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!
Playing Dungeon Master, and Eye of the Beholder series on my Amiga.
There was nothing better than 4 player split screen for Goldeneye and Mario Kart 64
edit: seconded only by 16 player Halo LAN parties in the early 2000s
Late to the party, but probably playing Battlefield 1942 for actual HOURS. Such a great game
Hm, alright. It’s gonna be one of:
- Fully completing Majora’s Mask with a bud, going through each of the mask quests and figuring them out together was amazing
- Having a hilarious good time smashing through Mystical Ninja Goemon with another friend
- My friend group as a whole organizing around games of Smash 64/Melee for our own tournaments
- Halo 1-3 co-ops and multi with my brother and cousin
smash bros tournaments sound like so much fun!
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.
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!
Playing Super Mario World on the SNES as a kid.
The end of Twilight Princess is permanently embedded into my mind. Just the silence of Ganondorf standing with the sword plunged through his chest is incredible and a little haunting at the end of that game.
That, and when my dad showed me DOOM. That was a good day.
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.”
Game defeated. No reason used twice.
Being enthralled by Final Fantasy VII when I was a wee lad. So many hours of my childhood are in that world.
I spent a lot of time playing wwf no mercy and vigilante 8 2nd offense. I mostly fell back into playing the tony hawk games for the longest time.
