Ok people here we go. What do you feel was your finest hour in video gaming? What game (and system) were you playing that just made you feel glad you spent the money to own it? For me it would have to be when I first got my Playstation. The first game I bought was Resident Evil Director's cut(i got my PSX waaay after its launch..obivously). I spent one week on that game and beat it by the 7th day. (Sunday i had begun on a monday). When it was all over I was glad I spent the cash. There were other moments but ill share those after I hear what you've all got to say. Play hard score high!

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Way back when I got Street Fighter II for Super NES. Still one of my favorites.

SSX, when I managed to get over 360,000 points in one trick. :) I was dancing around the room, laughing my ass off.

There've been others, I'm sure, but that's the most recent one that comes to mind.

Ditto. I bought the system SPECIFICALLY for that game.

Also when I was VERY young we had this system called IntelliVision (pre-NES days obviously...I think it coexisted with the Atari systems?) and I was the master at Tron: Deadly Discs. I could get to 1,000,000 points, and then at that stage of the game, a new enemy appeared: these orange guys who didn't throw discs but instead killed you by zapping you with these spears they held.

Does ANYBODY else remember Tron: Deadly Discs for IntelliVision ???

Beating Mike Tyson in the NES Punch-Out! game he was in...that's the first thing that pops into my mind. More recently, it would be beating some of the training levels in Virtua Tennis.

Yep. I own it (I love classics).

One of my shining moments was hitting 10,000,000 points in Robotron 2084 on my Atari 7800.

See - what I miss about classic gaming the most was the "high score" aspect of the game. Nowadays with games specifically designed to end and with no real point scoring whatsoever, the thrill has kinda dissipated for me.

That being said, the shining moments that stick out in my mind:

- "Turning over" Donkey Kong 3 (scoring over a million points) at Mert's Pizza and getting a free pizza and grinder as a result.

- "Turning over" Pac-man (Japanese version) also at Mert's Pizza

- "Turning over" Galaga TWICE also at Mert's Pizza (yes, I spent a lot of time and a lot of quarters there)

- Scoring over a million points on the Atari 2600 version of Pacman (when each eaten dot only scored you a single point)

- Beating "Dragon's Lair" for the very first time - unassisted by any "cheat book"

- Finding the original "bright line" graphics Star Wars game at a mall in Washington, D.C. and blowing up my first Death Star, with the stars whooshing away and Alec Guiness' line "May the force be with you . . . always" intoning over the closing march

. . . ah, classic gaming.

Beating Super Mario 3 in the days before game saves. The first time I made it to level nine my mom got so pissed off at me for playing the game and not coming to dinner that she unplugged the console and took it away!!!

I'm sure I almost had a stroke that night.

About a week after that she gave me the system back and I snuck out of bed at 1:00am to play the game all night long, and all day long as well. I think I finished it off at about 11:00pm that night. Almost 22 hours straight!! I still whistle the calypsoed up invincibility music to myself.

Honestly I'd have to go way back when I was a kid and I beat Super Mario Bros for nes. I was pretty young at the time and it was the first game I ever beat. I'll never forget that day.....(tear drops, tear drops) Now I just beat games like crazy.

Of all time, it has to be my mastery of the original Sonic The Hedgehog. I could get ALL 225 rings on the first level, and all the jewels.

Also, I completed Ys Book I & II on a rented TurboGrafx16/TurboGrafxCD system in one week. Possibly the greatest gaming experience of my life. I completed Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past for SNES in the same amount of time--another excellent game.

I've had a couple finest hours of video gaming:

1.) One of my friends bet me 10 bucks that i couldn't go through street figher 2 on SNES without taking a single point of damage, so i took him up on the offer. I had to put it on the hardest difficulty possible as well. Picked Ryu and beat the entire game, perfect every round. :) I was psyched, got 10 bucks, and my friend is now too afraid to fight me in any fighting game.

2.) In Chrono Trigger, after going through the game once, i beat Lavos just with Chrono with a wooden sword. 1 on 1, :) i was proud.

Todd

Jumping over the flag in SMB.

-Matt

Wow...I recall taking pictures of my television with my high scores in Atari games displayed on it, and then sending them in to Activision. There were a lot of those shining moments back then...

Oh I forgot to mention kicking ass every single time I play Super Smash Brothers. God, I love that game!

Well I share something with some of you I too remember beating SF2 on my SNES and kept on playing the hell out of it weeks after and through my summer vacation. Beating on level 7 meant you got the staff roll, and a character roll call of sorts. and this really cool song played during the credits. still brings back warm memories.

Mine has to do with arcade.... Pac man.. beating the high score and having mine riegn supreme for 5 months intill i beat it again. :)

no one could touch me!! I had Pac man fever

It has to be between finishing Star Control II on the 3DO and finishing Lunar the Silver Star on the Sega CD both games made the console worth buying. The toughest game I ever beat had to be either Ninja Gaiden or Side Pocket on the NES. I beat them once and never repeated it. Of course after going through the repetition and frustration of beating Ninja Gaiden I never wanted to play it again.

Most recent was getting through Serious Sam - what a great game...

Oh the good old days :).

I guess I'm most proud of beating Ms. Pac-Man on the NES, and I got over 1,000,000 points on the 2600 Pac-Man, kept playing, then got sick of it and turned it off. I was the Pac-Man master!!

I was rather proud of getting the "Holy Sh!t!" grind in Tony Hawk getting over 1,000,000 points from a single trick :D.

I think the only "big" accomplishment for me was scoring over 44 million points on Star Wars: The Arcade Game on the Atari 800 in 1984. It was a very mediocre translation to say the least, and the poor gameplay just didn't have the same feel as the actual arcade version.

Anyway, I spent over five hours playing it. Apparently the programmers didn't think anyone would do well enough to play beyond a certain level. So once you completed wave 99, it didn't start counting 100, 101, 102, etc., it was stuck at 99. So I had manually count in-between the waves. Also after wave 103 or so, you got stuck with the trench level from wave 12 endlessly, thus taking away any challenge. But this was probably more due to memory limitations than laziness.

I could've scored a lot higher, but I got so angry and bored that I just let my X-wing lose all its shields. :)

I'm proud of the following accomplishments:

1. Being able to consistently beat Mega Man 3 for NES w/o ever dying and w/o using any energy tanks

2. Being able to beat Street Fighter II Turbo on the hardest difficult and fastest speed (not counting the 10 star code trick) multiple times w/o losing any rounds with Ryu, Ken, Sagat

3. Being able to beat Zelda: Link to the Past for SNES w/o ever dying.

4. Beating Ozma in Final Fantasy IX on my first try. Of course I slightly cheated w/ some online hints..but still ;)

1) A family friend and I had a running competition for the Clay Shooter part of Duck Hunt for NES. I still have a note from the day he moved away, "I'm the best clay shooter ever! AR AR"

2) Once I rented the first Zelda game for SNES and a friend and I stayed up until 2 or 3 AM and beat it in the first sitting.

-CM-

Last week, I beat Bobby Fischer on Chessmaster 2 for PSX. It's not for real, I know, but it's supposed to be somewhat like playing him. I was happy either way. How many people can say they beat Fischer?

stoolie

Mine had to be scoring the best goal ever in Fifa 99.

My friends and all would all get together and play Fifa 99, and talk some serious trash.

The worst was my friend Bobby, he's one of those players who'll spend at least 5 minutes before every game to get his formation, subs, and stragity set.

Anyways, playing with England I had a good run going with Cole, 1 man to beat, and I did an over the shoulder heal flip (put the ball over your head with your heal) into a bicycle kick, and into the back of the net.

It was a pretty sick move, and no doubt the best gaming moment for me because we were all there to see it.