Finishing Dragons Lair back in the day. It cost more than all the regular games and I know I spent a ton of money learning the right moves. I remember finally killing Singe the dragon and going crazy.
That looks like the human genome project or something. Pitfall was a great game. Never finished it tho'.
Didnt play it like that......but we played until we each ran out.....you get knock out, marble is mine...ALL MINE!
Dude, that's what trips me out so bad about playing retro games... they're all so damn HARD! I remember I played the sidescroller "Trojan" for NES back in the day (run-of-the-mill sidescroller, probably 5 or 6 levels, nothing special). And the thing is, I remember thinking "this game is pretty easy. I can probably beat this like 3 out of 4 times." I try to play the same simple game now on emulator, and I freakin' die in the middle of stage 2! That game's impossible! Then I try playing some games that I thought were hard AT THE TIME, like Double Dragon III, and man... forget that. You gotta be superhuman to get through that thing. How were we all so freakin' good at these things back then?
mario bros 3, played all the way through, no cheats or flute crap, last map took away most of my lives and only had a few left for koopa. Killed him with a little mario with 0 lives left. FF8, all my crew was dead and was down to 5 HP, next attack would kill me. was working on the boss for almost half an hour. By luck the super i did was the super super and it was also the one to kill her. way too many moments with smash bros... GTA3, after multiple attempts, stole a tank w/o cheating.
I beat my younger brother at Street Fighter 2 on SNES with one hand behind my back. I don't think he's played any video games since.
I don't know if this counts, but when I got FFX and put it into my PS2, that was a pretty awesome moment, signaling to me that this generation of gaming had started. I remember getting all giddy listening to voice acting and seeing the awesome graphics, not to mention being shocked to hear the hard rock intro from Nobuo Uematsu. I'm sure I got countless other moments from other games, but I'm can't seem to remember too many at the moment.
Huh. My roommates always just played Madden along with/against me, it never came down to oral sex. We were weird that way.
My friend Barrett got a Super Nintendo and Street Fighter II during the summer of 1992. I had not played video games for several years (ever since a particularly bad case of "computer cheat" on Tecmo Bowl led me to hurl my Nintendo across the room) and wasn't familiar with the game. My friend told me about it and bragged how he had spent $20 mastering it in the arcade. He and a third friend Matt played for awhile, and from what I remember, he whipped Matt pretty good every time After they played for awhile, Barrett asked if I wanted to try. I agreed to try and picked the sumo wrestler (Honda?) as my fighter. Barret tried to give me a quick summary of the controls, but the only part I got was that the top two buttons on the face of the controller were punch and the bottom two on the face were kick. Barrett was a good guy and he didn't try too hard at first. However, after I beat him the first 4 times while using the Hundred Hand Slap move only, he said "OK, now you're dead." That's when I started experimenting with the other buttons. At one point during a game, I asked "What does this button do?," pressed it and proceeded to nail Barrett with a Strong Karate Chop (this made Matt burst out laughing). I beat Barrett around 30 times in a row before he exclaimed in frustration "I don't understand how someone who's never played this before can be so good. You're like a Natural!!" Then all the lights in the house started exploding and shooting sparks everywhere while an orchestra struck up a rousing melody and . . . oops, wrong story. Later on, when we would have Street Fighter tournaments at another friend's house, they got wise to my tricks and beat me about half the time. Still, nothing beat being "the Natural."
Nothing is more frustrating than being a master at some fighting game and then getting smacked down by some newbie who has never played before. But it seems to happen a lot.. mainly because they act randomly, not like an experienced player, nor a CPU.. and they usually just hit one button over and over.. happens to me in Soul Calibur a lot..
Tekken is the only traditional fighting game I know of for which I've never even seen that happen before, which speaks to what a good game it is. If you're even relatively new at Tekken, and I play you with King, I WILL win, and in fact you'll probably never hit me. I love how consistent that is. Just realized I had never actually given my moment. My best moment would have to be in an online match of Quake 2. Quake 2 was pretty much my life for a couple summers, and I was ridiculously good, but I don't play FPSs anymore. Anyway, I was playing on a server with roughly 15 other people, and I stayed on this server for probably 2 hours or so. My username was "Berserker." By the time the two hours were up we had probably cycled through about 15 maps or so, I had won all of them, and THREE people had changed their names to imitate mine! One renamed himself to "Bezerkoid," and after he did that another two called themselves "Bezerkoid35" and "Berserker19." I mean, you know you're kicking ass when that happens. Everyone was asking me how long I'd been playing (probably 1.5 years) and what my highest number of kills in a single minute was (16). It was awesome. Don't think I've ever had anything to rival that. Probably the coolest thing I did during that two hours was fire a rocket at a guy who was about 8 stories below me (he was moving) and jumping down and landing right in front of him immediately afterward. Now, rockets moved slower than characters fell in Quake 2, so he stopped as soon as he saw me land, and I got to watch my own rocket land right on his head. I actually think it was right after that that the first guy changed his name. Oh the memories...
Without a doubt, my crowning achievement in video games was my "Daytona World Championship" last December. Every year, me and my 15 buddies in our fantasy football league get together for a the awards night/drinkfest. One of the traditions is that we have a Daytona racing tournament later in the evening. It is an intensely fought over event. I have been runner up for the two years preceding this one. Anyone who know DaAytona knows that the computer favours the people running 2nd, 3d etc. To win, you really need to be in 2nd place going into the last turn. This year, however, I drove an abosolutely perfect race, led from start to finish, and held off my arch rival on the last corner when he was right behind me. Sweetness!
My favorite moment was earlier this week. I was playing the ESPN College Hoops 2k5 game for PS2. Well, for some reason even on average(starter mode) the computer can do practically whatever it wants offensively if they have decent players even though I contest every shot and make them work for points. It really ticks me off to no end. So anyways I'm in my dynasty, where I worked my way from Radford to Syracuse. Anyways the year before, I had played Miss St in the championship game, and you know that annoying feeling when you get an 11 point lead midway through the second half then the computer on starter mode still goes nuts from 3 and steals the game from you, even though you shot like 60% from the floor. They stole a championship from me. So the next year, I make the tourney again. The computer sticks me in a sweet 16 rematch of last year's championship game. Midway through the second half, I'm down 12. Just like last year reversed. Then my star PG drains a 3 that bounces in after hitting the front of the rim, and I storm back to win 65-60. It was awesome. I went on to win it all this time, but it felt so good to beat the computer the way I did.
Playing Metal Gear Solid and I was near the end, and I got frustrated and was about to turn it off, when my wife said "What the hell are you doing? I wanna know what happens to Snake!!" When I killed the dragon with my bare hands in that text game, man that was a great 4th grade memory. Winning Ultima 3, FF7, and Unreal...because I put hours into it.
i'd have to say beating Mike Tyson. this winter break, i bought a bunch of games for my NES and played it a ton. i was always dependent on my friend having Mike Tyson's Punchout from his cousin so even though i played it quite a bit back in the day, i never got a long time to try and beat tyson. so after buying it, i get back in rhythm (lost once to sandman and super macho man each before mastering them) so now i just gotta beat tyson (and it sucks that you have to face super macho man before getting to tyson even with the code). getting through the 90 seconds of lightning uppercuts was damn hard (as it always was). eventually i started getting pretty good at that. the other punches were fairly easy but still getting your own punches in could be hard. about 3 times i made it pretty far but there was this one thing i had no defense for. out of nowhere he'll just do these two quick as **** sucker punches and then lightning uppercut you. that was always the end of me. finally, one time i missed all the lightning uppercuts, i was getting my own punches in, i was cruising on him, and then i actually dodged the damn sucker punch move. i managed to knock him down 4 times to his 2 on me and i was sweatin' big time watching the 3rd round count down, just hoping it would end. finally, it did, and mario came out and declared me the winner by decision (i thought it might steal the decision from me for a second). at 23 years old, i got up and ran a lap around the house yelling. it was the culmination of a lot of frustration. on ncaa2k4 football, i was losing to this guy by something like 24 points i think and i think 17 points in the 4th quarter. thanks to prodding from my roommate, i was nonetheless talking crazy **** to this guy the whole time. he probably thought i was crazy doing it down 20+. anyway, in the 4th i end up hitting roy williams for a big td. stop him, hit roy again. and then i get the ball back with very little time left, drive to about the 35, and then launch a pass with time expiring to roy. the pass looks like it'll definitely go out the back of the endzone and i know time is gonna run out if it does. roy ends up catching it and getting one foot in in the very back of the endzone. the guy was offline immediately. i can't imagine how pissed he was following all the trash talking and then me scoring 3 td's in no time to pull out the win on a last second hail mary. damn it was awesome. i can't think of an awesome tecmo super bowl moment. i beat SF with KC 20-0 one time in what i consider my finest defensive performance ever. and i beat SD in a preseason game 126-0 in my highest scoring game ever. as for nose tackle blitzing, we wouldn't allow that if the guy was a real badass. i did it a few times this winter when going up against buffalo but that was legal b/c my NT wasn't badass and if it wasn't a running play up the middle i was screwed so i was at least taking a chance. when i started sacking the QB with the move, i had to stop. one time i was playing my roommate and he had SD and i had every play figured out before the snap and would just choose the correct defender to kill it and eventually he made me pick the same guy over and over so i couldn't do it. stealing a tank on GTA3 after racking up 6 stars and the somehow getting the guy out and killing him before anyone else killed me was awesome. as for the mario 1 up on the stairs on level 3-1, i've done it exactly once. somewhere something told you what to do, but i could only do it that once. now when i try the koopa just bounces off the stairs and i only get one jump in. i have no idea how to do it at this point (do you just push A as fast as possible or is there a rhythm to it?).
worst moment, i have 3 teams going in a dynasty that was in about year 5 on ncaa2k4 and somehow my sister decides to look for the power button (not to push it, just to find it, actually i'm not even sure what she was doing but she was messing with the back of the ps2) while i'm saving and in the process hits the reset button. dynasty gone. it's now referred to as the "oops!" incident. what kept me from beating her to a pulp right then and there i'll never know. i think i was just too stunned to do anything.
I can't think the greatest moment I had but, since people are sharing their GTA stories, I'll share my funniest IMO. It is in GTA: San Andreas. It is early in the game where I am supposed to drive my homies into rival gang territory for a drive-by. So, I proceed driving bck and forth while my gang shoots a bunch of thugs but the car I was driving took alot of shots and started smoking real bad. While I am still moving, I hit the button to get out, for which my guy leaped out of the moving car. The car then proceeded to slam right into a brick wall, turning into a ball of fire, killing my gangsta's instantly inside. Of course, when this happened, I fell on the floor laughing cause it was the last thing I ever expected to happen. But then I realized that I was not only standing in the middle of the road with moving cars, but I was standing still in the middle of rival gang country and about 20 guys packin' major heat! Thank god, the fire truck came to put out the fire on what used to be my homies, which gave me a way out. So, I hijacked it. Well, long story short, after being pursued and shot at by rival gang members and hordes of police while driving this truck, I eventually turned it over taking a turn to tight. I'm not sure which bullet did me in, one from the cops or the purple thugs.
Funniest GTA video I have ever seen: http://kruft.homestead.com/files/gta-sanandreas.wmv please right click save as
