Big Red's favorite Video Game memories

Note: I didn't number these. I am not sure if any of them stand out that much from any of the others. Maybe that's cheating, but who makes the rules any how.

One-yard to go
I think it was the first time my brother and I played through a Techmo Bowl season. For some reason I was the 49ers, I don’t recall who he was. But we met in the super bowl. With seconds left he took the lead and then kicked off. After the return, I had time for one play. In Techmo, it didn’t really matter where you were on the field the end zone was always a possibility. I remember dropping back to the opposite end zone, launching a pass that Jerry Rice dove for catch on the one-yard line where he was tackled. Even though it was only a video game, I’ll never forget coming up one-yard short in the super bowl.

Golden Eye war
In the dorms we’d have four man wars on Golden Eye. Like I stated before, I sucked at this game, but I still played for shits and giggles. Anyways, our one roommate Mike was pretty good, but he was also fairly sensitive. So as he knocked us off, we all complained how he like sneaking up from behind and couldn’t do it like a real man. The ribbing usually increased as the games went on until Mike eventually got mad and stopped playing. It usually took a couple days to get him to play again. Mike’s a good guy, but man did we like pissing him off.

It’s all gone
The Snakester and I played a couple shorter seasons on Sega’s World Series Baseball ’95. I remember though, we finally decided to go the long haul with a 162 game season with our drafted teams sometime in high school. We got a long way through, I believe past the all-star break. Which meant we spent a lot of weeks trading the game back and forth as usually it worked out where one of us had three or four games to play and then the other person did. Then I remember getting the game back one time, putting it in the system and the system going haywire for a second. When I got the game going, the whole season was gone. It was disgusting. I am not sure either of us touched that game again.

High Score
For a long time, when I took up Breakout again after work on Friday’s I really sucked at it. It just takes a long time to get used to the joystick. Anyways one night after a long night of work, followed by several hours of drinking, I hit a personal high score in the 400s. Very close to breaking through the first screen. I got up and took a picture on my cell phone, or at least I thought I did, I never actually been able to find that picture. Now it’s become tradition for someone who’s hits an unusual high score to mark that experience with a phone picture.

Macho Madness
The Snakester and I worked pretty hard to create exciting shows for a fake promotion using NWO Revenge. One time we we’re getting close to the big card of our year, Starcade. We had the main event between Sting and World Champion Goldberg. On the Nitro before we decided to have Goldberg wrestle Randy Savage in a world title match. Savage wasn’t real strong in the game so we figured it would be okay. I don’t remember if I controlled Goldberg or if Snakester did. As was the case with Revenge, sometimes guys were unbeatable in the ring. Savage came out firing and beat Goldberg in like five minutes. Our pay-per-view card was thrown completely for a loop.

My first Nintendo
Everyone has that one great Christmas present. This was mine. I had waited a long time to catch up to my friends and have a Nintendo system of my own. (Little did I know that newer better systems were all ready hitting the market). Anyways I tore at the paper and stared at the box. It came with Mario, Duck Hunt and the power pad track game. I used that system through all the blowing in the cartridges and tinkering just to get it to work. But that thing will always have a special place in my heart.

Crazy Dan and his exploits
Snakester and I lived our first year together in the dorms. Across the hall was a young man lovingly called Crazy Dan for some pretty good reasons. Anyways, Snakester and I had a nice collection of systems included a sega, a Nintendo, an NG4 and I think that was it, Snake would remember better than I. Well Crazy Dan always wanted to play Nintendo, but always asked to play like a kindergartner asking to go to the bathroom. It was funny because I don’t think he meant to. It was always enjoyable when Dan came over to play, because you never knew what he was going to talk about while sitting there.

Mints Galore
As stated in my previous list, Mario Kart was a way of life in the dorms in college. My second year there, we lived in a four person suite. Three of us were pretty close running buddies with the fourth, Alex, being the not so well liked space filler. Anyway one of the few times he joined us for a MK session, he pulled a late upset over my roommate Erik. Well Erik was a little competitive and he definitely didn’t like losing to Alex. He punched a small floor fan over and then tossed a cup full of National mints across the room. Then just left the room. It was hilarious especially later when Alex went to see if he was okay. Classic.

The Devil Train
This was the Snakester, the Style’s and my fictional wrestling stable. Snakester was named Lucifer Menedez. I was Jeffery Diablo. The Style was Hades McKenzie. Anyways in later Wrestling games like No Mercy and Wrestlemania 2000, the Stable came to life in the create a character mode. I remember the first incarnations just being monsters. I’ve always thought this would be an excellent name for a real wrestling group. Heck when I get new wrestling games, I still make these guys up. Each time a little different, but with similar resemblances to the originals.

The Rivalry
Snakester and I generally got along most of the time. But we were guys. Competitive guys. Video games were just another outlet for us to outdo one another. Things could get pretty petty when we matched up. Somebody had to lose and that person didn’t always handle it well. We liked to raise the stakes by playing long seasons of baseball, football, wrestling, whatever game we liked at the time. The more time we put into it the more we got into it when we inevitably met in the postseason. I don’t remember who won what that much because we played so much, but I know we both went home mad a fair share of times.