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Old 08-01-2007, 01:48 AM   #1
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Favorite Gaming Memories

As the title says, what are some of your favorite gaming memories or moments? It could be something like accomplishing something in a game for the first time or just random recollections. I'll be posting some of mine, but for now I'm just going to get the topic started.
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Old 08-01-2007, 03:20 AM   #2
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My first time through Yoshi's Island - Pure magic!

The ending of Lufia 2: The game is hopelessly dated by today's standards but it was the first time I saw the heroes of a story die. I was depressed all day long.

God of War 2: 14 hours of HOLY SH*T!!!!!
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Old 08-01-2007, 04:32 AM   #3
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Hmmm....let's see.

Beating Chrono Trigger for the first time. That final battle with Lavos is EPIC.

Beating Lunar: Silver Star Story. Again, final battle was EPIC. And I was so pissed because it's the only game my brother beat before me. I was at work. I hate him.

Resident Evil, when Chris tells Wesker, "You call this FAILURE as your savior?!" Good times.

I'll think of more later. It's 5:30am.
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Old 08-01-2007, 05:05 AM   #4
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Playing Metroid, Super Mario, Donkey Kong (And JR) and Metroid for the NES when they were still new. They were just so.. exciting at that time. Especially for someone who went from Atari to NES. The games were so different than any I had ever played.

Beating Valis 3 for the first time. I always got suck at the level right before Ramses' tower, and I couldn't get passed it for months. One night while pretending I was in bed (I was probably 11, and it was a school night :p ) I actually finished that stage! I stayed up so late trying to b Ramses ones I finally got to him. I was stoked, and tired the whole next day at school.

Playing the Sega-CD version of Lunar with my older brother. We had this deal that neither of us would play it with out the other around, since we had both been playing the same save file. I also have a similar memory of Shining Force .
Getting to play Fatal Fury 2 at home for the first time. I miss the Neo Geo...

When Super SF2 was released for the SNES/Genesis, my brother was working at a Video game store and reserved it for both Systems and took the day off. We invited a group of our friends over to compare the two and just generally beat the hell out of each other on it

Playing Katamari Damacy and KOTOR 2 with my (now Ex) Girlfriend. We spent hours on those games. We even used to go run errands together listening to the Katamari Damacy sountrack. That's just how we roll. (.. yeah that was our lame in joke.)

I'm sure I have many, many more.
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Old 08-01-2007, 07:00 AM   #5
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Hm, I don't have many moments when I cheer, cry, or jump for joy in games. But there are definitely moments that make me laugh, and those moments just stick with me forever. I can't be bothered to list my top 5 moments right now, so I'll just say that cross examining a parrot in "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney" has to be the best experience of my gaming life so far
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Old 08-01-2007, 09:50 AM   #6
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Catching my first Pokemon in Pokemon Blue.

The hundreds of hours I spent on Pokemon Gold, along with my brother who had Silver.

Playing through Abe's Odyssee and Exodus with my father and my brother.

Renting Majora's Mask over and over, not understanding what I liked about it.

Playing through Legend of Mystical Ninja and Bomberman 64, before I cared about games not being good.

Playing Wind Waker for the first time.

*E* Oh yeah, I'll swallow my pride just this once: Playing Final Fantasy IX (The one without the fruity Nomura crap!), renting it again and again just so I could progress in the game (Got to the end of Disc 3).
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Old 08-01-2007, 10:57 AM   #7
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When my sister finally made it to Ganon in a Link to the Past. It was her, my two cousins, our friend/neighbor and me. It was the first time any of us had done it. We were all scared and excited at the same time! My cousin and me were cowering and screaming ala Mikey and Don from the new movie. It was good times...
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Old 08-01-2007, 01:16 PM   #8
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It's kinda hard to pinoit specific moments in time, I guess.

-One would have to be finishing FFIX the first time, I was just so invested in the story and the characters
-Finishing FFVIII, as well, just because at that time I'd had about 9 years of build up going into the experiance. Don't get me wrong, I thought the ending of the game sucked. But Leading up to that last fight and then hearing One Winged Angel play...I actually lost the first time because Cid had All-Slash equipped but no ribbon...he got confused and wiped out the party in one swing. I went back though and mopped the floor with him.
-Finishing Metroid Prime, because as many of you may recall, it was sort of a cursed game for me as far as finishing it went. I think it took 3 attempts over the course of 3 years. And the atmosphere of the game just made all the boss fights really intense and almost sort of terrifying...in a good way. So finally gettign through it I really felt as though I had accomplished something.
-Finishing Wind Waker, it was pretty much the exact same situation.
-Ocarina of Time....I always like to just...wallow in the game whenever I play it. It was my first Zelda game so I'm sure I thought it was gonna be much harder than it ended up being, but it probably made the first time I beat it very rewarding in the same way as any of these other ones
-All the many twists and turns of Metal Gear Solid; nothing can quite beat being blindsided by one of those.
-Triple Threat Ladder Match in WWF No Mercy! I'll never forget that one, it was all over the place, kind of an "anything can happen" sort of match with 2 of my friends, and I managed to win some how.

That's all I've got right now.
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Old 08-01-2007, 03:21 PM   #9
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For me, beating FF6 was a huge accomplishment. Getting to the end was a chore in itself, but then having to fight Kefka as that towering monster was even more straining. I remember feeling exhausted climbing up and up that damn ladder of demons, hoping to hell that Sabin didn't get KO'd so I could keep his Blitzes going, pummeling the beast with Ultima spell after Ultima spell, and all the while going, "When will this end?!". When I finally won, I sat back and dropped the controller aside, my fingers damn near numb. At the time, it was awesome.

I didn't have another great gaming experience like that again until I finished Ocarina of Time, which was even more exhausting.
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Old 08-01-2007, 05:24 PM   #10
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- Getting my SNES

- Playing Pokemon Blue for hundreds of hours

- Getting my Sega Dreamcast(shortly after came one of my "least favorite gaming moments")

- Hundreds of hours having Halo 2 lans with friends

-The first month with my Wii
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Old 08-02-2007, 06:53 PM   #11
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Watching my friend play Silent Hill 2 and and sitting there crapping myself.

Beating the lever in JakX where you have no guns or weapons and have to reley on the speed boosts.

Plus everytime over the years where I've ever done a level or beaten a boss in a game first try.
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Old 08-02-2007, 07:14 PM   #12
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Recently Sunshine and I were playing Battle Nexus, running about predictably with her as Mikey, and me as Raphael. I discovered I could pick her up and throw her! That was fun...she turned around, and was like "Let me see if I can do it..."

So Mikey picked Raph up, and threw him...
off a cliff.

Raph proceeded to chase Mikey around the stage, trying to get him back. "C'mere Mikey...c'meeeere"

FINALLY! I get ahold of her...and Raph throws Mikey off the same cliff...where he lands perfectly on the other side. My arms dropped down into my lap, causing Raph to jump offf the cliff himself. We were laughing so hard we couldn't breathe.
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Old 08-14-2007, 08:42 PM   #13
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Recently Sunshine and I were playing Battle Nexus, running about predictably with her as Mikey, and me as Raphael. I discovered I could pick her up and throw her! That was fun...she turned around, and was like "Let me see if I can do it..."

So Mikey picked Raph up, and threw him...
off a cliff.

Raph proceeded to chase Mikey around the stage, trying to get him back. "C'mere Mikey...c'meeeere"

FINALLY! I get ahold of her...and Raph throws Mikey off the same cliff...where he lands perfectly on the other side. My arms dropped down into my lap, causing Raph to jump offf the cliff himself. We were laughing so hard we couldn't breathe.
BWAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHHAHHAHAHAHHHAHAHHAHAHAHHA HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHH AHAHAhAHAHHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAhAHAHAHHAHAHAHa!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMFG! That was funny!


The ending of FF10 was sad...

The thing that was funny that I herd on Battle Nexus, was that Mikey sang once in awhile when it said "Mission Failed". "OOOOHHHH MIKEY! YOU'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER THIIIIS!"

When I was playing TMNT 3, I went to play Raph's Nightmare again, And I saw this CD on one of the rocks. I kept missing it, and missing it. I was like "God! How do you keep missing that!?" Then, after awhile, I finally got it.
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Old 08-14-2007, 10:34 PM   #14
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- Me and my friend playing NBA games since like 1995. We have had some epic matches.

- Me and my dad playing HR derby on different baseball games. He doesn't like video games that much so it was nice to get him involved a little bit.

- Playing through Final Fantasy IV and falling in love with the characters.

- Playing NHL games at my friends house, turning off the penalties and beating the crap out of the team (physically and score-wise)

- Pulling all nighters playing EQ1 and WoW with friends.

- Pulling an all nighter with 4 buddies playing X-Men Legends.
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Old 08-15-2007, 09:11 AM   #15
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Beating Symphony of the Night with Richter.
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Old 08-15-2007, 12:54 PM   #16
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I recall the first time I played Mega Man X4. I was obsessed with Zero, and he's still one of my favorite video game characters period, so I was overjoyed that he was 100% playable. I didn't have a PSX at the time so I ended up renting one from blockbuster along with the game. I didn't have a memory card either, so I had to leave the system on. But leading up to that moment when he first teleported in and you hear that music playing, it was a definite nerdgasm. It's still probably my favorite in the series.
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Old 08-15-2007, 03:37 PM   #17
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Too many to list (so here's a start):

- Staying up late (well, whatever late was for me, back then), playing the little two-player 'bonus' game in Super Mario Bros. 3 on my first console, my NES.

- Completing TMNT 2: The Arcade Game on NES.

- Playing FIFA '97 on the Megadrive.

- Finishing Sunset Riders on the SNES, after a hectic final boss fight that hadn't ended quite as early as I thought.

- Finishing FFVII for the first time.

- Driving around, blowing things up in Vigilante 8 on the PS.

- Playing the marathon tracks with my friend on Burnout 1, while listening to Jimmy Eat World.

- Playing through to the early hours of the morning, completing Halo 1 on Legendary difficulty.

- Seeing Gears of War in action.

- Playing Burnout: Revenge on LIVE
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Old 08-15-2007, 07:31 PM   #18
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I remember when me and my sister did an all-nighter and played Forsaken. That was fun.
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Old 08-15-2007, 09:58 PM   #19
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Finally beating Super Mario Bros. 3 with my Dad as a kid.
Spending Saturday mornings playing McKids with my little sister.
Beating everyone in my family at Dr. Mario.
Finally saving up enough money to buy Super Mario All-Stars.
My first time playing Super Mario 64. Christmas morning. Very little can match/top this.
Opening up OoT on Christmas morning, then playing until I passed out well after midnight.
Getting Super Mario Sunshine and reveling in finally playing a new Mario for the first time in far too many years. Same for Wind Waker.
Taking my first step out of the Consensus office in Seyda Neen in Morrowind, only to discover I was in for way more than I thought.
Following Animal Crossing from Japanese diaries online for over a year, all the way until launch, where I got the only copy of the game in the store. Then playing until the wee hours of the morning.
Getting Halo 2 on midnight of my birthday. (Nov 9th) Then playing it straight through until I beat it.
Importing GH from the US, half a year before it got wide-release.
Getting both my parents hooked on New Super Mario Bros., then being woken up at 2 in the morning by my Mom stealing my SNES out of my room, so her and my dad could play Super Mario All-Stars until all hours of the morning.
Losing my mind at how amazing Gears of War looked the first time I did a roadie run.
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Old 08-15-2007, 10:08 PM   #20
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I'm too tired of these kinds of threads, so I'll just name one. It was a funny moment.

I dealt the final blow to Ultimecia in FFVIII, and I said out loud, with my mom in the room, "FINALLY I'M DONE THIS F*CKING GAME!" I then threw the controller, and watched the ending as my mom gave me a lecture on cursing. I hated that game so bad way back when it came out. I just wanted to beat it and throw it away. I'm kinda glad I didn't, since I collect the FF games.

EDIT: Oh, I already posted in this thread. Oh well. There's an addition!
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