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!
A tie between spending hours and hours sitting in front of one of those big wooden late 80s TVs playing Super Mario Bros 3, and realizing I had a crush on the neighbor girl while we played (mid 90s) Street Fighter
Playing Dungeon Master, and Eye of the Beholder series on my Amiga.
Playing Super Mario World on the SNES as a kid.
As a teenager, my cousin & one of my best friends watched me do a complete playthrough of Golgo 13 for the NES, but with a catch:
At the start of every dialogue scene, I had to find a brand new, unused reason to make Duke Togo / Golgo turn around. Halfway in, I was shouting things like “FREE ICE CREAM BEHIND YOU”.
No matter what the reason was, the response I voiced for Golgo/Duke was always (in a voice like Hugo the Abominable Snowman): “Oh, it’s just a man. You fooled me again.”
Game defeated. No reason used twice.
Being enthralled by Final Fantasy VII when I was a wee lad. So many hours of my childhood are in that world.
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
Playing Super Mario Brothers 3 and later Super Mario World with my older siblings.
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
Really vivid memories of going Christmas shopping with my mother and getting Final Fantasy X with the strategy guide as an early gift when I was young. I think it had just released and it was all over the magazines I was subscribed to (shoutout Gamepro haha). Was super engrossed with it during that break. I always interested in RPGs, but I was at just the right age to really start enjoying them a lot more when that game came out. Was a really awesome, memorable winter break.
…on a more duderbo note, my high school friends and I would stay up ungodly hours and drink waaaaay too many Five Hour energy shots playing Halo 3 and later Reach. Undoubtably unhealthy, but very good times.
Playing Midnight Club 2 all night with cousins. Setting up races with only beginning and end checkpoint and finding the fastest way to get there was awesome.
The N64 was the first console that was mine. I got it for my birthday. Before that, they always belonged to my older brother. We would play together and I’d always be player 2.
Eventually when I got my own nintendo and my sister was old enough to play games, I became player 1. I remember being so proud being able to help her the same way my brother had for me. She was so impressed when I helped her beat the final boss in Majora’s Mask.
Me and my cousins taking turn to move “our” character in UFO Enemy Unknown.
Everything about Halo 3. Going through the co-op campaign on Legendary with 4 friends from school, big team battle and ranked duo’s were really sick. All the custom game lobbies that would spontaneously spin up from a random invite from someone you never knew.
Going over to friends houses to play games. I never had a large library and playing new games. And the games I did have were the mane ones everyone else had so no one ever wanted to come over and play at my house.
First time I played Pokémon, Age of Empires II and Diablo II.
