I just remember playing megaman 1 on NES over and over mostly to listen to the music after you beat the first bosses, i loved the music of that game so much!
As a teenager, my cousin & one of my best friends watched me do a complete playthrough of Golgo 13 for the NES, but with a catch:
At the start of every dialogue scene, I had to find a brand new, unused reason to make Duke Togo / Golgo turn around. Halfway in, I was shouting things like “FREE ICE CREAM BEHIND YOU”.
No matter what the reason was, the response I voiced for Golgo/Duke was always (in a voice like Hugo the Abominable Snowman): “Oh, it’s just a man. You fooled me again.”
A tie between spending hours and hours sitting in front of one of those big wooden late 80s TVs playing Super Mario Bros 3, and realizing I had a crush on the neighbor girl while we played (mid 90s) Street Fighter
Sneeking into my brother's room when he was not at home, playing Super Mario World, Secret of Evermore and Metal Warriors on his SNES. Lovely memories!
I'd say for me it's is in Ocarina of Time, the first time nighttime came and the skeletons started coming out of the ground. Scared me shitless. Actually now I think about it, definitely not the "best" but one of the most memorable moments for sure
The Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt cartridge for the Nintendo Entertainment System was my first big console game (I played some crappy DOS games on Windows 3.11 before that), but I remember getting a SEGA Genesis with Sonic 2 when I was around 10 years old and being blown away by the graphics and game quality.
I had played Sonic 2 on the SEGA Game Gear since my 9th birthday, but I became a lifelong fan of Sonic the Hedgehog ever since I got to play the Genesis version (I'm 39 now).
I replayed that game so much, it's one of my core memories of my summer vacations as a kid.
The Legend of Zelda. So many amazing, visceral memories associated with that game- cracking open the package and gawping at the golden cartridge, leafing through the manual, looking at the paper map while running around in game, exploring, sweating through the labyrinthine later dungeons, hacking my way out of a like-a-like, braving the graveyard for the magic sword, the music... It was like 35 years ago and it's still a helluva thing.
This will make me sound young but beating KOTOR on Xbox. It was literally years in the making because I was 6 when I started it and maybe 9 when I finally figured out how to progress to the end and defeat Malak with grenade spam of every single one I saved the whole campaign. Man I was in heaven
A bunch of neighborhood kids would come over on Fridays and spend the night, we'd stay up until like 2am with 1 person playing the original Resident Evil on ps1 and were scared shitless. Then we'd spend the next day playing Mario Kart 64 and OG Smash Bros.
My cousin and I were playing Monopoly on NES. The computer player offered us a trade. I don’t remember what it was exactly, but it wanted Boardwalk from some other property we had no use for. We declined the trade and console immediately reset. It still makes me laugh realizing the game rage quit on us.
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