Halx

What's your favorite moment in gaming? The moment that you'll keep with you forever?


My personal favorite was back in the days of Unreal Tournament. I was what you could consider an ace when it came to Instagib. Instagib was a standard mod for UT where your only weapon was a pulse rifle that killed your opponent in one shot. The physics in UT allowed for pinpoint control over your character. With some fake-out moves thrown in, Instagib was a combination of snap aiming, timing and position control. No matter if you just got killed or were on a godlike killing spree, the playing field was always even (ping willing) and simple. What I wouldn't give for a game of the same caliber to emerge today...

My clan, TBA, was more rag-tag than the usual elite guilds. Instead of attracting players through relationships or politics, we simply portrayed ourselves as badasses and we were full of ourselves. Everyone hated us. In fact, nearly every clan in the community had at least one ex-member who hated us. This animosity made gaming VERY competitive. We were undefeated in Team Deathmatch in 2 different competition ladders. Mitzkrieg and I were an unstoppable duo when it came to racking up kills. Still, nothing in that ladder was nearly as thrilling as the match that earned us second place (our highest point) on the 5-on-5 Capture The Flag ladder.

We were a west coast team playing against T1crew, which was more central/east coast and they had the home field advantage. In online gaming, your location is a big deal. The closer you are to the server, the lower the latency on your actions. This means that if you play on a local server, your gun fires immediately after you click your mouse, but it might take a second or more to go off if you play on a server halfway across the country. Capturing the flag consisted of grabbing the other team's flag and running it back to your own flag, as long as it was still there. The first match was played on their server, on their choice of map, and they whipped us. The second match was played on our server, on our choice of map, and we tied it up.. narrowly.

For the tiebreaker, we had to move back to their server, playing on their bread and butter map: Orbital. This was a huge map, making every flag run a journey and putting an emphasis on teamwork. We had almost no experience as a team on this map, but something about the situation was just right. In tight spaces, your latency matters a lot, but in this wide open map, more room means better visibility and more time to react. None the less, we found ourselves down 4-1 with 7 minutes remaining in the match. The game was to 5 captures.

I was tired of playing defense. Our 2-on-D, 3-on-O strategy was obviously not working. Even with Mitzkrieg and I mopping up players coming into the flag room, we would eventually get overwhelmed and the flag would be lost. So, I decided to take matters into my own hand. I told the whole team to rush on the right side and grab the flag. I went in after them, to the left. They grabbed the flag and were pursued by the opponent, while I entered the empty flag room and stood on the flag base. This was known as cherry picking and it was usually something you'd see in a pick-up game. I knew what was going to happen, though.

We dropped the flag, it was returned, I picked it up. With nobody in my part of the map to see where I was headed, I ran off the way I entered. I came across an opponent, but my aim was immaculate. I blasted my way through the map, gripping my mouse and shouting my location over my microphone for my teammates to back me up. Once into our base, they covered me until I was close enough to the capture. I told them to rush once more. I captured the flag to make it 4-2.

We did it again the same way, with me sneaking in amongst the commotion and grabbing the flag after the drop when nobody could track my trail. The firefights I found myself in were tense, but I remained unscathed and they seemingly ran right into my fire. 4-3. Their attempts at our flag were obviously distracted by our sudden rush, making them easy to catch up with and mow down. One more cap came, this time by Ab0b. The 4 man rush actually worked for that one. The score was tied. It was sudden death. I was shaking at this point. Nerves always made me convulse during these tense times. We had the momentum now. We were frustrated with the laggy server, but we had shown that it wasn't all about the ping.

With the team leading the opponent on the goose chase once more, I found people waiting for me in the flag room. I dispatched them both as I entered, feeling slightly guilty for nailing them at such a long distance before they had the time to notice me. However, that changed the situation. Instead of their whole defensive squad out of the base, following the carrier, they had two people in their base, now trained right on me. By killing them so quickly, they now had time to catch back up with me while I headed for the flag platform. We dropped the flag and I had it as soon as it was returned, but the two on defense had already respawned and they knew exactly where I was.

I had to kill the defense again, but now the whole team was bearing down on me. I called for backups and we fought our hardest. Almost to the exit of their base, I was blown away. In swooped Ab0b, though, who picked the flag up before they could return it. He and the team carried the flag back to our base where I met them to fight another wave. This time Ab0b was shot down. I grabbed the flag and dropped off the platform I was in. Through the door to the flag room, I could see the blasts of rifles and I knew there were enemies waiting for me there. So, I left our base and climbed back up to the upper levels to enter in the flag room from the side and to give my team time to kill.

When I made it to the flag room, the only one in there was me and T1crew's last standing. Our flag was gone and he was waiting for me. I was too excited to aim. My eyes didn't even focus on anything. I didn't even fire my gun. I let the guy take aim and blast away while I weaved through the hall toward the flag platform... hoping all the way for a miracle. My attacker couldn't hit me; he was in the center of the room as I came down the side. I would dodge, weave, shimmy and pause, my view facing the ground as I focused on just moving and creating a difficult target. Our flag returned as I approached the platform and I double-tapped my strafe button, leaping at the flag and ending the game. 4-5.

I screamed so loud.

A game for the ages.

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Plan9

Beating Contra 3 (SNES) for the first time.

Man, that game rocked the casbah.

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Willravel

Istagib was fun, but I felt like it really gave people like you, with uncanny skill, too much of an advantage. When you've gotta just open fire with your rifle right after you've spawned and you can't get to another grab location, there's a challenge.

My favorite moment was a 3v3 money map (SC money, ZC, NR) and I happened to be playing a StarCraft legend: Random. This was the guy who invented the reaver drop back in 1999. I was always a pioneer of the scout rush and I decided to give it a shot with my strongest stuff.

I was on fire. I had stargates building scouts before my ally had even built barracks up and running, and he wasn't a noob. I managed to get 24 scouts up and running at the 5 minute mark while simultaneously holding the entrance of my base with only cannons (I'm a cannon fiend, never less than 4 deep). It wasn't long before I had mass scouts and had decimated Random's allies while he was mounting attacks against mine. Normally I'm the type that defends my allies even more than myself, but I saw that they were each able to get builders into my base, which was basically empty, and start rebuilding. I had something like 51 scouts fully upgraded at the 17 minute mark and it was now basically me vs. Random as one of my allies left and the other was rebuilding slowly. Random had mass corsairs and cloaked wraiths (he'd mind controlled some scvs) much faster than I had anticipated and I had to basically set a trap for him. He'd been sieging my defenses for some time and where I'd normally retreat to my entrance, the cannons simply weren't there. Luckily, I had, anticipating his reaver drop, heavily defended my nexus with cannons. I did the unthinkable; I led his vast air force over my nexus by pulling my scouts all the way back. WW3 ensued right over my source of minerals.

When I emerged victorious with 26ish scouts and more building, he changed tactics and started going heavy ground and anti-air with goliaths and dragoons. I simply flew around the outside of the map while his army approached my base and took out his nexus. He left the game, and I had a Bawls energy drink to celebrate.

Nikilidstrom

Getting home from my second shift and staying up till 5AM with a friend kicking the crap outta clannies in Wolfenstein 3D. He was the first friend that I could ever talk into becoming a PC gamer, and the SOB was a natural at Wolfenstein and BF1942. And I haven't found any FPS as addicting as Wolfenstein since. The snow mountain map is still the best multiplayer map I have played in any FPS to this day.

MexicanOnABike

I have more than 1:

-the 1st time you see, aproche and then kill a colosus in Shadow of the Colossus.

-the 1st boss fight in duke nukem 3d.

-playing Melee fights against my brother in Star Con2.

-playing and replaying and replaying for over 7yrs EVERY DAY the same maps over and over that I made in the game Elastomania. FUCKING GREAT GAME!!

-I don't have 1 great UT or SC experience because they were mostly all great.

-my last great game experience was playing portal. Just beating the game was fucking awesome.

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You, my friend, have too low of standards. Your standards should be high enough so that only one gaming experience exceeds them as your favorite.

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Lasereth

1. When Battlefield 1942 came out and Trauma Studios released the Desert Combat mod. I became completely and utterly obsessed with it, playing it for 4-10 hours per day for almost 2 years. I was deadly at that game. Pure death. Death seeped out of my gun I was so good. I always saw these videos from a clan called nBrigade and they were known as being the best clan in the entire world for 1942 and the Desert Combat mod. One day I joined their server. Their entire clan was on the opposite team and I was paired up with 8-10 random people. At the end of the map I had 40+ kills. Our team won because of me and I had more points than anyone in nBrigade. I started playing on their server exclusively. They begged me to join their clan but I wasn't into serious matches or anything. I usually got 2nd or 3rd place once a day (the rest in 1st), even against the best.

2. In Battlefield Vietnam I once got 32 kills and 0 deaths on the airfield map going solo. Not 32 points, but 32 kills without dying.

3. In World of Warcraft I once played an Arathi Basin match on my warrior with 1 more warrior and 3 paladins. We got 101 kills and 0 deaths. We fought at the same location for almost 20 minutes. We ended up losing the match but it didn't matter because we killed the entire opposing team 10 times each without dying.

4. In Battlefield 1942 Desert Combat there was a gunship called the AC-130. It's the huge ship that the miltary still uses that has massive gatling guns on the side. It was a flying spawn point in Desert Combat. One time I saw it flying around on Gazala and wondered why we couldn't spawn in it. I got in a jet and flew over to the AC 130. I had to use the thrusters to catch up. I got so close to it that I could see inside...NO PILOT!!!! I used the jet's thrusters again, flew 100 feet ahead of the AC-130, ejected from the jet and flew backwards through the air towards the AC-130. I hit my parachute key at the exact moment and landed close enough to the AC-130 that I was able to get in the cockpit. Then I flew it in a 180 and rammed an Apache Helicopter out of the sky (that's just icing on the cake).

5. Fort Frolic in Bioshock. All of it.

6. I second the Shadow of the Colossus mention. Hooooly hell what an amazing experience the first time you fight a colossus.

7. Playing Metal Gear Solid for the first time for the PS1.

The_Jazz

The day I beat Zork.

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MexicanOnABike

Fine, then make it the moment I beat indiana Jones and the lost fate of atlantis.
those damn gold beads were so important!

It's funny how everyone here can recall playing games from 10 years ago in this much detail. i don't think i can write a paragraph about any games for 1 session.

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ironpham

I have several moments, but I'll do one at a time.

This first moment was probably the greatest of all of my moments. This happened back in the Warcraft 2 days on battle.net (first season).

So, somehow, I had gotten pretty damn good at this game at the age of 12. I was at least on par with ut@golfers who was number 1 on the ladder at the time (yeah, I know there are better people, but he was damn good).

I was going into a 3vs3 game on old Garden of War with 1 friend of mine who was pretty okay. The other teammate was a random, but he left at the beginning of the match anyways. So, this game started off as a 3vs2. Also, I was humans, the super underdogs of WC2 (no bloodlust).

The game starts off as any normal game would. I was at 9 and my partner was at 4. I scouted and found 1 guy at 11, 1 guy at 2, and one guy at 5. Keep in mind, I was the only person in the whole game that scouted. I was watching very carefully for other scouts, but they never came. All of a sudden, about 3 or 4 minutes into the game, the guy from 2 and the guy from 5 rushed my partner at 4. THEY WERE BOTH USING MAPHACK. I actually found out they were using maphack because the guy at 11 whispered it to me. He said he wouldn't fight unless they were gone.

So, my partner was quickly decimated. Though he was able to get one peon out to me so he could watch. So as the match continues, I decide it would be best for me to expand to s9 as soon as possible so I could get some cash rolling in. I upgraded to Stronghold as soon as I found out they were hacking (they were using more than just maphack as I soon found out). I needed to get some knights up and fast.

So by the time my partner's base was gone, I had an expansion at s9, and I was up to a Stronghold and pushing out knights. I decided to stay at Stronghold for the time being and outman them with level 5 (fully upgraded) knights. So, I sent a peasant outside of my wall so I can get more barracks built. At my base at 9 alone, I had 12 barracks. This was all done within probably about 7 or 8 minutes. During this process I had build up an army of about 20 knights, so I decide to send them down toward 5.

Now, the guy at 5 was a little bit ahead of the guy at 2. He had the infinite upgrade hack. It does what it says. His ogres were level 12 (max was like level 8 or 9 after you Upgraded from a Stronghold to a Fortress). I decided to go ahead and try to attack while I make a larger army. So I go in with my 20 knights and widdle his army of about 12 down.

My 20 knights died (in retrospect, they could've probably won, but I had other things to manage). However, I had an army of 42 more knights heading that way. Even with the small level 14 reinforcements of his allies, my knights prevailed. They completely decimated the guy at 5. All that's left is the guy at 2.

Now, by this time, the man at 2 had bloodlust on top of his infinite upgrades. So they were around level 18. While I was decimating 5, I decided to go Fortress and get some mages to counter this problem. Without them, bloodlust would completely destroy my knights. So, by the time 5 was dead, I was upgrading blizzard for my mages with a couple of mages popped out already and another army of 42 knights at the barracks.

I figured the one guy left was pretty dumb, so I scouted the middle because I was sure he would gather his army there. Sure enough, he had about 20 level 18 ogres with bloodlust ready. So, I bring down 3 mages, and I blizzarded (is that right?) the hell out of them. While I'm doing that, I send my remaining knights from 5 along with my 42 knights up to 2. From there on, it was only rape.

I had decided to let the last guy live since he tipped me off. He and my partner were awestruck by my performance. They both thought for sure I would lose, especially since I was humans. But as it turns out, skill > hacks.

The funny thing is, I would've never thought of this as one of those great moments if it weren't for one thing. Later that week, I joined a game. Then some random guy joined in and saw me. He said "Oh my god, it's ~Ironman. That dude is sick. I heard he took on these 2 hackers all by himself as humans." He then left because he was on the opposite team. That made me laugh.

(I probably have a couple more moments in different games to come.)

biznatch

One of them is Zelda: Ocarina of Time...when Ganondorf turns into Ganon, and you see that bestial look.
Or when the N64 came out, and I got it...and it was my first 3d gaming experience ever...I found myself wanting to look "inside" the screen.

Also awesome is when you're on a frag run in CS with the shotty...running through the map, everytime someone pops out they get their head shot.

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Playing Risk against all AI. In this game, the AI was fairly stupid, which usually made for an easy match. Unfortunately, this time the stupidity worked against me.

I had enabled the maximum # of opponents and decided to start in Austalia, for the early continent bonus. However, one of my opponents had the same idea and just would not die. While I was fooling around there, Barbarossa was consolidating his position in N. America. Rather than attack him, all of his neighbors decided to fight one another, weakening themselves and preparing the way for his eventual dominance. To make matters worse, my flank in Asia was constantly attacked by two opponents who didn't seem to have any intention of building a respectable empire. While my Asian neighbors fooled around with annoying but ultimately pointless attacks and my Australian rival steadfastly went tit for tat with me in battle losses, Barbarossa continued his inexorable conquest of the Americas, then Europe and finally Africa.

By the time I eliminated my rival in Australia (who had no cards when he died, BTW) Barbarossa had moved into position to eliminate the final two rivals and gain their rather substantial card surplus. The situation was grim. I controlled Australia, my opponent had every other continent but Asia. I had one card, he had 6 or 7. I thought about my strategy, considered where to attack and where to defend, and gradually came to the realization that I had to attack. Barbarossa had too many potential reinforcements, and I had no hope of holding on to any continent for the forseeable future. My only chance was to rob him of his continent bonuses and hope to stay alive long enough to get some card bonuses of my own. With those, I might be able to assert control over a decent continent while simultaneously denying my enemy.

Here is where my luck suddenly turned for the better. I had a small army in SE Asia, to which I added all 3 of my reinforcements. I struck westward, taking India and the Middle East without losing a soul. I then took Egypt and West Africa, denying his African bonus. I sent a small force north into Western Europe to eliminate his European bonus, then continued into Brazil, finally driving north into Central America. Throughout this miraculous drive I lost not a single soldier. At this point the AI stupidity won the game for me. Rather than destroying my continent bonus in Australia and recapturing the Americas, Barbarossa spread his numerous reinforcements thin and counterattacked utterly unimportant territories. He took a few central Asian countries from me, then ended his turn. He didn't even reinforce N. America! The next turn I took Africa and South America, which stayed mine. The turn after that, with help from my cards and newly acquired continents, I reduced my opponent to a few meager territories in Siberia, where he was to meet his end. Never before or since have I made such a comeback.

telekinetic

The final acts of Super Metroid on SNES. Awesome.

Hydra1978

Final Fantasy VII - The death of Aeris.
It was shocking and unpredictable to kill a main character in the middle of the game.

WOW - Going on a killing rampage in Alterac Valley with my mage. Was 100+ kills above the next highest. Most damage I've ever caused in one PVP session.

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1) Playing Elite for the first time on my old C64 - spent years playing that game.
2) Resident Evil - walking down a corridor and some dogs jumped through the window - this is the only time ever a video game has made me jump.
3) KOTR - The twist at the end - I thought it was good and did not see it coming.

nolan36

Hehe there was one moment that I could never forget. It was while playing BF2 with a couple of friends on a 64 player map. My squad was about to capture a flag point when a helicopter came up and started taking us out. I randomly took a shot with my sniper rifle at it and suddenly the rotor stoped moving. Apparently I had killed the pilot with my shot and the helicopter crashed with the co-pilot still in it. I was fascinated with the luck I had with that shot! Those are the moment that make games worthwhile...moments you will never live through again.

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CyCo PL

Yes. The end of Super Metroid was a revolution in interactive cinematic storytelling. And so awesome.

Redjake

1) Dogs through the windows in Resident Evil 1. That game made me realize I was a little bitch 6th grader with a squeaky voice that could be scared from a damn videogame.....I had nightmares about that game. Nothing like it when it came out. It was so fucked up.

2) Final Fantasy VII: Watching my brother boot up the game for the first time, and experiencing the beginning of the game/intro FMV - the train chugging along, cutting between shots of Aeris and Midgar with that classic music blaring

3) Beating Donkey Kong Country on SNES - such an amazing game!

4) Silent Hill 3 - playing the entire game. One of my fondest memories in college is sitting around me and my brother's old 27" JVC with him and my friends and us getting the living SHIT scared out of us from a videogame.....

5) Metal Gear Solid - realizing that a gaming developer had finally created a game that transcended videogames and catapulted itself into an entire life-changing experience.....

6) Getting 2,000,000 points on the Garibaldi track in SSX Tricky

7) My first time seeing Halo for Xbox being played at the GameStop at the mall - I couldn't believe any console would ever have that good of graphics, I simply couldn't believe how insane those graphics were

8) Playing Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers for NES before my parents were divorced - this game reminds me of my childhood and how weird/grungy things were for a while

9) The intro FMV to Final Fantasy VIII - you have to admit: Square can make some FMVs. I still get goosebumps when I watch it (even though the graphics, even in the FMV, suck now)

10) Witnessing how massive and compelling Chrono Trigger was for SNES - nothing like it was around when it came out. Time travel, the best music out of any videogame ever made, the whole package - realizing this game was a reality is one of my favorite moments in gaming

11) Halo LAN parties - we used to have 8 or 10 friends over at my friend's house, and we would system-link 4 XBoxes and 4 TVs together to have "each team in a different room of the house" capture the flag tournaments - can anyone say 4-hour Sidewinder matches? I realized at that point that videogames weren't just a nerdy pastime; 8 of your closest friends could get together and become functional military units that worked together to accomplish goals

12) My favorite moment(s) in gaming is more of an experience rather than a specific game; one of my old friends used to hold LAN parties in his basement for about 3-4 years straight, and attending those LANs was the coolest experience in the world - seeing 30 computers strung together into a LAN with file transfers, LED fans oscillating, BF1942 games going, it was just amazing - we would stay up for DAYS without going to bed - playing Battlefield, Alien vs. Predator 2, the leaked Doom 3 demo, so much more. So much fun.

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Shauk

fapping to night elves.....


lol

i mean, um, no I gotta say, just the entire experience that was xenogears (not xenosaga, good lord, fuck you namco)

Siege

When I used to play TFC, i played as the sniper almost exclusively because I was damn good at it.

Anyway, one time I played on a server and was in a fairly decent hiding spot on a roof when someone from my team decided to stand right in front of me hoping to net kills. Originally, I decided that I wouldn't mind giving up my spot if he was actually good. Unfortunately, his ping was obscenely high and he could barely even hit the ground.

Now, what's important about the server was that friendly fire was not enabled, thus, whenever you shot a friendly, they would only fly a short a distance.

I was getting pretty irritated by this useless guy in front of me, so I charged up my rifle (why a sniper rifle needs to be charged is beyond me) and I shot him from behind. Since we were on a roof, this ended up in him being shot across the map and him landing on the floor. The best part was that since friendly fire was disabled, it counted as a suicide on his part.

Right after he respawns, he comes back to my hiding place, stands right in front of me and continually shoots me. Since my back is against a wall, i'm not going anywhere. I politely tell him to stop, and then proceed to shoot him across the map again. This resulted in yet another suicide and him leaving the server.

Good times.

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DarkPho

It has to be one of those classic Counter-strike moments, back in the day I used to play clan wars.
One particular moment comes to mind, 5v5 on de_dust, we were Terrorists. We were getting decimated, they had a good all around defence, but ultimately they got complacent. For some reason I don't quite understand, I changed my nickname to R2D2, grabbed a MP5 and sprinted..
Up the stairs, into the inside area, to the right and jump... over the ledge into the end of the underpass. Noone saw a thing. Soon enough I was up the ramp behind enemy lines, sweep to the right, round the back towards the CT sniper area, quick burst to the back of the head of an enemy still heading out, MP5 flung to the ground, M4 brought forward from the ground and bullets nailed into the head of the startled sniper, all in a single fluid motion.
What was that? 20 seconds? Two kills, full health, fully armed.. except the rest of my team is dead and the bomb is back in the base somewhere.. oh well.. here we go!

Somehow the slow stage to follow was a common occurence. I quietly cursed my team for firstly dieing and secondly for leaving the bomb where they always did. I was a master of stealth, trusty headphones telling me exactly where they were. My arms would tremble, my heart beat. You stalk your prey, until they make a fatal mistake.. a footstep. A single footstep.
It's all worth it as the silence breaks and you're brought into the next round by screams of excitement and appreciation by the rest of your team. This is what made CS such a good game.

Jetée

It took me eight years overall to finally beat this game.

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AquaFox

Spear of Destiny, my first successful attempt at killing death knight, only to find the angel of death!


Monster truck Madness 2... cruising around and crushing cars and burning up the tracks with a force feedback steering wheel, then learning how to create and share new tracks and add-ons, online rumbles and king of the hill matches in monster trucks. This addiction blossomed into 4x4 Evolution and the Need for Speed Series, ending when EA introduced 'ricers'.

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Jadast

Perhaps I am older than most. My best memory goes back to the early eighties when you had to go to the arcade to play games. Ms Pacman took all my quarters back then. I'm negotiating with the wife to pickup a renivated arcade game for the den.

YaWhateva

Chrono Trigger, when Crono "dies". I love this game so much.

FFVIII when Kefka destroys the world.

Starcraft when Kerrigan kills Fenix.

FFVII the whole game.

there was a time at a LAN party. 3v3 Starcraft. I was never very good at SC in multiplayer. My teammate gets wrecked in a rush 2 minutes into the game. He goes over to the other players computer to watch them because he figures the game is going to be over soon. He looks at their screen and see that they are map hacking and comes and tells us. I tell my other teammate to just defend both of our bases and scout. I'm zerg so I do a dumb strategy, mass hydras to max food and have tons of overlords. I send all my overlords to seperate bases. Since they can see what I am doing, they all seperately try to defend their bases before I get there. I have all my hydras going to one base and the ones going to the other bases have nothing in them. so I drop off all of them into the one base that is only defended by the one person and decimate his base. Then I quickly move to the second base before both of the remaining guys can group up together and destroy half the base before they make me evac. They quit and call me a hacker. Hackers calling me a hacker made my day.

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Nikilidstrom

I remember those days well, playing the orignals like Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, then moving on to the games like Rush-n-Attack, Double Dragon and Shinobi. We used to dump small fortunes into the orignial Street Fighter, and before that just about any multi player action game (TMNT, Ikari Warrior, Golden Axe, etc...). I had built a MAME box a few years ago to relive all those oldies but goodies, but it just wasnt the same as playing them in the arcades. Maybe I'm just too jaded by consoles now.

damazon

FFTactics having my calculator single-handedly plow those heathens.

Telluride

I can't decide what my favorite gaming moment of all time is. Maybe it was when I was a little kid in the early 1980s and I got an Atari 2600, which was badass at the time?

My favorite recent moment in gaming would be fighting and killing my first Big Daddy in Bioshock.

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ObieX

EASILY the final fight/ending of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

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Hell.. just put me down for the whole experience of playing that game.

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Mith

Star Wars Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight

I was addicted to that effing game. No Force lightsabers was my play style. Unfortunately the game got old. Anyway, the tourneys were intense. The clan I was part of SDO was a bunch of cool guys and I still regularly IM with a few people I met through that game.

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docbungle

The original Tomb Raider, when the T-Rex comes stomping around the corner. That was just awesome. Not my favorite game, but certainly my favorite moment

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Bad Luck City

Xazy

Not sure if this is my favorite but it would be waking the sleeper in Everquest, and the congrats and the hate whispers that came. But the whole epic event that takes over the entire server when done, was just incredible, and was just really awesome.

intellijence

It's really nothing too special, but i was just in a pub on cs 1.6...I was playing the map cs_1337_assault and i was on the T side camping inside with a scout. Team rushes and dies down to a 6v1. 6 headshots with the scout. hands-down some of my best shooting with that gun

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ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space

munchen

Finally beating Cowboys from Hell on Expert for GH1. I spent so much time trying to pass that game and man did it feel good.

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"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun" -Matt Groening

Charlatan

Playing Drakken... and figuring out there was a patch that would render the main character naked. That was awesome.

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- Old Man Luedecke

blktour

when i finally beat bubble bobble on NES...

that was cake.. but it felt good to beat a game for the first time... me and my older sister beat it in a span of 1 hour or so..

ColonelSpecial

Solo: Beating Sonic 2 on Sega during a sick day.

Group: Having 5 people playing Diablo 2 on 3 desktops and two laptops in a little dorm room.

Yup, good times for all.

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"Mommy, the presidents are squishing me!"

"Using the pull out method of contraceptive is like saying I won't use a seat belt, I'll just jump out of the car before it hits that tree."

Sara

frankx

Getting Half Life 2 as an xmas present from my wife and playing it for two months. Fighting headcrab zombies with Father Grigori.

Bioshock. The whole thing.

Retro - Playing the original Doom on a Navy ship in the middle of the ocean.

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Louisiana: We're Not ALL Drunken Cajun Wackos, But That's Our Tourism Campaign

Terrell

When my TT in Earth & Beyond successfully analyzed the Devastating Gaze allowing her to build it for my JE and JD.

Ustwo

Playing CS before it was 'released' in late beta, and before anyone had developed any hacks.

Full teams forget how many players.

Anyways we are playing the Garage map and I am a terrorist. I have a Sig, I picked up the last round, not my favorite weapon, but I'm broke.

So the round starts and I'm the only terrorist that heads for the tunnel. I have no idea what the rest of my team did, but they started to die very fast.

I get to the end of the tunnel, open the door to the outside building and there is a CT, pop dead.

Apparently none of his team had an idea of where this happened so I run back into the T base from the CT side now. 4-5 of them are all camping the entrance to the garage and none of them have seen me. I kill of them them in rapid succession, so now its 3-1 against me with the rest knowing where I was in the T base. I kill the first one to poke his head out, then the second, and finally the third all head on facing me.

Oddly there was no smack talk at the end, but fps's were kinder/gentler then, most players were all college age or slightly older, and the 'fucktards' had yet to appear in great numbers.

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