Beating Mario World for the first time was one of the things that I remember. Beating the level without help from someone else and just watching the end credits roll. Pretty amazing for a kid.

 

My favorite memory was playing Emerald on my GBA for the whole day for weeks. I'd go to sleep early everyday so i could have more energy to play it non stop.

 

I have a lot of favorite memories for retro gaming, but the one freshest in my mind is probably playing Super Mario Bros. 3 with my girlfriend on an original NES and beating it with her.. It had always been one of my favorite games since playing it with my brother when I was young and it was really special being able to share it with my gf and finishing the game with her.

 

In the morning, when my mom preparing breakfast, me and my friend playing snow bros in 32 inch crt tv with nes.
1995-96
good old times.

 

well my favorite memory has to be opening my Intellivision console Christmas 1980 and firing up Space battle. It just seemed so sophisticated. Played Baseball and Sea Battle literally for hours with my dad and anyone else who would play. Good times. Lost my dad this year and I just want to play one more round of Sea Battle with him.

 

My dad got me a used n64 with two controllers and a few sport games and that was my first experience with video games a few years later we got a free ps2 with some more sports games from a long time family friend. Then for Christmas i got a DS Light with new super Mario bros i away played it but then i broke the bottom screen but i could still use touch screen so i still played with it for a long time until about 2 years ago i had to get rid of it cause it got soaked and didn't work than a few later i got a GBA SP from a friend with a Pokemon card trade then i got a GB color that i lost a year after i got it. Then i got introduced to XBOX OG my step dad dug out his old XBOX OG with a modchip installed he also gave me his old NES and SNES which i still play now i have a 2DS B9S,2 GBA SP's,N64,Genesis,2 soft modded/modchiped XBOX OG,GameCube Modchiped,1FAT PS2 with fmcb and a Slim PS2,PS3 ,and a XBOX 360 that will soon have XKEY360 i love all of them equally and i would love to be able to take my libary of NES games with me on the go but the 2ds seems to play weird and it dont fit in my pocket i have no personal preference to what system i play i love retro and modern games

 

If I could travel back in time to re live a moment in retro gaming that would be a tough one.... Either my first time beating Metroid on the NES or Ninja Gaiden NES or Contra with a friend.... Or before even that hooking up my Atari 2600 and TV to an extension cord and playing outside under a tree. Was such a great time. My life is honestly filled with a ton of great memories with retro gaming and I wouldn't trade any of them for anything!

 

My biggest "retro gaming" related memory is when I saw Marvel VS Capcom in the arcades for the first time.

I saw X-Men VS Street Fighter and Marvel Superheroes VS Street Fighter. The appeal was there but limited since it was limited to two franchises. But then MVC1 came long.... OMG it's Captain Commando! From the 4 player beat em up! It's Strider Hiryu! My childhood ninja! It's Megaman/Rockman! It's Jin! From that obscure Capcom fighting game! On a fighting game! With Marvel characters are bonus! OMG! I didn't even play the earlier VS games but with Marvel VS Capcom, I need to play it. And thus started my obsession with the versus fighting games. =)

 

I had saved up enough to buy an nes game for the first time. I read the backs of the boxes at the store and picked out Bionic Commando. Used to get up early Saturday morning to play it. It was the first NES game I ever beat (after SMB). Still one of my favorite games.

 

Many many moons ago, back when I was just a wee lad, I used to visit my cousins fairly regularly. They had one of the coolest console games around, the NES, complete with Mario/Duckhunt, Zapper controller, 2 controllers. Now Mario/Duckhunt was great and all, but there were other gems that they had obtained, two of which were Darkwing Duck and TaleSpin. We used to play those games all the time and it was a struggle to progress, but it was always a blast to play.

Fast forward over a decade later and I realized that we never beat the first level.