Most Rememberal experience with games

[Urban Ranger]

Ultima 3 was so hard. For a while my party kept running into dragons and getting destroyed.

[Mr. President]

The first time I encountered Yoshi in Super Mario World. He's so cute.

[CapitanGarlic]

Watching the first elevator-full of scientists fall to their doom in Half-Life.

[Traianvs]

One of my favourite things about Caesar II was the guy sayig those place names. For some reason "Africa Proconsularis" sticks in my mind the most.

Yep, now you mention that... my favourite would be Germania Superior, or Hispania Tarraconensis...

Btw, did you know that you could rule over Latium? which was pretty easy as you didn't have to build up a provincial army , no extra costs on those costly slingers sure helps, and unhappiness was nearly nonexistent (so jacking up that pop tax to 9% was no problem), no surprise my greatest city was in Latium... nearly the whole city map was full of theaters, circuses (maximum of course) etc... i think i had more than 10 palaces (the biggest house form with 500 inhabitants )

[St Leo]

The San Andreas faul in the Duke3D demo.

[JohnT]

Loved Ultima 3 - I really enjoyed the "feature" where, once you had the Rot spell, you could go to some town on an island to the SE of the continent, steal every chest in this huge room of chests, and make it out alive even though the guards chased you down like the dog you were. It was pretty tiresome after a couple of hours, but you loaded up on the gold and weapons which made for a much quicker game.

But my favorite game experience comes in the arcade... 1983, playing Robotron: 2084 for 6 straight hours on one quarter to win an Atlanta-wide arcade contest. I gave the machine such a sound thrashing that I literally lost my game when I rolled-over* my extra men, giving me 0 lives.

*On the old arcade games, you could cause some big problems if certain variables went over 255 (rolling over). This was a problem because... hell, I don't remember now, but it had to do with the (8-bit, I think) processors lack of ability in handling numbers higher than 255. In Pac Man, if you got to the 256th level, the game would crash. In Robotron, if you got to the 256th level, it would start over at wave 1.

And yes, I accomplished both.

[Skanky Burns]

Well done!

Yes, its caused by the 8-bit number being all 1's. 11111111 + 1 = 100000000 but as the comp only has 8 bits to store that 9-bit number, it only sees 00000000, or 0. In Dune2, the magic number is 32,767, after which it rolls over to -32,768.

[Rasbelin]

Hmmm...

Civ - don't need to explain; everything!
Civ II - no specific, but all MP sessions
MOHAA - first succesful escape from Fort Schmerzen

[Sarxis]

Thief and System Shock 2 were both very engrossing. Very good story lines.

Morrowind is turning out to be great for me too. I guess I just have enough imagination to get into that game

[FlameFlash]

Escape Velocity: Mac game...

Just beating the alien mission (hunt and blow up) as well as teaming up with the rebels and flying around in one of their massive carriers as my personal ship.