Your best gaming moment

[sscott]

Completing the Water Temple in Ocarina of Time. Phew!

[Shaun.Bebbington]

The speech in Beech Head II

Regards,

Shaun.

[SirClive]

now actually in the right thread...

another for me was visiting the offices of Ocean Software in Manchester in 1986. I had a tour around the place, chatted to the programmers and then spent a few hours in their free-play arcade on Operation wolf and Time Pilot. I remember there being a huge Smiths poster on one of the walls, I think it was that that made me get a Smiths tape and I have been a huge fan ever since

[SirClive]

Oh and I'll never forget the time I was beating my mate 4-0 at Kick Off 2 (he was on something like a 30 game winning streak) and he was such a bad loser he started scoring goals in his own net to spoil the game. Loser!

[reech]

Shedding a tear as I completed Final Fantasy 2 (as it was known back then, FF4 now!) on the SNES. Awwwwww!

[Baki]

Booting my saturn with Daytona for the first time... 'Daytonaaaaa it's moving' hell yeah!

[ady_lister]

Basically completing games I should have done 20 years ago.

Uninvited, Deja Vu .

Captive on Dos Box. On my ST I only got as far as the 4th base... Now I'm on mission 3 Level 5 and still going.

Elvira - finally finding the Dragons Blood and being able to cast the Fearful Spell on the Captain of The Guard - obliterated him without even
having to fight him!

Finally getting to play Day2 of Daley Thompson Decalthalon cos my
original tape would never load.

Getting this dude with a full range Spinning PileDriver just as the timer was about to run out after he tried to cheap me with the old slow Sonic Boom - Jumping Roundhouse tactic and watching his comfortable lead on the energy bar just drain away...

[The Master]

Spending a whole evening bopping out to various 8-bit micro loading sounds (...it's got a good beat!)

[ColonelK]

I know this is going to be well past the cut-off, but the first time I played Doom on a network. Jeysus, that was ace!

[lavalyte]

My school used to run a fete, and hired a modifed caravan full of arcade machines. Amongst the machines they had Guttang Guttong, Bezerk, Ladybug, Crush Roller and an Asteroids. The senior student running the caravan put up a sign saying that any high-score would get a free game. I got a number of high scores on Guttang Guttong and asteroids and felt really proud to go claim my free games.

[Overheat]

I remember at Cleckheaton Fayre in my home town there was always an arcade at the bottom away from the rides that I spent the majority of my time. It was here that I first glimpsed the amazing Mortal Kombat arcade machine and was in complete awe of the graphics and when I saw my first ever fatality - boy oh boy was I completely blown away

[Mic82]

Playing streets of rage every day til second game came out,completing die hard tril all in one day and playing tekken 2 for first time, man the music in that game!

[ToxieDogg]

Recently for me, it's been finishing God Hand. I've actually near broke my PS2 controller playing it, because of the sheer amount of times that I was double tapping the analogue stick forwards to do flying kicks and dash attacks.....bits of plastic chipped away from the controller where the analogue stick was bashing against it, and the analogue stick tends to get stuck a lot whenever I want to move forwards in other games now....but it was worth it because God Hand has possibly the best ending credits ever

Finally finishing off Global Defence Force a couple of weeks back cheered me up too, I've never seen such a gigantic ending boss in all my life!

[MaddAussie]

Going round my mates house circa 1994 and seeing him using a Spectrum emulator on his PC - it got me back into gaming after a few years away.

Going round your house and being whipped at pretty much everything!

[Type2XS]

The first time I played Turrican on my C64. My dad absolutely wanted to buy that game but for whatever reason (honestly I have no clue why) I never wanted it. But my father simply bought it and the moment I heard the voice track I was into it. And now the series has become one of my alltime-favourites.