I'm bored and the subject says it all, feel free to post some of your favorite pc gaming moments! (or dont! see if I care!)

Here's the top ones that stick out for me:

Malcolm Corley's last words to Ben in Full Throttle, "Ripburger wants to take over my company, sell it off to foreigners, and start making minivans! you understand me Ben? Minivans!" That might not be the exact words, nor exactly his last, but man thinkin about old Corley always brings a smile to my face.

X-Com: Ufo Defense: When I first researched the blaster launcher and tried to use it from inside my ship in the next mission. Took out my whole crew. Good times.

Fallout: The first time I walked down the Master's fleshy hallway I almost peed my pants.

Doom 1: Connecting to the kid down the street with my blazing fast 9600 baud modem, and turning him into giblets. Ahh, my first frag, and the world was forever changed.

These bots are beggining to be problomatic. As for my moments:

Fragging the f***ing cyberdemon with a pistol. I cannot do it these days sadly.

Playing Unreal at school never gets old. Apparently me at #1 on the leaderboard does, but I disagree.

Actually finishing FFVII. That took me five years from when I started. Same with FFVIII.

Watching the GuideBot go wingnut and destroy everything for me.

If I remeber anything else I will post them up there. A massive thank you to EA for:
- Producing great quality games time and time again
- Providing excellent technical support
- Never destroying any highly acclaimed studios for profit
- Never ripping people off
- Never wasting people's time

Fallout 2: Palying with Bloody Mess & Jinxed for the first time. Hilarity ensued. Best Fallout campaign i've played.

Baldur's Gate: Reading Gorion's note in Candlekeep.

Baldur's Gate 2: Entering the Twisted Rune battle for the first time, unprepared and winning the fight. "Oh HELL yeah!" My hands shook from excitement for the next hour or so. Also, meeting Firkraag for the first time.

Jagged Alliance 2: Mortaring Deidrianna's stronghold to kingdom come and then knifing her to death.

Silent Storm: Axis campaign's first twist in the plot -> the castle fight beginning. You stand on the castle coutryard and see 15 enemies surrounding you. Your turn. A great, great moment.

NHL 95: Slapshoting myself in the head and injuring myself out for the game. That replay has been watched a thousand times. Always hilarious.

Besting people online with Unrealtournament when they had broadband and I had crappy 56k, ahh how I miss their rants and screams

Fallout 2 the bridge of death! Enough said

I'll stop there before I fill the forum with nonsense lol

Sorry, but that's not cool man. Not cool at all...

I hate latency issues; recently a group of friends had set up a LAN and were trying to play Halo on the PC over it. There were pings of 121 and above. Guess how big the fight was for who was to host it?

There's an important moral to that story; only play on dedicated severs if you can help it. A massive thank you to EA for:
- Producing great quality games time and time again
- Providing excellent technical support
- Never destroying any highly acclaimed studios for profit
- Never ripping people off
- Never wasting people's time

First, playing Sierra games like: Leisure Suit Larry ITLOTLL (where you could die just by flushing a toilet), Police Quest, and Space Quest II, Vohaul's Revenge.

Then there was Battletech: The Crescent Hawks Inception. Followed By Mechwarrior.

A few years later saw me playing X-Wing.

Next year saw me playing DOOM.

I pretty much stopped playing PC(and console) games from 1995-1998, then started up again with the Blizzard ouvre(Warcraft 2, Starcraft, and Diablo).

I could go forward in time, or back to my Apple II era(1978-1990), but no one wants to hear about that. I had a permanent constipated grimace on my face, I was revenge personified

Playing co-op in the skeleton orb board in Dark Alliance for the first time. We tried for hours to hack the hell out of those pesky undead and kill that orb....took us a good 3 hours until we finally did it. Still one of the funnest boards to date.

Many good games were already mentioned so I will just add my favorite game!

Dungeon Keeper 1 & 2: Last mission i remember both! But prefer always ending in second one when Horny Ripper gets all crystals and at last leaves Dungeon to ruin the entire WORLD . So unlucky that Ea Games doesn't want to make 3 part of this great story. Maybe one day gamesas will buy rights from it and make another impressive game .

Signed
Old Player

It was 1986 or perhaps 1987 and I was deeply embroiled in playing Starflight. At the time I was working at a family owned medical assembly company and I would bring in my map and notes and plot flights and try to figure out some puzzles at lunch and on breaks. With the help of my boss (a major computer geek at the time like me) we figured out that the mysterion binary code message contained a phone number. We called it right then and there and the person on the phone gave me a word to type into the captains log on the game.

That night when I got home I immediately fired up my Tandy 1000EX and put the word in that they told me.
To my surprise it displayed colorful triangles in repetition. I thought at the time that it was cheesey and had no bearing on the game. Today I realize it was one of if not the first "Easter Eggs" in gaming history.

There is a market, a very large market for retro gaming with modern power and graphics. Combining old world playability (Hundreds of hours of exciting gameplay with little to no bugs that require you to actually think and plan your moves) with modern speed and graphics (That take a back seat to the gameplay) is part of the recipe for some of the most successful games out today. Windows Vista Ultimate SP2 64bit
CaseThermaltake Armor+ VH6000BWS
PSU Corsair 1000HX
MB Asus P6T Deluxe
CPU Intel Core i7 965 3.2GHz
RAMCorsair Dominator 3x2GB DDR3 1866
SSD Intel X25-M 80gb G2 34nm
GPU EVGA GeForce GTX 295 1792mb

Haha, fvcking spectacular BlackTriad. I love those games that just grab you by the balls and you wind up building characters and forming strategies in your head all the next day while at work or school

I can see how that easter egg would be a little disappointing. If I decoded a secret message in a game and it gave me a phone number to call, I would expect a wormhole to the next level to open up. Or to be inducted into some elite secret society. Freakin cool stuff though!

Fallout 1 - intro outro
Gothic I - loading uriziel with the energy of magic iron mound, outro
NWN II - final fight, battle on Galardrym
Diablo I - final fight, outro
IWD - everything
Doom 1 - outro
Doom 2 - destroying icon of sin
Doom 3 - ending scene, the conversation swann-betruger, fight with cd, mars surface
Death Rally - final ride
many others the best movie in the world ;P http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=6BV4slil-HQ

Well, except for Gothic and Death Rally, which I haven't played, I have to agree with you.

Warcraft II's intro is up there as well.

The intro to fallout 1 still sends chills down my spine, no doubt the greatest game intro ever made.

There's a great still image in that intro (it could have been in FO2 maybe, but I'm pretty sure it's from 1) of Uncle Sam pointing "onwards!" with a line of fighters / bombers streaming over his head and a US flag trailing behind him. I think the flag is supposed to be billowing in the wind as he carries it, but it always looked more to me like it was a santa-claus-esque swag bag. Anyone know the origins of that image?

EDIT:

I forgot to add one of my favorite moments from recent years in my first post in this thread:

The Ocean House Hotel in VtM: Bloodlines. Definitely one of the most memorable experiences I've ever had in a computer game.

hah yea gotta love unreal class especially when you're the only gamer around.Also I still remember when my mom brought me some cheap tetris handheld thingy, think it was preschool, i was the happiest kid!Nothing to do with -PC- gaming but still, gimme some time to think about that one.

I know I'm late but better than never.

Descent 1 level 7 boss. Finally able to kill him after so many tries.
Diablo 1 end boss fight.
Grand Prix 4 - Racing in Austria, 19 laps neck to neck with 1 buddy and 18 AI cars. WOW.
Mechwarrior 2 - Certain missions were wild.
Mechwarrior 4 multiplayer with many friends using Teamspeak.
Descent 3 LANs. Beta tester for:Descent 3 1.5 Patch, C&C Generals, Independance War 2,Starfleet Command 2,Settlers IV,Tzar,Allegiance,Starfleet Command (Alpha & Beta),MAX 2,Defiance

It will be long...

M.A.X.: When I bought, gave nothing for the game, the first play on it, I will never forget, loved.

DiabloII: never liked of RPG games and didn't liked when played single, but I will never forget when I entered on BattleNet for the first time and made my first char, It was not an strong char, but for me, wow, it was very strong, incredible;

SODA of Road Racing: All times I played the game was awesome, and when I made a modem direct connection to my friend, played "online", wow... almost had an orgism;

Rainbow Six: I will never forget of the nights spent with online play, and will never forget when i gave a "but shot" in one guard, it was very funny;

POD: this is a racing game, a good one, when I bought I had an 486Dx4 PC with 16MbRam and no MHz to play this game, I got very happy when bought my 586 133Mhz with 32MbRam and could play this game, will never forget;

Killer Instinct (for SNES): My first "Ultra combo";

Vampiros vs Guardi?es: this is an card game, like "Magic the Gathering" but with no many cards, this game does not exists anymore, but I will always remember when played against one guy, we took something like 1 hour to finish one play that normally takes 20 minutes, no one of us was dying, the fight was just amazing, like that epic fights, after that memorable play, me and my opponent became friends and continue as friends so far.

And have a lot of other games that will leave one mark on my memory, but this ones is

Whenever you play D1/2/3 and get yourself in a jam....Oh, Crap! "When you learn to control your emotions and tame them, no matter what situation you're in, you will then truly become king."-Sonny, speaking to a young boy

D1/2/3. If you are going to fight a war, do it efficiently, unremittingly, or don't do it at all--I'm not into ethics, I'm into efficiency.--Benjamin St. John "Descent" by Peter Telep

X-Com: first panicked night landing against sectoids, in a densely fielded rural map
Fallout: my first random encounter was farmers vs raiders, and I coveted the farmers SMG... moral dilemma
TIE Fighter: the defection mission from the traitor fleet
System Shock: jumping across a gap, then hearing "...nice jump..." from SHODAN, before the lights go out
Civ1: battleship 0, militia 1
MOO2: first use of stellar converter on a planet
Dark Forces: stepping into a Star Wars FPS world for the first time, and feeling deeply moved to be a part of it.
Jagged Alliance: swimming across the bay, solo & commando style, to retrieve the stolen idol
Fallout2: my shotgun wedding
Fallout Tactics: dealing with the stone-throwing mob while escorting the convoy through the city

thats just to name a few

Jagged Alliance - Anything Ivan said...... or tried to say.

Star Trails - for the pure immersion of it.

Fallout - when a stray shot kill a child for the first time and then you decided it's now a sport

Kings Quest - when you picked up 'anything' and simply 'put it in your pocket'. That was either the smallest shield ever or the biggest pocket ever.

Police Quest - driving around town.

Leisure Suit Larry - the game in general..... hilarious.

(I've just realized I'm going off on +20 year old Sierra games)

Space Quest - great Star Wars spoofs.

I'll stop there...... could probably go on forever.

Oh...... X-Wing / Ti Fighter - Taking out the death star for the first time....... when there was no such thing as 'easy mode'