OT-Mount Rushmore of Computer Gaming Moments

[Axxon]

This is a bit more subjective of a Mount Rushmore exercize. In this case, what four gaming moments that you've experienced personally were your favorite. Please make sure to identify the game too.

1. Shooting Fidel in the back in JA:Deadly Games. He was in my squad and he was on point. We were in an exposed position and had to cross a bridge in order to reach cover. I was playing against my brother.

Well, Fidel stops on the bridge, kneels down and nails a guy dropping him but not killing him. Fidel isn't happy though, he wants to finish him off. Every time I try and get him to move he tells me "leave me alone, I'm busy" and shoots an almost impossible shot against a prone unconscious enemy.

Of course, my brothers guys are shooting at everybody but Fidel. I'm dropping like flies but the enemy won't die and Fidel is holding out for the kill. Finally, out of desparation Ivan puts a slug through the back of his cuban brain. You're not busy any more bastard.

2. Xcom, I have a guy with one of those waypoint rocket thingies and he's on the first floor of a building and in the building ahead I have a guy on the second floor. This guy spots an alien and it looks bad for him. I can't get a good shot from the other guy because my squadmate is between me and the alien. Hmm..

Shoot out the door up one level, three right turns around the building, one more right turn, through the window. Bam, nothing but alien!

3. Cutting my AM at halftime. It was in CM2 and I don't remember his name but I was in the first division and I'd payed over a million and a half pounds for a premiership AM and he plain out sucked. He never gelled with the team at all and I was getting tired of it.

Finally, one game I went to the halftime screen and he wasn't particularly sucking. He was rated a 5 which was good for him but I decided not for me. I decided I wanted nothing to do with him and his fives any more. I not only cut him, I wouldn't let him ride the team bus, he couldn't stay at the team motel, nothing. I didn't care where he went but he wasn't coming with us.

Well, the board had a cow but the team must have been relieved. We went on an extended winning streak and won promotion.

4. This one is far more subjective but it was one of my first "oh wow" moments in computer gaming. I was playing nethack and I'd just finished killing a cockatrice. Now, in that game this is a bird that if you touch it, you turn to stone. You couldn't even touch his corpse. Well, I had autopickup on and accidently picked up his corpse and didn't die. I decided to look at my character and realized why.

"I was wearing gloves!" I wasn't touching it. What I was doing though was standing there holding a dead bird in my gloved hands. Lo and behold from one end of the corrider I was in came a dragon and I wasn't ready to face him nor was I willing to stand there and secure the bird while the dragon breathed on me so I started running.

As luck would have it, a weak monster entered the corridor from the direction I was running to. Great, I thought, but I can easily windshield this thing so I kept running, intending to kill him in one hit and keep running. Well, I hit him but he didn't drop. I realized why.

He'd been turned to stone! That's right, what was my enemy just a few seconds ago was now a uber weapon! I turned around and dealt with the dragon. Soon, the bird rotted away but that moment when I realized how indepth the item and character interaction was in that game was a serious "oh wow" moment that I'll never forget.

Ok, this may not be the best Mount Rushmore out there but I enjoy hearing stories like this so give it a shot. :)

[Dutch]

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
For me, it was definately the yell of "30 seconds!!!", soldiers throwing up, praying, artillery shells exploding in the water around me, and the haze clearing as a huge assed pillbox (normally containing the big German 88's) looming before me, across the beach, and up the bluff. After getting demolished on the beach, I had to stop....and wipe a tear....it was beautiful and something I had been waiting for since Saving Private Ryan.

It's glamour faded quickly, but it was a great rush that very first time.

Front Office Football v1.0
I loved Front Page Sports Football Pro, I enjoyed Super Bowl Sunday on the C64, I hacked the hell out of NFL Challenge from XOR on the early PC's....but FOF got the deal right. The day I played finished my first full year of FOF 1 was stunning. A day of reckoning for me as a gamer.

Steel Panthers
A wargamers wet-dream. The game was bad ass. It sported great gameplay, great graphics (for the time) and you could play almost endlessly right out of the box. I think I played the 2 demo scenario's for weeks before actually buying the game.

Command and Conquer
Taking little army men by the dozens and fighting other little army men by the dozens with cool music in the background was the RTS dream come true. I still remember walking out of my one bedroom apartment to get a soda and realizing that the sun was up...and had been up for a while.....woah. Great stuff.

[Draft Dodger]

1) the room early in Unreal where suddenly all the lights go out one by one, and then, in the pitch black, the alien thingy jumps out behind you from a compartment in the wall.

2) finding the portrait of Uni and Bobby the Barbarian on the wall of a shop in Baldur's Gate II

3) finding "Dr Polito" in System Shock 2

4) in High Heat several years ago, my Dodgers had 6 games left in the season, with a magic number of 1. the Giants were in 2nd. first up was a 3 game series with SF, with Pedro starting. with a healthy lead in the 6th inning, I pulled Pedro and started thinking about resting my starters for the post season. As you can guess, I ended up losing that game, and all remaining games (most of them were very close), while SF ran the board. A stunning collapse, and it took me a couple days to recover after playing a whole season and blowing it like that. I wish I had kept the box scores/logs from that last week - it was really amazing how I found ways to lose.

[randal7]

1) Beating Ultima III: Exodus. (Yes, I am THAT old). I remember I about soiled myself when I entered Exodus' castle and the freaking grass attacked me. This is one of the few adventure's I've enjoyed enough to play to the end and is still my favorite.

2) My first (and only) undefeated FoF2K4 season, which was also a repeat championship. You know you are immersed in a game when you are at work and yell "YES!!!" at the computer screen.

3) Destroying the alien base at Cydonia in X-Com. In another example of immersion, throughout this game I would yell at the computer and pound the desk when my soldiers died. Offing the head alien was most satisfying.

4) Any of several times when I finally turned the corner in Master of Orion and could start repaying those cursed Bulrathi and Meklar back for their repeated raids on my systems. (Is obsessing over revenge against an imaginary opponent wrong?)

[Dutch]

DD

Darnit, I was going to quote you on the BG I response. That was huge in my book.... :)

[Scholes]

1. FPS Baseball 98', completing my first season and realizing that it wasn't over, but only just beginning. The game that opened up my sports gaming world.

2. Winning the Champions League with CM4. I had owned the CM's starting with the 99/00 edition, and had never won the Champions League. I was never one for the cheat tactics or the guys people pimp on the message boards, so I struggled a bit. I finally won it in my third season with Blackburn, using all homemade tactics and players scouted by my scouts.

3. Me and two friends drafting OOTP teams, then playing out around 8 seasons or so during an all-nighter in college. I think we went through almost two cases of Mountain Dew.

4. A fierce online battle of Age of Empires II with a friend that lasted for 3+ hours. I had to go to work, so we paused it for the duration of my 9 hour shift and resumed that night. He must have studied up or something, because it only took him another half-hour or so to beat me. A bit anti-climatic, but exciting nonetheless.

[Axxon]

1) Beating Ultima III: Exodus. (Yes, I am THAT old). I remember I about soiled myself when I entered Exodus' castle and the freaking grass attacked me. This is one of the few adventure's I've enjoyed enough to play to the end and is still my favorite.

Bah, did you ever play the original wire frame version of Wizardry I? ;)

I remember realizing that picking up everything was wrong in Ultima IV. Honorable mention for sure.


2) My first (and only) undefeated FoF2K4 season, which was also a repeat championship. You know you are immersed in a game when you are at work and yell "YES!!!" at the computer screen.


I just managed that feat just last week. :) I was so amazed because it wasn't that good of a team and we were dropping like flies but I had the best qb I've ever had in the history of playing FOF. Shame he hates me because I franchise tag him every season. ;)


3) Destroying the alien base at Cydonia in X-Com. In another example of immersion, throughout this game I would yell at the computer and pound the desk when my soldiers died. Offing the head alien was most satisfying.

4) Any of several times when I finally turned the corner in Master of Orion and could start repaying those cursed Bulrathi and Meklar back for their repeated raids on my systems. (Is obsessing over revenge against an imaginary opponent wrong?)

Good choices indeed and no, it's not wrong.

At least I sure hope not. :eek:

[Axxon]

Does anybody remember the Elvira game? When you lift that platter and that head opens it's eyes? That was one of my most freaked out moments. Good horror is hard to do on a computer game but they got me there.

[Draft Dodger]

DD

Darnit, I was going to quote you on the BG I response. That was huge in my book.... :)

sorry - I wondered if I was going to screw someone up with that edit. finishing Baldur's Gate (or FF7) would be 5th.

[EagleFan]

- The D-Day level in Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. That was just plain raw, blood pumping action.



- The first level of the Russian campaign in Call of Duty. Not being armed and having to avoid the shells and bullets while waiting to find a body to get a gun from. That had definite "oh sh#t" moments.



- The reveal of the plot twist in Knights of the Old Republic. It totally caught me off guard and the cut scenes duing the flashbacks added a sense of "why didn't I see it coming?". This is what the Half Life "marines want you dead" could have been if it weren't spoiled in the stupid manual.



- Now for the oddball one. The ambiance of Baseball Pro 96 from the music within the game. As corny as it sounds, that just seemed to take me back to my younger days when baseball was the sport that I loved and lived as a kid.

[WSUCougar]

(1) Limping home in F-117 after taking multiple missile hits and with about 8 MIGs on my tail. This flight sim was all about stealth, and once that element is lost you're usually dead meat. Well these guys pounded me, and seemingly had me dead to rights, but somehow I evaded the rest of the SAM radars and snuck home. Landing that battered puppy on the home field was a fist-pumping victorious moment.

(2) Finishing the last scenario in Fantasy General. Great game to begin with, but very challenging and no margin for error. You had to win every battle or you lost the campaign.

(3) Winning the Apple Cup in TCY. Yeah, I know, I'm a cheesy homer, but UW is always a monster team, and the immersion level was fantastic for me. The ultimate moment was a walk-on safety scooping up a fumbled kickoff return and taking it in for the nail in the coffin. WOOT!

(4) Surviving a marathon convoy attack and subsequent destroyer-fest in Silent Hunter. I think I ended up sinking four merchant ships in the first stage, but the real coup was the down-the-throat stern shot with my last torpedo to sink the pursuing Japanese destroyer. If you've never played a submarine sim, the sonar pinging can be very intense. I'll never forget this one.

[Alf]

1. Football Manager : the original back in the late 80s. I played it so much in Armstrad that I made a version for my Atari.

2. Dungeon Master : first 3D immersion game (on Atari again). I killed the Dragon !

3. Doom : first networking gaming FPS experience. We played it countless hours on campus

4. Sensible World of Soccer : made all my roomates play this game, this was awesome !

5. Dynamix Sierra Football Game 1995 Edition : the reason I am being here on this board. With severla friends we played several simulated seasons and I can remember the SuperBowl where about 10 people were watching the computer screen rather than the movie on TV !

[sachmo71]

Rushmore and pit of hell moment all in one...

Playing Legacy of the Ancients on my C64.
Had a blast playing through the entire game, going into pictures and finding coins and such. Get to the end and fight the big bad guy. Game locks up, save point is past the point of no return!

Similar situation happened with The Magic Candle, but I wasn't at the end.

I've downloaded it from underdogs. Maybe I'll try it again someday. :(

[Maple Leafs]

2. Dungeon Master : first 3D immersion game (on Atari again). I killed the Dragon !An honest kill, or did you have to do the "running up and down the stairs" thing?

[MIJB#19]

1. Shooting Fidel in the back in JA:Deadly Games. He was in my squad and he was on point. We were in an exposed position and had to cross a bridge in order to reach cover. I was playing against my brother.

Well, Fidel stops on the bridge, kneels down and nails a guy dropping him but not killing him. Fidel isn't happy though, he wants to finish him off. Every time I try and get him to move he tells me "leave me alone, I'm busy" and shoots an almost impossible shot against a prone unconscious enemy.

Of course, my brothers guys are shooting at everybody but Fidel. I'm dropping like flies but the enemy won't die and Fidel is holding out for the kill. Finally, out of desparation Ivan puts a slug through the back of his cuban brain. You're not busy any more bastard.Lesson number 1 in JA (DG): Always give Fidel a knife in case he's getting his "Lea'me alone, me busy" mood.

I got to say, I always looked forward to beat my brother in JA-DG, but it never outdid the Command & Conquer: Red Alert nights' long battles we had.
4. Sensible World of Soccer : made all my roomates play this game, this was awesome !My life wasn't complete until I won the world championships with Cyprus.
Then I managed that and had to do it with Malta.
When I managed that too, it was time for the ultimate challenge: San Marino as world champs.
I failed in the group stages with draws against Sweden and Croatia, and lost 1-2 against Spain after a 1-0 lead. I haven't succeeded yet without reloading with San Marino.

To finalize the top 4:
The moment I finally succeeded with Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening.
It took me about 8 years, but when I finally figured out about the L-2 Sword (that was required to finish the last castle, I got the ultimate heroic moment fulfilled: have Link to wake up from a very long nightmare)

One can't compete with the first Superbowl victory in the FOF series. But the one moment it felt really great was when all the players were self drafted and I managed the Chicago Bears from a 5-11 record to an upset 10 game winning streak to win it all.

And last but not least, the first time I won the world championships tournament in Micropose International Soccer (MicroSoccer). Or was beating Brazil for the first time the bigger accomplishment?

[Ben E Lou]

Hmmmm...

I'll *never* forget the moment in Ultima VI, The False Prophet, when I entered the realm of the gargoyles and realized that *I* was The False Prophet, the "villain" of the game. I remember recoiling from the screen and drawing in an audible breath.

There was the time in Empire Earth that I was playing a Standard game online (very long time between epoch upgrades) and I was at Epoch 8 (Imperial) and my opponent was at Epoch 10 (WWI). He built an army of all tanks, intended to come wipe me out. I scouted him and built a bunch of the precourses to trench mortars (can't remember what they're called). I had chosen a speed/range upgrade for infantry with my civ bonuses already, and I upgraded these units to maximum speed/range, basically making them fast enough and long range enough to take a shot at the tanks, run away a bit, take another shot, run away, etc. After 5-10 minutes of fierce (and frustrating for him) fighting, I had killed every tank in his army and taken very few losses to mine. It turns out that he had spent ALL of his gold and iron on that tank army, figuring it could easily take out my outdated units. He told me afterward that he had nothing in reserve, so when I continued on into his base with about 35 of these pre-trench-mortars, he had virtually no defense. Their range was far greater than his defensive towers, so I took those out, then destroyed his entire economy, and the game was over despite him being two epochs, and thousands of resources ahead of me. :)

The day I discovered Civilization 2 was a huge one as well. I remember being completely blown away by the concept of advancing through the years with technology, etc.

Finally, and most importantly, there was that glorious day when my computer gaming dreams came true: the day I found the Infinite Monkey Systems web site that trumpeted the impending release of Baseball Mogul, which for me announced the beginning of the career sports text sim era.

[Sharpieman]

Finally, and most importantly, there was that glorious day when my computer gaming dreams came true: the day I found the Infinite Monkey Systems web site that trumpeted the impending release of Baseball Mogul, which for me announced the beginning of the career sports text sim era.
I can second that, I still have Baseball Mogul 99' right next to me. Sometimes I fire it up and let Berry Bands become a star...

[sachmo71]

I'll *never* forget the moment in Ultima VI, The False Prophet, when I entered the realm of the gargoyles and realized that *I* was The False Prophet, the "villain" of the game. I remember recoiling from the screen and drawing in an audible breath.


And THAT is what it's all about! That's what makes it worth all of the time and money.

[Ben E Lou]

And THAT is what it's all about! That's what makes it worth all of the time and money.Yup. I'd spent hours and hours of game time finding maps, improving my character, talking to people, learning the Gargish language, etc. etc. etc. When I finally found the Gargoyles' world, I entered it intending to find and kill The False Prophet--as I had assumed my ultimate mission in the game would be. After all of that, when I read from a tome in the gargoyle world (I think in the library) describing the False Prophet, I think I'd read two or three paragraphs before I realized that the one they were describing, the one who was Altogether Evil, was ME! Good stuff!

[condors]

1-fof1 getting the message the league folded but but but my qb is going to break my old qb's records....(it set a standard that few games can even be considered an equal)

2-cm3 taking rushden from the conferance and winning the champions league (with my 16k staduim) still will fire up the old version and start a rushden career i felt i accomplished something.

3-wizardry(i have spent more time playing this game than any other) wow i got the 1000th level and it didn't roll over (never made it to the 10,000 level yet) don't knock my lord samuri ninja and 3 bishops party (once i got the special iteams to invoke man i wish i still had those characters still have the game but can't find a thieves blade)

4-autoduel-(was my first lost all track of time game) hey i can go whever i want, i can just build awsome cars and keep killing everyone? let me try this....oh wait what about that...what day is it?

me i usually play the crap out of game or i play it for a few hours(or minutes) and forget about it so i haven't played alot of great games to see what everone else saw...but these games were enjoyable under large amounts of beer and little sleep

[Radii]

1. Winning promotion to the 1st division with Bristol Rovers in CM 01/02. I'd never had a truly successful career in CM before, but I absolutely loved the game anyway. To finally have some serious success, getting from Div 3 to Div 1(even though it took years in game) was simply awesome. I've never been more immersed in a game than I was during that dynasty.

2. (ultra geek moment) Beating INFOCOM's Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy with only one outside hint. I was 12 or 13, me and my dad worked on the puzzles for weeks, we got stuck at one point and dad got help from a friend at work, after that we beat the rest of it ourselves.

3. The first time I played the original FOF. For me it wasn't winning a Front Office bowl or anythign like that, just looking at how deep and involved the game was, and realizing that there were other people out there like me who craved this kind of a game. That's how I found this board, and how I found most of the other games I play today.

4. Beating Super Mario Bros 3 for the first time on NES. I *loved* that game, played it for hours and hours and hours. I was incredibly pumped when I beat it for the first time. I tried numerous times after that to beat it without skipping any levels, but I never did it I don't think.

[Honolulu_Blue]

Wow, there have been so many. Been playing these games since I was 6 years old. I will try to give my top 4 and limit it to PC gaming.

1. X-Com. This one is easy. It was the second time I played through the game. We were attacking Cydonia. I had added a little role-playing element to the game to spruce things up a bit, giving some of my troops personalties. The two I remember most vividly were Sylvie and Wolfgang. They were the tough, heavy weapons experts (see: blaster launchers) who had fallen in love. There was also a bit of a relationship between Natalia, the head of X-Com and Viktor, her second in command. There were a handful of other characters as well.

Things started going a bit south on the surface. Viktor became mind controlled and took a shot at one of my troops. He hit, but the trooper didn't die. Natalia, who was right behind Viktor, couldn't take any chances. She stood there, behind the man she loved and shot him in the back. Shot him dead. Once inside the alien base, I broke the squad up into three groups.

In one of the groups, the soldier in charge (I forget her name) became mind controlled and killed the other two with her. When she came to she saw what she had done and was so distraught, she killed herself then and there. (dropped a gernade).

The other two groups made it to the elevator. Sylvie was about the head up the elevator when Wolfgang pushed her aside and went before she could. He stood there, in front of the brain, surrounded by etherals. Knowing he wouldn't have time to take aim at the brain, Wolfgang glanced around, said good bye to Sylvie over the com, aimed his blaster launcher at his feet, and took out everything else in the room... Sylvie came up the elevator (there was nothing left of Wolfgang). She was near blinded by tears, but was able to take aim and finish the job.

At the end of the mission under half of the group survived. Absolutely glorious.

2. Multiplayer Warcraft II. During my senior year of college and the summer right after, we played a lot, I mean a lot, of Warcraft II at the various University of Michigan computing labs. It was sad. We were geeks. But it was glorious fun. The best night came when this cocky asshole and arguably the best player on campus (weird guy who went by the handle "Satan" and looked like some sort of long-haired, Russian child molester) challenged me and three of my friends to a match. We originally said no, thinking 4 on 2 wouldn't be too fair, but the cocky asshole wouldn't stop chattering, so we played 'em. The trashtalking was fierce. We decided that myself and one of my friends would go after "Satan." We were the best two on our team and hoped we could take him out.

The cocky asshole wasn't very good. Two of my friends handled him with ease. This Satan guy was amazing. Incredibly fast and building troops, excellent at designing villages (using farms as walls, etc.). At the height of the battle, my friend was trying to break through his wall of farms with his ogres. But Satan kept repairing them with his peons while pelting my mate's troops with towers and archers and the like. My friend yells out across the computer lab "I need catapults!" Not three seconds later my army came hauling ass down towards Satan's base, some 12 catapults in tow. We unleashed the fury...

3. The Summer of Much Quake. One summer, me and my group of geeks, er, friends, played a ton of multiplayer Quake 2 at one of their offices. We'd go in over the weekends and play deathmatch after deathmatch for hours. We had a couple of mods/skins so we could switch our guys. The pinnacle being the time all of us took daleks (from "Dr. Who") and played on that one map that is basically just a square within a square. We were all in tears. The dalek's just kept screaming "You will be exterminated!" and all these other lines over and over. The cacaphony was amazing.

4. Ultima V. The end of Ultima V was just classic. Some fantastic battles. But the real moment that got me was when I was sneaking around Blackthorne's castle and got caught. He had me and Iolo on these torture racks, demanind the mantra for the shrines. I refused to give it to him, despite the torture. Then, all of a sudden, he ripped Iolo in half. I looked over to the right of the screen to see if he was really dead. He wasn't only dead. He was gone. Eliminated from the party. No resurection or anything. I sat there, mouth agape, stunned. Iolo was dead.

Other classic moments...

Winning Autoduel

Bards Tale III (loved that game)

Winning the UEFA Cup with Tranmere in CM01/02

When Spirit died in Wing Commander 2

Playing Castle Wolfenstein (the original) and nearly jumping out of my skin when the SS come barging into the room, guns blazing!

[gstelmack]

- Shipping my first game ;-)

- In one of the Battle of Britain scenarios in AW (pretty sure it was II) where we had imitation Hurricats against 109s. We did a big end-around the LW fighter sweep and came up from behind the bombers. I got in a big 10-minute looping dogfight with a 109, had him smoking (losing fuel), but made a key mistake right before he ran out of fuel and went glider that got me shot down. Was probably the single most intense gaming moment I've ever had, and probably the only time I ever did good in a 1-v-1 dogfight.

- I had an Amiga in the dorm at college. I went to sleep one night while someone was playing "Battlehawks Inception" (top-down Battletech RPG). When I woke up in the morning, he was STILL playing it. That was an awesome game.

- Hooking up a null-modem cable between my Amiga and my roommate's Atari ST so we could play head-to-head Populous. The dawn of LAN gaming...

[SirFozzie]

my four?

1) Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries.. there was a mission you can take for reputation, not pay (since it involves a fleeing government in the face of a Liao takeover).. To win the mission you have to clear about 6 mechs and 10 vehicles.. and not let ANY limo get destroyed (purposefully or by accident, say like, stepping on them).

I played that son of a bitch 32 times in a row. Several times, I got to the final checkpoint, only to instant lose when one of the limos got destroyed (once, it was one of MY guys who accidentally stepped on a limo).

I start muttering imprecations under my breath.. almost got to full fledged screaming at the game once or twice.. but I. WAS. GOING TO. COMPLETE. THAT. *@)$&@). MISSION!

I did at 2:30 am, 4 hours after my first attempt at it.

B) Winning my first unlimited duel in autoduel :) (Somebody needs to make a new version of that game, I swear)

C)My first trancendance victory in SMAC: Alien Crossfire.

D) Going 16-0 in FPS Football 98 :)

[SirFozzie]

dola: If I could throw a fifth one in, Beating Jet Grind Radio.. DJ Professor K.. playin JET SET RADDDDDIIOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

[cthomer5000]

dola: If I could throw a fifth one in, Beating Jet Grind Radio.. DJ Professor K.. playin JET SET RADDDDDIIOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
Jet Grind Radio is one of the most original and overlooked games I've ever played. It was a fun, fresh, and exciting game for me at an age when I thought I was long past feeling that way about console games.

[KWhit]

Jet Grind Radio is one of the most original and overlooked games I've ever played. It was a fun, fresh, and exciting game for me at an age when I thought I was long past feeling that way about console games.
Wow. I think that is probably the worst game I have ever played in my entire life. It came free with my XBox, and I still felt cheated by it.

No offense intended.

[SirFozzie]

you're thinking of Jet Set Radio Future..

JGR,the original was on the dreamcast, and had the funkiest soundtrack ever (I still have it in Mp3 Format ;))

[KWhit]

Yeah I was talking about Jet Set Radio Future. I assumed that it was the same game you guys were talking about.

So was the other one vastly better?

[SirFozzie]

Yup. Better Music, better controls, and a standard camera (none of this zoom in zoom out crap), with a decent grafitti system)

[IMetTrentGreen]

all mine are from half life. thats one heck of a game

1. in the air duct in half life when the marines hear you then rip bullet up through it. that might be the ebst scripted even i've ever played through

2. seeing 'die freeman' spraypainted on the wall on the rail cart. for some reason that really resonated with me.

3. running up some stairs, trying to open a door, but its locked. then that creepy guy in a suit walks up, adjusts his tie and smiles, and walks off. that was cool, and one of many small touches in that game

4. probably winning my first national championship in tcy. i worked up from crap and won it with like baylor i think in a tounrament setting

[Alf]

An honest kill, or did you have to do the "running up and down the stairs" thing?I guess I did the up & down thing :rolleyes:

[EagleFan]

all mine are from half life. thats one heck of a game

4. probably winning my first national championship in tcy. i worked up from crap and won it with like baylor i think in a tounrament setting


What part of Half Life allows you ti win a national championship with Baylor? ;)

[sabotai]

Only four...hmmm...

1. The intro to Half-Life (and the rest of that game. So many great events, but I won't cheat. I'll just list as one. :) )

2. My first college draft in FPS: Football Pro (1994) and then proceeding to the next season. Before that (and for many years after outside of FPS), such a thing was just not done. I wrote down the name of every pick taken for every team. For years I had a lot of draft lists, printed out schedules, standings, rosters, etc.

3. I was at the local video game and movie rental place looking for some NES game to rent and kill some time on the weekend when I wasn't out. I saw a game I never heard of, but I was a fan of Dragon Warrior and it looked similar so I gave it a try. I literally spent the enitre weekend in front of the TV playing this game. I was blown away and have been a fan of Final Fantasy ever since.

4. Finding Earth in Starflight (Genesis version) and exploring it for the first time.