Greatest moment playing a video game?

Making Atari 2600 Space Invaders score flip back over to 0.

 

Awesome. I'll share a story or two later, but for now, lunch time.

 

I had a miraculous 4- touchdown, second half comeback in Madden 1996 vs. a friend in college. I was the Eagles, I think he was the Giants. I was down 28-3 after one half - very embarrassing. I don't exactly recall the rally but pretty much everything broke my way for the last quarter, and I took over with about 5 seconds and no timeouts down 24-28, and found my wideout for a 60 yard pass (mostly run after the catch) where he broke a few tackles and literally, just BARELY dove across the goalline as the defender caught up with him (those were the days where your guy would run out of gas towards the end of the run and the defenders tended o "catch up" quickly. Anyway, there was a lot of hooting and holleriing, even the guys who were jsut watching appreciated the sheer brilliance It was an awesome game.

 

I have many, but my greatest experience as a youth was finding out there was a "secret room" in the Atari game "Adventure".

I remember spending three days finding that invisible dot, and running through the wall to the "room".

All it was was a credits page, but it was absolutely awesome at the time.

 

It was the "Wizard".

You can find PC Atari emulators online and relive those past glories. I did.

 

Friend and I used to play Techmo Super Bowl endlessly in high school. Could usually get 7 or 8 games in at once. I remember he used to beat me maybe 6 out of 10, fairly even but he had the edge. That all changed when I learned how to blitz with the nose tackle. I could destroy any pass play that wasn't from the shotgun and most runs before the handoff just by diving across the line of scrimmage. With a good NT, like Denver's, I could snuff out FG attempts too.

Also, Super Mario Bros I, figuring out how to time jumping on the stair turtles (was it level 3-1?) so I could have unlimited lives. Mario became an immortal god, feared by koopa everywhere.

 

This year on Madden.

I had made my way through the season and was beating everybody silly. I got to the NFC championship game against the Bucs ( I was the Bears).

I play a crappy game and they are up 27 to 10 at the half. I cut the lead to 23 to 27 with 3 mins left in the game.

They had the ball and were driving, I was screaming to my wife how this was a bunch of BS!

I get an interception my 2 yard line. 98 yards away from the win with 1:58 left in the game and 2 Time outs.

I drove the lenght of the field and got to 1st in goal at the 3 yard line with 20 seconds left.

The first 3 plays went for incompletions and the time was down to 3 seconds left, time for one last play.

The D had not let my Pro Bowl TE get a pass all day but I knew I had to go with my bread and butter. I call a short hook with the pass going to my TE.

I made the pass and my TE was barely in the endzone for the TD! I win 29 to 27.

That was the most tense and excited I've ever been with a videogame, it was great and nerve racking at the same time.

 

That's no great accomplishment...it's just cheap. Pulling crap like that in TSB with our gang is begging for an ass kicking.

 

Once used Pete Chilcutt exclusively on an old Nintendo basketball game and scored 110 pts to beat my friend, who was using GS and Tim Hardaway (who scored 98 pts).

 

This was mine as well.

Close runner-up: solving Pitfall II with a perfect score.

-- droxford

 

Bah, you had to be there. You have no idea how funny it was the first time I used that. On 3 consecutive plays to end the game, with him trailing by a FG. Couple days later I taught him how, and we played a few seasons doing nothing but shotgun plays before that got old and we instituted a no-NT-blitz rule.

Different friend got pissed at me back when we used to play Age of Empires in college. I learned to smoke him with basically the same move, a very early peasant rush, before he could set up troops. Luckily, unlike TSB there were ways to counteract rush tactics, it just took more creativity.

 

I've had tons of great Madden games over the years...I'll share a couple of recent ones...

A friend and I have a two player franchise going, fantasy draft with Kansas City. This is our fourth season now, we won the super bowl in season's 1 and 3, here is what happened in the wild card round of season 2. We're playing the Bengals, tied 24-24 late in the fourth quarter. They have the ball, and hit Donald Driver (our former receiver, that we traded to them for Fred Smoot) down the sideline, he breaks Smoot's tackle and scores 60 yards later. It's not a good feeling when the guy you traded for gets beat by the guy you traded. We're down 31-24, with something like 14 seconds on the clock. Obviously, we need a miracle.

Lomas Armstrong is a computer generated receiver we drafted in the 3rd round...he was playing slot that year. With 10 seconds left, from the 18, I hot route Armstrong deep and throw up a prayer...he absolutely torches the defense by a good 10 yards and scores, sending me and my partner into pandemonium (sp?). Unfortunately, we lost the game in OT, but that was probably our best moment.

 

That rocks.

A couple of months ago in Madden 2005 I was playing as the Bears against the Rams in my last game of the season which would determine if I got in the playoffs or not.

I had a huge lead going into halftime.. but of course the Rams started miraculously intercepting everything I threw and breaking tackles left and right to pull within 3 points..

There was about 25 seconds left on the clock and the Rams were pinned on their own 4 yard line.. when Bulger hits Holt on a slant and he breaks two obvious tackles and speeds towards the endzone...

Even though I'm cursing wildly at the screen and getting ready to throw my controller through the window, I hit the sprint button and just ran after him anyway (with Jerry Azumah, I think). It looks like Holt is about to score, there's about :02 left on the clock.. when he starts HIGH STEPPING at the 10 yard line.. I leap and catch him by the shoe string at the 3 yard line.. he falls forward and lands at the 1... Time runs out.. BEARS WIN!!

I showed my neighbors next door the replay just for fun..

 

There was an ending to Pitfall II? What about the original Pitfall?

 

I know the phenomenon you're talking about. Even when you win, it seems like this happens sometimes... you'll win 55-7, and the 7 will come on one 2-minute, 8-play, 80-yard drive where the computer can't be stopped. Then it's back to three-and-outs.

As for revenge, I remember a couple decent ones on the NCAA series. I completed two consecutive 40+ yard bombs out of a hurry-up offense with less than 20 seconds to go to win at Tennessee once. I came back from a 31-7 third-quarter deficit and beat Penn State in triple overtime on a 40-yd TD heave on 3rd-and-25.

I OWN THE COMPUTER, BOTH LITERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY

This made me laugh.

 

I was the first one in my neighborhood to beat "Mike Tyson's Punchout" for NES. I did it with a TKO! No point decisions here!

 

Just constantly avoiding being busted by the cops in the GTA games. I've had some pretty spectacular "Oh crap, gangsters and cops are chasing me, and I'm down to a millimeter of health while driving this flaming car and my gun's empty" getaways.

 

If I had to name one single game as my all-time favorite, that would be it. I remember that I couldn't beat Tyson the first three times I tried. Then I had a friend show me how he did it, and bingo, it was easy as could be.

Course, I gave the game a spin in an emulator a few years ago and ****, I couldn't even get past Super Macho Man.

 

I was able to steal an FBI car for about 20 seconds before I was destroyed. My friends were astounded at the time.