This was my first gaming memory as well. I am that old as well.
Although my standout gaming memory was getting my first rainbow on Space Invaders.
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Although my standout gaming memory was getting my first rainbow on Space Invaders.
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When I bought my first house I moved 2 of my best mates into the spare rooms and we were all avid gamers, so much so that we had mini leagues on both Street Fighter and FIFA on the PS1 and played for cash....
During the first year we went through 71...yes 71 PS1 pads that we smashed up in anger.
The worst one was when one mf my mates hurled a pad through the patio doors after I scored a winner in inury time and it clocked the neighbours cat on the head.
He had to take it to the vet to get some stitches put in and apologise profusely to my neighbour...which of course I enjoyed immensley.
During the first year we went through 71...yes 71 PS1 pads that we smashed up in anger.
The worst one was when one mf my mates hurled a pad through the patio doors after I scored a winner in inury time and it clocked the neighbours cat on the head.
He had to take it to the vet to get some stitches put in and apologise profusely to my neighbour...which of course I enjoyed immensley.
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Many good memories - some highlights are:
- Playing TFC on my old family PC as a kid at a framerate that could only be described in seconds per frame... found a clan who would let me play with them regularly, as a grenadey boi so I could just blindly fire grenades in to a room and possibly help!
- 3 friends and I getting repeatedly accused of cheating and kicked/banned from some servers on BFBC2 and BF3 becuase we were.... using skype to communicate effectively and watching each others backs
- ARK: lived in a house with another gamer and most weekends when the game was adding content frequently we'd have a couple of other friends round for a LAN and go out and try to tame whatever the new creature was, sometimes taking all night.
Later on (Ark Ascended), joining the Monarky community and finding tons of cool new people to play with (as all my other friends are bored of Ark but I still love it!), including scheduled events which have been great fun
- Playing TFC on my old family PC as a kid at a framerate that could only be described in seconds per frame... found a clan who would let me play with them regularly, as a grenadey boi so I could just blindly fire grenades in to a room and possibly help!
- 3 friends and I getting repeatedly accused of cheating and kicked/banned from some servers on BFBC2 and BF3 becuase we were.... using skype to communicate effectively and watching each others backs
- ARK: lived in a house with another gamer and most weekends when the game was adding content frequently we'd have a couple of other friends round for a LAN and go out and try to tame whatever the new creature was, sometimes taking all night.
Later on (Ark Ascended), joining the Monarky community and finding tons of cool new people to play with (as all my other friends are bored of Ark but I still love it!), including scheduled events which have been great fun
Playing Duke Nuke 3D and going up to the stripers in the club and giving them money and saying to them shake'm baby! 
My friend would also bring his PC round to my parents house and we would take over my parents dinning room table and link our PC's up using com port and play Duke Nuke 3D death match.
My friend would also bring his PC round to my parents house and we would take over my parents dinning room table and link our PC's up using com port and play Duke Nuke 3D death match.
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Playing the original Age of Empires demo with my brothers. We used to get our dad to start the download of the demo from GameSpot and leave it running overnight using GetRight download manager and hope that it is done by the morning or at least still going
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There are a few top memories... Achievement wise, being the first of my friends group to beat Ruby Weapon in Final Fantasy VII was up there. Especially when they did not believe me. I showed them my save file and the look on their faces was priceless.
Beating the very first raid on Destiny was quite an amazing time too, after many, many hours of attempts!
Beating the very first raid on Destiny was quite an amazing time too, after many, many hours of attempts!
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It would have to be whilst playing Dying Light cooperatively with friends and family. Our first encounter with the agile night hunter as darkness fell and the desperate scramble for safety that followed. I believe we were all picked off one by one. A humbling experience.
My 2 brothers and I playing the original Command & Conquer with a friend, free for all. Typically, I would rush for an APC and engineer, and head to the nearest opponent construction yard and capture it as quickly as possible (dancing around and squishing any infantry who posed a threat). Then sell the captured con. yard if needed for lots of cash. If done early enough, it would stop my friend from rushing with tanks, at which point he would spam infantry. Not so difficult, just have some flame infantry ready. Geneva convention, be damned1!1!
The nice thing, is that I can still pull this off with relative ease. There’s also cheesing GDI Orcas or NOD Apaches from 1 heli pad. Or, you can spam helipad buildings stupidly quickly, if time is short! Scout their base location, build 6 aircraft and take out their construction yard. In the 90s, multiplayer balancing was an afterthought
I also remember playing Nox (another Westwood Studios game) Quest Mode for countless hours online, the magic spells were quite visually impressive. It was fun to play with a friend, to see how long you could survive.
The nice thing, is that I can still pull this off with relative ease. There’s also cheesing GDI Orcas or NOD Apaches from 1 heli pad. Or, you can spam helipad buildings stupidly quickly, if time is short! Scout their base location, build 6 aircraft and take out their construction yard. In the 90s, multiplayer balancing was an afterthought
I also remember playing Nox (another Westwood Studios game) Quest Mode for countless hours online, the magic spells were quite visually impressive. It was fun to play with a friend, to see how long you could survive.
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Deus Ex, searching the lady's loo's, and being called out for it, lol.
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The best memory for me is when I transitioned over to PC gaming back in 2005 ish.
First day I got internet installed at home,fired up my first online game experience which was 007 Nightfire multiplayer, I believe I had an ATI Radeon 9600 pro graphics card (which I still own btw) and I was absolutely hooked.
It's a good job I was near finishing high school at that time
First day I got internet installed at home,fired up my first online game experience which was 007 Nightfire multiplayer, I believe I had an ATI Radeon 9600 pro graphics card (which I still own btw) and I was absolutely hooked.
It's a good job I was near finishing high school at that time
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I have really fond memories of playing Micro Machines 2: Turbo Tournament on my Mega Drive three decades ago (yikes that makes me feel ancient).
I remember 10-year-old me being blown away by the extra two controller ports built into the actual game cartridge, so I convinced my parents to buy extra controllers so my younger sister and brother could join in.
Kids being kids, we got easily excited and very competitive during races. I remember so much screaming and shouting at the living room TV, gaming sessions turned into an absolute riot to say the least.
As we learned to play the game, we soon discovered sneaky rage-inducing tactics like ramming your opponent off the track, or deliberately braking in front of a vehicle that was approaching from behind to get a speed boost as they crashed into you. Even sounding your horn repeatedly ad nauseam had its place in psychological warfare haha.
Predicting and dodging aggressive attacks from your opponent was all part of the fun though. This made it all the more satisfying when you turned the tables on an aggressive player and sent them to the back of the pack or tumbling off the edge to their death or just rage-quit out of the living room.
Some of my favourite courses off the top of my head:
Turbo Turns: The sense of speed on this course felt truly exhilarating. Timing aggressive tactics at high speed was challenging but highly rewarding. Knocking your opponent off the wooden planks into oblivion was kinda evil, but fun
Ferry Fiasco: Queuing up to board the sponge to float across the kitchen sink always ended badly haha. Anyone left behind had a short window to make it across safely by carefully driving along the narrow edge of the sink.
Musical Hits: This course was home to a giant floating mallet that loomed overhead and hammered out Twinkle Twinkle Little Star onto a glockenspiel. I remember how tense and nerve racking it was trying to get passed that thing without being struck off the track.
Fonz look-alike Spider was usually my go to driver because he looked cool, but I had a soft spot for the grotesquely cuddly Walter too.
This game will forever be my all time favourite multiplayer title. Not just for the fun and addictive gameplay, but also for bringing out so much energy and emotion from everyone who played it.
Genuinely hope Codemasters remake it in HD one day. Keep the tight controls and simple graphical style, include local and online multiplayer matches, and maybe throw in extra courses from the original and '96 edition of the Mega Drive games too. It would be an instant buy from me.
I remember 10-year-old me being blown away by the extra two controller ports built into the actual game cartridge, so I convinced my parents to buy extra controllers so my younger sister and brother could join in.
Kids being kids, we got easily excited and very competitive during races. I remember so much screaming and shouting at the living room TV, gaming sessions turned into an absolute riot to say the least.
As we learned to play the game, we soon discovered sneaky rage-inducing tactics like ramming your opponent off the track, or deliberately braking in front of a vehicle that was approaching from behind to get a speed boost as they crashed into you. Even sounding your horn repeatedly ad nauseam had its place in psychological warfare haha.
Predicting and dodging aggressive attacks from your opponent was all part of the fun though. This made it all the more satisfying when you turned the tables on an aggressive player and sent them to the back of the pack or tumbling off the edge to their death or just rage-quit out of the living room.
Some of my favourite courses off the top of my head:
Turbo Turns: The sense of speed on this course felt truly exhilarating. Timing aggressive tactics at high speed was challenging but highly rewarding. Knocking your opponent off the wooden planks into oblivion was kinda evil, but fun
Ferry Fiasco: Queuing up to board the sponge to float across the kitchen sink always ended badly haha. Anyone left behind had a short window to make it across safely by carefully driving along the narrow edge of the sink.
Musical Hits: This course was home to a giant floating mallet that loomed overhead and hammered out Twinkle Twinkle Little Star onto a glockenspiel. I remember how tense and nerve racking it was trying to get passed that thing without being struck off the track.
Fonz look-alike Spider was usually my go to driver because he looked cool, but I had a soft spot for the grotesquely cuddly Walter too.
This game will forever be my all time favourite multiplayer title. Not just for the fun and addictive gameplay, but also for bringing out so much energy and emotion from everyone who played it.
Genuinely hope Codemasters remake it in HD one day. Keep the tight controls and simple graphical style, include local and online multiplayer matches, and maybe throw in extra courses from the original and '96 edition of the Mega Drive games too. It would be an instant buy from me.
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The first time playing Crash Bandicoot. Still one of my favourite games of all time, every time I play it I feel like a little kid again.
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While I was stationed in Germany in 1997 I played a game on the original Playstation against my eldest son who was 11 at the time for the first time. It was Command and Conquer and I got my butt kicked and couldn't work out how the hell he was doing it. His younger brother told me a couple of days later after I got another butt kicking that my eldest had a book full of cheat codes and was using them to get unlimited money etc. Even though he cheated it was still special as it was the first time I had played against either of my sons.
Playing age of empires 2 as a child in 2001, struggling against bots until I discovered cheats for the first time and then 'how do you turn this on' cobras obliterating everything. Nothing like an army of shooting cars killing everything in their path.
Playing a lot 'SOCOM FIRETEAM BRAVO 3' on my PSP 3000, with a random guy on the internet I used to shout at through the microphone called 'Lewis'. Then, one day, it just ended, and I have no idea where he is. Kinda sad really.
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