I’ve beaten (done all levels) of Qbert. I first played it in 1984 on a computer, then in arcades. I could go for hours on one quarter, although I usually got bored first. I’ve done the newer computer version too, but prefer the arcade machines.
In Silent HUnter III, I came across a large convoy north of my position, moving east-to-west. I snuck in close enough to get a good look at the two southern “files” of ships, and since it was approaching nightfall with a moderate fog, I broke contact, surfaced, and commenced a speed run to get ahead of the convoy.
Around 2300, I spotted the convoy, right on course and time, and submerged.
The outermost file was all Coastal and Small Merchies; small potatoes. But the one inside them was all C2 Cargo ships, running around 6,200 tons apiece; and the one inside that had a T3 and 2 T2 tankers, all 10,000+ tons.
So I just lay in wait, maneuvering slowly past the escort screen, until I was just inside the outermost file, and fired on the first C2, breaking it in two. Figuring the ships would break left, I was maneuvering for the second C2 even as I fired on the first, and bagged it too.
I accelerated to flank (a whole 7 knots!), maneuvering inside the second file, and I gave the T3 tube 3, for a third one-hit kill. The first T2 in that file (the second ship) was in a crappy position, so I passed on it for the second T2 (third ship), and gave it tube 4, for yet one more one-hit kill.
By now, the escorts are going nuts, and the fog’s just thick enough amd just low enough for me to consider actually surfacing, but I stay submerged and make a speed run past the third and fourth file. The escorts are searching like mad in the vicinity of where I’d made my shots against the tankers, when one of them, a Tribal-class destroyer, slows to about 3 knots in an almost perfect position for my stern tubes, so I give it tube 5 for my fifth kill, and acelerate to ahead standard to exit the convoy.
As I’m clearing the northernmost file (again, composed of Coastal and Small Merchants) a V-class destroyer comes around one of the small merchants, on a speed run, aimed dead at me at 800 yards, banging away with his sonar for all he’s worth.
I accelerate to flank and come hard-a-starboard directly towards him, lowering my periscope as low in the water as it will go and still allow me to see him. Seeing him drifting just a hair to my left, I lower the 'scope and ride out his hasty depth charge salvo, before raising the scope again and giving him my last fish, in tube 6, firing at about 175 yards. I gave him a little lead to his starboard, figuring he’d turn that way (it’s the direction of “open water,” and the way I’m most likely to try to break contact), and send him to the bottom as well.
Still at flank, I dive to about 100 meters and head north, and none of the remaining escorts even get a whiff of me.
Six torpedoes, six kills, all on one run.
I finished Splinter cell chaos theory on hard without saving during missions.
I beat half the bosses on IWBTG:TM:TG on hard.
That’s Mike Tyson, Mecha-Birdo, Dracula, and Kraidgief
Oh, and I’m still going at it!
Just a couple. I don’t really stay interested in a game long enough to become great at it.
But. My favorite and most memorable kill in Battlefield 2. Enemy was blown into the air by something exploding. This isn’t always fatal and a quick player can pop a chute and drift back in. I sniped him at the top of his arc before he opened his chute.
In the arcade. I could play Gyruss all day on a quarter and walk away with 99 lives left on the board.
I am now at THE final boss! Oh yeah!
I’m like the lesser-skilled voltron of many of you guys:
- I was in the top 200 or so for a while on Warcraft III 2v2 ladder with my roommate–Orc + Night Elf is disturbingly potent
- Beat Bionic Commando
- I can routinely 100% Super Metroid from memory in under 2.5 hours. If I’ve been doing it for a while I can speedrun it in 1:47
- I went 94-0 in a Team Fortress Classic map as an Engineer…with two flag caps, eight wrench kills, and one six-pack EMP.
- I have two level 75 jobs in FFXI, and I was the fourth NA team on my server to beat Chains of Promathia. Of course, I STILL haven’t beat Zilart or Treasures. =P
- I have a cumulative 8-1 destroyed/lost score in EVE Online–and this as a Minmatar flying a Maelstrom-class in a decidedly unconventional build.
My proudest accomplishments were in Jane’s Fighters Anthology. I have NEVER lost an Airbase Assault match in that game, under any rules and any circumstances. I have killed enemy fighters with a B-52’s tail gun. I have killed enemy fighters in the process of taking off using iron bombs. I have, on one memorable occasion when my opponent referred to ground rules as “stupid” and “for pussies”, killed an enemy’s base without even touching my throttle or taking off. (B-52, load all SLAMs, exploit the bug that lets you launch SLAM missiles from your bomb bay while on the ground and parked, pick a JSTARS instead of AWACS for your support.)
A pity it will not run on a modern 64-bit machine. I miss that game.
Upon re-read, EVE Online fans will be going “huh?” if I don’t update that to say I meant an 8-1 ratio.
on the order of 650mil killed to 80mil lost (I was flying a passivebeast Hurricane build at the time)