Looking at the Twin Galaxies Site (Twin Galaxies) it seems that my score would have got 11th in the world. They are very low IMO and would have been totally obtainable to the 14-17 year old me.
We got to 250mil IIRC on the four day session and stopped becuase we thought we’d do enough not because we had to.
I got the 0.0 time for the Chocobo race in Final Fantasy X on two separate playthroughs.
I beat Bionic Commando when I was 11.
Medieval Total War 1 – beat the game in 12 turns as the Byzantines (on Hard.)
Medieval 2: Total War – beat the game in 30 turns as the Holy Roman Empire (on Hard - Hard.)
Let’s see, I beat Contra for the NES without dying.
I got over a 1,000,000 in Super Mario Bros.
I’ve gotten 218 lines on Tetris for the NES.
Add me to the list of people who beat GoldenEye on 00 with all cheats unlocked.
I beat Ikaruga.
I made Jack Thompson freak out and send a cease and desist letter to Midway over his likeness “appearing” in Mortal Kombat Armageddon.
That last one is my favorite.
I am awesome at the first Dungeon Keeper. I’ve played it so many times I know all of the levels by heart. If aliens ever attacked and they used Dungeon-Keeper style tactics I would be the savior of the world.
A girl can dream after all.
I’ve won many, many Street Fighter 2 tournaments, and I was doing pretty good until law school and until SF3 came out. Seriously, I used to travel to places to win. I’ve won a Sega Genesis, a couple SF boards, a bunch of controllers, a Playstation 2. A whole bunch of SF for various systems. 2 super guns. T-shirts. Probably close to $10K in prize money alone (that might include side bets), and more tokens than I can count. I’ve never won a national tournament though, my highest place being 5th, I think and that was in SF2Turbo. However, I was considered to go Japan to play against the Japanese, but I didn’t have the time, really. Which was good considering how easily we got creamed. I play other games and win other tournaments, but the SF stuff is the only wins I like to brag about.
For video games besides accumulating a massive collection of PC games I’ve:
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[li]Collected every treasure, found every secret, killed every enemy on the hardest level of Wolfenstein 3D and so achieved a perfect score.[/li][li]Beat the Zelda second quest… without a walkthrough or FAQ (the pushing through walls thing had me stuck for a long time).[/li][li]Placed eighth in one of the annual Interactive Fiction writing contests; I wasn’t as polished as I could have been and my very high concept confused a lot of people. Still not bad for a first timer in a field of around thirty.[/li][/ul]
There’s a lot that’s been mentioned that I’ve done as well but I don’t want to take away from anyone else’s bragging rights. I’ve tried and failed to confine Qix that tightly many times though.
Now for the gaming moment I’m most proud of. I played in the national championships for Mechwarrior: The Dark Age miniature game a few years ago. I did very respectably in it but that’s not what I’m bragging about.
To play in the nationals you had to win a qualifier. These were local tournaments typically held at the local stores. A lot of people won spots but not everyone took the trip to play in the nationals. That might be my single greatest gaming accomplishment and I’ve had some odd ones.
You see I don’t play the min/max game that takes over collectible games where one card or piece or die or whatever is “better” than any others so it takes over and repeat forever. I like exploring the more interesting aspects of games, the odd ball tactics. So I wasn’t the dominant player in my local store; I was in it for fun while others were out to win.
The qualifier I won wasn’t at my local game store. It was at a major convention and sixty-four people were in it. It was unfamiliar ground with a referee who wouldn’t know me and might be friendly with some other players there. A full field of ultra competitive fanatics who were chomping at the bit for this. Oh, and one more thing. I was incredibly sick.
We drove to the convention a few days before and I had come down with a high fever after we got there. On the day of the tournament my voice didn’t last the first round. All I could do was make a raspy whisper. As my friends got eliminated (though I’m proud to say that two of them went into the last few rounds with me) they spent time trying to keep me on my feet. I must have looked like the grim specter of nerd death staring across the table.
I did have one thing going for me in that tournament. Like I mentioned I didn’t think like anyone else. I had devised but not used some particularly ugly tactics since if I used them then it wouldn’t be fun. If I had a nickel for every gamer I encountered that could mimic the accepted tactic but broke down in the face of the unexpected I would be able to finish off my game collection.
So there I was with an army that defied the normal conventions of the game and changing the nature of the battle by using rarely considered rules. It wasn’t all hunky dory; I did lose a round and was nearly eliminated from the tournament since the referee wasn’t paying attention to the win/loss count. After nine hours of the tournament I finally took out my last opponent and was allowed to collapse.
I was told after the fact that I really bothered many of the other players. Not because I was sick but because they didn’t know what to do when I performed lightning hit and runs surgically taking apart their force or when I denied them their ideal battlefield. Sixty-four men entered, I left despite being both sick and the crazy player and that is why it’s what I’ll brag about.
I’m not great at video games, but I AM really good at the NHL series.
In NHL 2006 I went over four straight full seasons with playoffs on All Star without losing a game. I then went until my gamecube broke before I lost again. I still contend that the game was rigged. When you out shoot your opponent by a factor of 10 YOU SHOULD NOT LOSE.
This probably isn’t on the level of many of you but my brother and I went through Super Mario Brothers 3 without warping and finished. We both had a whole whack of lives left too.
I finished Grand Theft Auto IV in just over an hour. Okay, I got bored after an hour and finished playing the game for good. Anybody want a copy for xbox 360?
I beat the final monster in the scary lightening storm at the end of Forbidden Forest on the Commodre 64 in (roughly) 1984.
I’ve always liked video games but I was never terribly good at them. Back in the 80s when games were hard, there were lots of games I could not beat, especially the ones that had reputations of being hard (i.e. the first Mega Man, Blaster Master, etc.). I had absolutely zero trouble with Contra, though. I could play Contra on one life until I got bored, and I never owned the game - this was just from rentals.
It wasn’t until I was adult that I heard people talking about how hard Contra was and how beating it without using the 30 lives cheat was an achievement. For some reason, Contra is really hard for a lot of people and easy for me. I’m wondering if it might be because people played it a lot with the 30 lives code, which caused them to play recklessly.
I kick ass in Day of Defeat 1.3. I used to get accused of cheating quite often. It’s called listening, if you have a good set of headphones on you can hear the footsteps of people coming around corners. Plus knowing the maps well, and learning the strategies and weapons.
I’m also very good in Team Fortress Classic playing as Medic. Conc-jumping through the map and running the flag back and forth, poisoning all the enemies and finishing them off with the nail gun or super shotgun. I used to get a ratio of like 100 kills to 20 deaths.
I finished Pitfall, Pitfall 2: Lost Caverns, and Solaris, the first two with perfect scores. I also got to day 10 in Enduro and qualified for the badge in Stampede and Keystone Kapers, although I never sent away for them.
I’m a 2600 nerd. It’s the only console I’ve ever owned.
Nothing really to brag about here. I unlocked everything in Goldeneye except invincibility because 007 mode did basically the same thing. I’m very very good at SSMB Brawl but I doubt I’m good enough to play on anything more than a regional level. I was super-psyched about the online play and then Nintendo decided to take a dump on my face and make it laggy. ::sigh::
Other than that, I got level 75 in FFXI. Oh, speaking of that, I guess one thing I am proud of is I was the leader of the 3rd NA team to get access to ‘Sea.’ Nobody knew how to complete the missions well, so it was all teamwork, brains, trial and error, and a lot of research. We would have been first perhaps if not for some people on our time who were bitchy. Not like it matters but hey, does any of this (besides the people who won prizes I guess).
The final monster is Demogorgon, prince of darkness. Beat him, and he explodes into sparks.
Okay, that settles it- ever since I was a kid, I was pretty convinced that Pitfall didn’t HAVE an ending! I’ll take your word for it. 
Could beat the arcade game Robocop on one token. Had to, actually- there’s power-ups early on that you can’t survive the final levels without.
You have 20 minutes to navigate 255 screens and get 32 pieces of treasure. I did it without dying or getting hit by a barrel.
Here is the unimpressive ending. Pitfall 2 had a better ending, but not much better.
There isn’t a mortal on this planet that can beat me at Mario Tennis on the Super NES.
I once got past the third level on Battletoads (the speeder bike one).
If I can control my own goalie you will never score on me in NHL '94.
I beat Dark Forces on the PC.
Weak I know but I lose interest before I rack up massive scores or anything like that.
We’re not worthy!
I *killed *the two Pyramid Heads in Silent Hill.
but i beat Master of Magic in the highest difficulty level playing with the hobbits 