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Everyone has a favorite memory from their early days as a gamer. Maybe it was unboxing the revolutionary NES or Atari 2600, or watching the groundbreaking cutscenes from Final Fantasy 7. Any fond memory you have share here.

There's two for me. First, beating Contra with my mom for the first time. I can't remember it all, but I remember the last level, and after all was said and down my mom yelling "YEAH! FINALLY!" and I followed with a "YAA!".  God that game was a doozy. And the second one, beating my uncle for the first time on Mortal Kombat 2 for the Sega Genesis. I can't remember much, but I remember, "AHH! What the HELL?!" The reason I can't remember much on either of these is because I was 4 and 5, lol. My mom and uncle started me out at 3. They trained me well.

I got two one was beating all three stories in sonic adventure two battle with my cousins whenever one got stuck in a level the other bailed him out  and when we finally beat the game we all sighed with relief that it was done. The other one is completing chrono trigger after completing all the side quests I went to fight lavos I was suprised that i had to fight all the major bosses that i defeated before then finally i got fight lavos for real after two transformations i finally got to see one of the great endings of the game and after a while i went back and played it again.  

I also have two memories. The first of when I first beat Super Mario '64 with my dad, I literally started dancing rofl. The second was getting all the jiggies in Banjo Kazooie. I literally wept tears of joy. Me and my dad spent almost 4 months trying to get them all(I was 5-8 yrs old(can't remember)) and we had literally played almost every day. I love and still love the Nintendo 64.

Zero blowing Vile's arm off in Mega Man X.  The graphics, pacing, and music--especially the music--all came together for one of those moments where the sheer awesomeness blew you away, and you knew that the game was something special right from the first level.  I still think that Zero may be the ***-est game hero in the history of video games

Also, if the first Metal Gear Solid counts as retro, then I have to mention Meryl's codec frequency.  I nearly gave up on the game at that point, and I would never have played any of the games after it if I had done so.  I'm pretty sure it was my older cousin who finally told me exactly what case they were talking about; I was not amused.

I remember playing Super Mario World with my dad everyday after school when the SNES came out.  I have no idea how long it took us but when we finally beat it I remember taking pictures of the end screens.