Lots of us play computer games here
Which moments do you remember most fondly?

Mine:

Saddest: Aeris's Death, Final Fantasy VII

Funniest Glitch: Half Life (the first one) right after starting the reactor at the beginning of the game. As Gordon escapes the collapsing chamber, there's a scripted 'shock moment' with an elevator containing a scientist that plummets to the ground. I was standing so close to the shaft that as he dropped to his doom screaming, the game triggered another script which made him say "Oh, hello there Gordon" on the way down. Most amusing.

Best ending: Deus Ex, all three endings were great. It's the only game I've played all the way through more than once.

Go on... tell me.
( chart cat has an itch, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 5:24, 22 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Um.......
Losing at Solitaire?

*hangs head in shame*
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 5:40, Reply)

Awww... bless.
I tend to lose to Solitaire too. Just don't have the Patience (arf) for it.

As well as being a fine pun, that is actually true.
( chart cat has an itch, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 8:51, Reply)

Oooh great question!
Let's see...chronologically, and will add more as I remember more.

- ZX Spectrum 48k, little black keyboard with black keys, connected to a tape player, spending ages waiting for it to load. Then, touching it and it crashed because it was held together by sticky tape. Argh. I was about 9 or 10 I think.

- Kick Off 2 on the Amiga 500, the players somersaulting through the goal when celebrating scoring (and the fact that the ball didn't 'stick' to them).

- Completing Golden Axe for the first - and only - time, again on the Amiga. Took me aaaaages and I was well chuffed, and I was only 11 or 12 maybe. And it was in the days when you didn't get lots of re-starts and lifes like you do now.

- Sensible Soccer and all it's other versions, particularly Sensible World of Soccer. Probably the first game I was obsessed with. I reckon I broke every joystick I ever owned because of this game. Amazing though.

- Championship Manager (and subsequent Football Manager series) - my sister once caught me punching my bed in a fit of anger at a result. I was about 13 and FURIOUS! Only at my team/the game, not at life.

- Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe - Again, Amiga. The call of "ice-cream! ice-cream!" from the seller in the crowd when there was a break in play. Classic game, available in it's original form on Xbox Live Marketplace and still great fun to play.

This should be a QOTW, I could go on and on...
(Zutroy started without you, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 7:36, Reply)

aha oh god,
I remember back a couple of years ago - I was playing WoW - and managed to have nearly all of those reactions as a response to something.
I quit when I punched my bed over losing a battle with this giant overlord thing for about the 11th time that day. But it was ace while it lasted!
(Poppet some assembly required., Wed 17 Jun 2009, 7:39, Reply)

The amount of times...
...my parents used to stick their heads around my bedroom door to see what the noise was, release it was game related, sigh, roll their eyes, then walk away shaking their heads, was a little bit ridiculous.
(Zutroy started without you, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 7:47, Reply)

I think my parents are quite thankful I've got far less time to play games now,
considering the number of times I spent playing from pretty much when I woke up to when I fell asleep with only food and rest breaks!
(Poppet some assembly required., Wed 17 Jun 2009, 7:52, Reply)

I deliberately held off the WoW bandwagon
as I tend to get a little absorbed in games when I start playing them. As I understand it, pure Crack is used to wean people off WoW.
( chart cat has an itch, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 8:49, Reply)

Christ, you've picked some good ones there
Speedball 2: I wasted months of my school life playing that bugger.

Same for Sensible Soccer (which reached pure gaming Nirvana with Sensible World of Soccer). I can still hear the little 'phweep' of the ref's whistle now.

Champ Manager 3 almost cost me my degree until I banned myself from playing it.

As you seem to be an Amiga man, you will undoubtedly have played Syndicate and Cannon Fodder too. I lost the use of my mouse hand wanking spanner for all the wrong reasons as a teenager.
( chart cat has an itch, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 8:47, Reply)

Ahhh
Mate, two supreme games there. My original Amiga mouse ended life without the left button because it got pressed so hard, so often...so quickly. Ooft.

I remember when I first played Syndicate, watching the opening titles...particularly the crunching noise of the legs being replaced. Hook, line and sinker. And look what I found - www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBiHuAwyHR8
(Zutroy started without you, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 11:21, Reply)

Portal ending
I just can't get that bloody song out of my head.

"This was a triumph..."
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 8:38, Reply)

How could I forget!
Probably the best way to end a game ever.
( chart cat has an itch, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 8:44, Reply)

Doing the Goldeneye Challenges
I must've spent weeks one summer holiday trying to complete "Facility" in 007 mode (the hardest), within 1 minute 27 seconds or something like that.

So you can imagine the amount of single attempts I made over 6 weeks when each attempt lasted 1-2 minutes! Fucking smashed the record in the end though - fucking Dr Doak not showing up in the right place. I even blamed my dear old Mum one time for coming into my room at the wrong time.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 8:57, Reply)

4 player Goldeneye is still one of my favourite ways to waste time
in front of a TV
( chart cat has an itch, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 9:34, Reply)

My friends
Banned the use of proximity mines during our 4 player games. Apparently rigging all the rooms and then standing by the body armour as I watched the kills rack up, giggling like a loon, isn't fun for anyone else. Who'd have thought it?
(Zutroy started without you, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 11:22, Reply)

Go on... tell me
Deus Ex is the only game you've played all the way through more than once
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 9:27, Reply)

Yep
My attention span is usually too short to repeat things, but the storyline in Deus Ex was so good and it had some conditional branching that made a second (and third) playthrough obligatory.

I have played some games until I'm absolutely sick of them, like the GTA series, but I almost never play a game from the start more than once. I tried with Half Life and Half Life 2 but gave up through boredom.
( chart cat has an itch, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 9:33, Reply)

I don't see
Why modern games don't rip the hell off Deus Ex.

So many classic original ideas. I remember the first time I programmed defence turrets to shoot their own guys! Muhaha

Give me a worthy next-gen sequel!!!!!!
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 9:40, Reply)

Finishing the first Tomb Raider game
felt like a major achievement because compared to anything else I'd played before, it was a bloody long game.

I played one of the newer ones recently, it was over far too quickly and I felt no satisfaction from completing it.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 9:30, Reply)

I think this was one of the first games I remember being stunned
by the graphics and the gameplay freedom. Looking back now, it has neither. Not many games stand the test of time.
( chart cat has an itch, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 9:35, Reply)

Pokemon red, blue and yellow
And the gameboy trading card game. I stole them from my infant son.

Oh the shame.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Wed 17 Jun 2009, 9:58, Reply)

Cannon fodder was ace for the song alone
War: never been so much fun!
War: never been so much fun!

Run to you brother, kill him with a gun
Leave him lying in his uniform, dying in the sun…

War (huh!)

Ba ba, ba dah ba daaaaah

War (huh!)

Entirely agreeing with Deus Ex; let’s hope Deus Ex 3 is better than the steaming pile of elephant droppings that Invisible War turned out to be…

God Of War takes my favourite ending. Kratos rocks.
(Biscuit Burlesque wants to be Dita von Teas, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 16:22, Reply)

My favourite ending...
...and in fact one of my favourite gaming experiences of all time has to be Another World (Out of this World for our American cousins).

From the eye-popping (for the time) intro, through the escape from the panther thing, via the awesome 'prodding random buttons in a tank' section and all the way to the heart wrenching enigmatic climax (not to mention the brief glimpse of Alien boobies), this game simply rocked my fucking tits off and I played it over and over again.

The spiritual sequel Flashback also captivated me for many a play through
(Rotimer was micturating windward at, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 16:34, Reply)