Weekend Open Forum: What is your fondest gaming memory?

This isn't just about a game but about how my friends and I went about doing it. Gathering as many old PCs (P2s and P3s) laying around my high school into an unused section of the school to make a private Lan for ourselves. We only played the oldest of RTS' like Starcraft and Age of Empires, but it sure beat going to class, and for a month it was our little secrete. Naturally word got out and it drew too much attention, eventually a teacher caught wind of the whole thing and shut us down. I even posted a picture in the now hidden Gallery section of this site, guess they still can't get it working right?

Link to that Picture and of one of our Creations
 
I have a few from the early days playing River Raid and Boxing on Atari 2600 to being blown away by the graphics when we first got a NES.

One of the most vivid is playing C&C with a friend over dial-up, during one pretty even match he threw a massive attack on my base and sent all his remaining forces to destroy everything in sight. And it almost played out for him. Luckily I had 2-3 APC units filled with engineers and a few riflemen hiding throughout the map. Once his base was left unguarded I just deployed them and took everything he had, then killed his remaining forces back at my base. He never saw it coming. This is one of my first "online gaming" memories, I guess that's why it stuck with me.
 
As I am "younger" than mos people here I have never seen arcades or heck I've played mario like for only a week on a dusty console,when I went to summer vacations to my grand's.so my fondest gaming memories would be from the game I first played "LAN MULTIPLAYER" on,the first "TRIBES" and I was like oh ****!,is this thing happening,vehicles,spinfusors,grenades,planes,tanks and turrets,pure madness! still the best memories ever
 
Has to be my first ever play through of metal gear solid on ps1. mindblowing at the time.
2nd would be playing pes 5 and pes 6 master league for months. :)
 
Playing DOOM for hours on end and launching the game from DOS...
And still have the cheats memorized of course... IDKFA, IDSPISPOPD, IDQQD
 
The best game I liked from 85-1999 was a space ship that you would have four outer space planet's to
land on and then try to destroy ant other space ships that were their. on night around 2am I come upon
three other guys just talking away, so I came up and joined in. we were asking each other whats our
home towns and things like that. it was great when another ship found us with lasers blazing, and
we all turned to face him and killed it, then returned to talking...
I can not remember the name of the game, if anyone can remember please here
thanks doug
 
..playing super mario bros, in whistler every night, ( that we weren't drinking), while making the movie Ski School..
 
An ENTIRE summer with 3 of my best buds online, we played League of legends while talking on skype, but now the girls boyfriend doesn't want her talking with us. #RIP
 
Playing Silent Service on my old Commodore 64 and 128 late 80s. Before that, Missile Command on an Atari way back in the late 70s.
 
Does this count? Hitting my 6 year-old brother with a NES controller after beating me in Mortal Kombat :p

This reminds me of the time my brother got stuck on the Path of Hades in God of War (PS2). He was progressing quite nicely through the game up until he had to traverse the section with the spinning logs. After he fell to his death 15 or 20 times, I turned on the stereo and played "Gravity" by John Mayer. His face turned red, he threw down the controller and stormed out of the room.
 
My earliest game memories are of playing Super Mario Brothers with my brother, and me and him fighting on who got to play as "the red guy" and "the green guy".

However, what really hooked me to gaming was playing Quake for the first time on my friend's 486.
 
BF3
1230 Hours played
129,254 Kills
1.73 k/d

BF4
663 Hours Played
33,000 Kills
1.82 k/d

Left 4 Dead 2
2400 hours played.
 
There are so many for me but I will name a few in no particular order.
*Finishing Planescape Torment 2 years after I got it. Completed the game at work on the overnight shift.
*Playing Diablo from 1:00pm-6:00am the next day.
*Coming home from work and walking in on my wife playing Diablo from 10:00pm when I left until 10:00am when I got back home.
*Playing a tag team on WCW Nitro with my brother against his freinds and turning on him during the championship match. He was so mad that he broke his controller.
*Being the second best geared ORC warrior on my WoW server for a few days.
*Waiting with hundreds of players outside Blasted Lands to get into Outland.
*Staying up to watch my brother play original Resident Evil all night, then going to work, coming back home to watch him again. I have so many more, I love gaming so the last 20 years are full of them.
 
Man, this is a toughie. Probably being a neighbor kid's house playing Asteroids and other 2600 games while drinking hot cocoa after a hard morning of sled riding. Or maybe doing co-op in Blood - that's pretty high on the list. Then there's playing BF1942 with the Desert Combat mod. I can't decide..just too many. Almost any of the SSI gold box D&D games would count, as woeuld Mail Order Monsters on the C-64 with my cousin. You know what I just realized? Probably half of my best memories are from gaming, either video or tabletop.
 
Playing Oregon Trail on an Apple II in 1988 in the school library and naming the people in my wagon obscene names and intentionally fording rivers so that people would drown and die.
 
1992, playing pacman (DOS) on my friend's 386 or 486 machine, I forgot which...
and in the 1980s, playing pacman, super Mario brothers, and battle city on NES.
 
There are three, the first time I saw The Ocarina of Time, it was almost magical, the day I beat the Ocarina of Time and the day I build my first Gaming Pc and install Doom on it, it felt great to see working something I build my self
 
I have many memories of gaming starting back from the late 1970`s but played Castle wolfenstein when it first arrived on the Apple II and games like pinball in Dos.
 
The first time I discovered online gaming. It was playing Deus Ex and I loved it so much, it was the summer before 8th grade and I stayed up playing it all night. It was the first time ever I pulled an all nighter.
 
Looks like nobody owned a ZX Spectrum. Well I liked Underwulrlde and hacked it to get 80 lives. My friend had a C64 and we always argued which one was best, yet enjoyed both. I more enjoyed programming than gaming though and C64 was a nightmare with that. I once wrote a small word processor for C64 and it was not as easy as with ZX. Z80 CPU was also better to program.

Remember the classics: Manic Miner, Jetpac, Psion tennis, Sir Fred, Scuba Dive, Chequered Flag.

We played Camels on the C64. I later got a Spectrum 128 and added a floppy drive.

On PC: Descent 1,2 and 3. We had great tournaments and even online with 56K modem. Age of Empires 2 - My friend and I once played an online game (56K modem) with two others overseas (team against us). The game lasted 7 hours. We won just as the resources were drying up seriously.
Command & Conqueror - especially Generals kept me too busy. Transport Tycoon was a definite favorite and even recently played the 32bpp open source OpenTTD.

There you have it. Now I try stay away from games for it takes up too much time. Survivalcraft is my favorite one now.
 
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