Epic gaming moments

[Sephex]

I was at a friend's house last night, and we decided to bust out the goold old NES. She is a gamer like me, and she introduced me to her friend, who wanted to play NES since it was years since she touched games that old. After she had her fun they wanted me to play Super Mario Bros.

And thus...the epic battle for the Mushroom Kingdom began. It looked like I was going to have a bad game since I died on the first level by stupidly falling into a pit. I got the extra life that everyone knows about before it happened, so I guess I broke even. It was then that I decided that I was going to try to beat the game, instead of messing around like I originally intended. Of course, I warped from 1-2 to 4-1 and then 4-2 to 8-1. I still had my Fire Flower power on when I got to 8-2, so I was pumped up. But that godforsaken cloud nailed me with one of the spineys right at the start! Down but not out, I decided that it was best to move on and I cleared the rest of the level without losing a life.

Then I was on 8-3. Oh boy, how I loathe 8-3. I had three lives remaining. It was on. However, I accidently ran into the first Bullet Bill fired! WHAT A DUMB MISTAKE! Only two lives left now...I began to sweat. This time I got to the first Hammer Bro that is on even ground right by the turtle you can knock into him with good timing. I, however, miserably FAILED and he jumped right over the turtle. In that same instant, I decided to see if I could run right under him, but in a cruel twist of irony he landed on Mario's head!

One life left. This was getting serious. I didn't care if I beat the game. I just wanted the satisfaction of blowing by those damn Hammer Bros. When I got to the Hammer Bro that stomped on Mario's head, I decided to try to take him out with a turtle shell again. I failed again, but I decided to take my time. Hammers were breezing by me like a swarm of angry hornets, but I waited for my opening and brushed right past him!

I wasn't in the clear, though. I knew I had to face TWO Hammer Bros. in the same area! I brushed by the first one, no prob...but this is where it got intense. I got myself surrounded! Hammers to the left of me! Hammers to the right! I had to make my next move fast, but with extreme caution! --THERE! AN OPENING!--And I rushed on through to the end of the level!

So there I was on 8-4 with one life left. I didn't come this far to fail. NOW it was serious. This wasn't just a game anymore. I had to defeat Bowser. This was for the Mushroom Kingdom! This was for the Princess! This was for all those asexual Toad dudes! I felt like Muhammad Ali before a big fight. Like Eminem before a rap battle! Like the President in Independence Day before the last battle with those vicious aliens! Like my father before a management committee meeting! But most importantly of all, I felt like Mario. If Mario and his world were real, this is how it was. He wouldn't have lives or a chance to memorize enemy patterns! He would only have ONE SHOT! And that's when I felt it. I had to win! If not for me...I had to do it for Mario.

Going through the maze that is Bowser's final castle, I found myself dodging flying fish, avoiding those tratorious Goombas, and swimming past Bloopers. I was near the end...but...NO! This can't be! Another Hammer Bro WITH a pit of lava behind him ALONG with a fireball shooting in and out of it?! This was certain death for sure! I shook those feelings off and found my opening, cleared the lava pool, and passed the fireball unscathed!

The second I felt relieved that I made the jump, my heart began to race again. Bowser was just ahead. And boy, was it a pissed off Bowser. Not only was he breathing fire, but he was throwing an impossibly large number of hammers at me! Could I really do this in one try? I cast away all doubt, looked that mother****er right in the eye, and slipped under him. I saw the fear in Bowser's eyes as he turned around right in time to see me cut the bridge! It was over. The Mushroom Kingdom was saved. This wasn't the first time I beat SMB. But this was the first time I made every move count! It was an epic night!

Post your epic gaming moments.

[Tavrobel]

Epic, Sephex, epic.

But those (needless) losses of life are quite sad to think about, especially failing to the Hammer brothers. You wait until one of the hammer brothers throws hammers, run under one, and you jump hit the block under him; this is the fastest way to dispose of the hammer brother. You just run from the other.

I can't remember any of mine in detail, but let's just say that the ending of Xenosaga I and Sophie Peithos are hard to get through if you don't train right. The only other time was when I beat the Arcade version of TMNT with my sister and cousin, and completing Mario Kart 64's 150CC Rainbow Road and getting gold, despite a 3 point deficit to Bowser (who got fifth place thanks to my computer allies).

[edczxcvbnm]

What glitchy mc-glitch should I talk about?

How about the time that I delt the final blow to the first boss in Ocrina of Time? Yep. I swung my sword and he died. Not only did he die but he had this horrible death sequence where he disinegrated to nothing. Then...the heart container. Then the exit. Then I fell over dead because his final attack still landed and thwarted my efforts. But I saw him die but he could not say the same for me.

There was also this one round of Halo 2 online where the other team needed 1 second to win and my team need 2 minutes to win...we won with total skillz and luck.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

I've had plenty of epic moments with the Gradius series. The difficulty of the games is generally so well balanced against the Vic Viper's potential for becoming a one-ship armada of lasers and missiles that you're almost constantly faced with situations that are just tense enough to make you doubt yourself and then subsequently feel like goddamn Superman for actually surviving intact.

But those (needless) losses of life are quite sad to think about, especially failing to the Hammer brothers. You wait until one of the hammer brothers throws hammers, run under one, and you jump hit the block under him; this is the fastest way to dispose of the hammer brother. You just run from the other.

The Hammer Bros. in 8-3 and 8-4 are on level ground with Mario, not up on blocks, so if you don't have fireballs, it takes much more clever maneuvering than that to get past them.

[Tavrobel]

But those (needless) losses of life are quite sad to think about, especially failing to the Hammer brothers. You wait until one of the hammer brothers throws hammers, run under one, and you jump hit the block under him; this is the fastest way to dispose of the hammer brother. You just run from the other.

The Hammer Bros. in 8-3 and 8-4 are on level ground with Mario, not up on blocks, so if you don't have fireballs, it takes much more clever maneuvering than that to get past them.

Really? I seem to remember most of them them being on top of blocks (not all of them). I never said anything about 8-4.

[ValkyrieWing]

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I beat Super Mario 3 7 times in one day, without whistles.

If you beat the game enough, your inventory fills up with p-wings. :P

Oh, and I beat Bonk's Adventure in less than 2 hours.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

If you beat the game enough, your inventory fills up with p-wings. :P

Just once is enough.

[Zeromus_X]

The first time I beat Lenneth in SO3 was epic. Half an hour of Aura-Walling, Fists of Furying, and Stun Bombing. Eventually I ran out of restorative items and all manner of bombs, and only Albel was left alive. Lenneth began running towards him. I knew it was over. Desperate, I did a long major attack. Pow! Right in chibi-Valkyrie's face! I won. The battle trophy, 'Defeat Lenneth' chimed onto the corner of my screen! Now I could show it off to all my friends. xD

Man, tri-Ace sure knows how to make the perfect superbosses for me.

[Rainecloud]

Completing Sonic & Knuckles combined with Sonic 3 was a big achievement for me. Collecting all the Chaos Emeralds took quite some time, as I wasn't particularly good at finishing those horrible 3D "Collect Blue Spheres!" levels. The Doomsday Zone at the very end of the game was fantastic, and hurtling through space as a bright yellow Super Sonic was simply awesome. Robotnik had no chance.

[ValkyrieWing]

The first time I beat Lenneth in SO3 was epic. Half an hour of Aura-Walling, Fists of Furying, and Stun Bombing. Eventually I ran out of restorative items and all manner of bombs, and only Albel was left alive. Lenneth began running towards him. I knew it was over. Desperate, I did a long major attack. Pow! Right in chibi-Valkyrie's face! I won. The battle trophy, 'Defeat Lenneth' chimed onto the corner of my screen! Now I could show it off to all my friends. xD

Man, tri-Ace sure knows how to make the perfect superbosses for me.

Wow. Props to you...that's TOUGH.

Were you 255???

[Araciel]

playing whackamole on new supermario bros and beating my highscore was my most recent epic moment

[fantasyjunkie]

When I beat Gannon in the 8bit NES Legend of Zelda. It was at midnight and I was alone. I was jumping up and down and hooping and holloring!

[Avarice-ness]

=O!!!

Here's my bad one.

THE ONE TIME I BOUGHT FF ANTHOLOGY FOR THE FIRST TIME AND THE FFV DISC GLITCHED *Breathes in* and I was in the Floating ruins dealy-o. And I'm fighting the dragon, EVERYTHING IS GOING A-Okay.. UNTIL! The stupid king dude revived the dragon... then the story went like this..

Me: Hey, No fair!
Dragon: *attacks*
Me: OH MITTENS! ATTACK.
FFV gang: *attacks/FAILS*
Me: WHAT IT DIDN'T EVEN HIT DAMAGE!
Dragon: *attacks for like 250 HP*
Me: HEY WOW NOT COOL!
FFV gang: *attacks again/FAILS AGAIN*
Me: WHY AM I NOT DAMAGING! WHY IS THERE NO HP DAMAGE POPPING UP! THERE ISN'T EVEN A 'MISS'!
Dragon: *KILLS EVERYTHING*
Me: *Blank stare* smurf THIS! *throws controller and gains an undying hatred for FFV*

Then to make it better, I went to my friends house, He was at the same place I was at and just like... BREEZED THROUGH THE DRAGON. Yeah no problems like mine, I ended up being slightly disgrunteled that night.

As for a good thing.

The moment I got to Zozo in FFVI. ^^
Or when I was 9 and realized video games where not to scale. That was some revelation seeing as I'm 9 and trying to figure out why guys taking Martial arts classes arn't 30 times my size.

[Bunny]

The first post made me laugh and shake my head at the same time. It is made up of equal parts funny and wow.

The only 'epic' gaming moment I can think of is as follows:

I am an RPG player, to the point where I own maybe half a dozen games that are not RPGs. I own somewhere in the realm of 100-120 games. So when I say that I am horrible at saving my game, I think you could understand my situation. I mean, I am horrible at it. Never do it. Always forget to.

So I was playing Suikoden III and I was towards the end so I figured I would go for broke and beat it, skipping the save points beforehand. Somehow "close to beating it" turned into me playing for three or four hours without saving my game. Now, normally if this was just time spending gaining levels, I would not care. But I did a whole lot of stuff in those hours.

So after I finish getting ready for the final dungeon, I enter. I breeze through it because my characters are mid-50s/early 60s and I get to the boss fairly easily. My combination of characters is pretty deadly, to the point where I did not have any problem with anyone before this damnable final boss.

So I fight him. And I do pretty good at the beginning, trading blows, healing when needed, using magic to cause heavy amounts of damage. And then something goes horribly wrong and he manages to kill off most characters, including my main healer. I do my best to recover quickly but on his next turn, he wipes out more characters. So after a few more turns I am down to one character: Chris. She has, literally, five hit points left to her name. I begin to concede. Telling myself how stupid I am for not saving my game and how I am not even going to try and beat this anymore. It will collect dust before I make a second attempt. I start getting angry.

But I input my command of Attack. Chris strikes. The boss is defeated. It takes a minute to process the victory. I am bad at telling stories.

My party was, if I can remember right: Hugo, Geddoe, Chris, Landis, Viki, and Nei.

[ljkkjlcm9]

Completing Sonic & Knuckles combined with Sonic 3 was a big achievement for me. Collecting all the Chaos Emeralds took quite some time, as I wasn't particularly good at finishing those horrible 3D "Collect Blue Spheres!" levels. The Doomsday Zone at the very end of the game was fantastic, and hurtling through space as a bright yellow Super Sonic was simply awesome. Robotnik had no chance.

I had that game on my PC, I got all the chaos emeralds with the sonic/tails team, with sonic alone, with tails alone, and with knuckles. It was fun to go back through after that and completely own levels.

THE JACKEL