Caltrops - Gamerasutra - Re: TOP MOMENTS IN GAMING

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by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/23/2003, 5:07pm PDT

SUPER BREAKOUT: When I was six, I had an ear infection which needed a surgeon to go in and just start chopping the shit out of things behind my left ear, taking most of my hearing away from that side in the process. My dad said he'd get me a game for the 2600 when I got home from the hospital. For some reason that I honestly can't fathom, I had to have Super Breakout. It was in ridiculous demand at the time, being a new release, but he drove all around Rochester and got the thing. I must have spent an entire month doing little else than playing that game with a giant, mummyesque, ear-fluid-seeping bandage wrapped all around my head.

NFL (C) FOOTBALL: Intellivision's sports game were much better than the 2600, so we got one and most of the sports titles. When my brother was about six years old, he was given ten dollars for his birthday. That might as well have been a million dollars to him at the time. He was getting enormously cocky about the pastings that he would give our old man in Intv Football, and one night bet him that ten bucks over a game. I mean, dad hadn't beat my little brother in what seemed to be weeks. Well anyway, with money on the line, dad got his act together and dropped some sick amount of points on him. (In retrospect, I would hope so -- who the fuck gets beat in a sports game to a six year old with money on the line?) Sure enough, he took the ten spot. Scarred forever, my brother went to Vegas 20 years later and still didn't do any gambling.

FLIGHTMARE: My best friend had a Commodore 64. So that's what we wanted for Christmas. Dad was going to "bring work home" or something, so we got a PCjr instead. Rather than play Spy Hunter, Choplifter, Friday the 13th, Gauntlet and the million other great games for the C64, we got shit like some BASIC -- oh, sorry -- BASICA Lunar Lander game, and whatever we could type out of Compute!. But then we got a hold of Flightmare, which was so ridiculously good back then, even in CGA, that all was forgiven.

ZORK I: This just ruined me, and made me start digging adventure games, which hasn't exactly paid dividends the last few years. The Gay Thread Containment Bravo team would be stepping in here if I went much farther with the HGLUAHGLUAing.

PUNCH-OUT: All I can remember from times spent at the arcade was how I was terrified to go near that game. The arcade at Greece Town Mall would have this giant TV placed right over the thing, and the game itself was in the middle of the arcade so from almost anywhere in the joint you couldn't escape the Sandman kicking the living shit out of some poor fucker. Punch-Out is pure fucking evil.

NHL POWERPLAY '96: When this came out, I installed Windows 95 on my computer during the 4th of July holiday, played it for more than 16 hours, realized that I forgot to take my girlfriend of two-plus years to see fireworks, got dumped a couple months later.

the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey!