Sorta the opposite is what sticks in my mind. Learning I'll finally get to play as the bosses in the new Street Fighter II as a kid.

"Ohhhh, sh!!!!!!tttttt!"

Getting to play them, and learning they're all right but the real reason the computer is so good with them is because the computer got to spam back to back charge moves, and ignore frame data (or something like that).

"Well, sh!!!!t."