A friend, sibling or loved one came over, you guys played a random 2 player game and you beat it? It's gotta be one of gaming's greatest pleasures. This past weekend my brother wanted to play, of all games, Brawl Brothers. I don't know why he picked it, but he did, and I gladly booted it up. Our good friend bought it back in the day and I can remember playing it then. It was nice to go through it with my bro.
When we got to the last boss, I was on my last life and he had two left. We depleted the boss' energy bar and cheered, but then it was revealed he had another bar to go!
Oh the agony. We both screamed "JALECO!" in unison (an old sibling childhood joke that Jaleco games are freakin' hard). We got him down to half a bar left when I finally bit the dust. I cheered my bro on, who was now on his last life. When he cleared the boss' health bar we cheered -- and quickly jeered when ANOTHER bar revealed itself. "JALECO!"
There was no way my bro was going to win, with only 3/4 his life left. He rallied for one of the greatest gaming comebacks I can recall in recent memory, and won with literally less than an INCH of his life!
There's nothing quite like having a loved one pick a random 2 player game, you guys go through it and finish it in clutch fashion. It definitely took me back to the mid '90s when your typical lazy weekend consisted of renting a game, and whether it turned out good or bad, devoting your entire weekend to it to squeeze the most out of your (dad's) money