Your fondest gaming moment!

[supremeslang]

Re: Your fondest gaming moment!

This is easy for me. It was either Christmas '86 or '87 (dates seem to dissipate through the ether of time with me) and I had been bothering my parents for weeks to get me a Nintendo. I was so excited that year that I jumped out of bed at the first sign of light.

My maternal grandmother was alive at that time and living with us and she was already awake and having breakfast. I kept asking her when my parents would be up and generally being a nuisance! I kept looking under the tree and finally when my parents woke up I opened up the biggest box and it was my Nintendo! Well sadly I had to eat my breakfast then. So I ate and opened the rest of the presents while my dad hooked up the Nintendo.

I popped in my first game on my first console. Interestingly enough I didn't choose to start with Super Mario Bros. but rather with Kung Fu. I can remember clear as day sitting in front of the big TV in the living room playing that game and SMB for hours on end. It was such an innocent and fresh moment that sometimes I wish I could relive it.

I know when/if I have a boy I'll let him have his moment in the sun with his first console the way I did with mine.

OK so that's not purely a "gaming" moment but it's a moment in time that I think about every once in a while.

My Christmas day in 87 was very similar. The first game I played was Kung Fu too. I actually got SMB later but I had Kung Fu, Duck Hunt and Gyromite with that silly robot. Those were the days.

[bjf1377]

Re: Your fondest gaming moment!

Its gonna sound dumb, but the one videogame I remember above all else was NBA Live '95 for SNES. I don't know why, but I was just so damn excited to get that game for Christmas and I even bribed my sister to find out if my parents got it for me. It is probably one of the top 5 games I had the most fun with when I was little.

[davehughes14]

Re: Your fondest gaming moment!

Beating Mike Tyson's Punch Out!

[TIm]

Re: Your fondest gaming moment!

Beating Mike Tyson's Punch Out!

Hahahha ThAt's one of my tops. But mine is when we first got super mario brothers and I went to my cousins house. We stayed up all night playing. In the morning we were so freaking tired. Then we were kids. We beat the freaking game. We each grabbed a couple of trophies he had and we marched through the house singing we are the champions. We had basketball camp that morning and barely made it but it was oh so worth it LOL

[davehughes14]

Re: Your fondest gaming moment!

Hahahha ThAt's one of my tops. But mine is when we first got super mario brothers and I went to my cousins house. We stayed up all night playing. In the morning we were so freaking tired. Then we were kids. We beat the freaking game. We each grabbed a couple of trophies he had and we marched through the house singing we are the champions. We had basketball camp that morning and barely made it but it was oh so worth it LOL

Good one Tim. Two more of mine are beating Super Mario Bros 2 and Legend of Zelda, because I'm terrible at those types of games.

[Acid]

Re: Your fondest gaming moment!

With other people, probably playing WWF Smackdown with my best friend for days, and we'd always get pissed at one another thinking the other was cheating, and we would end up brawling afterword.

By myself, probably beating Sonic Adventures on the Dreamcast.

[Hooe]

Re: Your fondest gaming moment!

With other people, probably playing WWF Smackdown with my best friend for days, and we'd always get pissed at one another thinking the other was cheating, and we would end up brawling afterword.

My friends and I were the same way, albeit with Smackdown 2. Good times, they were.

For me personally, it's hard to decide between two, both involving Mortal Kombat 3. The first of the two was, obviously, beating the game, on the Sega Genesis, for the first time. Getting past Shao Kahn after having fought tooth and nail with Motaro was damn near impossible for me.

The other was when I was about 12 years old, at the movie theatre, on the MK3 arcade machine (back when arcade machines were still popular, heh). There was this 18 or 19 year old guy there who was just dominating everyone who took him on, and eventually I got on and challenged him. I don't remember who he picked, but I picked my favorite MK character, Sub-Zero, and royally whipped him, Double Flawless Victory and Fatality. Probably my greatest accomplishment in my multiplayer gaming career, heh.

[MachoMyers]

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I still recall the time I played Super Mario Bros. with my friend (who was insanely good at video games) and he swept through the entire game without losing a life. I didn't even get to play but I was losing it the whole time.

Ahh the memories.