Late Night Consoling

what no love for worms? Ive lost a culimitive year of my life to that game (worms2)

DOUBLE DRAGON ON THE NES. All I can remember is the huge haircuts and knocking people off the roof. Fuck I loved that game.

Battletoads.
DOOM.
Street Fighter.
Donkey Kong Country.
Resident Evil.
Metal Gear Solid.

The list goes ever on and on...

Grade school fanboy during the PS1 days? You make me feel old, alec.

The games that make/made me glad I'm a gamer.

Console:

Mario Brothers 3 (NES)
StarFox (SNES)
Zeldas (N64)
Halos (XBOX)

PC

StarCrafts (I played it soo much, I would forgo eating)
(nothing too much now a days)

Anyone know the release date for that DVD Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children?? I really need to see that movie

The ourcolony pic? I think it's part of the boot sequence.

Not for console ... but for PC. Nothing on a console has ever made me go OOohhhh or ahhhh. Nothing on a console has given me the feeling I got when ...

I first loaded up Wake Island. I was so lost. Planes flying me, battle ships shelling me, tanks and jeeps and APCs... oh my! That was a truely awe inspiring moment of gaming.

Very similar to the first time I ran quake.exe

I sucked at SMB when I first played it. Even my mom was better taan me.

The Legend of Zelda, though. That's what really got me hooked.

Soulicabur on Dreamcast. I thought I was done with consoles til I got to play that in the store.

Of course, back then I was one of those obnoxious grade school fanbois and I had a bias against the PlayStation for absolutely no good reason.

gosh, lucky there aren't any more of those guys around anymore, eh?

...

Super Mario Bros for the NES was a lifechanging moment.
Seeing the scrolling playscreen, and realizing that EVERY BRICK in the dungeons was potentially a secret just blew my mind.

Quake 1 (first time I saw GL Quake) was another moment. Seeing the smooth accelerated surfaces blew my mind after playing Quake 1 for so long unaccelerated.

Mario 64 was another. The amount of freedom and fluidity in the moves was amazing. I remember a friend bought a Nintendo 64 import with Mario 64 and seeing Mario pop up at the title screen and walking around the castle floored me.

First time seeing Pilotwings in action was awesome as well. Mode 7 opened my eyes to what the future could be in games.

I love games :)

I was never much of a console fan until PS1. I can tell you that the dogs through the windows scared the hell out of me as well. As well as when you walk up to that first zombie and there is that cut scene as he starts walking towards you. Since RE games just dont scare me anymore.

Dogs through Windows? more like alone in the dark... fucking RE

with BF42 being too recent, i'd have to say Sonic CD is the first game that blew me away. the CD quality soundtrack is what did it for sure. the first time i ever heard music like that in a game. these days high quality soundtracks are common, but back then after so much midi, it was so fresh and on my face :(

Begging my mom for money to buy a 3do for 399.00 and explaining how it was a bargain since it used to cost 749.00.



What a waste of money the thing now gathers dust,but star control,road rash and Wing Commander were all great fun at the time.Oh and Dragons Lair and Space Ace were nice on the system.



Damn you alec now I want to find a copy of Jumping Flash damn robo bunny with a jet pack was cool:)

Loaded rocked in single player mode, but the 2p kinda sucked since everyone always wanted to be Cap'n Hands (motherfucker was cool as hell looking and was retardedly overpowered).

Shame about the sequel sucking, though. Lots of games seem to have that problem.

More like SSX Underground! (am I rite?)

I feel old. Star Raiders on my Atari 800. I was the Garbage Scow Starship Captain of all time!!!

I had alot of those moments with the PS1. It was the first cd based system i ever played, and i rented it a few times from blockbuster before buying one, so every rental was like getting a new system if just for the weekend. One of the first games i tried on it i think was Crazy Ivan... brilliant (speaking of which i'm gonna go check the CGoTE archive for that).

I think the defining memory for me as a gamer is also one of my earliest memories: I still clearly recall a single moment of playing Space invaders with my father on our Atari 2600 (I still have the original warranty for it). This was way before I was even five years old.

After that the next biggest moment was when I finally figured out how to use Mplayer to start playing Quake 2 online. I missed out on the apparent orgy of gaming goodness that was Quake 1 because I grew up on a Mac. In any case the ability to actually play against real people hooked me in a way that no single player game has. I was stuck with a shitty 28.8 kbps connection and so I could never get into railgun play. Instead I relied on the splash damage of Rockets in deathmatch to make up for the lag, and to this day I am a total Rocket whore in any FPS deathmatch I play.

The next really big moment was probably when I picked up my brand new PS2 on launch day. I preordered it and waited at Funcoland’s door before they opened anyway. I when the employee’s got there I demanded that they give me the first PS2, before they even were able to ring one up for themselves. I got Armored Core 2 and tore that game apart. After that I became disheartened by the total lack of anything else worth dropping $50 on and vowed never to buy another game system at launch.

When I first got my Atari 2600 (actually an Atari Jr.), I wasn't allowed to play on Saturdays until 9am. So one morning at 7 I just couldn't stand it any more. I went through the house and turned all the clocks to 845. I figured I couldn't get in too much trouble if I started 15 minutes early, right?

Well I'm downstairs playing Donkey Kong Jr., and I hear my mother's alarm go off. Yeah, she always has been an early riser. And me? Busted bigtime. But was it worth it? YES!! I got in quality game time then went back to bed after getting into trouble.

Quake1, Mario 64, Zelda, Chrono Trigger, and Panzer Saga Dragoon were all games that made me enjoy being a gamer.

These days... I just play games for what I like to call the "one weekend awe".