Memorable Moments in Games(Contains Spoilers)

[SheSaidDutch]

Streets of rage 2

Siva fight at the end, It just feels wrong to use special moves out of respect, he only has 2-3 stars but hes so dam hard ''Final Crash''

YES

I knew I forgot something!

and

Playing Sonic 1 for the first time at HomeWorld! (also the MD was my first console)

[Metrackle]

Suikoden II: Ambushing and killing Luca Blight, one of the greatest villains in any work of fiction. He is naturally powerful and so twisted, he makes Kefka seem pleasant. He is literally the Devil wearing human skin.
Metal Gear Solid: The highly creative battle against Psycho Mantis.
Any giant battleship level.
Earthbound: Moonside.
Super Castlevania IV: The fight against Slogra. He is a unique boss that can put up a fight.
I love scenes where a boss gets killed by another boss. Some of my personal favorites:
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow: Seeing Balore squish a Phantom Bat.
Salamander 2: Watching the Brain Golem get chomped up by an even more gargantuan pushover.
Super Bomberman 2: When the true final boss shoots Plasma Bomber with an arrow.
Contra - Shattered Soldier: The turtle boss landing on the mech.

[Ramus]

In Lunar when Ghaleon turned out to be a bad guy when he just saved the world not too much earlier.

[FatCobra]

Finishing Fallout for the first time...I was totally suprised that my Vault Dweller would be shunned away from his own people because he had changed in their eyes.

The Metroid giving up its life to save Samus's ass in Super Metroid. You then would proceed to get to the top blowing everything away with your rainbow beam of death!

Defeating Bowser in SMB3 for the first time. Pretty creative of Nintendo to force you to make Bowser use his fat ass and make a hole for himself to fall in. Keeping the Hammer suit and defeating him with 3 or 4 shots was also pretty cool.

After defeating his Nightmare in Magicant, Ness getting all super-powerful from the melodies he's collected. (Earthbound)

[ST Dragon]

There are just so many...
Here a few:

1. The awesome cut-scenes & intro of Ninja Gaiden II on the NES

2. Encountering the 2nd level walker boss in Axelay for the 1st time. One of the coolest looking bosses I've seen in a shooter.

3. Playing Doom 1 continuously for 24 hours straight, back in 1994 on my good ol' 486 DX4 100MHZ.

4. Haggar’s grab & jump-slam move on the ground in Final Fight

5. Captain Commando's, Captain Sword, super move in CvsM.

6. Hulk's Gamma Crush move, where he smashes a huge meteor/bolder on the poor players head in CvsM.

7. Hulk's Gamma wave.

8. Iron Man's Proton Cannon in Marvel Super Heroes.

9. Entering the Alien Hive as a marine in AVP2 for the 1st time. Priceless!

10. Travelling / exploring through the huge alien world of Unreal 1.

11. Fighting against Buda Praevus Final Boss in Hexen II - Portal of Praevus Expansion. At some point, the fight grows so violent that the temple begins to crumble from the blasts emitted from you & the Boss. A shocking experience indeed!

12. The awesome Heavy Metal soundtrack of Lords of Thunder on the DUO.

13. The fiery wavy background in Thunder Force III Fire stage.

14. The final boss fight against Anubis in Zone of Enders 2. It resembled the fight between the Gods & Titans from Greek Mythology.

15. Encountering the 1st level Boss in R-Type II & watching the grotesque eye popping out from its stomach & firing a huge laser blast against your ship.

16. The awesome/epic soundtrack of Heretic & Hexen. Some of the best game music I’ve heard to this day!

17. The grotesque zombie, 4th level Boss in Gynoug / Wings of Wor, on the Genesis.

18. The Boss fights in Mega Man X3 & X6. The coolest of the series imo.

19. Batman’s level layout on the NES & some of the most memorable Bosses on any platform game.

20. The Guardian's Knight in TF5, firing a huge laser blast in agony for the last time, right before he blows up!

21. The Kick-Ass sound track & levels of AGONY on the AMIGA.

22. Fighting against the Alien Queen in Alien Breed SE '92 on the AMIGA.

23. Flying through hyper space in Gaiares & watching all those incredible raster effects on the Genesis. A truly awesome experience back in 1990!

24. Raiding the huge space citadel & encountering the Grim Ripper Boss in Gaiares.

25. Fighting gaisnt Z-Bandusy Queen in Gaiares with the Galaxy in the Background!

26. The intro of Thunder Force V (PSX) where a city gets annihilated by a nuclear laser blast by the Guardian’s Judgement Fleet. (Coolest & most sinister name I’ve heard for an armada of space battle cruisers)
And the quote:

In the first battle against the Guardian's weapons, created with Vasteel Technology, humanity suffered a crushing defeat

Priceless!

27. Hitler's face getting blown up at the end of Bionic Commando on the NES.

28. The ending of Strider on the Genesis, where Hiryu flies away on his kite. It then shows the earth while the sun rises from the side.

29. The fight against the 3rd level Boss in RayStorm, where flies into the scene over the water fall. The huge laser that uses against you, is just so cool!

30. Mega Man 2 on the NES.. The coolest levels & Bosses of the original series.

31. Ninja Warriors Again - Natsume at their best!

32. Fighting against a huge Air-Craft Carrier in 1945 Strikers II only to find out that it was actually a Mecha in disguise!

33. Fighting against Tidal Wave Boss, the huge air craft carrier in Transformers game on the PS-2.

34. The incredible "Warriors of the Wind" fantasy theme of Panzer Dragoon on the Saturn.

35. CastleVania - Symphony of The Night (PSX)... Best CastleVania to date, Nuff Said!

[Dylan1CC]

The ones that come to mind right now (added a bunch more):

-Playing the NES and SMB for the first time at a neighbor's house. Up to that point I'd played Atari 2600 (good) and the Odyssey system (barf). The feeling of a platformer-arcade game in a miniature world with multi-layered levels plus the colorful graphics were beyond anything I'd played before.

Mega Man 2: The graphics, the level design, the music, the incredibly balanced weapons (Metal Blade = best Megaman upgrade ever), best Mega Man sequel ever. The Empire Strikes Back of 8 bit games. Moments: Fighting the mech dragon, the Gutsdozer and Wily's alien.

SMB3:

-Fighting the tanks, sand traps and various evils of the Bowser dark world stages. Talk about well designed chaos.

-Bowser SMB 3, no longer goofy looking and he was genuinely difficult to beat this time.

-The Sega Master System

-The Genesis and Sonic the Hedgehog

-SMW A perfect intro to the SNES. The "minature world" gets even larger.

-The Metroid saves Samus from the Mother Brain

-The first time I saw the incredible sketchbook style graphics and levels of Yoshi's Island, not to mention its amazing use of the FX chip with the giant bosses

-Chrono and his friends defeat Lavos

-Seven Force

-The last boss/gem form in Radiant Silvergun pumping endless bullets at you (some time after you defeat the creepy humanoid, can't remember how many forms exactly)

-Playing Gate of Thunder for the first time on the Duo. Talk about an audio-visual tour de force.

-Playing Mario 64 for the first time, the Bobomb field level of course and then later that night my introduction to Bowser in 3D. The feel of being in an open, expansive little world designed by Miyamoto coupled with the free movement offered by the analog stick was amazing.

[sethsez]

Inverted castle.

The final colossus (leading up to through directly after).

Anybody who's experienced either of these knows why.

[Minzoku]

Oh, yes

[captain ahar]

^ awesome, so awesome i don't even need to ask what game that is from.

[system11]

Silent Hill 4 - Cynthias death cut scene. Really well done, very sad.

The first time I 'accidently' kneed my friend in the face, in Double Dragon.

Downing an enemy in Crime Fighters, and seeing the 'KICK' arrow appear above.

Playing Nemesis in a converted Discs of Tron environmental (full of blacklights and flourescents).

Seeing Space Harrier for the first time. It was novel and new, they even had a member of staff managing people getting on and off, with the machine roped off.

Our old Midnight Club 2 clan days - at the end of any race we joined, seeing the list of AX tagged names from 1 -> 'n', other people below those.

First game on Moon Patrol - one I love to this day.

Playing a sit-in Buggy Boy triple screener.

FFX-2 - the cut scene with Yuna (and Lennes spirit) singing atop the airship - absolutely awesome.

Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow (online, all players with headset) - Everyone in the session losing control and laughing to the point of choking, at a particularly hilarious death even the Roadrunner animators would have been proud of.

Being able to actually talk to my old online gaming buddies for the first time, when we switched from PS2 to Xbox Live.

Tenchu - playing the first one. Underrated games for atmospheric value I think.

EDIT: forgot one.

Playing Segas Turbo in an arcade with my grandfather. This was the first and only time he ever played one. I was young and had to stand on tiptoe to play it. He was a man who didn't like anything modern, and it's a special memory of him.

[Icecap Veiwin]

Shit, I just realized my life changed forever when I played Cho Ren Sha 68k.

Also, defeating Zeon in Shining Force 2.

Iris turning against you in MMX4 (as Zero). Damn, still can't beat her.

I started playing the Benny Hill theme when Aeris died (while my brother was playing FF7). It was hilarious.

Minzoku, what game is that from? It looks interesting.

[Minzoku]

^ awesome, so awesome i don't even need to ask what game that is from.

Minzoku, what game is that from? It looks interesting.

One of the budget ports called Star Sweep... it's a really crap variation on Tetris

[benstylus]

I started playing the Benny Hill theme when Aeris died (while my brother was playing FF7). It was hilarious.

That does sound quite hilarious. Now I will never be able to play through FF7 again without thinking of that...