Your top 3 gaming memories

Minty14 wrote: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 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!

I so agree with 3 and 2, both such awesome games, i also almost had zero hype for gta3 and got it months after its release because i thought it was crap even though i hardly knew anything anything about it, best gta by a country mile!

PostRe: Your top 3 gaming memories by **coldspice** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 8:07 pm

consolegaming wrote:
Minty14 wrote: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 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!

I so agree with 3 and 2, both such awesome games, i also almost had zero hype for gta3 and got it months after its release because i thought it was crap even though i hardly knew anything anything about it, best gta by a country mile!

Agreed, even though I love GTA4, it comes nowhere close to 3 for the feeling i got when playing it.

Minty14 wrote:
consolegaming wrote:
Minty14 wrote: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 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!

I so agree with 3 and 2, both such awesome games, i also almost had zero hype for gta3 and got it months after its release because i thought it was crap even though i hardly knew anything anything about it, best gta by a country mile!

Agreed, even though I love GTA4, it comes nowhere close to 3 for the feeling i got when playing it.

Yep, even now gta3 tops it, i dunno but it has something special about it

Its the music, the characters and gameplay that mesh so well and make the game truly great, gta4 was in comparison trying to go too realistic, i dont want to have to brake well in advance of handbraking around a corner, this is a game, not real life!

PostRe: Your top 3 gaming memories by **Rik** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 8:10 pm

Outrun in the arcade, jaw dropping and looked years ahead of everything else at the time.

Halo Xbox, got my new Xbox home on launch night and just wow, defining moment of the generation on day one, [10] indeed.

Xbox 360 launch night, new console with Call Of Duty 2, Quake IV, PGR3, PD0, Condemned and Kameo. HD gaming was here and a great way to kick off a new generation.

PostRe: Your top 3 gaming memories by **Agent47** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 8:14 pm

1) Resident Evil on PS1 for the first time, at 6am on a dark Christmas morning - with the lights off.

2) That moment in Silent Hill 2 when you're hiding in the cupboard. :shock:

3) That other moment in Silent Hill 2 in the hotel: "wait, you mean I have to go down there with no weapons, no radio AND no torch?" :shock:

3. Super Mario Galaxy. The whole damn game.

2. Over The Distance. The brilliant thing about this was that I was playing Ouendan and I only knew one other person with the game. I emailed him and we were discussing how amazing it was, and then he said "have you got to the level with the guy and the motorbike yet?" I said "no", and he said "oh, man...just you wait". And it was even more wonderful than I hoped.

1. Completing Alien Breed on the Amiga in co-op with my friend, New Zealand Nick (that's what we all called him, for obvious reasons) over the course of a summer's afternoon. We put the joysticks down at the end and just hugged each other. Nick had to go back to New Zealand a year or so after that, but I'll never, ever forget that afternoon.

PostRe: Your top 3 gaming memories by **Rax** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 8:26 pm

1. Ocarina Of Time. All of it. Gaming at its finest.

2. First time playing the warthog escape on Halo:CE. Great finish to the game, and a very nice change of pace.

2. Super Mario Land. First game I finished, can still rememebr the exact moment I beat the last boss, Itll stay with me forever.

Completing Sonic 2 for the first time. It had taken me weeks to get to that point in the game, a fortnight just to finish Chemical Plant, so finishing the game felt like such a huge achievement at the time.

Playing Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 2: Rogue Leader on the GameCube just before my birthday in mid-2003. Having previously only known 64-bit graphics, the game absolutely blew my socks off and I must've played it solidly for the next two weeks.

Phoenix Wright. I have so many amazing memories for all three instalments, but perhaps the greatest was from the final case of the otherwise sub-standard Justice For All. Anybody who has gone through that case will agree that that moment was a high point for the whole series.

PostRe: Your top 3 gaming memories by **Schumi** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 8:54 pm

- Playing Grand Prix 2 for the 1st time

- Final Fantasy 7 scene where Cloud rediscovers who he really is.

- Metal Gear Solid 1, all of it.

PostRe: Your top 3 gaming memories by **Starwulf** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:33 pm

- Playing Super Mario Brothers on my brand new NES my Dad got me for Christmas, it was so awesome compared to the spectrum games I was used to. I remember not realising you had to press a button to jump, just assuming pressing up on the D-pad would make Mario jump thanks to years of playing spectrum games with a joystick. :lol:

- Playing Mario 64 for the first time. My jaw hit the floor.

- Emerging from the tunnels in Oblivion, realising you could go anywhere in this massive world and do pretty much everything. This is what I expected from next-gen. Oblivion is the only game with a timer I've ever sunk over 100 hours into.

PostRe: Your top 3 gaming memories by **Daniel** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:28 am

- Being hooked on Park Patrol on the C64

- Co-op on Streets of Rage on Mega Drive

- Discovering Goldenye

PostRe: Your top 3 gaming memories by **JiggerJay** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:48 am

For me it's the simple things,

one that will stick with me for a long time will be fully 100% burnout revenge on the 360, there was one time trial event i could not get the 5 star rating in what ever i tried, but the relief of getting it after spending about 12 hours in total trying to get it, it was an unbelievable feeling, some guys i have put the effort into fully complete, which isn't many due to my lack of concentration, however it really does pay for some games.

Grim Fandango's amazing scenes, dialoge and characters will stick with me for a very long time, it is the piniacle of my whole gaming persona, a real fine achievement by Tim, who signed my copy back in the day! but i remember completing it for the first time, and just sitting back and going wow! that was strawberry floating amazing, it really was a great story, and was told is such style, and it took a certain type of gamer to appreciate the work of the Lucas art guys, i see we have quite a few of you here now!

There are so many things i can pick for my third choice, it could be midnight launch for many games, meeting some pretty kick ass people in the industry and even in some case having a one on one talk with some, like the guy who created Cannon Fodder (John hare) i believe his name was, or just simply having fun with co-op over xbox live, me and a good mate use to always play stuff like splinter cell - double agent, halo 2 and even Pro evo. But my third mention probabily has to be playing GTA 3 for the first time, I was a huge gta fan back in the day, i have managed to get them all on launch (the console ones anyway) eventhough for the first few i was pretty underage! But getting the PS2 and GTA 3 on the launch day of gta 3 was absolutly amazing, it was a groundbreaking game, that will never be forgotten. It is still to this day one of the biggest franchises there is, but GTA 3 was something different and was just staggering when you first load it up!

PostRe: Your top 3 gaming memories by **Crimson** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:52 am

JiggerJay wrote:Grim Fandango's amazing scenes, dialoge and characters will stick with me for a very long time, it is the piniacle of my whole gaming persona, a real fine achievement by Tim, who signed my copy back in the day! but i remember completing it for the first time, and just sitting back and going wow! that was strawberry floating amazing, it really was a great story, and was told is such style, and it took a certain type of gamer to appreciate the work of the Lucas art guys, i see we have quite a few of you here now!

You met Tim Schafer!? :shock:

PostRe: Your top 3 gaming memories by **Drumstick** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:05 am

Corazon wrote: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...

Never.

Corazon de Leon

I am still confident that we will see you on Halo. :mrgreen:

PostRe: Your top 3 gaming memories by **Kanbei** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:17 am

Difficult to pick out 3 that really stand out, but I'll give it a go.

-Perfect Dark Multiplayer, me and my brothers only played one map (Skedar) did it matter, no, it was still the greatest and funniest map in history. We just never got bored with it.

- Halo 3, 4 player legendary co-op online, me and 3 of my best mates did every single level. Resulting in an epic warthog race online, just before the other warthog reached the end, I shot their wheels and he spun it round and round and we got there first 8-)

I still have it saved in my saved films. That level and The Covenant were just 2 of the best levels in history. I will never ever forget it.

- Zelda: WindWaker, all of it (except the triforce hunting and obviously the sailing), there will never be another Zelda game like it, just an absolute and utter joy

PostRe: Your top 3 gaming memories by **Jax** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:27 am

No specific moments for me. But luckily, i know when i see a good game, so no duff ones.

PostRe: Your top 3 gaming memories by **Lotus** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:44 am

- The music on Final Zone in Sonic 1 scaring the hell out of me when I was 5.

- Seeing/playing GTA III for the first time.

- Link meeting Zelda for the first time in Ocarina of Time. The closest a game has come to being a fairytale.

1. Silent Hill 2: sitting in a darkened room playing it with headphones.
2. Metal Gear Solid 2: The Colonel telling me to turn the console off and do something else with my time. :lol:

3. Portal.

1. What can change the nature of a man?
2. Ocarina Boss Battle
3. Hmm, now it gets tricky. So many great gaming moments left, so little space...

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