Your greatest video game moment/accomplishment

[IHateMyJob2004]

Being the guy standing at the arcade for hours while everyone lines up to challenge you in Mortal Kombat 2. I got pretty good at it and once I ended up playing and winning against everyone who came up to play and gathered quite a crowd. You know how it goes. Winner stays, loser goes back in line, next up challenges, The arcade had it hooked up to a big screen so onlookers could see. First and only time I've ever been that guy. Most of the players sucked but it was still a good feeling for me at the time lol.

You were doing it wrong!

Winner stays and plays against the CPU. When the player was about to loose, the next challenger threw a quarter in before the player actually lost and they fought it out to see who would keep going against the CPU.

Well, I grew up in a poor town. Maybe rich people do it differently. But ya, that was the end of the golden era of arcades. Early 80s to lates 80s, maybe early 90s were AWESOME!

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Popeye 5200:

https://www.google.com/search?q=pop...S:IE-SearchBox&ie=&oe=&safe=active&gws_rd=ssl

This game got progressively harder but I think the difficulty capped. I got far enough into the game that the scoring ramped up such that I would get enough points to get extra lives at a pace faster than I would die. It only happened once but I could have literally played it forever.

 

[cmdrdredd]

You were doing it wrong!

Winner stays and plays against the CPU. When the player was about to loose, the next challenger threw a quarter in before the player actually lost and they fought it out to see who would keep going against the CPU.

Well, I grew up in a poor town. Maybe rich people do it differently. But ya, that was the end of the golden era of arcades. Early 80s to lates 80s, maybe early 90s were AWESOME!

Heh when there is about 30 people wanting to go they aren’t going to stand there and watch me beat the game lol

 

[local]

Either finally beating the terrible Back to the Future game on NES or when I came in 3rd in a Star Fox competition at the local toy store.

Probably the Star Fox thing, I was 5 years younger than the other high scorers and I got a Star Fox shirt that I may still have somewhere.

 

[Zenoth]

Hmmm, tough one. I'd have a few but three cases that immediately come to mind are:

1) Completing Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (N64) on the Jedi difficulty AND finding all the Rebels collectibles ("Challenge Points" I believe they were called).

2) Again on the N64, with GoldenEye 007, completing the game something like 3 times I think, or maybe 4 in order to then unlock ALL the cheats by completing the corresponding timed 'challenges'. I ended up finishing all of them but it wasn't without extreme frustration, yelling and skipping breakfast / diner for about a full week. Then a few years later learning in a magazine that push-button codes existed, it pissed me off a little bit as I was remembering how tough it was (at least for me) to do all of that properly but fortunately it had been a few years so I didn't really care anymore.

3) On the Dreamcast version, finding ALL the 'Cadeaux' collectibles in Shadow Man (I loved that game so much, one of my all time favorite third person action / pseudo horror adventure). Something that to this day I've never checked the facts on is that I remember collecting all of them since when one did so, it then maxed out something in return for the player, on one of the 'meters' for the character (life bar or something, can't recall). However, by the end of the game I remember that I kept finding a few more, not many, maybe something like 10 or so 'loose / extra' Cadeaux that perhaps weren't meant to be found or were there to serve as a backup in certain maps in case players would skip a few during their playthrough and would have some room for mistakes and still end up finding "all of them". I think that the final official (needed) number for maxing out whatever it did was about 500, but I always ended up finding about 510 from what I can recall (or maybe a bit less, something like 505, 506 or so). It wasn't as extreme in comparison as something like finding 999 seeds in Breath of the Wild, but at the time finding those Cadeaux was enough of an accomplishment for me to still remember about it today. I think I completed that game a good 4 or 5 times so I eventually just memorized every imaginable nooks and crannies.

I'm sure there's others I'm not thinking of right now but these three above will stay with me forever.

 

[purbeast0]

Oh man I remember getting everything unlocked 100% on GoldenEye back in the day. The last level with the space shuttle was fucking impossible!

 

[DrMrLordX]

Ultima Online pre-alpha #1 (January 1996)

Early builds of the game featured only one city, with one shrine where you could res when you died. You came back "naked" without any of your equipment (you had to loot your corpse). There was a buggy Darkness spell that would create an inky black splotch on the screen and do nothing else. It was supposed to dissipate after a short period of time. But if you stacked enough Darkness in one spot, it would persist. I had enough mana to black out the entire shrine, so that nobody could see anything other than speech text of people asking ,"How do I get out of here?!". I trapped nearly everyone on the server, except maybe a few people that were too bad-ass to die (and that wasn't very many). Eventually a GM had to show up to clear the Darkness, and it took awhile for them to figure out what to do once they arrived.

I also figured out how to crash Everquest in phase 2 beta (cast the Magician spell Flare; Magicians were buggy/poorly-implemented at the time). I must have done that 50+ times in a row, mostly without meaning to. Flare just looked really cool, at the time. Even if it was useless (except as a means to crash the server).

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Ya, I forgot about goldeneye.

It was a team effort with my room mates but we beat every level on the hardest difficulty setting. Talk about a PITA. The final boss Stage and one other level took us weeks to beat not that any of the levels were easy on that setting. It's just that he boss level was ridiculous.

 

[purbeast0]

Ya, I forgot about goldeneye.

It was a team effort with my room mates but we beat every level on the hardest difficulty setting. Talk about a PITA. The final boss Stage and one other level took us weeks to beat not that any of the levels were easy on that setting. It's just that he boss level was ridiculous.

The "one other level" was probably the jungle. At least for me I remember that shit was nearly impossible trying to get through the jungle and seeing enemies in the brush.

 

[snoopy7548]

Ya, I forgot about goldeneye.

It was a team effort with my room mates but we beat every level on the hardest difficulty setting. Talk about a PITA. The final boss Stage and one other level took us weeks to beat not that any of the levels were easy on that setting. It's just that he boss level was ridiculous.

Was it that level where you have to escort idiotic Natalia out of the building without her killing herself? That was brutal. I think I only went up to 00 Agent on the difficulty level; I spent way too much time just screwing around when I got a GameShark.

 

[RearAdmiral]

Was it that level where you have to escort idiotic Natalia out of the building without her killing herself? That was brutal. I think I only went up to 00 Agent on the difficulty level; I spent way too much time just screwing around when I got a GameShark.

omg she died so many times. Dudes came out of like 4 different places if i recall or something.

 

[snoopy7548]

omg she died so many times. Dudes came out of like 4 different places if i recall or something.

And when you finally made it to the exit window, she either wouldn't follow you out or would get shot right there, or both. The designers of that level were sadists and they knew it.

 

[shortylickens]

My understanding is people only liked Goldeneye cuz of the multiplayer.

 

[cmdrdredd]

My understanding is people only liked Goldeneye cuz of the multiplayer.

I never liked it at all but at the time of release I had been playing doom 2 and marathon (the first FPS game to have mouse aim and free look) on computers so I thought that goldeneye was pretty underwhelming. Then in 1998 Unreal released and forget it...goldeneye was nothing to me.

 

[snarfbot]

I beat blood harvest on expert solo in left 4 dead it was crazy

 

[Bitek]

Roomie and I beating twisted metal 2 (PS1) on max difficulty without ever dying (and not using Warthog.)

So many close attempts, freak accidents or getting mauled once by Sweetooth... But finally pulling it off was winning the Superbowl.


Otherwise I'd say actually owning and playing ET on Atari 2600. So fing bad, pointless and confusing.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Otherwise I'd say actually owning and playing ET on Atari 2600. So fing bad, pointless and confusing.

That game was pretty bad. I played it a lot, though. That game made death kind of fun. Being reduced to a weird pile of mush behind Elliot's house was strangely satisfying.

 

[zerocool84]

I never liked it at all but at the time of release I had been playing doom 2 and marathon (the first FPS game to have mouse aim and free look) on computers so I thought that goldeneye was pretty underwhelming. Then in 1998 Unreal released and forget it...goldeneye was nothing to me.

Playing with friends in real life is what made it fun. I'm sure many of us were playing games FPS's that controlled better but playing next to your friends made it a million times better.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Playing with friends in real life is what made it fun. I'm sure many of us were playing games FPS's that controlled better but playing next to your friends made it a million times better.

Being able to pick so many different/stupid characters was also fun. Sure you had your predictable jackasses playing OddJob for the small hitbox, but the real fun was playing something like "Scientist b" and beating everyone else doing so.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Playing with friends in real life is what made it fun. I'm sure many of us were playing games FPS's that controlled better but playing next to your friends made it a million times better.

Not when all my friends had PCs too. It was school days for me and everyone had a computer at the time so we always played together. I'd often drag my computer over and do LAN sessions or we would attend an actual LAN event. The days were different. You didn't really need to build your PC specifically for the games yet. Today not so much and if they do have a PC it's probably a cheap laptop. None of my real life friends have anything resembling a gaming PC. If we did console stuff it was generally Playstation.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Being able to pick so many different/stupid characters was also fun. Sure you had your predictable jackasses playing OddJob for the small hitbox, but the real fun was playing something like "Scientist b" and beating everyone else doing so.

One of the funniest moments in my gaming life occurred one evening when I and a friend went over to another's house and played AvP, the original game. During one round of this LAN game I was the Alien climbing down the wall from the ceiling of a room. It was the corner of the room and huddled there was a Colonial Marine. The game had this thing where the Alien's fangs/teeth would frame the PC screen when you were about to make the best kill possible. Then my friend looked up and in surprised screamed like a little girl. No one was expecting his scream--aloud--and in turn we screamed, too. The adrenaline rush that shot through us was something we never encountered from playing computer games before. Of course the room was dark as hell so that only added to the very dark game environment.

God I loved that game.

 

[Sadaiyappan]

I have a few. First is buying my ps3 in 2008, second is getting my NeoGaf account, and lately I think getting through Dark Souls 3 (which I about to get to - it's in my backlog).

 

[sweenish]

Am I missing something, or did you actually just list registering on a website as a great gaming accomplishment?

 

[snoopy7548]

I'll accept it. Getting the original X-Box was one of my great gaming accomplishments.

 

[Stg-Flame]

I'll accept it. Getting the original X-Box was one of my great gaming accomplishments.

How is buying a console an accomplishment?