Your favourite videogame moments

In the arcade (I used to work in an arcade while in college in the early 90s). New Zealand Story. Seeing my friend exploiting a loop. It was tangentially related to Bubble Bobble and Rainbow Islands. If you collected the letters EXTEND you got an extra life.

There was a level full of spikes. Practically impossible to get through. However, if you killed your character at the VERY start then you went to Heaven which was much easier. You would return past the spikes but with only one life. But, after this there were warps where you could skip forward and back levels and my friend used to go through Heaven and then loop (You could have a max of 5 lives).

It always amazes me how people found out these things back before the Internet. Sure, home consoles had magazines like Nintendo Power but this was an Arcade machine.

And EVERYONE seemed to know the Konami Code and thought they were like one of these hacker people that everyone was beginning to talk about.

Final Boss D2

Can't remember which Zelda game it was on the DS. You had an empty map and came across various segments in game to add to the map. Tried to draw the first segment onto the map with the little stylus but it just would not save. When you exited the map and went back, it would be gone. Must have spent 20 mins trying. Different variations, opposite locations etc. wouldn't work. Closed DS in frustration and made a cup of tea. Upon opening the DS, the map segment had "pressed" itself into place on the map. I loved when Nintendo did mad stuff like that.

What game was it where it looked like the boss was deleting all your saves from the GameCube. Would actually read the card and highlight the saves you actually had and "Deleted" them? Remember it happening and thinking for a second "WTF???!!!! NOOOOO"

Was that the same game where they suggested that another boss seemed to know what you were going to do next? And no matter which direction you moved or whatever, the boss always avoided you. You had to plug the controller into player 2 slot to stop them "reading your mind". Genius

Preceded of course by the other legendary moments of Psycho Mantis reading your memory card and referencing any other Konami games you had saved, and then moving your controller using the rumble. Then the screen going completely black at the start of the fight. That entire boss fight was just on a completely new level to everything most of us had experienced at the time.

Well, not so much anything stellar about the game itself but I do remember finally playing online with my best mate.. I'm old old old so can't handle PvP games. I just don't have the reflexes or map knowledge. But I remember playing Destiny 1 with my best friend for the first time. You know how most blokes are when on the phone. Minimal chat. "How's things? Any news? Nah" etc. But when meeting in pub or whatever, different story.

Playing with me mate for the first time on Destiny 1. Few beers. Not really playing any campaign or anything. Just running around and hopping into and out of firefights (When Destiny was hugely popular at the start). shooting the bad guys and shooting the breeze. Chatting and laughing like we were in the boozer. Much more relaxed than a phone call. Now, online gaming had been around for AGES before that but this was the first time WE got around to playing together as we had different consoles previously or poor Internet, whatever.

When we were younger, we always thought how cool it would be "Imagine being able to play this Barbarian game on the Amiga with you in your house and me in mine! They say we'll be able to do that eventually. You'd even be able to talk to eachother on the phone at the same time! Imagine"

Yeah I heard about the statues thing a few years ago. Never knew about it before that.

As for the PC version, Kinda Funny did a playthrough of the MGS games a few years ago and he was playing on PC with an Xbox controller. For that fight, he had to switch to kb/m. Not sure if there's another way to do it.

One thing I think all us REAL oldies probably remember is "Idle animations". During the 90s, how many of us rented out our Sega or Nintendo games and then at some stage just left their characters stand for a while to see what they do?

(That is a classic episode BTW. Check it out)