What are your most memorable video game moments?

[battleknight24]

Everyone has a list of moments of this and that... greatest moments ever in baseball... greatest moments in tv history... greatest moments in undwater basket weaving...

But what about video games?

I'll go first... while playing Baseball Stars 2 for the NES, in a one player game, my friend Juan- down by SEVEN runs- came back in the last 3 innings to win the game 8-7.

And he sucks at most video games...

Share you stories with me...


Peace,

[richmwill]

1. Another NES Classic Moment

Playing "Major League Baseball", my pitcher pitched a perfect game. And when I say perfect, I mean perfect- 27 up, 27 down, ALL strike-outs.

And then there's the moment every young person who ever played an NES will always remember- the moment when they beat Mike Tyson :)

[battleknight24]

8. I have pitched a perfect game few times in video baseball...

Not all strikeouts, but with no one reaching base, all batters retired...

I have done it once in "Baseball Stars 2"... which is fairly difficult... and at least 2 or 3 times in "Little League Baseball"... but this is not extremely difficult- you can do it by throwing the pitches a certain way and in a certain order, using a decent pitcher...

I once shut out the computer in the original "NFL Blitz" , which is MUCH harder to do than in the sequals... I won 35-0, and on the last play of the game, I literally tackled the guy on the 1 yard line. I felt like Kevin Costner in 'For Love of the Game.'

Sadly, not being the greatest at video games, I have never beat Mike Tyson- or "Mr. Dream"... but I remember the first time I beat Super Macho Man... I beat him in the 3rd round with a regular KO rather than a TKO.

[democracyindanger]

2. NBALive

Around 1994. My buddy Greg was my constant victim. One day he forced me to play until he beat me. The last, 12th or so game I played slouched on the couch. This slacking posture allowed him to get up by 20 at the beginning of the 4th. With three minutes left--and the consideration of an act of mercy forgotten--I sat up and Terry Porter took over. Behind a smothering defense, TP drained at least 6 threes in the final 4 minutes. GAME OVER.

Greg and I have never played a game since.

The best part? A couple weeks later, I had to do something with Porter for work and got to tell him the story.

[InvisibleTouch]

3. Atari's "Asteroids" in the early 80's

I was never particularly good at video games, and though I enjoyed them as a teenager, I generally did lousy, even on the easy ones. There was one memorable afternoon, though ... I was playing "Asteroids" on an Atari system, the type with the old game cartridges, and I stayed alive and kept racking up points and points and points - to the extent that the numbers flipped over and re-started again at 0. And I went through this 3(!) times. I might still be going if my mom hadn't called me away from it....

[SoCalDem]

4. Beating "Invisible Invaders", and having my three boys totally

in awe of Mom..:) They never managed that one..

I also was a whiz at Lolo 1,2,and 3...and Kid Icarus..

I never enjoyed Mario or Zelda..


I was best at Atari games.. yes.. I am an old fogey :)

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

5. I beat Zelda on NES

when I was six and thought I was like a god or something :P

[battleknight24]

10. When I started playing "Mike Tyson's Punch Out," ...

... I sucked at Video Games Badly... it took me a long time to develop my hand-eye coordination...

... Glass Joe once beat me by decision...

Go ahead... laugh...


Peace,

[ScrewyRabbit]

6. Landing a commando behind enemy lines in C&C

and blowing up his home base. All done with a helicopter. Sweeeeeet...

[JohnnyRingo]

7. Pong...in the 70's...a table version ..in a bar

I remember thinking, THIS is gonna catch on.
It made pinball look like a coney island relic.

[TlalocW]

9. Ms. PacMan

Two stories...

In my small farming community, a friend of the family opened up an arcade (didn't last that long). He had his daughter set the high score on the Ms. PacMan game every morning before she went to school for the daily contest of, "If you can beat the high score, I'll give you a prize." Everyday that I went in, I beat the high score by at least 100,000 points. Started to piss him off.

In college, there was a laundromat with a few video games in it. One day when I was doing several loads of laundry, a 70-something little old lady was at the Ms. PacMan machine while I was playing Dungeons and Dragons next to her. She was giggling like crazy and saying things like, "Oh, shoot," whenever she got eaten. I looked at her score, and she was up to 180,000 when her last Ms. PacMan was eaten. I felt kind of weird about that - first I was impressed that someone her age could do so well at a video game then I got to wondering if she lives a really lonely life that she can get so good at this game, and that was tempered with the thought that at least she was enjoying herself playing that game. I still wonder about that every now and then when I'm playing video games, avoiding human contact - will I have cursed all the time I spent playing video games instead of interacting with people when I'm older?

I'm not into any of the new games like Everquest, etc. I have a video game emulator and several 80s games I like to play. If I feel like wasting an hour, I'll run through all 27 levels of Rygar without much problem. I don't play arcade games anymore unless I'm waiting around like I was for laundry, for a movie (F9/11 a couple of weeks ago).

TlalocW

[Tom Kitten]

11. ...when I finally beat the bugs in Bugdom

Bugdom was the game that came installed on imacs a few years ago...It had nine levels and it was hard! It took me weeks staying up till 3 am with headphones on trying to beat the thing!

Also, a place I used to work at had the old Battlezone game in a corner...Spent all my lunch and break periods playing the damn thing, once I went wild and scored almost a million points (998,000 or something like that)...that was the only arcade game I was really good at, well the original Star Wars game I was pretty good at too, until I went broke playing it!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

12. Defender. Rolling over the machine for the first time, in a zone...

I believe a million points rolled over the machine.

[GingerSnaps]

13. Beating a guy at "pong"

He freaked out when I beat the pants off of him and the look on his face was worth 1 million dollars.

[battleknight24]

15. I once had this friend...

... who was so good at video games he could beat you at almost anything... but I once beat him 24-23 at Super Play Action football... I'm not sure who was in more shock, me or him...


Peace,

[Angelus]

14. Beating Bowser in the first Mario Bros. on NES.

I was only five. It felt good. :)

[Archae]

16. When Andross blew up.

In "Starfox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet."

Andross (this huge gorilla head) blew up with one of those Sci-Fi movie explosions in space, complete with ring-shape shock wave.

And back on the Great Fox, Krystal (the blue vixen with the big gazongas,) docks a shuttle and to porn saxophone music, walks onto the ship's bridge, while a robot remarks how Fox McCloud's temperature is rising. :D

[leftyandproud]

17. Resident Evil on Playstation..

the first time when the dogs appeared...

you know what I'm talking about..

that hallway...

my brother and I screamed for 2 minutes straight during the fight with them and we ran out of the room when the dog bit dragged by character to the ground, biting my neck and ended my life with a "pop" and a spurt of blood..

scariest sh!t I'd ever seen...

[Beware the Beast Man]

25. Damn that freaked me out!

Also in Silent Hill 3, the room at the "alternate" hospital where you can see your reflection in the mirror slowly cover up in blood, then the reflection stops....really gave me the willies.

[VelmaD]

18. Kicking the ass of every guy I knew at Galaga...

back in the day. Bruised their fragile little egos. Hell, I beat one of my guy friends on the machine at the skating rink while I was on skates and he wasn't.

I used to love to piss the guys off at the arcade at the mall. I'd play for a couple of hours on one quarter. Roll the score counter a couple of times. Then my mom would come get me to go home and everyone would want to take over my game. FUCK THAT! They're not putting their initials next to MY SCORE. I'd kill myself off and they'd get all pissy about it.

[King Of Paperboys]

19. When I finally defeated King Koopa

In SMB3. I had played all night, the sun was rising... and I still had no job.

I've never touched a video game since.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

20. Beating Duke Nukem 3D without cheats

Shake it baby.

[THUNDER HANDS]

21. My AFC All-Star team beat the Miami Dolphins 330-0

I was feeling good that day, not trying to do to much, just doing whatever I could to help my team win. It was a group effort. ;)

[BigMcLargehuge]

22. the first time I finished the role playing game Buck Rogers

on Genesis after a marathon 20 hours of play. I was numb from the ass-cheeks own, and my fingers felt like clay, but damn was it engrossing.

[LWolf]

23. ok, but you probably won't like it!

Warning...graphic and painful. Don't read on if you can't handle it!











:evilgrin:

My favorite memory is my last video game memory:

It was 1990. I walked into the room to tell my two sons, 11 and 13, to turn off the game and set the table for dinner. Once too often, one of them said, "Okay, in a minute, Mom. I have to die, first."

I calmly waited for him to "die." Then I turned off the game, unplugged it, and collected all of the paraphernalia. I put it into a box. They watched in horrified fascination. One of them started to ask, "What are you going to..." and the other nudged him silent. I opened the front door, walked across the street, and gave the game to the family who lived there, with 2 sons of their own. Explained that we didn't need it any more. Then I walked back, dusted my hands off, and reminded them that the table still needed to be set.

[Speck Tater]

24. The time I fell off the boat from Qeynos in Everquest and...

had to swim through 15 miles of shark-infested water to get safely to an island where I could wait for the next boat. It tooks hours and was a harrowing adventure. Especially since I didn't have a map and had no idea where the islands were. But the feeling of triumph when I finally made landfall is hard to top. :)

[Beware the Beast Man]

26. In recent memory- GTA Vice City

Daringly stealing the tank from the army base- reaching level 50 on the police vigilante missions, then making it back to my home base safely despite a six-star wanted level.

[samwisefoxburr]

27. I was playing Quake II Deathmatch...

...and I was being shot at running down a hallway and at the end it turns right then immediately left. but on the wall in front of me I remembered that if you shoot it it opens. So, I'm running for my life from this guy and I shot the wall went inside and right when it started to close the guy that was chasing after me got fragged. I was lucky the guy coming from the opposite direction of us didn't see me going in the hidden door.

Another Quake II Deathmatch story:

In one level there is an L-shaped passage and one side is made of glass so you can see the other side. So there is this guy waiting behind the glass, and I use the "Taunt" feature (like you can give him the finger, or grab your balls, etc.) and he started to imitate me and after getting him to imitate me a couple of times I moved in and fragged him in the middle of his taunt.:evilgrin: