What are your most fond memories playing Nintendo games?

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For me probably unlocking the Wing Cap in Mario 64! I just thought it was the craziest thing that I could now fly in certain levels.

After that it was many nights playing the Nintendo and then having my mother yell at me to go to bed and do my homework first! LOL



How about you?
What was your most memorable moment in a Nintendo game?
 
Probably my first time playing Ocarina of Time. Not like the first second I played it, but the whole experience of going through it the first time. Game was like nothing I had ever seen before and showed me what gaming truly was and could be.

Also, playing the original Super Smash Bros for hours on end with my brothers and friends.
 
Many memorable moments. (Try saying that ten times in a row) but for whatever reason my happiest moments that I remember were with SMB2, Rygar and Mega Man.
 
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Laying out of school to play Super Mario Bros when I first got my NES for one. Me and my cousin drawing maps of the dungeons for Zelda is another. Playing through Ghosts and Goblins and when I killed Devil, thinking I had just beat the game, it turns out it was a trap by Satan and had to play through the entire game a second time to see the real ending. Talk about pissed. Keep in mind these were the days of only getting 3 lives and 3 continues to play through the entirety of most games. I remember punching a hole in my wall thanks to dying repeatedly at the same spot in Double Dragon. Hung a poster over it, and my mom didn't find it for years. My mom bet me a new game that I couldn't beat the Dragon with fireballs in Ghosts and Goblins. I beat it and ended up getting Kung Fu as my prize. I also remember how in a lot of NES games you could enter button sequences on the controller and gain things like extra lives or level selection. To this day I can still remember the button sequence to gain 30 lives in Contra, the sequence to gain extra lives in Ikari Warriors, and the turtle bouncing trick for extra lives in Super Mario Bros. Ahh the memories.
 
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Playing my favorite game ever Super Metroid. Pretty much any game I had for the SNES Actraiser, Chrono Trigger, FF6 etc
 
Repeatedly destroying my younger brother in Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat, and Killer Instinct. Lolz he got so pissed.

Also playing a s***load of GoldenEye.

Before that, beating Metroid, Castlevania, Ninja Gaiden, and Mega-Man on the NES. Castlevania was a mofo with that stupid reaper.
 
Dno69 said:
Many memorable moments. (Try saying that ten times in a row) but for whatever reason my happiest moments that I remember were with SMB2, Rygar and Mega Man.
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Man I loved Rygar, still up there as one of my favorite NES games!
 
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Man so many great Nintendo memories, playing SMB/1942/Galaga with my Dad.

Meeting one of my best friends, he had a copy of Track and Field 2, I had the NES Advantage controller, the USA owned the Olympics that summer!

Then there was Metriod/Super Metriod, RC Pro Am, Kid Icarus, SMB 1/2/3/SMW, Pilotwings, F-Zero, SF2, Contra, so many great times...
 
Super Smash Brothers with 3 other friends on the N64 and Goldeneye 4 - player deathmatch. I so feared that golden gun.
 
Sitting with my best friend on a sleep over playing NES games like Megaman 1 and 2 trying to beat it long into the night. Or finally finishing Super Mario Bros. 3, man that last world was freaky when your 8 years old :D.

Okay, the SATURN and PSOne where out in those days, but damn those where expensive around here :). Had more fun with NES anyway :D.
 
Getting Super Mario Bros 3 for the NES for my Birthday and it being the greatest thing I had ever played.
 
BDaddyK said:
Man so many great Nintendo memories, playing SMB/1942/Galaga with my Dad.

Meeting one of my best friends, he had a copy of Track and Field 2, I had the NES Advantage controller, the USA owned the Olympics that summer!

Then there was Metriod/Super Metriod, RC Pro Am, Kid Icarus, SMB 1/2/3/SMW, Pilotwings, F-Zero, SF2, Contra, so many great times...
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Are you talking about that mat that had the numbered circles that you were supposed to run on? Because I can remember the mat and playing a track and field genre game with it. We cheated and slapped the circles with our hands.:)
 
Hm..

My first memory is Donkey Kong Country. I remember thinking it looked amazing but man, I was terrible at it. I am the youngest of three, so I was pretty young when the Super Nintendo came out. I remember having those old televisions that had sticky buttons. I remember playing it all of the time but never making progress, lol.

Mario Kart 64, Mario Party, Ocarina of Time, Goldeneye, and Smash Bros. were some of the most fun I had in gaming. My brothers and friends killed our hands with those games. I was never particularly good at any of them, but man, I loved them.


Recently, I thought Super Mario Galaxy was the best Nintendo game in a while. I remember my mom picked me up from school and we drove to Toys R Us to get it. I think there was some type of commemorative coin that came with it. I loved that game so much. Also, Smash Bros. Brawl. Man, I will never forget that launch. It was a COLD, windy day here. I think I went to Gamestop at like 7:00 PM and waited five hours with everyone, just talking about the series and who we planned on using. I got home, played it all night and all day the next day. It was my longest session with a game. I loved it. Can't wait for Smash Bros. on Wii U.
 
Way to make me feel old. Talking about getting picked up from school to get Mario Galaxy. I was already 8 when Super Mario 3 came out on the NES.
 
Soda Jack said:
Are you talking about that mat that had the numbered circles that you were supposed to run on? Because I can remember the mat and playing a track and field genre game with it. We cheated and slapped the circles with our hands.:)
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I had that mat!
There were like red and green and I think blue circles.

Great workout. Those were the days!
 
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Plainview said:
Beating Mike Tyson... Period!
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Beat me to it! The hours I spent with that big controller (I think it was called the Advantage..?), covered in sweat as I tried again and again to beat him. Honestly one of my proudest gaming moments.

Actraiser and Rygar are 2 all-time favs.

And of course the hours upon hours lost on head to head Mario Kart.

And beating Blaster Master. Dear God that might have been more difficult than Tyson. I basically had to memorize the entire game to avoid dying. 3 lives, 3 (or 5?) continues for the whole game. Crazy.
 
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And beating Blaster Master. Dear God that might have been more difficult than Tyson. I basically had to memorize the entire game to avoid dying. 3 lives, 3 (or 5?) continues for the whole game. Crazy.
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Gamers think games are too hard these days...phfft..
Games today have nothing on the classics in terms of sheer difficulty.
 
Erics said:
Hm..

My first memory is Donkey Kong Country. I remember thinking it looked amazing but man, I was terrible at it. I am the youngest of three, so I was pretty young when the Super Nintendo came out. I remember having those old televisions that had sticky buttons. I remember playing it all of the time but never making progress, lol.

Mario Kart 64, Mario Party, Ocarina of Time, Goldeneye, and Smash Bros. were some of the most fun I had in gaming. My brothers and friends killed our hands with those games. I was never particularly good at any of them, but man, I loved them.


Recently, I thought Super Mario Galaxy was the best Nintendo game in a while. I remember my mom picked me up from school and we drove to Toys R Us to get it. I think there was some type of commemorative coin that came with it. I loved that game so much. Also, Smash Bros. Brawl. Man, I will never forget that launch. It was a COLD, windy day here. I think I went to Gamestop at like 7:00 PM and waited five hours with everyone, just talking about the series and who we planned on using. I got home, played it all night and all day the next day. It was my longest session with a game. I loved it. Can't wait for Smash Bros. on Wii U.
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Donkey Kong Country was actually my first game I ever played. Super Nintendo was the first console my family owned. Me, my brother, and our neighbors who were my best friends at the time would spend so much time playing that game.
 
OCARINA of TIME. The defining moment was an epiphany for me. Coming out of the Kokiri Forest onto Hyrule Plain into the waning light of dusk with torches flickering on the distant gates. It was like entering the modern world of gaming into a fully realized three dimensional world. It gave me shivers, for anticipation did not exceed the actual event. It is for that game I still have an N64, so I can always enjoy the unadulterated version.
 
My best friend and I both got Nintendo 64's just after launch. He got Pilotwings and I got Mario 64. For the first couple years we would purposely get a game that the other one didnt have. He got waverace and wayne gretzky hockey, I got Killer Instict Gold and Crusin USA.

There were a few repeats, like Goldeneye and Mario Kart. But by the end of that generation we had amassed a huge catalog of N64 games.
 
Soda Jack said:
Are you talking about that mat that had the numbered circles that you were supposed to run on? Because I can remember the mat and playing a track and field genre game with it. We cheated and slapped the circles with our hands.:)
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I think that was World Class Track Meet, the game that came with the Power Pad. We used to play that too, though that pad sucked, even if we stomped on it, it never was responsive enough.

This is Track and Field 2:

 
Beating Koopa Troopa in that sprint for the Star in Mario 64! I remember I had to do that about 10 times before I beat him!
So many good memories in that game.
 
I went to a friend's house to play StarFox. I was a few levels in and not doing well. They had a surround sound system - or just some crazy sound setup going on - and I distinctly remember the reverberating thunder crack when your Arwing bit the big one after the death zinger. That sold me on how f***ing cool StarFox was.
 
BDaddyK said:
I think that was World Class Track Meet, the game that came with the Power Pad. We used to play that too, though that pad sucked, even if we stomped on it, it never was responsive enough.

This is Track and Field 2:

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Now I feel old. World Class Track meet was my game. Me and a buddy used to have epic bouts against each outer. Before mario kart ruined friendships, World Class Track did.
 
One thing I really loved during my childhood, not specific to Nintendo but mainly Nintendo because that's what I played when I was younger, was printing out walkthroughs and reading them. Loved doing this for Zelda games.
 
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