video-games.. ^.-, memorable moments.. Options

[DivA]

curious ~ throughout your entire video-game playing history (as far back as you can remember.. ^.-) - what is your most favored, memorable moment?

~for myself - it would have to be...during the days of Atari 400 & one stress-bender of a game called, Gyruss.. >.< i could honestly state for the record that out of all attempts at playing that game, i made it to Earth once, once.. that was a war as i recall, & the world stood still - it was your's truly vs. the machine; i was determined on that day, perhaps it was high tide, perhaps the planets aligned.. whatever the case, i succeeded on that day.. afterwards, i couldn't do it since.. =. lol, that moment was pinnacle - of course, there are other such moments, but this one is key..

HA - in your face, Gyruss! ;p

[Sheik]

Most remembered moment, well, I enjoy playing RPG games quite often, but have not touched many in a great time...maybe I should take em out and see if the character data is still there.

Anyways,
Final Fantasy 4 (FF2 in US): well, I noticed that every few seconds there was a main character that died for some reason. I never got around to actually finishing the game, but it is still tops on my list. The storyline is great.

Final Fantasy 6 (FF3 in US): Again a excelent storyline, but the second half of the game was not, to my opinion, as well done as the first half. I guess they ran out of production time or something. It was not as straitforward as the first half. It was a bit confusing if you did not have a map available to tell you what areas needed to be covered.

Chrono Trigger (SNES): Another of my all time favorites. The storyline, like the other two Squaresoft games, is well done and the battle system is great. No more random battles like in FF4 and FF6. You actually have to run into the enemy and the battle took place on the current view, not in a seperate battle screen. By the way I did finish the game completly, then went back though it to get this one stupid item that I missed and could not get any longer becuase of specific events that I triggered. That would be the Black Rock in Zeal that I was irritated about...make me restart my game, eh, all in good fun.

Final Fantasy 7 (PC): Well, I played this game many, many hours on end and did finally get to the end, but stopped, recreated a new game, and went though it again to collect all the stuff that I missed the first time, including getting my BLACK Chocobo (sp?). This allowed me access to many places on the world map not normally accessable before including getting my cool Kinghts of the Round table materia...heh. The animations on that rock, so do many of the summons in that game. The graphics, at the time (and still do at times), blow me away on some of those summons...I think they are the coolest.

Most memorable moment that I would say is in FF7 when Aeris dies. For some reason that sad moment is stuck in my head. It was so inocently done too how she does and kinda lame. You almost feel sorry as I have become attached to the characters during the game...a main character killed off can be a little distubing..to me anyways, although Hopkins can die for all I am concerned. He is so clumsy that he should anyways have been dead by now...heh.

well, that and of course PSO, there are others but those are my main favorites, anyone else here a FF fan? I have FF8 but only played a few hours into it then lost interest for some reason. I should go back to it sometime.