Memorable moments

[Ferral]

What are the gaming moments that everyone remembers and endears. Not just on the new machines available but on machines that are now sitting with history.

For me it has to be :

System Shock 2 (PC)

When you finally get into the lift (About 15 mins after you start) and as soon as the door opens one of them zombie things flys out at you and makes you hit the roof.

Resident Evil (PS1)

When you get into the right side corridor from the mansion hall, you start walking down it suspecting something and nothing. You then turn the corner of the L shape and start heading through the door and 2 dogs jump through the window (Brown trousers time again !!!)

Final Fantasy VII (PS1)

Knights of the realm materia (think thats what it was called). When you cast it the big knight appears with the huge broadsword. Not forgetting the final end sequence that lasts around 15 mins.

Bards Tale (Amiga)

First person adventure where everything looked the same in the dungeons so you had to create you're own map !

Last Ninja (C64)

Finally getting through it and killing the shogun just to have the screen go black, the ninja disappearing with to be continued at the bottom (Great game, shame about the end !)

Sonic the Hedgehog (Megadrive / Genesis)

Remember first time I played this and couldn't get away with it because it was just so darned fast !

Starfox (SNES)

Fantastic looking (for its time !) space shooter. When you leave the hangar for the first time and you're wingmen are by you're side giving you info.

Retrograde (C64)

When you finally have enough money to buy every weapon in the shop and you hit the fire button and shots come out in at least 16 directions from the character and obliterate everything onscreen.

Paralax (C64)

Remember the term paralax scrolling that got used in loads of the later game reviews. This was the grandaddy ! Simplicity in itself really, the top level (you're playing area) moved in the direction you moved the ship and the background moved in a different direction. Layered is the best way to describe it.

Bruce Lee (Spectrum, C64, Amstrad)

Screen by screen beat em up, kill the bad guys and collect the lamps to unlock different areas. Looked pants but was so addictive !

Not forgetting the old software houses that kept us so entertained :

Ocean, Imagine, Thalamus, System 3, Team 17, Activision, Firebird, Mastertronic, Psygnosis to name just a few. Alot of these companies are gone now but few remain (Activision, EA, Atari) still giving us products approx 15 years later.

[mike_w]

Bullfrog are sorely missed - Populus and Dungeon Keeper were (and still are) great games.

[Ferral]

Not forgetting the weird Flood where you had to escape from the sewer and the flood, only to escape from a drain on the last screen and get splatted by a car wheel !!!

Really annoying !!

Shame Dungeon Keeper 3 didnt come into existence

[idimmu]

did bullfrog make a futuristic racing game, a bit like fzero?

i think it was them, jsut cant remember the name of the game, loved it so much.

[Ferral]

I think they done a game called Hi Octane which I believe was a racing game.

They also done Powermonger (Forgot about that one !), it was kind of similar to Populous 1&2 but I didn't overly understand the interface on it as at the time I was playing Supercars 1&2 by Gremlin (Top down racer)

This company released many titles right across the board including the Sega Saturn and Master System

[jonathan_phang]

Prince of Persia (Amstrad CPC464) - The bit where you end up jumping through and breaking a mirror and your reflection comes out into the game. Very cool at the time (Mind you I was young!). Also actually seeing GOOD graphics on this machine! I was astounded!

Super Mario World (SNES) - Managing to find ALL 96 levels after searching a billion times for that *really* hard one where you had to swoop under where you normally finish then carry on to find another finishing post - Genius!

Steet Fighter 2 (SNES) - When this first came out, being able to pull off a 7-hit combo with Guile (easily the best in that game) that was totally unblockable and took about 90% of your energy!

I'm sure I'll get a bit of stick but......

Doom3 (PC) - The first time you get to see a new demon as he crawls out from behind the steam pipes in the cutscene. I defy anyone to not to have gone "No way!" or "Wicked". Lets not talk about the rest of the gaem though!

Zelda 3:Link to the Past (SNES) - Pretty much anything in this game!!! No honestly, this puts sooo many of todays games to shame with its storyline, puzzles and sheer amount of things to do! But if I had to pick something, it would be the first time you beat Ganon, and then you get transported to the Dark World, and things are a little bit wierder.....

Makes me smile when thinking of those moments!

[fathazza]

Defender of the Crown (amiga): getting myself a wifey for the first time

powerboats (amiga): just a kick arse game really

Batman (amiga) : the cool racing game bit, where you had to fire off the grappling hook thing at the right time to hit the lampost to help you get round corners

champ manager: first time i won the champions cup with Boro

Soldier of Fortune: playing around with dead bodies (hehe, that sounds so wrong)

[utdmleach]

Red faction- blowing holes through walls

[idimmu]

I think they done a game called Hi Octane which I believe was a racing game.

thats the one, i absolutley loved that game. came free with my dads new computer

[Zedmeister]

Thief - the first time I ran accross a zombie in cragscleft. Twas pitch dark in my room with the volume way up. Sneaking round this corner in the mines and next thing 'UUHHHHHHHHHHHHHH' I nearly had a heart attack!

Original C&C - The first GDI mission and you are stuck straight in. The C&C score kicks in, a WHOOSH WHOOSH then a BAAAOOOM BAAAOOOM from the gunboat and blokes are shooting and dieing. Had a real "Let's get it ON!" feeling.

The Baldur's gate series - What a game! Most of it was memorable, but especially the bit when I finally beat Kangaxx in BG2...

Daggerfall - When I first encountered an Ancient Vampire (AKA Clasky the Chainsaw count ) another heart attack moment!

X-Wing (My first PC game) - when I finally blew up the death star...

Tie Fighter - Flying with darth vader!

Xwing V Tie Fighter - Finally blowing up that super star destroyer

[Steve]

Half-Life: The moment where the scientist says "They're waiting for you Gordon... in the test chamber..." You just know things aren't going to go well from there on.

[silent ben]

Most memorable gaming moments have to be in Tomb raider:

Level 3 - the t-rex, my dad was watching me play and screamed non-stop until the thing stopped moving. His next line was "well, that was a bit hairy"

Level 11 - You pulled out a block, started to walk round and 2 tigers jumped out at you, i dunno why but i was running for the door before i even clocked what was going on

[blockers]

Just playing Zelda 64.....first proper zelda game i played, awesome....was just completly sucked in by the story.

[iranu]

Wow, lot's here, but the most memorable/funny for me was on the amiga in a game called "Beneath a Steel Sky" where your sidekick, as you progress through the story, is a little, sarcastic welding robot named Joey who, when you are confronted with a known baddie would say, " hey! you want me to weld him up for you?" roflmao, little things.

What have I done with the rest of my life.

Incidentally the game required about 35 floppy disks, one of which you had to insert every time you left for a new screen. Took forever until a friend spotted it on cd-rom a few years later (man, the heights of technology) and we completed a very cool, innovative game inside 24hrs!

[Ferral]

Beneath a steel sky was an instant classic, as was full throttle.

Who can forget the origional Monkey Island games though, hilarious. Using the zombie skull to find the ghost ship in the caves, a can of pop to finally beat LeChuck, the giant hands that were the banana picker, vegetarian canibals, using rhyme in the swordfights !! So much imagination put into it.

Loved all the old Lucasarts point and click adventures, another 2 memorable ones were Maniac Mansion and also Zak McCracken and the Alien Mind Bnders (That one was hilarious but yet surreal)

[Lee H]

Silent hill games do it for me folks. The amount of times I've jumped out of the chair due to the sounds and monsters appearing in the darkness ahead.

Oh and I cannot believe nobody listed Alien vs Predator. You know the part... yeap the air vent with the motion tracker beeping like a Chav rave tune and the sound of facehuggers scurrying in the vents and aliens hissing was enough alone for me to shout "MOMMY".

Another totally offtopic but memorable occasion was when I was playing B&W on the PC and taught my creature to take a dump as far away from the camp as possible and then pick up said deposits and throw them at a neighbouring village. This alone still makes me laugh when I load it up for a quick 40 mins fireball session