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in recent history the first time I ran over someone with my car in GTA IV, i was playing it in the pub with maybe 30 people watching the 58'' screen and i think it took us about 10 minutes to compose ourselves. but for me it'd be a toss up between spending endless nights renting twisted metal world tour and completing it, then the next week we'd rent it again. i think we probably rented it enough to buy a copy 10 times over. OR Devising methods to becoming THE NUMBER ONE IN THE WORLD at track and field, i think the bottle cap or the plastic finger was the best we arrived at, played the shit out of that game (and our fingers) |
Single most memorable gaming moment in history... • Page 10
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urban 13,148 posts
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Having a Goldeneye knockout tourny in my last few days of Secondary school and winning the final on golden gun. Must have been about 25, 30 people join in and have a laugh and that included the people that hated each other their whole school lives. -
StringBeanJean 1,789 posts
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Registered 15 years agoShenmue, obviously. Felt like nothing else before at the time, graphically and the gameplay. You could pick anything up and examine it! You had to wait for a fucking bus for five minutes! It was awesome.
Other than that, probably seeing the Doom shareware demo on my mate's dad's 486. -
thedaveeyres 13,925 posts
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Registered 15 years agofiggis wrote:
Seeing a Space Invader arcade machine for the first time, and hearing to noise it made.
This. From that moment on, I was hooked. -
MrSensible 26,517 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI couldn't pick one. I'm constantly amazed by new games and experiences, it never gets boring. -
TechnoHippy 19,245 posts
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Registered 18 years agoAm I allowed another?
Completing the trench run in the original Star Wars arcade machine. -
Jeepers 16,616 posts
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Registered 16 years agoTechno Hippy wrote:
Am I allowed another?
Completing the trench run in the original Star Wars arcade machine.
I loved that game so much. Everything about it was perfect. -
northside 655 posts
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Registered 14 years agoHomeworld had an amazing atmosphere. I remember sitting looking at the mothership for a while thinking it was still part of the opening cut-scene before realising I was in full control.
And it's been said so many times, but the T-Rex in Tomb Raider was great. The way the designers just threw it at you with no fanfare, cut-scenes or anything made you think anything else was possible. Something the remake failed to understand. -
Jumping of the train into Midgar at the start of FFVII. It still manages to give me goose bumps. Perfect. -
mrharvest 5,718 posts
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Registered 18 years agoFirst colossus in SotC demo. The lead up to the fight, and then the first non-contrived boss fight ever (as far as I can remember). No screen-filling energy bars, no ridiculous reincarnation in different forms, no attack patterns, no rinse-repeat.
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DFawkes 32,791 posts
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Registered 16 years agomowgli wrote:
Jumping of the train into Midgar at the start of FFVII. It still manages to give me goose bumps. Perfect.
This. It was the moment I started to love JRPGs in general, and will always have a soft spot for FFVII. I stil playthrough every couple of years. -
pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoJeepers wrote:
Techno Hippy wrote:
Am I allowed another?
Completing the trench run in the original Star Wars arcade machine.
I loved that game so much. Everything about it was perfect.
Oh blimey yes. Still gives me goosebumps now whenever I find a machine languishing in the corner of some fleapit arcade (the one at the Fab Cafe is broken, someone got a bit over-friendly with the controller, the c*ntwad) -
urban 13,148 posts
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Registered 17 years agoindeed, baby batter over a controller is never good. -
MrSensible 26,517 posts
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Registered 16 years agopjmaybe wrote:
Jeepers wrote:
Techno Hippy wrote:
Am I allowed another?
Completing the trench run in the original Star Wars arcade machine.
I loved that game so much. Everything about it was perfect.
Oh blimey yes. Still gives me goosebumps now whenever I find a machine languishing in the corner of some fleapit arcade (the one at the Fab Cafe is broken, someone got a bit over-friendly with the controller, the c*ntwad)
The Fab Cafe here (RIP Fab!) had the newer version of this, it was a Trilogy game by Sega. I remember I went on a hunt for what it was in the Star Wars group actually, maybe you're the one who found it.
EDIT: Not as good as the original, of course.gif)
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pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoAhh the trilogy game was great too. That was still at Oriental City's rather sparsely populated arcade the last time I went up there and although it wasn't all that, it was OK.
The original Star Wars sit down arcade machine was fantastic though. The Fab Cafe up in Manchester had one but this was years ago...they also had a House of the Dead 1 cab too. -
Britesparc 2,342 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI vote for the "How to Get Ahead in Navigating" bit from Monkey Island.
Or the bit in Half-Life 2 where the Gravity Gun goes mental. -
thedaveeyres 13,925 posts
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Registered 15 years agoBritesparc wrote:
I vote for the "How to Get Ahead in Navigating" bit from Monkey Island.
Or the bit in Half-Life 2 where the Gravity Gun goes mental.
I agree on the HL2 moment... you've been taking shit from those guys all the way through the game, and the payoff is so worth it! Killing dozens of them with a flick of the grav gun is one of the most satisfying moments I've had in a game.
I assume The Song has been mentioned in the list so far... I didn't expect anything when I beat GladOS apart from a little cut-scene... how wrong I was. -
Nexus_6 6,169 posts
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Registered 17 years agoMadder Max wrote:
The intro sequence for Wipeout on the PS1 when the PS1 was first launched.
A truly jaw dropping moment.
The intro sequence for Crazy Ivan on the PS1 when the PS1 was newly launced.
A truly jaw dropping moment.
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barchetta 3,335 posts
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Registered 20 years agoFirst sight of the T-Rex in 3d Monster Maze (ZX81). Then trying to escape. -
Dirtbox 92,600 posts
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terminalterror 18,932 posts
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Registered 20 years agoTzetrik wrote:
The ending in Bladerunner where you realise you're a robot and leave the planet with all the other replicants :'(
You know that there are multiple endings to the game, so depending on decisions you make throughout the game (mainly whether to kill replicants or not) and with minor variations depending on what you do right at the end of the game, you get quite different endings - the one you mention being one of them. -
_Price_ 3,072 posts
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Registered 15 years agoFF VII: Reaching the end of the unfinished highway in Midgar and setting out into the World.
It was the first time I'd come across the concept of a world map before (I was deprived as a child) and the Shinra Building / chase sequence set-up was absolutely perfect. -
RetardStrong 3,229 posts
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Registered 13 years ago_Price_ wrote:
FF VII: Reaching the end of the unfinished highway in Midgar and setting out into the World.
It was the first time I'd come across the concept of a world map before (I was deprived as a child) and the Shinra Building / chase sequence set-up was absolutely perfect.
Oh yes, you spend the first hours of the game running around dumps, sitting in trains and battling through the Shinra building by the time you leave Midgar you really got the feeling like you've been through a lot already and then you realize it's only the beginning. -
Trane 4,050 posts
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Registered 14 years agoKilling C'Thun in WoW, mainly because it was a fuckload of effort getting 39 people to not cock up, and then basking (with them all) in the achievment afterwards.
Getting the invisibility cheat in Goldeneye 64, I think I had a boner at this one.
The Thrall/Mannoroth/Grom cinematic in Warcraft 3, I shed a tear.
Winning a 6 hour LAN game of Starcraft, back in the day
Getting the 'upgraded' Grav gun in HL2 is a great shout.
Getting 42 kills as a heavy in TF2.
There's loads more, but if I had to pick one, it's probably C'Thun. -
Dave_McCoy 3,410 posts
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Registered 14 years agoPirotic wrote:
Oh, I also remember trying out Shadow of the Beast (II?) on the Amiga 500 as a wee kid and being scared to death. Bloody wall with spikes crushing me near the start
Yeah, I got that with my movie pack. Fantastic at the time..and the music was great, especially the game over screen. The Amiga was soooo good! The chase in the graveyard on Nightbreed was enough to put me off horror games for a good long while though...it was the screaming when he caught you, the screaming... -
glo 3,797 posts
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Registered 19 years agoIn addition to many of the ones already mentioned by others...
First time I heard and saw the battlezone arcade machine is pretty memorable.
Playing the hobbit and elite for the first time on the spectrum have always stuck with me.
First time playing multiplayer doom/heretic on the local network at uni -
andywilkie35 5,327 posts
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Registered 16 years agoRetardStrong wrote:
_Price_ wrote:
FF VII: Reaching the end of the unfinished highway in Midgar and setting out into the World.
It was the first time I'd come across the concept of a world map before (I was deprived as a child) and the Shinra Building / chase sequence set-up was absolutely perfect.
Oh yes, you spend the first hours of the game running around dumps, sitting in trains and battling through the Shinra building by the time you leave Midgar you really got the feeling like you've been through a lot already and then you realize it's only the beginning.
This. FFVII was the first RPG I'd played and was completely overwhelmed when the world map became available, incredible -
pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoI guess I'd have to mention the first time I head interrupt-driven music on a speccy. Music. IN THE FUCKING GAME! WHILE YOU PLAYED.
Manic Miner!
Back then it was incredible. I remember doing the old "re route the earphone socket through your stereo to amplify the speccy's rubbish speaker" trick just so I could hear that bitty bitty music.
Ahhh memories. Sometimes it's bloody great to be old. -
Genji 19,682 posts
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Registered 17 years agoOne I remember is first playing Wave Race 64. That was the first time that I was really amazed at the graphics of a game.
Gameplay-wise, the final tower and boss fight of Zelda: OoT was something I'll always remember. -
Genji wrote:Gameplay-wise, the final tower and boss fight of Zelda: OoT was something I'll always remember.
Another great shout.
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