What's your greatest gaming accomplishment in your eyes?

[Ivo]

I don't remember much stuff, but I remember having had a bit of a hard time actually pulling this one off:
Finishing Icebreaker (PC version of a game by Andrew Looney - original game was for 3D0!) 150 levels on Hard (and 1 of the levels I unwittingly finished on whatever they called the nigh Impossible "Insane" mode).

It's a funny mix of arcade and puzzle game, I reccommend people to try to find it and have a go at it if they can find it. A demo of it can be found on the creator's page:
http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Andy/Iceb ... eaker.html

I still can't believe somebody finished it in Insane:
http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Andy/Iceb ... ceFan.html

Ivo.

[whupthewickedwurm]

Beating Metroid 2(and later, beating it in less than 3 hours) when I was a little. No cheats, no codes, no guides. None of that GENE THERAPY like there is today. We were REAL heroes.

Beating someone at Marvel vs Capcom 2 or really, any fighting game. I have a real problem with fighting strangers. Humans make me nervous and I tend to panic... I usually end up losing to people even though I'm better than them.

Getting as a far as the last level on Rocket Knight Adventures on the hardest difficulty setting. One of these days I'll beat that bastard.

I once beat the last level of Soukyugurentai with only one credit... Which, in theory, I guess, means that I can probably beat the entire game with only one credit because I could beat all of the other levels with one credit pretty regularily. Maybe. Once I get the game back, I'll have to try it.

That's about all I can remember... wow, beating Ninja Gaiden with one quarter, thats HARDCORE.

[bawitback]

I use to play street fighter the new challengers alot back in the day. My favorete charactor was cammy. ONe day i was playing a solo game when some one interupted my session. He was good but i was better , he he. But i thought that was cool and fun. then another dude poped up and tried to beat me, so i beat him. then another dude showed up, then i beat him. Before i knew it- there was a group of people waiting in line to play this punk kid that was kicking the shyse out of every one in the arcade room. I must have beaten 14 or 15 people in a row. it was pretty cool. But my end came at the hands of some one who played the person i least liked fighting with cammy. Fei Long. I lost. but i had fun.

Reminds me of myself a couple years ago. I used to always play fighters at the arcades. I would go 2-3 times a month for some Street Fighter Alpha, Power Stone, KOF 95, KOF 87, Crush Roller, Metal Slug, Die Hard Arcade, Last Bronx and my favorite Rival Schools. I remember watching other ppl play the arcades and I would ask them for a challenge. Usually they were in there twenties-pre thirties. Where I was way yonger at the time. Majority of the time, I beat them.

I still remember a couple times I went against this hardcore Rival School fan, he was older then me (late thirties) He chose Hideo Shimazu always. I would stick with Shoma Sawamura or Edge Yamada. The first round he underestimated me because of my age I assume, and I won. Then he asked for a rematch, about 3 times. Those battles were intese (I remember watching the sweat drip down his forehead) >_>

[Saraph]

Oh, I have a lot of funny arcade stories. From acting so cocky I was chased out of the arcade by the owner, to betting on theater tickets. If I think i can win, I'll match any bet, and sometimes go over. Some days I'm off, some days I'm on. I'd really like to take my friends to a tournament in cali. That's where we'd really get our asses handed to us. I'm sick of always winning. Losing is where I learn the most, if I win I'm getting nothing from the match but bragging rights.

[whupthewickedwurm]

You guys are so lucky you have arcades in your town.

[Pullmyfinger]

Not my accomplishment, but I have a cousin that used to beat SMB1 holding the controller upside sown and looking at the mirror when he was like 4 or 5 years old, he is now 17 and can't do it no more

[turkey]

Not my accomplishment, but I have a cousin that used to beat SMB1 holding the controller upside sown and looking at the mirror when he was like 4 or 5 years old, he is now 17 and can't do it no more

that reminds me, i used to be able to beak my brother on virtua tennis whilst not looking at the tv, using only my 6th sense (the vmu screen) which he had no idea about. That had him for ages, thinking up new ways to play me, I even played with a bucket on my head outside the bedroom with the door closed once. He went nuts when he found out how i did it

[Saraph]

Not my accomplishment, but I have a cousin that used to beat SMB1 holding the controller upside sown and looking at the mirror when he was like 4 or 5 years old, he is now 17 and can't do it no more

that reminds me, i used to be able to beak my brother on virtua tennis whilst not looking at the tv, using only my 6th sense (the vmu screen) which he had no idea about. That had him for ages, thinking up new ways to play me, I even played with a bucket on my head outside the bedroom with the door closed once. He went nuts when he found out how i did it

By far the best story I've read. I gotta try that one day. ^_^