Quote Originally Posted by frogofdeath View Post
Freshman year in college I had a similar experience with Goldeneye and some friends from the dorms. Goldeneye had been out for some time already, so no one had the advantage of being the first to own the game. Instead of studying for midterms and finals, we tended to waste the time with Goldeneye matches. One of the people living on our floor was an extremely cocky SOB about everything, including videogames. Well he was consistently on the losing end and had to give up the controller to the person in waiting. All the while, he kept talking smack about how good he was. Eventually he threw the controller down in disgust and claimed we were cheating, stormed out the door, and never partook in the gatherings again. Ran in to him a couple years later and he was still a major douche.
I too played GoldenEye a hell of a lot; probably 1000s of hours. Just me and a friend of mine, but we played with alternate settings, the most important of which was one-hit kills. Well, on certain stages I eventually became able to predict spawn point sequences, so I would run from room to room; sometimes I shot him just as he materialized. After dying this way four or five times in a row, he said fuck it.

I'll also never forget a Mario Kart 64 moment with this same friend. He had just gotten the game and wasn't too familiar with the previous entry in the series. I got ahead of him at one point and stopped in the middle of a narrow bridge with a turtle shell on my ass. He comes flying across the bridge, smacks into the shell, and goes careening off the side and down into the out-of-bounds area. Without saying a word he calmly reached over to the N64 and pressed the reset button. I laughed about that for quite some time.