I just remember playing megaman 1 on NES over and over mostly to listen to the music after you beat the first bosses, i loved the music of that game so much!

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    The end of Twilight Princess is permanently embedded into my mind. Just the silence of Ganondorf standing with the sword plunged through his chest is incredible and a little haunting at the end of that game.

    That, and when my dad showed me DOOM. That was a good day.

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      Man, I have such vivid memories of going to Toys R Us for the first time (and subsequent times after that, honestly) and being in total awe that the entire store was dedicated to kids’ stuff. It’s really sad that kids won’t get to experience that anymore… I know tech is at the forefront of entertainment, regardless of age, but I would wager any kid would love the same kind of toys we had just as much.

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      so cool hahaha i loved going to the supermarket just to play the free terminator game, but there were other kids there too so i never playe4d too much

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    It’s not a good one but the first time I felt existential dread was playing Missile Command in the Atari 2600. I was about 8 and realized that the game only ends when all of your cities are destroyed and life is extinguished. No matter how I tried or how good I got the game would end in a devastation.

    On a good note, I remember skipping a party to play ocarina of time. I thought I would regret skipping the party, nah. OoT was and is still better.

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    Not sure if I can pick one:

    • 4-player Mario Kart 64 with siblings
    • Command and Conquer Red Alert, Red Alert 2, and Generals with my dad and brother
    • Halo 1 and 2 co-op campaigns with my brother
    • 007 Nightfire multiplayer with my brother
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    There was nothing better than 4 player split screen for Goldeneye and Mario Kart 64

    edit: seconded only by 16 player Halo LAN parties in the early 2000s

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    The Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt cartridge for the Nintendo Entertainment System was my first big console game (I played some crappy DOS games on Windows 3.11 before that), but I remember getting a SEGA Genesis with Sonic 2 when I was around 10 years old and being blown away by the graphics and game quality.

    I had played Sonic 2 on the SEGA Game Gear since my 9th birthday, but I became a lifelong fan of Sonic the Hedgehog ever since I got to play the Genesis version (I’m 39 now).

    I replayed that game so much, it’s one of my core memories of my summer vacations as a kid.

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    Discovering the Sevii Islands in Pokemon Leaf Green, felt like exploring a secret zone I wasn’t supposed to. 7 Year old me was extremely excited.

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    My most memorable gaming moment would be when I beat Magus in Chrono Trigger for the first time. The build-up to this bad-ass of a character was intense. The whole first part of the game had you thinking he was the final boss. He had everything: a cult worshiping him in 600 AD, ominous music, bumbling henchmen and a castle surrounded in shadows and mists.

    For those who’ve played the game, who can forget when you first come to his room? Everything’s black, there’s this scary weird chanting in the background, you’re running into the darkness. Suddenly, blue flames burst to life on either side of your party. Oh yeah, this is it.

    You find him facing an altar, in bad-ass pose mode, arms outstretched. A few exchanges of short, characteristic dialogue. Cue in music.

    “The black wind begins to blow…”

    And it begins.

    I died like 5 times before I beat him. But getting beat by Magus, especially when you’re around 13-14 years old and really into CT’s story, could not get any more exhilarating and jarring at the same time. Of course, after I got Crono’s Luminaire, it was all over. Still, one of my best memories growing up, especially since I loved the archetype of the anti-hero.

    Second best gaming moment would be when I found him again after the fall of Zeal, only to find out you can have him as a party member! I never thought twice about what I wanted. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever done a playthrough of CT without choosing Magus to fight alongside me, even to this day.

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      thats awesome! having consistency is a great thing, brings nostalgia too haha

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    When my parents bought me a famiclone in the middle of 90s (best moment of sad reality in a recently liberated post-commie country).

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    A bunch of neighborhood kids would come over on Fridays and spend the night, we’d stay up until like 2am with 1 person playing the original Resident Evil on ps1 and were scared shitless. Then we’d spend the next day playing Mario Kart 64 and OG Smash Bros.

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    Playing Final Fantasy VII as a kid and realizing that video games had reached a level of storytelling on par with film or books.