Your most memorable gaming moments...

[Kropotkin]

Oh yeah, the charity shield as well. Kind of forgot about that one as kicking Man U ass was a everyday expericence for me by then.

[Jamski]

Go on - what happened on your seventh birthday Spikie? You're itching to tell us

-Jam

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by War of Art
Go on - what happened on your seventh birthday Spikie? You're itching to tell us

-Jam

I got a shiny new spectrum 48K with a bunch of games. I had played Space Invaders a lot in the arcade and I had a copy of that with the comp, so that turned out to be the game I played most of that day.

[Traianvs]

The first few months I played SoF online, it was (after duke3d) the first shooter I started playing mulitplaying a lot, great athmosphere there...


Also: Conquering the entire Roman empire in Caesar2, including the regions (such as Hibernia etc) they never conquered... A surge of greatness overwhelmed me

Finishing Stonekeep (defeating Khull Kuum) was amazing.. the game just sucked me in every time, the creepy corridors and full of surprises...

There's much more but too much to mention..

[Alex]

- The first time I played Ultima VII. I had never played any of the Ultima games before. I couldn't believe it! The game had night and day! You could drink some booze in the local bar!

- The first time I played Civ2, at a friend's house. Only some few turns, but I knew I'd be a civer forever...

- The "Lost Valley" level in the first Tomb Raider, when you go over the rocks and start to wander in that huge outdoor environment; you see some huge footsteps in the ground, suddenly everything starts to shake and you hear that "thump! thump!" sound coming from the darkness ahead... And the T-Rex appears in front of you. I was so shocked and scared that poor Lara was immediately devoured by the beast.

- The first time I defeated a friend of mine in a FIFA game. We were playing by modem, and the game was surprisingly smooth (we didn't had good computers back then... hell, I don't have a good computer even now!). Anyway, I massacred Brazil playing with Germany, it was a 7-1 victory! He immediately typed in the chat: "I have to go now, we'll play again another day"...

[The Pioneer]

None was so memorable as seeing "Defender of the Crown" for the first time. I rushed out (rather I convinced my father) to buy an Amiga so I can play the game. I played and replayed the game and it was a joy everytime.

There were many more memorable moments Baldur's Gate 1, Golden Eye & Marion on N64 the first game of colonization and the first C&C.

So long...

[Sandman]

Skiving off gym to play four-player GoldenEye. And indeed much more from that game, the music, the silo level, proximity mines, god, it was great.

Hong Kong/Versalife in Deus Ex.

Pretty much all of Max Payne.

Discovering an uninhabited continent in civ, and successfully colonizing it. Gets me every time.

Europa Universalis: Taking a two province Prussia in 1492, and transforming it into the world's most powerful nation by 1792.

Europa Universalis 2: Persia. 'Nuff said.

The dragons in Baldur's Gate 2. The first time, the dragon had wiped out my party for the umpteenth time, except for Mazzy, who managed to slay it with her last arrow as it was bearing down on her.

Completing Starfox 64 on the hard route.

The nebula levels on Homeworld, particularly if you managed to steal the unique enemy ships.

Blowing up a star destroyer with my B-wing, before defeating wave after wave of TIE advanced, before finally destroying a frigate practically on my own, using just lasers, in X-wing.

[Ben Kenobi]

First time I started playing civ 1.

I especially liked my House rule game where I could not switch production, and still pummeling all the computer players.

Beating the Jester scenario on Impossible and King of the Hill in HoMM 1.

Pummeling a friend on Power Rangers battle mode 8 or 9 times in a row.

Building three towns within a week in a rich HOMM 2 scenarios to Mansions, and buying 30 Vampire Lords/ turn.

[Static Universe]

First defeat of the final alien base in X-com.

First transcend victory on Alpha Centauri

Just about any game of 2-player Archon on the C-64

[SCG]

When i first figured on on Civ I how to keep my cities out of disorder in Democracy (Playing the Greeks on Warlord)

When i found the bug in Civ I that if you saved the game in the autosave slot, every one of your units got its movement restored. Only used that bug once - for one of those absolute limit games - in 3980 BC on an earth map i had 11 cities, railroad and had revolted towards democracy already. (that also falls under the never again category )

When i finally won with the Secret of the Silver Blades (or was that Pool of Darkness?) and found the optional 2 extra battles after victory- and then after several attempts survived those 2 battles

The first time i won an OCC (One City Challenge) game in Civ II

The first time i made max level on an online MUD (and was the first rogue to do it after a major code change)
When i was the first Magus on a different MUD to make max level
The first time i burned out on Mudding and deleted all my characters including 2 high ranking guild-leaders

The first time i found a defender sword in Moria and could see invisible monsters.
The first time i tried to save a game in Moria on my friend's floppy disk - he said there was no room left on it and he was right - my save overwrote moria.exe

[Zkribbler]

In Civ 1, exploring a new continent only to find a much more advanced France civilization thriving there. I converted all my research over to taxes, and began sending spies into bribe the locals into revolting. One by one, I knocked off the French cities, gaining advances as I went. Luckily, Paris was at the end of a peninsula. I sent my newly discovered armor units down the peninsula and overpowered the French defenders in Paris before French reinforcements could break through my lines.

The "Bunker Hill Blues" scenario of Strikefleet opens with my cruiser on the high seas. Beep--a warning that the enemy has fired either a missile or a topedo at me. Beep. But I see nothing. Beep. I switch from radar to sonar. Beep. Still, I see nothing. Beep. I switch back to radar. Beep. And zoom out. Beep. Still nothing. I zoom out some more. Beep. I switch back to sonar to see if I missed something. Beep. Nothing underwater. Beep. Back to radar. Beep. Zoom out to maximum. Beep. There they are: two Russian cruisers! Beep. --And a string of a least a dozen ship-to-ship missiles heading my way! The most exciting beginning of any computer game I ever played!

Duke Snyder crushing a grand slam home run to led the Brooklyn Dodgers to a World Series championship against the vile New York Yankees.

In Fields of Glory, ordering my Third Corp commander to advance and having him do just that--a valient one-man attack on the British right flank.

[FlameFlash]

1. Mario Kart (for the SNES).

My cousin and I were vacationing at our grandparents' house for June or July and on a rainy day we played and played this game. Neither of us had ever beaten it yet, and with a racing team approach we were able to win.

I was the better driver and he was the better fighter so he'd hang back and pick off the guys by trying to stay in 2 or 3rd while I just went full tilt for the finish.

2. Mario Kart 64

I'd just bought my N64, used, with only this and Deadly Arts. Right away my cousin and I discovered that Deadly Arts kind of sucked and that I wasted money on it, but we still had Mario Kart.

His TV, however, wasn't stereo enabled so all I could do since I hadn't gotten a RF switch (since my TV at home was stereo enabled) was just plug in the video and try plugging in one of the sound sides... didn't work... we didn't get any sound at all.

Instead we just had a blast yelling at each other, trying to make up sound effects and yelling at the game all while laughing.

Great times.

Probably more, but I'll move on for now.

[thinkingamer]

uh.....
In Magic:tg casting a x=9 earthquake, when i had 11 life w/ no creature, while my opponents had 3, 5 creatures each with less than 9 lives......=double win

beating broken alliance in impossible within 3.5 months...my greatest HoMM achievement.

[ColdWizard]

I remember beating Fallout 2, that was cool. I don't remember what the ending of BG2 was like, but I remember killing a bunch of fire giants with only my main character (in the beginning of the expansion)

[Cruddy]

Finishing Eye of the Beholder II on the Amiga. It was a beta test and the end sequence was missing.

My saved games weren't compatible with the finished product.

I was gutted... but it taught me not to take games so seriously.

Finishing Wings was a bit of a marathon too...