Your best gaming moment

[chinnyhill10]

Beating Jammy Jim in 180. You always met him in the final, and he would never miss. Your only advantage was that you always threw first.

That or getting a Your Sinclair badge and a compliments slip signed by Jon Nash.

[pforson]

Summer Holiday. Temperature in the Upper 90's. Five sweaty boys in a dark room all huddled around my Amiga playing Syndicate until the early hours. Complete bliss.

[The Master]

Programming my own version of Vanguard, after having seen it once whilst on Summer Holiday... then checking it 20 years later and seeing it wasn't actually so bad! I forgot the cheesy Star Trek music, though... rainbow zone...

edit: I SHOULD ADD I WAS SIX EFFING YEARS OLD AT THE TIME, LOL

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[paranoid marvin]

Getting Letter Of The Month in RG of course!

[retrogarden]

My best gaming moment had to be completing street fighter 2 in the arcades for the first time. What made it even sweeter was my local arcade was having a competition at the time to win a Super Nintendo with Street Fighter 2 on it. The highest score at the end of the day over the 4 machines won.

I came second, but it basically ended up as me and this kid the same age as me playing constantly for about 3 hours. I spent around £10 that day, which - considering it was the early 90's, 12, and 20p a go, actually was a lot of money and it went a long way.

[Captain Scarlet]

Without doubt, my best gaming moment was completing the Hobbit on the ZX Spectrum. The frustrations of Thorin singing about gold, the hilarity of drinking wine in the cellar and those god-damn awful bulbous eyes were all forgotten the moment that I instructed Bard to “SHOOT DRAGON WITH BOWâ€

[Confessor]

re-discovering videogames two years ago when a girfriend gave me her old PS1 for free. And enjoying the pleasure of finishing some of the games for the first time in my life.

[sirclive1]

Winning our local pro evolution soccer league , 12 of us have been playing it since the ps1 version , i finally won the league for the 1st and only time on Pro Evolution 6 on the xbox 360 , roughly took 20 attempts and i only won it last game because one of the duffers in the group scraped a dodgy draw with a multi winning previous champion.

[Mr L]

Hmmmmm.... so many, so many.

I would say days out to the Trocadero back in the mid nineties to play 8 player Virtua Racing were pretty special.

At home, Super Mario World on the SNES, man I played that game soooooo much, I remember buying Super Soccer, Super Tennis and F Zero all on launch but they never got a look in!

[3fruits]

I remember visiting currys in crewe just as the snes was being released they had a demo in there mario world which I would take the bus journey from sandbach to crewe which was a good 30 mins after school and at weekends to play it. eventually I got my mum in there and showed her what I wanted for christmas tha year. meantime I practically completed mario world in the store, I used to have a crowd round me mostly shop workers watching me,lol
then my mum got me the streetfighter and console for xmas, me and my cousin used to unwrap it and rewrap it before mum got home from work, of course we were bunking from school, we completed street fighter 2 prior to x,as day ,lol and mum still doesn't know we did that to this day and I'm 29 now.

[retrogarden]

I would say days out to the Trocadero back in the mid nineties to play 8 player Virtua Racing were pretty special.

Oh man, I'd have to agree with you.

I played Virtual Formula in Coral Island in Blackpool. It had the cameras and the hydraulic seats. It was amazing!

[The Master]

First setting eyes on OutRun ranks high up there as well. I can still smell the sweat and candyfloss in the air, and the hydraulic cab seemed like a thing from another world. Spent a whole afternoon just watching it because I dug the music so much (I later bought the Spectrum conversion despite not having a Spectrum, just for the original soundtrack on the B side...!)

[Emperor Fossil]

Playing through Virtua Cop 2 in the arcades, then turning around to find that a Japanese man in a black Yakuza-like business suit had been watching me for some time.

Jiggling with enthusiasm, he said to me: "You are ... very good!"

'Well, I've played it a lot,' I replied, laughing awkwardly while wondering if he was about to whip out some kind of SEGA badge and, in a scene vaguely like something from The Last Starfighter, escort me off to SEGA HQ to be their resident crack shot light-gun game tester.

Instead he just smiled and nodded and then turned and walked away -- no SEGA badge, no life of game-testing luxury for me. But still, at that moment, damn it, I felt very good.

[fgasking]

Taking part in a Quake tournament at my old secondary school against around 15-20 others and winning it (Even though i'd never played the game before). All that after being taunted by many of them for being into "crappy" retro games and that they were far better gamers because of that

[Hank Splendid]

Playing GTA : Vice City. I was riding shotgun in a helicopter shooting gang members coming out of a house with a machine gun. The sun started to set - turning a beautiful shade of orange and at the very same time Toto's 'Africa' starting playing on the radio... glorious!

Either that or bunking of school as a kid solely so that I could play the recently released Uridium on my C64! Sorry Mum!