Most Rememberal experience with games

Frozzy · October 15, 2002, 03:40

Hi. I'm doing an "in-depth study" on video games. I would appreciate it very much if you could post your most rememberal experience with games on consoles like the NES, SNES PlayStation etc., or on PC's.

Thank you very much for your time

Lemmy · October 15, 2002, 04:54

on PC it was Fallout and SMAC, both of those games got interested into respectively RPG's and TBS.

I still remember when i played the fallout demo, just beautifull, it ran a little sluggish on my 120 Mhz comp, but still, it was good
Now i almost forgot SimCity before all that, spent hours playing that game.

Serb · October 15, 2002, 07:38

On PC it was King's bounty, Pirates, first civ, both Jagged Alliance, both Fallouts and Planescape torment.

On console it was King's bounty, Pirates

and first Metal Gear. (not for PS, the first Metal Gear with sprite graphics, many, many years ago

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Dis · October 15, 2002, 13:18

see my response in off-topic

Thrawn05 · October 15, 2002, 16:00

AvPGE is the best game out there hands down. I don't care what people say, I love it and still play it.

I just AvP3 doesn't suck as much as AvP2.

MattyBoy · October 15, 2002, 16:25

We had possums in the roof and they had dug a small hole through the cieling in our back room, where I was playing Space Invaders on my Atari. My brother and I had a bitter competition going on this game and I was on a new high score with 2 lives up my sleeve, which meant I had been playing at my best for at least 40 minutes (IIRC) when...

...one of the possums pissed long and hard through the hole onto the floor.

I kept playing for perhaps 20 seconds as I badly wanted to increase my high score further, but I had to stop and clean it up. Sometimes RL just can't be ignored

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PS. After that the possums had to go, tho I remember we had even fed them through the hole a couple of times.

loinburger · October 15, 2002, 17:16

Killing Kefka in FFVI (SNES).

Blowing up Moscow (and being blown up along with Moscow) in Raid Over Moscow (Commodore 64).

Killing Dagoth-Ur in Morrowind (PC).

Killing Horrigan in Fallout II (PC).

Killing the Woodsy Lord in Thief (PC).

Getting over 100 kills in 30 minutes (by infecting the other team) in TFC (PC).

Killing Kingpin in Punisher (PC/Arcade).

Felch · October 15, 2002, 17:18

Loinburger seems to get off on mass murder.

MattyBoy · October 15, 2002, 17:37

Yes, there does seem to be a bit of a theme there.

Not a fan of The Sims, Loin?

Skanky Burns · October 15, 2002, 19:01

Why wouldn't he be?
He could play the "lets have 5 fireplaces, lots of wooden furniture and no doors" version of the game...

Although admittedly theres no challenge with that one.

Mine would be destroying the enemy carrier in Carrier Command (pc), leaving me free to take the rest of his islands in peace.

loinburger · October 15, 2002, 20:16

Oh, almost all of my most remembered experiences deal with killing individuals, not entire cities or nations or whatever have you. Blowing up Moscow might count as mass murder, sure, but killing over 100 people in TFC could hardly be construed as murder since they all deserved it (since they were all ****ers who didn't even know how to deal with a simple infection)...

Besides, it's pretty damn tough to have a memorable experience in a non-violent game. "There was this time when I got to level 10 in Tetris. It was awesome!"

Thrawn05 · October 15, 2002, 23:33

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Originally posted by loinburger
Oh, almost all of my most remembered experiences deal with killing individuals, not entire cities or nations or whatever have you. Blowing up Moscow might count as mass murder, sure, but killing over 100 people in TFC could hardly be construed as murder since they all deserved it (since they were all ****ers who didn't even know how to deal with a simple infection)...

Besides, it's pretty damn tough to have a memorable experience in a non-violent game. "There was this time when I got to level 10 in Tetris. It was awesome!"

Only 10? What did you do? Mass Murdered the Game Boy in a fit of rage?

Game Type A... started from level 0... made it to level 18.

Dis · October 16, 2002, 00:05

I forgot to mention in my other post beating Diablo in Diablo1 and 2. Beating Baal was O.K. in the LOD expansion I guess.

Let's not forget the first time aliens invade your base in X-com

Urban Ranger · October 16, 2002, 01:44

Okay.

XCOM is pretty intense, esp. when:
- running into a new breed of aliens the first few times
- night missions
- attacking alien battleships and terrorist ships
- attacking enemy bases, particularly the final one on Mars

Getting the highest rating in M.U.L.E..

Finishing Ultima 3.

ravagon · October 16, 2002, 05:20

First time "winning" at civ.
The Diablo thing in D2
The Duriel thing in D2 with my skeleton summoning necromancer.

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Originally posted by Urban Ranger

Finishing Ultima 3.

That was a toughie for me too. Needing to find a pirate ship to board before going to the isle took me forever.
Never around except when you don't need 'em sort of thing

Lemmy · October 16, 2002, 05:31

Two specific moments i remember from Fallout 1.
1. Killing Gizmo, loved that animation.
2. Entering the Hub, the atmosphere was excellent, couldn't wait to get to the shop and check out the goodies.

Actually entering any big fallout city for the first time was fun, there was off course Shady Sands, with the first persons you meet.
In FO2 there was New Reno, Vault City, Klamath (again, the first other city), NCR and San Fransisco were all good.

moomin · October 16, 2002, 07:15

Attaining the rank of Elite in Elite.

TheStinger · October 16, 2002, 07:46

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Originally posted by moomin
Attaining the rank of Elite in Elite.

mine too

althought he first time to deadly was good too, it just made you think I can take out anything, of course with my energy bomb i could

August Borms · October 16, 2002, 08:33

Building my own levels in Duke Nukem 3D (and extracting textures from the demo's of Witchhaven 2, Powerslave/Exhumed and Blood) while listening to The Presidents Of The USA

Losing a war as the Flemish against the French in Civ2 ( I had to defend my last city with riflemen and partisans against French tanks )

Discovering the use of paratroopers after playing Civ2 for over a year

Playing Mortal Kombat 2 in the arcades for the first time

Teamkilling in Unreal Tournament...

Entering the Friendly Arms Inn for the first time in Baldur's Gate...

Tuberski · October 16, 2002, 19:09

Going through all the border colors on Defender (arcade) and going back to the first(blue?) border.

loinburger · October 16, 2002, 19:26

Teaming up with a friend to annoy the hell out of our team as dual team-killing demomen in TFC (PC). There's a particularly fun map in which two demomen can continually spam the spawn point with MIRV grenades and mass team-kill (if teamkill is on), or else strip the armor from all teammates and also make it almost impossible for teammates to leave the spawn point (if teamkill is off). If you go in using an alias of a clan that you don't like, then you can usually get the entire clan banned from the server.

Urban Ranger · October 17, 2002, 01:13

That seems to be a flaw of the game.

loinburger · October 17, 2002, 01:29

We call it clan-killing.

Urban Ranger · October 17, 2002, 03:45

The most momorable experiences have to do with the early days of computer/video games, including:

- Pong
- Space Invader
- Asteroids
- Galaxian/Galaga
- Tempest
- Decathlon (on the TRS-80)
- Archon
- Star Raider

Back then, the "wow" factor was great. Now, new games are mostly just so-so.

Dauphin · October 17, 2002, 08:38

I think one of my most memorable experiences was playing "Gunsmoke" on the NES, when I was about 8 or 9. I had got stuck on the third level "Commanche Village" for ages - died numerous times and was absolutely having my derriere whipped. I finally completed the level by killing the end of level boss. I went bezerk, running around cheering that I had finally killed the git.

I returned to the game several years later for nostalgia. I completed it at the first time of asking - it was so unbelievably easy! Oh well.

Father Beast · October 17, 2002, 08:46

I have 2 major remembrances, separated by a couple of decades.

1. the first time me or my brother made it to the end of Questron. we'd been playing it for a couple of months, each trying to get ahead of the other. I and a friend were there when my brother made it to the bottom of mator's dungeon and into his hideout. I remember the feeling of horror when we were told that ranged weapons don't work here, and again when we found that the guards hit with a percentage of my brother's massive build of hit points. we were both screaming at him to "go this way' , "no, that way' , "hurry up, you're going to DIE!!"

2. the first time I beat OCC on civ2. i'd been going at it for a while, and kept getting killed off for various reasons. With a LOT of help and advice from the civvers here, notably Rah, i finally managed to hold off the after launch invasion until my ship landed. What a feeling

Traianvs · October 17, 2002, 16:58

Hehe, i finished Gunsmoke as well a few months ago, it was.. idd so easy!!

i can remember, finishing caesar2, having conquered all that could possibly be conquered, including, hibernia, dacia exterior, etc that the actual romans never conquered!!!

i also remember my first encounter with 'The Thing' in Stonekeep, the most horrible monster i've ever encountered in a game..

then there are the good old duke nukem3d mp games, via modem, with a mate, and more recently, getting 280 kills in Deathmatch Soldier of Fortune in just 20 minutes.. (which is quite insane!!)

of course, the entire Thief game, hiding in dark alleasy and corners, hearing guards pray/ search/ hunt you, was simply great!

Dauphin · October 17, 2002, 17:21

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Originally posted by Trajanus
i can remember, finishing caesar2, having conquered all that could possibly be conquered, including, hibernia, dacia exterior, etc that the actual romans never conquered!!!

One of my favourite things about Caesar II was the guy sayig those place names. For some reason "Africa Proconsularis" sticks in my mind the most.

pg · October 17, 2002, 17:54

i remember quite about ogre battle(snes), shadowrun(snes), ff vi(snes), fallout1(pc), daggerfall(pc), and deus ex(pc) as if i lived that experience in some surreal dream. i also have the same feeling regarding beating the the bosses in doom2 + quake1(mmm telefragging), along with some really well remembered multiplayer matches i played for quake1(like winning some 1v1s on dm6 by 1 frag in overtime).

TheStinger · October 18, 2002, 06:39

does anyone remember a game called rings of darkness for the spectrum or dragon 32