What was your greatest moment as a gamer

[Mynamesukx]

Wow, there are some really good stories out here. Beating sonic with a grip of people watching you is awesome Sabz5150!

For mine, it'd be when I was able to get my mom to sit down and play a game of Ikari Warriors with me and we used the ABBA cheat to get to the last stage.

Playing with the mom was a rare instance for sure. I got mine to rock out on Rampage for the nes for about 3 hours with me once, that was freaking RAD!

So, What is the highlight of your life as a gamer? Just out of curiosity. And if there's more than one feel free to post it!

Heh, guess we had the same idea about about the same time. Thanks MOD for merging all of this gamer excitement into one thread.

3.) Killing the Emerald and Ruby Weapons. Especially considering getting the KOTR materia is just part of killing these guys.

Oh man, beating the Ruby weapon was a pain in the arsehole. I didn't have any help or ideas from anyone else, I just had to make my own strategy. I ended up fighting the thing for like 14 hours in one fight, but I took the beast down. It was not very fun, but no one else I have met has killed it. Well, one person has, and I only heard about that like a year ago.

Awesome everyone, keep up the bad arse stories people.

[Sunnyvale]

Playing with the mom was a rare instance for sure. I got mine to rock out on Rampage for the nes for about 3 hours with me once, that was freaking RAD!

[kupomogli]

Being an anime fan, I sometimes hung out with people at a store called Anime Florida. Reuben brought his PS2 to the store regularly and Mega Man Anniversary Collection just came out. Someone there had purchased it and they started off on Mega Man and were passing the controller around. When I took the controller I got past the stage in a single try and passed it to the next person.

At one point Reuben was just like. "Just give it to the master." Which from then on out they just let me play through the game. I finished off the remainder of Mega Man and everyone just wanted to keep watching me play. So finished Mega Man 2 and 3 before I left.

It's one thing people watching your playthroughs on Youtube another in person. It was pretty satisfying playing through the first three Mega Man titles in front of an audience who continuously commented on how good I was. It's very rare that I actually play any retro games in front of anyone unless it's a video I post on Youtube as most people I know aren't interested in older titles.

[PentiumMMX]

Effortlessly defeating Bowser at the end of Super Mario World, while everyone in the room watched in awe of me curbstomping him. That felt so awesome...

[G-Boobie]

Being an anime fan, I sometimes hung out with people at a store called Anime Florida. Reuben brought his PS2 to the store regularly and Mega Man Anniversary Collection just came out. Someone there had purchased it and they started off on Mega Man and were passing the controller around. When I took the controller I got past the stage in a single try and passed it to the next person.

At one point Reuben was just like. "Just give it to the master." Which from then on out they just let me play through the game. I finished off the remainder of Mega Man and everyone just wanted to keep watching me play. So finished Mega Man 2 and 3 before I left.

It's one thing people watching your playthroughs on Youtube another in person. It was pretty satisfying playing through the first three Mega Man titles in front of an audience who continuously commented on how good I was. It's very rare that I actually play any retro games in front of anyone unless it's a video I post on Youtube as most people I know aren't interested in older titles.

You know, that's a very cool story. Let's Play in real life.

[jonebone]

When Perfect Dark was first released on the N64, I was a member of the pdark.net forums (long since dead), and we created a speed running competition on a few levels. For the first level, it was 7 of us and I was the leader.

That summer I competed very competitively and our "PD Elite" grew to almost 100 members. I was ranked somewhere in the 10-20 range based on total completion times across all levels and all difficulties.

All of these years later, that little forum-based competition is now http://www.the-elite.net/ , with members from across the globe competing for the fastest Goldeneye and Perfect Dark speed runs. While my original times are nowhere even close to the current records, its nice to see that one forum thread can turn into an impressive community.

Also, some of the videos on that page are amazing. Stuff like 53 seconds on 00 Agent Facility, back when I thought my sub 2:00 time was amazing (2:05 was the Invincibility cheat which was probably the hardest target time in the entire game).

[leatherrebel5150]

My greatest moment was beting Super Mario World myself, I'm talking not just beat it but got all of the exits and star world. This was back when I was like 8 or 10 years old before we had a computer/internet to look up the secrets.

[BetaWolf47]

As of recent, beating Mega Man 1 without the pause button exploit. Nothing special, but I'm still working on my backlog.

[Sabz5150]

Being an anime fan, I sometimes hung out with people at a store called Anime Florida. Reuben brought his PS2 to the store regularly and Mega Man Anniversary Collection just came out. Someone there had purchased it and they started off on Mega Man and were passing the controller around. When I took the controller I got past the stage in a single try and passed it to the next person.

At one point Reuben was just like. "Just give it to the master." Which from then on out they just let me play through the game. I finished off the remainder of Mega Man and everyone just wanted to keep watching me play. So finished Mega Man 2 and 3 before I left.

It's one thing people watching your playthroughs on Youtube another in person. It was pretty satisfying playing through the first three Mega Man titles in front of an audience who continuously commented on how good I was. It's very rare that I actually play any retro games in front of anyone unless it's a video I post on Youtube as most people I know aren't interested in older titles.

Hats off to you. Mega Man 3 is a freakin' gauntlet.

[MachineGex]

Back when Half-Life was big and Counter-Strike wasn't out yet, I use to be decent. There was a website that use to track all the servers and automatically keep track of everyone's score. If you logged in and played, it kept track of you and you automatically got ranked. At one point, there were more than 120,000 players ranked. I remember one of our friends broke into the top 1000. It doesn't seem that difficult looking back now, but it was a very difficult to do. Once he did it, all of us tried to get ranked higher. At one point, I was ranked at 48th. Like I said, it doesn't sound like a big deal, but 48th out of 100,000 people isn't too shabby. After that, Counter-Strike errupted on the scene and that was the end of Half-Life.

We ended up forming a pretty good CS clan. Out of that, we ran LAN parties down in the LA area which was a blast. Almost 100 people use to show up for a 3 day LAN party.
We rented an Elk's log for the party. It worked out great cuz it had a bar and kitchen, both didin't shut down for the whole 3 days we were there. Unlimited beer, food, and games! Good times indeed!!!

[Blitzwing256]

Back in the fifth grade I was the guy who could beat any game. I coudn't get past 6-2 on ninja gaiden and gave up when I rented it.

in the sixth grade a friend asked if I could beat ninja gaiden, I said I could (not that I did) and he begged to come over my house with the game and watch me beat the game to see the ending (he coudln't get past level 3)

I eventually relented and after school I played and played till I got up to that spot in 6-2 (you know the one) died a couple times, then my older smarter brain decided to hold onto the jump and slash technique to get past THAT spot, and it worked like a charm and was able to blow through the rest of the game. I kept it cool, and never told him it was the first time I finished the game!