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[Diseased Yak]

I've been gaming since the 2600 days so I have tons of big shocks and amazements, so I'll just stick with one that happened earlier this year:

Spurred by the "Watch folks new to the series play through all the MGS's for the first time" thread, and the impending release of MGS4, I decided it was high time to play through 2 and 3, which I had never done.

Blow away I was, but none more so than the cut scene that happens after you fight Ocelot at the beginning of MGS3. HOLY FUCKING SHIT. I thought my skin was going to crawl right off my body with the awesome and the sheer over-the-top-ness of it all. The intro to all the freaky bosses during that cut scene is a gaming moment I won't soon forget.

 

[w3stfa11]

Super Mario World
Final Fantasy X - the CGI scenes were amazing. It was the first PS2 game I bought.

 

[Starchasing]

Nintendogs...

when i discovered by chance that blowing the screen would make bubbles come out so my puppy could play with them

 

[MrPing1000]

Getting told off by Manderley for going into the girls bathroom in Deus Ex :lol :lol :lol

 

[Salazar]

Playing Tomb Raider: TLR. Such a big game.

 

[King of Cups]

I haven't read all of the replies in the thread, but for me one of my biggest gaming moments was definitely...Katamari Damacy. It still one of the few games that make me proud to be a gamer and able to enjoy it.

 

[Kenaras]

GLQuake on a Monster3D Voodoo card with vis'd maps. The water was crystal clear. That was pretty damn awesome.

This, no contest. I can't believe it took that many posts for GLQuake to even be mentioned; the jump in quality was unmatched.

 

[WyndhamPrice]

Probably playing Ocarina of Time the year it came out when I was 9. Never seen anything like it ever before.

 

[Azure Dream]

Seeing Wolfenstein 3D being demoed at a local computer trade show, back when they had special convention-like traveling sales of the latest computer stuff. I think I bought a copy, but my PC at the time couldn't handle it.

 

[Ganondorfo]

Kuja destroying alexandria.

 

[biggersmaller]

Super Mario 3.

I was ten, and I think that was my first boner.

 

[HaL64]

Seeing Blue Lighting running behind the glass in the Toys R Us display.

 

[Future PhaZe]

Yep...

Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, and Goldeneye all had me licking my lips.

I actually went to Toys R Us multiple times just to play these games until I got an N64 :lol

 

[SketchTheArtist]

Yep...

Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, and Goldeneye all had me licking my lips.

I actually went to Toys R Us multiple times just to play these games until I got an N64 :lol

Holy crap! Me too! I couldn't stop playing Pilotwings 64 at their kiosk! :lol

For me, it was the first time I played Resident Evil. When I saw that you could blend a videogame with a movie, I knew what I wanted to play and work in for the rest of my life!

 

[Beardz]

Not the best games but they game me that "wow" feeling:

Arcades:

Sega's Time Traveler
Mad Dog McCree
Killer Instinct

NES:

Batman: Return of the Joker "16 bit graphics!!"

SNES:

Castlevania IV: Specially one scene were the background rotates

 

[Mike M]

I think it was seeing Ridge Racer for the first time. Couldn't even tell they were polygons at the time, because everything else I'd seen up to that point that was 3D was limited to Virtua Fighter/Virtual Racing.

 

[Autofokus]

only graphical moments:

- F-Zero (SNES)
- Donkey Kong Country (SNES)
- Ridge Racer (PS1)
- Mario 64 (N64)
- Goldeneye (N64)
- Unreal (PC)
- Sega Rally (2?) (Arcade)
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Sega, Arcade)
- Virtua Striker (Arcade)
- Resident Evil Remake (GC)
- Metal Gear Solid 2 (PS2)
- Far Cry (PC)
- God of War (PS2)
- Okami (PS2)
- God of War: CoO (PSP)
- Assassin´s Creed

edit: forgot Ratchet & Clank (PS3), the first level was really amazing.

 

[lastendconductor]

Shadow of the Colossus.

 

[PantherLotus]

I remember Christmas morning in 1987. I got my first new videogame system. The NES, with Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt, and Double Dragon.

I was the N64 kid, but I was cool about it.

 

[Conrad Link]

Mostly N64 stuff, I said wow.

<3

 

[The Hermit]

Mario 64 as most people are posting.

But there´s one game that after many epic moments , ends in one of the best scenes in all game history... you know what game I am talking about.
http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=rbcmNoWBedE&feature=related

The most recent game that made me lose my words to describe the feeling I was having at the moment was at this particular scene:
http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=d0flF0vlgQI&feature=related

 

[KernelPanic]

I was blown away by the Wing Commander 2 intro way back. First digitized speech I heard in a game. Sent chills up my spine.

All my friends were blown away as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfAoVX_VWWs

 

[timetokill]

Mario 64 as most people are posting.

But there´s one game that after many epic moments , ends in one of the best scenes in all game history... you know what game I am talking about.

http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=rbcmNoWBedE&feature=related

The most recent game that made me lose my words to describe the feeling I was having at the moment was at this particular scene:

http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=d0flF0vlgQI&feature=related

YES to everything you posted.

The boss battle you posted gives me chills EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

 

[Flakster99]

First time that I actually had an emotional attachment to characters. I was like seven when I first watched my brother playing it and the music has stuck with me since.

I had a few years on you, was starting college that year, but absolutely. From the opening sequence with the air ships, it was the music that drew me and held me in, and it never let go. From area to area, from town to town, from character to character, the music synchronized perfectly with the mood and feel of the scene.

 

[Gwanatu T]

Yep...

Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, and Goldeneye all had me licking my lips.

I actually went to Toys R Us multiple times just to play these games until I got an N64 :lol

Me too, except I went to Sears when I saw Mario 64 for the first time. That was so downright unbelievable to see Mario in 3D, and it wasn't just any crappy 3D at the time, it was state of the art crazy good looking 3D. Oh and let's not even get started on the controls, which were the most responsive, perfect controls that I could possibly think of for a 3D game. Unbelievable stuff.

 

[AppleBlade]

1) Shenmue. I remember just looking around at all the details and being amazed. I looked at the pond and there were fish swimming in it. I looked at the trees and they had individual leaves. I was just awe-struck.

2) Elderscrolls III: Morrowind. I am not a PC gamer but I felt like trying something different. Morrowind had came out 2 years prior to me trying it so there was no hype surrounding but I had heard of the series. I picked it up for a couple of dollars and it was basically brand new. When I opened the box up and saw the hefty manual and large detailed world map I knew I was in for something good. When I stepped off that ship and was let loose in this huge world with the freedom to do whatever I wanted, I felt like I was truly immersed in this world. That was the day I stopped liked JRPG's and WRPG's became my favorite genre.

3) Snatcher. the first game I ever played that immersed me in it's world. If anything this game had a profound impact on my taste in movies and books as much as videogames. I love cyberpunk, William Gibson and Philip K. Dick are my favorite authors, Blade Runner, the Fifth Element, Dark City, the Matrix are my favorite movies. I owe much of that to Snatcher.

 

[jpd44]

Of this generation anyway.

 

[Unison]

The game that BLEW MY MIND at the time above all others was Under a Killing Moon on PC.

I haven't had my mind blown by graphics, really, since Soul Calibur on Dreamcast.

 

[chase]

Atari -> NES transition

NFL2k

GTA3. Did the initial bits, then jacked a car and started going around. Thought, "What do I do now?" Realized, "That's the point." It's hard to imagine a time when an experience like that was so new.

 

[iam220]

The one that stands out the most is playing quake 2 in glide render for the first time. What a HUGE jump from software mode it was absolutely amazing.

 

[Nafai1123]

Playing the leaked Doom 3 alpha was pretty amazing.

Also pretty much every colossi I faced...

I expect to be equally amazed come Feb 27th

 

[somuchwater]

Hmm...

Remember the first Unreal? And that section near the beginning when the lights went out one by one? That's up there on the list.

Turning a corner in Half Life and seeing "Die Freeman Die" spray painted on the wall. Such a tiny thing, but so amazing.

 

[Easy_D]

Metroid Prime, when you landed on the planet's surface and saw rain drops trail down your visor as you looked up.

I thought even then that I couldn't be amazed by video games anymore.

This, that and the slow realisation that the song playing is an amazing remix of the Brinstar music, one of the, if not THE best moment ever.


It's either that or when I was a wee lad playing Ocarina of Time for the first time. The intro with Navi flying around was so movielike, and then when you enter the Deku Tree, it was amazing.

 

[AppleBlade]

Metrod Prime was another awesome gaming moment, but I wouldn't qualify it as one huge initial shock, rather a slow oozing of awesome-ness that left you feeling warm and good inside.

 

[FightyF]

The original Daytona USA in the arcades.

Going from playing only 2d games to that. At the time I remember being so impressed I was telling everyone it was photo realistic.

VF3 was pretty eyeball popping WOW too. God I miss being impressed in the arcades.

Agreed.

I imported a Dreamcast when it first came out and got Sonic Adventure soon after. That blew my socks off.

Going from PSX/N64/Saturn to that...we may never see a bigger jump again.

 

[°°ToMmY°°]

Wipeout (PSX). i remeber i went to a electronics mall and saw that thing running in its 3d form with an awesome electronic soundtrack. before it was just simple 2d with crappy MIDI soundtrack. MIND BLOWN.

 

[Scott32020]

GTAIV and CoD4 on PS3 were a big shock, since those were the first two games I saw in HD.

GoldenEye 64 at someone else's house was the first 3D game I played, I remember thinking the graphics were amazing lol.

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

NFL2K - Dreamcast

Amazing graphics, great sounds, perfect controls. Didn't get bored of playing the CPU in this for months, sometimes my friends and brothers would come over and we'd just take turns playing quarters against the computer and finish out a season. Hadn't done something like that since Joe Montana Talking Football on the Genesis.

 

[RiverBed]

Not the biggest, but this was a great way to start a game. Randomly starts and throws you into the action without a menu screen.

so THAT'S what it was?! I always thought I had a faulty carteidge all these years. lol

 

[whiterabbit]

The ones that I remember being intrigued by when I saw for the first time:

Simon's Quest (daycare when I was a wii ladd, i remembered the morning star and that morning star was how i found out what game it was through a friend who went there, years later).

Mario 64: Saw it at a friend's, just wowed me, first level I remember seeing is that secret star through the vent or whatever in the world towards the right of the starting room, which is underwater collect 8 red coins. Also remember playing it at a store demo before I got the console.

Ultima Online: Again at a friend's, whose older brother must have found out about it first, and I saw my friend running around in the town of Minoc. I knew I had to play it. The lightning effects, interestingly enough, was one of the things that impressed me

I have a ton of other memories, of games, which have been, since I was young, the most persistent hobby in my life.