The Great Moments of Video Gaming

[Cadfael]

Okay... here I am with my Playstation 1, and this fabulous new game called 'Resident Evil'.... I slide in the disc and begin to play.... on this is good!

Anyway, I explore for a bit... kill a Zombie, then I open this door and begin to walk down this corridor... all is silent except for the creepy music. Then a Zombie dog crashes through a pane of glass. The controller goes flying across the room. I let out a real girlie scream and almost expire from a heart attack!

It is one moment that has almost stuck with me, it terrified the bejesus out of me,

So what is a classic moment from a video game for you?

[Lord]

Link going from a child to an adult in Ocarina of Time.

Not so classic, but a couple days ago, I accidentally performed a Leap of Faith in Assassin's Creed and it was incredible, especially since I didn't intend to do it.

[Iron Greasel]

Defeating your reflection in the original Prince of Persia. Actually, all bits with the reflection were neat.

[Bungleau]

Few things compare to the feeling I experienced years ago, playing the original Might & Magic on an Apple ][e...

Walking along, and a simple question...

Dragon town meeting... Disrupt (Y/N)?

I ran back to town like a scared rabbit to save my game (since that was the only place you could save it), then went back to disrupt. One of every dragon... it was truly a tremendous combat.

[Thoran]

West of House
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.

(Zork, the first adventure game I ever played)

Next there's the first graphic adventure game I played, Ultima 3 Exodus - after that game I was hooked.

Then there's the first time I Chainsaw'd a pinky in Doom I, and when Duke Nukem looked in the bathroom mirror and said "Damn I'm pretty!".

The first time I went through Ravenholm in HL2, standing on top of a building and I can hear the monsters coming through town, then I can see them in the distance - coming on fast, I switch weapons, my palms get sweaty, waiting. If it was real I'd have been shifting from foot to foot as I wait... wait... wait for them to get to me, the suspense is crazy - then the next instant they're THERE, and you're furiously fighting for your life.

[Sever]

Hmm. The Shalebridge Cradle level of Thief 3.

The original Zelda on NES, way back when.

Finishing Fallout 1 as Natalia with only Dogmeat as a companion.. and keeping him alive!

The first time i picked up a plasma gun in Doom.

[Captain Obvious]

Winning a battle in Rome:Total war against all odds.

my 300 odd Carthaginian infantry (the weak guys) holding the walls against 1200 Gauls, fighting them as they come up the ladders.

Even though after i had set up the formations etc i didnt do much, i was glued to the screen for the entire time.

[Iron Greasel]

Sever: You kept Dogmeat alive? I salute you.

Speaking of Fallout, I remember when I found my first Stealth Boy from a giant dinosaur footprint in one of the special rendom encounters.

[TheDutkanator]

I have sooooo many....

I'll guess I'll post my most recent funny experience:

In Crysis, they put the "Use" button (F) right next to the grenade button (G) so I have blown myself up about a dozen times so far trying to pick up ammo or get in a vehicle....