment still, btw this was around '86 which would mean I was 5.

Now, for the really fond memory, and the reason that the 2600 is my favorite system despite the fact that I was barely old enough to play when the NES hit the scene. My parents had no desire to see me waste my time playing video games, so I never had them and I lived in the middle of nowhere, so I couldn't just go to my friend's house, closest one was about 10 miles away. Until my neighbor gave me her grandson's old 2600 around '88 or '89 and even though it had seen better days, I was in love. Pitfall, Asteroids, Frogger and a few others kept me more than happy until I was old enough to buy my own, the SNES right after it hit the street. Not that I ever gave up on my 2600, it's still my favorite.

[Master_System]

I think that one of my fond memories is when i played my first home videogame: Galaxian, in a N.E.S. clone with a friend. Other moment is when i played at first time at an arcade machine (i think it was Tetris or Pac-man in a cocktail machine).
I have others, but i don´t want to write anymore.

Matias
Buenos Aires, Argentina

[batmanlivesatmyhouse]

As for me playing as a kid, there are too many to remember. Playing Astro Warrior in 1984 on our brand new Mitsubishi 36" TV (which I still have), beating Mega Man II for the first time, trying to decipher what the hell Ken and Ryu said when they did their special moves when Street Fighter II first came (how creative and colorful my language was trying to figure this out!), spending a whole summer with my friends beating X-Com on the PS1 (well, that's junior high already...). Most recently, in college, playing Street Fighter (and many variations and versions) with the fifty or so people that always stopped by my suite, playing Chrono Cross for the first time on my suite's insanely large television with surround sound with my college girlfriend next to me and being utterly amazed by the music, and getting piss ass drunk with my buddies and all of us playing Board Games: Top Shop on the PS1. Let me tell you, there is only one way to play Top Shop, and that's drunk, possibly high, but I've never tried that. EVERYONE SHOULD TRY TOP SHOP!!!!! I'm the schoolgirl, and I'm calling her Jodi! Damn, Joe already picked the cactus on wheels...

[ventrra]

I would say that my fondest video game memory was watching my grandmother prove to me that Atari 2600 Pac-man could be "rolled". As good as I've gotten at video games over the years, I'm still not as skilled as she was at Pac-man or Super Breakout on the 2600.

[gamergary]

Playing Adventure and River Raid for the first time 10 years ago.

[stargate]

One of my fond memories involving video games was purchasing my NES at the tender age of 11. I saved and saved all summer, and managed to get my dad to take me to the nearest Kay Bee Toy store -- which was about 1 and 1/2 hours away from my home. I paid for the system (I think it was all five dollar bills -- since that was what I was paid for each time I mowed the lawn). We got home too late at night to hook it up (with permission) so I snuck downstairs a couple of hours after my parents went to bed and opened up the box. I still remember how the new Nintendo plastic and packing foam smelled. I remember plugging in Super Mario Brothers and being amazed that I COULD PLAY A REAL ARCADE GAME AT HOME.

I love this type of story.

Anyway, I have way too many to list here, but here are a few of my favorite memories:

1.) I remember playing Ninja Gaiden on the NES every single day after school over my friend Bill's house. This was back in the late 80's. We would get high and take turns playing guys until we died. We were totaly obsessed with that game. I remember his mother would sit in a chair in the corner of the living room knitting. We would play for about 2 hours every night. Funny thing is we never beat it. The game was so friggin hard. -- SPOILER ALERT-- We did get to what we thought was the last boss and finally beat him, only to find out that there was another boss past him. That's when we gave up.

2.) In college (late 80's) my friend Swezey and I stayed up all night trying to beat Rygar. We finnaly beat the game at like 6am the next morning and woke up my roommate screaming.

3.) Having like 8 guys huddled around a tv in Sweezy's dorm room taking turns playing Castlevania. I was in the shower one day when my friend Sully was playing and he got to Frankenstein. A few guys came running into the bathroom yelling "Sully got to Frankenstein!!" I bolted out of the shower and ran down the hall dripping wet in a towel to watch him play.

4.) Getting a TG-16 for Christmas one year. I thought the thing was sooo beautiful. My mother sewed me a black silk dust cover for it and I set it up on a counter in my bedroom. Somtimes I would just stare at the console itself. I remember playing Bonk and being totally blown away at how amazing the graphics looked.

5.) Playing Space Invaders on my 2600 in the early 80's. The screen was so big and colorful. I would dream about playing it when I wasn't actually playing. Of course on Christmas day, my sister spilled a glass of Kool Aid all over the 2600 and I was crushed. Luckily it still worked fine and was just a little sticky.

I love these posts!!

[atomicthumbs]

It was maybe November of 1985. My dad took my brother and I to an IGA grocery store's video rental dept. and rented us an NES system along with Rad Racer, Double Dragon and Super Mario Bros.

IT WAS AWESOME!!!

That Christmas we got an NES (dad just loved Rad Racer).



For some reason I also have a very fond memory of the electronics dept. of a Shopko. It must have been around 1982/83, and I remember looking at the fantastic box art for all these Atari VCS games ('cmon, you know they were the best in boxart) including Missle Command, Defender, Haunted House etc.

Strange though, the boxart for YAR'S REVENGE was permanently emblazened into my mind. So whenever I'm back home visiting family and I drive past that Shopko, I think of the gorgeous artwork for YAR'S REVENGE!

[RCM]

One of my greatest memories was when i picked up(with the help of my mom) my shiny new sega saturn on june 1st 1995. I couldn't get a ride for 3 weeks. I remember going to babages, plunking down my cash and picking up my Saturn along with VF (pack in) and daytona Usa. I was hooked. I have and love that system to this very day. It's too bad it was never supported properly here in the states.

THE ONE, THE ONLY- RCM

[KirbyStar27]

Fondest memory = the day my starfox super weekand came in the mail. Or when I finally beat starfox for N64. Ahhh :( , the memories :D

[THATinkjar]

I had started my own thread, but this one already exists. I'll add my little claim to stardom here, then :)

Something that I remember fondly, and something that in truth I will never forget, was attending ECTS 98. I went on behalf of a little gaming website called Battle-Zone Gaming Network, and Activision kindly set me press passes to report on the show. At thirteen, it was quite something I can tell you.

Mistake #1: Forgetting your camera. Mistake #2: Spilling hot chocolate on your press pass. D'oh! Still, I got to play the likes of Extreme-G 2 and Ocarina of Time before most of the British public, and that's darn cool. I took home a ton of free crap, rare demo discs and so forth. And the Colin McRae Rally simulator was quite fun, although it gave me a serious headache.

What disturbs me the most, even to this day, is how pushy and nasty some of the journalists were. We all wanted to play Ocarina, but there wasn't much of an orderly queue. It was every journalist for himself. Yucky.

[Tatsu]

There are several memories that come into my mind:

- Some months ago I found a used Sega Saturn including one controller, a demo disc and Sega Rally for only 10$ in my local Easy Cash store. I've wanted a Saturn for ages but I didn't want to spend huge money on it since I allready have enough consoles to spend my time with. Unfortunately one of the cords was missing so I had to order one over the internet, but besides that the consoles was and is working fine.

- Playing Zelda- Link To The Past for the first time. The opening scene when you go out in the rain blew me away. I just knew the Zelda games on the NES before and they didn't touch me as much.

- A general memory is the me playing videogames (especially S-Nes games9 at the appartment where I used to live with my mother. I played games for hours and my mother was telling me stuff like her Tarot cards similar stuff.

- Another general memory is that I've played countless Sathurday and Sunday afternoons together with my best friend or my cousin to finish S-Nes and NES games. This time was sure my Golden Age of gaming. Even if I didn't buy as much games as I do now.

[Puppetmaster]

First time I ever played a video game

-I was seven at my uncles house, who had an SNES and I played mortal kombat 3 and he started yelling because I beat the crap out of him and he went to bed.

First non-new system I ever bought

-Four years ago i went to a local thrift store and found an atari 2600 with box and 20 games. This lead me to start collecting video games.

[om3ga]

Completing Mario for NES when I was like 5.

We took pictures of the ending and everything lol =)

[RetroYoungen]

Mine is probably the time I first broke 200 lines on the NES Tetris. Now if only I could actually PROVE that I did it for somebody, or get it on camera...

[Damaramu]

Here's a few of mine:

1. During the 10th grade; going to a friend's home in a group during lunch time to eat and play Street Fighter 2: Turbo on SNES........then skipping school the rest of day to keep playing the game!

2. When I was probably around 10 or 11, my friends and I would ride our bikes a few miles down the road to a 7-11 to get a hotdog and Slurpee and spend a few hours playing the arcade games they had in a corner in the back of the store (Xybots and Midnight Resistance, IIRC).

3. One day while working at Toys R Us, circa 95, word got around to me that we received our Sega Saturn shipments (early) and hauling ass to the breakroom where the guy running the videogame booth hooked up a Saturn and fired up Virtua Fighter, Panzer Dragoon, Clockwork Knight, and Daytona.

4. One day in 96, buying my first Sega Saturn and Guardian Heroes.

[bigfriendly1581]

Some of my fondest memories
At the age of 14 when I beat Dragons Lair at the arcade in the mall. It was cool because the cabinet had a monitor on top so everybody could watch. All of the these 20 and 30 something year olds were in awe. :D

When I was 12 or 13 I walked 4 miles just to play Donkey Kong at a 7-11. :eek 2:

Got a Colecovision for Christmas 1982. My parents caught me completely off guard that year. What made it so great was the kid next door was the kind of brat that would brag about everything he got all of the time. If you had it he had it bigger and better and faster. My parents had a tough time finding that coleco. I will never forget that Christmas. LOL

[daminmancejin]

sega genesis SHADOW DANCER! i love that game and still play it :D

[legov8]

Mine would be playing my very first video game. (Mario Kart on the Nintendo 64.)

[legov8]

Mine would be playing my very first video game. (Mario Kart on the Nintendo 64.)

[demen999]

Since my post in the VG board was locked :P


I used to cross the street around my block (lived in the city), to the market outside to trade some games. It was in the middle of the street, obviously blocked off so no cars would pass. Sometimes the guy charged us 5 dollars to trade games. I used to save my allowance(sp?), just so i could trade 2 or 3 games.

With all the lil traders, and mom and pop shop gone, it kinda sucks to see the kid aspect of games gone. Now it's all about being extreme and bloody mostly.

[OdSquad64]

my most memorable moment would have to be playing NES Open with my dad when i was 4 and never finishing a game because i always accidentaly unplugged my controller and froze the game or the times my cousin would come over and we'd play Streets of Rage to the last level and then die every time
good times

[GamerNerd]

I have a lot of video game moments, but I have one in particular like on Saturday, January 7th, 1989 where after 2 weeks of owning Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, I became the 1st to beat Mike Tyson after using the 10-digit code I found in one of the 1988 issues of Nintendo Power.

[diskoboy]

Summer. 1982. My parents were out of town for 2 weeks and I had to stay with a friend. During the time I was there, my friends dad brought home an Apple 2e. Later that night he took us to the computer shop in town, so we could get a game to play. That game was Spare Change.

We spent 3 days straight playing that game. I still hum the jukebox music every now, and then. That streak was broken by another friend down the street that already had an apple for a while. He brought over Hard Hat Mack, and a little game called Ultima. When we started playing Ultima - that was it. We knew the word "outside", or "sleep" wasn't going to be in our vocabulary for the next few days.

[diskoboy]

Summer. 1982. My parents were out of town for 2 weeks and I had to stay with a friend. During the time I was there, my friends dad brought home an Apple 2e. Later that night he took us to the computer shop in town, so we could get a game to play. That game was Spare Change.

We spent 3 days straight playing that game. I still hum the jukebox music every now, and then. That streak was broken by another friend down the street that already had an apple for a while. He brought over Hard Hat Mack, and a little game called Ultima. When we started playing Ultima - that was it. We knew the word "outside", or "sleep" wasn't going to be in our vocabulary for the next few days.

Sorry... It was Summer of '83.

[Saabmeister]

I have two favorite video gaming memories

#1: All the time and money my brother and I spent playind Street Fighter II at the arcades

#2: Hearing all my dads stories about playing Robotron at the Arcades

[diskoboy]

I have two favorite video gaming memories

#1: All the time and money my brother and I spent playind Street Fighter II at the arcades

#2: Hearing all my dads stories about playing Robotron at the Arcades

Anyone alive back then who played Robotron has at least 1 story about that game. Ah, Robotron...

*gets all teary eyed*

[fpbrush]

Ah boy...well..

-sitting by myself playing The Blue Marlin (NES) all day. Trying to catch the biggest marlin. I got some insane catches too. I was so obbessed with fishing when I was younger because of that game. I would draw marlins all the time. I even drew one and brought it to show and tell :roll: I was crazy. Must have rented that game 20 times.

-playing Blades of Steel (NES). One day my father came home from a business trip and told me he got me a gift. It was a brand new copy of Blades of Steel. I logged quite a bit on that one too--and got me into playing hockey :) LOVED that game.

-probably one of the fondest memories I have is playing Aerobiz Supersonic (GEN) with my father. I was a bit older then--when the Genesis was in it's prime. There was a video store from within walking distance of our apartment. So I would rent games alot. I was a kid that liked all those simulation type videogames--SimCity, etc. Probably the second or third time I rented it my dad sat down and asked if he could play with me. I of course said sure because I had already fallen in love with the game. And man, we played for hours. My dad isn't good at typical action videogames but this slower more technical game is more his style. I remember we had so much fun playing that game, yelling at each other when one of us lowered the rates from that crucial money flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo to edge the competition out. We also had to break out the atlas to figure out distances between cities, since when you bought planes, they would have a limited flight range. So to prevent buying planes that won't work on your route, you had to figure out distances between cities.
We loved that game so much. We finally decided to buy it instead of renting it ALL THE TIME. We called many different places but none sold this game Aerobiz Supersonic. We eventually tried to buy it off the videostore but they refused. I would always look for it in thier used bin--but to no avail. One day it just disappeared from thier shelves never to return.

[evildead2099]

Wacking off to Beat Em & Eat Em. LOL :P

[evildead2099]

Wacking off to Beat Em & Eat Em. LOL :P

Correction: Wacking off to Beat Em & Eat Em with the Power Glove strapped on, now that I think about it. @_@

[sealboy6]

I know this is sad, but I would have to say playing and beating Final Fantasy V on Final Fantasy Anthology with my brother. We are tight, and this was a fun time for me. Great memories.

[b0bby]

beating donkey kong country with my cousins when we were 6 funnest days ever

[MadDog82]

Playing Sonic The Hedgehog for hours on my Genesis that was sweet.

[VG_Maniac]

Probably my biggest video game memory was when I got my N64 for Christmas 1996. I wanted an N64 more then anything at the time, but as most people can probably remember, N64s were in very high demand and very short supply that Christmas. My mom told me she had called every store in the area. They all told her they were all sold out of N64s and they wouldn't be getting anymore in until January or Febuary. Christmas morning came, but I wasn't excited because I knew I wouldn't be getting an N64 that day. I opened up an envelope that had an "I owe u" from my mom for one N64 system. I finished opening up all my presents...then I started heading towards my room to go back to bed. My mom stopped me and said she just remembered she had bought me one last present that was still in the closet. She told me not to get my hopes up though...because it wasn't anything that big. I opened up the closet, and there was the package on the ground. I started tearing into it, and there it was...an N64 with Super Mario 64!!

Luckily, my mom knew someone who's husband worked at Nintendo...and he was able to get the N64 for us. :)