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My best gaming moment was when i met Eugene Jarvis the creator of so many great arcade games. He actually talked to me for ages about family and loads of other stuff he then gave me loads of hints and tips to be better at his games.
 

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Difficult, there are so many and I have to keep it short!

Imagine reading my story with Matoyas Cave music:

In Chile with my brother playing FF1 in english, circa 1991. When we turned into the Warriors of light, the dragon title and we turn into adults in the game. As we didn't know english too well, we imagined the whole story in our heads! For us, we got older in the game because we had been 4 thousand years fighting against CHAOS!! Also in the same game, the mistery of the tomb that spoke about a warrior of old, and we always thought there was something hidden in the game there! We made so many stories of our own that they cannot be share in such small post :)

My dream would be to remake that game using my imagination, the imagination of those two kids living at the end of the world.

Cheers guys!
 
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One of my best memories was playing Streets of Rage on a Saturday afternoon with my brother, trying to beat the game together but taking very long to do it. We had to put the game on hold to eat a snack mid afternoon and after we returned to our fight. Great memories. Was amazing when we beat it.
 

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My favorite gaming memory was when I played Super Mario 64 for the first time. It was my first video game that I ever played.
 

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My mom used to help me beat hard games when i was small. I still remember her helping me get to the ending of Super Mario Bros 3 and Donkey Kong Country 2 on Snes. Good times!
 

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My best gaming moment was watching my older sister playing A Link to the Past back in 1994. It was from the moment I got into video games, but playing with my brothers and sisters is what
I have the most fond memories of.
 

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My favorite retro memory is a friend brought over his gameboy with Pokémon, I had heard of Pokémon but never played it. I was an experienced gamer having grown up playing video games my whole life, but he let me play his game and I walked into some grass and flipped out about a rattata that appeared asking him if he wanted it and telling him how I found it like a total noob.
 

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I remember how much I craved for SNES Secret of Mana, in the old days, I was only a child then.
When I finally got my copy, I played it for months, and used to write in a notebook a sort of player's guide, with maps and enemy / bosses profile.
I remember that, with over 70 hours of playing, the save file corrupted and I had to start it all over again.
...thing that I did, finally reaching the final boss.
I recordered the final battle on VHS, I think I was 9 or 10 years old. Designed with pencils and crayons all the cover art for the VHS xD and cetera.

...those were the times :')
 

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100%ing super Mario world for the first time, I recently did so again and found it trivial, crazy as I remember me and my siblings spending days completing the special world, but this time I had it done in virtually no time without dying once

it kinda made me wonder if the "games used to be harder" belief stems from "I used to be crap at them" :rofl:
 

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As an 8-year-old child, after getting my now deceased uncle fixed on Wonder Boy on the SEGA Master System, I got him to drive me >100 km to pick up a rare (in Germany), used copy of Phantasy Star. My uncle didn't understand it and never played it, but I loved it. The beginning of three decades of JRPG fanboyism.
 

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Always Wild Arms on PS1. One of my favourite JRPGs with many, many hours wasted. Could jump right back into that game any time and be happy.
 

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Best and most memorable ( frustrating too) gaming moment was playing street fighter II for SNES

I remember i used to spend hours playing that game and tried to beat every stage with every character with my siblings.
What was really annoying was my buttons from my snes controls were overused so sometimes they would get stuck. Since i was kind of poor i couldn't afford to buy any new ones so i played the game as it was.

I remember playing as dhalsim and it was far too annoying considering he was kind of slow because of his limbs stretching ( specially agaisn't vega).

I think the last time i played that game on snes was when i kept losing to vega , threw the control and knocked the tv over as well
 

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I got into video games in 2005, but I still have retro gaming memories. When I got my first system, a blue GBA SP with the older display (I still have it), it came with the original Metroid. I sucked at playing it, so I gave up after a while.

Aside from that, my dad has a Bally Computer System in our basement (from 1977) that we used to play together. I especially remember its weird controllers and how my dad had to keep fixing all kinds of problems that we were having with them.

He also has a Commodore 64 in the basement, but I have never used it or seen him use it.
 

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I bought Final Fantasy III from Montgomery Ward for 79.99. I still remember watching the opening sequence over and over. It was the first cinematic start of a game I ever remember.
 

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The smell of the Atari 2600 box when I first opened it up on Christmas as a child, I'll never forget it. That "wood" panel trim though... And that crazy joystick that caused me to get a callus between my thumb and index finger. And that rush I got when I played it for the first time... It was better than anything you could buy on the street!

Sure, we had an Intellivision, but these games were the same ones I was playing in the arcade at the time! How was this even possible??

Although the NES was a far superior console (and I had Robbie, what a blast that was at first), I probably wouldn't have bothered if it hasn't been for the gateway drug.

I just realized this post really shows my age. Lol!
 

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I'll never forget the nightmares I got when I got my PS1 Slim for Christmas along with this game called ''Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare'', now imagine a 5 year old playing that game for the first time.
As far as my favorite memory goes, my Sega Mega Drive. Gunstar Heroes, Bubba n Stix, Alex Kidd, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe and more games made my childhood, I shed tears every time I remember those times, heck I even tried trading my own PS3 for a Sega Mega Drive.
 

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My best retro gaming memory was from when I was 9 years old, and I had just gotten a Nintendo for my birthday. My mother was the first person in the house to get to level 8-4, and she was just about to be the first person in the family to beat a Nintendo game, when my two-year-old little brother yelled, "JUMP!" at the exact moment when she was running underneath Bowser, on her last life.

She jumped. Game Over.
 

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