Your best gaming moment

[David]

Playing the original Champ Manager on a friends Amiga.

my team (Rangers) were playing in a Euro final against Fiorentina (and spookily they are playing them for real in a week's time in the UEFA semi final )

Anyway, I was winning 1-0 and in the last minute they got the ball.

The text came up:

"Batistuta Rounds the keeper"

"Batistuta must score"

I was screaming at the tv and then it came up

"But somehow misses!"

I guess you had to be there

[I AM WALKING THE COW]

When facing psycho mantis on metal gear solid, putting the pad into port 2

[thevulture]

Has to be 3D Monster maze on ZX81.1st Killer App i ever played, fantastic presentation (ANYONE THERE?) and the 1st game to introduce feelings of fear, tension and blind panic.Being told Rex is on the prowl..he`s close by, OMG he`s right by me!, to quote Aliens..Lets get the F**k outta here moment. Seeing him coming straight at me? 1st pant changing moment in games?LOl and all this from a micro with NO sound, primitive 'graphics' amazing achivement.

[thevulture]

Other worthy moments:The All-night gaming sessions on games, you just could`nt stop playing,thinking about work etc.1st was Buck Rogers:Countdown to Doomsday on MD, followed years later by Xcom on PSone.Both proved that gameplay wins everytime.Other highlights?Getting a MD and being blown away by Revenge of Shinobi, Buying my Playstation felt years ahead at the time, Even Tat like Toh shin Den made my jaw drop, my 1st foray into IMPORT games, thanks to dark art of chipping-Give your £300 console to a mate who swears he`s a dab hand with the soldering iron and pray!

[Igorthegreen]

Must say... Bought Tekken 6 with arcade joypad for Xbox 360 last week... It knocks out my previous all-time FAV'gaming moment (which was Choplifter on C64).

[alexdwsn12]

When i win the game at that i am very happy and it is my best gaming moment.
There is no doubt about that.

[greenberet79]

Super Mario World / SNES. Finishing Butter Bridge via the secret exit (where you have to fly up and under various obstacles). Not the first time (it was easy enough as a gameplaying teenager in 1993) but last year when I did it on my PSP, as a 30 year old dusting off my old skills. I hadn't played the game in about 15 years and was amazed I could still do it. It was VERY satisfying.

[RetroStation]

I love to play Mario Kart on the DS in balloon battle mode. My favourite trick is to choose the block fort, and then 'hog' the yellow quarter. I then set about creating a 'banana world' in which i strategically place yellow bananas across all paths in and out and then everywhere else, ... dozens of them! (They blend in nicely to the yellow section of the map). Then simply sit and wait with 3 red shells, most karts fail to even get near you but if they do you have the ammunition to see them off!

[PanzerGeneral]

Both myself and my best mate from school were sitting in my house one Saturday night back in 1982, we were playing Defender on the VCS and doing not too badly, he would get 21000 - I would get 22500 and so on.
In comes my oldest brother back from a pub quest, pissed as a fart, wearing a white suit jacket with a donner kebab stuffed in the pocket - he then decides that he fancies a go on the old Atari.
He gets comfy then proceded to thrash us with scores we could only dream about, then repeats the feat with missile command. (he was also multi tasking by eating previously mentioned kebab at the same time).
Who said alcohol impairs judgement and mental agility?

[greenberet79]

Both myself and my best mate from school were sitting in my house one Saturday night back in 1982, we were playing Defender on the VCS and doing not too badly, he would get 21000 - I would get 22500 and so on.
In comes my oldest brother back from a pub quest, pissed as a fart, wearing a white suit jacket with a donner kebab stuffed in the pocket - he then decides that he fancies a go on the old Atari.
He gets comfy then proceded to thrash us with scores we could only dream about, then repeats the feat with missile command. (he was also multi tasking by eating previously mentioned kebab at the same time).
Who said alcohol impairs judgement and mental agility?

That's brilliant. I've never seen your brother, but in my head I picture him looking like Douglas Reynholm from the IT Crowd (or Matt Berry as he’s really known, or Dr Sanchez from Garth Marengie as he was formally known). I imagine he would have the same triumphant laugh as Douglas as well, as he trounced all contenders.

[greenberet79]

Both myself and my best mate from school were sitting in my house one Saturday night back in 1982, we were playing Defender on the VCS and doing not too badly, he would get 21000 - I would get 22500 and so on.
In comes my oldest brother back from a pub quest, pissed as a fart, wearing a white suit jacket with a donner kebab stuffed in the pocket - he then decides that he fancies a go on the old Atari.
He gets comfy then proceded to thrash us with scores we could only dream about, then repeats the feat with missile command. (he was also multi tasking by eating previously mentioned kebab at the same time).
Who said alcohol impairs judgement and mental agility?

That's brilliant. I've never seen your brother, but in my head I picture him looking like Douglas Reynholm from the IT Crowd (or Matt Berry as he’s really known, or Dr Sanchez from Garth Marengie as he was formally known). I imagine he would have the same triumphant laugh as Douglas as well, as he trounced all contenders.

[IronMaidenRule]

Has to be the first time I played Sensible Soccer on the Amiga, totally addictive gameplay!

[BellyFullOfHell]

The first time I ever got to grips with Deus Ex. Realising how huge (back then) that first level was, how many different ways there were to approach the statue, the people to be spoken to, the weapons to choose... Reaslising that the way I'd approached the combat actually affected things, no matter how minor it may seem now, back at UNATCO HQ. Just the sheer scope, abmition, craft and love put into creating a cohesive and beleiveable gameworld. The ONLY game that ever caused me to call in sick to work, because I simply couldn't stop playing.

OR.

The first time I ever clapped eyes on Speccy R-Type. From the initial amazement (even at age 7) at the sheer amount of colour my SPeccy was throwing around, to the dawning amazement that Electric Dreams & Bob Pape hadn't just pulled off a passable conversion of my favourite arcade machine, they'd literally pulled off something so close that it should have been impossible. Priceless.

[famicom69]

Getting my first PC at the very end of the 90's and going on to enjoy Unreal Tournament, Half Life, Quake 3, Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2, Max Payne and eventually GTA3. Not exactly retro, but I played all of those games to death. Not to mention the amount of time I spent playing Counter Strike. I will never forget that machine.....

[Rory Milne]

On the morning of Christmas Day 1984 I found Knight Lore (for the ZX Spectrum) sitting under the tree waiting to be unwrapped. None of the magazines had managed to get so much as a screen shot of the game into their pre-Christmas issues and all that I'd managed to find out about it was that it was somehow "in 3D".

It seemed to take an age to load but that didn't matter as I had my nose stuck in the beautifully written, cryptic instructions. When it finally did and after I had pressed the key to start the game it became clear, to me at least, that a gaming revolution had just quietly happened in front of my eyes.