Your Favourite Gaming Moment

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ilovetogame said:
and finally i'm gonna have to go with two thing in tetris on the NES. one was when i got 175 lines, which was not amazing in its own right cuz my best score is 191 which i've gotten twice, but i got 32 tetri that game which was 14 more than ever before and when my previous best score had been 199 thousand i ended up with 363,155 points. i still hope to one day break 200 lines. the other tetris memory was in college we had a couple bands (Long Since Forgotten and Fire When Ready) play at my house and after the show one of the bands was playing tetris on my NES and they couldn't even get to 100 lines. so i decided to show off and played one game, i destroyed my previous best by like 15 lines and got 169. the guys in the band were going crazy. they were like shouting when i made some sick moves. they were so amazed that they starting filming me after i was had finished on the same tape that they had recorded their show on and they were saying i was a tetris god. nothing like being popular cuz of a single great game of tetris.

Woohoo, Tetris references from both ilovetogame AND Rubang!  See, Tetris (on the NES) is my favorite game of all time, and one which I've spent umpteen hundreds of hours playing. Earlier this year, I beat my high score on A-type and achieved the goal I had been pursuing for about five years: breaking 700,000.

I've been playing this game since about 1992, so you're looking at the culmination of fifteen years of effort there. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was a bit emotional afterwards; it was amazing to finally achieve my goal after so much time and effort. According to Twin Galaxies, this is the second-highest score ever recorded on NES Tetris, and I doubt I'll ever be able to better it. Too bad I didn't capture it on video!