Your Most Cherished Gaming Memory?

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Basically what this thread is going to be about is a game or something leading to a game that sticks in your mind more than any other. This can be anything from hearing about a game or playing a game for the first time. Anything that just fills you with childhood/adulthood bliss and nostalgia.

So mine, My dad was never there for me a lot. My mother and my dad were NEVER actually together so yeah you get the idea. But I did see him around Christmas and things of that sort and one of my best memories pertains to him. At this time the Nintendo 64 was the thing to have and I got one on my birthday 5 months before that. So were all at my house having dinner and talking and I hear my dad in the living room talking to my mom about video games (I have no clue why) and I over hear him say "Yeah you go through all these different dungeons and collect these coins to save this princess who has been kidnapped and you get to ride on a horse and shoot things with a bow" after hearing that statement my 9 year old mind just exploded POOF. I immediately started pestering my dad asking him what the name of the game was and that lead to me discovering one of my favorite games of all time.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

So a few days later my dad invited me to stay with him for a few days at his house. I just remember sitting on his bed watching him play the game getting stuck on a few puzzles and I was just amazed. Then he let me play it. All I remember is getting to the Forest temple and having THE HARDEST TIME in the world with Phantom Ganondorf. Good lord this guy gave me childhood nightmares. I never made it past that dungeon while playing at his house and went home disappointed Then not 2 days later my dad shows up at my house and hands me the game and says its now mine. He passed the triforce onto me :ohoho:

What followed was a long journey of replaying the game to get back to the Forest Temple since for some reason my dad deleted my save file. Followed by the most epic of showdowns between myself and Phantom Ganondorf. Finally beating him im jumping up and down on my bed thinking he was the last boss. Oh was I wrong, and the rest of the game was probably the best time of my early gaming childhood.

SO even if I can say my dad wasn't there for me. He gave me the gift of experiencing what will always be known as one of the greatest games of all time.

Now its your turn FFF!
 
I lived for 2 years in Australia without going back to Denmark as much as once. During that time I didn't have much opportunity to socialise with my friends, but at every chance we got, we all got on Skype, logged onto World of Warcraft and quested for hours and hours. Being in Australia, a country which at least at the time was a third world country as far as internet connections goes, and playing on a European server, raiding wasn't much of an option, but we had tons of fun running normal 5 man instances, levelling alts, playing battlegrounds or just generally bumbling around in Azeroth. I moved back to Denmark around the time Cataclysm came out. Initially I was quite taken with it, but I quickly grew to hate how the game had been put on rails and made completely idiot proof, and this along with the fact that I could now hang out with my friends offline, made me cancel my subscription. I will always have fond memories of WoW though. Especially from when I lived down under.
 
For me, it's probably when me and my Lil Broski spent pretty much the whole summer together playing KH1. Those were some really fun times. I get sad thinking about how much he used to love the games, and that now he's pretty much forgotten all those days we spent together. That's why this summer, I want to recreate those memories. Luckily this time, we have all the PS2 KH games. XD

Another is me and Mom playing FFIX together. All the arguing and laughing made the ending very much worth it. Not to mention, my Mom doing voices for every single character (except Garland, I pwned that shizz). We're gonna recreate these memories too.

Anyway, we laughed, we cried and we had a nice day. XD
 
Hmm... :hmmm: I remember one christmas, I was either five or six. Back then, on christmas our parents would always leave a present at the bottom of our beds for the morning. It was clever, because it was always something that would keep us occupied for a couple of hours so they can get more of a lie in. :lew: Around this time, it was the SNES that was the big deal. And this one christmas, (I must have woken up at something stupid like two in the morning) I wake up to find a small bundle at the end of my bed all wrapped up. The milk, carrot and cookies I left on my table were gone, so I was really excited that santa had been and left presents for us. So I opened this bundle to find two new Super Nintendo games; Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts and Mickey Mania.

Both games were, and still are, friggen' awesome. I didn't go back to sleep or anything. Just switched my tv on, plugged in Ghouls 'n Ghosts and I was just lost for hours playing that thing. Come 8am, my brothers were up and about, and we were showing off our presents to each other, and then our parents woke up and we all went down to open the rest of our presents. I really don't remember what else I got that day. But yeah, by the time all that was done with, I just went back to my SNES to play some Mickey Mania. Other than going back down for christmas dinner, I spent that whole day playing those two games. :D
 
My most cherished gaming memory is and will always be the first time that I played Final Fantasy 7. Nothing since then can compare. Right when I came home from school, I threw my bag down and played it. Using magic, training characters, going through the dungeons, getting stuck and trying to figure out where to go, gasping at all the plot twists (especially when Zack came out of the Shinra mansion and NOT Cloud! "Who the F is that!?" Since the hair color was the only visible difference, I really did think that Sephiroth was just playing them), actually having a story and real destinations because before that all I knew was Pokemon which isn't really much. So FF7 was basically my first true RPG experience. It was really great...nothing beats the first time! =)
 
My most cherished gaming memory is and will always be the first time that I played Final Fantasy 7. Nothing since then can compare. Right when I came home from school, I threw my bag down and played it. Using magic, training characters, going through the dungeons, getting stuck and trying to figure out where to go, gasping at all the plot twists (especially when Zack came out of the Shinra mansion and NOT Cloud! "Who the F is that!?" Since the hair color was the only visible difference, I really did think that Sephiroth was just playing them), actually having a story and real destinations because before that all I knew was Pokemon which isn't really much. So FF7 was basically my first true RPG experience. It was really great...nothing beats the first time! =)
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My thoughts exactly!

Some of my best memories are spending weekends at my lifelong friends house, going to the beach all day and then playing PS1 games all night, everything from FF to Tekken, Tomb Raider and Resident Evil. Our all time favourite memory is when we were fighting Emerald Weapon and double-summoned KOTR, we got up and made tea and sandwiches and when we came back the summon was still going XD
 
This one is way to easy, my most cherished gaming memory which I could never forget is when me and my best friend Ashley picked up a Tales of game for the first time. Me and her both are the same, the only rpg we ever played or even know was FF so I picked up tales of legendia and just seeing a game that has different graphics,different magic ad items. I still remember laughing when I realized I have to use apples and pineapples to heal instead of potions. Thats the first game was able to experience thats different that what I was used to, plus I shared it with my best friend. I didnt have a ps2 so I had to go to her house so we could play, I still remember every weekend begging to go over their so we can finish. Its ot just a gaming moment for me but playing games together with ashley where some of the best times of my teenage life, ill never forget those moments we had co oping all our games...but now work and life kicked in xD
 
Well, I was mostly into sports in my teenage years, but then my grandfather died during that time, and my grandmother was all alone. My dad and his sisters took turns having their families stay the night with her so she wouldn't be alone. However, on Friday nights, the adults would stay home and it was me, my brother, and my cousin who would stay and play video games. At the time, our favorite game was Super Mario RPG. We would spend the weekends at my grandmother's house playing that game, and we started to memorize it and do speed runs teaming up and such.

Anyways, I'll never forget the day that changed my life. I went to my grandmother's house that Friday night, and I saw my cousin and my brother going through Final Fantasy 7. I arrived during the Nibelheim flashback, and went to the bathroom. I came back out and saw Nibelheim on fire. I was stunned.... amazed... I said I HAVE to play whatever game this is. They caught me up on the plot so far (I missed all of Midgar) and we spent the whole night trying to catch a chocobo / defeat the Midgar Zolom. Every weekend thereafter we would play that game... right up until we got the the end of disc 1.... and was completely shocked when Aeris died (is this considered a spoiler anymore?). We all just KNEW she would HAVE to come back... but she never did. I never followed them through the second disc, but I then got my own copy of the game, but had nobody to talk to about it (the family split up after my grandmother died) until I met one kid at church who is today my best friend in the world. I also went to several message boards where I met one girl who talked me into moving away from my home state for the first time. My whole life changed because of that one game... that one day I saw Nibelheim on fire.
 
I'm probably gonna have to go with staying up till really early in the morning and playing Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater with my older brother. We didn't get along well when we were growing up. But after he got sick he was more brotherly towards me. I remember playing the last half of the game and we were just poking fun and laughing at different moments in the game. That was probably the best night of my younger years. He died a few months after that. I eventually bought the later releases of that game. But I refuse to sell that copy that I played with him. I don't think I could bring myself to.
 
I love reading other people's stories about their favourite memories. Keep them coming guys!

One of my first great memories goes back to Sonic 3 & Knuckles. A friend and I had one of each game, and used to take turns in borrowing the other's game so we could both play the full game. One afternoon, we got as far as Hidden Palace Zone as Sonic, and remember getting to the Knuckles fight, and after you've beaten him, with what strength he has left, helps you get to Robotnik. It was more than either of us were expecting. We had a feeling like "Oh man, this just got real!" I am fond of this memory because it reminds me of a simpler time of life, when Sonic was my biggest worry in the world. Nothing like body odour, women, money, work, school etc to think about.

Next, would be to my early teens and playing FFVII. I'd received a PSX for my birthday in Novemeber, and a friend lent me FFVII just after. By Christmas Eve, I'd reached Junon. I distinctly remember on Christmas Eve playing all the way through that, the boat, Costa del Sol, Corel, and to the Gold Saucer. As I was playing the Speed Square for the first time, Mum brought me some cookies and milk for supper. After that, I got my head down to sleep, woke up and it was Christmas!

Metal Gear Solid 4 blew me away at one very specific part. The beginning of Chapter 4. When you arrive at the Heliport, and "The Best Is Yet To Come" plays... Wow. I wasn't expecting the flashbacks at all. I was moved to tears, and that moment will live with me forever.

Finally, the most recent one would be Lucifer's Call/Nocturne. It's not a specific moment, just one long session I had. Bit of backstory first, I played this game a little when my ex-girlfriend had it, and I didn't think too much to it. I got quite far in it, but it just didn't click with me. One evening, years later, I decided to stick it in my PS2, and I played it solidly until 10am the following morning. I love this memory because at 23 (or whatever I was) it is so rare that I get gripped by an urge to play a game through the night like that. It was great to be able to do that like I were a kid again.
 
The first videogame I played was Bugs Bunny Lost in Time, I think. I really loved this game and the gags of this rabbit/hare..each time a friend of mine was in trouble I said him "What's up Doc?"..it was a pity I didn't have a carrot to chewing ):

Although I loved this game, the experience I will never forget was when I started dreaming about a GameCube game where you could have a beautiful life in a city populated by animals: Animal Crossing. Since I've read the first review about this game I started dreaming about my life in that city.
I imaginated to have my own house with animals as neighbours, to pass the day hunting bugs or fishing or just planting some flowers in my garden.
And if I didn't want to catch insects I didn't have to do this because this game won't force me. A game that allows you to do anything you want is an amazing game. In this game I found freedom, calmness and beauty. And now I can still find them in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

Another unforgettable experience was when I played FFIX with my boyfriend. He played, I watched the game like it was a film. We played it during the summer when we stayed at his house at the seaside, but I stayed there only 15 days and when I had to come back home we hadn't finished the game yet so he continued telling me the story by messages.

I hope I will continue to have other beautiful exeperiences with videogames.
 
My most cherished memory is playing Metal Gear Solid for the very first time. My friends at school had told me a little about it and I thought you would actually be playing as a snake, instead of a character whose codename is Snake. I also imagined a man with a snake's head in the codec scenes. The first actual memory of the game I have was the main character swimming into the compound with the Irish Gaelic soundtrack in the background. I remember hearing the Irish and being mesmorised - and everyone who knows the series loves that song. I've never heard of anyone who's played the series who doesn't like it. When I eventually got over having understood the Irish song, I started playing. And was dead within 30 seconds - maybe half a dozen times. I remember finding out that the game was set in Alaska, and didn't have a clue where that was or whether it was even a real place. Now every time I go to Alaska I think of this game :)
 
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