June 28, 2004

{     12 favorite video game moments     }    

i hate to narrow it down to 12 but, being a list of twelves, i will have to keep my entry within the parameters set forth by my forebearers.

so, in no particular order though the list does go Arcade/Console/PC, here they are:

1) getting the pretzel on Pac-Man at a Godfather's Pizza on one of the sitdown tables that you could put food on.

2) getting a hole in one on Golden Tee.

3) zombie dogs crashing through the window in Resident Evil - I almost pissed myself.

4) realizing that a game could touch emotions when Aeris died in Final Fantasy 7. i spent the rest of the game buffing up Cloud with Materia combos so i could kick the shit out of Sephiroth without pressing a button (it's possible).

5) sneaking up behind a Chinese embassy guard in Splinter Cell, holding my gun to his head, knocking him out then shooting him when he hit the ground....WHILE HIS PARTNER WAS ASLEEP IN THE OTHER COT!

6) finally hitting that fucker in the tornado in Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and being able to control the typhoon thingees.

7) finding the secret warp zones in Super Mario Brothers and watching my brother get so pissed because i wouldn't tell him how to do it.

8) picking up a hooker, regaining my "health," letting her out of the car, running her over with said car and taking back my money in Grand Theft Auto.

9) charging up a hill outside of Stalingrad, watching my comrades getting eaten up from the front by German 44s and from behind by their own officers with nothing but a clip of ammo in my hand in Call of Duty.

10) omaha beach, 64 players, battlefield 1942, 'nuff said.

11) my first slo-mo "Bullet Time" kill in Max Payne - diving across a doorway and tattooing some goon with an Uzi - I'd played half the game without using it and I have no idea why.

12) picking the monkey in Black and White and teaching him to be bad just so I could "spank my monkey."