MFGT! - (OVER)

[Michael]

It's Mutha Fuggen Giveaway Time!


Rules -


1. Share your most memorable video gaming experiences, and how they changed your life (or didn't, idc) here in this thread.
2. I favor creative writing - u can do eet!
3. Only one post per person. If you need to change anything, edit your original post and mark it as to why or what you changed.
4. Everything is FREE (including shipping!)
5. Deadline is Tuesday, April 21st @ 10AM Pacific Time - winners will be announced on April 22nd


What is available:

1. Topre Gamer Set - Juicy Fruit Red (Trans)
2. Topre Gamer Set - Juicy Fruit Green (Not pictured yet, Trans)
3. Buckling Spring Juicy Fruit Orange V2 (Trans)
4. Ripe Orange Bronin V1 (Buckling Spring)
5. Home Row Topre Set - Powder Puff Purple
6. Home Row Topre Set - Powder Puff Pink


Good luck, and have fun!

[Synjin]

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[justify]

As a child my parents hated my gaming habits, many hours were spent after school on my xbox 360 (that they cleverly bought me), as opposed to completing homework and chores to make them happy.


One day I was sitting in my room, I had just gotten xbox live and loved playing my favourite game which was PGR 4, I had just unlocked a game mode called bulldog which was a hide and seek 'tag' type of gamemode, except with cars. The scummy child I was I always hopped up into glitches (using a motor bike) so I could be the last one alive, then hop down from the glitch and the lobby vs. me chase ensued. These glitches could only be done on certain maps, so I took it upon me to get the host of the lobby to switch a glitchable map. There was only 2 people talking in the lobby, that was me, and another English speaking person, the host had no mic. I would keep saying ‘Las vegas, las vegas! (Which was the best map to glitch on), to try get the host to somewhat hear what I was saying and get the message that was to change the map to las vegas. I wasn’t a complete scummy guy, so some games I didn’t glitch. A few games go by, exhilarating times were had, I was still avid to get onto a map I could glitch on to have the most amount of fun before I had to go to bed. On my very last game, I noticed something different, something that I drew my eyes to in happiness. The host had put his mic in, teriffic! I can just ask him to change the map then I can have fun! I ask him, “Please change the map to Las Vegas”, a brief time passes, the host says something, but I can’t make it out, so I ask him to repeat, he proceeds to talk, but it’s in a different language, I feel crushed. I realise that it’s Spanish, and I only knew basic French in my time at primary school. I keep saying “Las vegas, las vegas!” but to no success did I play las Vegas. As a child my life wasn’t soaked in gaming completely, I read numerous knowledge books, and some had little quotes in different languages. As the lobby was about to start a spark went off, one of those quotes said something like “my favourite place is ___” in 3 languages, French, Italian, and Spanish. This guy was Spanish, maybe this will work! I dig out the book in a moments pace, quickly skimming each page to find the quote, I couldn’t find it! I searched at the back, found the category, and went to that respective page, there it was! The quote I was looking for,  I pick up the book, pause a few moments to gather my thoughts on how I was going to say this quote I had never said before, and in my squeaky broken English voice, say “mi lugar favorito es las vegas” (my favourite place is Las Vegas). A few seconds pass, nothing happens, about 10 seconds later in broken English, I simply hear ‘OK’ down the microphone. The lobby map was changed from whatever it was, to las vegas. My plan worked! I felt victorious, flooded with happiness, I was then able to get into the glitch, and got back down once all the other lobby members were caught, and the chase has just begun.


My first interaction with a foreigner who I could not understand, I felt like I had made a friend. It may sound pathetic but it’s something I will never forget, just a simple ‘ok’ made it feel like I was being understood, small things like that made me appreciate that not everyone knew the same language that I did, and that I should respect them for that.

[Latin00032]

Waa!

[intelli78]

PLACEHOLDER

[tokidokijake]

It was the summer of 2002. I had just begun playing baseball in college with the goal of becoming a professional ballplayer. My life had revolved around sports and especially baseball since I was around 6 years old. Luckily for me, my friends were a very eclectic bunch of guys and came from all walks of life. While I had sports, they had video games.

In stereotypical jock fashion, I thought them playing games was the most nerdy **** possible and had negative desire to participate. As time passed, I would become frustrated at the long hours of baseball practice. Tired and beat up from the daily grind, I often would reach out to my friends to have some fun. Time after time they asked me to come with them to a LAN Cafe called "Digi zone". The sound of it was revolting but I was desperate for some escape and after multiple times refusing their invite, I eventually conceded late one Thursday night. Even now I remember thinking that going to digizone at 10pm that night was ludicrous. "Who the **** goes somewhere to play video games at 10 at night?" It was so out of my comfort zone I was completely lost to it all.

As we drove into the dimly lit parking lot, there were no other shops open. Just one corner spot with a blue and yellow neon lights glittering in the parkway. We headed in and to my amazement saw the place was jam packed. Over 30 people packed together like sardines, locked to their screens. It smelled like smoke and was loud with the rining of AK's and AWP shots. Minutes later my friends and I sat down on comps next to each other. As they explained the game to me I became lost in the sounds and cheers of people winning and losing. Round 1 came and I died before I even figured out how to buy a weapon. "What the hell just happened?" I asked. My buddy laughing, explained how the other teams players had reached me and killed me on the spot. My competitive drive kicked into overdrive and I wanted revenge. Round after round passed and I couldn't land a single frag until finally, that sweet, first ever, CS kill came. I've never done heroin, but I imagine that first kill was probably like someones first time shooting up.  I was hooked.

Not long after that night my life took a different path. I was soon done with baseball and transferring schools. My buddies and I formed a clan in Cal-Open and dubbed ourselves "Lovers". Night after night we played at digizone and in time, many of our fellow gamers became family. Family that longer after CS, and Final Fantasy 11, and WOW, and digizone disappeared, have remained strong. It lead me down a path where I learned to appreciate different walks of life, nerd culture, and new types of people. Without my friends and video games, I surely would be not the same person and have no idea where I would be now. That night taught me to look past what I know and venture into the unknown. That life is an exploration of worlds and the only one that can stop you from exploring it, is yourself. If you've taken the time to read all of this, I thank you. I know of many gamers who have had hard times in life but were comforted by friends, family, and games to get through it. I hope that if you are at a similar life stage now, that I was in at that time, you take my words and start exploring your own new avenues. They just might change your life.

Changed from placeholder. (Sorry about that!)

[billnye]

hahahah xd

[YoungMichael88]

Nice give away. I played ten or more hours straight on the same Pokemon Stadium mini game with Hoff and Halverson at the rape cabin. The sun set and came back up. We were catching eggs with chanseys and avoiding electrocution from voltorbs. We wanted to all finish with 100% in the same round on easy medium and hard. We almost did it! But I gave up after trying on hard difficulty for what seemed like forever. I'm not sure if I regret giving up or if I regret not giving up sooner. Either way, I'm glad we did it. I think. One thing is for sure tho, I will never get that night out of my brain. For better or for worse. So there you have it. A gaming story that ties in three GHers and 10+ hours straight that non of us will ever get back.

[sorijealut]

The fondest video game memory I have are those with my father or my cousins (though I confess, I never had any gaming talent when I was younger).
As a child, I can say that the best memories of gaming were from pre - PC gaming (in Korea it really came in full force with the introduction of online games such as Fortress, Worms, Starcraft).
The latter part of my console gaming (Gamecube, handhelds, Wii, and the like) seems to be a separate experience, one that was undeniably fun but not so memorable.
Thinking about why that is, it seems it has to do with sharing the game and sharing the space together. The best gaming was without the complications of today, distanced by the online experience, graphics, content and ratings.

I remember Sega Genesis, with a myriad of memorable games like Castle of Illusion that I played with my sister in Co-op (it was tuned so that we can play any games, region free). My father and I played DOOM on PC, Super Mario Bros. on SNES. We stomped on baddies together and my dad fought in the fiery castles on night's end to defeat Koopa.
Later on, he bought the N64 for me which in my mind left one of the biggest impressions of gaming. Finding and collecting all those stars... defeating Koopa in 3D and reliving the earlier Mario moments. Nothing can really match the kind of surprise that came with 3D gaming.
The Playstation was a masterpiece in itself... I did own one alongside a large library, but I think you can relate to me when I say that playing at your cousin's somehow doubled the fun. My cousin had these amazing Japanese copies of Megaman Legends, Chocobo Racing, Megaman Battle & Chase, Pepsiman... these games were incredibly fun and unlike anything I've seen before.

And so those are my favorite memories Today, it's rare that I find the excitement I had as a kid, but hopefully there's more gaming in the future that will leave me wide-eyed!

-Edited for some grammar-

[pesky brat]

A Light Shines Through the Darkness

Straight out of the asylum, I travelled to the land of the undead,
With nothing but my sword, my shield, and my hot, naïve head.
I drew my sword and swiftly advanced,
Upon the first living thing which caught my glance.
A warrior, crestfallen, was easy prey,
I swung, but his chainmail did not give way.
To my dismay, he arose without delay,
And quickly began to repay,
The damage I had conveyed.
Much to my surprise,
I quickly met my demise,
Which I soon found out was merely the first of many.
With difficulty I carried on,
Learning to approach with my shield drawn,
And to not underestimate my enemy,
To avoid inevitable catastrophe.
At the top of the tower, I encountered a white fog wall,
I walked through it, and immediately felt small,
As I gazed at the vast view of the world before me.
However, my awe could not last,
For while in the sunlight I basked,
A demon twice my size had descended,
With a hammer made of bone extended,
And it was clear what he had intended.
Quickly I rolled aside,
Searching in vain for a place to hide,
Until inevitably my flesh and his club did collide,
And I once again read the words, “You have died.”
After several attempts, I learned his attacks,
And was able to kill him dead in his tracks.
Feeling accomplished, I pushed ahead,
Soon meeting a fellow undead,
Staring at the sunset, red.
“Like a magnificent father,” he said without delay,
A glorious shrine to which he could always pray.
Although it did strike me as queer,
He made his purpose rather clear:
To obtain his own sun; his own radiant sphere.
Despite this unusual proposal, his friendliness was pleasant,
And he had even given me a lovely present:
The means to jolly cooperation in a cruel land,
Indeed, twas a gift most grand,
For who, at times, could not use a helping hand?
With a quick farewell, and a promise we would meet again,
I continued on, prepared to face any pain.
For what this man had taught me this day,
Was that friendship is the key to victory in any fray.

~~~

Sorry about the cheesy ending

The game is Dark Souls if you didn't know. Fantastic game, probably my favorite of all time. It is definitely difficult at first, but it is sooo satisfying to beat a boss after a dozen or more attempts. Anyway, this post feels like its getting long so I'll just wrap it up with a quick thank you to Bro Caps for doing this giveaway and a thank you to anyone who took the time to read this .

[Bromono]

The one game that has impacted my life more then any has to be...... Runescape... It has been years since I have played it. But I started playing in middle school with a friend, and I got to tell you, the stories I can tell from that game are endless. I have had some of the greatest moments playing that game and I have had some of the most frustrating nights as well.

But on one beautiful summer day, I spent about 10 hours working on my wood cutting skill. Was going for lv 99 and the money from cutting yew trees was pretty damn good. 10 FREAKING HOURS. The worst part though.. I finaly went to bed around 3 in the morning... I cut trees in my dreams for another 8 hours.. I woke up, took my dog for a walk and have never looked back since... **** that game..  I decided I would never let a game become an addiction like that ever again.

_{pking scrubs in the wild was fun though... Oh the memories}

[iamtootallforthis]

I have a few most memorable gaming experiences. One has to be when I was in 4th or 5th grade. I would go over to a friends house after school some days and play Unreal Tournament 2 on the XBox. I wasn't allowed to play violent games like that at my house, but damn did I love playing that game. We would sit there for hours me and my friend just playing that round after round.

Another memorable experience would have to be Runescape. It was my first major time sink of a game but damn was it fun to play with my friends in middle school. My mom would get so upset that I played for so long sometimes and would threaten to ground me if I didn't do something else after a few hours of playing. Me and my friends would all try to collectively level certain skills and compete in who could get a hold of the best armor at the time. I  miss that game sometimes just for the nostalgia.

Most fond gaming memory though has to be of Pokemon Red and my first Gameboy Color. I loved that thing and still have it to this day. I still remember my younger brother wiping my game at one point right after I had gotten to Mewtwo. I was livid, I'm pretty sure I cried some over that, but I loved getting to replay everything over again.

Thanks for doing this Bro! Loving that Orange Bronin.

[Michael]

I am about to make 'no placeholders' a rule 

[rainb1ood]

All my memorable gaming experience has been erased by this most current one. Met a bunch of awesome people in Guild Wars 2, ended up in their guild. We fought the #1 guild in NA, we lost hard. We picked ourselves up and after a month, we have beaten them 7 out of 7 rounds, to become the new #1 Guild NA.

Fast forward to today, looking forward to our first meetup this memorial day weekend.

[sethk_]

How Gaming Changed My Life:
Let's start out with the first game that started me out with actual gaming, Minecraft, AKA, my first money dump.

I started off by playing a cracked version of it, and felt bad, so I bought it, which is also where I got my username, about 5 years ago. From there, I found a nice and small server, and there I spent a lot of my time on Minecraft, easily getting 3k hours on it. I started donating on there for different perks, and making friends there that I also donated for. That is also where I got my interest for programming, as there were some bukkit mods that dealt with logic and some psuedo-coding. Some of the friends I made there I am still friends with today, which is pretty insane for me.

I then got into Steam from one of the players on there, so I started playing GMod, and I now have about 1.5k hours on GMod. I started off playing PERP with my IRL friend, and we got a couple hundred hours on there, and then eventually we switched to DarkRP, and then switched from RP to other gamemodes. One of the PERP communities we belonged to also had a Surf/DR server, so we tested that out, and it was extremely fun. From there is where I started playing a lot of games with people, and using skype to communicate. On that server I found friends that I still play with today, and they are pretty much the only people I play with. GMod ultimately became my second money dump, as I was donating a lot to the servers I played on, sometimes to just keep them running. Playing GMod really sparked my interest with servers, and had a huge influence to programming, as I enjoyed making servers and gamemodes.

From GMod, we all then switched to ARMA 2, where we played a couple hundred hours of Wasteland. Playing Wasteland with all of them really made me like gaming, as I would look forward to the weekends, just to play ARMA 2 for two days straight with them. We then transitioned to ARMA 3, which we haven't played too much of.

While we were still in a lingo between GMod and ARMA, some of us found CSGO, right when it was actually launched. This is where the biggest money dump has happened. After we were done with ARMA, we switched over to CSGO. When we started playing, there weren't any skins, and it was still very barebones, but it was still fun, and I think more enjoyable because you didn't have people playing it just for the skins. When the skins came out, I opened a lot of them, and the best item I ever got was less than 8 dollars, 1k dollars later...

So between all of our main games, and even talking when we haven't been gaming, has really brought us all close together. Between the main games we have played, there are around at least 3k hours of just playing together, not to mention the hours of skype calls when we weren't playing. One of our traditions is every Christmas break, we play games for anywhere from 24-48 hours straight, which seems pretty hard, but once you find a good gamemode, it isn't too hard. Gaming has really changed my life, and has brought me a sense of belonging, as I would say I am closer to my gaming friends than I am to my IRL friends.

[Joey Quinn]

Edit: Story time, takes place when I was 8-11

So I've never been a huge gamer, mostly because growing up my parents didn't allow my brother and I to have any console and our computer time was very limited. But I did have cousins that gamed quite a lot and I'd play as much as I could when I visited them. My cousin Becca has always been into everything Nintendo and she was the first person I knew with a good computer. Whenever my family would go to dinner with her family I'd hide pjs and my toothbrush it the car so I'd have a more persuasive argument to go home with her and spend the night. After dinner I'd reveal the hidden items to my parents and hope they'd say yes to the plan. Honestly looking back I probably looked like a moron but it was fun and let's face it we were all a bit dumb as kids. Hell I'm still pretty dumb (I'm 18 btw)
Anyways when we'd arrive at casa de Becca she'd boot up the computer and I'd start up the wii. One of us would start with Zoo Tycoon 1, which changed to Zoo Tycoon 2 when it was released, and the other would play Pokemon Rumble. While we played we'd snack on Coco Crunch and drink Hi-C out of juice boxes. Every so often we'd switch places and pick up where the other left off then when we got far enough in Rumbel to have some good pokemon we'd team up to beat bosses such. At this point in the night it's about 1am and Pokemon and Zoo Tycoon become boring so we switch to Animal Crossing because the rarer bugs are out and we want some monay! We were basically addicted to Animal Crossing so this would last until 5 or 6 when the sun would rise and the bugs would disappear at which point we'd start the Game Cube and begin to play Spyro. It wasn't a hard game but there were plenty of places to fool around and just laugh at ourselves. As soon as breakfast was served we'd turn off Spyro and crash for a few hours before I'd leave to go home.

I really loved the days I was able to spend doing this and I think it's one of the main reasons I love going to lan parties with my boys, just being sleep deprived and hyped on caffeine and sugar. Late nights playing games with Becca is what made me a gamer.

[Evo_Spec]

This is a story of a little sprite named Evo_Spec.
He was a wee little lad when he started to play this 2D side scrolling silly excuse for an MMO called MapleStory.

He started playing when the game was still in Beta and he had never really played anything like this before and unfortunately he was hooked.
He spent his days and nights on the game mostly alone since his friends were never really interested or didn't have computers to game with so he would often chat with random players.

That's when he met ZukaBunny.
To this day he's hot sure if she was really a girl but in his mind adolescent mind she was a cute hotty.
They got along really well and logged many hours grinding and chatting together having a great time, He took a liking to this girl knowing she lived very far and knowing he probably wouldn't ever meet her Zuka in real life but he still loved spending time with her and gaming with her.
Then the big news came, MapleStory was finally going official and unfortunately everyone would be reset but the Beta players would be getting a week head start and double EXP. This was great news for Evo_Spec since he never hit the level cap anyways and now everyone would be on the same level so he was hoping to get ahead during this time.

So after some downtime for the servers to fully switch he logged on excited to chat and play with Zuka since the two hadn't exchanged information to stay in contact outside of MapleStory which didn't really matter since they both played so much.
He logged on and checked his friends list but Zuka wasn't online, he figured she was busy that day and there's still another whole week of double EXP so he played alone for the first day.
Well the double EXP week had passed and there was no sign of Zuka.
Evo_Spec was quite sad about this and since he had never asked her for any information he had no way of contacting her out of game and well time just kept passing on and there's still days he wonders what had happened to Zuka.

The End.

Sorry for the abrupt ending but that's pretty much it lol
Also if it's crappy i apologize, I had to rewrite it since i lost the orignal because i got force logged out on the computer at the Cafe.
Hope you enjoyed reading it.
Thank you very much for doing a giveaway!

[rawkus]

When I was but a young wee lad, a neighbor's kid and I gamed a lot together.  One day, his sweet grandmother decided to buy him Resident Evil for Playstation.

To this day, I blame her for my fear of the RE series.

[nubbinator]

I've never had a life-altering video game experience, but I can give a couple of stories about how I grew up with them and loved them.

My family was never wealthy when I was growing up.  We rarely got to do nice things like going out to eat or seeing a movie.  Even so, I was fortunate enough to get a computer when I was growing up that was a hand me down from my dad's work.  I remember countless hours of Reading Rabbit and Math Blaster and whatever random games my meager allowance could save up and afford, usually one of the $10 games off the rack at MicroCenter, CompUSA, or PC Club.  Between that and Oregon Trail at school, I got a taste for video games pretty early.

The first truly groundbreaking game for me was Chuck Yeager's Flight Combat.  I remember sitting in front of the computer for hours, logging into the game with facts about old fighter planes around the world, then flying long missions, struggling to follow ground navigation, engage in dog fights without blacking or redding out, then trying to make it back to base.  I was never very good at it, but it was the first game I truly loved.

Following that, I had many years of not being able to play anything.  I couldn't afford to upgrade the computer and my parents couldn't afford a new one.  Then one year I got a Playstation.  They still have video of me literally bowing to them.  It was the biggest shock and, to this day, probably the best present they ever got me.  I loved that thing.  I spent countless hours playing Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy IX, Gran Tourismo, and various other games, including some terrible Army Man and Tom Clancy games. 

Gran Tourismo made me love cars and Final Fantasy IX was the first game to really make me feel.  I remember connecting with Vivi deeply and loving him.  I saw myself in his clumsiness and shyness and his ability to grow into a confident and important member of the party resonated with me deeply.  I remember him just filling me with strength and confidence.

After that, games were just fun wastes of times, none really struck me like Vini in FFIX did.  Then I discovered America's Army 2.0.  Never had I run into a community that was so tight knit and genuinely concerned about those who played the game.  I remember people disappearing and people becoming genuinely concerned about them.  At one point I joined a clan and saw people from all over and so many backgrounds just having fun with one another.  We had old guys and young girls and middle-aged people and everyone was just there having fun, no one was judging anyone or using the language you'd hear in CoD.  It was the first game were I really sat back and realized that you could have a community online and really get to know people and have fun.

Ever since, video games have had a special place in my life, though, as I grow older, I find I connect with them less and less.  Still, I love story driven games where you just get engrossed in a tale or ones with amazing communities.  In many ways, it's a more socially acceptable DnD.  You can join clans, decide to be good or evil, and just mess around, getting to be yourself around people who understand you while also challenging you.

[Sygaldry]

WoW: Burning Crusade.

It's time. We've spent the past couple weeks wiping in Sunwell Plateau and that bastard Kil'Jaeden has been a major thorn in our side (there's also the fact that 190 or so other guilds around the world have already killed KJ and we can't afford to drop much further in the rankings). At 6PM, we set foot in into Sunwell Plateau and spend the rest of the night clearing the raid instance of Kil'Jaeden's minions and lieutenants. There are 25 of us, each of us chosen to ensure the highest chance of success. We all know our roles by heart and a fierce determination can be seen in each of our eyes (and heard on Ventrilo amidst the occasional joke and senseless banter). Victory is so close, we can all smell it - a hint of lavender and roses wafts through the air. Tonight is the night. This might very well be the night to commemorate the end of a successful progression through Burning Crusade!

Three hours later and 3 raid wipes, KIL'JAEDEN IS DEAD! Server first YEEEEEEEEE (and world top 200 or so).

Nothing consequential dropped for me but the taste of success is so sweet.

A couple weeks later:

We finally have Sunwell Plateau on farm. We've started alt runs as well to gear up our secondary toons. I missed out on the main raid this week due to exams so I will be taking my main toon to the alt run. KJ is still an ******* but even on our alt runs we are now averaging 2 wipes before downing him during each run. Needless to say, KJ is as good as dead.

Anyway... something feels different tonight - something is calling out to me. As the guild's main hunter and officer, I get the feeling that something nice will drop for me today. Will tonight be the night I ascend into greatness???

A few hours later:

Kil'Jaeden's corpse lies before us. The guild leader walks up and pauses before linking the drops of the night.

Orange text flashes on my screen. Orange - the color of LEGENDS!

My heart sinks and my breathing becomes labored. HOLY ****... THE LEGENDARY BOW ACTUALLY DROPPED! I am the only hunter in tonight's raid... YESSSSS. THIS BOW IS AS GOOD AS MINE! I begin to type out my acceptance speech: "Thanks to my mom, and dad for raising me. Thanks to my friends for sticking with me through thick and thin. I won't forget any of you when I rise up to the higher planes of existence... yada yada yada."

But wait... alt run rules have been set in stone since our guild was formed during Vanilla WoW... all members who can equip an item are eligible to /roll. FML...

But let's not give up hope... As a guild, we've gone to hell and back and have overcome the most difficult of situations together. Everyone knows I need this bow... right?

One by one, the warriors pass on the bow! One of the rogues congratulates me. OMG is this really happening?

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5 Minutes pass and still nothing has happened.

Our guild leader is still standing in front of the corpse, Twin Blades of Azzinoth sheathed on his back (yep... the other orange equips from this expansion).

"Roll," says the guild master.

Omg... he can't be serious.

While I'm still trying to make sense of the situation I see a number pop up in chat ...12.

The Guild Leader had rolled a 12. Serves him right to roll against me. Looks like fate is on my side today!

No one else rolled.

I type in "/roll." 0-100, the chances of me rolling lower than 12 are incredibly low.

...1...

Time stops for me for a few seconds.

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A few seconds later and time resumes... the Guild Leader is now jumping around with the the legendary bow equipped.

I close out of the game without a word and take off my headset.

Well... ****...

Lesson learned: people will be ****s over shiny digital loot.

Thus ends my WoW career until Wrath of the Lich King sucks me back in

FIN

[Baxter]

[ EDIT: Nevermind ignore this entry, I got too excited and I don't even own a single topre switch :/ ]

[litesung]

Inb4 Placeholder ban!

I've got two 10 page essays to write really quick then I can jump on this!

Edit 1:  Alright so here's my memorable gaming experience! 

"Are we going to do this?" The leader had said over vent.  My friend (T3) and I joined a Pick Up Group (PUG) in order to complete his conquest cap for the week.
"Ready" said T3.  It was just us three at the moment in the channel.  "Where are the others?" T3 continued.
A raid warning popped up on everyone' screens GET IN VENT.  Slowly, players joined in one by one until all ten of us were in vent.
"Alright guys, everyone's here so I'm queuing up now" Bwoom - The queue popped and everyone went inside.
"Wait a moment, CaveDweller why the $^&@ are you not here?"  yelled the leader.  The queue had ended but one of our members was AFK.  CaveDweller's name popped up in my overlay as the sound of a toilet flushing echoed throughout the vent channel.
"Sorry guys, was afk" said the noob who suddenly left the group and the vent channel.  We were down one man now, as the game timer counted down.
"Well let's just do with what we've got then" said the leader, trying to motivate the rest of the members.  Silence echoed throughout the channel with the occasional burp or sigh.
The game began, and our opponents charged at us.
"Alright guys, I need five of you on D, and the rest of us go O" the leader said.  Unbelievably our entire team went straight for the flag ignoring the leader's orders.  Everyone had tried to go for the flag, and ended up getting wrecked by the opposing team.  They carried our flag and wiped our entire team, thus scoring a point.
"What the $^&@ are you guys doing!? Follow the plan!" screamed the leader.  Nobody followed instructions, and we were getting wiped.  "A typical PUG" I said to myself "full of worthless scrubs" 
Suddenly, T3 speaks.  "P1, P2, come with me on O, we're going to come through the roof."  He directed just the leader and I, leaving faith to the rest of the team.  We hit the roof, and grabbed the flag.  Two of our teammates came to defend us on our return while the rest attacked the EFC (Enemy Flag Carrier). 
While we approached our base, suddenly we hear Red Flag Dropped.  "Here's our comeback!!" I exclaimed, as we score our first point.  "We're not out of the game yet!"
As soon as we scored, one of our teammates had grabbed the enemy flag as soon as it spawned and rushed it over.  Since the leader, my friend and I were now at base we could defend it up.  A few people grabbed the flags but we were able to kill them before they left our base. 
Blue Team Scores.  "WOW!"  We're now in the lead since we scored last "Can we win this?"  The score was now 2-1 with us winning.  All we need is to prevent them from scoring or to finish the game.
There was one minute left on the timer.  We had the game in the bag, and could finally win the last game to cap our conquest points before going to bed. Suddenly...
You have been disconnected from the server.  "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" screamed T3 in vent.  It was now past 3am and the server check had started.  We had all disconnected from the match before we could win. 

If there's one thing I've learned is that video games don't cause violence.  Lag and Disconnects do!

[retrochick]

[delete i eat meat]

[chive_]

As a kid, I didn't own any video games beside Planet of Death aka POD, a racing game that I played on an old Dell machine running Windows 95 in 2003 (my family isn't very tech savvy). A kid my age had just moved into our neighborhood, and he had a Playstation 2. We hung out a bit, and one day he bought Medal of Honor: Rising Sun used from GameStop which features a co-op mission mode.

We played the game for hours on end, but never actually beat it. Instead, we became frond of a level called "Singapore Sling," where the mission is to meet with an undercover OSS agent and infiltrate an Axis meeting. After playing the level a countless number of times, my friend and I were so in sync that we could beat it in a matter of minutes, with just the cutscenes slowing us down.

He quickly became my best friend, and we hung out at least once a week from 3rd grade until the end of high school. Even though I'm going to college half way across the country, we still talk weekly. He's a business major, and I'm a computer science major. We plan on starting our own business after we graduate.

Every now and then when I'm home on break, we dig out his PS2, find an AV cable, hook the system up to his television, and play that level again. Our coordination as a team is a bit rusty, but still there.

Someone in the library I am working in just gave me the weirdest look, probably because of the huge grin that's on my face right now.

Thanks for the awesome giveaway and sales Bro! Keep up the great work

[septamber]

Not a particularly glorious gaming extravaganza story but a simple tale of how a young septamber learned to touch type. 

Being raised by my stereotypical strict Asian mother, I was always told that gaming was a terrible waste of time when I could be studying or doing something more productive like practicing playing a musical instrument. (hah!) However I was always fascinated by and loved video games ever since I could remember. As I was outlawed from owning any video game consoles I found my way into the multiplayer gaming world through our shared family computer (A shoddy Compaq from what I can remember).  The start of my online gaming was in middle school when one of my good buddies introduced me to MUDs. (MUDs were basically text based online RPG games.) You would navigate your character through the text based world by typing letters for directions (N,S,E,W) and interactions were all input via typing commands. Of course there were no graphics and everything was literally inputting text commands and reading text responses from the server. However, to a little Septamber this was amazing. There was a huge explorable world, PvP combat and world bosses which kept me entertained for months.

Of course playing any sort of game on the family computer in the living room was strictly forbidden so I became a master of Alt Tab and Alt Escape quite quickly. I would find any excuse to do “homework” online after school and soon figured out that the best time to play would be at night when my parents were asleep. The only problem was I would have to play in the dark to avoid getting caught. I would dim the monitor brightness really low so the glare wouldn't be noticeable from our bedrooms and even blacked out the power led on the tower with a black sharpie to increase my stealth factor as ambient light would increase the chances of being detected while playing.

Looking back I would not recommend sitting in the dark and staring at a dimmed black screen reading green text for hours on end every night as that probably wasn't the greatest for my eyesight but I loved every second of it and have no regrets. On the plus side without intentionally trying I taught myself how to touch type so I guess there are productive benefits from playing computer games after all 

[dreadvirus]

place holder [mite as well jump on da bandwagon haha]

[roman736]

I'm reminded by news articles saying videogames cause violent behavior of playing the original Mortal Kombat. I wasn't allowed to watch rated R movies yet could throw a spear into my opponents chest to pull them to me ("Get Over Here!"). At that time we actually had to buy a *book* for moves special moves. Best of all were the Fatalities. What a game.


Recently started seeing MKX showing up on Twitch.tv, and the nostalgia returned to me. Wish I could go back in time and show myself, 'Hey check out what Mortal Kombat will be like future!' That would of blown my mind. Same game, but so much more advanced! Wouldn't mind picking that up now.  )

[feizor]

When the new guy at work started, we didn't talk at all. He was very shy and I was mostly too busy.

One day I put myself out to make some conversation which led to us both complaining about our workload. I said "oh well, work work" and he said "do you dota?"

From then on he became one of my best friends. All our conversations involved dota or gaming references. Colleagues who didn't pull their weight: "scrub peons", last minute delegation of work: "smoke gank", toilet breaks a different floor: "time for level 6 Ravage".

We'd have lunch and coffee together all the time discussing dota, cars and girls. This Bro-mance has really improved my enjoyment of work and I don't deny it!

Gaming has let me connect with and keep in touch with a lot of my good friends. It's an important part of my life that is here to stay!

Thanks for the giveaway Bro!

[jaemzp]

This is going to be a short one.

It was early 1997 when I was 5 years old and in Kindergarten. My family was too poor at the time to afford any console so all we had was an old NES and a copy of a SMB and Duck Hunt combo given as a hand-me-down from a much older cousin. That same year I was invited to my best friends birthday party which was also the first birthday party I would attend. When I arrived all the other kids were crowded around the T.V. playing a racing game I had never seen on a console I had had also never seen. I remember thinking it looked like a spaceship when I compared it to the grey box of a console I had at home. They were playing Mario Kart 64 on the N64, both of which were apparently released a few weeks earlier (Australia). Anyway, they ended up asking me to play with them so of course I said yes as this would be my first multiplayer experience. So I played... and I was amazing at it on my first try, I was so happy and hyped for the next round when I was reaching the finish line, and when I did I literally flipped. Well it turns out I didn't come first.. I didn't even come second or third, but dead last. How is this possible? I was looking at the wrong screen and was driving into a wall the entire time.

So how did this change my life?

Look at the right screen, otherwise you'll look like an idiot and embarrass yourself in front of a group of others.
Admit you don't know something and get help with it before attempting to so it, otherwise it may lead to embarrassment.

These guys also became my best friends until today. They still poke fun at me every time we play anything together. "Just a reminder that you're Bison" 

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[JPG]

I started gaming when I was like 5 years old. Nintendo just got out and I had the chance to have it. Then I played a calculating game on my 386 and also played the game Leming on this same computer.


Then things got real when I got the game MechWarrior 2 on my pentium 166. This game is one of my favorites of all time. And I didn't know I could use the mouse at that time. Yep, completed the game with keyboard only haha (did the same with Half-Life but never completed the game). Yea, first person shooter with keyboard only ...


Then I played many other games, Baldur's gate 1 and 2, Diablo, Star Craft, War Craft, WOW, Dota, LOL...


I am now 32. I played games for most of my life. I still don't know if it's a good thing or not. I had a lot of fun. Played with my friends and attented LAN party with these friends I still have today. Yet I am still curious of all that I might have missed because I played games. I don't dare count the hours I spent gaming during all my life so far!


For the last year I have tried to game less. I still do it because when the kids go to sleep, I need to relax some way or another and I don't watch TV a lot so I end up gaming quite often. Better that than many other things I suppose!


Anyway, nice giveaway!

[cmadrid]

One of my most memorable gaming memories is the time I played Moral Decay LP MUD for 80 hours straight.. I finally quit because I had started hallucinating that my cousin and Benjamin Franklin were in the other room screaming at each other. 

A friend of mine from Denmark was taking a summer trip around the US, and was coming to visit soon.  He held the previous record of 72 hours straight, and I wanted to beat his record before he got to Saint Louis!  It was probably one of the worst ideas in my entire life. The last day was a mountain dew and nicotine fueled blur that resulted in my character dying (and killing other people) more than once.  But, I beat his record!

[ImpendingxDoom]

One of my best friends and I would play Gears of War when it first came out. Not just a little bit, we went through and beat every difficulty (usually over the span of two to three days). Over those two to three days, we would not sleep, we would only eat what is readily available, and bathroom breaks only came at times of great rage. This process repeated for every GoW release, even the painfully bad GoW Judgement. All in all we are talking a few hundred hours, but time spent with friends is never time wasted. At a certain point each time through the marathon, we would kind of break down from the repetitive gameplay, abysmally bad dialog, and sleep deprivation. This would devolve our normal conversational banter into stupid one liners with an occasional peppering of bizarre noises and poorly thought out blue humor. We bonded so much during this time that I would still consider him to be my closest friend despite not having seen him in person in years.

A few of the highlights:

Him decided he needed something to eat at around 6AM on day two. He walks into the kitchen but can only find THIS. He proceeds to open the can and choke it down with no utensils like a pelican trying to eat fish. The result is the most horrific choke/slurping noise, a disturbing about of head bobbing, and a mild stickiness that remained on and under him for several more hours.

If you don't know GoW, the reloading system involves a timed reaction. Hit the timer right and you reload faster and do more damage, miss the timer and your gun jams for a few seconds. As our ability to react in a timely manner wore thinner and thinner as time went on, we would jam on every other reload. If we were in a difficult area, we would get overrun by faster enemies and the like. Instead of saying something like "Oh ****, I jammed!" we would just softly begin singing Jammin by Bob Marley. To this day I can't hear that song without immediate association. "...and I hope you like jammin too..."

Any point we needed to walk from one area to the next we would take out the chainsaw and charge blindly forward yelling "GO TEAM DELTAAAAAHHH"

Any time the character Baird was on screen there was a constant stream of "****ing Baird..." or occasionally something much more personally insulting to his character like "Jesus **** Baird, where do go get your goddamn hair done you smug son of a ****."

The character Carmine (think near disposable greenhorn with an eager attitude) became a great source of made up backstory. There are several Carmine brothers throughout the series, so naturally we assumed that "Mama Carmine" was some sort of twisted brood mother that spawned out the disposable idiots in droves. Not to mention whenever one of the died we would imagine it actually play out something like THIS. "Look Marcus, I'm gonna be just like you!" "CARMINE NOOOOOO".

The games weren't that great. We probably made a few people fairly mad by sequestering ourselves away from our responsibilities for a while. We felt like **** for about a week after. But we made it important anyway, just to make ourselves and each other happy.

[aznairjordan]

I used to play MapleStory every single day when I came home from high school. I never enjoyed grinding for levels so all of my characters would get to around level 40 before I gave up and started a new one. However, I loved to stand in the free market and trade with other people. Once I got into the hang of it, I started memorizing all of the market prices for every single item in the game. I was getting more and more mesos with each and every trade.

Playing through the summer, sometimes 10 to 12 hours a day, my mom would always try and get me off the computer, but I refused. I just wanted to make more and more mesos. I wasn’t even fighting any monsters, just standing around and trying to trade people or browse all the shops in the free market to look for steals. I was never into spending money for a game so I never had any NX. However, one day they had an event where I got enough free NX to finally buy a shop permit. I was elated as I could now sell items while I slept or throughout the day without having to be there and manually click everything. This changed my life, as I got more and more addicted to just watching my shop fade out an item as it was bought.

My MapleStory playing laptop always had to be in a “computer room”, so that my mother could keep an eye on me. One day, I found out that I could say that I was going to work on homework and was therefore allowed to have the computer in my room at my desk. I suddenly got very proficient at pressing Alt+Tab whenever I heard my mom come anywhere close to my room. My mom never checked to see whether I had my computer with me in my room as I went to sleep. One night, I decided to leave the computer on with my shop open.

I quickly found out that I was not able to sleep, as I would get up every 5 minutes to check what items were sold. I kept checking my shop until my eyes would not physically open anymore, probably hours after I decided to go to sleep. This continued for 3 days until I finally decided that I was a dumb ass. I took my items and blew all of them up using scrolls so that I would never look back and promptly quit. Over the years, I’ve gone back to MapleStory, but never had the same attachment to the game. Thankfully, I now know that I have a pretty addictive personality and I have become a lot more careful in choosing what I want to spend my time in. Nothing controls my life like MapleStory once did and I am honestly glad that I had the experience of being addicted to MapleStory, because I could have gotten addicted to way worse things and not been able to get away from them.

[isaske]

Thanks Bro for doing this!
Those threads are always so interesting to read through.

Okay, so I didnt even have to think twice as to what I should write about. This might be a bit too personal but I dont care.

So about 4 years ago, a friend introduced me to a real time strategy game called Starcraft 2, the hardest game there is imo excluding its predecessor. Ive been playing Starcraft 1 and Starcraft: Brood war when i was a kid, but just the single player stuff with cheats. At that age, I didnt even begin to think there could be a competetive aspect to it. So you could say i was fairly new to the game. I began following esports, watched every tournament that was going on, played a lot, all that while balancing it out with school.

I wont be exaggarating when i say this game turned my life around completely. I actually improved in every aspect. My self-esteem, my coordination, my reflexes, my decision making. There's a GREAT video that puts all i feel into words even better. This is the link to it:

Starcraft also really did help me get through some hard points in life, because it just demands so much focus playing it. Meaning that, consequently, you forget about everything else that might be on your head and plaguing your mind. Two good examples of this are when Ive been diagnosed with Crohn's disease last year and was on a ton of meds, feeling depressed as ****, and 3 years ago, when I was friendzoned by a girl that meant a LOT to me and was giving me false signs (or maybe I just dont understand girls )

Today, I'm playing more dota than starcraft 2, since dota is also a beautiful game and feels much more social.
But i will never, as long as there is a scene, stop following starcraft and its tournaments. Especially korean ones. I am so grateful to the game and to the scene, grateful to how it helped me mature and grateful to how it forced me to never stop learning (inside and outside the game).

In 4 years, I never got into masters league (the highest league, i got into the second highest, diamond) but with the new expansion on the horizon, I might just get the motivation and the fuel to do so!

Cheers and good luck to everyone in this contest, feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the game.

[atlas3686]

Let me set the scene: The year is 1999, Internet Cafe's had been popping up all over the place and LAN gaming was the new big thing. Counter-strike had just been released and everyone was playing it, clan's were forming and the first hints of real e-sports were surfacing.

We found ourselves in a small town in the eastern part of South Africa. A slightly lanky dark haired kid, barely 13 (Atlas), is what can only be described as conspiring with his ginger accomplice. "No dude we can do it, we will just tell my mom that we camping outside for the night, no problem." said the ginger kid (Prometheus). "Seriously dude why don't we just wait till they asleep and leave then?". "You know how late my parents go to bed, we would have no time to play if we did that, come on dude stop being such a chicken." Prometheus retorted. "Ok fine but we better not get caught my Dad will literally kill me."

The plan was simple, Atlas would tell his parents that he was staying at Prometheus's house and Prometheus would tell his parents that we were camping outside near the lapa (South African: Usually consists of a thatched roof supported by wooden poles). Once they were safely out the house, they would both get onto Prometheus's bike and ride down to the internet cafe about 5km (3.1 miles) away.

21:00 rolled around, "We going to bed mom" said Prometheus. "That's early for you two" replied Prometheus's mom. "We just want to make the most of the camping experience" lied Prometheus. In retrospect she was not convinced.

The two snuck out the gate slowly wheeling Prometheus's bike and cut down through the bush to shave a few minutes off the ride. The trip to the internet cafe was mostly downhill and freewheeling through the lonely streets the two boys arrived in no time. "The Dr. is in" Atlas was formally "Dr." and the change hadn't quite been accepted yet, "You bastards, back so soon hey, miss my MP5 that much?" jeered a friend who the boys had been playing with earlier that afternoon. Friendly banter was the norm at these gaming cafe's and made them feel all the more at home. The next few hours passed very quickly, broken only by the sound of furious keyboard and mouse clicks and clacks and the occasional "you bastard" or "lucky..".

It was around 23:00 when a noise came from the entrance of the cafe that wasn't mechanical or friendly banter instead it was the sound of each of the boys names spoken in a tone that sent shivers down their backs. Prometheus's ear was grabbed and he was dragged out the store with Atlas following sheepishly. Giggles broke out around the shop.

What you need to understand before the story continues is that South Africa late at night is not a safe place by any estimation and two 13 year olds biking around town late at night is really a very poor idea even for teenage boys obsessed with gaming. 

"What the f##k do you think you two are doing!!" exclaimed an extremely pissed Prometheus's mom. "We just wanted to play a little.. The question was definitely rhetorical. "Do you have any idea how dangerous this was? I was worried sick about you two, I've been phoning all your friends trying to find you!" There wasn't very much to say other than it was a bad idea and they knew it. The car ride home was extremely quiet. While Prometheus's parents were quite easy going and unlikely to punish him too severely, Atlas's were not. He would be grounded for months if his parents found out maybe even never allowed back and the car ride home was spent with this thought in mind.

They arrived to a small hiding and were sent straight to bed by Prometheus's Dad who was blood red and looked angrier than Atlas had ever seen him. Atlas lay in bed thinking only about the world of punishment he would enter tomorrow morning when his father was told. At that moment Prometheus snuck into the bedroom, "I've begged my mom and they won't tell your dad". The wave of relief was palpable. "Thanks Dude" was all I could muster at the time.

I think I remember this so fondly for a few reasons, firstly it was such good times, spending our weekends at the internet cafe with our community of friends was really the best of times and online gaming has never quite replicated the feeling of being in room full of friends playing a game together. Secondly it was a prime example of the stupidity of my teenage years and I guess I did learn a lesson if only about not making your parents worry needlessly. Lastly it's good to have bros that will take a hit for you when it matters.

Thanks so much for running the giveaway Bro, the prizes are phenomenal! Trans gaming sets! BS keys! Bronin! Damn we are being spoiled.

P.S. As some may of guessed this story also gives some of the back story to my username  ) I tried desperately to find some pictures of the place but I can't find a single one, there is a pizza place where it used to be.

[madhias]

My father bought a 486 DX/2 with 8MB of RAM, and I was allowed to play from time to time on this machine. It was in his room, which was not locked, but he did lock the computer case when he was not at home, that you can't power on the PC. I wanted to play Duke Nukem, so I opened up the case and powered on the machine and played for hours. I did that for a few weeks, until I forgot to lock it again. I remember these days, it was summer & hot! Since then I love gaming on hot summer days, stay inside in the darkened room.

[byker]

Well the first story is similar to many others on here. My best friend that I met in highschool and I really started our friendship over games. We were really into Halo 3, playing 2v2 competitive and trying to hit the highest ranks. We also played a ton of 2v2 in AOE 3 and NHL. Basically we really got into playing competitive games together! Although we go to seperate universities now and don't have a ton of time to play, we still try to find some time to play games every few weeks!

The other story is geekhack related. Basically playing games with some geekhack members has been a great way to get to know them better! Shout out to the GTA and CSGO crew, its been a ton of fun playing games with y'all. 

[thefebruaryman]

I got a few life changing game experiences but one that stands out was when I was 16 in Sweden on holiday. We had gone out to one of my parents friends summer houses. A summer house is a get away holiday house that a lot of Swedish people seem to have in the countryside (lucky buggers). It was a beautiful hot day and my family and friends were going to this lake a couple of miles away for a swim and food. Now I am sure you all know how incredibly stunning the Swedish women are and the being 16 socialising while in swim gear is probably something no one would let pass! Well it turns out that the people that lived next door to my friends some house were network engineers and they had a massive outside shed full of about 10 top the the range gaming pc's. Sufficed to say I spent 6 hours playing Doom in a dark shed. From that moment on I knew multi-player FPS was my thing which later led to months of half life and battlefield gaming. To re affirm the motto BROs before HO's  was certainly true in this case.

Cheers for all the hard work BRO and the ctrlalt team. 

[baldgye]

I have a bunch of funny stories, but given the number of essays I'll keep the reading to a minimum with mine. Also I would like to share this (again) without putting myself forward for a nomination as I don't have a topre or bs board!



But really... Wtf lol

[suicidal_orange]

Awesome givaway Bro - would love that Bronin but I'm MX only so please ignore this non-entry.


My poker buddies are gamers, I used to be somewhat but not for years.  When they transitioned from PC to "silly little joysticks" I refused, and the lack of cross platform play meant I just stopped completely so my skills are rusty to say the least.

Their current addiction is Destiny and every fortnight when I go round they play a bit and talk a lot in what had may as well be a different language.  Not long ago it was my turn (I always get a go, it rarely lasts long) and was warned that the next room would be the end of me so I pulled out a big rocket launcher and slowly headed for the door.  While attempting to reload I somehow fired at a wall just inside the door and right on cue a big scary enemy made the mistake of landing in the rocket's path - he promptly died, taking all his "friends" with him.

Apparently "xbox record that" only works if the room is near silent so this epic moment was lost in a sea of laughter, but at least I had witnesses.

[azhdar]

The year was 2009.

I've been playing with my guild "Rage" on a french private server on the burning cruisade extension.

On the 2 december of 2009 the announcement of the opening of Black Temple is made by the dev of the servers.

We were much excited, but decided not to change our raid time arrangement, 3 raids/week on Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday. We will just stop going to the Serpentshrine Cavern raid and replace it with The Black Temple and keep on going to Hyjal Summit.

On week later, on the 9 december of 2009, a wednesday, Black Temple open in the afternoon, by the time all of us get on computers we get told that the rival guild : "Maëlstorm" already killed the first Boss : "Naj'entus".
Disappointed not to be able to fight for the first down we still went to raid that night and downed Najent'us as well the first night.
We heard that Maëlstrom had spend the afternoon and the night on Supremus. So we just tried Supremus once before raiding off so we could have an idea of what we were fightning.
Next night, on Thursday, we tried Supremus all night. On the last try of the night, we managed to kill him.
Maëlstrom had spend another day on it with no success, we had our revenge.

We kept on fighting for first down on all Black Temple boss with Maëlstrom and they managed to get : Naj'entus,Gurtogg Bloodboil,Reliquary of Souls,Mother Shahraz and The Illidari Council
while we got : Supremus,Shade of Akama,Teron Gorefiend

After a while, both guilds managed to farm Black Temple, but only Illidan Stormrage was to be down. We usually got 2 hours worth of try on Illidan on Thursday night because we were still going on Hyjal on the Sunday, It was rather frustating especially considering how Hyjal Summit is a boring raid.

Comes the 29/01/2009, we were very fast this week, we did 4/5 of Hyjal Summit on the sunday, and by 9PM on Thursday we were in front of Illidan.

After a few tries we managed to kill the Betrayer, first down of the server on one of the most significant bosses of World of Warcraft we were stocked.
Every member was getting pm's from Maëlstrom member to verify the truth and we could tell how disappointed they were. It was the best feeling.
But it was only 11PM and our raid lead Feyarwen told us: "Let's do Archimonde".
We haven't down Archimonde at that time yet, and needless to say that with the adrenaline from the previous down we managed to take down Archimonde aswell.

Was probably my best experience with the Guild Rage.
And the Guild Rage is my most memorable video gaming experience because I shared so much moments with those guys.

And the best part is we still do, I joined the guild about 6 years ago, and while very few of us still play WoW, we still game together, live on the same Teamspeak daily.

And even more important, got to meet every summer, usually about 20-30 of us in on of the property of the guild leader.

EDIT: Video of Black Temple that was made by the guild at that time:https://vimeo.com/11197084 (you can spot me as Chiam Troll Shaman).

[Extrasmossy]

My most memorable gaming experience has to be WoW: WotLK raiding. I remember staying up late grinding ulduar and ICC with my guild all the while allowing my school grades to slowly slip more and more but it was all worth it to be one of the best geared player on the server.

It was a cold winter day and it was right before raid time so I was running around getting all the necessities such as food and potions to be able to pull of maximum dps; everything was going well and we just about to pull but that is when my dog in all his furry wisdom decides to jump on my desk and spill water all over my precious keyboard and with only a couple of minutes before raid I did the only logical thing and I went door to door asking for a keyboard I could buy/borrow. Being 11 o'clock at night this obviously created some very strange questions between me and my neighbors however through these new questions I was able to meet many new people even some that I would go onto raid with for many years to come. That is how WoW changed my life. 

[Bigpock]

I got to rank 40,000 in the world @ Osu! ( I suck )

I think its the highest rank ive ever been in a video game. Changed my life forever

http://puu.sh/hjoqN.png

[robotox]

When I was a kid, my friend -- let's call him Sam -- and I met in Little League baseball. Our dads were friendly acquire, which helped, but our friendship really started over the fact that both of us were pretty terrible at baseball.  The thing that really cemented things was the fact that we both loved video games. This was around 1990 or so.

Skip forward a handful of years and many a sleepover binging on games, particularly the Marvel Comics beat-'em-ups like Separation Anxiety and Maximum Carnage with things like Mortal Combat and Zelda thrown in, and we found out his mom had cancer. The truth is that I don't have any recollection what type she had as I was just a kid and words like glioblastoma and melanoma, etc., were completely foreign, but it was advanced and severe.  She died in January 1997.

It happened in the afternoon. In the evening, and then well into the night, we just sort of sat around players Mario 64 on the Nintendo 64 he had gotten for Christmas the previous month.  We'd occasionally eat some pizza and pass the controller to one another. We were mostly quiet, but it wasn't a tense silence. It was mourning and understanding.

We kept playing games and being friends. Shortly thereafter, we started playing a lot of the old RTS game Total Annihilation, particularly on the early online gaming service TEN. I moved away in 2000 and we both hit puberty and got more into girls and music and whatever else so we kind of drifted apart.

This past fall, we reconnected on Facebook and game each other our Xbox Live gamertags. We started playing Destiny together a bit. This past January, very suddenly, my dad died. Despite the fact that we're now 30 and still live states away from one another, we stayed up that night playing Destiny, again quiet with mourning and understanding. Everything circling around was nice.

Sorry, I guess that's kind of sappy, which isn't generally in my nature, I swear.

[Peddamann]

There are roughly two situations in my "gaming" life that changed my life with computers
at the age of 7 my father let me play "indiana jones and the last crusade" and "monkey island 2 - le chucks revenge" on his working pc... those two games absolutely blew my mind and started my long love for pc gaming insult swordfighting and the zeppelin or castle brunwald maze were my personal highlights in those two.
the love for multiplayer gaming started ´99 on a lan party at a friends basement... after a long fight setting up the network between win98 and winxp rigs we actually managed to play halflife deathmatch with 7 of 8 computers and quake 3 with 6 of 8 present pcs and had the time of our lifes playing over the internet in the years after never got that special again .

[CalvinW]

Damn, this is hard since I don't really play any games. I just want a topre artisan for the HHKB that I use for work.
Nonetheless, good luck to everyone!

[CPTBadAss]

For ages I played StarCraft Brood War and StarCraft 2 Wings of Liberty. I was awful and I just played for fun really. But one of my childhood friends had played at a high level during high school in Brood War and played semi-pro for Complexity in WoL. In college I found myself with a lot of free time, a ridiculously good internet connection, and a decent computer for the first time in my life. And Wings of Liberty just came out. I went really hard. I started playing like 2-3 hours on the weekdays when my schedule allowed and 4-6 on the weekends. I wanted to get decent. I ended up making it into Platinum league. Nothing special but I was happy with my progress after about a year of play.

I was still playing with my buddy when he introduced me to TeamLiquid. I'd bug my buddy all the time for help and advice. Sometimes I'd spectate his matches and he flirted with Grand Master league a few times. But it was TL which really boosted my game. So I started reading a ton and playing as much as I could. I always had this nagging feeling that I wanted to prove to myself that all the hours I put in was worth it so I started looking at playing in a tournament. I eventually found a little tournament for Gold and Platinum players. It was really a way for me to get some practice partners but I took the tournament seriously anyways. I remember being nervous as ****. Leading up to the tourney I was playing but my nerves would make me do silly things. I couldn't help it. When I played, my palms sweat like crazy, my heart raced like I just sniffed an 8ball. I couldn't sit still so I was fidgeting and my leg was bouncing like crazy.

Game day rolled around and I remember how surprised I made it through the 32 man bracket fairly easily. Sure it helped someone didn't show up but I was so thrilled that my split drops and pressure plays that I had spent weeks practicing were paying off. Unfortunately, I didn't practice my macro games enough and that would lead me to my downfall. I was in the final four. That match I didn't drop well enough so I didn't do the damage I had practiced. So now I was in this awkward "what happens next" phase. I tried to turtle up against another turtle Terran. And it turns out that my nerves and lack of scouting would sink me. We got into a base race and I didn't scout well enough so when I hit his last base, I thought he turtled up real hard. I couldn't break his tank lines so I GG'd out....without realizing he only had like 2 tanks left. I was so bummed. A silly mistake cost me a 50 minute game and the chance to play in the finals.

Now looking back though? Placing third and winning money is an amazing feeling. StarCraft taught me goals can be accomplished if I work hard enough at it. It taught me that we're all ****ty at something when we first start and the only way to get up is to practice. I felt that it wasn't the amount of money that was important, but the fact that money was on the line and justified my time and effort. I think that was my favorite video game moment. Even though I really wanted to continue training, real life got in the way and I no longer had time in school at that point to continue playing "seriously". So I never did get to play in Playhems or an MLG. But I still have very fond memories.

[isaske]

For ages I played StarCraft Brood War and StarCraft 2 Wings of Liberty. I was awful and I just played for fun really. But one of my childhood friends had played at a high level during high school in Brood War and played semi-pro for Complexity in WoL. But in college I found myself with a lot of free time, a ridiculously good internet connection, and a decent computer for the first time in my life. And Wings of Liberty just came out. I went really hard. I started playing like 2-3 hours on the weekdays when my schedule allowed and 4-6 on the weekends. I wanted to get decent. I ended up making it into Platinum league. Nothing special but I was happy with my progress after about a year of play.

I was still playing with my buddy introduced me to TeamLiquid. I'd bug my buddy all the time for help and advice. Sometimes I'd spectate his matches and he flirted with Grand Master league a few times. But it was TL which really boosted my game. So I started reading a ton and playing as much as I could. I always had this nagging feeling that I wanted to prove to myself that all the hours I put in was worth it so I started looking at playing in a tournament. I eventually found a little tournament for Gold and Platinum players. It was really a way for me to get some practice partners but I took the tournament seriously anyways. I remember being nervous as ****. Leading up to the tourney I was playing but my nerves would make me do silly things. I couldn't help it. When I played, my palms sweat like crazy, my heart raced like I just sniffed an 8ball. I couldn't sit still so I was fidgeting and my leg was bouncing like crazy.

Game day rolled around and I remember how surprised I made it through the 32 man bracket fairly easily. Sure it helped someone didn't show up but I was so thrilled that my split drops and pressure plays that I had spent weeks practicing were paying off. Unfortunately, I didn't practice my macro games enough and that would lead me to my downfall. I was in the final four. That match I didn't drop well enough so I didn't do the damage I had practiced. So now I was in this awkward "what happens next" phase. I tried to turtle up against another turtle Terran. And it turns out that my nerves and lack of scouting would sink me. We got into a base race and I didn't scout well enough so when I hit his last base, I thought he turtled up real hard. I couldn't break his tank lines so I GG'd out....without realizing he only had like 2 tanks left. I was so bummed. A silly mistake cost me a 50 minute game and the chance to play in the finals.

Now looking back though? Placing third and winning money is an amazing feeling. StarCraft taught me goals can be accomplished if I work hard enough at it. It taught me that we're all ****ty at something when we first start and the only way to get up is to practice. I felt that it wasn't the amount of money that was important, but the fact that money was on the line and justified my time and effort. I think that was my favorite video game moment. Even though I really wanted to continue training, real life got in the way and I no longer had time in school at that point to continue playing "seriously". So I never did get to play in Playhems or an MLG. But I still have very fond memories.

That was so good to read. I can't hide my bias for sc2.
Im really happy u felt a sense of accomplishment doing this. Nothing matches that feeling.

[Puddsy]

Most memorable gaming experience...

Can I share more than one? I'm sharing more than one.

1) The time I went to the ESL ONE Dota tournament when it came through NYC, or, my first DotA 2 LAN.

It was the first time I met the people I had been playing dota with for most of the summer, and it was great way to cap out my summer. I skipped school to go to the second day, the day of the finals. EG vs VG. USA's only great team and 3rd place at TI4, Evil Geniuses, against the southeast-Asian titan, 2nd place at TI4, Vici Gaming. EG was the tournament (or at least crowd) favorite, but I was rooting for VG pretty hard. The games had been delayed about an hour, so I only missed the first minute or two of game one's draft.

Game 1 was a pretty standard 6.81 game. Terrorblade/DP/Razor bans in the early phases, Visage picks, etc. Lycan every game, all the annying heroes of deathball meta. The game quickly started swinging in favor of EG, with the crowd going wild at every opportunity. However, since EG picked Visage without Drow, their lineup fell off, and VG took game one in a hair under an hour, a very long game in that meta.

Game 2, VG couldn't defend the EG deathball, much to my dismay. Ice^3's Bristleback couldn't get off the ground, so EG kept killing VG's cores in fights, costing them the game.

Game 3. GAME 3. Ice^3 reconciled from his last game by wrecking EG with his legendary Timbersaw. Fear's performance in the offlane kept EG in the game for much longer than they should've been, but with his great ravages, victory was almost snatched from VG. In the end, VG killed 4 members of EG at rosh, taking it, breaking the high ground, and winning the tournament. They showed that China was still relevant in the DotA 2 scene.

2) Defending the freeport of CT8K-0, the experience that hooked me into EVE.

Being a new EVE player, it often feels like you can't do much. Having just finished training into my alliance's doctrine caracal fit, I finally felt like I could be relevant in a fight. With Leigion of XxDeathxX breathing down our necks, as well as the Russian RED Alliance, life was starting to get difficult in freeport 1. In the end, of course, the Russians ended up taking Freeport one, as the dreadnaught + triage archon fleets were too much for our subcapital ships.

This isn't about the falling of freeport one, though, this is about the initial defense, when the Russians thought they could take us. With our legendary diplomat, Ceolomate, we managed to get the 300 man "we only shoot ships" group to bash structures, something unheard of for them to do. As we were clearing the system of the last SBU, the Russians suddenly brought the only thing that could take our 450 man bash gang. Ishtars, 300 of them. We could barely keep ships alive under the drones of the Ishtar doctrine, but in the end, we broke their logi and kept CT8K-0 for ourselves, at least until the Russians came back with dreadnaughts and supercarriers.

[dustinhxc]

OMG That Bronin.. I need an Orange Bronin and V2 for my Space Saving Keyboard so bad one day..

I've been playing video my entire life, it all started with Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt on NES. I remember my parents having it since I can even remember.. But that is just the beginning.. Id have to say the MOST memorable experience would have to be Super Smash Bros. on Nintendo 64! My friends and I would meet up at my friends apartment every single night. We would play the same characters every time! I would be Captain Falcon. "FALCON PUNNNCH!" One friend would be Kirby, the other Mario, and the other Pikachuu "Ka, choo!" We would learn eachothers methods and movements but yet still have an amazing time every single night. 420 comes to mind and some fantastic tunage. Some great munchies and good ol Nintendo 64 Joystick smashing. The best event we ever did, which was usually once a week. 99 LIVES each. That would go for a few hours and it was SO intense! I miss those nights.. I recently was in a mall at a video game store looking for a copy of Super Smash Bros for Gamecube. Then I noticed that there was a HUGE group of gamers playing it on multiple TVs! I was like SMASH BROS!!! Its cool to see people play it still. Although, our obsession started with good ol Nintendo 64!  I almost shed a tear. I miss it so..

[Psybin]

   It was September of 1999 when I started EverQuest (EQ) for the first time. It was a very strange and emotionally charged time in my life. Shortly after finishing high school I had married my high school sweetheart who was a French foreign exchange student. I was just over 19 and in WAY over my head and my life was falling apart. I was broke with virtually no education, (allegedly) enjoyed stuff that should be legal too much, and married to a passionate yet insane foreign female. The house of cards was crumbling fast and when I was introduced to EQ it was a welcome escape from reality.
   By the time the second expansion, Kunark, was released, we had called it quits and she moved back to France and I moved back home to my Dad's house. To a young shortsighted idiot who forgets there are literally 150 million females in the United States, I was devastated, depressed is an understatement. But alas, I had a lucrative career at a Mitsubishi dealership as a parts attendant (laugh) and I had EQ to go home to. By the time Scars of Velious came out I had moved on to being an internet sales consultant and IT personnel for a low rent Porsche parts/internet sales/restoration place. More escape into EQ and being more or less a loser. Six to eight months later I quit over pay issues and proceeded to spend the next six months living off my savings and my dad's charity. However I look back on this time as one of the best times of my life.    
   I would wake up at 630 am nearly every weekday to a booty call from a beautiful, although not exactly single, female former co-worker. When she left for work I'd go to the gym before my EQ friends logged in, and then literally spend the rest of the day getting blitzed and/or tripping (allegedly, maybe I just made that up for spicy details) and playing EQ. I started a Druid on Rallos Zek (RZ) as stated above in September of 1999. A friend from work told me about the game, got me on the right server, and then escorted me from Faydwer to Antonica at level one to start my leveling toon in the Qeynos area. A game has never felt so big or so real as EQ did in those days. As I leveled up through the ranks of power I started meeting cool people from all over the world. Like most games when you reach the level cap the game really started. And when there is a player vs player (PVP) aspect, there is another whole level of play experience. I was never a player killer (PK) who randomly ganked people. I was in a reputable guild who did end game content. But, there was always strife and drama and guild wars were a regular thing. Back then (level cap 60) druids were a powerful PVP force with the ability to heal, debuff, fast cast nukes, and port all over the world. I would spend all day with a group of killers porting around looking for enemies of the guild and steamrolling mutha fuggas.  Weird as it is, it was exactly what I was doing when 9/11 hit. I was so into the PVP aspect I even spent an entire 15 hour shift holding my own camping jboots just to exploit the code glitch where the instant cast item spells would force your spell gems to immediately refresh allowing you to cast direct damage spells that much faster (druids didn’t need jboots, we have SOW, son!). No game has been as much fun as EQ was back then. I often miss those days, those lost six months of debauchery.
   When Planes of Power dropped I decided I needed to move and joined up with the Gubment, went through various training, moved a few times, but always thought about the days in EQ. in 2011 after I was basically done with all that nonsense I received an email from Sony about a new expansion. I called customer service with my CD numbers and was able to get my account unlocked. With no lack of trepidation I logged in for the first time in almost nine years. My druid was as I left him, in Surefall Glade, level 60 and fully decked in Velious raid gear (level cap was now 90). RZ was no more, the three PVP servers were now combined into just Zek. They kept RZ rules though, and you could only PVP within a four levels up or down. I spent the next few months getting spun up, making new friends, and leveling up (levels and alternate experience points). Once I got in range of the big cats on the server I transferred to Povar (non PVP server), leaving some good friends behind, but wanting to raid again. Plus PVP had become so imbalanced only high damage per second (DPS) classes could truly PVP anymore, that part of EQ was unfortunately dead.
   I made more friends on Povar, ended up getting into a guild that was in the top three. I raided through three expansion packs, ended up being class leader, and genuinely having a good time. I actually made it number one on the server for HP and Mana a couple times. Unfortunately I was just spending too much time on the game and some of the class balancing aspects and poorly coded mercenaries (you could hire a NPC to either tank, heal or DPS) were just wearing me down. I had two raid geared toons, druid and bard, and I could just barely box some named mobs, while other classes could solo them (pet classes). Merc tanks would drop like paper, and healer mercs were just plain retarded. Raiding was fun, getting the first kill on the server multiple times was exhilarating. 60 people all working in unison to accomplish a goal is something I'll probably never experience to that degree in that kind of timeframe ever again.  It was fun, it really was, and I often think about it and how much I'd like to go back, but I have to be busy being an adult. I guess. Just writing this makes me sad/nostalgic.

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I spent a lot of time camping old raid mobs, a few screens of those, plus new raid mobs, plus just randomness. I have over 1,000 screenshots from back then and today.


First crit in PVP when they released alternate experience points and criticals.

[Badwrench]

Woah, what a good giveaway topic!  I have been playing video games for most of my life and have way too many good memories to count. 

One of my favorites has to have been my birthday when I was 10.  I had a few of my best friends over for a sleepover and to hang out and play Super Mario Bros (this was 1987 btw).  Ikari Warriors had just come out and my parents surprised me with it that night.  I was so stoked!  We started playing around 8pm and had an awesome time.  We would take turns using the ABBA cheat code to continue on and had a blast trying to get each other stuck behind walls and buildings on the re-spawn.  We got so into it, that the next thing we knew, my mom was knocking on the door to see if we wanted breakfast.  That was my first official all-nighter and would lead to many more. 

Oh man, check out those sweet graphics! 

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F-it,  youtube links aren't working for me 

[DanielT]

First when I saw this I thought, damn what story could I tell, I don't play games then I remembered, I did use to game ages ago, really ages ago, and it's a good story too.
It was in 1989, December 22 in the morning. Back then Romania was a communist country ruled by a totalitarian regime. We didn't had computers other than the ones smuggled in the country by foreign students. I had a neighbor who was a math teacher and one of her students brought her a Spectrum Z80, she let me play at that thing for hours.
I remember that morning on December 22, I was on winter holiday and went to her place to play on the Z80, after almost one hour of wait to load the game off a cassette I was ready to go. I was listening to the radio (no TV during the day, we had 2 hours of TV during the evening and that was only propaganda stuff ...). Anyway, the game was loaded I started to play, I was so happy and ready to spend hours on the computer when around 10:00AM on the radio I started to hear people yelling, I thought it was just another radio play about the communist revolution so I ignored it, had better things to do    After a few minutes my parents rushed in to take me home, they told me that the dictator fled and the Revolution started, took me some time to realize what just happened, but the Revolution of December 1989 just started.

How ofter a gaming session is interrupted by a real revolution ) Thought it would be something nice to share 

I would love a BS bro cap, It would be a nice gift for my 35th birthday on April 22 (what were the odds ) )

[rowdy]

Thank you for doing the giveaway, Bro

I don't have any really special gaming memory in particular, as I approach all games equally (once I determine that I like the game).  But there are a few moments that I seem to recollect over others.

I was at a LAN parts about a decade ago, and was first introduced to Red Faction.  I had never seen it before, but seemed to master it immediately and won every game, even against those who had been playing it for months.  I didn't do so well at the other games, as some guys had practiced them for hours, but I was really pleased to have excelled at something that evening.

At the same LAN party we played Unreal Tournament, and this one map had a crane in it which I climbed and basically, with my sniper rifle, shot anyone who got near the top of the building.  We were all in the one room, and I could hear everyone behind me wondering where the sniper was, and who it was.  IIRC no-one found me, but eventually I ran out of ammo and had to climb down.  I never did manage to get back up to that crane.

Then the time I was playing Need for Speed Underground and it was one of the races near the end of the campaign.  I had played it dozens of times and couldn't get it right, going one corner a bit too slow, touching a wall somewhere else, brushing against another car, just for a moment.  At that stage of the game any slightly mishap would mean loss of a closely led first place, and loss of the game, resulting in lack of progression.  For no particular reason (i.e. it was just another run of that track) I raced and got every corner perfectly, gear changes faultlessly, acceleration, deceleration perfect, and won!  It just felt so good getting each stage of the race done just right.

The second time I played the original Half-Life, it felt so sweet at the beginning of the game, before the resonance cascade, where all the scientists are welcoming you to the facility, and it just felt like another day at work at a scientific facility where I was recognised and respected.

Unreal II - spoiler-protected in case someone hasn't played through it and doesn't know what happens near the end ...

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In Unreal II, right near the end when my ship was blown up and I got to listen to the messages recorded by the various crew members, I think a tear came to my eye.  I don't often get emotional during video games, but that one did raise a tear.  Maybe because the ship seems so much like home, with its motley crew and private spaces, and the back story that gradually becomes clear as the missions progress.

And in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, when you get past the front of the facility and go down the spiral staircase (that is broken at the bottom do you can't climb back up), then go along a short corridor, then turn right and go along a long corridor, all the while a voice is intermittently booming out something in Ukrainian, then there is a "U" shaped bit of corridor where the wall at the bottom of the "U" is broken through and you have to pass that way.  I tried and tried and tried, but just couldn't make it.  I had plenty of health, health packs, anti-rad kits, ammunition and so on, but for some reason I just could not get past that point.  There are bandits behind the wall, and either they shot me or I succumbed to radiation.  At least a dozen times I tried before quitting (almost a rage-quit) and leaving the game for a couple of months.  When I went back to try again, I made it through the first time without really trying.  What went wrong the first dozen times?  No idea.  Maybe the RNG gods were against me for some reason.  After that point the game was fairly easy and I experienced two of the different endings.

[clacktalk]

My most profound moment happened recently, and I feel like it has a lot of ties to the community and bonds I have made through Geekhack. I've been brimming with these thoughts for a while but haven't really done much with them until now. What perfect timing :]


Late this March, I was contacted by my ex-clanmate from the good ole Warcraft 3 days that one of our peers passed away. I was shocked for two reasons. First and foremost, someone that I used to talk to and play games with on the regular, who also happens to be younger than I am, died. I mean, he and I weren't close friends, and we used to always get into petty arguments. But I always saw and treated him as a younger brother. That day went by like a blur, a part of me hoping that all of it was a sick, awkward prank. I can't even begin to express how surreal it all seemed. Looking back, I think the bulk of what I felt after hearing the news was emptiness and grief.

Our clan (consisting of ~15 active members, 5-6 who were local, childhood friends) spent a lot of hours together gaming. We used to talk to each other via TeamSpeak for even longer. A lot of our time would be spent sharing what we did that day, talking about whatever caught our attention, or playing trivia. There was no denying that although we were a mixed, dysfunctional bunch, we were closely knit.

And we all drifted apart seven years ago when college/harder coursework began for a handful of us, which brings me to my second shock. My ex-clanmate, who lives in Missouri and has never met with me in person, texts me this news out of the blue after he found out through facebook. We send a handful of texts to each other every year (mostly around each other's birthdays or when one of us is intoxicated), and in 2015 a passing of a friend reopened our channel of communication. I still need to thank him for contacting me so directly.

And I'm glad that I felt how I did to the news. I consider myself fortunate that I still have these bonds with friends that I've loosely kept in touch with. Without video games (and the internet), these people would have been strangers to me. Video games were our means of bonding and building relationships. I feel as if there are a lot of parallels between my old gaming clan and the Geekhack community. And that makes me fortunate twice over; I never thought I'd find another online community so invested in each other. It's another reason why I am grateful for the people I have become close to and excited at the possibility of getting to know the rest of you better.


All my feelings are out, so this is THE END. Thank you Bro for giving me a platform and such sweet motivation to externalize what I've been feeling for a while. I've definitely been neglecting self-reflection these past couple weeks (mostly because there is so much going on), and this was a great way to relax after hiking all day. Good luck, everybody!

[eetro]

Most memorable?

I'd have say Kirby Superstar for me which was back in 2000 or a little earlier perhaps? so I'm not that old yet but it's been a while, heh.

I grew up with two older siblings but there was quite an age gap between me and them so most of the time I was too young to really experience the same phases as they did (but I'd assume it would be pretty hectic for my parents if I did )). Though even now, I'm pretty grateful that they did experience a lot more than I did and they always managed to pass on the really fun stuff to me as I was growing up after them.

It was a pretty ordinary day so nothing really made this unique it was mostly just two teens humouring a simple kid on a Nintendo SNES playing a co-op game in Kirby Superstar. This was the most fondest memory of mine as it was more of the fact they seemed to genuinely enjoy playing together with me as un-coordinated as I probably was in the game. Which probably would have frustrated my older brother the most haha, but it was nice of them to take the time out of their usual routines. I'm sure my memories were mostly one-sided and a little over glorified as I was quite young but I still enjoy thinking back at it and feel really lucky it happened even in that short time.

Sorry if it's not as exciting or as detailed but I thought I'd give it a go.
Thanks for hosting the giveaway anyway

Good luck to the rest.

[hrinfinity]

Thanks for doing this Bro! Loved reading some of these posts so far . I have two stories to tell.

The first one was probably one of my very first experiences with PC gaming. I think I was in the fourth or fifth grade when our school computer lab got upgraded to iMac G3s. The entire class got hooked on this third person shooter called Nanosaur.  I also was super addicted to this game and really wanted to beat it, except I was super awful at it. I needed something to "give me the edge," so I remember going home one day and logging onto GameFAQs for some tips / tricks.

At this point, this is where I discovered the cheats to the game, including an instant win cheat. So I wrote the cheat codes down on a small slip of paper and brought it with me to class the next day. I punched the cheat code in and kicked back while all of the other kids were amazed that I was the first one to beat the game. I didn't dare tell anyone I cheated my way to the ending.

Unfortunately, the next time I was in the computer lab the teacher had told us that we were all banned from playing Nanosaur ever again because students kept cheating to beat the game. To this day I'm not sure if it was cause I carelessly left my cheat sheet at my desk, someone else saw me punch the cheats in, or if someone else had bothered to look up the codes for the game. Either way, it was one of my most memorable gaming moments, even though it's nothing to be too proud of ).


My second story was my very brief encounter with World of Warcraft. This was during my senior year of high school and my friends and I were already burned out on Ragnarok Online. I always thought WoW would be too hardcore for me and I didn't really have any knowledge about the lore, but I had a friend help me get started.

I genuinely had no clue about the classes or races in the game, but my friend told me just to pick whatever I wanted. So I created a Tauren Shaman and I went on my way. Boy, I was totally unprepared for what happened next. I was hooked immediately. Even though I was just doing simple fetch quests, I was really immersed in the environment. I liked how I could choose my own rewards when I completed quests. I really enjoyed how customizable the UI was and spent some time installing add-ons that my friend had recommended. Then I spent a bunch of time researching skill builds and wondering how long it would take to get my first mount.

My third day of playing I almost played for a full 24 hours. I vividly remember turning in a quest and seeing the sun starting to rise in-game. I looked out my bedroom window and also saw the sunrise...It was super startling how easy I lost track of time. I immediately uninstalled the game the next day, knowing that I had to cut it off before it would completely consume my life. To this day, I don't think there has been a game to capture my attention so intensely.

This story actually has a happier ending though! When I was interviewing for my current job, for some reason WoW came up and I had mentioned to the interviewer my brief stint with WoW and my sunrise story. Turns out he was a huge WoW fanatic and his wife and kids played religiously, so we ended up spending the rest of the interview talking about the game (with my very limited knowledge). Who knew that a video game would help me in my professional career

[Belfong]

Cool contest, Bro!

Took me a while to think of a gaming moment that changed my life. It's not easy to recall one that actually affect one's Real Life. There were many awesome gaming moments but how many of these translated to life changing moment?

For me, it has to be Grand Theft Auto 3. GTA3 blew my mind when I played it on the PC for the first time. Not only was it super realistic in simulating a living city, it gave me a new experience of what it was like driving in America. In Malaysia, we drive on the left side and I was disoriented in GTA3. I ended up stealing a car from the passenger side all the time and ended up driving against traffic, getting honked and crashed into incoming cars.

The ultimate test came during one of the side missions - Donkey Does Dallas. In the spirit of the porn film that the mission title was based on, this mission required you to pick up porn magazines that were dropped along a path across 3 suburbs in the city. There is, of course, a time limit that I have to contend with. What's worse was that the vehicle I was given was a very old van which meant that it was harder to steer and balance especially when negotiating corners.  I've spent hours and many, many failed attempts to try out this mission. And most of my failures due to getting to the correct side of the road. Imagine making hard 90 degrees drift ala "Initial D" style, burning and screeching the tyres, and then failed because I crashed into an incoming truck driven by an old man! Grr.. Wtf!! Shake fists! Curses.. #%*%#!?£¥

After weeks of trying this freaking mission, I've mastered it... or so I thought. I was able to do 80% of the length of the mission quite consistently. As I reached that last 80% of the mission, near the Italian and Chinese side of the town, I realized that these goons hated me due my earlier main missions!! And so, whenever I reached that stretch of road, I faced gangsters appearing and gunning my van - the mission failed always due to burning van.

I don't think the designer of GTA3 thought about how the main mission will affect side missions that were attempted late in the game. Most wikis or walkthroughs do not talk about gangsters attacking you during Donkey Does Dallas.

I tried and tried and one day I was successful! OMG! Fist pumping in the air! Adrenaline at its highest! Both hands shaking, rubberdome keyboard filled with sweats from fingers. I did it! I fraking DID IT!!!! That has to be the most satisfying gaming moment in my life!

Since then I was a pro at driving on the different side of the road in video games and you know what? When I was sent by my company to Dallas for two weeks, I was super confident to drive the rented car in real life. No problemo! That was my first trip to USA and I drove to San Antonio during weekend. I even extended my stay, on my own leaves,  for a week, flew to LA and made a road trip from LA to Vegas, back to LA along the Pacific coast road up to San Francisco! No troubles at the road nor was I ever pulled over by the cop in my 3 weeks stay in the USA.

How's that for video game enabling me to drive in real life in USA?

[YMSNoms]

[It Begins]
The year is 2005, WCG is the mainstage for StarCraft Broodwar Pros from across the
world to test their skills and become the Ultimate Region. Day9 has just beaten PtAk
in the Group stages, and was looking to push his now 2-1 into a Ro16 placement after
losing to sEn early on. In the UK this is a reletively new phenomenon and playing games as a professional was
unheard of. There I was all 14 years of me sat in Escape gaming with Britains best
gamers cheering on the next World Champion. XellOs went out early to a heavy sigh
from people watching. Then fell sEn... CocoA was out...  all eyes on the Russian, Can
Androide really take out Legionnaire?" one fan asked.
Legionaire is now down to the 3rd/4th place match, Androide would now face off
against the Korean (Koreans are OP) fOru Of CJ Entus, a Legend.
Androide Would go on the Lose 2-0 to the Korean titan but he showed very good games
playing some very well constructed TvP.  This was my first run in with Starcraft.


[Mid Way]
The WCG 2005 tournament was the last WCG to be televised at Escape gaming. The Gaming
base as they called it was slowly losing its grip as more and more people brought
high end gaming equipment to play at home.

[Korean Resurgence]

After this I played SC:BW on Kli and ICUP ladders attempting to immitate one of those
special pro moments but I was never good enough, I was always beaten by some up and
coming players. I took a break in 2007 to finish my studying...[SIGH]   
Eventually in early 2008 there was Chatter on the aim chat that Nick "Tasteless" Plott would be casting a English Live stream of one of the First GOMTV Invitational.It was settled we all pitched in about 35£(50$) to rent a Cinema screen at a local cinema and the stage was set, 3 days of watching starcraft it was going to be amazing unless the connection would not hold out but it would surely be fine 256kb broadband is lightning quick we though.
The 2nd Febuary arrived and we all met at burger king just down the road from the Cinema to kick the day off.
About 12:30 the games kicked off with sAviOr V Flash, An LG Logo Flashed on screen
before a Star Invitational Promotional Advert we were hyped for the tournament, The intro was in Korean and our friend Tassles was on hand to tell us what was going on, Then the Korean Gom casters appeared on screen and Tasteless took over, [Had to watch the VOD Memories flooded back] The games were intense.
The Group stage was over Flash, Anytime, Much, Jaedong, Iris, Stork, Sea and Bisu had qualified Nada and Boxer has been knocked out and because of this a few people had left.

Elimination day arrived and we watched game after game of Unbelievable[Hyunbeliable] play!
Flash took the tournament 3-2 over stork and I was hooked, there was just something about the game I was not really sure if it was Tastesless' casting or a level of play I could never hope to achieve.


[The Great Lim Yo Hwan]
2010 Was the year I first stepped foot in South Korea, during a conversation with a friend who had moved out there from Berlin a year earlier I was invited to visit.
Korean Air from Heathrow, Prior to this I had spent some time Learning basic Korean in order to be able to do some stuff while I was there.  It was rumored that SlayerSBoxeR would be playing in the SC2 Open S2 GSL tournament so I had to change my flights so I would not miss out seeing the legend that was boxer.
So 750$ later I was staying until the 30th of october just in time to see the first few rounds of Boxer play.

I found the Teamliquid thread where they translated Lim Yo Hwan's Autobiography and read that to prepare for the games.
The atmosphere was crazy with people shouting and showing Signs for Boxer.
This is easily the best memory I have of Starcraft or any gaming event.

[GenKaan]

Most memorable gaming experience must have been the eye opening gaming called Golden Eye for the n64. Wasnt a serious gamer before that, thought that Zelda, Final Fantasty and Pokemon was the **** and that game where made to be fun. WRONG! Games are made to be broken down, the meta stretched out, the best and most viable tactics abused to fruthes corner of the game. In the end no one want to play me, they all wanted to play Smash like ****ing babies
Moved on to Counter-Strike where I really started playing competitively and it's all because of Golden Eye.
Still remeber trying to speed run the game for the 100th time on 007 and all the bitemarks on my main controller.


Will get my first topre keyboard this week (a Realforce 88ub) and would LOOOVE the topre red gamer set since I will get a red Esc with the keyboard!

PS. da **** is people using Placeholder for?

[Lokomotivet]

Cool giveaway Bro! I'll shoot.

I have tons of memorable video game experiences, I'll go with an odd one.
Sorry for my crap English, also sleep deprived to the max (because UT4 and GTA V happened ).

It was the summer of 2009. I had a fever (the only prescription was more cowbell) and a bunch of friends wanted to spend the night at some internet café, they convinced me to join them after an hour of nagging.
We arrived and the place was literally filled to its maximum capacity, don't forget that it was summer so the smell in there was of the finest basement neckbeard and no air conditioner in the world could stop it.

We go to our seats and started playing Left 4 Dead Versus (4vs4) against each other. I spawned as a Tank and started to rip and tear through the enemy team and the last one alive was a female friend playing as Zoey. Everyone was laughing at the situation, I spiced it up a bit by screaming out "GET BACK TO THE KITCHEN B****!" and as I delivered the last punch in her face the power went out at our section, shutting down all of our computers. We all stood there in awe and one of my friends said "You owned her so hard that the power went out", many lols were had.

I took the responsibility to report it to the café staff and as I stood in the queue to the counter there was this cute little redhead girl. Apparently the power also went out at her section so we started to chat about it, one thing lead to another (https://youtu.be/_LBmUwi6mEo) and that's how I met my first girlfriend.

But most importantly me and my friends got moved into the super secret VIP room because there were no other free and working computers for us so we got to enjoy the rest of the night in a well air conditioned room with free cookies (!!!) and without having to be marinated by the thick neckbeard fragrance.
 
I was so close to miss out on that day, I was really balls deep in the fever but life's too short etc.
Moral of story: You can never be too sick for video games, never.

[Sed8op8]

Summer of 94

The first time I met Rob pig pen from Charlie Brown came to mind. I swear I could almost see the squiggly clouds of dirt suspended and trailing in his wake. I was on my way to the bathroom and i noticed a boy I did not know exiting the girls bathroom. Now in my small private catholic school new people stood out like clear unglazed eyes at a 420 rally (had to sneak that in) and the fact he had a slightly used piece of toilet paper hanging out of the back of his unwashed jordache jeans didn't help. 2 years earlier i had experienced the kind of hazing a new kid with parents that drove a ford fiesta and paid no thought to the torture there daughter might experience dressing her in boys hand me downs at a private school for generally wealthy kids would endure. Seeing this shy kid with crap paper hanging out of his pants struck a cord in me and I decided to take him under my wing.
   Little did i know at the time but Rob was going to have a far reaching impact in my life. As time went on and I got to know rob I realized that although his mom loved him she was never home and for 2 kids feeling quite badass with there parents stolen cigarettes spending time at his house with no supervision seemed like the best thing since sour patch kids to me at the time. Not to mention Rob had some pretty cool stuff including a NES and SNES. As I had taken Rob under my wing at school he figured he would repay the favor and he began my tutelage into video games.
 At first I didn't even play I was quite happy to be his sidekick pointing at rooms he missed, chests he forgot to open etc. we started a gaming ritual which to this very day looks kind of the same. Prepare your gaming area back then we would create sheet and pillow forts around us and the TV, stock up on supplies (pixie sticks sour patch kids big league chew etc anything high in sugar usually made the list)and the biggest step was making sure we would be uninterrupted. There was nothing worse to be forced mid battle to vacuum the room. As me and Rob got older and things started changing gaming kept us close. We both went through some pretty serious trials and tribulations but we made time to game with each other and that helped us through it.
 One of my favorite memories of all time was the first resident evil on play station. It had just come out and we had no clue what we had gotten ourselves into(I don't know about you guys but being young when i first played that game I found it to be pretty freaking scary) it was about 9pm and dark and we finally had the house to ourselves. We had prepared our gaming area..lights off except for the lava lamp going in the corner fan  in the window because It was one of those summer nights where even the absence of the sun does little to affect the heat. The air was thick with it.
 I remember watching the intro of the game where the guys running to the mansion being chased by something and I thought to myself holy shiiiit this is going to be awesome. We started playing and I remember half the terror was trying to get away from the zombies with those horrible dam controls it added an urgency to the game that would be hard to reproduce now. One of the things that sticks out the most is that hallway when the zombie dogs jump through the windows and catch you completely by surprise. I'm not 100% sure but I think I might have piddled myself. We didn't beat the game that night but its a fond memory of mine that I will never forget.
 17 years later me and Rob unfortunately don't talk as much as we used to but that bond we built playing video games is still going strong. We have the type of friendship no matter how long its been we can pick up it seems in the exact place we left off. Over the years I have played everything from racing games to FPS but still nothing can beat those nostalgic RPG years rendered in 8 and 16 bit in my memory forever.

Sorry about the grammar and mechanics guys as my computer is down and I don't have my tablet so I had to use my phone. Good luck everyone and I am really enjoying everyone's stories.

Editing: to try and add paragraphs. And title derp.changed name to pig pen

[Blackehart]

*cries*
*mumbles* stoopid topre people
*grumbles*

[jerue]

I would like to sit here and type out a post about how I don't think video games have influenced my life. But the more I think about it, I can't escape the fact they have...

Sure, there have been significant games/series I've played the absolute crap out of; Need for Speed and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater come to mind. But they're nothing in comparison to these four games.

Guitar Hero: I got into Guitar Hero around the time GH2 came out. The first time I ever played was at a Walmart with a ghetto demo setup (just a PS2 thrown in with some guitar controllers and a LCD TV). Tom Sawyer...very first song ever played. It all went up hill from there. I convinced my younger brother to ask for a Playstation 2 and Guitar Hero 2 bundle for his birthday, since I asked for it last Christmas and never got it. I played the bejeezus out of this game and got pretty good. I would have Guitar Hero get-togethers and I would always play with my friends. My love for Guitar Hero became bad enough that other people were convinced into purchasing their own versions. Eventually I got good enough and discovered a lovely forum called Scorehero. It's the most I've ever been active on a forum, I've almost hit 4K posts there. It was (is) a fantastic community of like-minded people (kind of like Geekhack!). I always wanted to meet people from there IRL, but being young and all hindered that significantly. How times change...

Dance Dance Revolution: This is arguably the most influential game I've ever played because it actually affected my health. I discovered DDR right around when I discovered Guitar Hero (2004-2005 ish) and got really into it after playing non-stop when I went on vacation. It was the summer of my freshman year, and I played enough DDR to drop over 30lbs in just a couple of months. I also got to meet more people in the DDR community...learning all of the traditions of DDR folk and whatnot. Unfortunately DDR culture is mostly dead since arcades themselves have stopped supporting this game. Arcades are kind of alive and well, but everyone wants mobile gaming these days..

Rock Band: Similar to Guitar Hero, but by the time I got into RB I was well versed with Guitar Hero. My favorite part of RB was drumming. I annoyed the living daylight out of everyone in my house, and even my downstairs neighbors when I had drums my first semester of college. Rock Band is also important because I got to actually play with people online, and start bands and whatnot (through ScoreHero). Rock Band has helped me discover a lot of new music - now that's a tool that's simply invaluable. I poured a lot of money into this game...I don't play it anymore (maybe a couple of times a year if I'm lucky), but in the grand scheme of things, it was worth it.

Mario Kart: Specifically Mario Kart Double Dash and 8. Starting with Double Dash, I did manage to bring a Gamecube with me to college. Best decision ever. Being a somewhat shy person living in a dorm, Mario Kart was a fantastic way to meet people. I vividly remember racing in Baby Park completely hammered and everyone in the room just going bezerk whenever they lost or won by .1 seconds. I've received quite a few noise complaints, but it's all worth it as I've made quite a few good friends from events like this. Mario Kart 8 is similar...bringing people together. Pro tip: Most of the dates I've like Mario Kart. If they don't...get a new date! But enough of that...the real fun is in Mario Kart 8 BEERIO KART! I've started holding events every Friday/Saturday. Sure, after 8-12 courses in 20-30 minutes, you're done, but almost everyone is in agreements that we can just watch Netflix or do other stupid stuff. True bonding.

TL;DR: Met lots of people through video games, whether its making friends IRL or on awesome forums. I definitely would not be the same person if it weren't for video games.

Side Note: For those of you reading this on 4/20 and own Skate 3, make sure you download the Danny Way Hawaiian Dream DLC and do nothing else but go down the snake run and do flips. 

Thanks for this giveaway, Bro! Hoping you enjoy this post and I can get my first bros ever! 

[redbanshee]

My most memorable gaming experience: 1995 I was at the local mall in the arcade, this was a small arcade but still had some pretty cool cabinets to play on, including Mortal Kombat 3 that had just came out. There was a big crowd around the MK3 cabinet and this short asian kid around my age was whipping everyone's ass with Cyrax (Cyrax was a new char in MK3). I was watching for about 20 min and it was my turn to try and de-throne this asian kid. I am pretty good at fighting games and defiantly played vs this kid on the MK2 cabinet they had before MK3. We sometimes played for lunch money, and I was feeling saucy, so I put my $5 down on the cabnet and ask if he wants to play for money, he accepts, and puts down his $5. Game on. I am a hardcore Scorpion player, but for some sadistic reason Scorpion was not included in MK3, so I was forced to pick Sub Zero.

Round 1, was a close battle but he took me, Round 2, I get down to 25% life and then make a huge comeback when he walks strait into my freeze move, I take game 2. Game 3, there's probably 10 kids behind us watching this match, a few were the kids I came with and they were cheering me on! Game 3 was a super close battle and was fought very well by both of us, it gets down to the wire and we both have a tiny shred of health left and I take him with a simple jump-in fierce kick. The kid FREAKS the hell out, grabs the money and takes off running. Being teens we obviously gave chase, he was super fast tho and managed to somehow get away from us in the mall (i think he dipped into a store to hide or something). A few days later we see the kid at the arcade again and ask him what the hell, and where is my money? He says: "Im sorry but my family is poor and I could not afford to loose my lunch money, I only get $5 every 2 weeks." Needless to say we all felt bad, but I definitely got that $5 back!

Not life changing event but very memorable for me, man I miss that arcade.

[3Love]

This is the role from my favourite game called "Dungeon Fighter Online". In china, we also called it "DNF" for short. It is not a mouse game like CS. But it requests high quality of keyboard. This is why I start to touch the keyboard world.
I have played it 6 years ago(Only 6 years history in china, but 8 years in Korea).  You can see I used the "爱" for my user ID, which means "love" in Chinese word. At the first two years of the game, I got many winner from different matchs. After that, I totally changed my ID to "3Love".
It is not just a game for me. It costed a lot of time and money in my teenager life. It is my very precious memories.
BTW Ripe Orange Bronin V1 is one of favourite. But I never get chance to own one. I belive I will start collecting IBM keyboard if I can win one.

ps: Online games are more populor than PSP or XBOX. Because PSP and XBOX are much expensive than computer in china. Most of Chinese prefer play online game than video game. They are more suitable for us.

[internet]

I try remember when I bought my first game, it was on one diskette. The game was named generic, something like World Power. A text game, but at the time I really did not understand what it was. There was so little information back then and it was described as this awesome game in the catalog of the store, so I had really high hopes, and had saved my 5 dollars, which for me was kind of an investment.

The games in the store at the time was in small plastic folders with one diskette in each neatly hanged in a grid on the wall. My view was accompanied by that new cool thing in the background, that Atari robot...

But what I did not know, it would not have graphics at except for a splash screen that showed the globe in CGA monochrome vector style (think astroids).

Of course the game was a totally disappointing experience, being a young child at the time, with terminal text only interface the only thing I managed to to do was starting it up.

That was all... Just my first game buy.

edit: fixing spelling

[slip84]

This one time I stayed up with Halverson all night playing Diablo III waiting for the Clackman to post in the Clackvent thread.

Then he didn't.

I was tired the next day.

[choiboi]

Back when the newest Pokemon version was Crystal, I had a ballin' team that I was destroying some other local kids with.

One day, my cousin was over and he ended up resetting my Crystal version (later told due to jealousy?) and holy hell did I throw a tantrum. I ended up throwing my GBA and shattering it.

I ended up realizing I wasn't even invested that heavily and it's not something I should be stressing about. I wish I learned a lesson, but I still complain over the smallest things. Oh well :^)

[Nai_Calus]

This is awesome, Bro! Thanks for doing this! My story is kind of long, and isn't really one particular experience, but a series of them, but one particular game does emerge from the cloud of them:

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It started like many did. My grandparents on my dad's side had a Nintendo. I'd always end up playing Super Mario Bros or Duck Hunt, sometimes SMB 3. My dad played it too and we'd play together. Sadly, dad never could afford to get one, and my mother, while she could, never would. So I ended up playing there until they died, or at school, or at my babysitter's house.

One school had a Nintendo in one of the side rooms, with Duck Hunt, and Super Mario Bros, and even a Disneyland game. Even more exciting than that was the computers various schools had. An old Apple IIc with an exciting 8 color monitor in one, on which many games of Oregon Trail were played. A Macintosh Classic and the glories of Sim City in beautiful black and white. A lab of Apple IIes with Oregon Trail, Odell Lake, and something called Logo Plus that was actually not a game at all, but rather a sort of programming language that controlled a little cursor that would draw as it moved following commands it was given. I 'played' the heck out of that one, loving the ability to draw things on a computer that blew my little 4th grader mind.

A babysitter had a Sega Genesis, and many happy games of Sonic the Hedgehog and Mickey Mouse's Castle of Illusion were played there.

But at home, we never had a console or a computer, until 1997 when my mother finally bought one. It was an HP with a massive 6.4GB of hard drive space, a screaming Pentium MMX 233MHz processor, and a jaw-dropping 32MB of RAM. Wow, did that beat the 486s at my school at the time. And look at this cool CD Drive! Whoa, wait, there's games out there for this? Moooom~!

It was educational, sort of, and an easy enough sell since it was cheap by then, having been out for a couple of years. The screenshots on the box were gorgeous. The concept sounded cool. It was the game that ultimately led me to being here, and to everything I like nowadays.

It was Myst. That cool-as-hell intro. That stark, surreal landscape. Those amazing, brain-teasing puzzles. I got lost. I went looking for help. Hey, AOL has a keyword for this game? Cool, let's check this out! Wow, there's a whole huge community about this game! Chat room? Forums? People? Wow!

Now, I didn't get out much as a kid. My mom was one of those narcissistic types that only cares about herself. I didn't get to go to the mall, or out with friends, or any of the normal teenager stuff, and 14 year old me was lonely and had no one to talk to and there weren't kids in my neighborhood. So this was amazing, talking to people on the computer. I got my help. I got people to talk to. There was a sequel to the game, Riven, and I got that and played it too. I still know the D'ni number system almost 20 years later.

And hey, people who played this liked other things too. I found out about Sailor Moon and watched it on TV and found my way to the newsgroups and alt.fan.sailor-moon, and ultimately to an IRC channel for it. I made friends there too. Some of them I still talk to. I got introduced to emulation via a translation patch for a Japanese Sailor Moon Super Famicon RPG called Sailor Moon: Another Story. It's not exactly a masterpiece, but it was a pretty good game, and it was my first console RPG, and it blew me away just like Myst did. No puzzles, boo, but it had even more story than Myst did. And oh hey, I can play those Nintendo and Genesis games I remember from being a kid? Cool!

Naturally, I got introduced to other things through these friendships. A friend insisted I try the Mega Man and Megaman X series games(I still remember when X3 couldn't be emulated properly yet!), and I loved it. Someone else turned me on to the masterpieces of the SNES RPG era: Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger. More of what I'd loved from that first Sailor Moon RPG, but incomprehensibly, amazingly better in every way. That music! That story! Those graphics, just pixels, but so amazingly full of life! These imaginary people who were so compelling! It was great. A friend had an old Playstation they'd replaced with a PS1, and they sent me the old one. Final Fantasy VII, Megaman X4, FFVIII, Dance Dance Revolution's home version via burned CDs I was sent and the swap trick. Someone mentioned Dungeons and Dragons and while I wouldn't play it until much later, that planted that seed.

Then the game that dominated my life for a couple of years. I had a boyfriend at the time. He played a ton of Phantasy Star Online. Way too much of it. OK, fine, I'll try this stupid thing too. Whoa. This is fun. This is really fun. I ended up buying a GameCube entirely for Phantasy Star Online Episode I&II. I failed out of the college I was attending at the time(Not entirely because of PSO, art college was ultimately not for me because nothing bores me more than cut paper and still lifes, also everyone there was unbearably hipsterpretentious) and ended up studying computer networking instead, still playing PSO for years. I had both the dialup and later the broadband adapter for my GC and played online for ages and made lots of great friends. After that it was Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst, the PC version of the GC-era game(Which was actually an Xbox PSO port). Then Phantasy Star Universe.

Then I played Dungeons & Dragons. People on the PSO forum I hung out on started an online game. And holy crap this is amazing, it's like those console RPGs but I make everything but the world up while I play! I've played that ever since, and of course that led me to new things as well. What's this Portal thing everyone raves about? Steam? Why do I need that? Oh wow, look at all these other games! (I will never get through my Steam Library. Ever.)

Of course along the way I still had some console going on. Got a PS2 around the time I got my GC. FFX, Guitar Hero, all that stuff. Eventually a PS3, and hello Assassin's Creed II, and from there all the other PS3 games in the series.

But hey, I miss PSO, and PSU, both of them shut down years back, but hey there's this new D&D game coming out and it's online and solo/party-based in instances and it's an action MMO, sounds a lot like PSO actually, let's try this Neverwinter thing out. Oh hey wow, this is fun. But... Umm... Man I wish I had a better keyboard for this, mine kind of sucks. Mechanical keyboards? WTF are those? Oh, hey Fry's, sure, I'll poke these display mode- Ohhhhh. Oh. I get it now. I get it completely now. But so expensive. Wait, there's this cheap Monoprice once? Good reviews? OK, I'll try it out, I wanted browns but blues aren't bad either...

And now there are five mechanical keyboards about my room, I'm typing this on a 31 year old bank keyboard, I know more about keyboards than most people will ever care about, and I'm looking down at a lineup of 10 artisan caps I've got displayed along the top edge of my Model F, of which sadly only two are Bros, and I desperately hope that after the soul-crushing despair of coming up with nothing in the Easter and 4:20 sales that I can somehow stand out from the crowd with my tale of the long string of gaming that led me to here.

It started on consoles, and zigzaged to computers and back to consoles and back to computers, but one game still stands out the most. The one I still love after all these years, the one I still bring out and play at least once a year. Myst. The surrealistic adventure that became, and changed, my world. Without that, I probably never would have arrived where I am.

[Fire Brand]

I shall share what my most important experience was in gaming, it all started around 4 years ago the pc gaming thing was new to me and as such I was using the keyboard that came with the pc :x

I was into minecraft as I had gotten it around a month before and finally realised there was a mulitplayer option, after a little searching I found a nice looking server to join and started my greatest adventure to date, the server was named Madrealms, and the world I entered was Lithia I spawned in a large city with signs guiding my way after going out dodging a few creepers and getting tools I heard off northern bound.

Around a day after I hit a large building known as the monastery after looking around I had seen some gold in what I would say was the altar room, needless to say I took that and ran after getting away with my loot I sold it in and founded a town called treedock, then a day or so later I was visited by the admin asking if I knew anything about the missing gold, and my response was I knew nothing, of cause he already knew it was me from the logs and told me he knew I had no clue you could even do that and said I didn't again, he then said I needed to return the gold or I would be temp banned, stuff just got real as this was my first minecraft server I had joined and I really didn't want to be banned so I gave everything back and more, after that I joined the teamspeak server they host and started chatting with them, turned out they are amazing people and pretty much started playing different games with them then, really love those people still play with them all to this day although not minecraft but really do love them like family.

After that we had a few more adventures such as me accidently selling my town and the server closing to move onto a skylands server which was crazy flying ships in minecraft, and formed a clan but that's another story for another day.

[Air tree]

My first time gaming would be on my old PS2 with, and I played the game "Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick" I was probably around 6-7 years old.

It wasn't the best game ever, But I could hardly care at the age I was. Gaming on my ps2 play the evil dead was great, I had a hard time doing any objectives, following the story or anything of that nature, but it was fun, nontheless. It really opened me up to a world where I could just have some fun in a great little world. And a bit later in life, I ended up being a Huge Evil Dead (Film) fan. It's one of my favorite horror film.
So thanks to gaming, it also opened me up to another huge part of my life; Film.

I played Runescape when I was very young also. I spent so much time and effort grinding out skills in that game. I started that game in late 07, so I was pretty damn young then. It was one of my first experiences with gaming. All of it was great, talking to people I'd never meet without it. The social aspect of gaming is one of the best.

At this point in my life. I have been even more engrossed in gaming, all these great creative games coming out. It's a wonderful time.

But truly the best moment in gaming has to be when I played "Thomas was Alone" It truly opened my eyes to the art form of gaming, I didn't think gaming could have that much of a emotional impact as that game did, truth be told, I cried my ass off at the end of that game.


It was a beautiful game through and through. It changed the way I look at gaming and even some philosphical views. That may be a lot for just a Game. It has really sparked my intrest in game development, It's really something great to be able to build such a great peice of art and enjoyment from peices of code and art.

I would like to say thank you, Bro; For holding a great giveaway. I don't expect mine to win due to some much better writing and frankly better storires, but I might as well share.

[effectiveduck]

No way we could hide the bags under our bloodshot eyes, it'd been 24 hours since we'd felt the bliss that is sleep.
Every sense of mine is failing, but now is not the time to quit, our blood sweat and tears have gone into this.
Valiantly, we step out onto the map for the final round, scores are tied.
Everything is on the line, my pride, my honor, my dignity and of course, a piece of my dads porn collection.
Rushing blood, a vein the size of a carrot on my head, this is it.

Game starts, we both rush to meet in head to head combat, I have my trusty AK-47 in hand.
On the other side of the map I see him, I slow down to take a single, accurate shot.
Never has my heart beaten this fast.
Never have I wanted anything more.
And I wiff it, ****, he knows where I am now, It's a fair fight now, never fight fairly, I retreat.

Given the chance he'll put a bullet in my skull, I need to be swift, I need to be quiet, I need to win.
I manage to sneak into position, all that separates us is a wall.
Victory is mine, I can taste it. I charge around the corner, I miss my first shot, but I've caught him off guard, spray is all over the place.
Empty clip on both sides, we're both still standing, i throw my gun in the air to distract him, my knife slides out and I'm ready to end this.

You know it's true what they say, life truly does flash before your eyes, I'd seen everything but it wasn't my time just yet, his deagle is being pulled out ever so slowly.
Over the chaos I hear a very distinct voice yelling "Shut the **** up! It's 5 in the morning!"... "Sorry dad" is all I can muster.
Upon looking back, I'd been taken out, it was all over. What did I have to live for anymore? What was the point in continuing?

Unbearable tears streamed out of my bright red face, as I hear an unsatisfied voice speak.
"Play another round! I want to win properly." Tears immediately stop, it's on!

[VesperSAINT]

So, I spent a good 15 minutes or so roughly brainstorming about my past 20 years or so of gaming experiences in my life and so many things flashed through my mind~

Please press "MORE" for my long introduction:

More

From my earliest memories of playing the original Prince of Persia on PC when I was probably four or five...

For those who played this game... you know that sound... that death music... LOL!!!


Playing Super Mario Bros 2 at my cousins house when I was 6...

Playing as Toad was probably still the most memorable thing for me~ So cute <3


Playing Quake for the first time when I was 11 and falling in love with FPS games!!!

Oh~ this introductory hallway... so memorable~


Installing ZSNES which opened so many doors to so many great classic Super Nintendo RPG games which I was never able to play when I was younger~ Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 3, 4, 5, Tales of Phantasia, Lufia series, and so many more... ZSNES was such a great thing for my childhood~

Look at this magical screen... even now, I love this software~


Playing Diablo 1 at a friend's house... oh man... music of Tristram will never leave my soul... LOL!

Game: "Stay awhile and listen..."
Me: "HELL YEEEE!!!"
Game: "AH FRESH MEAT!!!"
Me: "NOPE NOPE NOPE. I REGRET EVERYTHING"


1998 was a HUGE year for gaming for me. I got my first gaming console, the original Playstation, for Christmas when I was 12 (yes... I actually never owned my own gaming console until I was 12... even though I did have the PC). Many of you know that feeling of receiving a gaming console for Christmas as a child... it is an easily forgotten moment, but if you reflect on it... it was probably still one of the greatest joys you've ever felt in your life. LOL!!!


So many great gaming things happened in 1998...



Oh god... Metal Gear Solid... probably still my favorite game of all time...




Oh the terrors of Resident Evil 2... this game literally gave me nightmares... but I kept coming back for me... the atmosphere of this game was unbeatable at the time... that first Licker encounter... NOPE.gif



Suikoden II ~ Probably the greatest JRPG of all time. No. It is the greatest JRPG of all time.


I was also introduced to this revoluntionary JRPG...

There are so many great moments in this game, but the introduction Mako Reactor scenario is still the most memorable part.

Seriously may be one of the greatest RPG intros ever, if not the greatest.

Confession of a PS fanboy of past:

More

I admit... I had the occasional affair with Zelda Ocarina of Time at K-Mart...

I feel blessed to have been born early enough to have been around to experience these historical games in their prime. They filled my childhood with great memories of happiness and joy. The memories of sitting in my living room with my younger brother playing these action and RPG games, experiencing the story, the music, and atmosphere are truly unforgettable. Even all the trouble, fights, and ass-whoopings we got for playing too much are great memories for me.  However, even with all these great childhood gaming experiences... I didn't have the most "MEMORABLE" video gaming experience until 2006... I believe for most people, their most memorable gaming experiences may be of the enjoyable kind... However, for me, it was of the unpleasant type.

Being the older sibling between me and my brother, I had much of the playtime on the gaming consoles, and my brother was usually left with less time playing, and was for the most part, a spectator. This wasn't really forced, and he was a willing spectator because of his young age and unwillingness to experience difficult challenges in some of the more intense and scary games like Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil 2, Parasite Eve, etc.  However, his love for  RPG games was unparalleled. Having grown up watching me play so many RPG titles from his toddler age to his early teens, he only chose to play RPG games when it was his turn to play.  Because I was the one who spent majority of the time playing, it makes so much sense that he would cherish his playtime so much... the pains and woes of the younger sibling...
In retrospect... even if he didn't feel that way... I feel like...

Anyhow, after I graduated from high school in 2005 (YES I'M OLD. LEAVE ME ALONE), I moved away from home, and also left behind my gaming consoles and PC to my brother. I can only imagine the freedom he felt was similar to that of how I felt moving out of the house. LOL!

Fast forward about nearly a year, and he has become an intense high school student in an IB program in a very competitive school where  all his peers are at each other's throats for the highest scores...The majority of his classmates, with him included, had the highest GPA's and test scores in the state... freaking Asians, I tell you... Anyhow, I digress. It doesn't help that he had Hyperthyroidism at this time and was always anxious because of his fast heart rate and voracious metabolism. Being the super stressed out student that he was, his only release for stress and enjoyment was from the RPG games he played, and was still in the honeymoon stages with the Playstation 2, after I had given him 100% reign over it since I left.  He was the king on his throne, and he was allowed to do whatever he willed...

Today, I choose to play Final Fantasy XII, and no one can stop me. Not even my older brother...

Come around March/April, Final Fantasy XII had just come out for the PS2, and it's the biggest RPG game of the year. You can bet your ass my brother was on that booty. He would constantly instant message me about the new things that were happening in the game, and how much he was in love with this new game with the new battle system. He was putting in mad hours into this game every weekend and whenever he found time to play after his studies. I could tell how much he was enjoying this game because of the intense storyline filled with political intrigue and MMO-esque battle system. I decided to tell my best friend, who had come to the same college as me, about the game because he also had a PS2. So he goes and buys it and starts playing...  he's also addicted. 
About 3 weeks go by and I'm going home (Tampa) for the weekend, and my best friend is giving me a ride home because I didn't have a car then and he also lives in Tampa. We get to my house, and my friend comes in to greet my parents and brother. Guess what happens... yeah... my brother and my friend are nerding out about FFXII.


My friend throws in his memory card into slot 2 and loads up his game so he can show my brother where he's at, and they're all spazzing out in excitement... it was pretty cringeworthy even for a fellow nerd like me... Anyhow, they're playing my friend's loaded game for a good 30 minutes while oo-ing and ah-ing at every little thing before my friend has to leave to go home. So naturally, my friend saves his game real fast but then... IT HAPPENS...  So, if any of you have played RPG games on the Playstation 1 or 2... when you save a game... you need this thing called a memory card... these memory cards go into these things called a memory slot... and when one saves their game onto their memory cards, the console by default will access the first memory slot to save to it. It will then ask the player if they want to ...( I SWEAR TO GOD, my hands are shaking right now as I type this... ).. . overwrite their previous save file with the current one, which a person will naturally press "YES". If you have played before, you know you just spam the crap out of "X" on your controller to get this tedious process over with as fast as possible... except... my friend's memory card was in slot 2... and my brother's memory card was in slot 1... so my friend overwrote his save file on my brother's save file...


Murphy's law states that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong... and unfortunately, in this case, it was true because my brother only had one save file of the game on his memory card... his 70 something hour save file on a story driven RPG game where every character is fully customized with unique skill trees and item sets...

There is this deafening silence for a good 10 seconds, followed by the frantic actions of my brother taking over the controller and rechecking the memory cards, restarting of game, booting up the save screen, booting up the memory card slot to check the saves... only to realize... it's actually gone.  He tried to act cool about it. He was such a champ about it... but even he couldn't hide his sadness and hurt from the situation and eventually just got up and walked to his room... he didn't cry... but we could tell he wanted to... my friend's face on the other hand... you could see how sorry he was but was helpless to do anything... the whole situation was so wrong... so painful... because no one was really at fault, there was no ill-intent in the whole situation... so my brother couldn't get angry at him, and my friend was just so sorry...


Eventually, my friend left... with his memory card, and I tried to get my brother's mind off the whole thing for the rest of the night, while trying to look up a different game for him... time went by, and my brother got over it, and he even attempted to play it again on two difference occasions. The second time he tried playing it, it was like half a year later and he played one sitting but stopped. The third time, he got about half way through, but then stopped again... a champion, I tell you.
What have I learned from this experience? Too much. Too much, I tell you. Ever since then, I've become a game save hoarder and a data/media hoarder. I. BACK. UP. EVERYTHING. Ever since that moment, I have gotten into a habit of saving and backing up every possible game save file, and I also back up too much media files on my PC also on multiple hard drives... because I fear that pain. The pain of losing the memories and joys. It has benefitted me~ I saved my PS3 game save files on a thumb drive (at least the ones that allow it), and my PS3 died on me twice, so it gave me relief... I saved my PS2 RPG games on multiple memory cards, and even found a way to save them on my PC... I even went and backed up my Playstation 1 RPG save files on my PC... how? It's complicated but I found a way... Most of the time, these actions are useless and wasted time... but if I remember back to that day... the pain... the indescribable heartbreak on my brother's face... I just do it... to be safe... to be able to sleep peacefully at night.


SORRY~ I DIDN'T PROOF READ HAD NO TIME!!!

[Michael]

Submissions are over. Thanks for participating, guys. Will announce winners tomorrow

[rowdy]

Good luck everyone

[YoungMichael88]

So, I spent a good 15 minutes or so roughly brainstorming about my past 20 years or so of gaming experiences in my life and so many things flashed through my mind~

Please press "MORE" for my long introduction:

More

From my earliest memories of playing the original Prince of Persia on PC when I was probably four or five...

For those who played this game... you know that sound... that death music... LOL!!!

Show Image

Playing Super Mario Bros 2 at my cousins house when I was 6...

Playing as Toad was probably still the most memorable thing for me~ So cute <3

Show Image

Playing Quake for the first time when I was 11 and falling in love with FPS games!!!

Oh~ this introductory hallway... so memorable~

Show Image

Installing ZSNES which opened so many doors to so many great classic Super Nintendo RPG games which I was never able to play when I was younger~ Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 3, 4, 5, Tales of Phantasia, Lufia series, and so many more... ZSNES was such a great thing for my childhood~

Look at this magical screen... even now, I love this software~

Show Image

Playing Diablo 1 at a friend's house... oh man... music of Tristram will never leave my soul... LOL!

Game: "Stay awhile and listen..."
Me: "HELL YEEEE!!!"
Game: "AH FRESH MEAT!!!"
Me: "NOPE NOPE NOPE. I REGRET EVERYTHING"

Show Image

1998 was a HUGE year for gaming for me. I got my first gaming console, the original Playstation, for Christmas when I was 12 (yes... I actually never owned my own gaming console until I was 12... even though I did have the PC). Many of you know that feeling of receiving a gaming console for Christmas as a child... it is an easily forgotten moment, but if you reflect on it... it was probably still one of the greatest joys you've ever felt in your life. LOL!!!

Show Image

So many great gaming things happened in 1998...

Show Image

Show Image

Oh god... Metal Gear Solid... probably still my favorite game of all time...

Show Image

Show Image

Show Image

Oh the terrors of Resident Evil 2... this game literally gave me nightmares... but I kept coming back for me... the atmosphere of this game was unbeatable at the time... that first Licker encounter... NOPE.gif

Show Image

Show Image

Suikoden II ~ Probably the greatest JRPG of all time. No. It is the greatest JRPG of all time.

Show Image

I was also introduced to this revoluntionary JRPG...

Show Image

There are so many great moments in this game, but the introduction Mako Reactor scenario is still the most memorable part.

Seriously may be one of the greatest RPG intros ever, if not the greatest.

Confession of a PS fanboy of past:

More

I admit... I had the occasional affair with Zelda Ocarina of Time at K-Mart...

Show Image

I feel blessed to have been born early enough to have been around to experience these historical games in their prime. They filled my childhood with great memories of happiness and joy. The memories of sitting in my living room with my younger brother playing these action and RPG games, experiencing the story, the music, and atmosphere are truly unforgettable. Even all the trouble, fights, and ass-whoopings we got for playing too much are great memories for me.  However, even with all these great childhood gaming experiences... I didn't have the most "MEMORABLE" video gaming experience until 2006... I believe for most people, their most memorable gaming experiences may be of the enjoyable kind... However, for me, it was of the unpleasant type.

Being the older sibling between me and my brother, I had much of the playtime on the gaming consoles, and my brother was usually left with less time playing, and was for the most part, a spectator. This wasn't really forced, and he was a willing spectator because of his young age and unwillingness to experience difficult challenges in some of the more intense and scary games like Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil 2, Parasite Eve, etc.  However, his love for  RPG games was unparalleled. Having grown up watching me play so many RPG titles from his toddler age to his early teens, he only chose to play RPG games when it was his turn to play.  Because I was the one who spent majority of the time playing, it makes so much sense that he would cherish his playtime so much... the pains and woes of the younger sibling...
In retrospect... even if he didn't feel that way... I feel like...

Show Image

Anyhow, after I graduated from high school in 2005 (YES I'M OLD. LEAVE ME ALONE), I moved away from home, and also left behind my gaming consoles and PC to my brother. I can only imagine the freedom he felt was similar to that of how I felt moving out of the house. LOL!

Show Image

Fast forward about nearly a year, and he has become an intense high school student in an IB program in a very competitive school where  all his peers are at each other's throats for the highest scores...The majority of his classmates, with him included, had the highest GPA's and test scores in the state... freaking Asians, I tell you... Anyhow, I digress. It doesn't help that he had Hyperthyroidism at this time and was always anxious because of his fast heart rate and voracious metabolism. Being the super stressed out student that he was, his only release for stress and enjoyment was from the RPG games he played, and was still in the honeymoon stages with the Playstation 2, after I had given him 100% reign over it since I left.  He was the king on his throne, and he was allowed to do whatever he willed...

Today, I choose to play Final Fantasy XII, and no one can stop me. Not even my older brother...

Show Image

Come around March/April, Final Fantasy XII had just come out for the PS2, and it's the biggest RPG game of the year. You can bet your ass my brother was on that booty. He would constantly instant message me about the new things that were happening in the game, and how much he was in love with this new game with the new battle system. He was putting in mad hours into this game every weekend and whenever he found time to play after his studies. I could tell how much he was enjoying this game because of the intense storyline filled with political intrigue and MMO-esque battle system. I decided to tell my best friend, who had come to the same college as me, about the game because he also had a PS2. So he goes and buys it and starts playing...  he's also addicted. 
About 3 weeks go by and I'm going home (Tampa) for the weekend, and my best friend is giving me a ride home because I didn't have a car then and he also lives in Tampa. We get to my house, and my friend comes in to greet my parents and brother. Guess what happens... yeah... my brother and my friend are nerding out about FFXII.

Show Image

My friend throws in his memory card into slot 2 and loads up his game so he can show my brother where he's at, and they're all spazzing out in excitement... it was pretty cringeworthy even for a fellow nerd like me... Anyhow, they're playing my friend's loaded game for a good 30 minutes while oo-ing and ah-ing at every little thing before my friend has to leave to go home. So naturally, my friend saves his game real fast but then... IT HAPPENS...  So, if any of you have played RPG games on the Playstation 1 or 2... when you save a game... you need this thing called a memory card... these memory cards go into these things called a memory slot... and when one saves their game onto their memory cards, the console by default will access the first memory slot to save to it. It will then ask the player if they want to ...( I SWEAR TO GOD, my hands are shaking right now as I type this... ).. . overwrite their previous save file with the current one, which a person will naturally press "YES". If you have played before, you know you just spam the crap out of "X" on your controller to get this tedious process over with as fast as possible... except... my friend's memory card was in slot 2... and my brother's memory card was in slot 1... so my friend overwrote his save file on my brother's save file...

Show Image

Murphy's law states that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong... and unfortunately, in this case, it was true because my brother only had one save file of the game on his memory card... his 70 something hour save file on a story driven RPG game where every character is fully customized with unique skill trees and item sets...

Show Image

There is this deafening silence for a good 10 seconds, followed by the frantic actions of my brother taking over the controller and rechecking the memory cards, restarting of game, booting up the save screen, booting up the memory card slot to check the saves... only to realize... it's actually gone.  He tried to act cool about it. He was such a champ about it... but even he couldn't hide his sadness and hurt from the situation and eventually just got up and walked to his room... he didn't cry... but we could tell he wanted to... my friend's face on the other hand... you could see how sorry he was but was helpless to do anything... the whole situation was so wrong... so painful... because no one was really at fault, there was no ill-intent in the whole situation... so my brother couldn't get angry at him, and my friend was just so sorry...

Show Image

Eventually, my friend left... with his memory card, and I tried to get my brother's mind off the whole thing for the rest of the night, while trying to look up a different game for him... time went by, and my brother got over it, and he even attempted to play it again on two difference occasions. The second time he tried playing it, it was like half a year later and he played one sitting but stopped. The third time, he got about half way through, but then stopped again... a champion, I tell you.
What have I learned from this experience? Too much. Too much, I tell you. Ever since then, I've become a game save hoarder and a data/media hoarder. I. BACK. UP. EVERYTHING. Ever since that moment, I have gotten into a habit of saving and backing up every possible game save file, and I also back up too much media files on my PC also on multiple hard drives... because I fear that pain. The pain of losing the memories and joys. It has benefitted me~ I saved my PS3 game save files on a thumb drive (at least the ones that allow it), and my PS3 died on me twice, so it gave me relief... I saved my PS2 RPG games on multiple memory cards, and even found a way to save them on my PC... I even went and backed up my Playstation 1 RPG save files on my PC... how? It's complicated but I found a way... Most of the time, these actions are useless and wasted time... but if I remember back to that day... the pain... the indescribable heartbreak on my brother's face... I just do it... to be safe... to be able to sleep peacefully at night.


SORRY~ I DIDN'T PROOF READ :( HAD NO TIME!!!

This is absolutely a TLDR situation. The effort alone deserves some kind of prize! Just not mine OK?

[VesperSAINT]

Good luck everyone

Good luck to you too <3

This is absolutely a TLDR situation. The effort alone deserves some kind of prize! Just not mine OK?

Hehehe~ I actually typed this with an hour and some minutes left before deadline... I wasn't even able to proofread and edit it because I submitted it with 3 minutes to spare, and then went back to edit/modify my spacing, before saving with like 9 seconds to spare... LOLOL!!! I had to rush the ending so bad... I haven't even bothered reading over it because I'm so embarrassed by the rushed ending...

Good luck to you too  <3<3<3 I hope you don't win "mine" either!!! HUE!

You just reminded me I have to go back and read everyone else's!!!

[clacktalk]

Good luck everyone

Good luck to you too <3

This is absolutely a TLDR situation. The effort alone deserves some kind of prize! Just not mine OK?

Hehehe~ I actually typed this with an hour and some minutes left before deadline... I wasn't even able to proofread and edit it because I submitted it with 3 minutes to spare, and then went back to edit/modify my spacing, before saving with like 9 seconds to spare... LOLOL!!! I had to rush the ending so bad... I haven't even bothered reading over it because I'm so embarrassed by the rushed ending...

Good luck to you too  <3<3<3 I hope you don't win "mine" either!!! HUE!

You just reminded me I have to go back and read everyone else's!!!

yo even getting it done is an accomplishments. ten points to gryffindor

[VesperSAINT]

yo even getting it done is an accomplishments. ten points to gryffindor

thanks, bae <3

[Sed8op8]

So, I spent a good 15 minutes or so roughly brainstorming about my past 20 years or so of gaming experiences in my life and so many things flashed through my mind~

Please press "MORE" for my long introduction:

More

From my earliest memories of playing the original Prince of Persia on PC when I was probably four or five...

For those who played this game... you know that sound... that death music... LOL!!!

Show Image

Playing Super Mario Bros 2 at my cousins house when I was 6...

Playing as Toad was probably still the most memorable thing for me~ So cute <3

Show Image

Playing Quake for the first time when I was 11 and falling in love with FPS games!!!

Oh~ this introductory hallway... so memorable~

Show Image

Installing ZSNES which opened so many doors to so many great classic Super Nintendo RPG games which I was never able to play when I was younger~ Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 3, 4, 5, Tales of Phantasia, Lufia series, and so many more... ZSNES was such a great thing for my childhood~

Look at this magical screen... even now, I love this software~

Show Image

Playing Diablo 1 at a friend's house... oh man... music of Tristram will never leave my soul... LOL!

Game: "Stay awhile and listen..."
Me: "HELL YEEEE!!!"
Game: "AH FRESH MEAT!!!"
Me: "NOPE NOPE NOPE. I REGRET EVERYTHING"

Show Image

1998 was a HUGE year for gaming for me. I got my first gaming console, the original Playstation, for Christmas when I was 12 (yes... I actually never owned my own gaming console until I was 12... even though I did have the PC). Many of you know that feeling of receiving a gaming console for Christmas as a child... it is an easily forgotten moment, but if you reflect on it... it was probably still one of the greatest joys you've ever felt in your life. LOL!!!

Show Image

So many great gaming things happened in 1998...

Show Image

Show Image

Oh god... Metal Gear Solid... probably still my favorite game of all time...

Show Image

Show Image

Show Image

Oh the terrors of Resident Evil 2... this game literally gave me nightmares... but I kept coming back for me... the atmosphere of this game was unbeatable at the time... that first Licker encounter... NOPE.gif

Show Image

Show Image

Suikoden II ~ Probably the greatest JRPG of all time. No. It is the greatest JRPG of all time.

Show Image

I was also introduced to this revoluntionary JRPG...

Show Image

There are so many great moments in this game, but the introduction Mako Reactor scenario is still the most memorable part.

Seriously may be one of the greatest RPG intros ever, if not the greatest.

Confession of a PS fanboy of past:

More

I admit... I had the occasional affair with Zelda Ocarina of Time at K-Mart...

Show Image

I feel blessed to have been born early enough to have been around to experience these historical games in their prime. They filled my childhood with great memories of happiness and joy. The memories of sitting in my living room with my younger brother playing these action and RPG games, experiencing the story, the music, and atmosphere are truly unforgettable. Even all the trouble, fights, and ass-whoopings we got for playing too much are great memories for me.  However, even with all these great childhood gaming experiences... I didn't have the most "MEMORABLE" video gaming experience until 2006... I believe for most people, their most memorable gaming experiences may be of the enjoyable kind... However, for me, it was of the unpleasant type.

Being the older sibling between me and my brother, I had much of the playtime on the gaming consoles, and my brother was usually left with less time playing, and was for the most part, a spectator. This wasn't really forced, and he was a willing spectator because of his young age and unwillingness to experience difficult challenges in some of the more intense and scary games like Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil 2, Parasite Eve, etc.  However, his love for  RPG games was unparalleled. Having grown up watching me play so many RPG titles from his toddler age to his early teens, he only chose to play RPG games when it was his turn to play.  Because I was the one who spent majority of the time playing, it makes so much sense that he would cherish his playtime so much... the pains and woes of the younger sibling...
In retrospect... even if he didn't feel that way... I feel like...

Show Image

Anyhow, after I graduated from high school in 2005 (YES I'M OLD. LEAVE ME ALONE), I moved away from home, and also left behind my gaming consoles and PC to my brother. I can only imagine the freedom he felt was similar to that of how I felt moving out of the house. LOL!

Show Image

Fast forward about nearly a year, and he has become an intense high school student in an IB program in a very competitive school where  all his peers are at each other's throats for the highest scores...The majority of his classmates, with him included, had the highest GPA's and test scores in the state... freaking Asians, I tell you... Anyhow, I digress. It doesn't help that he had Hyperthyroidism at this time and was always anxious because of his fast heart rate and voracious metabolism. Being the super stressed out student that he was, his only release for stress and enjoyment was from the RPG games he played, and was still in the honeymoon stages with the Playstation 2, after I had given him 100% reign over it since I left.  He was the king on his throne, and he was allowed to do whatever he willed...

Today, I choose to play Final Fantasy XII, and no one can stop me. Not even my older brother...

Show Image

Come around March/April, Final Fantasy XII had just come out for the PS2, and it's the biggest RPG game of the year. You can bet your ass my brother was on that booty. He would constantly instant message me about the new things that were happening in the game, and how much he was in love with this new game with the new battle system. He was putting in mad hours into this game every weekend and whenever he found time to play after his studies. I could tell how much he was enjoying this game because of the intense storyline filled with political intrigue and MMO-esque battle system. I decided to tell my best friend, who had come to the same college as me, about the game because he also had a PS2. So he goes and buys it and starts playing...  he's also addicted. 
About 3 weeks go by and I'm going home (Tampa) for the weekend, and my best friend is giving me a ride home because I didn't have a car then and he also lives in Tampa. We get to my house, and my friend comes in to greet my parents and brother. Guess what happens... yeah... my brother and my friend are nerding out about FFXII.

Show Image

My friend throws in his memory card into slot 2 and loads up his game so he can show my brother where he's at, and they're all spazzing out in excitement... it was pretty cringeworthy even for a fellow nerd like me... Anyhow, they're playing my friend's loaded game for a good 30 minutes while oo-ing and ah-ing at every little thing before my friend has to leave to go home. So naturally, my friend saves his game real fast but then... IT HAPPENS...  So, if any of you have played RPG games on the Playstation 1 or 2... when you save a game... you need this thing called a memory card... these memory cards go into these things called a memory slot... and when one saves their game onto their memory cards, the console by default will access the first memory slot to save to it. It will then ask the player if they want to ...( I SWEAR TO GOD, my hands are shaking right now as I type this... ).. . overwrite their previous save file with the current one, which a person will naturally press "YES". If you have played before, you know you just spam the crap out of "X" on your controller to get this tedious process over with as fast as possible... except... my friend's memory card was in slot 2... and my brother's memory card was in slot 1... so my friend overwrote his save file on my brother's save file...

Show Image

Murphy's law states that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong... and unfortunately, in this case, it was true because my brother only had one save file of the game on his memory card... his 70 something hour save file on a story driven RPG game where every character is fully customized with unique skill trees and item sets...

Show Image

There is this deafening silence for a good 10 seconds, followed by the frantic actions of my brother taking over the controller and rechecking the memory cards, restarting of game, booting up the save screen, booting up the memory card slot to check the saves... only to realize... it's actually gone.  He tried to act cool about it. He was such a champ about it... but even he couldn't hide his sadness and hurt from the situation and eventually just got up and walked to his room... he didn't cry... but we could tell he wanted to... my friend's face on the other hand... you could see how sorry he was but was helpless to do anything... the whole situation was so wrong... so painful... because no one was really at fault, there was no ill-intent in the whole situation... so my brother couldn't get angry at him, and my friend was just so sorry...

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Eventually, my friend left... with his memory card, and I tried to get my brother's mind off the whole thing for the rest of the night, while trying to look up a different game for him... time went by, and my brother got over it, and he even attempted to play it again on two difference occasions. The second time he tried playing it, it was like half a year later and he played one sitting but stopped. The third time, he got about half way through, but then stopped again... a champion, I tell you.
What have I learned from this experience? Too much. Too much, I tell you. Ever since then, I've become a game save hoarder and a data/media hoarder. I. BACK. UP. EVERYTHING. Ever since that moment, I have gotten into a habit of saving and backing up every possible game save file, and I also back up too much media files on my PC also on multiple hard drives... because I fear that pain. The pain of losing the memories and joys. It has benefitted me~ I saved my PS3 game save files on a thumb drive (at least the ones that allow it), and my PS3 died on me twice, so it gave me relief... I saved my PS2 RPG games on multiple memory cards, and even found a way to save them on my PC... I even went and backed up my Playstation 1 RPG save files on my PC... how? It's complicated but I found a way... Most of the time, these actions are useless and wasted time... but if I remember back to that day... the pain... the indescribable heartbreak on my brother's face... I just do it... to be safe... to be able to sleep peacefully at night.


SORRY~ I DIDN'T PROOF READ :( HAD NO TIME!!!

Oh man I loved this Vesper it brought back so many meories of my own the NES Game Rygar,faxanadu,the original final fantasy and then final fantasy 2,3 on Snes, god every early square soft game(wow I forgot final fantasy7 looked like that ruby and emerald weapon anyone<3) ,Lufia 1 and 2,Breath of fire series,Dragon Quest, California games. Metroid series,excite bike,rad racer,Zelda series,metal gear solid,mega man,Elder Scrolls oh God the list goes on and on haha . I wish I hadn't chose to write and submit mine on my phone but it was the only free time I had before the end of contest. Thanks everyone for the great reads and good luck!!!!!

[YoungMichael88]

The Diablo 1 part I found particularly nostalgic. Me and by brother would tie up the phone line with dial up for hours and argue so much over who's turn it was that my parents scheduled hour long sessions for each of us. Those were the days.

[baldgye]

TIL that me and Vesper are about the same age.

Also this **** has gotten me to finally start writing up my story and feelings about racing a 'srs' online racing league that I joined and spent the best part of a year competing in...

[Joey Quinn]

I invested way too many hours in some dumb games as a kid, totally worth it but they were some dumb games.

[Belfong]

I saw Prince of Persia! In colour! When I played PoP, it was just green screen. I'm old!!!

[CPTBadAss]

****ing hell VesperSAINT. Why'd you have to go and remind me of all those miserable moments when you watch people accidentally nuke their games.

Like the time my friend accidentally stole a knife in front one of the main story NPCs in Morrowind and forgot to save. So each time he reloaded from the built in check point, all we saw was the NPC charging him and killing him with one strike. He lost like 30 hours of gameplay and character building.

Or the time my friend forgot to save in Splinter Cell after playing for like 8 hours. He tried to hack a computer but it was a decoy and blew up.

[VesperSAINT]

Oh man I loved this Vesper it brought back so many meories of my own the NES Game Rygar,faxanadu,the original final fantasy and then final fantasy 2,3 on Snes, god every early square soft game(wow I forgot final fantasy7 looked like that ruby and emerald weapon anyone<3) ,Lufia 1 and 2,Breath of fire series,Dragon Quest, California games. Metroid series,excite bike,rad racer,Zelda series,metal gear solid,mega man,Elder Scrolls oh God the list goes on and on haha . I wish I hadn't chose to write and submit mine on my phone but it was the only free time I had before the end of contest. Thanks everyone for the great reads and good luck!!!!!

Yeah!!! Those games you listed are all so great. The Super Nintendo and Playstation 1 had the best RPG games ever. The Playstation 2 comes close, but can't beat those titles on SNES and PSX! The list is unending... I could write a couple thousand word essay on them... seriously.

I'm glad you were able to nostalgia though <3

The Diablo 1 part I found particularly nostalgic. Me and by brother would tie up the phone line with dial up for hours and argue so much over who's turn it was that my parents scheduled hour long sessions for each of us. Those were the days.

BRO, I TOTALLY GET YOU. Having Asian parents, my brother and I always had assigned time slots, but I always ended up playing more because my bro would end up screwing up, and he'd let me take over. But yeah... I remember playing on Brood War on dial-up, and my mom would complain about the phone calls not coming in, so we'd end up only being able to play at night

Diablo 1 was such an atmospheric game... music of Tristram, the dungeon music, the monster sounds... even the obnoxious attack contact sound... screw it~ Youtubing Tristram Village song right now!!! LOL!!!

TIL that me and Vesper are about the same age.

Also this **** has gotten me to finally start writing up my story and feelings about racing a 'srs' online racing league that I joined and spent the best part of a year competing in...

I knew there was a reason you and I clicked so well <3<3<3

I saw Prince of Persia! In colour! When I played PoP, it was just green screen. I'm old!!!

HAHAHAHA!!! You are old!

JK~ Love you <3

****ing hell VesperSAINT. Why'd you have to go and remind me of all those miserable moments when you watch people accidentally nuke their games.

Like the time my friend accidentally stole a knife in front one of the main story NPCs in Morrowind and forgot to save. So each time he reloaded from the built in check point, all we saw was the NPC charging him and killing him with one strike. He lost like 30 hours of gameplay and character building.

Or the time my friend forgot to save in Splinter Cell after playing for like 8 hours. He tried to hack a computer but it was a decoy and blew up.

HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! That was the whole point of my story!!! It's why it was so memorable for me... a real lesson learned... even to this day...

OMG... I feel sorry for your friend, dood. REAL EMPATHY HERE... 30-70 hours doesn't sound like too much these days but back then... we took our RPG games serious!!! Just thinking about losing a save file before finishing the game... I wouldn't wish that upon even my worse enemies...

HAHAHAHAAHAH!!! The Splinter Cell one is hilarious though HUEHUEHUE... reminds me of when I was going for the Big Boss titles in Metal Gear Solid 4... baldgye knows what I'm talking about it...

[CPTBadAss]

BRO, I TOTALLY GET YOU. Having Asian parents, my brother and I always had assigned time slots, but I always ended up playing more because my bro would end up screwing up, and he'd let me take over. But yeah... I remember playing on Brood War on dial-up, and my mom would complain about the phone calls not coming in, so we'd end up only being able to play at night

Diablo 1 was such an atmospheric game... music of Tristram, the dungeon music, the monster sounds... even the obnoxious attack contact sound... screw it~ Youtubing Tristram Village song right now!!! LOL!!!

* CPTBadAss sniffles

It's like we had the same childhood. Brood War and Diablo 1 and Lord of Destruction on Dial up <3

[VesperSAINT]

BRO, I TOTALLY GET YOU. Having Asian parents, my brother and I always had assigned time slots, but I always ended up playing more because my bro would end up screwing up, and he'd let me take over. But yeah... I remember playing on Brood War on dial-up, and my mom would complain about the phone calls not coming in, so we'd end up only being able to play at night

Diablo 1 was such an atmospheric game... music of Tristram, the dungeon music, the monster sounds... even the obnoxious attack contact sound... screw it~ Youtubing Tristram Village song right now!!! LOL!!!

* CPTBadAss sniffles

It's like we had the same childhood. Brood War and Diablo 1 and Lord of Destruction on Dial up <3

There there, Anson ~ <3 *Vesper back hugs CPT

I didn't really get to play Diablo 1 too much on dial-up, but man... Brood War on dial-up was... too good. I didn't get to play Lord of Destruction until a lil' bit after it came out, but never got too into it. Yes yes, I know... it was a legendary game... but during that time... I was already too sucked into Counter-Strike You know how that turned out... 16 years has gone by... I'm still playing the series...

[baldgye]

BRO, I TOTALLY GET YOU. Having Asian parents, my brother and I always had assigned time slots, but I always ended up playing more because my bro would end up screwing up, and he'd let me take over. But yeah... I remember playing on Brood War on dial-up, and my mom would complain about the phone calls not coming in, so we'd end up only being able to play at night

Diablo 1 was such an atmospheric game... music of Tristram, the dungeon music, the monster sounds... even the obnoxious attack contact sound... screw it~ Youtubing Tristram Village song right now!!! LOL!!!

* CPTBadAss sniffles

It's like we had the same childhood. Brood War and Diablo 1 and Lord of Destruction on Dial up <3

while I wouldn't trade my childhood of Doom over ipx for anything... I wish I grew up with broodwar...

[VesperSAINT]

BRO, I TOTALLY GET YOU. Having Asian parents, my brother and I always had assigned time slots, but I always ended up playing more because my bro would end up screwing up, and he'd let me take over. But yeah... I remember playing on Brood War on dial-up, and my mom would complain about the phone calls not coming in, so we'd end up only being able to play at night

Diablo 1 was such an atmospheric game... music of Tristram, the dungeon music, the monster sounds... even the obnoxious attack contact sound... screw it~ Youtubing Tristram Village song right now!!! LOL!!!

* CPTBadAss sniffles

It's like we had the same childhood. Brood War and Diablo 1 and Lord of Destruction on Dial up <3

while I wouldn't trade my childhood of Doom over ipx for anything... I wish I grew up with broodwar...

Quake. I used to be obsessed with that game...

But when it came to multiplayer~ Brood War and Counter-Strike was where it was at

I recently replayed Doom 1 and 2. Still great even to this day.

[Sed8op8]

*cries*
*mumbles* stoopid topre people
*grumbles*

don't forget Buckling spring people Blacke  Max from Phosphorglow has my SSK and each time I pics of his work my excitement grows.

[JPG]

Anyone had the fun to enjoy free 33.6 dialup with banners (well with something to hide the banner for sure)?

[baldgye]

BRO, I TOTALLY GET YOU. Having Asian parents, my brother and I always had assigned time slots, but I always ended up playing more because my bro would end up screwing up, and he'd let me take over. But yeah... I remember playing on Brood War on dial-up, and my mom would complain about the phone calls not coming in, so we'd end up only being able to play at night

Diablo 1 was such an atmospheric game... music of Tristram, the dungeon music, the monster sounds... even the obnoxious attack contact sound... screw it~ Youtubing Tristram Village song right now!!! LOL!!!

* CPTBadAss sniffles

It's like we had the same childhood. Brood War and Diablo 1 and Lord of Destruction on Dial up <3

while I wouldn't trade my childhood of Doom over ipx for anything... I wish I grew up with broodwar...

Quake. I used to be obsessed with that game...

But when it came to multiplayer~ Brood War and Counter-Strike was where it was at

I recently replayed Doom 1 and 2. Still great even to this day.

Quake 2 for me, but mp didn't get real for me until CS:S... played that on dialup b/c HELL YEAH BOIS and was awesome, could only play after 7 tho because thats when the internet was free

[atlas3686]

Awesome, we can comment on these great stories now! I am going to have to go back and read my favourites again. Good luck everyone!

Joey Quinn: Loved your story reminds me quite a bit of my early childhood, I also didn't get a console until quite a bit later and even when I did games were very limited/expensive (SEGA master system with alex the kid built in - damn that was a tough game ). So I also spent a lot of time persuading my parents to allow me to stay with friends so I could play games.

Nubs: Your story about America's Army made me think of the TF2 community I play with here in SA, great bunch of people who I have gotten to know pretty well over the years. It makes such a difference to play a game with a community of people you actually like.

Madhais: I had a similar experience, my dad finally cracked after much pressure from me and bought himself a siemens laptop (pentium 1 - 8mb ram). Getting to use it was a whole new argument though

Belfong: I love that GTA taught you to drive on the other side of the road, we also drive on the left here so it's something I think has helped me as well on the few occasions I've gotten to drive in a country that drives on the other side. I remember when I got the demo for GTA (1), it was a timed demo instead of some other limitation so I remember spending so much time trying to get as far in the city as I could before the demo timer ran out. It was such a great game and so different for the time.

[GenKaan]

BRO, I TOTALLY GET YOU. Having Asian parents, my brother and I always had assigned time slots, but I always ended up playing more because my bro would end up screwing up, and he'd let me take over. But yeah... I remember playing on Brood War on dial-up, and my mom would complain about the phone calls not coming in, so we'd end up only being able to play at night

Diablo 1 was such an atmospheric game... music of Tristram, the dungeon music, the monster sounds... even the obnoxious attack contact sound... screw it~ Youtubing Tristram Village song right now!!! LOL!!!

* CPTBadAss sniffles

It's like we had the same childhood. Brood War and Diablo 1 and Lord of Destruction on Dial up <3

while I wouldn't trade my childhood of Doom over ipx for anything... I wish I grew up with broodwar...

Quake. I used to be obsessed with that game...

But when it came to multiplayer~ Brood War and Counter-Strike was where it was at

I recently replayed Doom 1 and 2. Still great even to this day.

Quake 2 for me, but mp didn't get real for me until CS:S... played that on dialup b/c HELL YEAH BOIS and was awesome, could only play after 7 tho because thats when the internet was free

Thought at first RPG was my thing but after Golden Eye I knew I was a FPS junky. Liked Quake a lot, liked Unreal Tournament as well but they felt too random. After I got into counter-strike a lifelong borderline obsession with FPS has consumed me

Grew up on a farm so internet wasn't an option. So I took every chance to pack my stuff up and move to friends places and lan parties. Won my first offline tournament when I was like 13 and got my first sponsor at 17, but real life kicked in around when I finished school and the team split up due to.. real... life :,(

[Sed8op8]

BRO, I TOTALLY GET YOU. Having Asian parents, my brother and I always had assigned time slots, but I always ended up playing more because my bro would end up screwing up, and he'd let me take over. But yeah... I remember playing on Brood War on dial-up, and my mom would complain about the phone calls not coming in, so we'd end up only being able to play at night

Diablo 1 was such an atmospheric game... music of Tristram, the dungeon music, the monster sounds... even the obnoxious attack contact sound... screw it~ Youtubing Tristram Village song right now!!! LOL!!!

* CPTBadAss sniffles

It's like we had the same childhood. Brood War and Diablo 1 and Lord of Destruction on Dial up <3

while I wouldn't trade my childhood of Doom over ipx for anything... I wish I grew up with broodwar...

Quake. I used to be obsessed with that game...

But when it came to multiplayer~ Brood War and Counter-Strike was where it was at

I recently replayed Doom 1 and 2. Still great even to this day.

Quake 2 for me, but mp didn't get real for me until CS:S... played that on dialup b/c HELL YEAH BOIS and was awesome, could only play after 7 tho because thats when the internet was free

Thought at first RPG was my thing but after Golden Eye I knew I was a FPS junky. Liked Quake a lot, liked Unreal Tournament as well but they felt too random. After I got into counter-strike a lifelong borderline obsession with FPS has consumed me

Grew up on a farm so internet wasn't an option. So I took every chance to pack my stuff up and move to friends places and lan parties. Won my first offline tournament when I was like 13 and got my first sponsor at 17, but real life kicked in around when I finished school and the team split up due to.. real... life :,(

For me the 2 FPS games that really turned me on to the genre were Tom Clancys Ghost Recon Advanced war Fighter 2 and of course counter strike. My gaming today is more varied though I LOVE Sandbox games Elder Scrolls from Morrowind to Skyrim, Fallout, Grand theft Auto (just bought GTA V for PC ), Borderlands, Was really into WoW from Vanilla to Cataclysm and have been kind of feeling the urge to start playing again. I returned my Gigabyte G1 970 due to some problems and have about $400 in Newegg credit but I have been waiting for AMD to drop there new cards for what seems like forever now. I have all these new games and things I need to finish on my main PC so I'm tempted to just say screw it and get another 970 8( I have waited this long I must resist the urge. I just went over some of my favorites and these stories bring back so many memories lol Seeing 8-16bit games now makes me giggle as I remember thinking the SNES had the sickest graphics. Great work guys and good luck everyone! 

[3Love]

Where is the winner list?

[robotox]

Man, if we're just talking about what games we loved as kids in general, there are so, so many.  All the NES Marios, my cousin and I played hours of Battletoads every Sunday when we got together at my grandma's house.  The trading and collecting and battling of the original Pokemon games.  I played Tetris, Metroid II, and Super Mario Land 2 over and over and over again on my second-hand Gameboy.  I got a Genesis with Sonic 2 for Christmas one year and played the absolute hell out of it.  All the Final Fantasy games, particularly 7, 8, and 9.  Quake, both 1 and 2, and Unreal.  Resident Evil 2, Jet Moto, etc.  I loved the two Metroid games for Gameboy Advance.  All the Mariokart games.  I could go on forever.

[nubbinator]

Where is the winner list?

[VesperSAINT]

Quake. I used to be obsessed with that game...

But when it came to multiplayer~ Brood War and Counter-Strike was where it was at

I recently replayed Doom 1 and 2. Still great even to this day.

Quake 2 for me, but mp didn't get real for me until CS:S... played that on dialup b/c HELL YEAH BOIS and was awesome, could only play after 7 tho because thats when the internet was free

Oo, Quake 2 was something I didn't get into too much because that was my ZSNES stage, and I was playing pretty much mainly old school RPG games. However, my secondary school at the time would have end of year play days, and all the guys would go to the computer rooms and play Quake 2 multiplayer with each other. Man, those were good times.

I didn't personally own CS:S on my account but I did play an extensive amount on my brother's account. Crackhouse and the Zombie mod took up 99% of my time on that game.

Quake. I used to be obsessed with that game...

But when it came to multiplayer~ Brood War and Counter-Strike was where it was at

I recently replayed Doom 1 and 2. Still great even to this day.

Quake 2 for me, but mp didn't get real for me until CS:S... played that on dialup b/c HELL YEAH BOIS and was awesome, could only play after 7 tho because thats when the internet was free

Thought at first RPG was my thing but after Golden Eye I knew I was a FPS junky. Liked Quake a lot, liked Unreal Tournament as well but they felt too random. After I got into counter-strike a lifelong borderline obsession with FPS has consumed me

Grew up on a farm so internet wasn't an option. So I took every chance to pack my stuff up and move to friends places and lan parties. Won my first offline tournament when I was like 13 and got my first sponsor at 17, but real life kicked in around when I finished school and the team split up due to.. real... life :,(

Unreal Tournament was one that I played quite a bit of too! Except it wasn't as addicting as Counter-Strike. I think I preferred Quake Arena over it too. Whenever I think Unreal Tournament, I mainly think Unreal Engine and Deus Ex.

NICE, DOOD!!! Getting sponsored to play! You must have been really good!!! Do you play CS:GO? You should train me HUE. I'm the most undisciplined player. Hahaha ~

For me the 2 FPS games that really turned me on to the genre were Tom Clancys Ghost Recon Advanced war Fighter 2 and of course counter strike. My gaming today is more varied though I LOVE Sandbox games Elder Scrolls from Morrowind to Skyrim, Fallout, Grand theft Auto (just bought GTA V for PC ), Borderlands, Was really into WoW from Vanilla to Cataclysm and have been kind of feeling the urge to start playing again. I returned my Gigabyte G1 970 due to some problems and have about $400 in Newegg credit but I have been waiting for AMD to drop there new cards for what seems like forever now. I have all these new games and things I need to finish on my main PC so I'm tempted to just say screw it and get another 970 8( I have waited this long I must resist the urge. I just went over some of my favorites and these stories bring back so many memories lol Seeing 8-16bit games now makes me giggle as I remember thinking the SNES had the sickest graphics. Great work guys and good luck everyone! 

If you like sandbox and FPS games, you should really try out the STALKER series... it's one of my favorite series of all time. It's so immersive and atmospheric... I may even say it's my favorite FPS series...

[nubbinator]

I forgot about STALKER.  I've heard you really need to mod it to make it less clunky though.

[Joey Quinn]

This thread is making me feel old and really young at the same time. I'm remembering all the stuff I played years ago. At the same time I'm reading about all these games I've never heard of that came out before I was born.

[VesperSAINT]

I forgot about STALKER.  I've heard you really need to mod it to make it less clunky though.

It depends on the game. All 3 can be greatly improved with mods, but doesn't mean the vanilla games are bad (at least not 1 and 3). Skyrim is a great game but better with mods

Shadows of Chernobyl is pretty damn good stock, and I think it's still the best one in the series, even if it's lacking many of the newer features in the later games. The atmosphere and mood of this one is truly a classic.

Clear Sky was the true failure of the series. Not only was it insanely buggy, but the entire game was just disappointing in almost every regard compared to the previous game.

Call of Pripyat was great! It did have some bugs in it, but overall it was definitely a huge improvement over the second game, and had newer features than the first. I'd say it's almost tied with the first game.

This thread is making me feel old and really young at the same time. I'm remembering all the stuff I played years ago. At the same time I'm reading about all these games I've never heard of that came out before I was born.

Baby D, yo. You missed out The 90's and early 2000's were the golden times for games, IMO

But if I think about it, memories of gaming as a child and young adult life is always probably going to be the best.

[Joey Quinn]

Awesome, we can comment on these great stories now! I am going to have to go back and read my favourites again. Good luck everyone!

Joey Quinn: Loved your story reminds me quite a bit of my early childhood, I also didn't get a console until quite a bit later and even when I did games were very limited/expensive (SEGA master system with alex the kid built in - damn that was a tough game ). So I also spent a lot of time persuading my parents to allow me to stay with friends so I could play games.

I just saw this. Glad you liked it. I really enjoyed thinking about my early gaming days. I thought I was being so sly but I know my parents always saw the sleepover coming.  )

[Air tree]

I forgot about STALKER.  I've heard you really need to mod it to make it less clunky though.

It depends on the game. All 3 can be greatly improved with mods, but doesn't mean the vanilla games are bad (at least not 1 and 3). Skyrim is a great game but better with mods

Shadows of Chernobyl is pretty damn good stock, and I think it's still the best one in the series, even if it's lacking many of the newer features in the later games. The atmosphere and mood of this one is truly a classic.

Clear Sky was the true failure of the series. Not only was it insanely buggy, but the entire game was just disappointing in almost every regard compared to the previous game.

Call of Pripyat was great! It did have some bugs in it, but overall it was definitely a huge improvement over the second game, and had newer features than the first. I'd say it's almost tied with the first game.

This thread is making me feel old and really young at the same time. I'm remembering all the stuff I played years ago. At the same time I'm reading about all these games I've never heard of that came out before I was born.

Baby D, yo. You missed out The 90's and early 2000's were the golden times for games, IMO

But if I think about it, memories of gaming as a child and young adult life is always probably going to be the best.

I really need to pick up the STALKER games and the mod and get one of those overhaul mods and immerse my self in those games...

Those games would be great with a VR headset.

[VesperSAINT]

I forgot about STALKER.  I've heard you really need to mod it to make it less clunky though.

It depends on the game. All 3 can be greatly improved with mods, but doesn't mean the vanilla games are bad (at least not 1 and 3). Skyrim is a great game but better with mods

Shadows of Chernobyl is pretty damn good stock, and I think it's still the best one in the series, even if it's lacking many of the newer features in the later games. The atmosphere and mood of this one is truly a classic.

Clear Sky was the true failure of the series. Not only was it insanely buggy, but the entire game was just disappointing in almost every regard compared to the previous game.

Call of Pripyat was great! It did have some bugs in it, but overall it was definitely a huge improvement over the second game, and had newer features than the first. I'd say it's almost tied with the first game.

I really need to pick up the STALKER games and the mod and get one of those overhaul mods and immerse my self in those games...

Those games would be great with a VR headset.

YOU TOTALLY SHOULD. The overhaul mods make the game absolutely beautiful. I really can't think of too many other games that can rival the atmosphere in this series.

This game with a VR headset would be pretty crazy... bloodsuckers and the end game monster would be terrifying with it on...

My only criticism of this game would be the RNG shooting mechanics but it's more than bearable. Kind of makes it realistic.

[Sed8op8]

I forgot about STALKER.  I've heard you really need to mod it to make it less clunky though.

It depends on the game. All 3 can be greatly improved with mods, but doesn't mean the vanilla games are bad (at least not 1 and 3). Skyrim is a great game but better with mods

Shadows of Chernobyl is pretty damn good stock, and I think it's still the best one in the series, even if it's lacking many of the newer features in the later games. The atmosphere and mood of this one is truly a classic.

Clear Sky was the true failure of the series. Not only was it insanely buggy, but the entire game was just disappointing in almost every regard compared to the previous game.

Call of Pripyat was great! It did have some bugs in it, but overall it was definitely a huge improvement over the second game, and had newer features than the first. I'd say it's almost tied with the first game.

I really need to pick up the STALKER games and the mod and get one of those overhaul mods and immerse my self in those games...

Those games would be great with a VR headset.

YOU TOTALLY SHOULD. The overhaul mods make the game absolutely beautiful. I really can't think of too many other games that can rival the atmosphere in this series.

This game with a VR headset would be pretty crazy... bloodsuckers and the end game monster would be terrifying with it on...

My only criticism of this game would be the RNG shooting mechanics but it's more than bearable. Kind of makes it realistic.

ok how did I miss this game vesper. Ahhhh I've been holding off ordering a new graphics card after returning my 970 because I want the r9 380x or if its a rebadge then ill get the r9 390 but now I really want to pick this game up and have at it... Thanks for the heads up!

[Air tree]

I forgot about STALKER.  I've heard you really need to mod it to make it less clunky though.

It depends on the game. All 3 can be greatly improved with mods, but doesn't mean the vanilla games are bad (at least not 1 and 3). Skyrim is a great game but better with mods

Shadows of Chernobyl is pretty damn good stock, and I think it's still the best one in the series, even if it's lacking many of the newer features in the later games. The atmosphere and mood of this one is truly a classic.

Clear Sky was the true failure of the series. Not only was it insanely buggy, but the entire game was just disappointing in almost every regard compared to the previous game.

Call of Pripyat was great! It did have some bugs in it, but overall it was definitely a huge improvement over the second game, and had newer features than the first. I'd say it's almost tied with the first game.

I really need to pick up the STALKER games and the mod and get one of those overhaul mods and immerse my self in those games...

Those games would be great with a VR headset.

YOU TOTALLY SHOULD. The overhaul mods make the game absolutely beautiful. I really can't think of too many other games that can rival the atmosphere in this series.

This game with a VR headset would be pretty crazy... bloodsuckers and the end game monster would be terrifying with it on...

My only criticism of this game would be the RNG shooting mechanics but it's more than bearable. Kind of makes it realistic.

I've been actually meaning to pick up the games for a while, I was waiting for a sale discount, but it seems the games rarely, if ever get discounts. 

If it doesn't get included in the summer sale, it's full price for me.

[VesperSAINT]

I've been actually meaning to pick up the games for a while, I was waiting for a sale discount, but it seems the games rarely, if ever get discounts. 

If it doesn't get included in the summer sale, it's full price for me.

ok how did I miss this game vesper. Ahhhh I've been holding off ordering a new graphics card after returning my 970 because I want the r9 380x or if its a rebadge then ill get the r9 390 but now I really want to pick this game up and have at it... Thanks for the heads up!

The game is rather old now, so don't expect some crazy shooter. The game actually takes quite a bit of patience to get used to, but once you get into the atmosphere and the environment... get ready to become a STALKER.

[Michael]

Sorry for the delay, good folks. Finishing up on the last sale, and needed more time to look through all of these awesome submissions. Hang tight!

[rowdy]

The banter is entertaining - take your time, Bro

[Lokomotivet]

Until then = https://youtu.be/ch02NDiG7M8

[Badwrench]

Until then = https://youtu.be/ch02NDiG7M8

Nah, this is better 
https://youtu.be/gkT_zDsM5pY

[GenKaan]

Quake. I used to be obsessed with that game...

But when it came to multiplayer~ Brood War and Counter-Strike was where it was at

I recently replayed Doom 1 and 2. Still great even to this day.

Quake 2 for me, but mp didn't get real for me until CS:S... played that on dialup b/c HELL YEAH BOIS and was awesome, could only play after 7 tho because thats when the internet was free

Thought at first RPG was my thing but after Golden Eye I knew I was a FPS junky. Liked Quake a lot, liked Unreal Tournament as well but they felt too random. After I got into counter-strike a lifelong borderline obsession with FPS has consumed me

Grew up on a farm so internet wasn't an option. So I took every chance to pack my stuff up and move to friends places and lan parties. Won my first offline tournament when I was like 13 and got my first sponsor at 17, but real life kicked in around when I finished school and the team split up due to.. real... life :,(

Unreal Tournament was one that I played quite a bit of too! Except it wasn't as addicting as Counter-Strike. I think I preferred Quake Arena over it too. Whenever I think Unreal Tournament, I mainly think Unreal Engine and Deus Ex.

NICE, DOOD!!! Getting sponsored to play! You must have been really good!!! Do you play CS:GO? You should train me HUE. I'm the most undisciplined player. Hahaha ~

The reason I liked Unreal Tournament so much was because I got a CD with a PC gamer magazine that had a bug, an unlimited trail version of the game that I managed to get into the schools computer network. So we used to play it at school computers. It was an endless struggle. They found out we played, they removed it, I got **** for it, I put it back, they caught me again and so on and so on.

Sadly I quit playing seriously after 1.6. When CS:GO came out I compared it way too closely to 1.6 and since its a totally different, not better or worse just different, game than 1.6 I hated it. It took over a year for me to even take a second look, got to first Eagle rank and now its mostly fighting games. Dont have a team, dont have time to play hours and hours so I right now its just casuals

Got some nice stuff tho, stattrack AK and M4-s with +2000 kills

[baldgye]

I've been actually meaning to pick up the games for a while, I was waiting for a sale discount, but it seems the games rarely, if ever get discounts. 

If it doesn't get included in the summer sale, it's full price for me.

ok how did I miss this game vesper. Ahhhh I've been holding off ordering a new graphics card after returning my 970 because I want the r9 380x or if its a rebadge then ill get the r9 390 but now I really want to pick this game up and have at it... Thanks for the heads up!

The game is rather old now, so don't expect some crazy shooter. The game actually takes quite a bit of patience to get used to, but once you get into the atmosphere and the environment... get ready to become a STALKER.

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I tried so many times to get into Stalker but very could. The combination of no voice-over and almost zero tutorials just made it a confusing nightmare that didn't ever run great lol
The furthest I ever got was after the first mission, going to some bar and then having to get something from a marooned boat, only the thing I had to get was hella radiated and would just kill me before I could get it, or the other blokes guarding it would, I forget...

[rowdy]

I've been actually meaning to pick up the games for a while, I was waiting for a sale discount, but it seems the games rarely, if ever get discounts. 

If it doesn't get included in the summer sale, it's full price for me.

ok how did I miss this game vesper. Ahhhh I've been holding off ordering a new graphics card after returning my 970 because I want the r9 380x or if its a rebadge then ill get the r9 390 but now I really want to pick this game up and have at it... Thanks for the heads up!

The game is rather old now, so don't expect some crazy shooter. The game actually takes quite a bit of patience to get used to, but once you get into the atmosphere and the environment... get ready to become a STALKER.

Show Image

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I tried so many times to get into Stalker but very could. The combination of no voice-over and almost zero tutorials just made it a confusing nightmare that didn't ever run great lol
The furthest I ever got was after the first mission, going to some bar and then having to get something from a marooned boat, only the thing I had to get was hella radiated and would just kill me before I could get it, or the other blokes guarding it would, I forget...

I actually managed to finish the first one, without any mods though.

What really bugs me is that bandits just appear from nowhere.  You clear an area, go around the block, and a minute later there's another dozen of them there.

So funny - where the Wish Granter is saying things like "Иди ко мне. Ты обретёшь то, что заслуживаешь" in that deep echoey voice.  I work with a bunch of Ukrainians, and one of them is female with a high pitched voice.  It was so funny hearing her repeat exactly what the Wish Granter said, except in her voice )

[baldgye]

I've been actually meaning to pick up the games for a while, I was waiting for a sale discount, but it seems the games rarely, if ever get discounts. 

If it doesn't get included in the summer sale, it's full price for me.

ok how did I miss this game vesper. Ahhhh I've been holding off ordering a new graphics card after returning my 970 because I want the r9 380x or if its a rebadge then ill get the r9 390 but now I really want to pick this game up and have at it... Thanks for the heads up!

The game is rather old now, so don't expect some crazy shooter. The game actually takes quite a bit of patience to get used to, but once you get into the atmosphere and the environment... get ready to become a STALKER.

Show Image

Show Image

I tried so many times to get into Stalker but very could. The combination of no voice-over and almost zero tutorials just made it a confusing nightmare that didn't ever run great lol
The furthest I ever got was after the first mission, going to some bar and then having to get something from a marooned boat, only the thing I had to get was hella radiated and would just kill me before I could get it, or the other blokes guarding it would, I forget...

I actually managed to finish the first one, without any mods though.

What really bugs me is that bandits just appear from nowhere.  You clear an area, go around the block, and a minute later there's another dozen of them there.

Yeah that caught me out a few times too... idk I always wanted to like the STALKER games, and tried with a couple of them, but just non of them did anything for me...

[VesperSAINT]

Quake. I used to be obsessed with that game...

But when it came to multiplayer~ Brood War and Counter-Strike was where it was at

I recently replayed Doom 1 and 2. Still great even to this day.

Quake 2 for me, but mp didn't get real for me until CS:S... played that on dialup b/c HELL YEAH BOIS and was awesome, could only play after 7 tho because thats when the internet was free

Thought at first RPG was my thing but after Golden Eye I knew I was a FPS junky. Liked Quake a lot, liked Unreal Tournament as well but they felt too random. After I got into counter-strike a lifelong borderline obsession with FPS has consumed me

Grew up on a farm so internet wasn't an option. So I took every chance to pack my stuff up and move to friends places and lan parties. Won my first offline tournament when I was like 13 and got my first sponsor at 17, but real life kicked in around when I finished school and the team split up due to.. real... life :,(

Unreal Tournament was one that I played quite a bit of too! Except it wasn't as addicting as Counter-Strike. I think I preferred Quake Arena over it too. Whenever I think Unreal Tournament, I mainly think Unreal Engine and Deus Ex.

NICE, DOOD!!! Getting sponsored to play! You must have been really good!!! Do you play CS:GO? You should train me HUE. I'm the most undisciplined player. Hahaha ~

The reason I liked Unreal Tournament so much was because I got a CD with a PC gamer magazine that had a bug, an unlimited trail version of the game that I managed to get into the schools computer network. So we used to play it at school computers. It was an endless struggle. They found out we played, they removed it, I got **** for it, I put it back, they caught me again and so on and so on.

Sadly I quit playing seriously after 1.6. When CS:GO came out I compared it way too closely to 1.6 and since its a totally different, not better or worse just different, game than 1.6 I hated it. It took over a year for me to even take a second look, got to first Eagle rank and now its mostly fighting games. Dont have a team, dont have time to play hours and hours so I right now its just casuals

Got some nice stuff tho, stattrack AK and M4-s with +2000 kills

Hahaha! Your Unreal Tournament story reminds me of my Quake 2 story Nothing more fun than playing on school computers!!!

Ooo!!! I only play casuals too!!! Casuals are where it's at. #casualpros. We should definitely mess around together on casuals sometime.

Only thing worth mentioning in my inventory is a Dragon Lore, which my friend has let me use for many months now

The game is rather old now, so don't expect some crazy shooter. The game actually takes quite a bit of patience to get used to, but once you get into the atmosphere and the environment... get ready to become a STALKER.

Show Image

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I tried so many times to get into Stalker but very could. The combination of no voice-over and almost zero tutorials just made it a confusing nightmare that didn't ever run great lol
The furthest I ever got was after the first mission, going to some bar and then having to get something from a marooned boat, only the thing I had to get was hella radiated and would just kill me before I could get it, or the other blokes guarding it would, I forget...

LOL! Yeah... 3rd world produced game lacks voice overs, and even if it did, it'd be Ukranian STALKER is a pretty hardcore series. Takes a lot of patience and warming up to.

I actually managed to finish the first one, without any mods though.

What really bugs me is that bandits just appear from nowhere.  You clear an area, go around the block, and a minute later there's another dozen of them there.

So funny - where the Wish Granter is saying things like "Иди ко мне. Ты обретёшь то, что заслуживаешь" in that deep echoey voice.  I work with a bunch of Ukrainians, and one of them is female with a high pitched voice.  It was so funny hearing her repeat exactly what the Wish Granter said, except in her voice )

I don't remember that part, but I haven't played the first game in 2 years or so, but I wouldn't be surprised. Glad to hear you finished the first one though. I'm going to assume you liked it enough to finish it though. The game is pretty long if you explore the area.

The game is rather old now, so don't expect some crazy shooter. The game actually takes quite a bit of patience to get used to, but once you get into the atmosphere and the environment... get ready to become a STALKER.

Show Image

Show Image

I tried so many times to get into Stalker but very could. The combination of no voice-over and almost zero tutorials just made it a confusing nightmare that didn't ever run great lol
The furthest I ever got was after the first mission, going to some bar and then having to get something from a marooned boat, only the thing I had to get was hella radiated and would just kill me before I could get it, or the other blokes guarding it would, I forget...

I actually managed to finish the first one, without any mods though.

What really bugs me is that bandits just appear from nowhere.  You clear an area, go around the block, and a minute later there's another dozen of them there.

Yeah that caught me out a few times too... idk I always wanted to like the STALKER games, and tried with a couple of them, but just non of them did anything for me...

Hey, at least you gave it a shot! That's all that matters. The STALKER series is pretty infamous for being a love-hate relationship.

 I would love for a new STALKER game with improved AI and shooting mechanics... Just needs polishing~ That would automatically become my new favorite FPS series. They honestly don't have to improve the atmosphere and world though. Just keep it just as good, and I couldn't ask for more. Voice acting would be nice though... I need to stop fantasizing... there's only disappointment ahead.

[baldgye]

Long as Cyberpunk is still being made im happy

[VesperSAINT]

Long as Cyberpunk is still being made im happy

This x1,000,000,000.

Cyberpunk 2077 couldn't come sooner...

[robotox]

Long as Cyberpunk is still being made im happy

Amen, brother.

[Badwrench]

Long as Cyberpunk is still being made im happy

This x1,000,000,000.

Cyberpunk 2077 couldn't come sooner...

That is one of the few titles I might actually buy at release date.  Cant wait.

[rowdy]

I actually managed to finish the first one, without any mods though.

What really bugs me is that bandits just appear from nowhere.  You clear an area, go around the block, and a minute later there's another dozen of them there.

So funny - where the Wish Granter is saying things like "Иди ко мне. Ты обретёшь то, что заслуживаешь" in that deep echoey voice.  I work with a bunch of Ukrainians, and one of them is female with a high pitched voice.  It was so funny hearing her repeat exactly what the Wish Granter said, except in her voice )

I don't remember that part, but I haven't played the first game in 2 years or so, but I wouldn't be surprised. Glad to hear you finished the first one though. I'm going to assume you liked it enough to finish it though. The game is pretty long if you explore the area.

Yes, I did finish the first one.

Actually I got about 1/4 the way through, upgraded my video card to something more capable, and started again from the beginning just to see all the shiny new graphics.

I finished the actual game twice, once all the way through properly with a false ending, and once up to the bridge leading to the facility and I found a way to get behind the scenes, walked for ages across a barren empty flat space, jumped over a gap between two textures (the first time I fell through the world), and found my way behind the nuclear facility, thus avoiding all the helicopters and snipers and stuff, and experienced the real ending.

[dustinhxc]

Thoseee 2 orange Buckling spring... The V2.. The bronin.. The end game caps for the space saving keyboard.. I cant handle the pressure! ahhh! 

[Sed8op8]

Thoseee 2 orange Buckling spring... The V2.. The bronin.. The end game caps for the space saving keyboard.. I cant handle the pressure! ahhh! 

neither can I  I challenge you to a Bro-down lol good luck Dustin(I hope you score one of the BS caps ) and everyone and Vesper you suck ( j/k) just messin with ya because your story is awesome and has cool images and stuff

[Nai_Calus]

Now, now, we all know that BS Bros belong on the mackdaddy pimpmaster of BS boards, the Model F.

In all seriousness though, good luck to y'all and the suspense is killing me too. XD

[dustinhxc]

"We are the all mighty Killed By Kaps and Kult Worship Kaps, where are our neighbors, our good bros from anotha mutha?! The Bro Cap Bros, Bro Bot and Bronin?!"   

[VesperSAINT]

Long as Cyberpunk is still being made im happy

This x1,000,000,000.

Cyberpunk 2077 couldn't come sooner...

That is one of the few titles I might actually buy at release date.  Cant wait.

Yeah, doooooood. I remember watching the trailer for the first time... I don't remember the last time I had been so hyped over a single trailer for a new IP... SO GOOD.

Vesper you suck ( j/k) just messin with ya because your story is awesome and has cool images and stuff

Teehee~~<333 I just hope you enjoyed it... it was so rushed on my end... I wish I had been able to provide you guys with a more refined story and conclusion... but then it would've ended up being even longer than it already is... LOL!

[Nai_Calus]

Teehee~~<333 I just hope you enjoyed it... it was so rushed on my end... I wish I had been able to provide you guys with a more refined story and conclusion... but then it would've ended up being even longer than it already is... LOL!

Haha I know the feel. I kept thinking for days what I'd put for mine trying to think of something really cool(and then ended up lamely just pretty much posting the history of games influencing my life). Yours is fine though, don't worry. Haha, I was worried mine was too long, but yours makes me wish I'd gone longer and more detailed instead of just skimming. XD

[Sed8op8]

Long as Cyberpunk is still being made im happy

This x1,000,000,000.

Cyberpunk 2077 couldn't come sooner...

That is one of the few titles I might actually buy at release date.  Cant wait.

Yeah, doooooood. I remember watching the trailer for the first time... I don't remember the last time I had been so hyped over a single trailer for a new IP... SO GOOD.

Vesper you suck ( j/k) just messin with ya because your story is awesome and has cool images and stuff

Teehee~~<333 I just hope you enjoyed it... it was so rushed on my end... I wish I had been able to provide you guys with a more refined story and conclusion... but then it would've ended up being even longer than it already is... LOL!

I really did vesper for a rush job it was well written! I wish I hadn't decided to write mine on the phone on a bus lol but its ok it came out alright there was a bunch of stuff I forgot to add but I figured it wouldn't be fair to go back and add to it so I just left it how it was. I rather enjoyed quite a few of the stories people wrote! So regardless how it turns out it was fun and I love stuff like this. Thank you everybody for the peek behind the curtains of your lives it really brought back some memories for me and even elicited a few chuckles ! <3

[Sed8op8]

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"We are the all mighty Killed By Kaps and Kult Worship Kaps, where are our neighbors, our good bros from anotha mutha?! The Bro Cap Bros, Bro Bot and Bronin?!"  :-X  ;D

Dustin I can't believe how good that BS mummy with orange eyes looks ! Love it ....

[Michael]

I have decided upon the following winners.



pwnnarwhal


Sygaldry


atlas3686


Psybin


VesperSAINT


Nai_Calus


isaske


azhdar


YMSNoms


(Winners - please PM me your choice of stem/cap/style/etc, and I will do my best to try to get you what you wanted - no promises, though)


'Twas a tough choice. A lot of good submissions. Thank you all for participating!!!


<3


-Bro

[Michael]

To clarify further, for those who have responded - please pick from the selection in the OP


 

What is available:

1. Topre Gamer Set - Juicy Fruit Red (Trans)
2. Topre Gamer Set - Juicy Fruit Green (Not pictured yet, Trans)
3. Buckling Spring Juicy Fruit Orange V2 (Trans)
4. Ripe Orange Bronin V1 (Buckling Spring)
5. Home Row Topre Set - Powder Puff Purple
6. Home Row Topre Set - Powder Puff Pink