Lunchtime Discussion: Your Best Time
One-off, best time you've had involving video games.Published 11/11/2009 at 12:00 by Michael
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Time is…RUNNING OUT! Lalalalalalala!
Excellent. Bit of Muse for you there. No idea if the lyrics are correct or not, but I’m really not that bothered. It’s more the general head-banging excitement of having just eaten a rather large slice of chocolate cake that I’m concerned with. When I say concerned, I mean it in the way I’d be concerned if Angelina Jolie popped round for tea and was using tea as a euphemism. As in, I would not be concerned at all.
Time though. It is running out. At least for me today. Which is why this Lunchtime Discussion has been written with as much care and attention to detail as Gordon Brown uses when running the country.
Time is important in video games. I remember the time Torr kept us waiting for TSA Towers, for instance. Or the time I posted on a Gran Turismo track once, when I thought I’d done really well only to realise I’d mistaken seconds for minutes.
Best times then: One-off, best time you’ve had involving video games. SingStar session? Multi-player mayhem? Two things stand out for me: firstly, going to Blackpool with a mate, about 25 years ago, and playing on Super Sprint and Rampage and Gauntlet all day; secondly, my aggressively entertaining video-captured rendition of Kasabian’s Club Foot on SingStar. You should check it out, it’s amazing.
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Gamoc | 11/11/2009 12:04
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Left 4 Dead online, most of the time.
Mick939 | 11/11/2009 12:21
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See at first i was the same with that but the second time you do any mission it gets dull, hopefully 2 eleviates that. Also why does no one use a headset god sake the games pointless without it.
Gamoc | 12/11/2009 10:26
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It doesn’t get dull with friends and headsets
cc_star | 11/11/2009 12:05
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My local Safeway had a Gauntlet arcade machine, me and a mate once skived off school and played it for a whole day.
I used to have great times packing my megadrive in a rucksack and taking it round my SNES owning mates, there we would set them both up side by side in his bedroom and just play pass the pad and multiplayer for the literally the whole summer holidays.
recently errrm, I enjoy some LBP/Guitar Hero/Singstar with my little one, and online multiplayer… s’alright, but doesn’t seem as fun as things did in the past.
Radboud | 11/11/2009 12:05
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I had a very good time a few birthdays back with Eyetoy Play 3 on my PS2.
Running, jumping, ducking, slapping, etc. with some mates all together and then seeing it all back on video is really hilarious
shields_t | 11/11/2009 16:48
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Yeah, the eyetoy play series were superb. I’m surprised Sony haven’t knocked a few out for the PSEye to keep the interest alive until PS3 motion control.
I used to quite like the Sega Superstarts Eyetoy collection too, some of the games were bonkers.
Gastos84 | 11/11/2009 12:07
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Goldeneye 64 with my brother and a mate. Hilarity!
Gastos84 | 11/11/2009 12:09
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And I also remember, long before Guitar Hero reached the consoles, there was a guitar-game in my local arcade. Hours of time and quite a bit of money was spent on that.
double-o-dave | 11/11/2009 12:11
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i remember that about 7/8 yrs ago
iiekka | 11/11/2009 12:37
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goldeneye 64 for me too, some of the best and funnest times 4 player split screen, me and my mates set up a lan once too with halflife and some custom goldeneye maps, by the end of that we where laughing so hard we could hardly play
toutski | 11/11/2009 12:08
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Great Idea.
Best time offline was hammering my best mate in a marathon FIFA session.
Best time online was when I first got my PS3 and went online to play R6V2 co-op with 2 mates. God I love that game.
double-o-dave | 11/11/2009 12:10
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I’d say about 10 years ago we used to have a Lads night every week which involved about 10 of us crammed in someones lounge with with beer, pizza and Soul Calibur on the Dreamcast – Winner stays on.
Ryan1991 | 11/11/2009 12:11
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Playing Pro Evo 2 against my mate and scoring a weak header from way outside the box. for some reason the keeper decided to run out.
tantalus_blank | 11/11/2009 12:11
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Many great memories of playing Timesplitters and Champions of Norrath with mates on all nighters. Also me and my older brother have lost days in fits of laughter over 2-player create mode on LBP
Radboud | 11/11/2009 12:20
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So true, had some major gametime in with Timesplitters and Champions of Norrath with my bro.. Great fun those games.
Here’s to local multiplayer! cheerz!
gazo69 | 11/11/2009 12:12
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Playing Double Dragon on the Master System with my mate, great stuff
cc_star | 11/11/2009 12:19
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There isn’t enough posts which mention Double Dragon IMO
I’ve just had to have a quick go online
xx SgtP3pp3r xx | 11/11/2009 12:23
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Double Dragon was a great game to play with a friend. I remember finally getting past those stupid traps on the last level with my childhood best friend, then beating all the bad guys before finding out we had to fight each other for the girl. I got battered.
gazo69 | 11/11/2009 12:24
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What, online? Where?
cc_star | 11/11/2009 12:31
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Google Double Dragon
You do know practically every 8 bit game has a flash/java version online?
gazo69 | 11/11/2009 12:35
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Really, wow i live in a cave!
double-o-dave | 11/11/2009 12:47
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Whichever one of you managed to get to the steel baseball bat first at the end won the girl. Once you had the bat you were pretty much unbeatable.
shields_t | 11/11/2009 13:26
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I was going to mention playing Double Dragon as my best time too, back in 1987 on holiday in Crete, probably my first decent stretch of playing comuter games outside of my bedroom. I got so hooked that I spent the vast majority of my second ever trip abroad inside a poky room just off the reception of the hotel playing co-op with a kid I met from Derby.
As Gazo has already bought up Double Dragon though, I’ll bring up a different one. Playing for weeks on the original Lego Star Wars with my future brother in law (being a big Star Wars fan from my childhood and he being a “2nd generation” Star Wars fan from his). Though the formula is a little tired these days, just the addiction to unlocking new Lego figures (“Ooooh it’s Kay-Adi-Mundi”) and opening up new rooms, calmouring for that 100% completion figure.
lewis815 | 11/11/2009 12:13
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Playing the original Sonic games as a kid.. Alex Kidd and all the games that seemed so amazing back then (And some still are of course!)
xx SgtP3pp3r xx | 11/11/2009 12:15
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Playing Shadow of the Colossus on the PS2 was amazing. Best game ever in my opinion. In second place is the first time I ever played online. It was Socom 2 and I played it non-stop for two years.
Lorcan | 11/11/2009 12:17
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Completing Metal Gear Solid 4. No question. Single most rewarding thing ever!
Brought everything to a close perfectly (for me anyway)
Playing 4 player on any good game though can also make for some pretty fantastic experiences!
Warhawk especially!
haz360 | 11/11/2009 12:17
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So many to think of! Spending loads of time playing Oblivion on PS3, the original MGS on PS1 and pouring hours into Warhawk and COD4 online. Also playing Resistance online with mates when the PS3 first launched, and playing Timesplitters 2 split screen with my sis.
Mick939 | 11/11/2009 12:23
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Last night, mw2, no russian, i had read nothing about it my jaw dropped, that was balsey for any developer to put in any game, to put it in the biggest game of the year, my god. And the ending of it, i didn’t see that coming either, just that level is something i think will stick with me as the most unexpected level mid game ever.
3shirts | 11/11/2009 12:30
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Are you saying that level is your best gaming memory ever? Are you slightly unbalanced?
Seventy2 | 11/11/2009 12:23
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Christmas 1984 – Knightlore, we used to have snow then and I was convinced I was going to grow up and work for Ultimate Play The Game.
Ah happy, happy day now long gone.
Michael | 11/11/2009 14:33
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Loving this