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Your greatest video game moment/accomplishment

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Stg-Flame said:
How is buying a console an accomplishment?
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I was partly joking, but the X-Box was definitely the start of a pretty great era of gaming for me. I became a member of the XboxAddict forums and met a lot of awesome people, solely because of that little (huge) machine. Saving up the cash for it and three games from my first job could be considered some sort of accomplishment, I guess.
 
snoopy7548 said:
I was partly joking, but the X-Box was definitely the start of a pretty great era of gaming for me. I became a member of the XboxAddict forums and met a lot of awesome people, solely because of that little (huge) machine. Saving up the cash for it and three games from my first job could be considered some sort of accomplishment, I guess.
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Was it like this when you got the Xbox?

 
One that I can remember was getting the ICC 10 man heroic achievement in WoW: WotLK expansion. You got a frost drake (don't remember the exact name) flying mount. Was pretty awesome beating LK heoric.
 
Finding the easter egg in Atari's adventure quite by accident, in 1981. I even called my friends over and showed them. It was quite a feat as we didn't have internet and it wasn't until a couple of years later that it became well known. Ah, the good old days.
 
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Mine would have to be when I battled a few people in COD Modern Warfare all by myself. I was the only one on the team against like 4 or 5 others. With my grenade trickery and stealth perks I kicked their butt.

The other would be in BF2142. I was damn good at that game and i was on a team that actually did what they were suppose to. With the help of me and a few others we won that round. It was so epic. I was never on a good team that knew what the hell they were doing again. Even in BF2. It's like people don't squad up or spawn on the squad leader at all. Truly baffling.
 
Rifter said:
Playing MGS 1 for PS1 3 times to completion without stopping, took a day straight. And figuring out how to beat that one boss you has to switch to second controller port only took me 2 tries before i figured it out.
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That would be Psycho Mantis.

Game was epic. I loved that and Syphon Filter. Then Perfect Dark came out and I was hooked to that. And I thought Goldeneye was the bomb. I still play PD in an emulator with a USB N64 controller.
 
NES was damn hard in that you had no save ability. I remember my friend keeping his Nintendo running just to continue playing Megaman. Then you had that dreaded problem where the whole game would screw up and would give the game cartridge a BJ. LOL
 
Skunk-Works said:
NES was damn hard in that you had no save ability. I remember my friend keeping his Nintendo running just to continue playing Megaman. Then you had that dreaded problem where the whole game would screw up and would give the game cartridge a BJ. LOL
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I get the feeling you never actually touched a NES because most games (including Megaman) had passwords at the end of each stage. If you didn't beat a stage, you just used the one from the previous stage.

Then you had other games like RTK and other various RPGs (Final Fantasy, Ultima, Dragon Warrior, etc.) that all featured save functions. There were some games that didn't feature a save function at all like Dig Dug, Joust, and Dig Dug 2 (can't think of a different one off the top of my head), but most games still had a save feature of some kind.
 
Stg-Flame said:
I get the feeling you never actually touched a NES because most games (including Megaman) had passwords at the end of each stage. If you didn't beat a stage, you just used the one from the previous stage.

Then you had other games like RTK and other various RPGs (Final Fantasy, Ultima, Dragon Warrior, etc.) that all featured save functions. There were some games that didn't feature a save function at all like Dig Dug, Joust, and Dig Dug 2 (can't think of a different one off the top of my head), but most games still had a save feature of some kind.
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I only played Mario 1 and 3, Duck Hunt, Bayou Billy, Metal Gear and a handful of others. I don't ever recall a save feature.
 
renz20003 said:
Metal gear has passwords
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This reminds me of one of my proudest gaming moments. I sucked at Metal Gear but I started to figure out the pass code system and remember giving myself awesome stuff to start off with. I still never beat it but really enjoyed "cracking" the code.

Other gaming moments of notes: beating NES Top Gun, beating Zelda single sitting no deaths, Zelda through first dungeon eyes closed (not sure why friend challenged this but they did), getting past the dam level in TMNT a couple times 😉
 
Stg-Flame said:
Then you had other games like RTK and other various RPGs (Final Fantasy, Ultima, Dragon Warrior, etc.) that all featured save functions. There were some games that didn't feature a save function at all like Dig Dug, Joust, and Dig Dug 2 (can't think of a different one off the top of my head), but most games still had a save feature of some kind.
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Other games without saves or password system:
Contra (not too long, ~20-30 minutes depending on how cautious you are on end stage fights to beat the game)
Cabal (about 40 minutes)
Rampage (somewhere around 2-3 hours (I think the world record is 103 minutes)
 
Beating the #1 player on Kali in Motoracer during its prime. Took me me so many hours to get the track just right. My ping sucked ass, but had a flawless run. Barely, barely beat him. Never did again out of like 30 tries...

Many times playing MK1, 2 and 3 in the Arcade. Standing there and kept on winning, wife no amused.

Several instances when playing in a clan in various games. Working up a fucking sweat just sitting there moving a mouse. Crazy how you can get so worked up sitting still.

Oh shit, forgot this was console...

Um, getting 120 stars on an imported N64 with Mario 64 less than two days after getting it. Not being able to read signs because I ordered it from Japan. Felt pretty good about that one.
 
Watching the OP have my six-year-old nephew play Counter-strike for him because he was too drunk at my going away LAN party a few weeks ago.....
Also, Fragging the OP when he was 14 years old at HIS first LAN party....
 
ksheets said:
Watching the OP have my six-year-old nephew play Counter-strike for him because he was too drunk at my going away LAN party a few weeks ago.....
Also, Fragging the OP when he was 14 years old at HIS first LAN party....
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I was already trashed by the time you showed up when I was 14... as I proceeded to knock the pizza off the table and barf all over the house.

Get ur facts straight son
 
My brother was the 1st person and only person to ever land on the aircraft carrier in Top Gun on NES. He had video evidence and there was a cash prize of which they never paid.
 
Beating Mike Tyson on the NES without getting hit once. I've also played through the game multiple times without getting knocked down. This was back in the 80's when I was still a kid. No way I can do that now.
 
I had CastleVania and Ninja Gaiden so memorized, I could play through both of them without losing a life.

Also, kicked butt at Magician Lord on Neo-Geo. Dazzling graphics!
 
all the times i gone from hip to my scope in an online shooter and landing right on target. those amaze me every time, as commonplace as they are of course.
 
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