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Im talking about moments where you were like #$%@ this is so cool.
Mine has to be LOZ link to the past at the beginning where the rain is coming down and ur trying to get into the castle. there was nothing out there at that time that was comparable to it. With all of the graphics firepower companies have these days they just cant give you hallmark moments like that

Death of Aeris. I was gonna cry.

She dies? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

final battle zelda 64.....awesome

For me, it was the whole FF7 experience, nothing else has even come close since.

Here's just a general comment. When I used to play games back in the NES days, I remember standing up and literally jumping wiht the character during boss fights (See Zelda II). The sad part it, I don't have that experience of being in the game anymore. Am I too old? Are games not as good? The world may never know.

Yea i remember ducking and dodging with my body to get the extra "edge" in the old days. I think as far as it being age or being th equality of games I think its a little from column A and a little from Column B. I think with having played so many games its hard to get one over on older players. Plus I think game companies are to worried about having great graphics these days

The end of Chrono Trigger, man did I not want that game to end.

All of Metal Gear Solid. Wow. My friends and i would all just take turns and play to watch the scenes. I remember taking it to my last day of 10th or 11th grade (can't remember) and the clsssroom was full of people completely engrossed into the story and cinemas. It was great. I don't wanna give any specifics on plot in case some people are waiting to play Twin Snakes who haven't played Solid.

Originally Posted by basketkase543 All of Metal Gear Solid. Wow. My friends and i would all just take turns and play to watch the scenes. I remember taking it to my last day of 10th or 11th grade

Yeh me and my friend did the same thing at about the same grade. Except I totally sucked at sneaking up on guards and he ended up playing the most. But after he went home I ended up beating the whole game myself. Where was I.. oh yeah

I just posted on another thread about this, but the ending to Prince of Persia Sands of Time. I knew there was something about the ending from Penny Arcade and stuff, but it just put this goofy smile going through it myself, I just felt like the designers put some TLC in it or something I don't know. I don't remember having that feeling with any other game, and I've been playing for 15-16 years already.

As for 'wow' factor, I remember playing SF2 for the first time on my friend's SNES. I played it in arcades but it seemed unreal playing it at his house. *sniff* the memories *wiping away a tear*.

Originally Posted by magilacudy As for 'wow' factor, I remember playing SF2 for the first time on my friend's SNES. I played it in arcades but it seemed unreal playing it at his house. *sniff* the memories *wiping away a tear*.

Oh yeah! My friends brother got the SNES and Street Fighter 2 and none of us could believe that it wasn't costing us a quarter per turn. We would spend hours on that game.

In the "old days" I'd have to say my most favorite gaming moment was making the final marathon run through Wily's castle in Mega Man II for NES.

In modern gaming, my favorite gaming moment was in the Halo stage "343 Guilty Spark." For me, that level took the game from "yeah, that's neat" to "HOLY...!"

I'd say there are three distinct moments in my gaming life that I will never forget.

#1 - Completing Super Mario Bros. 2 on the NES. I remember playing this game for weeks. When I finally beat it, I ran to my mom and begged her to pull out the polaroid camera and take a picture of me next to the TV while Mario slept. I was so excited that I did not turn the system off until the next day! I fell asleep to that soothing music. Ah the memories...

#2 - Is a tie within the same game. FFVII brought about a turning point in my gaming life because I hated RPG's until I played this game. As a whole, the experience left me very satisfied. I put in over 70 hours of gameplay in FFVII and that did not include any time raising chocobo's. I was mainly driven by my pure hatred for Sephiroth. The scene where he killed Aerith made me jump up in a screaming fit! That has to be the only time I've yelled "NOOOOOOO!!!!" at the death of someone other than myself.

#3 - Metal Gear Solid. What else can I say? It was epic for its time. Compelling story, killer graphics, excellent gameplay. Truly a classic of the 32-bit days. I am probably the only gamer alive to ever beat Sniper Wolf without using the anti-shake pills. (I didn't know what they were for until after I beat her. ) And yes, I did play it twice to see both endings.

I would have to say my best gaming moment would have been in Everquest online adventures on PS2. My guild of 20 and 2 other guilds were fighting a mega boss called arachnid or something like that (it was North of oasis of Marr near the monk tower). Anyway we all went in and were fighting it and every single person but me died. That's like 50 people, So anyway I thought it was cool.

Looking at the credits in Helbreath: The Crusade... the first major game that I worked on, what made it even better was that it was chock-full of korean names, and then there was mine :-D

A semi-close second, was in the video extras in Slamscape for PSOne, where I'm in the video for God Lives Underwater's "Don't Know How To Be", since on a technicality, I was in a game, no matter how bad it was.

I'm gonna go old school, don't even remember how old I was, but when I beat Super Mario 3 and got to listen to the ending credits music... that was just great. I loved that song. It's not an *all-time* moment per se, but it was a fun ending.

#1 - Defeating Metal Gear Rex in Metal Gear Solid... it took me six hours, a duct's worth of tears and half my hair cells before I was finally able to take that thing down.

#2 - Aeris's death... that's a classic gaming moment. Nobody saw that one coming.

#3 - The first time I saw Silent Scope at the arcade. The first thing I asked myself was, "How are they getting away with something like this?" Remember, this was not long after Columbine and Lieberman's anti-gaming campaign. Then I popped some quarters in the machine and was blown away, no pun intended.

#4 - The ultimate kick in the nuts... when Samus takes HER helmet off. Was that not a shocker?!

Originally Posted by jaso #4 - The ultimate kick in the nuts... when Samus takes HER helmet off. Was that not a shocker?!

Ooooooooooooooo! Good one!

At the end of Ultima: Quest of the Avitar for NES (when you have to fight your friends). I was like...aw...snap.....

I guess another one would be the bad ass final battle in Actraiser.....that swirling background was sick.....

first trying the intellivision, my first system. i was young and just so amazed i could control the onscreen activity. really, for a 5 year old this is hot shiite. then the jump to genesis and sonic, i thought gaming would never get netter. i was happily proven wrong