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!
It’s not a good one but the first time I felt existential dread was playing Missile Command in the Atari 2600. I was about 8 and realized that the game only ends when all of your cities are destroyed and life is extinguished. No matter how I tried or how good I got the game would end in a devastation.
On a good note, I remember skipping a party to play ocarina of time. I thought I would regret skipping the party, nah. OoT was and is still better.
yeah i loved skipping forced things to play games as a kid haha
Finishing Halo 1’s campaign co-op in one night during a sleepover with friends.
Playing Super Mario World on the SNES as a kid.
Playing smash bros and mario kart on the game cube with my two brothers.
Playing Super Mario Brothers 3 and later Super Mario World with my older siblings.
Going to Toys R Us with my friend just to play the SNES Donkey Kong demo.
Man, I have such vivid memories of going to Toys R Us for the first time (and subsequent times after that, honestly) and being in total awe that the entire store was dedicated to kids’ stuff. It’s really sad that kids won’t get to experience that anymore… I know tech is at the forefront of entertainment, regardless of age, but I would wager any kid would love the same kind of toys we had just as much.
so cool hahaha i loved going to the supermarket just to play the free terminator game, but there were other kids there too so i never playe4d too much
Waking up early with my brother to play Goldeneye on the N64 was peak gaming for me.
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.
Twilight Princess is still my favorite Zelda game. Time to dust off that Wii.
so cool. when i found the romero head in doom 2 it was insane :O
The N64 was the first console that was mine. I got it for my birthday. Before that, they always belonged to my older brother. We would play together and I’d always be player 2.
Eventually when I got my own nintendo and my sister was old enough to play games, I became player 1. I remember being so proud being able to help her the same way my brother had for me. She was so impressed when I helped her beat the final boss in Majora’s Mask.
Me and my cousins taking turn to move “our” character in UFO Enemy Unknown.
Late to the party, but probably playing Battlefield 1942 for actual HOURS. Such a great game
Going over to friends houses to play games. I never had a large library and playing new games. And the games I did have were the mane ones everyone else had so no one ever wanted to come over and play at my house.
First time I played Pokémon, Age of Empires II and Diablo II.
Playing Final Fantasy VII as a kid and realizing that video games had reached a level of storytelling on par with film or books.
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
