Mine would have to be around when Sonic 2 for genesis came out, and while me and my sister were on the 2nd stage, my dad came into the room to tell us one of his friends commited suicide. He was always very nice to us, and wouldnt you know about 5min later i got hit by a monster and he gave me 70lives....we beat the game for the 1st time...and the rest is history.
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DaddyZ said:
Weirdest video game moment:
Playing MGS2 at about 3:30 in the morning. I got to the part where Raiden was inside Arsenal. You know what I'm talking about. The Colonel and Rosemary freaked me way out. Talk about breaking down the fourth wall.
Most special video game moment:
In college, while my friends and dorm neighbors looked on, I managed to beat the Emerald Weapon in FF7.
Hellraizah
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Mofo
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Most recent would be when I was playing XBox Live with some GAF peeps and my wife's water broke. I think we were playing Midtown Madness and I said "Oh crap, my wife's water broke..." switched off my XBox and headed to the hospital.
Come to think of it, my daughters birth was similar... was drudging through the Water Temple in OoT and remember the Mrs. saying that her water broke. I think I questioned her just to make sure - I was near the end :lol
Come to think of it, my daughters birth was similar... was drudging through the Water Temple in OoT and remember the Mrs. saying that her water broke. I think I questioned her just to make sure - I was near the end :lol
When I won the Goldeneye tourney. It was nothing official, just a bunch of my freinds from school, all told there were 16 of us with 14 TV's the final round, the final four as it were, Complex with Remote Mines, chosen randomly. Apparently the other 3 guys didn't know how to detonate them without using the detonantor, I won easily and took home $80 I think 2nd got $40 and 3/4 got $20. OK I didn't actually take home $80 since after that we played dice (654, if you know what that is).
Chittagong
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I was working in Club Nintendo after school during my highschool years. One afternoon in October 1994 I came to the office around 1 pm. At 2 pm a DHL package arrived from NOA, with the heavily anticipated Donkey Kong Country as well as Super Punch-Out!! - plus a couple of DMG EEPROMs.
My hands were almost shaking, the arrival of DKC was like the second coming of Christ. The eeprom board was gigantic, with 8 chips I think, about 20 cm long. I put it into our Super NES and switched it on. I was (of course) totally blown away playing the first stage.
Then it hit me - I had 2h of detention in school starting at 3 pm just that day. Totally devastated, I gave the controller to a fellow hotliner, took my mountainbike and biked to the school, for the longest two hours in my life. When I came back, the expert player had ofcourse already unlocked all sorts of tracks, ruining much of the surprise.
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Another odd occurence was the arrival of Super Game Boy. It came directly from Nintendo Co. Ltd in Kioto, with a letter in Japanese only. It wasn't yet announced, nor did it have any plastic casing - just the exposed board. Everybody in the office was trying to figure wtf the thing was. Finally a Nintendo Service Technician solved the mystery, fitting a DMG game to the device and putting it into a Super NES. It was damn cool - no more Wideboy!
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Those were the days when Nintendo was kind enough to send out prerelease stuff even to obscure Scandinavian countries. Hasn't happened ever since 1995 anymore - or so I hear.
My hands were almost shaking, the arrival of DKC was like the second coming of Christ. The eeprom board was gigantic, with 8 chips I think, about 20 cm long. I put it into our Super NES and switched it on. I was (of course) totally blown away playing the first stage.
Then it hit me - I had 2h of detention in school starting at 3 pm just that day. Totally devastated, I gave the controller to a fellow hotliner, took my mountainbike and biked to the school, for the longest two hours in my life. When I came back, the expert player had ofcourse already unlocked all sorts of tracks, ruining much of the surprise.
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Another odd occurence was the arrival of Super Game Boy. It came directly from Nintendo Co. Ltd in Kioto, with a letter in Japanese only. It wasn't yet announced, nor did it have any plastic casing - just the exposed board. Everybody in the office was trying to figure wtf the thing was. Finally a Nintendo Service Technician solved the mystery, fitting a DMG game to the device and putting it into a Super NES. It was damn cool - no more Wideboy!
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Those were the days when Nintendo was kind enough to send out prerelease stuff even to obscure Scandinavian countries. Hasn't happened ever since 1995 anymore - or so I hear.
Mike Works
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DaddyZ said:
FortNinety
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I brought Mega Man 2 to a friend's place and just as a boss was defeated (the big dragon at Wily's castle), my friend's kid brother comes in, sees the screen, and has an epileptic seizure on the spot.
Mike Works
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That it what, THAT IT WHAT??dbish said:
Two of mine have to do with Super Mario Bros. 3.
I don't know how old I was when it came out (I'm 28 now) but I was on a trip in another state, and we had to stop at the local Wal-Mart on the way home. I wasn't sure if the game had come out yet, but I looked and behold-SMB3. After persuading my mom to buy it, I had the longest car ride home ever. Then, when I actually beat the game for the first time, I didn't know where any of the warp whistles were, so I went all the way through. I was honestly fooled by the "Sorry, but our princess is in another castle" for a second and freaked out.
A little more recently though, was when I finished Metroid Prime on Hard.
Lastly, I'll never forget the first time I ever saw a curse word in a game-"damn" in Bionic Commando. Boy was I shocked. How times have changed.
I don't know how old I was when it came out (I'm 28 now) but I was on a trip in another state, and we had to stop at the local Wal-Mart on the way home. I wasn't sure if the game had come out yet, but I looked and behold-SMB3. After persuading my mom to buy it, I had the longest car ride home ever. Then, when I actually beat the game for the first time, I didn't know where any of the warp whistles were, so I went all the way through. I was honestly fooled by the "Sorry, but our princess is in another castle" for a second and freaked out.
A little more recently though, was when I finished Metroid Prime on Hard.
Lastly, I'll never forget the first time I ever saw a curse word in a game-"damn" in Bionic Commando. Boy was I shocked. How times have changed.
FortNinety
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Substance said:
Yup. Parents were so pissed off that the NES, and all video games from that point on, was banned from the household from that point on.
Both of mine came from Donkey Kong Country.
The first was when I turned the game on one day and then this blue screen popped up telling me I had my snes hooked up to an illegal copying device, my snes wasn't hooked up to anything and this scared the shit out of me. I thought the police were going to bust through my door at any minute and arrest me because of this. :lol
The other time was when I was on that temple level and I saw the weirdest thing, a golden beaver walked right past me! It wasn't literally golden, but because of some weird bug it looked like it was covered in gold jewelry or something, freaky.
The first was when I turned the game on one day and then this blue screen popped up telling me I had my snes hooked up to an illegal copying device, my snes wasn't hooked up to anything and this scared the shit out of me. I thought the police were going to bust through my door at any minute and arrest me because of this. :lol
The other time was when I was on that temple level and I saw the weirdest thing, a golden beaver walked right past me! It wasn't literally golden, but because of some weird bug it looked like it was covered in gold jewelry or something, freaky.
It was during a session of Metroid Prime, just after having intensively played Eternal Darkness. The game crashed and displayed an error message about reading disk problems... At first, I found it quite funny. Thus waiting for the game to come back to normal, it took me around 20 seconds to actually figure that there wasn't any insanity effect in Metroid... My life is so interesting.
Do The Mario
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I was playing DOA 3 and my shorts kept getting tighter, then I had this huge bulge sticking out. It then started to shrink leaving this creamy stuff in my pants.
It was freaky.
It was freaky.
Here's my stupid story...
The first time I played Punch-Out was in an arcade. I was probably 6 years old. For some reason I thought I was controlling the other boxer, trying to keep the 'challenger' (whatever initials you entered at the beginning) from going through the ranks. So there's Glass Joe amazingly KO'ing this transparent green contender, and I'm thinking I'm the man while unwittingly getting my ass whooped.
Funny thing is, around the 5th time I played I couldn't manage to "lose." I went through 8 or 9 guys, playing like I'm supposed to be knocking out this green freak, thinking I suck ass because I can't seem to stop him, when in reality I was tearing shit up.
I've had experiences that would qualify as more special, but that was undoubtedly my dumbest gaming moment.
The first time I played Punch-Out was in an arcade. I was probably 6 years old. For some reason I thought I was controlling the other boxer, trying to keep the 'challenger' (whatever initials you entered at the beginning) from going through the ranks. So there's Glass Joe amazingly KO'ing this transparent green contender, and I'm thinking I'm the man while unwittingly getting my ass whooped.
Funny thing is, around the 5th time I played I couldn't manage to "lose." I went through 8 or 9 guys, playing like I'm supposed to be knocking out this green freak, thinking I suck ass because I can't seem to stop him, when in reality I was tearing shit up.
I've had experiences that would qualify as more special, but that was undoubtedly my dumbest gaming moment.
cloudwalking
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once, a long time ago, my friend and i tricked some of the dumb neighbours into thinking that you could drive off the wooden bridge in the DK jungle track on mario kart 64, and there would be an invisible canoe you could fall into, but you had to land in just the right spot.
so they went home and tried this for like 6 hours, and then came back and of course wanted us to do it for them.
so my friend and i decided to humor them a bit more, we went over there, and my friend started playing the track... as soon as she was approaching the wooden bridge, the power went out.
we thought we had angered the videogame gods or something. :lol
just a really weird coincidence
(and yeah we told them it was a lie)
so they went home and tried this for like 6 hours, and then came back and of course wanted us to do it for them.
so my friend and i decided to humor them a bit more, we went over there, and my friend started playing the track... as soon as she was approaching the wooden bridge, the power went out.
we thought we had angered the videogame gods or something. :lol
just a really weird coincidence
(and yeah we told them it was a lie)
Kabuki Waq
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Ristamar said:
:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol
I was playing Might and Magic 6 for days and night. I was in some dungeons, I heard some creatures. I was totally still, but then, I turn and I see some goblin with a freaky sprite and he's like screaming "YEEAAAK!".
I screamed like Homer Simpson would, but much, MUCH louder. :lol
Then I had awakened my brother and he complained. I then made him remember how much he sweared when he played that game and he would nearly destroy the escape key whenever you die in MM6 and you see that incredibly nagging video of the grim reaper, so he just shut up and went back to sleep.
I was like, freaked out for 12 ours. I did not remember all I did while playing MM6 in the night, goddamit I spent so much hazy moments while playing that game. I think I remember some time I was tired, I went to buy something at McDonalds on foot, I paid and all, I came back put it away, played for like four hours straight, and then I'd look and I screamed in a similar way as the goblin, like: "WHAT IS THIS BIG MAC DOING HERE?" I was not even aware I'd have took fourty minutes, pay this burger, fries and coke, and went back to my house.
:lol :lol
I screamed like Homer Simpson would, but much, MUCH louder. :lol
Then I had awakened my brother and he complained. I then made him remember how much he sweared when he played that game and he would nearly destroy the escape key whenever you die in MM6 and you see that incredibly nagging video of the grim reaper, so he just shut up and went back to sleep.
I was like, freaked out for 12 ours. I did not remember all I did while playing MM6 in the night, goddamit I spent so much hazy moments while playing that game. I think I remember some time I was tired, I went to buy something at McDonalds on foot, I paid and all, I came back put it away, played for like four hours straight, and then I'd look and I screamed in a similar way as the goblin, like: "WHAT IS THIS BIG MAC DOING HERE?" I was not even aware I'd have took fourty minutes, pay this burger, fries and coke, and went back to my house.
:lol :lol
Naked Snake
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FortNinety said:
:lol :lol
I probably had more special moments in my gaming life, but here's one I often remember: While playing MGS, the first time the Ninja appeared after the Ocelot fight... I knew NOTHING about the game before I started playing it, I had no expectations whatsoever, and having such a cinematic, "mature", and plot-twisty game thrown at me was quite a shock and a rush... at the end of that cutscene Snake says "What in the hell...", fittingly those were exactly my sentiments at that moment.
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I was feeling mopey/depressed on my 20th birthday last year because everyone I knew was busy that day, so I dug out Silent Hill 3 and started to play from my last save (1/2 through the game). I had just beat the game and the credits were rolling by on the screen when all of a sudden my mom and sister came through the door and surprised me with a Baskin Robbins ice-cream cake (they were back from LA two days early). As I went to help my mom with her bags, my sister pointed to the tv and said, "wow, your PS2 knows your birthday?" Confused, I turned around and the code that Silent Hill 3 was displaying for me to unlock Heather's alternate outfit was, "Happy BirthDay"!
That was by far the whirredest/coolest videogame moment ever for me next to the Colonel/Rose thing in MGS2. :lol
That was by far the whirredest/coolest videogame moment ever for me next to the Colonel/Rose thing in MGS2. :lol