So I blew my warp whistle and look what happened.

[Altamont Ravenard]

I had a japanese version of Double Dragon that was ridiculously easy to beat. I was never good at console games, so that was my favorite game, because I could beat it and you could play Co-op.

Final Fantasy one was great, also

MEGAMAN 2! That was an awesome game. Got to the end, but never could beat Dr.

AR

 

[Torm]

I find myself almost in the same boat with Diaglo: My favorite video game memory would have to be when I realized that half-powering the Atari 2600 on/off/then on caused some really neat glitches. ("Look! Pitfall Harry can fly now!")

If I have to pick a favorite NES memory, it would have to be when I was in high school and a very misogynistic friend of mine finally beat Metroid for the first time and found out:

SPOILER!!! :



Samus Aran is a woman! This was before the Internet, so he had no idea.

 

[Acquana]

Some of my favorite memories for games ....

My sister and I playing Mario Bros. 2 a lot. Whichever one of us playing, the other would sit and heckle as the other characters that weren't on screen at the moment. Mario had an unhealthy obsession with donuts.

Most of my others are more recent. My buddies from college all played old school games. (Though sadly not really old since not a one between us has a working Atari ...) Watching my friend Wendy play Sonic the Hedgehog or Ecco the Dolphin was always a hoot, considering she swears like a sailor. Grand Theft Auto 3 played by my friend Mike was a spectator sport, no doubt. As was the insane amount of really random hentai arcade games Eric had.

I was the Final Fantasy player, so people would come watch me play. I had about 6 or 7 people in my room when I beat FFX. I wasn't really prepared for how few hit points the last boss had. So I crack my knuckles, say "Alright, everyone, here we go!" and sent Auron to get the first shot off. OVERKILL!! There was an awkward silence for a moment, Eric snickered and said "He did 50,000 damage?!", then my friend Liz turned to me and said "You suck."

Yup, just waitin' for FF12.

 

[Desdichado]

We were always late on game systems (to this day, my Dreamcast is the most advanced console in the house.) I don't have many great memories of the old 8-bit Nintendo. I know we played a lot of Super Mario Brothers, and I played a fair amount of Kung Fu, but other than that, I can't even remember what games we had.

Now, if you want memories of the 16-bit SNES, I can go on for ages about that. Heck, I still play a lot of those games...

 

[Angcuru]

All of the hours and hours I would whittle away playing Swords & Serpents. Great game, even if it takes an eternity to load and save a game.

 

[derelictjay]

Ah, the NES, I still remember the spring of 1986, my mom decided we could get a NES, the fond memories.

Favorite NES game, can't think of just one. So heres a few: The Legend of Zelda, beat it three times in a row to see if there was anything different between 2 & 3 like 1 & 2. Metroid, some of my buds and I would run contests on who could beat the game the fastest. Contra, 2 player co-op with the up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-start (or whatever, it was the Konomie code, man), for thirty men. Final Fantasy for my first foray with computer rpgs (which would lead me to pen & paper). And the list goes on.

 

[Acquana]

Got another. I rented Metriod and heard *gasp!* that Samus was a girl!! Immeadiately I put in the code and did a happy dance. After all, at that time all girls did in video games was get kidnapped so their boyfriends would have to come save them.

But when I tried to tell a friend of mine, Chris refused to believe it. He got really mad! Even at such a young age I was horribly offended that someone was so angry about the suggestion of a female lead being cool. I had to bring in another friend, also a boy, to affirm it. Then Chris started crying.

Ah, the early days of video games. So happy chicks have taken a least a few steps away from that.

 

[jerichothebard]

One of my favorite video game memories was with the original atari 2600 - I went to bed one night, at the age of about 6, and my parents were playing pac-man. That night, they figured out the pattern the ghosts were using. When I got up in the morning, the console was still on, and some of the 510 spare lives they had racked up were still left... they had maxed out the counter for both players, then finally gone to bed. Neither one of them could move their hands that morning - they were too sore.

There there was the year the teachers at my school went on strike for a month, and I solved Super Mario Bros. II... what a great learning experience that was - thank you, teacher's union!

 

[Abstraction]

My favorite game memories were with games that you sat back, relaxed and kinda disconnected. Super Mario for NES. There was a game called Jump Car I had on my Commode 64. I have fairly fond memories of every night when I was maybe sixteen I would play this game called Commando, I think, while listening to George Harrison Cloud Nine. Every night.

Beating Donkey Kong. A Coleco game called Ladybug, of all things. When we went to school, it turned out my mom played Ladybug for HOURS! That is a weird thing.

 

[Terath Ninir]

Apparently everything sped up, and there are these pipes labeled 6, 7 and 8. I wonder which one I should go down?

What's your favorite Nintendo NES game and memory? I think mine is the two nights with a cousin spent with almost no sleep trying to beat The Legend of Zelda. (No bloody 2, 3, 4 or subtitle business).

I'm sorry, I'm too busy looking at the thread title and trying to imagine how that could NOT be dirty. Not to mention too much information!

Teh Goggles!!!!!!!!