hmmmm.... this is a hard one, but I think it was after I got my Wii in 2008 and booted up SMG for the first time. The game started with you heading to get that cake or something with stars raining down from the sky and that music playing at the time, after so many years of serious gaming, especially on the PC front, that was the first time I had a smile on my face in years from a video game before I even noticed I was smiling, and that's when I realized that I was missing that since the N64 days, kind of a revelation really. I mean I had a lot of ROFL moments, especially camping bitches in WoW since I played on a PvP server but SMG brought out something entirely different lol.
I haven't forgotten that feeling ever since, and I finally understood that Nintendo games can bring that out of me so it's quiet awesome and possibly my favorite memory from the 7th gen of console gaming.
