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- What are your fondest gaming memories?
- Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago by aquaghost23
I was sick recently and was not able to go to work, so what did i do? What every gamer does, stayed in bed and played video games until I felt better. It felt kinda like being in junior high or high school and having a sick day and I had only my gaming system to keep me company, well that and the Price is Right.
That got me all reminicient and thinking about how many good memories I have that are tied to gaming.
I remember in 8th grade being sick and playing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Ninetendo 64) all day long. I had fininshed all of the first three temples and had gotten the Master Sword by lunchtime. I had so much fun that day, well other than being sick. At the end of the day I had gotten past three more of the temples as Older Link and was feeling alot better too. Then my a$$hole stepfather decided to delete the save game like he was infamously know for doing and erased the whole day's effort, but that just meant that I would play through one of the greatest games ever created again. I didn't have a problem with that at all.
Another memory that comes to mind is the first time is my first playthrough of Metal Gear: Solid (PS One). I was in 10th grade and it had to have been at least 2:30 a.m. on a school night and I was at the part where Snake is facing off with Psycho Mantis. Its dark in my room except for the glow of the TV and the game which I have been totally sucked into, and all of a sudden in the middle of this intese battle of minds my mom knocks on my door, scaring the living $h!t out of me and making me jump what seems like thirty feet in the air, wanting to know what I was still doing up so late. After a second passed and I realized it was my Mom and not Psycho Mantis wanting to finish me off, we both laughed about it and I went to bed after finishing up on MGS. I will always remember that part of that game as long as I live because of that night, plus its another great game that has set the bar for stealth based games.
My all time favorite gaming memory, has to have been playing the first Halo game in a big room with 4 guys each on 4 Xboxes, everyone drinking and having a great time blowing the crap out of each other on "Hang Em High". That is one thing that I loved about the first Halo, hell, its why I bought an Xbox in the first place, the LAN games. Nothing beats hanging out with a group of your friends all playing the same game. Nothing.
So what are some of your fondest gaming memories?
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The whole Golden Sun 1 & 2, I loved every minute of each game, for me it was simply the best game ever.
playing super mario brothers on NES with my dad, holed up in the attic for hours and hours.
also, playing the text-based hitchhiker's guide game on PC. i always died right in the beginning but for some reason that wouldn't end the game. "you can't move. you're dead!"
Chrono. Trigger.
Well, I am new to this site but atleast not new to gaming. My fondest memories are associated with the Prince Of Persia Series. Its because of the Free Form Fighting Concept in this Game. You can throw a weapon lying on floor or in your hands at your enemy. The story of this game is absolutely immortal. Use your environment for fighting with your enemy.The hard rock music in Warrior Within excites me to the core. The speed kill feature in Two Thrones adds up to the beauty of this game. Wallrunnig in this game is perfect.
So I would advise you to play this one whenever you get sick another time.
I will never forget a trip to Houston that most of my family made for a dance competition my little sisters were involved in. Our new family vehicle was a Grand Voyager, I think, and before we left out of Dallas we had gotten all of the cables necessary for us to hook up a TV and of course, the Nintendo 64. The whole trip was nothing but Super Smash Bros. and Mario Kart 64. I still to this day am almost unbeatable with Fox McCloud on that release. My little brother would get so pissed and start to yell, "Why even bother play if you won't let me fight back!!!", or "You're such a freaking jerk, I don't wanna play anymore!!" So much fun.
nothing brought my college dorm together more than our NBA Live 2001 fantasy draft season. Things got heated, but everything was all in good fun.
Metal Gear was my shit, too. I just got rid of the shirt EB gave away for preorders. It was finally too small.
And despite the fact I never played a single other Gran Turismo, I played the hell out of the first one on PSOne. It was addicting as all hell.
But the game that started it all... Rambo: First Blood Part II on Sega Master system. I pray for the day that game shows up on any kind of download. Rocket arrows, man. Rocket arrows.
The first day I had Goldeneye was Christmas, and had the whole family cheering on battles between myself, my brother, and my cousin as we blew eachother up. Since then, it's become a family tradition that every time we get together, we go at it in four-player free-for-alls in Goldeneye. I only wonder what we're going to do when the cartridge finally craps out on us. Hopefully by then Nintendo, MS and Rare will have figured something out, and we can play it on VC.
Ahhh yes, GoldenEye. THE game that popularized First Person Shooters for consoles. I also have many fond memories of games with big head and paintball cheat codes. Nothing like blowing someone up and then spraying "YOU SUCK" on the wall above them in multi-colored splotches.
Golden Eye, oh my. Countless hours on split-screen with cousins, and til this day i can't beat the final level.
Diddy Kong Racing (n64), Probably my first game that i loved.
I enjoyed playing Bezerk and Pitfall when I was younger. The first Halo is one of my most favorite titles though.
The original Monkey Island... Man that chugged away on the Atari ST. But it was sexy.
That and Carrier Command - wasted hours, wasted hours...
Metal Gear solid (my first shooting game i ever played besides goldeneye) was amazing. and who can forget the first Halo? classics. O but socom will always have a place in heart.