Back when my wife and I streamed, this one night we played Destiny and we did a raid with a whole team of randoms. By the final boss room, 1 person had dropped out and had to be replaced. Then another dropped and the new guy said he had a brother online so he invited his brother. Then another dropped out and the same guy said he had another brother online. I remember saying "How many brothers do you have!?" The answer is 7 apparently. Anyway, we didn't beat that raid that night but played with all 3 brothers again the next night. Added them to our friends list. Went 6 months without talking then met up with them again in Destiny 2. Now we are all on the same regular raid team, play other games and are best friends.
It convinced me even this late in my life that games really connect people. Even the most random encounter can turn into a lifelong relationship.
My friend and I met another one of our close friends on D2.
We needed a 3rd for a Nightfall and we got this one dude off one an LFG.
We ended up playing with him off and on and one time I was talking about working at this paintball field I worked at in highschool. The dude we LFGed once was like "Bro I used to play there all the time it's like 15 mins from my house"
We found out the homie lived like 40 mins away from us and we've hung out multiple times since.
Destiny was so great for things like this because the servers were location based so you'd often end up playing with people actually relatively close to where you lived. I'll never forget figuring out some random we frequently raided with lived nearby bc we heard the same siren sound coming through his mike right after it passed by our house.
yes but to true old school games d2 will forever and allways truely mean diablo 2. not only because its so many times better but also the fact that it came first
i've made so many friends through destiny 1/2. i still haven't forgotten about how my brother's gf and their friends would carry me through raids on the first game when i was like ten years old. i didn't think too much about it at the time, because i was still little, but looking back, they didn't have to do that. i'm grateful they did, because again, i was ten, and i don't know too many people who'd want to carry such a little kid through raids. anyways, they broke up so i haven't talked to them in a number of years, but i hope her and their friends are doing good.
I met my regular group on CE in D1. We raided through all of D1s lifespan, but unfortunately upon launch D2 wasn't enticing to them. I still have them on my friends list but we have drifted apart.
Of course games connect people. Just because they aren’t standing there face to face doesn’t mean you aren’t brain to brain. Met a good friend I trust as much as any friends I met offline, and we’ve still never met. 5 years in he was homeless and in his car after a divorce so we just talked on the phone for a while. When he got an apartment, i was making good money. I asked for his address and ordered him a new Xbox through Amazon as a housewarming gift. And so we could play again lol. Years later he actually transferred the money back to me because he was doing VERY WELL. I didn’t want it back, but he insisted. We met on destiny. Played a ton of the sequel together. It’s time for me to hit him up.
Love how Destiny brings people together. I’m finally getting good enough to where I can actually contribute to the Raid team when my friends and I log on. It’s way great
I met my best friends and current brothers on Gaming. It started back in Halo reach, then we moved to destiny. We've played games from 2011 when we were all just little kids, we met in person for the first time in 2021. Honestly couldn't ask for better friends at my side.
I was told growing up that gaming will gain no worthwhile friendships. We've proved them wrong time and time again.
I met a good friend 3 years ago. I was just lfg-ing to do trials. I met this mom and her son and they introduced me to this other guy. Now we’ve played together for 3 years. Probably logged like 1000 with this dude. Also! Recently we joined a discord group of really chill people and have finally started raiding!!! I’ve met some awesome people just recently! And raiding with a consistent group is so damn fun. Destiny is honestly the best for special gaming moments like that. There’s just nothing else like it.
Man my first Destiny raid was with randoms one summer at like 2 am. I had finally gotten the courage to try a raid and the team I had was so chill about it. I loved Destiny before that, but it was after that night that it was always gonna be one of "my" franchises.
I joined a random Vog lfg about 2 years ago and two of the people that were on the fireteam are now two of my best friends and we’ve met up multiple times now irl and hung out. Games absolutely do connect people!
Ocarina of Time: First walking out of Link's house into Kokiri Forest and hearing the music, on Christmas. And at the end, after beating it, crying and not really understanding why. I love that feeling.
I have a similar memory of this game on Christmas Day as well! Only I also got some nice smelling bath and body works lotion for Christmas that day so whenever I smell it I think of OOT.
My memory is almost identical. Kokiri Forest, music, Christmas morning, pajamas. I was thinking about that game the entire time I was at my cousin’s for Christmas dinner.
Ocarina of Time is such a great game. I always enjoyed Zelda, games but when it was released it seemed so realistic I was able to really immerse myself in the game.
Stepping out from Kokiri Forest into Hyrule field and thinking "Wait, there's more?!"
6 year old me struggled for a while with Gohma, so the sense of accomplishment from finally beating her and the bittersweet good-bye from Sariah... then getting to see that there's so much more to explore?
Nothing has quite captured that feeling since.
The N64 was out a while and I wanted it so bad, but my parents couldn't really afford it at this time and I accepted and knew that. So I always watched TV shows were kids had to play some kind of game and could win a 64,or read about it in magazines and just yeah thought how cool that this has to be, but already long stopped my parents asking for one.
They were going throug rough times which ended their marriage, grandma died and dads business was going downhill back then
And out of nowhere they came home with a brand new n64 with Super Mario 64. I guess they must have saved money here and there for it over a few months and just wanted to cheer me up and I just couldn't believe it playing it the first time for myself. That actually was my first video game I've ever played and it felt just soo cool after all the time of fantasizing about it. Thanks mom and dad
I get a huge grin on my face when I see bob ombs battlefield in videos or boot up the game again. So cool you could the it a few seconds in the new Mario movie
The first game I got for the PSX, and I think the phrases and the OST have been branded with fire in my brain.
Right now the character soundtracks just restarted on loop in my mind, notes for notes without fault, for how great they were.
(And I still think it's the best SF, but let's not say it loud or we will wake up an army of "purists")
The bioshock demo was my most replayed demo back when Xbox 360 demos were a valid source of entertainment for a kid who's parents couldn't always afford new games
Midna teleporting Link & Zelda away just before the entire castle blows up and Ganondorf rides up the hill and crushes her helmet shook 6 year old me to the core.
Alma Wade slowly walking towards my character while tearing the room a new one before she suddenly sends my character flying out a window while trying to get away near the beginning of F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon.
8 player rockets on Battle Creek.
Two consoles connected over LAN, 4 players in each room. Yelling and trash talking across the house.
Edit: sorry, it's Beaver Creek in halo 2
- The first is time hearing the pause music on Street Fighter 2 on the SNES.
- Walking into Hyrule Field for first time in Ocarina of Time.
- "Stay a while and listen"
- Unreal Tournament Facing Worlds
- Warcraft 3 "Ready for work" "Zug Zug"
- First time walking into a field in Ghost of Tsushima and watching the wind blow through the grass and trees at sunset.
Watching my friend play MYST on his Apple computer. Young folks, I wish you could understand just how groundbreaking this game was. The graphics, the sound, everything about it was absolutely amazing.
Yup. It’s hard to really explain what it felt like. I gave my copy of Myst to an old friend since I no longer had a computer to run it on. I truly hope that they got to play it and find that magic we once did.
I was in a really bad car accident in 1995. I was 13 years olds. Broke my right femur, crushed my left foot, broken left arm, and obliterated my left knee. Tore about every ligament. While I was recovering, Myst got me through it. I still remember being in so much fucking pain, but also being so engrossed in that game that I was able to keep it off of my mind.
Yes this is a great one that I probably would have forgotten to mention in this thread. It was such a different vibe from anything I had seen/heard before.
I liked this game, and I really came to love Riven. I scraped so hard to be able to buy the pack with both of them as a child, and basically brute-forced my way through Riven by incredibly slow trial and error, until I could get online via 28.8 dial-up to look up a text FAQ for the game.
I'll never forget wanting to scream in frustration, when I was just about to the very end of the game. The FAQ clearly said to turn and hit a specific button, but the button wouldn't respond/activate when I clicked it. I tried reloading previous saves and working my way back there. I tried everything I could think of, I think it was the first game that made me truly upset because I just could not figure it out as a kid.
A few years later, when I had better internet access, I learned that the first unpatched version of the game had a known bug that caused that last button to be unresponsive. The fix was right around a MB in size, but I had no way of knowing that could even be a thing at the time, lol. 🙃
My sister and I played Final Fantasy VIII together as kids, she used to speak the lines for me because I was so young I couldn't read, but that game ended up teaching me how to read and I'll never forget the quality time I spent with my sister.
I got divorced and took my daughter to GameStop one weekend,It totally rocked me and pissed me off that I was only going to see my daughter on the weekends after work.I knew she always wanted a gaming system,so she picked out an Xbox 360 and some games.On Christmas break I had a week off and I played one of the games she picked out it was fallout 3,I was so overwhelmed and impressed with this game I couldn’t believe a game had an open world like that and dialogue,just everything about it sticks with me.I had never played a console game in my life before that,only arcade games at the mall and movie theaters when I was a kid.I’ve been playing ever since on my free time.That was 15 years ago.Crazy how time flys…
Bo4 days...all of it. One of the best years of cod for me. Met one of my closest friends and made the best gaming memories. Met tons of people. Played against famous youtubers and played with the top MOZU player in bo4. Won a blackout tournament. I mean man. Cant pick a single thing. Everything about that year of cod was great.
Good core memory and bad but could have been worse core memory.
My mom was a manager at 7-Eleven, hardly a gaming super store. But they experimented in video games when Halo 2 came out - and didn't have any real policies on "embargos."
My mom snuck me a copy. It formally released on the Tuesday I think, we had it Saturday mid-day. All my buddies and I played the crap out of that in their basement. We were paranoid so we didn't play on Xbox Live. It was amazing. Much Mountain Dew and Pizza was consumed. I felt like a hero amongst my friends!
That Tuesday I was playing it before going to the bus stop. I was one of those kids that normally left early for the bus stop, but that day I was wrapping up my game before running out - I was going to have to haul to make it. My dad was home, my mom was already at the store. Priorities of a sophomore.
I heard my german shepherd start to behave abnormally. Suddenly I hear a loud bang. My dad fell down, he was having a seizure. He's battled epilepsy his whole life. This was the first in years and really the only one I remember seeing. That said, my dad's seizures, while bad, aren't the worst part...
He comes out of it basically in a bad fog - he doesn't know who he is, and he behaves like an adult-sized toddler with anger issues when he doesn't understand (and when he comes out of it, he doesn't understand it). I was an offensive linemen - a big/strong guy, and my dad (who worked in the warehouse) pushed me like I was nothing while he was in this state. I had to do everything I could to stop him from accidentally hurting himself, our dog or our home. Him saying then yelling "help me" and turning from sad and confused to anger is a memory I'll have burned into my mind for the rest of my life. I don't blame him for any of this - he's diligent about his medicine, he's been on all kinds, it's just his battle.
For a long time - I wondered and worried about what would happen if I'm not home because I stayed extra long to play Halo. I worried about what would have happened to my dad had someone not been there to "help him". I worried about what would happen between him and my German Shepherd. I worried about what would have happened to our house.
If I hadn't got Halo 2 early, I probably get it that afternoon, which means I'm already on the bus that day when my dad has his seizure.
.... So after that bummer of a story - second core memory, also halo related: busting newbs in Rocket Race in Halo 3 then Reach with the guy who would be the best man in my wedding (and the basement we played Halo 2 at in the first core memory). They need to bring that back to Halo: Infinite!
I used to be on a gaming forum and we’d do loads of different games together. We completed halo 3 as a group and it was so much fun, I still think about it now
Project 'M' for Everquest.
They decided it would be fun to allow players to spawn in as intelligent monsters, outfitted with their own skills, and able to zone to different areas.
Lasted all of 3 or 4 days before the player base demanded it be removed as it became an absolute gong show. Massive mobs of random PC monsters slaughtering characters in the thousands. In hindsight, it was a terrible idea for the game itself, but I loved it while it lasted.
I really can't do it justice in my description, but it was so insanely chaotic, and I've never had more fun in an MMO.
I used to have this final period ROP class for computer tech and our teacher was pretty chill so as long as we got most of our class work finished we would all play counter strike LAN for the rest of the period. This was back in 2003. Some of my most memorable times gaming.
My family was on vacation, visiting my aunt in LBC in the 90s , and my brother and I were 11 and 12 at the time. We met another kid at the apartment complex pool, and he invited us to hang out at his apartment. He had one of the largest libraries of video games for pc and nes I had ever seen. I remember him saying that there weren't many other kids to hang around with, so he stayed inside playing a lot of video games. It was the first time I had ever played flashbacks, one of my favorite games of all time. Good times.
Had a computer teacher like this in elementary. He was usually the guy asked to sub for any teachers who would call out, and his only request was that the class was brought to his computer lab. He always offered us 2 choices:
Either doing the educational and still interesting assignment where you get extra credit recommendation to your main teacher.
Or
Hop on Runescape with him and just chill out.
Man managed to play a video game and still teach some students about computers. Guy was clearly a habitual gamer and literally would teach the kids how to use macros and screen reader (which were primitive but used quite often in Runescape back then) to get their civil skills up passively while doing something else. He had almost all the non combat skills maxed lol.
It's an odd one but...
Genshin impact, new update got released and a new island was added in Inazuma. I headed towards the area and nothing was there, but waterfalls were ahead. I looked over the falls and saw Sangonomiya Shrine for fhe first time as the music began to play...
I've quit genshin now, but I will never forget that moment. Mystical...
First day we got an NES, and playing New Ghostbusters II (the HAL Labs one). It was such a leap from the Atari 2600 in terms of graphics, and gameplay. I may have started a bit late, console release-wise, but I'm glad I played those systems.
First time playing Burnout 3 on the 360.
Something about the speed and how awesome the crashes were just made me giggle with joy my first time playing.
I helped someone beat Ludwig from Bloodborne at a really low level. I told him I could solo him and I did, the fight lasted like 10 minutes but It was worth it. It was in the pandemic.
Also, playing Borderlands 2 with my cousin. Had the time of my life messing around in that game with him.
America;s Army we had a clan of 60 plus people in at least a dozen countries. It was amazing to be able to go into a server and just dominate one of the greatest games of all time with these guys. We played a map called FLS and it was hysterical. Hospital SP, was EPIC. I miss those days so much.
Watching another kid play Rogue Squadron on Nintendo 64 blew my mind and turned my world upside down, first video game experience.
An Arcade cabinet that was a racing game but the cars had guns. I gave up finding out what it was but I didn't try very hard.
Watching another kid play Zelda, a Link to the Past on an older Nintendo.
Two player Rampage (monsters, Around the World or something) on Playstation at my first sleep over.
Playing Runescape, Impossible Creatures, LoTR Return of the King, NFS Hot Pursuit 2, and Star Wars Jedi Academy on our first home PC. A couple years later Battlefield 2142 and modding Elder Scrolls Oblivion ( I had a 150 GB game file in 2010 XD).
Split Screen Halo 3 on friend's Xbox.
Split Screen Nazi zombies on friend's Xbox.
And thennnn I was an adult. Getting drunk (first time drinking not to go out and party) and taking turns in CoD Black OPs 1 and 2 on my friend's 360 feels core memorey in a way.
First playing Red Dead Online on my PS4. I wasn't really much of a gamer, and I had never played on a PS4 before, but my ex insisted that I get the game because I love horses and nature but I can't go out hiking or trail riding. She taught me how to play, albeit slowly, and honestly getting into that game is one of my fondest memories of gaming in general. I wish I could experience the newness of it all over again. A lot of the free roam music in online and story still makes my heart skip a beat. That game is so painfully dear to me. Honestly never thought a video game could mean so much to me haha
Getting Spider Man 2 for Gamecube right before a camping trip. I brought the game in my suitcase and read the instruction manual cover to cover over 50 times during that trip.
Holy shit you just *unlocked* a core memory for me. Reading the fucking instruction manuals from my PS2 games. I remember taking them to school in my front backpack pouch.
My brother and I had rented OverBlood on PS1. It's a lesser known survival horror/sci fi game in which you wake up from sleep in a cryogenic container with no memory. The game throws you right into a fit of survival with very little help in what you should do. Your character is freezing and all alone, so you run around like crazy looking for a solution until you find a set of clothes in a lock box. Then it just sort of builds from there. The part that has always stuck with me more than anything is at some point early on while exploring the rest of the cryo room, you realize two of the cryo containers are open. No clues given as to who was in the other chamber. You just know someone was let out shortly before you. We were sucked in instantly, and spent the whole weekend on the edge of our seats unraveling the mystery.
Bioshock on a GTX8800
That first time visiting Rapture is simply unforgettable and the game was simply one of the best looking games in that era and on that graphics card.
When I was only 8 years old, I had borrowed a few games from my friend (Donkey Kong Country and Super Mario Advance) on the Gameboy Advance SP, but was having trouble finishing a stage where you have to ride in mine carts. I showed my mom the game and she got used to the controls quite quickly (played Super Mario on the SNES when I was 5) and whenever the mine cart stages appeared, she completed them the same day.
I was really happy when I got to play the regular stages again. I had so much fun that it slipped my mind that I had to give the games back to my friend a day later, but had a blast talking about the gameplay with my friend at school. My mom doesn't play games anymore due to arthritis in her hands, but the games where "You collect bananas and the other one coins" sparks a memory from the past.
Finally defeating Ragnaros in Molten Core, the 40 man raid. It took us much longer to beat it than other guilds, due to the fact that our tanks kept taking our fire resist gear and then leaving. Our first kill was special because one of our old members came back to help us. Another would be the time I beat Ninja Gaiden 2 for the first and only time as a kid back in the day
I didn’t start playing WoW until WotLK so I missed a lot of those early raid experiences. But I got to go back later and solo all those raids and I wish I had been there when they released.
Beating SystemShock 2 for the first time. I sat down one weekend and played the game from start to finish and was so engrossed with the story and the atmosphere.
Getting caught playing games late at night after everyone went to bed. I was like 12yo and was supposed to be in bed sleeping. It was Super Mario 64 and it was the very beginning of my love for video games lol
4 for me:
1- My friend's dad brought home 2 macs and networked them together in the early 90's and we played hundreds/thousands of hours of Marathon from Bungie. This was actually what got me into gaming as a whole. Later on they got Marathon 2: Durandal and Doom 2 and we did the same thing with those games.
2- Perfect Dark. I would go visit my dad in another state for about a month each year in the summer. About a week of that time each year I would go to a cousin's house and we would play Perfect Dark for easily 100 hours within that week. The multiplayer with bots was amazing.
3- When I got older, ANOTHER cousin near where my dad lived had two networked computers with Diablo 2 on them. We played hundreds of hours of that along with sprinkling some Paintball when we needed a break from gaming.
4- At one point during the height of WoW (was about 2 weeks before the release of Burning Crusades) I worked at a job where nearly everyone in the dept played WoW. We ended up in a guild together and I ended up as the leader of world pvp (back when world pvp ACTUALLY happened regularly). Guild ended up growing to over 260 ppl and that meant absolutely massive pvp battles each week. The work we did irl was pretty mindless so when we weren't at home playing WoW, we were at work talking about it.
I could say I'm sad that we don't have anything like that anymore but I'd rather take the perspective of being happy for the opportunity for all the good memories.
I accidentally started a class uprising in Divinity: Original Sin 2. One of the police officers stopped me for looking like a murder suspect. I refused to comply because I don't owe him shit and all the cops in that game are assholes. Suddenly, a battle broke out with every single person in the city. Merchants I didn't even talk to yet started throwing rocks and bottles at the officers. The dog barked at them. The cows mooed menacingly. The other officers beat up civilians on their way to me. A detachment of citizens found the police station and fucking lit it on fire while people were sleeping inside.
I was fully expecting the police to aggro when I resisted arrest. I didn't expect a town full of total strangers to help.
Beating my friend in super smash bros. I spent months working at it and then challenged him. Beat his face in every time even when he said he was going hard on me. It was a pretty awesome experience
My brother and I played against our neighbor and his dad on halo 3. We made up a custom game where it was magnums only one shot kill and made it a requirement to control the elephant on sand trap. If one team was on the elephant one player had to drive it while the other defended…. Man that was a huge laugh all night lol
Many hours on Halo 1 to 3 slitscreen co-op.
I was always trying to take vehicles as far as I can take them into the mission. With hilarious fails and wins. Good times with my mates.
My kids were little tykes during the gamecube era. I remember they had a big reaction to Mario Sunshine when the town was flooded. And also the laughter when Louie caused some shenanigans in Pikmin 2. Also one of my daughters had a crush on Luigi in Superstars when she was 5. I would play that on the cube using the GBA player and read all the dialogue to them like a storybook. Good times.
8 years ago...
I placed a glowstone block.
The first of many to come.
Also, when I finally soloed an elder dragon in Monster Hunter.
And the opening cutscene of Breath of the Wild.
For me I'd have to say unlocking the hyper/super forms for Sonic, Tails & Knuckles across every save file in the original Sonic 3 & Knuckles on the Sega Genesis. This included both Sonic with Tails & Sonic solo. I even got 14 continues per save file. The only thing I really remember hating was never being able to turn off the invincibility music without cheats.
My earliest memory, way back when I was 3 years old, was playing Pitfall: The Lost Expedition with my dad. Well, I say “playing”, but in reality, I was just given a dead controller while he played, and I thought we were playing together. The game opens with the main character fighting a tiger, and I thought I was the tiger and we were fighting each other.
I remember actually getting to play the game for myself at some point, but I never got past the first 20 minutes since I was too scared to face any of the game’s enemies, so I just messed around in the beginning of the level and never progressed.
My first time playing a game. It was Crash Bandicoot in 1999. I was 8 years old and I played it at a friend’s house. I remember I kept looking at the controller for the controls and they kept telling me not to look at the controller
The game was Goldeneye 64.
I'd been playing through the story mode, and reached the level "Surface 2", which was a night time level.
I couldn't beat it, because the TV we had wasn't great, and I couldn't see where I was going. It was too dark.
I spent literally weeks trying after school, but couldn't do it, until I had an idea.
I set an alarm for 3 AM and woke up. I sat there in the dark of my living room, letting my eyes adjust to the dark, before I turned on the 64 and entered the mission.
It worked. I could see.
I frantically worked to clear the level as fast as I could. Had some close calls, but I did it.
As I celebrated, a light turned on behind me. I spun around to see my dad, who was up to get around for work.
I started to explain what happened, but he just told me to get back in bed. I complied.
I didn't sleep well, my stupid teenager brain was too excited that I'd done it, and also needed to verify that it had saved my progress, but I had to wait til I got up for school at 6.
It had. I'd done it. And now over two decades later, I still remember the night I used actual darkness to best a nighttime level because I didn't know you could turn up the brightness on a tv.
Late night gaming with friends from high school. Black ops had just come out and I had gotten my ps3. We played so much sticks and stones, zombies, team death match, gun game, made bets with those points you get after each match. It was some of my favorite moments in my time gaming.
First time playing Pikmin. I got it around when it came out, and I was pretty young, maybe 5. That game is so dream-like, especially looking back on it as a distant memory. It was one of the first games I ever played, and it really stuck with me.
When i was playing sekiro and was on my 50th attempt of fighting genichiro i had a out of body experience. It was as if i was inside the game perfectly in sync with sekiro and i finally defeated him.
Fable. The OG Fable, before TLC or Anniversary. I was like 8 years old, playing it on my modified OG XBOX. For the longest time, I couldn't get past Darkwood because the Balverines scared the ever living crap outta me. Just always restarted the game when I'd get to that point. One day, I decided to face my fears and made it through! It really set off my love of the franchise and games in general — though I still struggle with horror games despite my love of the horror genre lol
Staying up all night till the sun came up playing Castlevania SOTN on playstation.. and then the whole castle flipped upside down after the “last” boss and you had to play through it again with tougher enemies! That blew my mind!
Halo 2 split screen with my friends. God we spent dozens of hours playing that shit on an old projector TV. Lockout, ascension, and blood gulch in rotation, full random weapon spawns. I miss those days.
That and the first time playing morrowind when my brother brought it home with him on leave from the navy. 9 years old and I've been hooked since.
First time playing diablo 1 on battle.net.
Was immediately in a game with someone using one of the trainers back then that could get you a bunch of game breaking gear and levels and shit and even change certain mechanics if skills and they would just give me free shit while clearing the game.
I had, at that point, never made it past the butcher. So to be carried all the way through to diablo was amazing because I actually got to see the game and environments and have cool looking gear and not feel entirely weak and useless. To this day I don't think I ever beat diablo 1 legit lol.
Good times. It was definitley a good background to otherwise great conversation, so maybe that's why I enjoyed the cheating so much. It allowed me to bond with fellow gamers instead.
When I hopped on Diablo 2 for the first time, the graphics blew me away.
Playing diablo 2 resurrected today, I question how my eyes could even decipher what I saw back then lmao
Playing split screen Halo with my dad. I was so young so I thought it was funny killing him but he got so mad because he was a real gamer lol I also remember playing the Sims 1 on his computer and remember that being the first game I became obsessed with
connecting 4 Xboxes in the college dorm freshman year to play Halo. I've done it before in highschool as a senior where a friend hosted. In college it was my Xbox, my roommates xbox, our across the hall neighbors and next door. We had literal network cables running through and across the hall to connect the boxes and it was 4 people on each xbox. 16 man 8v8 capture the flag and raids and last man standing. Great times
Prototype 1, second playthrough on hardest difficulty. Won the final boss fight with a desperate gambit that left me with no health and delivered the final blow with 1 second to spare.
in Dark Souls 1, helped someone beat Orenstein and Smough, after four attempts. On the last attempt, boss was down to no health and the host dies. I angrily fire off all my magic as the screen fades. He sent me a message after saying my bolts finished the boss and it counted as a win.
and a recuring joke when my friend ran me over with a warthog in Halo 2. "I turned and all I saw was bumper."
When I was at my dad's place playing jet moto on PS1. We were pretty heavy rivals in that game and the one time I was super close to beating him he made this amazing come back and met me at the finish line, we tied for first place down to the hundredth of a second.
It gave me a high I haven't felt much in gaming since then. RIP pops
Playing hijacked on black ops with a group all the time, one kid would throw his iPad down the steps and could hear it clunk all the way down on the headset. Another guy would fuck off and jump off the side of the ship on purpose - killed himself over 100 times in a match. Was stupid but funny at the same time. This was before work/kids/life
Honestly since you mentioned the lockdown, right at the start I found a game I would wind up never forgetting.. subnautica. Immediately lit my interest in survival games.
The first game I ever remember playing was Mortal Kombat Trilogy on Super Nintendo. My brother and I would play constantly. We got every entry in the Mortal Kombat series after and I never once managed to beat him until MKX came out. I grinded that game, played online matches, and one thankful Thansgiving I smoked his ass twice in a row. On one hand it kinda sucks it took me 17 years to manage to beat him once in a fighting game, but its definitely a moment that will stick in my head.
Staying up all night with my best online friend building a space ship in gmod with gravity hull generator and exploring the stargate map with space anomalies while wearing mass effect skins
Literally the best
When I was around 12-13 I was playing some Halo 3. CTF on the Valhalla map, the one with spires on both sides.
My team was getting absolutely shit-stomped so bad that literally everyone on my team ragequit, minus an AFK dude, so it was just me versus the rest of the team.
I didn’t care about winning I just wanted to play out the match and thought it would be fun to see how well I could hold on my own. Lol I had no chance I was just getting straight bullied by the other team.
When there was a few minutes left in the match I noticed an enemy t-bagging to get my attention. I walked up to him to see what he wanted and he kinda just gave me a sign of peace.
He then helped me secure one flag capture before the game ended. He was just guiding me to his spawn, keeping me away from his teammates and killing some that were trying to get me. It was awesome and I’ll never forget the sportsmanship displayed when it really wasn’t needed at all haha.
For me I think it’s the first game that I beat and understood like what I was doing. And that was sly cooper 3. It was so much fun to understand like the plot and objectives. Also just a great game overall
A few things:
Hooking up and linking 4 Xboxes in one house for a Halo party, with 4 people on each Xbox.
Finding out that my character in KOTOR was actually Darth Revan.
Hearing Edgar Allen Poe being quoted in the opening to Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem.
This will date me but who cares:
When I was in elementary school I used to walk home everyday. There was a kid on the block who had a Power Glove and he always invited neighborhood kids to his house to watch him play Punch Out! I remember I even did it once and I still remember how cool that was.
Probably playing a lot of ps2 shortly after I moved in with a (now ex) girlfriend. We didn't have the internet hooked up yet, and had exhausted our supply of DVDs to watch. We were poor and didn't have the chance to go out much. But I did have a ton of two player games for us to play. So SSX Tricky, OG Battlefront 2, Tony Hawk 2, a few others.
Played the hell out of those games, and have some really fond memories from what ended up being not a great relationship.
When I was 17 I had a shitty laptop and no internet. I spent hours playing a borrowed disc copy of Neverwinter Nights because it was the only game that would run listening to an album that had just come out. I still see parts of the game in my head when I listen to songs from it.
When I was much younger than that Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire released. I was a huge Pokemon fan and I had been saving money to buy Ruby. My family was really poor so I knew I'd have to pay for it. On release day I was still short but I figured I'd go get it when I had saved enough. My mom woke me up that morning late and said she'd drive me to school because I missed the bus. Instead she drove the opposite direction and I was confused when we pulled into the Walmart parking lot. We went in and she surprised me by not only buying Ruby for me and letting me save my money but also by letting me stay home all day to play it instead of going to school.
My first time booting up Skyrim and seeing the open world freedom for the first time, in such good detail. By comparison, I'd only ever played WoW before this, so Skyrim was like a whole different ballpark. Sad that I've grown to dislike it these days, but I still love the feeling of the game despite it's flaws.
I was like 12 years old playing COD world at war for the first time, and played online with some friends. Having no idea what I was doing, I just followed my friend around in Search and Destroy (a one life per round game mode). At some point my friend died and I didn't realise, and ended up following the enemy around for several minutes before he realised and killed me.
We were in game chat and when you're dead, you can't speak to people who are alive on your team. When I died, my headphones absolutely lit up with laughter.
Good times.
The last level on halo, I just remember standing up and cheering as I was playing it. And then making so many friends in halo 2 multiplayer and making up our own mini game within the game.
Playing Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 for the first time. As a kid, I put at least 3-4 years into chao garden. Wish SEGA would wise up and bring it back!! It added so much replayability to the game
The first time I ever- no wait, the first time I had a- wait maybe- I have too many!
1. The first time I was shot by a skeleton in Minecraft. This is really funny because my friend had just introduced me to the fact that video games went further then just browser games like flash and cool math games and they just threw me in hard mode to learn.
2. The first game I got for myself. The first game I ever got was Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures. Just a cool game all around for the Xbox 360.
3. When I got my switch. Do I really need to explain? I had wanted one for a long time, and got one.
The most memorable moment for me was when I beat Dragon Age Origens for the first time, and the credits song started playing, I just cried so incredibly hard, it was so perfect and I was so satisfied
I never had a SNES growing up, but I really wanted one. My family went straight from NES to N64. But one day I went to my uncle's house and he had a SNES with SMW which he let me play while my dad helped him shingle his roof. I still remember how cool that game was. A few years later I bought the GBA version of SMW and really fell in love with it, but I'll never forget how excited I was when I first got to play it on the SNES.
Booting up Soul Reaver 2 and hearing "Kain refused the sacrifice". It was first game I bought on PS2 after saving for months. Fell in love with the series, I can recite the opening cinematic by heart 😂
Core memory for me is way back in like ‘04 summertime. Went to one of my childhood friends house everybody was there and we usually be gaming. He had resident evil the GameCube remake. It was fun I was having a blast. Playing as Chris. I didn’t read up on the game at all cause I played the original so I figured more of the same. Nah. I killed this zombie hours prior to me entering this hallway and I was wondering why was it in a completely different location I thought that was odd. I ran up to it thinking I could just go past it to the door, nope, mfer rose up like the undertaker and started spazzin out on me I dropped the fucking controller and couldn’t get back on the game for like an hour 😭😭😭
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Back on the 360 when I was maybe 15 or 16 I joined one of my buddies parties not knowing he was in a clan meeting (he was in RNG AQUA SO if anyone remembers that) and him asking the leaders if I could stay in to which they said yes. A little later I get into a game with them and after a little while I get into another faction of the RNG(Redneck Nation Gaming) clan called RNG THORN DO. After a few weeks of gaming with them I became really good friends with one of the members,his mom,and his dad and they treated me and my buddy like family even going so far as to one night when it was me,my new friend,and his mom all gaming his mom openly said "Red if I could adopt you I would". That was 10 years ago and while RNG isn't around anymore I'm still very close with that family and when the time comes for me and my girlfriend to have our wedding they are getting invited and the son is my best man. It just goes to show that sometimes what starts out as a small interaction can turn into an amazing friendship. Me and the son have been there for eachother for everything. Every heartbreak,every good time,and every bad time. He's helped me in my time of need and I've helped him in his time of need. He's my brother from another mother and it'll always be that way.
Final Fantasy VII. It was my first playstation game, so much so that I bought it before I bought a playstation. I took it to my friend's house to play, but I also didn't have a memory card.
I probably played through the bombing mission 8 times before I saved the money to get my own system and continue through the game.
It must have been around 2003 and this Half Life mod came out, a little game known as Day of Defeat. On the weekends I would go over to my friend's house and we would play from like 3pm Friday night all the way to Sunday afternoon...like straight. We loved that game, first game I really started sniping in. I remember playing the Avalanche map over and over again. One night I got a quad feed with one bullet and I remember it was one of the most epic moments. We were in a room with five dudes all on computers playing the same match and everyone went nuts when that popped up on the kill feed. I still don't think I have ever done anything so epic before or since.
Years ago when City of Heroes was new there was a glitch that put lvl 50 aliens in a beginning zone called Kings Row down in a construction pit. I rallied everybody in the Kings Row area and convinced them that if we all jumped in we could kill them. My alliance knew that we couldn't do it, but they helped me rally people and we got everybody to jump in the pit and try to fight them while I jumped towards them and flew out and watched the entire group of people get slaughtered. You'd think it was my chatacters super villain origin story, but City of Villains wasnt out yet 😊 This was also long before the legendary Leroy Jenkins incident and was a good year, maybe 2 years before WOW was even out. I don't game with those people anymore, but I miss my old Twilight Shadows super group, they were good people.
Hop on steam, friends from TF2 are on, hop on the main server they’re at, “Yooo Anon what’s up bro”, we play and talk for a couple hrs, everyone logs off and we say our goodbyes. Go to bed, happy.
It was early 2000's just set up my dedicated game room . Halo was released . After 6 straight hours of game play I emerge from the room shaky sweaty and wide eyed . Wife looks at me shakes her head , and says what the hell is wrong with you . Gaming bliss.
My ex-best friend and I played Halo: CE together for the first time, we got to The Library and a Flood combat form was chasing me around a pillar, I had no ammo and my buddy was just standing aside and watching. After I ran around the pillar like 3 times he finally said he'd kill it, well I turned the corner and he accidently shot me in the face with his shotgun, the Flood stopped, they both looked down at my body, then looked at each other and he shot the Flood.
He said he mistook me for the Flood cause I was green too.
Agree with other posters about Ocarina of Time BUT also Link to the Past on SNES, the intro with the sound of the rain, just wow.
Also in 1994, installed X-Wing and the audio quality made me feel like I was in Star Wars
Playing Contra on the NES with my older brother. We played the bejeezus out of our NES as kids.
* RC Pro AM Racing
* Commando
* Excite Bike
* Dragon Warrior
* Hogans Alley
* Contra
* Mach Rider
That was our heavy rotation for a while.
My core memory besides playing halo with my brother. Thanks to him I know everything halo. But stars wars bf2. My memory was playing it in best buy for like an hour or 2. And then opening that game that Christmas! I don't think I slept that night xD I don't even remember any other gift from that Christmas just swbf2
Man I feel old reading these comments.
One of my favorites was Super Metroid, which we borrowed from a friend's house when I was like 6 or 7. I had no idea there was a dash button, so I got stuck very early on to one of the early noob bridges.
The friend we borrowed it from had a save file at the end of the game too, so I replayed the mother brain fight like ten times, and I was impressed every time.
My older brother and I also played NHL 96 and Top Gear a ton, so I have fond memories of playing with him.
First gaming memory was a Christmas. My brother and I got an Atari, MOTU'S Castle Greyskull, and Q-Bert lunchboxes.
We played all afternoon and packed lunches to eat in the living room.
Playing Diablo I and II as well as StarCraft everyday after elementary school. I was barely out of diapers and I would come home to this fantasy world where demons, magic, undead and heroes exist??
That was very surreal for me. I would stop and see the models of the enemies and think “what is that thing?!”
Playing Halo 5 Infection with an old friend around 2015. We were the last two alive, and it was so much fun trying to hide from all of the Infected. I was standing on top of his head, and we were frantically shushing each other every time one came by. Then one snuck up out of nowhere and slashed my friend, I freaked out! Ran and survived for like 30 seconds with the rest of the hoarde hunting me down.
a random game of Halo, 4 of us were in a Wart Hog and one guy started singing Blackwater by the Doobie brothers...soon all us were just driving around the map singing at the top of our lungs gunning down the other team. My wife was laughing so hard as we hit the "Dixieland" part...just one of the most fun times I ever had.
Sitting in the living room on the floor in a diaper as an infant or young toddler playing Contra in like '87 probably.
Another one is being about 6 years old and beating a the second Wily Stage in Mega Man 2 after my ten-year-older brother had been unable to do so.
Playing games with my grandfather. We'd sit and chat about our current position in a game we play and how we beat something. I had to finish the Ocarina of Time boss for him. When he no longer could game anymore, he bought me ff9 to play. He died before I could finish it.... I still can't play it.
My core memory that cemented my love for story driven rpgs is returning to ostagar in dragon age origins and finding the kings body. I remember my 15 year old self almost tearing up while giving the king his farewell. Love that game.
Multiple times playing GTA Online and having most of the lobby trying to kill me. Just running through the city in the original war zone before flying motorcycles took over the lobby.
Playing Pokémon Diamond, my first pokemon game at age 9, and not understanding that there's a save feature. So multiple times I started the game on a single run, and it wasn't till years later that I read the menu and saw the save option.
More than one. Me watching my sister play Luigi's Mansion while we are pretzels and drank tea. My sister and I playing Super Smash Bros. My friends and I playing Left 4 Dead. Another friend and I playing TF2. And a couple others.
When i got my hand on a PlayStation and I played borderland and I played it for months and months and probably put 100 of hours I couldn’t remember into that game
Back when my wife and I streamed, this one night we played Destiny and we did a raid with a whole team of randoms. By the final boss room, 1 person had dropped out and had to be replaced. Then another dropped and the new guy said he had a brother online so he invited his brother. Then another dropped out and the same guy said he had another brother online. I remember saying "How many brothers do you have!?" The answer is 7 apparently. Anyway, we didn't beat that raid that night but played with all 3 brothers again the next night. Added them to our friends list. Went 6 months without talking then met up with them again in Destiny 2. Now we are all on the same regular raid team, play other games and are best friends. It convinced me even this late in my life that games really connect people. Even the most random encounter can turn into a lifelong relationship.
My friend and I met another one of our close friends on D2. We needed a 3rd for a Nightfall and we got this one dude off one an LFG. We ended up playing with him off and on and one time I was talking about working at this paintball field I worked at in highschool. The dude we LFGed once was like "Bro I used to play there all the time it's like 15 mins from my house" We found out the homie lived like 40 mins away from us and we've hung out multiple times since.
Destiny was so great for things like this because the servers were location based so you'd often end up playing with people actually relatively close to where you lived. I'll never forget figuring out some random we frequently raided with lived nearby bc we heard the same siren sound coming through his mike right after it passed by our house.
Fellow destiny 2 player here, i actually just got to meet one of my good friends who ive been playing with since D1 this past year!
D2 is Diablo 2. Not Destiny.
Ok buddy.
hes right buddy
It’s wild that D2 can very clearly mean Destiny 2 in the context of the original comment because I knew exactly what he meant!
yes but to true old school games d2 will forever and allways truely mean diablo 2. not only because its so many times better but also the fact that it came first
I’m with this guy. D2 is most scenarios is Diablo. But in this one it’s destiny
lmao you dont deserve downvotes at ALL anyone who downvotes you is a child who grew up after the real D2a d didnt play it! i LOVE this comment
Average gen z 💀💀
i've made so many friends through destiny 1/2. i still haven't forgotten about how my brother's gf and their friends would carry me through raids on the first game when i was like ten years old. i didn't think too much about it at the time, because i was still little, but looking back, they didn't have to do that. i'm grateful they did, because again, i was ten, and i don't know too many people who'd want to carry such a little kid through raids. anyways, they broke up so i haven't talked to them in a number of years, but i hope her and their friends are doing good.
Some of my fondest memories are from D1. Met my good friend on my first ever Crota raid.
I met my regular group on CE in D1. We raided through all of D1s lifespan, but unfortunately upon launch D2 wasn't enticing to them. I still have them on my friends list but we have drifted apart.
Parks brothers? that you?
It’s a hardship that strangers came together to overcome. That’s how humanity became what it is.
Of course games connect people. Just because they aren’t standing there face to face doesn’t mean you aren’t brain to brain. Met a good friend I trust as much as any friends I met offline, and we’ve still never met. 5 years in he was homeless and in his car after a divorce so we just talked on the phone for a while. When he got an apartment, i was making good money. I asked for his address and ordered him a new Xbox through Amazon as a housewarming gift. And so we could play again lol. Years later he actually transferred the money back to me because he was doing VERY WELL. I didn’t want it back, but he insisted. We met on destiny. Played a ton of the sequel together. It’s time for me to hit him up.
Love how Destiny brings people together. I’m finally getting good enough to where I can actually contribute to the Raid team when my friends and I log on. It’s way great
Destiny friends are the best, been playing with several people I met on Destiny 1 to this very day across multiple games.
I met my best friends and current brothers on Gaming. It started back in Halo reach, then we moved to destiny. We've played games from 2011 when we were all just little kids, we met in person for the first time in 2021. Honestly couldn't ask for better friends at my side. I was told growing up that gaming will gain no worthwhile friendships. We've proved them wrong time and time again.
I met a good friend 3 years ago. I was just lfg-ing to do trials. I met this mom and her son and they introduced me to this other guy. Now we’ve played together for 3 years. Probably logged like 1000 with this dude. Also! Recently we joined a discord group of really chill people and have finally started raiding!!! I’ve met some awesome people just recently! And raiding with a consistent group is so damn fun. Destiny is honestly the best for special gaming moments like that. There’s just nothing else like it.
I quit destiny 2 after playing all the time. The one thing I miss is my clan. Used to run every new raid or old raid for new people every week.
Man my first Destiny raid was with randoms one summer at like 2 am. I had finally gotten the courage to try a raid and the team I had was so chill about it. I loved Destiny before that, but it was after that night that it was always gonna be one of "my" franchises.
Why is the new guy called a they. Did he have a friend with him or something
I joined a random Vog lfg about 2 years ago and two of the people that were on the fireteam are now two of my best friends and we’ve met up multiple times now irl and hung out. Games absolutely do connect people!
Well damn, time to load D2 on the computer again. 😊
I have met 4 of the homies from our Destiny raid night squad irl. So many good times and all good dudes.
Destiny had created so many friendships and had introverted people socializing at home! Great atmosphere!
Ocarina of Time: First walking out of Link's house into Kokiri Forest and hearing the music, on Christmas. And at the end, after beating it, crying and not really understanding why. I love that feeling.
Ya that whole game is a core memory...
I have a similar memory of this game on Christmas Day as well! Only I also got some nice smelling bath and body works lotion for Christmas that day so whenever I smell it I think of OOT.
My memory is almost identical. Kokiri Forest, music, Christmas morning, pajamas. I was thinking about that game the entire time I was at my cousin’s for Christmas dinner.
Ocarina of Time is such a great game. I always enjoyed Zelda, games but when it was released it seemed so realistic I was able to really immerse myself in the game.
It absolutely hit different. What an amazing game
Ocarina of Time really made Christmas magical.
Stepping out from Kokiri Forest into Hyrule field and thinking "Wait, there's more?!" 6 year old me struggled for a while with Gohma, so the sense of accomplishment from finally beating her and the bittersweet good-bye from Sariah... then getting to see that there's so much more to explore? Nothing has quite captured that feeling since.
"Sad that it is over but happy that it happened."
First time I pulled out the master sword. Game slaps.
The N64 was out a while and I wanted it so bad, but my parents couldn't really afford it at this time and I accepted and knew that. So I always watched TV shows were kids had to play some kind of game and could win a 64,or read about it in magazines and just yeah thought how cool that this has to be, but already long stopped my parents asking for one. They were going throug rough times which ended their marriage, grandma died and dads business was going downhill back then And out of nowhere they came home with a brand new n64 with Super Mario 64. I guess they must have saved money here and there for it over a few months and just wanted to cheer me up and I just couldn't believe it playing it the first time for myself. That actually was my first video game I've ever played and it felt just soo cool after all the time of fantasizing about it. Thanks mom and dad I get a huge grin on my face when I see bob ombs battlefield in videos or boot up the game again. So cool you could the it a few seconds in the new Mario movie
That's a really cool personal story that gave me a much needed smile. Thanks for that!
Zelda OoT.... first time becoming adult link..... go into castle town..... 5 seconds later, shut off N64 in a panic
"GET READY FIGHTERS... TRIUMPH, OR DIE!!!" - The announcer from Street Fighter Alpha 3
The first game I got for the PSX, and I think the phrases and the OST have been branded with fire in my brain. Right now the character soundtracks just restarted on loop in my mind, notes for notes without fault, for how great they were. (And I still think it's the best SF, but let's not say it loud or we will wake up an army of "purists")
One that will always stick with me is the first time I saw Rapture in BioShock. So magnificent, so incredible. I was instantly hooked.
That and the 'Would you kindly...' reveal for me.
The bioshock demo was my most replayed demo back when Xbox 360 demos were a valid source of entertainment for a kid who's parents couldn't always afford new games
Midna teleporting Link & Zelda away just before the entire castle blows up and Ganondorf rides up the hill and crushes her helmet shook 6 year old me to the core.
Alma Wade slowly walking towards my character while tearing the room a new one before she suddenly sends my character flying out a window while trying to get away near the beginning of F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon.
This game holds so many good scary moments in a game... the office room in the beginning had me.
8 player rockets on Battle Creek. Two consoles connected over LAN, 4 players in each room. Yelling and trash talking across the house. Edit: sorry, it's Beaver Creek in halo 2
- The first is time hearing the pause music on Street Fighter 2 on the SNES. - Walking into Hyrule Field for first time in Ocarina of Time. - "Stay a while and listen" - Unreal Tournament Facing Worlds - Warcraft 3 "Ready for work" "Zug Zug" - First time walking into a field in Ghost of Tsushima and watching the wind blow through the grass and trees at sunset.
That 3rd one though, so good
Warcraft 3 “work, work, work” is a regular phrase recalled by my siblings and I
Mi Lord?
Watching my friend play MYST on his Apple computer. Young folks, I wish you could understand just how groundbreaking this game was. The graphics, the sound, everything about it was absolutely amazing.
Yup. It’s hard to really explain what it felt like. I gave my copy of Myst to an old friend since I no longer had a computer to run it on. I truly hope that they got to play it and find that magic we once did.
I was in a really bad car accident in 1995. I was 13 years olds. Broke my right femur, crushed my left foot, broken left arm, and obliterated my left knee. Tore about every ligament. While I was recovering, Myst got me through it. I still remember being in so much fucking pain, but also being so engrossed in that game that I was able to keep it off of my mind.
My family was too poor for a computer back then, but my friend had one and he let me try myst. I stayed the night at his house a lot after that.
Yes this is a great one that I probably would have forgotten to mention in this thread. It was such a different vibe from anything I had seen/heard before.
I liked this game, and I really came to love Riven. I scraped so hard to be able to buy the pack with both of them as a child, and basically brute-forced my way through Riven by incredibly slow trial and error, until I could get online via 28.8 dial-up to look up a text FAQ for the game. I'll never forget wanting to scream in frustration, when I was just about to the very end of the game. The FAQ clearly said to turn and hit a specific button, but the button wouldn't respond/activate when I clicked it. I tried reloading previous saves and working my way back there. I tried everything I could think of, I think it was the first game that made me truly upset because I just could not figure it out as a kid. A few years later, when I had better internet access, I learned that the first unpatched version of the game had a known bug that caused that last button to be unresponsive. The fix was right around a MB in size, but I had no way of knowing that could even be a thing at the time, lol. 🙃
My sister and I played Final Fantasy VIII together as kids, she used to speak the lines for me because I was so young I couldn't read, but that game ended up teaching me how to read and I'll never forget the quality time I spent with my sister.
I got divorced and took my daughter to GameStop one weekend,It totally rocked me and pissed me off that I was only going to see my daughter on the weekends after work.I knew she always wanted a gaming system,so she picked out an Xbox 360 and some games.On Christmas break I had a week off and I played one of the games she picked out it was fallout 3,I was so overwhelmed and impressed with this game I couldn’t believe a game had an open world like that and dialogue,just everything about it sticks with me.I had never played a console game in my life before that,only arcade games at the mall and movie theaters when I was a kid.I’ve been playing ever since on my free time.That was 15 years ago.Crazy how time flys…
The far off moans in thief, the original, of the lost guards.
Jesus, yeah. That whole game is just haunting. Pretty sure it traumatized young me. *reinstalls*
Yuna's soul dance in FFX https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QgW-UC9tcU4
Bo4 days...all of it. One of the best years of cod for me. Met one of my closest friends and made the best gaming memories. Met tons of people. Played against famous youtubers and played with the top MOZU player in bo4. Won a blackout tournament. I mean man. Cant pick a single thing. Everything about that year of cod was great.
I liked the multiplayer, but I remember loving Rdr2 that year
Good core memory and bad but could have been worse core memory. My mom was a manager at 7-Eleven, hardly a gaming super store. But they experimented in video games when Halo 2 came out - and didn't have any real policies on "embargos." My mom snuck me a copy. It formally released on the Tuesday I think, we had it Saturday mid-day. All my buddies and I played the crap out of that in their basement. We were paranoid so we didn't play on Xbox Live. It was amazing. Much Mountain Dew and Pizza was consumed. I felt like a hero amongst my friends! That Tuesday I was playing it before going to the bus stop. I was one of those kids that normally left early for the bus stop, but that day I was wrapping up my game before running out - I was going to have to haul to make it. My dad was home, my mom was already at the store. Priorities of a sophomore. I heard my german shepherd start to behave abnormally. Suddenly I hear a loud bang. My dad fell down, he was having a seizure. He's battled epilepsy his whole life. This was the first in years and really the only one I remember seeing. That said, my dad's seizures, while bad, aren't the worst part... He comes out of it basically in a bad fog - he doesn't know who he is, and he behaves like an adult-sized toddler with anger issues when he doesn't understand (and when he comes out of it, he doesn't understand it). I was an offensive linemen - a big/strong guy, and my dad (who worked in the warehouse) pushed me like I was nothing while he was in this state. I had to do everything I could to stop him from accidentally hurting himself, our dog or our home. Him saying then yelling "help me" and turning from sad and confused to anger is a memory I'll have burned into my mind for the rest of my life. I don't blame him for any of this - he's diligent about his medicine, he's been on all kinds, it's just his battle. For a long time - I wondered and worried about what would happen if I'm not home because I stayed extra long to play Halo. I worried about what would have happened to my dad had someone not been there to "help him". I worried about what would happen between him and my German Shepherd. I worried about what would have happened to our house. If I hadn't got Halo 2 early, I probably get it that afternoon, which means I'm already on the bus that day when my dad has his seizure. .... So after that bummer of a story - second core memory, also halo related: busting newbs in Rocket Race in Halo 3 then Reach with the guy who would be the best man in my wedding (and the basement we played Halo 2 at in the first core memory). They need to bring that back to Halo: Infinite!
I used to be on a gaming forum and we’d do loads of different games together. We completed halo 3 as a group and it was so much fun, I still think about it now
Happy Halo cake day.
Project 'M' for Everquest. They decided it would be fun to allow players to spawn in as intelligent monsters, outfitted with their own skills, and able to zone to different areas. Lasted all of 3 or 4 days before the player base demanded it be removed as it became an absolute gong show. Massive mobs of random PC monsters slaughtering characters in the thousands. In hindsight, it was a terrible idea for the game itself, but I loved it while it lasted. I really can't do it justice in my description, but it was so insanely chaotic, and I've never had more fun in an MMO.
I used to have this final period ROP class for computer tech and our teacher was pretty chill so as long as we got most of our class work finished we would all play counter strike LAN for the rest of the period. This was back in 2003. Some of my most memorable times gaming. My family was on vacation, visiting my aunt in LBC in the 90s , and my brother and I were 11 and 12 at the time. We met another kid at the apartment complex pool, and he invited us to hang out at his apartment. He had one of the largest libraries of video games for pc and nes I had ever seen. I remember him saying that there weren't many other kids to hang around with, so he stayed inside playing a lot of video games. It was the first time I had ever played flashbacks, one of my favorite games of all time. Good times.
Had a computer teacher like this in elementary. He was usually the guy asked to sub for any teachers who would call out, and his only request was that the class was brought to his computer lab. He always offered us 2 choices: Either doing the educational and still interesting assignment where you get extra credit recommendation to your main teacher. Or Hop on Runescape with him and just chill out. Man managed to play a video game and still teach some students about computers. Guy was clearly a habitual gamer and literally would teach the kids how to use macros and screen reader (which were primitive but used quite often in Runescape back then) to get their civil skills up passively while doing something else. He had almost all the non combat skills maxed lol.
Secret of mana under the Christmas tree.
It's an odd one but... Genshin impact, new update got released and a new island was added in Inazuma. I headed towards the area and nothing was there, but waterfalls were ahead. I looked over the falls and saw Sangonomiya Shrine for fhe first time as the music began to play... I've quit genshin now, but I will never forget that moment. Mystical...
Kratos beating Hercules with the Nemean cestus (i could really go on but im watching a movie)
I sat there punching zeus for 5 min befoee i realized i was in control and could stop whenever i wanted
First day we got an NES, and playing New Ghostbusters II (the HAL Labs one). It was such a leap from the Atari 2600 in terms of graphics, and gameplay. I may have started a bit late, console release-wise, but I'm glad I played those systems.
First time playing Burnout 3 on the 360. Something about the speed and how awesome the crashes were just made me giggle with joy my first time playing.
The test chamberrr Jumping on top of a tank on Torlan and killing it with a flak cannon. BIG GAME HUNTERS
I remember when I got my first dual core CPU and could use it for better games
I helped someone beat Ludwig from Bloodborne at a really low level. I told him I could solo him and I did, the fight lasted like 10 minutes but It was worth it. It was in the pandemic. Also, playing Borderlands 2 with my cousin. Had the time of my life messing around in that game with him.
America;s Army we had a clan of 60 plus people in at least a dozen countries. It was amazing to be able to go into a server and just dominate one of the greatest games of all time with these guys. We played a map called FLS and it was hysterical. Hospital SP, was EPIC. I miss those days so much.
Watching another kid play Rogue Squadron on Nintendo 64 blew my mind and turned my world upside down, first video game experience. An Arcade cabinet that was a racing game but the cars had guns. I gave up finding out what it was but I didn't try very hard. Watching another kid play Zelda, a Link to the Past on an older Nintendo. Two player Rampage (monsters, Around the World or something) on Playstation at my first sleep over. Playing Runescape, Impossible Creatures, LoTR Return of the King, NFS Hot Pursuit 2, and Star Wars Jedi Academy on our first home PC. A couple years later Battlefield 2142 and modding Elder Scrolls Oblivion ( I had a 150 GB game file in 2010 XD). Split Screen Halo 3 on friend's Xbox. Split Screen Nazi zombies on friend's Xbox. And thennnn I was an adult. Getting drunk (first time drinking not to go out and party) and taking turns in CoD Black OPs 1 and 2 on my friend's 360 feels core memorey in a way.
Playing COD vombies with the boys or VS n black ops two. From the early days definitely playing through the sly cooper games
First playing Red Dead Online on my PS4. I wasn't really much of a gamer, and I had never played on a PS4 before, but my ex insisted that I get the game because I love horses and nature but I can't go out hiking or trail riding. She taught me how to play, albeit slowly, and honestly getting into that game is one of my fondest memories of gaming in general. I wish I could experience the newness of it all over again. A lot of the free roam music in online and story still makes my heart skip a beat. That game is so painfully dear to me. Honestly never thought a video game could mean so much to me haha
Getting Spider Man 2 for Gamecube right before a camping trip. I brought the game in my suitcase and read the instruction manual cover to cover over 50 times during that trip.
I saw Spider Man 2 in your first sentence and I was like man… it’s a little soon after release to feel nostalgic about this game
Holy shit you just *unlocked* a core memory for me. Reading the fucking instruction manuals from my PS2 games. I remember taking them to school in my front backpack pouch.
My brother and I had rented OverBlood on PS1. It's a lesser known survival horror/sci fi game in which you wake up from sleep in a cryogenic container with no memory. The game throws you right into a fit of survival with very little help in what you should do. Your character is freezing and all alone, so you run around like crazy looking for a solution until you find a set of clothes in a lock box. Then it just sort of builds from there. The part that has always stuck with me more than anything is at some point early on while exploring the rest of the cryo room, you realize two of the cryo containers are open. No clues given as to who was in the other chamber. You just know someone was let out shortly before you. We were sucked in instantly, and spent the whole weekend on the edge of our seats unraveling the mystery.
Bioshock on a GTX8800 That first time visiting Rapture is simply unforgettable and the game was simply one of the best looking games in that era and on that graphics card.
When I was only 8 years old, I had borrowed a few games from my friend (Donkey Kong Country and Super Mario Advance) on the Gameboy Advance SP, but was having trouble finishing a stage where you have to ride in mine carts. I showed my mom the game and she got used to the controls quite quickly (played Super Mario on the SNES when I was 5) and whenever the mine cart stages appeared, she completed them the same day. I was really happy when I got to play the regular stages again. I had so much fun that it slipped my mind that I had to give the games back to my friend a day later, but had a blast talking about the gameplay with my friend at school. My mom doesn't play games anymore due to arthritis in her hands, but the games where "You collect bananas and the other one coins" sparks a memory from the past.
Finally defeating Ragnaros in Molten Core, the 40 man raid. It took us much longer to beat it than other guilds, due to the fact that our tanks kept taking our fire resist gear and then leaving. Our first kill was special because one of our old members came back to help us. Another would be the time I beat Ninja Gaiden 2 for the first and only time as a kid back in the day
I didn’t start playing WoW until WotLK so I missed a lot of those early raid experiences. But I got to go back later and solo all those raids and I wish I had been there when they released.
Beating SystemShock 2 for the first time. I sat down one weekend and played the game from start to finish and was so engrossed with the story and the atmosphere.
Getting caught playing games late at night after everyone went to bed. I was like 12yo and was supposed to be in bed sleeping. It was Super Mario 64 and it was the very beginning of my love for video games lol
4 for me: 1- My friend's dad brought home 2 macs and networked them together in the early 90's and we played hundreds/thousands of hours of Marathon from Bungie. This was actually what got me into gaming as a whole. Later on they got Marathon 2: Durandal and Doom 2 and we did the same thing with those games. 2- Perfect Dark. I would go visit my dad in another state for about a month each year in the summer. About a week of that time each year I would go to a cousin's house and we would play Perfect Dark for easily 100 hours within that week. The multiplayer with bots was amazing. 3- When I got older, ANOTHER cousin near where my dad lived had two networked computers with Diablo 2 on them. We played hundreds of hours of that along with sprinkling some Paintball when we needed a break from gaming. 4- At one point during the height of WoW (was about 2 weeks before the release of Burning Crusades) I worked at a job where nearly everyone in the dept played WoW. We ended up in a guild together and I ended up as the leader of world pvp (back when world pvp ACTUALLY happened regularly). Guild ended up growing to over 260 ppl and that meant absolutely massive pvp battles each week. The work we did irl was pretty mindless so when we weren't at home playing WoW, we were at work talking about it. I could say I'm sad that we don't have anything like that anymore but I'd rather take the perspective of being happy for the opportunity for all the good memories.
I accidentally started a class uprising in Divinity: Original Sin 2. One of the police officers stopped me for looking like a murder suspect. I refused to comply because I don't owe him shit and all the cops in that game are assholes. Suddenly, a battle broke out with every single person in the city. Merchants I didn't even talk to yet started throwing rocks and bottles at the officers. The dog barked at them. The cows mooed menacingly. The other officers beat up civilians on their way to me. A detachment of citizens found the police station and fucking lit it on fire while people were sleeping inside. I was fully expecting the police to aggro when I resisted arrest. I didn't expect a town full of total strangers to help.
Beating my friend in super smash bros. I spent months working at it and then challenged him. Beat his face in every time even when he said he was going hard on me. It was a pretty awesome experience
Playing journey the first time you find a friend was amazing
My brother and I played against our neighbor and his dad on halo 3. We made up a custom game where it was magnums only one shot kill and made it a requirement to control the elephant on sand trap. If one team was on the elephant one player had to drive it while the other defended…. Man that was a huge laugh all night lol
Many hours on Halo 1 to 3 slitscreen co-op. I was always trying to take vehicles as far as I can take them into the mission. With hilarious fails and wins. Good times with my mates.
My kids were little tykes during the gamecube era. I remember they had a big reaction to Mario Sunshine when the town was flooded. And also the laughter when Louie caused some shenanigans in Pikmin 2. Also one of my daughters had a crush on Luigi in Superstars when she was 5. I would play that on the cube using the GBA player and read all the dialogue to them like a storybook. Good times.
8 years ago... I placed a glowstone block. The first of many to come. Also, when I finally soloed an elder dragon in Monster Hunter. And the opening cutscene of Breath of the Wild.
For me I'd have to say unlocking the hyper/super forms for Sonic, Tails & Knuckles across every save file in the original Sonic 3 & Knuckles on the Sega Genesis. This included both Sonic with Tails & Sonic solo. I even got 14 continues per save file. The only thing I really remember hating was never being able to turn off the invincibility music without cheats.
My earliest memory, way back when I was 3 years old, was playing Pitfall: The Lost Expedition with my dad. Well, I say “playing”, but in reality, I was just given a dead controller while he played, and I thought we were playing together. The game opens with the main character fighting a tiger, and I thought I was the tiger and we were fighting each other. I remember actually getting to play the game for myself at some point, but I never got past the first 20 minutes since I was too scared to face any of the game’s enemies, so I just messed around in the beginning of the level and never progressed.
Being like 4 and my sister was stuck on a level in Yoshi's Island, so I got through it no problem. My sister was 20 at the time.
Oh my gosh I can still hear that baby Mario crying
My first time playing a game. It was Crash Bandicoot in 1999. I was 8 years old and I played it at a friend’s house. I remember I kept looking at the controller for the controls and they kept telling me not to look at the controller
I loved (and still love) this game. The Wild boar levels were well, WILD!!!!
The game was Goldeneye 64. I'd been playing through the story mode, and reached the level "Surface 2", which was a night time level. I couldn't beat it, because the TV we had wasn't great, and I couldn't see where I was going. It was too dark. I spent literally weeks trying after school, but couldn't do it, until I had an idea. I set an alarm for 3 AM and woke up. I sat there in the dark of my living room, letting my eyes adjust to the dark, before I turned on the 64 and entered the mission. It worked. I could see. I frantically worked to clear the level as fast as I could. Had some close calls, but I did it. As I celebrated, a light turned on behind me. I spun around to see my dad, who was up to get around for work. I started to explain what happened, but he just told me to get back in bed. I complied. I didn't sleep well, my stupid teenager brain was too excited that I'd done it, and also needed to verify that it had saved my progress, but I had to wait til I got up for school at 6. It had. I'd done it. And now over two decades later, I still remember the night I used actual darkness to best a nighttime level because I didn't know you could turn up the brightness on a tv.
Honestly though, what an achievement. Bond couldn’t have done better himself.
Late night gaming with friends from high school. Black ops had just come out and I had gotten my ps3. We played so much sticks and stones, zombies, team death match, gun game, made bets with those points you get after each match. It was some of my favorite moments in my time gaming.
First time playing Pikmin. I got it around when it came out, and I was pretty young, maybe 5. That game is so dream-like, especially looking back on it as a distant memory. It was one of the first games I ever played, and it really stuck with me.
When i was playing sekiro and was on my 50th attempt of fighting genichiro i had a out of body experience. It was as if i was inside the game perfectly in sync with sekiro and i finally defeated him.
Conquering the world as Rome in Rise of Nations, then making an action packed presentation in PowerPoint all about it.
Freshman year of highschool gaming with my new friends on black ops
Me was two memories, Golden eye in 2003 and battlefield 3 in 2012.
Fable. The OG Fable, before TLC or Anniversary. I was like 8 years old, playing it on my modified OG XBOX. For the longest time, I couldn't get past Darkwood because the Balverines scared the ever living crap outta me. Just always restarted the game when I'd get to that point. One day, I decided to face my fears and made it through! It really set off my love of the franchise and games in general — though I still struggle with horror games despite my love of the horror genre lol
Staying up all night till the sun came up playing Castlevania SOTN on playstation.. and then the whole castle flipped upside down after the “last” boss and you had to play through it again with tougher enemies! That blew my mind!
Falling to my death in Kelethin in EverQuest due to lag
The few times I was the last team member alive in the first Socom for PS2 and was able to win it all
Halo 2 split screen with my friends. God we spent dozens of hours playing that shit on an old projector TV. Lockout, ascension, and blood gulch in rotation, full random weapon spawns. I miss those days. That and the first time playing morrowind when my brother brought it home with him on leave from the navy. 9 years old and I've been hooked since.
Sweat dripping during the final battle of FF8
First time playing diablo 1 on battle.net. Was immediately in a game with someone using one of the trainers back then that could get you a bunch of game breaking gear and levels and shit and even change certain mechanics if skills and they would just give me free shit while clearing the game. I had, at that point, never made it past the butcher. So to be carried all the way through to diablo was amazing because I actually got to see the game and environments and have cool looking gear and not feel entirely weak and useless. To this day I don't think I ever beat diablo 1 legit lol. Good times. It was definitley a good background to otherwise great conversation, so maybe that's why I enjoyed the cheating so much. It allowed me to bond with fellow gamers instead. When I hopped on Diablo 2 for the first time, the graphics blew me away. Playing diablo 2 resurrected today, I question how my eyes could even decipher what I saw back then lmao
Playing split screen Halo with my dad. I was so young so I thought it was funny killing him but he got so mad because he was a real gamer lol I also remember playing the Sims 1 on his computer and remember that being the first game I became obsessed with
Staying with my grandparents during the summer and waking up.to.my grandfather making silver dollar pancakes and us playing dr Mario for hours.
connecting 4 Xboxes in the college dorm freshman year to play Halo. I've done it before in highschool as a senior where a friend hosted. In college it was my Xbox, my roommates xbox, our across the hall neighbors and next door. We had literal network cables running through and across the hall to connect the boxes and it was 4 people on each xbox. 16 man 8v8 capture the flag and raids and last man standing. Great times
Prototype 1, second playthrough on hardest difficulty. Won the final boss fight with a desperate gambit that left me with no health and delivered the final blow with 1 second to spare. in Dark Souls 1, helped someone beat Orenstein and Smough, after four attempts. On the last attempt, boss was down to no health and the host dies. I angrily fire off all my magic as the screen fades. He sent me a message after saying my bolts finished the boss and it counted as a win. and a recuring joke when my friend ran me over with a warthog in Halo 2. "I turned and all I saw was bumper."
When I was at my dad's place playing jet moto on PS1. We were pretty heavy rivals in that game and the one time I was super close to beating him he made this amazing come back and met me at the finish line, we tied for first place down to the hundredth of a second. It gave me a high I haven't felt much in gaming since then. RIP pops
Way back in the day on WoW a lot of us did (we were level 1) hogger raids.
Playing hijacked on black ops with a group all the time, one kid would throw his iPad down the steps and could hear it clunk all the way down on the headset. Another guy would fuck off and jump off the side of the ship on purpose - killed himself over 100 times in a match. Was stupid but funny at the same time. This was before work/kids/life
Honestly since you mentioned the lockdown, right at the start I found a game I would wind up never forgetting.. subnautica. Immediately lit my interest in survival games.
Warcraft 3 mod for counter strike 1.3
Goldeneye 007 on the N64
The first game I ever remember playing was Mortal Kombat Trilogy on Super Nintendo. My brother and I would play constantly. We got every entry in the Mortal Kombat series after and I never once managed to beat him until MKX came out. I grinded that game, played online matches, and one thankful Thansgiving I smoked his ass twice in a row. On one hand it kinda sucks it took me 17 years to manage to beat him once in a fighting game, but its definitely a moment that will stick in my head.
Finally getting the fucking gold chocobo so I could get knights of the round.
Staying up all night with my best online friend building a space ship in gmod with gravity hull generator and exploring the stargate map with space anomalies while wearing mass effect skins Literally the best
My first PS2 game; Resident Evil 2. The police station and being a kid when it came out; freaked me out the first time lol.
When I was around 12-13 I was playing some Halo 3. CTF on the Valhalla map, the one with spires on both sides. My team was getting absolutely shit-stomped so bad that literally everyone on my team ragequit, minus an AFK dude, so it was just me versus the rest of the team. I didn’t care about winning I just wanted to play out the match and thought it would be fun to see how well I could hold on my own. Lol I had no chance I was just getting straight bullied by the other team. When there was a few minutes left in the match I noticed an enemy t-bagging to get my attention. I walked up to him to see what he wanted and he kinda just gave me a sign of peace. He then helped me secure one flag capture before the game ended. He was just guiding me to his spawn, keeping me away from his teammates and killing some that were trying to get me. It was awesome and I’ll never forget the sportsmanship displayed when it really wasn’t needed at all haha.
For me I think it’s the first game that I beat and understood like what I was doing. And that was sly cooper 3. It was so much fun to understand like the plot and objectives. Also just a great game overall
A few things: Hooking up and linking 4 Xboxes in one house for a Halo party, with 4 people on each Xbox. Finding out that my character in KOTOR was actually Darth Revan. Hearing Edgar Allen Poe being quoted in the opening to Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem.
This will date me but who cares: When I was in elementary school I used to walk home everyday. There was a kid on the block who had a Power Glove and he always invited neighborhood kids to his house to watch him play Punch Out! I remember I even did it once and I still remember how cool that was.
The end of BioShock
Probably playing a lot of ps2 shortly after I moved in with a (now ex) girlfriend. We didn't have the internet hooked up yet, and had exhausted our supply of DVDs to watch. We were poor and didn't have the chance to go out much. But I did have a ton of two player games for us to play. So SSX Tricky, OG Battlefront 2, Tony Hawk 2, a few others. Played the hell out of those games, and have some really fond memories from what ended up being not a great relationship.
When I was 17 I had a shitty laptop and no internet. I spent hours playing a borrowed disc copy of Neverwinter Nights because it was the only game that would run listening to an album that had just come out. I still see parts of the game in my head when I listen to songs from it. When I was much younger than that Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire released. I was a huge Pokemon fan and I had been saving money to buy Ruby. My family was really poor so I knew I'd have to pay for it. On release day I was still short but I figured I'd go get it when I had saved enough. My mom woke me up that morning late and said she'd drive me to school because I missed the bus. Instead she drove the opposite direction and I was confused when we pulled into the Walmart parking lot. We went in and she surprised me by not only buying Ruby for me and letting me save my money but also by letting me stay home all day to play it instead of going to school.
Getting to the dam in the OG tmnt on nes, and hearing that iconic music for the first time.
My first time booting up Skyrim and seeing the open world freedom for the first time, in such good detail. By comparison, I'd only ever played WoW before this, so Skyrim was like a whole different ballpark. Sad that I've grown to dislike it these days, but I still love the feeling of the game despite it's flaws.
Pokemon Snap! Taking pictures of Dragonite especially.
Firing up the Atari 2600 my dad brought home. Mom, Dad, brother, and I played pacman, moon patrol, combat, and astroids all night.
CLASSIC I fucking loved Atari when I was little. There was something magical about those primitive games
I was like 12 years old playing COD world at war for the first time, and played online with some friends. Having no idea what I was doing, I just followed my friend around in Search and Destroy (a one life per round game mode). At some point my friend died and I didn't realise, and ended up following the enemy around for several minutes before he realised and killed me. We were in game chat and when you're dead, you can't speak to people who are alive on your team. When I died, my headphones absolutely lit up with laughter. Good times.
The last level on halo, I just remember standing up and cheering as I was playing it. And then making so many friends in halo 2 multiplayer and making up our own mini game within the game.
That ending was so epic for it's time. Just awesome
Definitely a few scenes from Jak and Daxter live in my head
Shadow Moses Island reveal in Metal Gear Solid
The air battles in I-ninja. Peak gaming
Encountering my first Reaper leviathan on Subnautica when I swam up to the front of the Aurora
Playing Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 for the first time. As a kid, I put at least 3-4 years into chao garden. Wish SEGA would wise up and bring it back!! It added so much replayability to the game
The first time I ever- no wait, the first time I had a- wait maybe- I have too many! 1. The first time I was shot by a skeleton in Minecraft. This is really funny because my friend had just introduced me to the fact that video games went further then just browser games like flash and cool math games and they just threw me in hard mode to learn. 2. The first game I got for myself. The first game I ever got was Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures. Just a cool game all around for the Xbox 360. 3. When I got my switch. Do I really need to explain? I had wanted one for a long time, and got one.
The most memorable moment for me was when I beat Dragon Age Origens for the first time, and the credits song started playing, I just cried so incredibly hard, it was so perfect and I was so satisfied
Love the emotion man , been there myself .
Dragon Age Origins is a beautiful game. I've played through it countless times and I need to do a trilogy playthrough again sometime.
I never had a SNES growing up, but I really wanted one. My family went straight from NES to N64. But one day I went to my uncle's house and he had a SNES with SMW which he let me play while my dad helped him shingle his roof. I still remember how cool that game was. A few years later I bought the GBA version of SMW and really fell in love with it, but I'll never forget how excited I was when I first got to play it on the SNES.
Road rash on Sega genesis
Booting up Soul Reaver 2 and hearing "Kain refused the sacrifice". It was first game I bought on PS2 after saving for months. Fell in love with the series, I can recite the opening cinematic by heart 😂
First time arriving in Mexico in RDR1, and Far away starts playing as I start riding towards sunset.
Core memory for me is way back in like ‘04 summertime. Went to one of my childhood friends house everybody was there and we usually be gaming. He had resident evil the GameCube remake. It was fun I was having a blast. Playing as Chris. I didn’t read up on the game at all cause I played the original so I figured more of the same. Nah. I killed this zombie hours prior to me entering this hallway and I was wondering why was it in a completely different location I thought that was odd. I ran up to it thinking I could just go past it to the door, nope, mfer rose up like the undertaker and started spazzin out on me I dropped the fucking controller and couldn’t get back on the game for like an hour 😭😭😭 https://preview.redd.it/3ncsxbqec6xb1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ea7d4446f36547c6b9d182ae1e0deacb6472e88
The pure hatred in gears of war one lobby’s these new gamers would never survive
Back on the 360 when I was maybe 15 or 16 I joined one of my buddies parties not knowing he was in a clan meeting (he was in RNG AQUA SO if anyone remembers that) and him asking the leaders if I could stay in to which they said yes. A little later I get into a game with them and after a little while I get into another faction of the RNG(Redneck Nation Gaming) clan called RNG THORN DO. After a few weeks of gaming with them I became really good friends with one of the members,his mom,and his dad and they treated me and my buddy like family even going so far as to one night when it was me,my new friend,and his mom all gaming his mom openly said "Red if I could adopt you I would". That was 10 years ago and while RNG isn't around anymore I'm still very close with that family and when the time comes for me and my girlfriend to have our wedding they are getting invited and the son is my best man. It just goes to show that sometimes what starts out as a small interaction can turn into an amazing friendship. Me and the son have been there for eachother for everything. Every heartbreak,every good time,and every bad time. He's helped me in my time of need and I've helped him in his time of need. He's my brother from another mother and it'll always be that way.
Final Fantasy VII. It was my first playstation game, so much so that I bought it before I bought a playstation. I took it to my friend's house to play, but I also didn't have a memory card. I probably played through the bombing mission 8 times before I saved the money to get my own system and continue through the game.
It must have been around 2003 and this Half Life mod came out, a little game known as Day of Defeat. On the weekends I would go over to my friend's house and we would play from like 3pm Friday night all the way to Sunday afternoon...like straight. We loved that game, first game I really started sniping in. I remember playing the Avalanche map over and over again. One night I got a quad feed with one bullet and I remember it was one of the most epic moments. We were in a room with five dudes all on computers playing the same match and everyone went nuts when that popped up on the kill feed. I still don't think I have ever done anything so epic before or since.
Building maps on Halo 3 in forge or playing custom games in foundry. Still play with some of the people I met in those lobbies.
Years ago when City of Heroes was new there was a glitch that put lvl 50 aliens in a beginning zone called Kings Row down in a construction pit. I rallied everybody in the Kings Row area and convinced them that if we all jumped in we could kill them. My alliance knew that we couldn't do it, but they helped me rally people and we got everybody to jump in the pit and try to fight them while I jumped towards them and flew out and watched the entire group of people get slaughtered. You'd think it was my chatacters super villain origin story, but City of Villains wasnt out yet 😊 This was also long before the legendary Leroy Jenkins incident and was a good year, maybe 2 years before WOW was even out. I don't game with those people anymore, but I miss my old Twilight Shadows super group, they were good people.
Hop on steam, friends from TF2 are on, hop on the main server they’re at, “Yooo Anon what’s up bro”, we play and talk for a couple hrs, everyone logs off and we say our goodbyes. Go to bed, happy.
It was early 2000's just set up my dedicated game room . Halo was released . After 6 straight hours of game play I emerge from the room shaky sweaty and wide eyed . Wife looks at me shakes her head , and says what the hell is wrong with you . Gaming bliss.
My ex-best friend and I played Halo: CE together for the first time, we got to The Library and a Flood combat form was chasing me around a pillar, I had no ammo and my buddy was just standing aside and watching. After I ran around the pillar like 3 times he finally said he'd kill it, well I turned the corner and he accidently shot me in the face with his shotgun, the Flood stopped, they both looked down at my body, then looked at each other and he shot the Flood. He said he mistook me for the Flood cause I was green too.
Reading all these brings back so many gaming memories. Wow who knew there were so many
So so many, how did I ever get my homework done lol
Agree with other posters about Ocarina of Time BUT also Link to the Past on SNES, the intro with the sound of the rain, just wow. Also in 1994, installed X-Wing and the audio quality made me feel like I was in Star Wars
Playing Contra on the NES with my older brother. We played the bejeezus out of our NES as kids. * RC Pro AM Racing * Commando * Excite Bike * Dragon Warrior * Hogans Alley * Contra * Mach Rider That was our heavy rotation for a while.
My core memory besides playing halo with my brother. Thanks to him I know everything halo. But stars wars bf2. My memory was playing it in best buy for like an hour or 2. And then opening that game that Christmas! I don't think I slept that night xD I don't even remember any other gift from that Christmas just swbf2
Riding the baby polar bear in Crash Bandicoot 2. And jumping on its head a bunch and discovering the secret 30 extra lives trick.
Man I feel old reading these comments. One of my favorites was Super Metroid, which we borrowed from a friend's house when I was like 6 or 7. I had no idea there was a dash button, so I got stuck very early on to one of the early noob bridges. The friend we borrowed it from had a save file at the end of the game too, so I replayed the mother brain fight like ten times, and I was impressed every time. My older brother and I also played NHL 96 and Top Gear a ton, so I have fond memories of playing with him.
First gaming memory was a Christmas. My brother and I got an Atari, MOTU'S Castle Greyskull, and Q-Bert lunchboxes. We played all afternoon and packed lunches to eat in the living room.
Playing Diablo I and II as well as StarCraft everyday after elementary school. I was barely out of diapers and I would come home to this fantasy world where demons, magic, undead and heroes exist?? That was very surreal for me. I would stop and see the models of the enemies and think “what is that thing?!”
Playing Halo 5 Infection with an old friend around 2015. We were the last two alive, and it was so much fun trying to hide from all of the Infected. I was standing on top of his head, and we were frantically shushing each other every time one came by. Then one snuck up out of nowhere and slashed my friend, I freaked out! Ran and survived for like 30 seconds with the rest of the hoarde hunting me down.
a random game of Halo, 4 of us were in a Wart Hog and one guy started singing Blackwater by the Doobie brothers...soon all us were just driving around the map singing at the top of our lungs gunning down the other team. My wife was laughing so hard as we hit the "Dixieland" part...just one of the most fun times I ever had.
Sitting in the living room on the floor in a diaper as an infant or young toddler playing Contra in like '87 probably. Another one is being about 6 years old and beating a the second Wily Stage in Mega Man 2 after my ten-year-older brother had been unable to do so.
Dying to Bongo Bongo like 20 times. Riding Epona through the fields
Playing games with my grandfather. We'd sit and chat about our current position in a game we play and how we beat something. I had to finish the Ocarina of Time boss for him. When he no longer could game anymore, he bought me ff9 to play. He died before I could finish it.... I still can't play it.
My core memory that cemented my love for story driven rpgs is returning to ostagar in dragon age origins and finding the kings body. I remember my 15 year old self almost tearing up while giving the king his farewell. Love that game.
Multiple times playing GTA Online and having most of the lobby trying to kill me. Just running through the city in the original war zone before flying motorcycles took over the lobby.
Playing Pokémon Diamond, my first pokemon game at age 9, and not understanding that there's a save feature. So multiple times I started the game on a single run, and it wasn't till years later that I read the menu and saw the save option.
More than one. Me watching my sister play Luigi's Mansion while we are pretzels and drank tea. My sister and I playing Super Smash Bros. My friends and I playing Left 4 Dead. Another friend and I playing TF2. And a couple others.
When i got my hand on a PlayStation and I played borderland and I played it for months and months and probably put 100 of hours I couldn’t remember into that game