Your top 3 gaming memories

3. FFVII. Escaping from Shinra HQ, on a motorbike!
2. Metal Gear Solid. Plugging the controller in port 2 to beat psycho mantis
1. Secret of Mana. Flammie coming to your rescue from from the burning castle

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1. Stepping out into Kokiri Forest for the first time in Ocarina of Time. Breathtaking

2. Downpour level in Gears of War at 1am with headphones on an HDTV. Stunning

3. Phenandra Drifts in Metroid Prime and its music. Incredible.

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1) Seeing Space Invaders for the first time in the summer of 1979.
2) Gibbing a Shambler in Quake.
3) Leaving the sewers in Oblivion.

1. First time I played Super Mario 64
2. First time I played Shenmue
3. Four Player Mario Kart 64 Competition with neighbours all summer!

1. Playing Majora's Mask for the first time and being completely transfixed.

2. Finally beating the Elite Four on Pokemon Red

3. An especially recent one, but completing Hotel Dusk was a bittersweet moment. Joy at having completed it, but sadness at having to leave its world...

PostRe: Your top 3 gaming memories by **Cropolite** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:18 pm

1. Going up the elevator to MGS1's Heliport.
2. Strut A Roof of MGS2.
3. The BDU disguise in MGS2.

PostRe: Your top 3 gaming memories by **Alpha eX** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:22 pm

1) The N64 Years
The best gaming memory for me has to be the years I spent with the N64, so many great multiplayer games always with 3 of my best friends, great fun and many hours spent together playing some of the best mutliplayer games, Mario Kart, Golden Eye, Perfect Dark. Brilliant times.

2) Broken Sword
"Paris in the fall, the last months of the year, at the end of the millenium. The city holds many memories for me, of music, of cafes, of love, and of death."

What an adventure! I was young at the time and I really enjoyed all the puzzles, exploration, adventure and story this game offered. It was my first point and click adventure and what a great one to start with. I played the demo with my brother, we were both hooked and tried to find the game in store, it was impossible to find. Eventually we found it in a second hand store, I was so excited, my mum got it for us and we played the whole game together. I don't really speak much with my brother so this is a great memory of us spending time together.

3) Final Fantasy 7
I wasn't very well during one summer, I spent a lot of time indoors, one of my friends brought round a game, FF7, we played it for a while, I was blown away! My friend had to take the game out but I got it the next day. I spent ages on that game, it was brilliant start to finish.

PostRe: Your top 3 gaming memories by **Hulohot** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:23 pm

1- Metal Gear Solid 3 Ending
2- Silent Hill 2
3- Demo 1- Including Kula World and Tombi.

Oh and Broken Sword also. And all of Oblivion.

PostRe: Your top 3 gaming memories by **Crimson** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 3:40 pm

1. All of Grim Fandango but in particular, the ending - The first game in which I cared for the characters and the first game I played which evoked such strong emotional responses. I was genuinely sad when it ended.

2. The climax of Phoenix Wright 3 - What else can I say apart from amazing scenes.

3. Driving down off the Callaghan Bridge at the beginning of GTA III and into Portland - A huge city to explore and what seemed like endless possibilities.

PostRe: Your top 3 gaming memories by **Prototype** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 3:42 pm

1. Opening my PlayStation 2 w/Gran Turismo 3 on Christmas Day. I had no idea I was getting one.

2. Holding a Wii remote for the first time

3. Everything in Gears of War.

PostRe: Your top 3 gaming memories by **Drumstick** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:04 pm

1) The Perfect Dark multiplayer wars

Back in the summer of 2000 and through to 2001, my friends and I were utterly obsessed with PD, to the point where we'd regularly test out scenarios during the week to see how they would fare in multiplayer, for the weekend. For a an entire year, our weekends were dominated by this game. Its endlessly customisable gameplay just kept us coming back for more every single time. After we'd played a fair bit of multi we moved on to the single player to see who could speed run the missions the fastest, practising during the week to turn up at the weekend with a brand new set of records, only see us all destroy them later on when we found some new time saving tricks.

2) Finally playing Ocarina of Time in 2005

I'm not quite sure why it took so long but I finally played this a few years ago. It still stood up brilliantly, and I'm thinking of replaying it again soon.

3) NGC's I'm The Best

The gaming competition which turned into a phenomenon. Plenty of genuine laugh out loud moments, great banter, fantastic set of people, 'nuff said.

This'll take to long to think through properly so I'll plump for one from each generation I've been a part of.

N64 era

Multiplayer Saturdays with brothers and friends. Back when I used to have friends they always used to come around my house early on a Saturday and while the N64 wasn't the only thing we did, playing the likes of Perfect Dark and No Mercy was absolutely brilliant fun. No Mercy especially we got totally enthralled in creating our own factions and then battling one another in the create a PPV. Great couch gaming that sadly hasn't been replicated since.

GC era

When Wind Waker came out my Zelda fanboyism was really coming into effect. I remember this was the first game I had ever ordered online and I did so from Game, when it came on the Tuesday before its Friday release I was absolutely flabbergasted and cracked it open before school to watch the intro. I was totally blown away, the music, the tapestry, the Legend. Then after that taking my first steps in what I still think is the best looking world ever created, oh my it was utterly joyous.

Current era

Tricky one this because there have been so many moments, I was going to plump for the day I got my Wii and playing Twilight Princess, Red Steel and Wii Sports for the first time. Each one offered something new and spectacular, I had finished all my uni work early I had spoken to some guys on here and then when it game I had a whole Christmas of joyous gaming ahead of me. However I think I'm probably going to have to plump for the Cookie level on Mario Galaxy. The anticipation leading up to getting the game was pretty immense and after having fun in Good Egg I remember plopping into this Galaxy and just realising how many ideas were going to be packed into this game.

Good times, I'll probably do more later.

PostRe: Your top 3 gaming memories by **Loire** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:47 pm

1. Playing Final Fantasy VII. There's so much I could say about this game, and you'd have heard it all already if I did. No game has come close to beating this as my favourite

!

2. Playing Shenmue. Again, anything I could say you'd have heard before, it's such an experience, and was closely tied with Final Fantasy VIII for the second spot! Just running around Dobuita, seeing everyone go about their business, with the amazing soundtrack on in the back ground. There's nothing like it.

3. Four play co-op on Halo 3, earlier this year. Rich, Joer, Rog and myself. I think we went from 12-7:30 or something, didn't we chaps? Singing Skyrockets In Flight half way through :lol:

! Such an great experience. Really fond of that memory

!

PostRe: Your top 3 gaming memories by **RandomHero** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:58 pm

1. Half-Life Episode 2

Any of the epic battles, coming back into the daylight and fighting 2 antlion guards, the battles against he Hunters, the massive end fight. Seriously the best 4 or so hours of gaming I have ever had.

2. Devil May Cry 3

The Virgil fights, especially the final one on normal difficulty, trickster style - doing the teleport towards enemy thing and him doing the same so lots of darting around ridiculously fast. Also, the first time doing Dance Macabre.

3. Zelda - Twilight Princess

The horse back battles were just so fun, using the pointer to shoot arrows while riding was amazingly cool as well. Any of the big sword fights were really good and I just loved the game.

Do I have to limit it to 3 because there are other things I can think of, Wii Sports for the first time, Super Mario Galaxy, Banjo Kazooie (I love that game so much), Portal, the speed of F-Zero GX and others.

PostRe: Your top 3 gaming memories by **Vermin** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 6:07 pm

1. My Amiga. My lovely, lovely Amiga.
2. My first go on Goldeneye.
3. Discovering that it was quite easy to strawberry float around with the .ini file for Command & Conquer: Generals, and change the way units behaved. Those artillery units don't have enough range - sorted. That nuke does pathetic damage - well now it takes out everything on a quarter of the map. Lost myself for days on end making the Command & Conquer I always wanted.

PostRe: Your top 3 gaming memories by **Ironhide** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 6:09 pm

1. Seeing Virtua Racing Deluxe (32X) in action for the first time on a Christmas morning, the console was a steaming turd which broke 3 weeks later but the game just looked and sounded so good at the time I was blown away.

2. Shenmue - The whole game just felt so immersive that there were brief moments when I genuinely thought I was wandering round 80's Japan instead of sitting in my bedroom playing a game.

3. The genuine feelings of guilt & remorse that the ending of Shadow of the Colossus caused, the only time a game has had this effect on me.

Corazon de Leon

Might be worth sticking a spoiler warning up if you're talking about game endings, I haven't played SotC, or FFVII(

) and plan to in the near future, you see. Anyway, my three are here. Not individual memories as such, or even linked to a particular game. It's probably debateable whether or not you could call them gaming memories but I can't think about my gaming memories without thinking of the multiplayer games I've had, and few games themselves have inspired the kind of good memories I have of this:

1. N64 - GC multiplayer:

I was going to put Perfect Dark here, but it wasn't just that game. We started early, with Mario Kart and Goldeneye, me, a few of my friends and eventually my brother as well. We'd get together at the weekends, in the evening mostly, and just play for hours on end. Great fun was had, and although I was the best at the majority of games, we had a strawberry floating riot, and continued to play various multiplayer games right up until the end of the Gamecube's life. If you can think of a good multiplayer game on either of those consoles, one of my group of friends had it; everything from Goldeneye to Timesplitters 3. Good times, which probably won't come around again, sadly.

2. Early live days - 2004 - 2007

Playing live originally on the black behemoth Xbox was a blast. In the earliest days, a few of the chaps over at Wakinglimb would play Halo and PGR2, and although the games eventually stopped, it was such good fun jumping on and firing into a ranked match or a big race that I'll never forget it. Latterly, the PG crew would play the two games, and we even drafted Drumstick in for a while, although we never did get him on Halo...

Then the 360 came out and the GR lot ended up on my friends list. I've spoken and played games with some top class people on live, and they know who they are. The PES sessions, Perfect Dark Zero, even with all it's flaws, Gears of War, I had fantastic times with a lot of games released in the first year of the 360. Sadly, it seems that they're coming to an end. The occasional Street Fighter session with Aaron and Schminky, or a GoW game that I'll insert myself into now and again are the last links to the good old days of nightly Live games.

3. Guitar Hero/Rock Band

This sounds pretty sad, but it's the only game series I've ever been able to visibly watch myself get better at, and it's a good feeling. I remember the first time I really bothered to see the game in action, and actually buying it a little while later. I was horrendously gooseberry fool at it, but as the weeks went by and I persisted, I beat easy mode, then I struggled thorugh medium and into hard mode, before the second game was released. Eventually, I was able to just about finish expert mode in the second game. Once the third one came out, I played it nonstop for a long time - it's a lot of fun, regardless of whether it was better than the second or not. Rock Band, of course, blew everything out of the water, and the co-op career that I finished with my brother is easily one of the best things I've ever done in gaming, not just because of the size of the career itself, or the fact that we were able to finish it on the hardest difficulty without really pushing ourselves, but because it never really felt like a chore. It lasted over two months and we both really enjoyed playing the game.

PostRe: Your top 3 gaming memories by **Xeno** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 7:49 pm

1. My first go on Elite and all I could think was WOW.

2. Laughing my arse off at some of the things said by Manny Calavera.

3. Being blown away during my first (of many) run(s) through Halflife 2 and wanting more.

PostRe: Your top 3 gaming memories by **Crimson** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 7:52 pm

Xeno wrote:
2. Laughing my arse off at some of the things said by Manny Calavera.

Damn right, subtle comedy genius.

PostRe: Your top 3 gaming memories by **coldspice** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 8:01 pm

3. Playing Mario64 and being blown away, a feeling that I have got nowhere close to since.

2. Playing GTAIII, I hadn't seen any of the hype and simply got it because I loved the first two on PC.

1. Spending many a summer at my Grandparent's playing SMB3, and never getting past Pipe Land :lol:

Although I've managed to complete it several times since, and is really the only game that I could play through 100 times and never get bored!

I'm also one of probably very very few people who were introduced to gaming by their Grandma! :lol:

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