What's your favourite gaming moment ?

[MikeyLCR]

The first time I got a shuttle launch on Tetris for the Gameboy and finishing Sonic 2 on the Megadrive stick in my mind. At my age though the memory isn't so good, so defeating that pesky Eredin in Witcher 3 yesterday is my current favourite.

[TommoAE86]

Blayney said:

Multi taps and a bunch of mates on Smackdown

oh goodness I'd forgotten... for my PSX I eventually got 2 multi-taps and 8 controllers. Drunken Micro Machines V3 is the most fun ever, it was hilarious.

Now I only have 4 controllers but still have the psx/multi-taps/game. It's a shame I don't have a bigger TV, could setup a PH event

[anonymous-user]

Favourite gaming moment - when I threw my sons GameBoy onto the fire as he never put it down to live a normal life. Second was when his computer ended up down the stairs for the same reason.
He got a Masters in Computer Science last year and now works in Docklands on more money than me. Still totally at sea with what a normal life is though.

[gizlaroc]

V6Pushfit said:

Favourite gaming moment - when I threw my sons GameBoy onto the fire as he never put it down to live a normal life. Second was when his computer ended up down the stairs for the same reason.
He got a Masters in Computer Science last year and now works in Docklands on more money than me.


Still totally at sea with what a normal life is though.

Sons life different to me, therefore wrong.



I do sort of agree with you however.
I was mad on video games, but then when I was 16 I got into going out and, shagging constantly and doing loads of drink and drugs. I was off the smack by 21 and back at Uni. So all good.
Do I regret it all, nah, video games didn't fk me up like my parents told me they would.

[PorkRind]

[quote=mp3manager]Playing CS on Aztec, I wasted the entire T team of 11 players.....without taking a single hit!!

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I remember playing this map one Christmas, must be 2004 ish when it was relatively new. Loved this map. Loved this game.

Another favorite moment - all of HL2 - epic story telling, epic advancement in gaming.

Completing super Mario 3 on the nes - how hard?!

Getting any game to load on my acorn electron !

Goldeneye on the N64 with my best mate.

Donkey Kong country on the snes - what a revolution in graphics from the previous Snes games.

Edited by PorkRind on Friday 16th September 09:22

[Steven_RW]

V6Pushfit said:

Favourite gaming moment - when I threw my sons GameBoy onto the fire as he never put it down to live a normal life. Second was when his computer ended up down the stairs for the same reason.
He got a Masters in Computer Science last year and now works in Docklands on more money than me. Still totally at sea with what a normal life is though.

Every generation does this sort of thing to the next generation. Repeats throughout history over and over.

RW

[Boring_Chris]

V6Pushfit said:

Favourite gaming moment - when I threw my sons GameBoy onto the fire as he never put it down to live a normal life. Second was when his computer ended up down the stairs for the same reason.
He got a Masters in Computer Science last year and now works in Docklands on more money than me. Still totally at sea with what a normal life is though.

Jesus fking Christ.

Is this a wind up?

[KarlMac]

Not sure if it's been mentioned already, but the opening credit sequence from Gran Turismo 1, Manic Street Preachers track et al. Was the first thing that greeted me when plugging in my new playstation

[familyguy1]

in my first proper job we used the company network (bnc connectors !) to play quake/2/3 at lunchtimes, we then got add-ins and one was brilliant, some kind of black cube you could lob into an arena and it would implode sucking all opponents nearby into it giving you multiple frags. One daft addition was the can of beans which mean't you did random jumps with a farting noise, funny and helped dodge opponents.

We used to play for a solid hour and then spend the afternoon talking about it ! happy days.

We did move onto unreal tournament, which was just as good but ended up a sniper match most of the time.

headshot...rampage..doublekill...killing spree

this was about 15-20yrs ago, god I feel old now.

Edited by familyguy1 on Friday 16th September 12:24

[Jinx]

Some great moments....

Renegade on the Amstrad CPC 464 - looked amazing for the machine.

3D StarStike 2 (CPC again) - number one was a Arcade Starwars rip off but number 2 with the filled in vectors for a 3D effect - jaw dropping at the time.

Wingcommander on the PC (with adlib sound)

PS1 - Resident Evil 2 opening sequence - loved it and fired it up sometimes just to watch.

N64 - Goldeneye - audio cable through stereo system - opening credits.

I worked at THE Games distribution in Eastleigh at the time so all the N64 + accessories were available at cost

[Mr_Yogi]

Well here are a few...

Amiga: Sensi Socca with my brothers (winner stays on), or Geoff Crammonds Grand Prix 100% races with myself, my 2 brothers and my Dad all having a team or 2 each, or Completing Lotus Turbo Challenge2

486 PC: First time I saw Doom

3DO: Need For Speed, amazing weight and mass to the cars, if you are on the wrong side of the road doing 150mph and a car comes around the corner it doesn't matter how good your reactions are

Pentium II PC: First time a saw Unreal on my Voodoo2/ playing unreal multi player over a LAN with 3 friends . In fact throughout Unreal I was constantly amazed.

PS: Wipeout or playing PES with my housemates EVERY night or getting the Griffith and NSX in Gran Turismo

Athlon PC: Counter Strike beta 5 and on, playing LAN/ online with mates/ family. De_Railroad was always a favourite. When we upgraded from Dial up to Telewest fiber (500KBit/s? 1999ish), and we could have 4 of us online at once.

[entropy]

Gosh, loads.

3D polygon graphics on Virtua Racing and Daytona USA

Staying up all night on school holidays playing Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix sims, Papyrus' s Indycar & NASCAR sims

Intro sequence to Gran Turismo. Used to fire up the PS1 for that alone.

Playing NASCAR 2002/3 on the internet

Jumping from FIFA to Pro Evo in the early 2000s - it was like playing for Sam Allardyce/Tony Pulis et al to playing for Wenger/Guardiola

[RemyMartin]

Jesus so so many that I couldnt list them all.

One that truly sticks in my mind was the first time I fought Sephiroth, the music and the meteor summon he does makes me go giddy.

Also lots of omfg moments in the Phoenix Wright games.

Also was lucky enough to have a ps1 about 3 or 4 days after launch due to my incredibly dodgy cousin. Playing that I felt like I had won the lottery such was the graphical step up from my snes.

[gizlaroc]

I got my Japanese Playstation the day before it hit the stores in Japan.
I remember it was hitting stores on the Saturday, and I got a call at about 3pm on the Friday to say that my unit had turned up at Heathrow and did I want it couriered for Saturday delivery or was Monday OK?

F**K THAT!!!!!

I wanted it today!

I was in Leicester at the time and said I would be there before 5pm, I got caught up in Friday night traffic and ended up going to the guys house to get it.
It was Ray, who used to run Skill Academy, always advertised in the back of the mags.

Getting home and booting up Ridge Racer was incredible.

[ptholt]

I'm a little late to this one, but gaming has been close to my heart for many, many years now so thought i would jump in..


Getting my first philips videopac as a 9yr old, my first computer.

Typing in hours of code to make my vic20 flash its screen and play happy birthday.

<and here comes the tricky parts as so many games from 1980+ were original>

All time gaming jaw dropping moments for me were -

playing elite on the bbc and c64
playing revs on the bbc (or just trying to get round more than 2 corners)
being rather good at space harrier and dragons lair arcade games - so much so you get an audience which felt great at 14-15

Being old enough to remember when almost every game was original, but also have enjoyed genres that have now seemingly completely disappeared, never to be seen again for example shoot em ups like - uridium, nemesis, r-type, defender, dropzone (same thing?), robotron (super smash tv in newer form).

I've at the least played if not owned everything since the vic20 - xbox one with some real great titles across many platforms, including many weird and wonderful titles by small houses before it went very commercial and corporate.

but probably my favourite would be one of -
Working at Sega europe on Sonic 2 and a host of other titles in the Megadrive glory days.

Doing some qa consultancy for EA, most enjoyable - if not very rewarding financially.

Playing in some end game clans for quake, unreal tournament, warcraft

Getting 4 brand new original xbox consoles (released in usa 6 months before uk) and then selling them for £500 each on qxl (before ebay).

Getting import gamecumbe, dreamcasts way before uk release.

but probably the favourite, or the one that is constantly thrown at me when arguing with the wife, was on the evening of our first child being born, I had to dash off to London to play in a pc gamer final round to find the top quake players in the uk - i can 16th out of the final 30 lol. Seemed worth it at the time...

Edited by ptholt on Wednesday 2nd November 15:17

[Steven_RW]

ptholt said:

but probably the favourite, or the one that is constantly thrown at me when arguing with the wife, was on the evening of our first child being born, I had to dash off to London to play in a pc gamer final round to find the top quake players in the uk - i can 16th out of the final 30 lol. Seemed worth it at the time...

Haha, nice!

I missed a friends wedding for gaming. I was a clan leader in counter strike source and he booked his wedding over the same weekend as an iSeries lan that we had booked ages ago. I would have been far more missed at the lan than I would have at his wedding but it left my girlfriend in an awkward place trying to explain to people she met at the wedding, where I was instead... :-)

RW

[BrettMRC]

Seeing the Concordia burning during the opening of Wing Commander 3

All of Privateer 2: The Darkening

Ace Combat 6 - so many great moments

MW2 multiplayer

World of Tanks

Most recently World of Warships - feels like a game I've waiting my life for! (Strongly recommend anyone with a PC gets it downloaded ASAP)