Your top five gaming moments of all time

[rubbershoes]

Playing Star Blade in an arcade in Blackpool years ago. Off my face and the game was only 10p

Playing Call of Duty online for the first time. It was the first FPS I'd played online and made me understand what gaming really was about

Counter strike - last player left on my team and all i have is a pistol . killed three fully tooled-up opponents to win

zombie counterstrike cos it can be a real laugh. BRAAAAAAINS

 

[Stigmata]

Another Deus Ex one- accidentally discovering that with the remote rocket detonator augmentation switched on, I could simply walk out and stand in front of one of the hulking military bots and watch it gradually blow itself to pieces trying to shoot me.

 

[fen_boy]

Some good answers on here I'd forgotten and which have led me to think of some more.

The first time I ever saw the Dragon's Lair coin-op.

All of Frequency on the PS2

The big ship level on the R-type coin op.

'Stay a while... stay forever' Impossible Mission on the C64

The first time you go into Hyrule castle in windwaker and everything is petrified.

 

[CharlieAddict]

All coin ups

Excellent thread this!!!

Top 5.

5. Completing 'Outrun' for the first time.

4. Completing Kung Fu Master.

3. Getting fucked up on the 3rd level in Yee-Ha-Kung Fu.

2. Getting fucked up in Nemesis, R-Type and Salamander.

1. Completing and kicking the fuck out of other gamers (UK and HK) on Streetfighter 1.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Jesus dude you are truly old skool! I used to love yee ha kung foo!

 

[rubbershoes]

getting all the power-ups in R-Type and letting loose on the baddies

 

[fen_boy]

Another I forgot

'Fatality - Liu Kang Wins'

 

[tommers]

reading in my games magazine that they had made "pyjamarama" or some such nonsense "game of the month" instead of elite.

killing the troll in twin kingdom valley, my first ever game.

seeing the dolphin swimming around a logo on my Playstation demo disc. I was completely gobsmacked "but it's... it's like a cartoon!"

final fantasy VII. absolutely fantastic.

wizardry - bane of the cosmic forge on my amiga.

 

[jodal]

1) Winning £500, a trophy and a special edition Chopper bike in the Pro Evolution Soccer 5 release party tournament in London. That was a pretty amazing gaming moment.
2) Cant remember
3) Cant remember
4) Etc
5) Etc

 

[The Pious Pawn]

1 Killing 3 snipers in BHD within 3 seconds, with 3 bullets.

2. Drawing on the wall with bullets in BHD, I wrote, 'The Rapd12 is behind you' and when an enemy stopped to read, I stabbed him/her in the back.

3.Playing a 'no time limit' map on Joint operations, I sat and played the same map for over 6 hours, my PC crashed before the map concluded.

4. Playing BF2 with my chopper partner, I did the most amazing rocket guide, taking out a bllack hawk with 6 enemies in it. (this was repeated many more times)

5. completeing N64 super mario, freeing the Princess and killing Bowzer.

on the bf2 one if you remember you got that black hawk 3 times on that map fully loaded i have screen shots some were

 

[CharlieAddict]

getting all the power-ups in R-Type and letting loose on the baddies

Wasn't it just? You play carefully on through the level and die right before meeting the boss.

Jesus dude you are truly old skool! I used to love yee ha kung foo!

Hell yeah! I still remember other classics like Shinobi, Operation Wolf, Double Dragon and of course, Green Beret.

Arcade games these days suck and cost like a quid to play. What happened to 10p and 20p coin-ups! No wonder kids buy rock and shoot real guns - it's probably cheaper in the long run.

 

[Phototropic]

Oh and how could I forget the first you time you run over a line of Hare Krishnas in the original GTA and you get GOURANGA! flash up on the screen and boom out of your speakers.

 

[shoddysolutions]

1) Being on the dole and playing Elite for about 3 months solid, but never getting past 'Dangerous'

2) Staying up till 3am for about 2 months playing the original Half-Life

3) Doing it all over again for Half Life 2 (but what an anticlimax!)

4) Playing Asteroids for the first time

5) ZX81 - Flight Simulator/3D Monster Maze

 

[Structaural]

Finally amasing enough credits to buy a Beam laser on Elite on the Acorn Electron and then having to go out into deep space for about 10 hours and earn all my money back 10 credits at a time because I spent every penny on a fucking beam laser.....

Borrowing a Japanese Playstation from work, 3 months before they came out, getting round 5 mates and playing the shit out of Ridge Racer until our thumbs bled.

When the Tyrannsaurus Rex comes round the corner in Tomb Raider 1

Getting dragged out to some recording studio when I was a kid and they had Asteroids and Defender arcade with infinite credits.... dragged away 6 hours later... Still didn't get off level 4 of Defender.

Toss up between loading up Tony Hawks, Metal Gear Solid and Gran Turismo for the first time....

Playing Tekken 2 against a bunch of mates and staying on for 3 hours unbeaten.

 

[Strawman]

In no particular order:

1) Team Fortress Classic on the Old wireplay servers. I was in a clan that started as a bunch of random players getting together. We entered the league, got better and better and reached the final. It was a true David and Goliath situation - we were the good guys - always courteous in victory and defeat, they were the bad guys - the clear cut favourites from the start of the league, arrogant and cocky. We beat them over 3 games in what was probably the most intense 90mins of my gaming history. The wireplay messageboards erupted in posts of congratulations, every other clan wanted us to win and where happy to see our opponents taken down a peg. The fact that some members of the opposing team bitched and whined about our victory only made it sweeter

2) *SPOILER ALERT*

The ending of every Zelda game. These usually follow the same lines - all the characters youve met throughout the game waving you goodbye and thanking you, but the one that sticks in my mind is the gameboy version. The whole point of that Zelda is that the world our hero finds himself in is all a dream. By defeating the end boss you "wake" up the dreamer and so the world comes to an end. The end sequence sees all the characters waving goodbye to you, the player, as they slowly fade from the screen as they cease to exist. All looks rather crude with GB graphics but still a very emotional ending.

3) Finishing Mario 64 completely and getting to see Yoshi on top of the castle. A truly groundbreaking game and a nice reward for players who managed to get all the stars.

4) SNES Mariokart - quite possibly the greatest game of all time, me and my friends played this at least once a week together for about 5 years.

5) Everquest - The feeling when first playing this game is impossible to explain if youve never played a mmorpg. The sheer scale was breathtaking. Leaving the safety of the starting area and venturing out into the world for the first time to meet and hunt with friends. I was addicted to this game for 3 years. Ive played other mmorpgs since but none have matched EQ. This is probably down to the fact that EQ was my first taste of MMORPGs and so no other game of that genre can surprise and enthrall me as much.

 

[Dead Cat Bounce]

1998 - Tokyo.

Playing some beat 'em up , could of been Soul Excaliber II , not too sure though.

I'm not that good at the games that require multi combos but for those twenty minutes I was untouchable.

 

[Stigmata]

Ooh, in XCOM Apocalypse my Captain once took out three of the huge Megaspawn all by herself, through clever use of explosives and a cloaking field. They were lurking in an underpass.