Best Ever Videogame Moments

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Further discredit for the noble profession of market research as "nuking your first lemming" comes top of a poll of 'best videogame moments' - "completing Tetris" came second, odd since you cannot do it.

Any better suggestions?

(Thanks to John M for this timewasting story)

Tom, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

  • Making it look like Mario was flying by timing successive jumps just right in Donkey Kong Game & Watch. Has infected my dream life ever since
  • Finishing primitive Defender rip off on Spectrum (forget name) to be greeted with fireworks and 'CONGRATURATION YOU SUCCESS' message. (early All Your Base moment)
  • Making it look like a whore is giving you a blowjob in Grand Theft Auto 3.

    N., Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

N., Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Defender rip-off was the hilariously-named "Penetrator" from Melbourne House.

John Mc, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Winning the battle with The Transcendant One in "Planescape: Torment".

The appearance of the T-Rex in the original "Tomb Raider".

The final battle of "Baldur's Gate II: Throne Of Bhaal".

Others will be listed as I think of them.

Dan Perry, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Penetrator = SCRAMBLE ripoff.

Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Will this appear in a Channel 4 3-hour remember-how-a-thon with links by Shigeru Myamoto? Mine would be:

t-rex in 3d monster maze (obligatory mention)
Blowing up the Death Star in the original vector arcade game.

Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I fear Alan may be correct in his pedantry.

N., Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The guy that sells you the boat in Treasure Island Dizzy. And the golde egg bit. And the diving. And te blowing up the wall. Gosh darn it, I love that game.

Graham, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh yes: PH34R M3

Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Every damn thing about NINJA GAIDEN (on the NES). The cutscenes floored me. Plus actually killing the boss @ the end of the game was a task bordering on the Phyrrhic (sic).

David Raposa, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan... Torment has three different endings, y'know, each with different cool movies. That game is mad cool in terms of plot and payoff.

Tom: tetris for gameboy could be completed on the "B" setting and you got this penguin and a space shuttle and other weird things.

Remember the first time you played mario one and went down that tube and were like... damn there's just coins all over this room! That was a great moment.

Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Destroying a Tiger with an armour piercing round from my T34/85 at a distance of 1500 metres last night was pretty cool on Panzer Front, I had to go round the side of him cos his front armour is too thick.

I think I may be developing an unhealthy tank-based obsession.

chris, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

going underground and discovering the rest of zork in return to zork. beautiful.

ethan, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Knocking the Joker off the rope ladder at the end of Batman The Movie on the Spectrum.

DG, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

leftys bar in leisure suit larry

sword fighting in secret of monkey island

ambrose, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

THE DIALOUGE AT THE END OPF FINAL FIGHT THREE

Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The multiplayer mayhem of 8-bit beat-em-up, Target: Renegade. Amazingly, caused a bit of a furore in the media for featuring *shock horror*, red blood. A hasty piece of reprogramming changed the red blood to green, thus saving the hearts and minds of a nation's youth. Rebellious programmers secretly preserved the red blood feature, accessible only by a cheat.

Ah, the eighties. Such innocence.

Trevor, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Getting Guile's Flash Kick right in Streetfighter II.

Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Beating the first boss in Super Mario Bros. I actually thought I had beaten the game! If I ever beat the "King" in Virtua Tennis I may have a new answer. My pinball moments are far more satisying, however.

Kris, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/images/rcrantit.gif.gif pop's health club from river city ransom.

chaki, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/images/sauna.gif

chaki, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Metroid's string bikini warrior if you finished it fast enough or something silly like that.
Going postal on Doom II on the first level of the second scene.
The all female sniper battles almost back to back in No One Lives Forever.

Mr Noodles, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan... Torment has three different endings, y'know, each with different cool movies. That game is mad cool in terms of plot and payoff.

Oh believe me, I KNOW. That game just blew my mind all the way around.

Another great thing from that game; switching from fighter to thief to mage and back, eventually becoming frighteningly bad-ass at all of them. Also, the conversation with the old witch in her weird lair was out-of-control cool.

Dan Perry, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

pah. When you find the black red-cross box in DOOM, and yr gun is replaced with a knuckle-dustered fist, & you punch one of the ev0l soldiers - splaaaat! Alternatively, when the monsters turn on each other in quake, that always makes me laugh. Getting little lara to do the swallow dive into the pool in tomb raider was k-k3wl too (me=easily pleased)

Norman Phay, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

MY THROAT WAS OFTEN SORE AFTER AN EVENING OF FAILING TO IGNITE GUY'S "SUPER" WHEN CHARGER UP -I WOUDL SCREAM IN ANGER

Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My favorite video game moment is at the end of the Double Dragon video game where the two heroes, after vanquishing the last boss, have to fight each other to win the girl. Red Guy bashes Blue Guy with Lead Pipe in DD Shocker!! sadly, that plot point was left out of the movie with Scott Wolf as, um, Blue Guy?

dave k, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ascending in NetHack would be by far the coolest thing ever, assuming I could ever actually do it.

Some of the great lines from Grim Fandango make for hilarity: "Run you pigeons, it's Robert Frost!", "It's the mug rack... at the end of the world!", "Say hello Mr. Rag" ("hello Mr. Rag!").

The first time you get Cool on Parappa the Rapper, and you get to go off on some herky-jerky freestyle shit. Yeah.

Dan I., Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Fatality.

Or the cheat code for Contra.

JM, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Getting the scrolling message GOOD ZAPPING TURKEY! after finally finishing Uridium . Which may be my greatest achievement as a gamer, save some goals with Fifa 99/2000 (esp. that old-skool endless passing attack ending in a unstoppable Johnny Rep shot with Holland '74).

Omar, Thursday, 14 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In Tomb Raider, I think the first one, where Lara is inside some building with lots of stairs and platforms with a bottomless drop to the sides and making Lara do a dive into the abyss.

alix, Thursday, 14 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sterling: You're right about that flashkick; freakin' impossible to play someone half-decent and use that as a viable move.

That's why I always plumped for Ryu: perfectly balanced.

Best Gaming Moments:

- Shoo-ryu-ken (Ryu's Dragon Punch) - Haa-do-ken (Ryu's Fireball)

Poetry.

powertonevolume, Thursday, 14 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I bloody hate Ryu, he was such a goody goody with his fireballs (oh they're hard to dodge) and that dragon punch - yeah right!!! Punch your way away from ME you bastard. Now Chun-Li, she managed to kick some arse. I prefer the MONSTER BLOKE - what was his name?? BLANKA, yes, he was entertaining with his electric shock ways. Also the EVIL BLOKE (Russian!?) was lots of fun with his glowy punches and and and AND he had a CAPE!!!!!

Sarah, Thursday, 14 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dhalsim and Blanka were THE ANSWER in SFII.

Dan Perry, Thursday, 14 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Also the EVIL BLOKE (Russian!?) was lots of fun with his glowy punches and and and AND he had a CAPE!!!!!"

That would be the mysterious M. Bison.

DG, Thursday, 14 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yoga Flame!

David Raposa, Thursday, 14 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Zangeif the wrestler was the Russian guy. I don't think M. Bison had an ethnicity.

Dan Perry, Thursday, 14 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

M. Bison was Middle Eastern, I think - his background featured some sort of Bhuddist monastary (?) with a big bell (?) and stuff.

Props to Chun Li for having the simplest, most powerful move - keep pressing KICK, yeah!

David Raposa, Thursday, 14 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

M Bison was just a mystery man, the final fight was in Thailand but I don't think he was supposed to be from there.
I totally lost interest in SF2 when Mortal Kombat 2 came out, that was way more fun, especially with all those weird friendship/'babality'/'animality' moves that were INCREDIBLY difficult to do.

DG, Thursday, 14 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(Oh, crap. Moderator, delete that?)

From "A boss by any other name":

"Of course, nothing could beat the feeling of beating up one of the bosses, the infamous rogue's gallery composed of Balrog, Vega, Sagat and M. Bison. But do you remember scratching your heads in wonder because some arcade machines apparently messed up the names of the bosses? Everyone knew the high-flying Spaniard with the nifty claw was named Vega, but in some machines he was called Balrog, while Balrog the boxing character was called M. Bison! What gives? A glitch or did someone drink too much sake?

"Nope, those machines weren't defective and you weren't seeing things. The truth is that Capcom decided to switch around the names of the bosses when they released the game in North America. In the Japanese original, M. Bison was really the name of the boxing character, which was a caricature of Mike Tyson. A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet, right, but Capcom was concerned about causing a stink. This solves another mystery about the "M" in "M. Bison," because it originally stood for Mike.

"So, with the switcheroo that transformed M. Bison into Balrog, the Spaniard Balrog became Vega, and the Vega in the Japanese version became the infamous final boss M. Bison that we all know and love (beating up, that is). Sagat remained Sagat. "

Phil, Thursday, 14 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

To answer the question, by the way, I'd nominate Level 3 of the Color Computer 3 game "Dungeons of Daggorath". There are scorpions all around that can kill you with one blow, but you can't see them until they're right next to you because you can't use the Solar Torch yet. Meanwhile, you're running like hell from the Wizard's Image, and your character's heart is pounding. It's pretty nerve-wracking.

Phil, Thursday, 14 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...
In Chrono Trigger when you first battle Magus. Oh my god. I can't even begin to decsribe how emotional I get when I get to that part of the game. The music is so great.

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 5 June 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I WANT TO PLAY IT RIGHT NOW

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 5 June 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

When you become an adult and see what Ganon did to Hyrule.

Pack Yr Romantic Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 5 June 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Curt1sss OTM. I was just playing Chrono Trigger (emulated) again last night. Best Square video game ever!

Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 5 June 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

The Concrete Donkey hidden weapon on Worms 2.

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 5 June 2004 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry to go all non-retro but:

In Halo when the Flood first appear and there are those creepy Aliens ripoff cut-scenes and then the whole game does a sort of backflip because having become adept and lets face it probably a little cocky at fighting Covenant over the previous levels suddenly there are spores everywhere and zombie-things and you are shitting yourself and you get killed out of sheer panic straightaway......wow.

David Nolan (David N.), Saturday, 5 June 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Play WWF Attitude on the N64 shortly after the Over The Edge tragedy, and having the commentators go "Owen Hart into the turnbuckle".

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 5 June 2004 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Pulling out your opponent's joypad (any game).

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 5 June 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Zelda's Theme from the Zelda series...

TheNewJMod (JMod), Saturday, 5 June 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

The Sensible Soccer "run straight down from kick off, cross into box, score" trick.

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 6 June 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

lob the keeper from halfway line in sensible soccer surely beats that

Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 6 June 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

the bit from Xenogears where Chu Chu - http://xenogears.tautoz.com/pics/chu-chu.jpg - is nailed to a cross on a blood-stained hill. pretty much the only good thing about that game.

ARL (Adrian Langston), Sunday, 6 June 2004 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The Psycho Mantis "telekinesis" demonstration from Metal Gear Solid.

latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 6 June 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a bit stunned that the end of P:ST get so much love here, I thought it was the one bit that was merely, y'know, fantastic. Finally meeting Ravel was the bit, for me, I think - the leadup seemed so /focussed/ in comparison.

Also: Ico, meeting Yorba. Prince of Persia, the first twenty minutes. Jet Grind Radio, Grind Square and the last level. And Rise of Nations, jumping into a 1v1 for the first time, the way it just keeps on accelerating, draws you into the horror and frenzy, so un- RTS (so what RTSes should be).

Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 6 June 2004 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Best first 3 seconds of a game ever: 'For A Change' by Dan Schmidt

Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 6 June 2004 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Leaving Spielburg for the first time in Quest for Glory 1 with the music playing (PC speaker obv) is pretty tight.

adam (adam), Sunday, 6 June 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Magus the last guy in Chrono Trigger? I played the game all the way through for the first time a couple summers ago and loved it, but I can't remember much.

Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 6 June 2004 03:34 (twenty-one years ago)

There's so many, but I clearly remember beating the big robotic dragon in Mega Man 2...it's the first main boss after you beat all the individual stages, and then the screen goes all strobe light, very apocalyptic.

Also the sheer exhilaration of finding the rat tail in the first Final Fantasy game with like two hit points left, wondering how I'd make out of the dungeon alive and then being magically transported out to have my guys be turned into ninjas and such!

Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 6 June 2004 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Jordan, did leveling in that game take as long as I remember?

HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Sunday, 6 June 2004 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

My friend an I used to play Worms together. “Who wins 5 games pays for the pizza delivery.”- that was the rule. I was 1-4 down and playing really bad, but somehow managed to get to 4-4. In the last game he had two worms left, but I was down to one worm, who was barely alive. I didn't know what to do so I threw a ninja rope, swung as fast as I could and threw a bomb in mid-air. The bomb landed close to his worm1, blasted him, he fell and landed next to worm2, where he exploded and killed his last brother in arms. My wormy landed safely on a little patch of ground and barely managed not to fall into the sea. I felt so proud and happy. Such a beautiful moment.

Pingu, Sunday, 6 June 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Whopping people's asses at Mario Kart N64 is surely the best thing in the world evah. No game, no matter what genre, what platform or what time period, has beaten the majesty of chucking a turtle shell at the guy in front of you, and you crusing over the line in 1st place, oblivious to the carnage you have caused. Genius.

Johnney B, Sunday, 6 June 2004 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

the CRASHES in burnout 2!!!

stevie (stevie), Sunday, 6 June 2004 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

It was always better in Super Mario Kart, and better still in Double Dash (Mario Kart on the Gamecube).

Andrew (enneff), Sunday, 6 June 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Jordan, did leveling in that game take as long as I remember?

Longer, which is why I never beat it most likely. I do remember hours of hanging out in that one grove by the elf village killing ogres for exp though.

Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 6 June 2004 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

earthbound - you enter the underworld and ness becomes several pixels in size to exaggerate the fact he's in a dinosaur world and the end when you have to travel back to the past but ness' body cannot withstand the effects of time travel so his brain is transplanted into a robot

jack, Sunday, 6 June 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I downloaded Chrono Trigger over the weekend, nothing interesting's happened yet and the load times are shit but I'm looking forward to the SEMINAL GAMING EXPERIENCE that popular opinion suggests will soon follow.

In Final Fantasy 8, right, there's this bit where you're fighting in a floating military academy airship thing, and the enemy dudes have these massive armoured full body suit things that can fly, and one of them rushes you and hits you so hard you burst through the wall of the ship and fall out. You end up both hanging off this flying thing in mid air, zipping in and out of this massive FMV battle going on in the background having to button bash as fast as you can to punch and headbutt the guy, causing him to fall to his death.

All the bits of Final Fantasy 7 with Sephiroth.

Lots of the running along walls and elegant dismemberment in the recent Prince of Persia are really good as well.

Fergal (Ferg), Sunday, 6 June 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

The Sensible Soccer "run straight down from kick off, cross into box, score" trick.

I found a cheat/bug for SWOS and wrote into Amiga Power, and they printed it. Jon Hare's response? He told me to stick a banana up my arse.

James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Sunday, 6 June 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

he was right you know.

cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 6 June 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

beating the swordmaster!

"you fight like a dairy farmer."
"how appropriate. you fight like a cow."

dan jonze, Sunday, 6 June 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Magus is the gothy vampire guy with whom Frog has serious issues in 600 AD.

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 6 June 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

www.gamefaqs.com are currantly running a poll to see which is the besy video game ever. I can't remember how long they've been running it, but the final is between Final Fantasy 7 and Chrono Trigger.

Kipple (Kipple), Sunday, 6 June 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The Final Fantasy games all have such shit dialogue that I was often embarrassed to be seen playing them.

adam (adam), Sunday, 6 June 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy shit, why is FF7 winning????

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 6 June 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The Final Fantasy games have always been popular on Gamefaqs, it FFVII only dropped off the "top 10 most requested FAQs" list when FFX came along. Plus Final Fanstasy 7 was in fairness one of the most important games ever.

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 6 June 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Ceetadel Ceetadel Ceetadel Ceetadel Ceetadel. Su-perior Soft-ware pre-sents - Ceetadel.

Vic Fluro, Sunday, 6 June 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

All the 32 bit Final Fantasy games suck ass and are for yu gi oh gamer morons. NO STRATEGY OR EFFORT REQUIRED.

HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Monday, 7 June 2004 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The Colonel's Bequest - when you get up to the attic to Fifi's room (the maid, was that her name?) and she's behind some blinds, and you can just make out...

Fedo (fedo), Monday, 7 June 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

ninja gaiden has been giving me tons of these moments

cutty (mcutt), Monday, 7 June 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Level 3 of RType
The banana-corner goals that could be done in Kick Off on the Amiga

Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 7 June 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"ninja gaiden has been giving me tons of these moments "

yeah, that game is incredible.

latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 7 June 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"All the 32 bit Final Fantasy games suck ass and are for yu gi oh gamer morons. NO STRATEGY OR EFFORT REQUIRED."

final fantasy tactics

ARL (Adrian Langston), Monday, 7 June 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I loved the movie that played at the end of Driver 2 in Rio... I think that's one of the last games I finished.

gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...
When you emerge from the cliff face in Half Life and you get to nuke that chopper with a rocket launcher. Admittedly, I didn't realise you could get the chopper until later. And the graphics of the land beneath the cliff were shite.

Actually, Half Life generally. That game flipped my wig.

MESTEMA (davidcorp), Friday, 4 November 2005 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

- when I first saw final stage of Bust-A-Groove - yr character is on a rooftop, next to A GIANT ROBOT DESTROYING TOKYO WITH REALLY CAMP DANCING.

- actually managing to pull off Ivy's Summon Suffering throw in Soul Calibur

- the ending of Starcraft

- the first time you get attacked by a Fiend (or whatever the jumpy spiky-armed things were called) in Quake.

- lots of FFVII (the first time you hear the boss music, escaping on the Tiny Bronco, getting to the end of the dungeon in Cosmo Canyon, the first time you get onto the world map from Midgar, &c&c&c)

etc, Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

holy shit. okay...

Base Wars for four reasons:
1. Hitting a grand slam. Camera cuts to a space ship and four little shuttles fly out and do some crazy maneuvers to reveal "GRAND SLAM"
2. Intentionally beaning a low-HP cyborg with a pitch. They kind of freeze, flicker, and then explode right on home plate-- and you don't even have to walk them.
3. Fighting any other cyborg as a moto-borg, and trapping them in a perpetual back-flip-wheel-uppercut.
4. After you get the laser-sword, going up to your opponent and just sticking them with it and automatically winning the battle

In Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past in the dark world when you've retrieved the flute and play it for the kid sitting on the stump. He says, "I'd like to hear it one last time," then you play it and he turns into a tree... Still get choked up about that one.

Mega Man 2 for a few reasons:
1. In the final stage, walking through that creepy yellowish cave where with NO sound excpept the occasional drop of acid from the ceiling.
2. Beating Dr. Wily with bubble man, and then he's revealed and throws himself on the ground and begs for forgiveness.
3. The closing sequence, where megaman is walking through the seasons (rain, falling leaves, snow) and his helmet keeps changing colors as he walks along a desolate road. 2x the choke-up.

Catching the falling boss wand in Super Mario Bros. 3 before it can bounce.

Dhaslim (streching limbs, yogas flame and fire, etc.)

Ultimate (*Ultimate*) combos in Killer Instinct.

Any interactions with the grim reaper in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

The entirety of Final Fantasies III and II, the two best video games ever made, respectively.

Most recently (i only get to play video games when i visit my parents house) the Prince of Persia games have several rowdy moments.

poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 5 November 2005 05:35 (nineteen years ago)

All the 32 bit Final Fantasy games suck ass and are for yu gi oh gamer morons. NO STRATEGY OR EFFORT REQUIRED.

you are a fucking idiot.

poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 5 November 2005 05:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.defunctgames.com/pic/reviewpics/reviewprimalrage32x-2.jpg

rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 5 November 2005 06:29 (nineteen years ago)

wow...

the more i drink, the more i remember: Twisted Metal

poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 5 November 2005 06:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.oriax.com/images/011_a.gif

poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 5 November 2005 06:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://terror.snm-hgkz.ch/mirrors/www.thegia.com/mirror/nes/zelda2/media/zd2-1.gif

poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 5 November 2005 06:39 (nineteen years ago)

Begging death in the Sims2, and it working, and death brings the person back to life. hahaha so funny.

Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 5 November 2005 06:47 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.webmagic.com/klov.com/images/11/1108165837.jpg

rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 5 November 2005 06:47 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.teamtotallyawesome.com/images/articles/nes/base_wars.gif

poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 5 November 2005 06:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v644/spido/Kung_Fu_NES_ScreenShot3.jpg

poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 5 November 2005 06:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.videogamecritic.net/images/nes/ice_hockey.gif

poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 5 November 2005 06:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.juegomania.org/Mutant+League+Football/fotos/genesis/0/484/Foto+Mutant+League+Football.jpg

poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 5 November 2005 07:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.futuregamez.net/special/update10/tjande.jpg

poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 5 November 2005 07:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.juegomania.org/Mutant+League+Football/fotos/genesis/0/484/Foto+Mutant+League+Football.jpg

poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 5 November 2005 07:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.consoleclassix.com/info_img/Narc_NES_ScreenShot2.jpg

poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 5 November 2005 07:04 (nineteen years ago)

the top gun midi music at the opening screen of the 8-bit nintendo version. also blades of steel, that had a memorable opener as well.

Peter Densmore (pbnmyj), Sunday, 6 November 2005 03:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/newanswers.php?board=99

Laura H. (laurah), Sunday, 6 November 2005 04:09 (nineteen years ago)

yea, the mini-boss in the final stage of contra that spits those feather balls is also pretty classic. my dad used to refer to it as "the penis with horns."

poortheatre (poortheatre), Sunday, 6 November 2005 07:20 (nineteen years ago)

Shooting people in the arse in Goldeneye.

wombatX (wombatX), Monday, 7 November 2005 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

Best bit of any computer game ever. Spoilers allowed.

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 7 November 2005 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

There's a moment in "Medal of Honor: Allied Assault" where your character finally battles his way to a room where he's greeted by a trim brunette. I, a gentleman, holstered my gun in deference to the situation. She says "there's no use for your gun here, it makes too much noise!" and your character immediately DRAWS his silenced pistol in her face! Cut to loading screen.

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 7 November 2005 04:44 (nineteen years ago)

i second mega man 2. i haven't played it in like 10 years but i'm almost misting up right now thinking about how weird and mysterious and somehow right that ending was.

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 7 November 2005 06:29 (nineteen years ago)

Entering a space station in Elite without using the docking computer.

wombatX (wombatX), Monday, 7 November 2005 07:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://62.168.142.47/~lemon/games/screenshots/full/samantha_fox_strip_poker_06.gif

wombatX (wombatX), Monday, 7 November 2005 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

Foxy!

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 7 November 2005 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

when you find that huuuge serpent dead and impaled on the pole in ffvii and you realise what a beast sephiroth really is.

the music for robocop on the amstrad.

nearly all of link's awakening.

breaking records in olympic gold

d.arraghmac, Monday, 7 November 2005 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

when you find that huuuge serpent dead and impaled on the pole in ffvii and you realise what a beast sephiroth really is.

the music for robocop on the amstrad.

nearly all of link's awakening.

breaking records in olympic gold

d.arraghmac, Monday, 7 November 2005 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

somebody asked for real if they could join [ILX] yesterday. huzzah. (i said no)

g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 7 November 2005 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

mm, wrong thread. fucking brain. i shall spam it to the right thread in a moment. just act like nothing happened. k thx bye.

g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 7 November 2005 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

when shane warne cricket for the mega drive used to crash (LIKE EVERY TEN SECONDS) and it looked like the ball went past the boundary and into an acid trip

also this gold rush game on an ye olde apple mac that we had to play at school (because i was in BENDIGO, OSTRAYA world capital of stupid hicks at the time) where i was the only one smart enough not the get caught in the quicksand trying to find THE BIG GOLD NUGGET while owning shares in some chinese bloke's garden

ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Monday, 7 November 2005 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

One of my favourite 8-bit games was a slightly bizarre 2-d hunt-the-objects thing called Starquake. And, one of the best - and strangest - bits, was that if you selected "quit" from the main menu, it would display a picture of an octopus in a space suit for a few seconds, with the message "Say goodbye to Olly!", before resetting the computer.

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 7 November 2005 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

so i'm playing chrono trigger now!! (yes yes, 4shame)

i ws all like yeah this is ok ("time for u to jump off this mortal coil, frog!" = class) but wasnt getting the magic.

then i get to TEH TRIAL!! oh my days the chancellor is banging me over with these witnesses, aah its too much

hold tight the private caller (mwah), Monday, 7 November 2005 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

I liked that bit in TMNT when Krang fellated Michaelangelo and then Vernon ejaculated mutagen cuz he was watching

turtlefan, Monday, 7 November 2005 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

Dude! THE CHRONO TRIGGER TRIAL!! They actually found me innocent once. That chancellor bastard still locked me up, though.

poortheatre (poortheatre), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

And, one of the best - and strangest - bits, was that if you selected "quit" from the main menu, it would display a picture of an octopus in a space suit for a few seconds, with the message "Say goodbye to Olly!", before resetting the computer.

it did? this almost - almost - makes me consider firing up the iMac, where Fuse lives, to check. was this the spectrum version?

i think my single favourite gaming moment ever was seeing this:

http://www.bhlegend.com/screenshots/Spectrum%20Jet%20Set%20Willy%20Screenshot%2001prev.gif

simply because my mate's copy somehow didn't have the little protection card thing, and rather than go back to the shop and ask for it, we spent most of an afternoon guessing at colour codes, reloading, guessing, reloading ... until suddenly, with odds of ... it can't be as low as 256 to 1, surely? ... we got in.

of course, we ended up in the attic on the first go. and you know what that meant ...

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

Grimly, that's genius! Turning copy protection into part of the game.

I used to draw those cards out with felt pens. It would take hours but I'd get to steal the game and so worth it.

Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 00:37 (nineteen years ago)

I drew out the code "wheel" for Starflight.

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

what are you guys talking about!

Dan I., Tuesday, 8 November 2005 01:19 (nineteen years ago)

Turning copy protection into part of the game.

Actually my Amiga version of Elite was a non-cracked copy that asked for a word from the manual when you loaded it. I would keep re-booting until the word was 'TEH'.

wombatX (wombatX), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

beating metal gear solid

corey c. (shock of daylight), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

when i first played Starcraft with a friend, we were completely hooked and played it for hours. we had been constructing tanks but our faces lit up when we realized the pure destructive power when you converted the tank into a centurion cannon!

Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

was this the spectrum version?

No, the Amstrad one.

I was so pleased when I finally managed to win on Starquake. I can still remember most of the useful teleporter names.

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

any race game where you are neck and neck with another car (at break neck speeds of course) and you manage to position yourself slightly so that the other car suddenly slams into a road side obstacle. leaving you to cruise into that chequered flag, guilt free.

Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

remember most of the useful teleporter names

cheops

er ... er ... er ... FUCK, i know they're in there somewhere. come on, brain, it's not like you have anything useful to remember.

what are you guys talking about!

dan, you haven't lived.

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

Nah, cheops wasn't a teleporter, it was the little object-swapping pyramid things that you could only use if you had an access card. The teleporters were all five letters:

elixa
dulon
talis
quore

(quore was the most important, obv)

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

In Myst 3, near the end, when you you trap Brad Dourif with a cunning force-field combination. He stares, astonished, up at you in your control-balcony thing, and there's a few seconds of pure wonderful silence when you both realise that you just fucking out-eviled him.

chrisco (chrisco), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 05:34 (nineteen years ago)

when i first played Starcraft with a friend, we were completely hooked and played it for hours. we had been constructing tanks but our faces lit up when we realized the pure destructive power when you converted the tank into a centurion cannon!

oh man, i remember how excited i was when i figured that out! best weapon in the game.

s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 05:42 (nineteen years ago)

1988. After having staying home ill with mono for several days I booted up the family "personal computer" (with the cruddy orange monitor) to play a game of centipede. I proceed to blow away all previous scores. By the time I was done the entire family had returned home from school/work and were cheering me on. Lamest "best video game moment" ever but it's the one that sticks out most for me.

Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 05:57 (nineteen years ago)

Haha yes!! I can't believe it's taken this long for somebody to post something like that.

I think my best ever video game moment was pwning "Clowns and Balloons" on the TRS-80 to the point where I

FLIPPED THE SCORE

That was the first night I had the famous video game dreams.

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

Fun fact: centipede was the first arcade game designed by a woman!

Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 06:54 (nineteen years ago)

I have to say, the slow-mo jumping in Everything or Nothing on the cube. It's James Bond meets Max Payne. Quite a solid game. Piercing the butt, anyone?

Also: ICO, the entire game. Grande classique, as the French wouldn't say.

Recent Bubba, Monday, 14 November 2005 01:32 (nineteen years ago)


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