Favorite 16-bit era gaming moment.

Post by **Cairber** » 2004-07-21 10:24pm

Zelda...twice in one day. I think i could do it 5 or 6 times now in one day, but that twice took a while to perfect back then!

Galvatron · Post by **Galvatron** » 2004-07-22 02:31am

Lots of great moments, but I'd have to say that Street Fighter II for the SNES blew me away at the time.

I had a Genesis and SNES so I was impartial.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-07-22 10:42am

Galvatron wrote:Lots of great moments, but I'd have to say that Street Fighter II for the SNES blew me away at the time.

I had a Genesis and SNES so I was impartial.

i was un-freakin-beatable as Chun-Li or whatever the fuck her name was. i was banned from using her by my friends at one point.

Galvatron · Post by **Galvatron** » 2004-07-22 03:56pm

Bah! Give me Ken or Ryu and I'd pwn. Pwn I say!!

Temjin · Post by **Temjin** » 2004-07-22 04:22pm

Galvatron wrote:Bah! Give me Ken or Ryu and I'd pwn. Pwn I say!!

Those were two different fighters?

And my favorite 16 bit memory was going through Battletoads vs Double Dragon through co-op mode with my friend.

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2004-07-22 07:13pm

Ooh, ooh, how about in Gradius 3... I had just selected the pulse laser, or whatever it was called... and just found out that you could charge it up and let fly with a massive ball of death three times wider than your ship. With four Options, I was invincible... bwah!

Galvatron · Post by **Galvatron** » 2004-07-22 07:23pm

Super Metroid was a great 16-bit moment too.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-07-22 08:25pm

Col. Crackpot wrote:i was un-freakin-beatable as Chun-Li or whatever the fuck her name was. i was banned from using her by my friends at one point.

My siblings and I once dragged our SNES to summer daycamp. My sisters were invincible with Chun Li.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2004-07-22 11:28pm

Galvatron wrote:Super Metroid was a great 16-bit moment too.

Spesificly the Grown up metroid sacrificing itself to give you ultimate power!

Baka^Ni · Post by **Baka^Ni** » 2004-07-23 11:19am

The day Sonic 2 was released... the only game that has lived up to hype =) Happy memories...

Sporkzen · Post by **Sporkzen** » 2004-07-23 05:01pm

Final fantasy VI opera house scene

Sonic the hedgehog first time i ran so fast i ran off the screen

Shadowrun *genesis version* finally got to play a videogame version of this great game... when are they gonna make a MMORPG of this damnit!!!!

Chrono Trigger ... god i couldnt stop playing that game... still play it now even.. though on my ps2.

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2004-07-23 07:52pm

Phantasy star 2... just when you thought you had beaten the last boss you have to fight one right after that that the first guy look like a little bitch.

Playing Sonic for the first time

Getting to play Zelda in 16 bit glory made me cry

When sega told us that the Sega Genesis had "Blast Processing"

Staying up for 16 hours straight playing Chrono trigger.

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2004-07-23 07:52pm

Baka^Ni wrote:The day Sonic 2 was released... the only game that has lived up to hype =) Happy memories...

yes it did... and when you became super sonic I never felt so powerful playing a video game.

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » 2004-07-23 11:49pm

[Nostalga mode] Ah, the 16-bit era, the golden age of gaming when the programmers spent more time making the gameplay awsome rather than making the game visually stunning.[/Nostalage mode]

Heh, funny thing is, I was too young in those days to really get anywhere in those games (the fact that I have no real talent for video games didn't help either), but that actually turned out to be good. I got to return to them later (with Roms, since my old systems were long gone) and they were partly new to me.

So many great games and moments: FF6 and CT for RPGs. Kefka and Magus were such great villians, and Glenn duking it out with Magus one-on-one was awsome, as was kefka tearing the world to shreds.

The Mario games: "Please find the magic wand so we can change him back!" (I know, Mario Bros. 3 was on NES, but I played it on SNES), Yoshi, and so many other great things.

The Sonic games: my all time personal favorites, and ironically the ones I'm probably the worst at. As a kid, I never made it Spring Yard Zone in 1, and never made it past Mystic Cave Zone in 2, barely played 3 or S&K. Then I got back into them and found out what I was missing. I loved every part of Sonic 2: the multiplayer mode, Casino Night Zone, getting gloriously drunk on power when you first become Super Sonic, Tails, the whole thing. And Sonic 3 and Knuckles contains what is THE greatest Sonic moment ever: Doomsday Zone. Try as they might, Sega has never been able to match that, IMHO.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2004-07-24 12:11am

Hmmm, all of mine are from Chrono Trigger.

The fight at Magus's Castle and his summoning of Lavos. Great twist to it, I was so floored when I first beat him.

Magus's return as the Prophet of Zeal. Another bad ass turn of events made all the more pogient for his losing Schala again. Awesome scene and it would (and SHOULD DAMN IT) have made an awesome sequel.

Beating Mt Doom and meeting Melchor. A neat little thing that really got the meat of the time travel.

Glenn facing up to his demons. One of the few times a video game has really grabbed me that way.

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2004-07-24 01:39am

Baka^Ni wrote:The day Sonic 2 was released... the only game that has lived up to hype =) Happy memories...

A-Fucking-Men

Galvatron · Post by **Galvatron** » 2004-07-24 02:15am

Laughing at the poor bastards who actually bought the TurboGrafx-16 (aka the PC Engine to you un-Americans).

Shadowhawk · Post by **Shadowhawk** » 2004-07-24 04:39am

The only one that really sticks out in my mind:

I had been renting FF3(6j) from the local video store for a few days. I was glued to the fucking controller for days. I knew I had gotten really far, and it was being returned. I was just so close to the end.

The world was destroyed. Kefka had won. Game over.

Then Celes wakes up on a tiny island...

"Wow, there's MORE?!?" Blew my freaking mind. The closest I had ever come to playing a game like that was The Legend of Zelda on my friend's NES.

I convinced my mom to buy me my own copy within a week. I think I was in allowence debt for several months.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2004-07-24 07:25am

For me the only reason i still own a Sega Mega Drive (Genesis to most of the rest of you) is to play Shadow Run. It was, and still is to some degree, the FINEST rpg you will ever play. It's the dark future, your brother has been murdered, you're out for revenge. Build up your skills and become a Shadow Runner. Will you be a Shaman, Street Samuri, or Decker. The game took me the best part of a year to complete(without the cheats) and it was a joy to play.

Master Arachnos · Post by **Master Arachnos** » 2004-07-28 08:02am

Shining in the Darkness on the megadrive.

Laughing at how crappy Dark Sol is when you've demonstaffed barrier rings out of Mandagoras and your party has 3 each.

Dark Sol hits you for 1 point of damage....ooooooh, Dark Sol you monster...

Icehawk · Post by **Icehawk** » 2004-07-29 02:07am

Galvatron wrote:Laughing at the poor bastards who actually bought the TurboGrafx-16 (aka the PC Engine to you un-Americans).

It wasnt so bad. I never bought or had one, but I used to play it like crazy over at my buddies house. Had many a fun times with Bonk and Keith Courage.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-07-29 11:14am

so many things i could list. . . .not enough for just one!

chrono trigger - pretty much everything in that entire goddamn game was golden, but the thing that stuck out most was when glenn/frog first gets the masamune and uses it to slash open the cave entrance to magus' lair.

a link to the past - the rain. the rain at the beginning was too fucking cool. as was getting the master sword for the first time.

final fantasy IV - finally having cecil become a paladin, and meeting up with golbez on the moon.

final fantasy VI - the opera house of course, and the final battle against kefka.

Cao Cao · Post by **Cao Cao** » 2004-07-29 11:52am

Super Metroid, when the Metroid sacrificed itself to save Samus from Mother Brain. Not one word of dialogue yet considered by me a powerful plot moment to this day.

Symmetry · Post by **Symmetry** » 2004-07-31 11:48am

There are a lot of great moments in FFIV, FFVI, and CT, but you guys have mentioned most of them, so I'll have to go with when the mana tree is destroyed in Secret of Mana.

namdoolb · Post by **namdoolb** » 2004-07-31 12:13pm

Ahh, good memories....

StreetFighter II on the mega drive all the way.

I still have fond memories of popping off dragon punches inside of the time it took blanka to cross the screen with the flying cannonball.

Unfortunately I seem to have lost my touch somewhat, either that or the anniversary edition on the PS2 is an awful lot harder.
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sadly this is the closest that amazon.com turned up in the US.

Pity. I used to kick ass.