I just remember playing megaman 1 on NES over and over mostly to listen to the music after you beat the first bosses, i loved the music of that game so much!
The end of Twilight Princess is permanently embedded into my mind. Just the silence of Ganondorf standing with the sword plunged through his chest is incredible and a little haunting at the end of that game.
That, and when my dad showed me DOOM. That was a good day.
Twilight Princess is still my favorite Zelda game. Time to dust off that Wii.
so cool. when i found the romero head in doom 2 it was insane :O
Finishing Halo 1’s campaign co-op in one night during a sleepover with friends.
Going to Toys R Us with my friend just to play the SNES Donkey Kong demo.
Man, I have such vivid memories of going to Toys R Us for the first time (and subsequent times after that, honestly) and being in total awe that the entire store was dedicated to kids’ stuff. It’s really sad that kids won’t get to experience that anymore… I know tech is at the forefront of entertainment, regardless of age, but I would wager any kid would love the same kind of toys we had just as much.
so cool hahaha i loved going to the supermarket just to play the free terminator game, but there were other kids there too so i never playe4d too much
It’s not a good one but the first time I felt existential dread was playing Missile Command in the Atari 2600. I was about 8 and realized that the game only ends when all of your cities are destroyed and life is extinguished. No matter how I tried or how good I got the game would end in a devastation.
On a good note, I remember skipping a party to play ocarina of time. I thought I would regret skipping the party, nah. OoT was and is still better.
yeah i loved skipping forced things to play games as a kid haha
First time I played Pokémon, Age of Empires II and Diablo II.
Playing Super Mario Brothers 3 and later Super Mario World with my older siblings.
Playing Super Mario World on the SNES as a kid.
Not sure if I can pick one:
- 4-player Mario Kart 64 with siblings
- Command and Conquer Red Alert, Red Alert 2, and Generals with my dad and brother
- Halo 1 and 2 co-op campaigns with my brother
- 007 Nightfire multiplayer with my brother
i played so much generals with my friends multiplayer
Playing smash bros and mario kart on the game cube with my two brothers.
My cousin and I were playing Monopoly on NES. The computer player offered us a trade. I don’t remember what it was exactly, but it wanted Boardwalk from some other property we had no use for. We declined the trade and console immediately reset. It still makes me laugh realizing the game rage quit on us.
haahhaha its my way or the highway!
My most memorable gaming moment would be when I beat Magus in Chrono Trigger for the first time. The build-up to this bad-ass of a character was intense. The whole first part of the game had you thinking he was the final boss. He had everything: a cult worshiping him in 600 AD, ominous music, bumbling henchmen and a castle surrounded in shadows and mists.
For those who’ve played the game, who can forget when you first come to his room? Everything’s black, there’s this scary weird chanting in the background, you’re running into the darkness. Suddenly, blue flames burst to life on either side of your party. Oh yeah, this is it.
You find him facing an altar, in bad-ass pose mode, arms outstretched. A few exchanges of short, characteristic dialogue. Cue in music.
“The black wind begins to blow…”
And it begins.
I died like 5 times before I beat him. But getting beat by Magus, especially when you’re around 13-14 years old and really into CT’s story, could not get any more exhilarating and jarring at the same time. Of course, after I got Crono’s Luminaire, it was all over. Still, one of my best memories growing up, especially since I loved the archetype of the anti-hero.
Second best gaming moment would be when I found him again after the fall of Zeal, only to find out you can have him as a party member! I never thought twice about what I wanted. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever done a playthrough of CT without choosing Magus to fight alongside me, even to this day.
thats awesome! having consistency is a great thing, brings nostalgia too haha
There was nothing better than 4 player split screen for Goldeneye and Mario Kart 64
edit: seconded only by 16 player Halo LAN parties in the early 2000s
This will make me sound young but beating KOTOR on Xbox. It was literally years in the making because I was 6 when I started it and maybe 9 when I finally figured out how to progress to the end and defeat Malak with grenade spam of every single one I saved the whole campaign. Man I was in heaven
The Legend of Zelda. So many amazing, visceral memories associated with that game- cracking open the package and gawping at the golden cartridge, leafing through the manual, looking at the paper map while running around in game, exploring, sweating through the labyrinthine later dungeons, hacking my way out of a like-a-like, braving the graveyard for the magic sword, the music… It was like 35 years ago and it’s still a helluva thing.
so cool… unfortunately i didnt play it growing up, i missed out
Reading the FF7 player’s guide while my older brothers played it.
