If that video is legit, then this is hands down the most amazing accomplishment in the history of mankind.
yeah the cannonball jumping is freakin' amazing on that mario 3 thing (definitely better than the 11 minute thing). i have it saved on my computer. i remember when i first saw it i showed it to all my friends in the ChE computer lab and there were about 8 of us just standing over one computer with our jaws on the floor. we couldn't believe it. even if it's fake it's still cool to look at.
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night I remember getting relatively close to 100% and thinking how sad I was that there was not much game left. Then I discovered the upside down castle. I was only half way through the game! ^^v I also used to love Quake 2. I would play CTF for hours and spend 99% of my time in the air. Oh how I loved the grappling hook! More recently, the last battle/ending to MGS3. The Boss is definately one of my all time favorite video game characters.
I was the guy who always beat games first back in the day. I also discovered things like the stair turtle on Super Mario Bros. world 3-1. I was also the first to get fireballs when using little Mario: while playing as a no-fireball big mario, I jumped over one of the minor bosses only to touch the axe and the dragon guy at the same time. It made the shrinking noise and everything, but I stayed large. I then went to where the fire flower normally would be only to have a shroom pop up and make me little. The next block that should have given me a shroom to make me big came up as a fire flower, thus little mario with fireballs. I beat Super Mario Bros. 2 the first day I got it. I played it on Christmas Day for some 10 hours, but I beat the damn thing. I also beat TMNT for NES. I never knew anyone else to do that out of my group of buddies. I was a Street Fighter stud as well. I wasn't invincible, but I was damn good and always one of the last guys playing. Ryu and I were one. Arcade, SNES, whatever. The first arcade game I ever beat was Bad Dudes. I kicked ass as that game. I also beat the Robocop arcade game, which was fun but not too well-known. I can't believe no one has mentioned NBA Jam Tournament Edition (SNES, in this case). No one EVER beat me, and it was never close. I would destroy people with the Rockets, and Hakeem in particular. Playing against the computer one time I finished with absurd stats. I wrote them down and still have them somewhere. I finished with something in the neighborhood of 50-60 blocks to go with equally absurd point and rebounding totals. One of my greatest moments came just a few weeks ago. I came home to find that one of my roommates had dug out his old NES. He'd been playing the first Super Mario Bros. for hours and couldn't get past the fourth world. I took up the controller and started over....and beat the game in just a few minutes. Without dying. And I hadn't played it literally in years. He was pissed. The next night, it was Mike Tyson's Punch Out. Same scenario, same result. The my he got onto the computer to look up the code for Tyson (just Tyson, mind you, not Super Macho Man). Once I figured out what he was doing, the numbers came rushing back into my memory: "007 373 5963!", I shouted. He just looked at me, completely dumbfounded. Ah, memories. Its all PS2 these days.
Best moment I ever had was when i was on a family trip to Houston back in the 80's. I was at the hotel arcade room, and there was this fat kid playing Galaga that showed me the last bee secret. On the 1st level you had to shoot all the bugs except for the bee on the lower left. then you wait for the bee to fly by you 3 times without shooting. After shooting the final bee, no bugs will fire at you for the remainder of the game! I took that secret back to Brownsville with me and hogged every Galaga game in sight!
I beat Maniac Mansion on my old Radio Shack Tandy computer in the 80s this was b4 it was on NES... You had to have a special book for codes to the doors and other random stuff in the game, it was SOOO hard for me remember there was no internet to find out what to do next.. I did all that work for a ending to a game that had something to do with Tuna... Gotta love lucas Arts..
Speaking of the Game Genie, was anyone else in the GGCCC (game genie code creators club)? I must've been like 8 at the time but when I got the rank of wizard, oh man that was a good day.
If you're talking to me, I had a friend who couldn't get past it after having not played in however many years. He got old and his old-skool video game skillz weren't what they used to be. I got old, but still have the mad skills. Yo.
Mine has to be beating the first "Legend of Zelda". I got to where I could beat the whole game in a few hours. Then I finally beat the 2nd quest. I used to play games a lot with my cousins. They would always save the hard part of games for me, and I woul dbeat them with ease. Unfortunately I just don't have the time to really commit to playing gamesas much as I'd like, that is something I sorely miss.
Finishing some of the missions in "Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines", was pretty satisfying, because they required a frustrating combination of tactical puzzles plus split second mouse point and clicking. Those were cool games, but sort of a niche genre that doesn't really exist too much anymore.
Winning MVP with Seneca Wallace in Madden 2005. We also won the superbowl. Was on All Pro. For thoes of you who dont know he is ranked in the mid 60's after one season with me he was an 81. Maybe beating super metriod for the SNES in a lil over an hour. Good times...
My proudest moment would have to be beating The Legend of Zelda and managing to burn every bush in the game (i was probably 6 years old or so). Anyhow.. BE PREPARED TO SPEND MANY HOURS WATCHING THE REAL NES MASTERS.. i bring you.. NINTENDO SUPER PLAYS http://bisqwit.iki.fi/jutut/nesvideos/
this site looks awesome. i don't have bit torrent and for some reason quicktime says it needs something to download avi files now, but i'm gonna figure out how to fix one of those problems just to watch these things. duck tales, i remember playing that a little back in the day. thanks for the site.
