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I've been in full blown grandpa-in-a-squeaky-rocking-chair mode lately, reinstalling all of these old games, and waxing nostalgic over the great memories I had with them. So in a surprising twist, I made this thread. (Interestingly, when I typed this, I hadn't posted the thread yet. This calls the previous sentence into question. Not the previous sentence before the previous one, but the one before that.)

*ahem*

MY GREATEST GAMING MOMENTS

Experiencing Black and White.
My first real PC game... played it on an old P2 with an ATI Rage Pro. Going from Mario and friends to a god game complete with a fully controllable camera view and a brilliant interface woven into the fabric of the game, it was a revolution in my mind. It hardly mattered that the gameplay wasn't perfect. Damn it, those worshippers needed food and I was going to give it to them. Or make Monkey do it.

Mario 64 - Playing it for the first time
So apparently PC Gamers had gotten used to this whole 3D thing, but it blew my mind. And prepared me for all kind of 3D games on the N64, PC, and beyond.

Half-Life 2 - Me talking to the NPCs
So it was getting pretty intense, and I verbally thanked an NPC for a medpack. Does that make me crazy?

Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Unwrapping the Box
I waited so long, and the crinkly plastic fell from the shiny special edition box like a veil from the face of the most beautiful of middle eastern women... or something. And the game was even better!

Battlefield 2 Demo - HL2.net Antics
Storming the Gulf of Omen under the command of the valiant Mr. Redundant was bar none, the most exhilarating and intense gaming experience I've ever had.

Now give me yours!
 
The first time I started up my N64 with Super Mario 64...

Awe inspiring.
 
Oh, I'm so going to love this thread! I'll post a few now, more later...

I don't really remember much before the Playstation. I had lots of fun on consoles before the Playstation/N64 days but I was too young for me to remember. Anyway...

Playing the Playstation for the first time
I was amazed. 3D graphics! :O
The first 3D game I played was Destruction Derby. And oh how it was fun! I could smash cars up, race with like 30 other cars and just cause carnage. loved it.

First time playing the N64
Again, this blew me away!
I think my first game was Pilot Wings 64. The next day I got Lylat Wars (Starfox 64) and was again blown away by the fact that the controller rumbled when I got hit! :O

Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Just WOW!
I was anticipating this game for so long. I was young and I kept reading about it in magazines. I remember the Official Nintendo Magazine a month before christmas had a huge preview/review on it. I read it through at least 20 times. I was just amazed at how great this game sounded.
I remember opening the present on xmas morning. Oh what a feeling! When I finally got to play it I swear I was bouncing in my chair. The whole game was amazing.


More to come :)
 
Ocirana of Time
We waited in line for a few hours to buy it in November, but my mom told me I had to wait until Christmas to open it. I remember staring at the box in anticipation. When I finally got to play it I was so happy. It was amazing.
Inadvertently discovering Half-life
I was at the library looking for good books to read over the summer, and I stumbled into the software section. They had a box of Half-life sitting there to rent. I thought it looked cool, so I picked it up out of sheer curiosity. I remember playing it thinking, "alright, just some casual fun here, another FPS, another Goldeneye"...and as I played...I was amazed. It was the most amazing game I had ever played.
Inadvertantly discovering Total Annihilation
I was looking for Age of Empires II at a used game store, but they didn't have any copies. I looked through the bargain bin for games to quell my boredom, and discovered this cheap-looking jewel case with Total Annihilation in it. It was the first RTS I saw in the bin, so I decided to try it out. I then got home and played it for 6 hours straight. Another jewel.
Black and White
My second PC game, got it right after Half-life. It was incredible in my opinion. It seemed truly revolutionary at the time. I just loved going around looking at graphics which at that time I deemed "beautiful". I remember taking a bunch of screenshots and showing them to my friends and they were all like, "woah...that game looks AWESOME!"...it's funny because I played it the other day and the graphics were terrible, lol.
 
Half-Life 2 - Me talking to the NPCs
So it was getting pretty intense, and I verbally thanked an NPC for a medpack. Does that make me crazy?
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Only if your girlfriend was watching. :naughty:
 
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, doing final boss fight against Ganon over at my neighbors' house in their basement with a pretty big audience (Friday and Saturday nights were like neighborhood get-together nights; I was pretty young). Epic! I also liked to play Super Mario World over there.

Sim City 2000... finally realizing how to get stuff to actually build out of the zones.

Super Smash Bros. + Goldeneye... Rented both of these and played the hell out of them in multiplayer. I remember laughing so hard... bought both of them later.

Starcraft, playing the demo (after downloading the 30 MB file ALL DAY) online for the first time... was the first online game I'd played. THAT'S A REAL PERSON MOVING THOSE OTHER GUYS!

Playing TFC for the first time... first online shooter, and TFC is just awesome. Was rock2 map.

Diablo II... seeing those unique items drop!

Baldur's Gate II... killin' those bigass dragons.

Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow... finding it amazing that you could actually play like a spy against other people (2 spies vs. 2 'mercenaries'). Then later, just plain messing with mercenaries who were obviously new to the game.

World of Warcraft... playing the open beta with some people from these forums. Wow, I was such a noob. (I still play it some today.)



There's probably more, too. :P
 
playing baldur's gate PC version for first time

playing starcraft 2, I love every seconds of it

when I took down strider with a crowbar
 
Point Insertion for Half-Life 2. I have never felt so much atmosphere from a game level--not even from the other levels in the same game. It lost its touch after the first time through, but it was really awesome while it lasted.
 
Just randomly deciding to blow shit up in Vice City - Ah, Vice City, how I loved you when I just snapped and wasted all my ammo blowing ***t up. And the story wasn't bad, either. And you could use the army chopper and fly around and listen to the radio.

Playing Psychonauts - Srsly, BEST GAME EVER.

More to come.
 
Pulling the sword from the pedestal in the temple of time, Zelda: Ocarina of Time

sent shivers down my spine.

Fighting Ninja in Metal Gear Solid "HURT ME MOOOOOORE"
 
game (year played)- transcript

Super Mario World (1992)- What the ****? There's something better than Nintendo? It's hard to explain the feeling of loss having my NES mysteriously sold, only to be replaced by a SNES and great joy on my 10th B day. Discovered "graphics".

Secret of Mana (1993)- Calling Flammie for the first time, and then after the continent rises. Discovered "RPGs". Epic 1993.

Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior (1993)- Finally defeating that bitch Bison (Vega) after 100 or so rounds. Finally allowed myself to unleash the Game Genie.

Chrono Trigger (1995)- I walked 2 miles through the snow to get this for $75 the day it was released. Defeated it after 70 hours. Bought the prima guide ($15) after I discovered there were multiple endings. (!)

Descent 2 (1996)- Discovered both true 3D space and FMV in a game. Didn't think it could get any better if they fixed the pixelation.

Starfox 64 (1997)- Defeating Andross for the first time and getting ready to go out in the blaze with him, then James McCloud pops out of nowhere "Don't ever give up my son" Sent chills up my spine. :D

Goldeneye 007 (1997)- Discovered true multiplayer. Nothing has ever been this fun. I shoot a guys hand and his gun flies out of it. Wow. Dual controller control. Holy shit.

Ocarina of Time (1997)- Turning it on. Beautiful. I called my mom down just to watch me turn on the game. She doesn't care for them but she thought it was neat. :/

Unreal (1999)- I can't remember how many times I watched that Nali castle spin around. It was too cool. Voodoo 2 powered life altering goodness. Discovered online multiplayer shortly after. I now knew that I wanted to run around the internets shooting people.

Unreal Tournnament (2000)- Discovered mods and Unreal Ed. Sweet mercy. Razorback (razor-ub) possibly one of the greatest tracks of all time. Thank you UnrealAmp.

Nothing since. Nothing surprises me anymore. Nothing is challenging. Nothign is new. Things are nice, but the age of discovery is over. :(
 
There are so many for me, so I'll just list a few.


Archon - finally beating the seemingly flawless and asshole-ishly evily programmed computer controlled AI.

Zelda [1] - a one player game, after school I would go to my friends house and we would take turns trying to find and beat one of the labyrinths.
(that was 20 years ago, but I still remember it very clearly)

Half-Life2 - In one of the first shootout sequences in the game where the industrial breakbeat soundtrack kicks in, I ran to the staircase above the train tracks to escape and there were a couple of sentries there to try and stop me. Shooting at them through glass windows and the other guys on the stairs, they would fly back with the ragdoll physics in a way that I won't soon forget. Pinned to the wall with the force of several bullets, leaving blood stains and smears on the walls, then tumbling down the stairs lifelessly.

Also, throwing the soda can at the guard who told me to throw it away. He chased me down and hit me with the stun gun. lol

Street Fighter II(etc.) especially playing Capcom Vs. SNK 2 on Xbox Live, fighting my way to the best ranked in the world was an incredible experience. If you have seen videos of world ranked matches, you know you have seen some amazing players.

Waverace 64 - This game series rules.

Super Mario World (SNES) - Just goes to show that no matter how hard a game can get, it only makes you step up your game to that level. I couldn't believe I was able to navigate some of the last levels in this game. It was like running and jumping across tightropes while dodging things.

Resident Evil (PS1) Absolutely amazing game at the time.

Metroid (NES) finding those secret areas with the power-ups.

Mike Tyson's Punch-Out (NES) KNocking out Soda-pop, and some of the other tougher guys. My friend could beat Mike Tyson in this game.

Dungeon Master - figuring out some of the puzzles, and barely defeating some of the enemies in a brutal near death experiences.

Goldeneye with the split screen with my friends.

Phantasy Star Online - everything

Max Payne - ...
 
I think it was the opening for Chrono Cross, where the main character gets washed up onto the shore.
 
I was going to mention Chrono Cross, one of my all time favorite RPGs :)
 
Vegeta897 said:
Ryuken that was a great post.
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Glad you think so. :D

Virus reminded me I should put Zelda 1 in here.

My older brother and my father both played Zelda when I was a little kid. I understood what to do but I had almost zero gaming experience so I was unable to play such a difficult game.

TLoZ:TAoL (1987)- My dad caught me spitting out and hiding my green Flintstones vitamins in my bathrobe pocket. He grounded me to my room. He went back to his Nintendo which was conveniently placed by the rear sliding door, which was adjacent to my window. Being 4 years old, I climbed up onto my window sill, and propped my self up, struggling just to watch the adventure of link. :D
That's when I discovered I love games.

--
I was going to say Crono Cross as well, but while awesome, there just wasn't a point in it where I thought "wow, this is the greatest moment of my life".
 
babyheadcrab said:
I was going to mention Chrono Cross, one of my all time favorite RPGs :)
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I think I lost my copy! All this nostalgia is going to make me break down, I want to play it! I miss this game the most for some odd reason.
 
I miss it too and want to play it, but I recently discovered my PSOne power adapter is missing. I am not sure if I tried to use an emulator, but I don't think I did, so my discs must also be missing. :(
 
C&C: Red Alert- Intro movie, not really an amazing moment in the game but it had an awesome atmosphere and mood to it. The first video game I got really into.

Goldeneye- First mission at the dam where Bond jumps into the abyss, lots of good memories playing multiplayer. The jungle level was pretty cool too.

Half Life- the tram ride, the test chamber, and of course Nihilanth's chamber.

Rainbow Six- the final level at the biosphere was pretty cool. The sound of doors opening and closing still stays with me years after I've played it. Planning your mission before executing it was more fun than the usual barge-in-and-shoot-it-out.

(dare I say it?) Pokemon Red/Blue- Indigo Plateau and the Elite Four, as well as the final battle with Gary.

Perfect Dark- fighting in the Skedars' Battle Shrine. Again lots of multiplayer fun, with bots and humans both.

Max Payne- Bullet Time. Good story and graphics for its day. THE FLESH OF FALLEN ANGELS...

And of course, HL2- impossible to name all the wonderful moments I had playing this game. Nearly everything was amazing the first time I played it. Point Insertion, entering Nova Prospekt, fighting in the rubble in Follow Freeman that harkened back to Stalingrad, the Citadel tour, Episode One's core, tunnel fighting, and train ride out, etc. Having for the first time NPC's that you actually thought were people rather than computer-simulated versions of people (I talked to them too, especially Alyx). Having burning gas barrels thrown at you. Watching a Combine soldier get pinned to the wall by a crossbow bolt. Getting the Gravity Gun and playing fetch with Dog. Your trek through Ravenholm, and the frightening howling of fast zombies. Knocking down your first Gunship and Strider. The elevator ride down into the Citadel's teleport chamber, prepared to "do your worst". The list goes on and on.

All of the games have captivated me on some level, but obviously none compares to HL2. Anything will be hard-pressed to do so.
 
i got a mysterious and large skull in one quest in Gunz, there's a 6% chance of getting either and i got'm both (.36% chance!)
 
my very first game i played was sonic the hedgehog for sega but the first game i played on pc was toy story lol
 
Firing up Deus ex for the first time. I'd only heard about it before hand and I was completely spoiler free. I had no idea what to expect. I was hooked. It was amazing.

Vice City. Wow. I'd been waiting for the game for a long-ass time and the hype was immense. So I start it up, hop into a car to the strains of Billy Jean and cruise on down Ocean Drive. Wow.

Episode 1 opening. Simply the most well written and animated sequence in the history of gaming.
 
Fallout.

Completing Operation Flashpoint (OFPR & OFPCWC)

Finishing Tiberian Dawn as Nod.

Recreational level of System Shock 2 and meeting the rumbler for the first time.

Fighting the Queen in Aliens vs. Predator 2 as a Marine.

Half-Life's Surface Tension chapter, one of the most intense experiences in gaming (except for the minefields)

Half-Life 2's Highway 17 and beginning of Sandtraps. I wished for a casette player in the buggy with Deep Purple's Highway Star.
 
Narcolepsy said:
Mario 64 - Playing it for the first time
So apparently PC Gamers had gotten used to this whole 3D thing, but it blew my mind. And prepared me for all kind of 3D games on the N64, PC, and beyond.
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Completely agree. I'd been gaming since the first 3d games came out btw, and nothing came close to capturing the 3rd dimension anything like Mario 64 did. It completely blew me away.

The only other game to have a similar impact on me was Street Fighter 2 when it first came out in the arcades. Compared to anything released before, SF2 was such a MASSIVE leap in every way. Gameplay, animation, graphics, sound. I simply didn't believe games could get this good.
 
Goldeneye - Holy shit. This game had the best cinematics in any game of it's time. The first mission where you had to jump off the dam has left a lot of vivid memories in my mind. Oh, and the multiplayer was fecking awesome too. :D

Q3:A - I remember playing this for the first time in 2001. I joined an online game and I was really amazed at how good some people were at playing the game. They were flying around, jumping at incredibly high speeds and headshotting everyone. D:

HL2 - Installing the game might of taken forever but it was well worth the wait. The scene with G-Man was amazing. I had never seen such a life-like character with such detailed facial expressions.
 
HL/HL2/Ep1 intros - all amazing as hell :D

Red Alert 2 inro - seeing the rise of Mother Russia...:D

Tiberian Sun - Witnessing the return of Kane :D :D :D

FF8 intro - introduced me to the world of FMV's

BF2 - fighting with my clan mates, so much fun :E
 
Goldeneye 64 - First started playing this as a young lad, and i never stopped playing until EVERY single level was completed on ALL difficulties, genious.

Perfect Dark - I dont recall having as much fun on a multiplayer than on this, me and my mates would be on it for hours and hours and hours.

Shenmue 1+2 - Progressing the story and solving the clues, and the QTE and free-roam fights were just, AMAZING.

Operation Flashpoint - Forget NPC development, forget sequenced events, this was just war with authenticity yet to be matched.

Half-Life 2 - I never knew I could be so immersed within a game. The greatest ever made.

Gears of War - The most intense, most violent, action game I have ever played, the greatest co-operative game ever made, loved every second of it.
 
Dune 2 - First game I ever played, awesomeness that cannot be described.

Doom 1&2 - I was ****ing scared. 'Nuff said.

Slipstream 5000 - "IT'S 3D! AND YOU CAN FLY! AND IT'S GOT CANNONS! HOLY SHIT I'M FLYING BETWEEN PYRAMIDS AND IN NEW YORK! :D :D :D :D"

Another World - I was even more ****ing scared D:

Half-Life, Demo - The whole demo had a creepy feeling to it, and I fell down my chair when I saw the vortigaunts D:

Max Payne - Epic in every way possible.

Max Payne 2 - More epic in every way possible. Finished this game about 17 times with various mods. Can't. Get. Enough.

Half-Life 2 - Ignoring the stuttering and the bugs, the first time through was AWESOME.

Arcanum - AWESOME RPG from Troika Games (the one below here aswell)

Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines - Best ****ing RPG EVER. EVER. EVER. So ****ing perfect it's ridiculous.
 
Super Mario World - got a SNES for my first communion and it was SOOO AWESOME to play this game!

Fallout 2 - Played this one before Fallout 1; I used to talk with friends about it all the time, comparing how we were playing through the game, sharing tips etc.; when I completed it I wrote down the date and time

Half-Life 2 - playing in DX7 and it was kinda stuttering for the first time, but man I was HYPED so it was a memorable experience

Battlefield 2 - lots of epic moments mostly with clanmembers (hi there, Evo), but I also remember playing with shakermaker and jimbo before that with some cool moments as well :thumbs:

Battlefield 2 Project Reality mod - many great teamwork moments (although usually with random people, using voip however)

Random list really, I also remember the amazing atmosphere of Doom 2, lots of fun playing Destruction Derby 2 with a friend, wrecking cars in the Arena, the great Tomb Raider (I was a noob and couldn't finish most of the levels getting lost in them, so I used to cheat and skip levels only to get to the cutscenes). Spent lots of time playing Duke Nukem 3D (mostly on cheats and being proud of myself when I completed the first episode lol). Unreal was the first FPS where I used a mouse to aim ("wtf, that feels awkward"). Deus Ex was a great game, totally unexpected - it was added to a game magazine so I thought I'll give it a try and got hooked. And that's not all...
 
All of Mafia - One of my earlier full-blown gaming experiences and quite frankly, still one of my absolute best.

The hill level in Vietcong - Rainy, chaotic and awesome. The whole game was great but that level in particular gave me chills.

The Beast's introduction in Homeworld: Cataclysm - Orgasmic. Voice acting and the direction in that scene is awesome.
 
Crawling through the woods in Operation Flashpoint Stranded mission, my heart was beating sooo fast and my palms were sooo sweaty.
 
AJ Rimmer said:
All of Mafia - One of my earlier full-blown gaming experiences and quite frankly, still one of my absolute best.

The hill level in Vietcong - Rainy, chaotic and awesome. The whole game was great but that level in particular gave me chills.

The Beast's introduction in Homeworld: Cataclysm - Orgasmic. Voice acting and the direction in that scene is awesome.
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Hell yeah! I forgot about Homeworld. I remember getting it for my birthday one year and playing it at my mom's workplace on her computer (because we didn't have one at home at the time). I too, remember the Beast's introduction in Cataclysm. Also, anyone remember the Garden of Kadesh? Jesus, that was a hard level.
 
theotherguy said:
Hell yeah! I forgot about Homeworld. I remember getting it for my birthday one year and playing it at my mom's workplace on her computer (because we didn't have one at home at the time). I too, remember the Beast's introduction in Cataclysm. Also, anyone remember the Garden of Kadesh? Jesus, that was a hard level.
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Oh god yes! The time I spent on that one the first time around... And yet I was disappointed that Homeworld 2 was so easy when the first one and Cataclysm were really quite hard, even on easy.
 
Playing the whole of Doom 95 Episode 1 at a stretch. My first PC game.

Playing Quake 2 MP, and finally getting the hang of deathmatch.

Deciding to install Half-Life Uplink. Changed my life. I spent many nights dreaming of the Lambda Reactor Complex in those days..

Playing Delta Force, and pretending to be good at it.

Getting Splinter Cell, and finally understanding what the fuss was all about.

Buying Half-life 2 and going "Wow!" during that opening sequence with the Gman. Drooling over the visuals in the trainstation.

Getting hyped up for Portal...
 
The intros to/start of:
Half-Life (Just awesome)
Half-Life 2 (Just because it was Half-Life 2)
Episode One (Awesome)
Red Alert 2 (Mega-awesome)

Destroying the hunter-chopper in HL2.
HL2EP1, the core...OMG.

Advance Wars 2. First time I'd played an AW game, brilliant.

Kane's Nod campaign intro in Tiberian Dawn and Tiberian Sun.
Firing up the Scrin campaign in C&C3 (And to my delight, discovering that the game had some good FMVs)

Chases/dogfights in GTA, GTA3, GTAVC and GTASA.

Fighting (and beating) some of the bosses in FFs; it felt like a real achievment sometimes.

Edit: Pinning people on the other side of the world to walls in HL2DM

Some great moments playing C&C Generals with my friends.
 
E-B-A! E-B-A! E-B-A! E-B-A! YEAH! (Duh duh... duh-duh-duh, duh-duh-duh, duh-duhduh)

Or Ou-en-dan! Ou-en-dan! Ou-en-dan! GO!)

Props if you know what I'm talkin' bout.
 
any bigass battle in supcom

the first time I loaded up hl2 - it's like you were in the unbelievable movies you had seen for the last year

playing The Specialists - especially pulling off the really awesome kills like diving in bullet time and throwing a knife into someone's face

hl2dm - pinning people to the wall with the crossbow :D

playing gw with friends :) (SIMMO, WHERE ARE JOO!!!)

flatout 2 - totally wrecking someone else's car and escaping mostly unharmed
 
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