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!
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
Late to the party, but probably playing Battlefield 1942 for actual HOURS. Such a great game
Playing Super Mario World on the SNES as a kid.
Sneeking into my brother’s room when he was not at home, playing Super Mario World, Secret of Evermore and Metal Warriors on his SNES. Lovely memories!
The end of Twilight Princess is permanently embedded into my mind. Just the silence of Ganondorf standing with the sword plunged through his chest is incredible and a little haunting at the end of that game.
That, and when my dad showed me DOOM. That was a good day.
Twilight Princess is still my favorite Zelda game. Time to dust off that Wii.
so cool. when i found the romero head in doom 2 it was insane :O
The 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.
Going over to friends houses to play games. I never had a large library and playing new games. And the games I did have were the mane ones everyone else had so no one ever wanted to come over and play at my house.
Everything about Halo 3. Going through the co-op campaign on Legendary with 4 friends from school, big team battle and ranked duo’s were really sick. All the custom game lobbies that would spontaneously spin up from a random invite from someone you never knew.
My cousin and I were playing Monopoly on NES. The computer player offered us a trade. I don’t remember what it was exactly, but it wanted Boardwalk from some other property we had no use for. We declined the trade and console immediately reset. It still makes me laugh realizing the game rage quit on us.
haahhaha its my way or the highway!
Going to Toys R Us with my friend just to play the SNES Donkey Kong demo.
First time I played Pokémon, Age of Empires II and Diablo II.
Reading the FF7 player’s guide while my older brothers played it.
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.
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
Waking up early with my brother to play Goldeneye on the N64 was peak gaming for me.
