We Don't Believe You
Ever do something in a game that was amazing, only for friends to call bullshit? I meant as a kid but it can apply to you as an adult too.
One of my greatest moments in gaming was getting the Hadouken in MMX. It was at a friend's house on his copy, based on a rumour his older brother heard. No words can describe our excitement.
What about you? Maybe you beat a game before your friends and they wanted proof.
One of my greatest moments in gaming was getting the Hadouken in MMX. It was at a friend's house on his copy, based on a rumour his older brother heard. No words can describe our excitement.
What about you? Maybe you beat a game before your friends and they wanted proof.
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I also remember another friend calling me for help with Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions. He and his dad were stuck and he knew I had played it before. I tried to help, but I could hear the frustration between them. His father pretty much called me a liar, since a specific stage was "impossible" to beat, so no way I could have done it.
MKII had a lot of people spreading a lot of rumours due in part cause of it's buggy as hell unfinished releases. Midway loved to release beta versions of the games as their 1.0 code release back then. Incomplete move lists, no endings, and bugs. Our arcade went from being one of the first 1.1s to the first 3.1s, so we missed a lot of the buggy goodness. I was quite happy to find a bowling alley with a 2.1 machine where I could do multi-baby fatalities.
Goro transformation fatality in MKII
MKII had a lot of people spreading a lot of rumours due in part cause of it's buggy as hell unfinished releases. Midway loved to release beta versions of the games as their 1.0 code release back then. Incomplete move lists, no endings, and bugs. Our arcade went from being one of the first 1.1s to the first 3.1s, so we missed a lot of the buggy goodness. I was quite happy to find a bowling alley with a 2.1 machine where I could do multi-baby fatalities.
You mean Kintaro? No wonder nobody believed you. lol It's something like hold a certain button down on the third round or something (I can't remember) with Shang Tsung. Cool stuff.
Also fighting Reptile in MK.
I still can go rounds in that game.
Classic Jigga line OP
Goro transformation fatality in MKII
MKII had a lot of people spreading a lot of rumours due in part cause of it's buggy as hell unfinished releases. Midway loved to release beta versions of the games as their 1.0 code release back then. Incomplete move lists, no endings, and bugs. Our arcade went from being one of the first 1.1s to the first 3.1s, so we missed a lot of the buggy goodness. I was quite happy to find a bowling alley with a 2.1 machine where I could do multi-baby fatalities.
You mean Kintaro? No wonder nobody believed you. lol It's something like hold a certain button down on the third round or something (I can't remember) with Shang Tsung. Cool stuff.
you know Kintaro is just Goro in drag, right?
Was playing through on one of the upper difficulties with Guile. Made it to Balrog. Won Round 1. Balrog won Round 2. Round 3 was a double K.O. (way to keep the suspense, right?) It's the final round and I'm doing well. Still got more than half my life bar and Balrog has only slivers of life left. I'm crouched in position for a Flash Kick to counter his inevitable charge (predictable AI...). Balrog charges, I Flash Kick (roundhouse) and it connects. Balrog is knocked in the air but, to my agony, loses no life. He touches the ground before I do and instantly executes a triple charge. As I'm still recovering from the Flash Kick, his third charge attack connects with me for an instant K.O. (drains over half my life bar). Bull $#!+. Pure and simple. After that humiliation, I came back with Ryu and just spammed Hadoken until he fell over.
Probably contributes to my general disinterest in the Balrog character to this day. Douche bag. But perhaps most wounding, no one believes me when I tell the story. They assume that I'm just misremembering or exaggerating the details. Because it's impossible, right? The game can't legitimately cheat like that, right? If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I'd probably feel the same way.
Screw you, Balrog.
Was truly, legitimately cheated in the most epic way possible by Balrog in Street Fighter II on the SNES. By hand of God. Didn't know such things were possible within the game code and yet there it was.
Was playing through on one of the upper difficulties with Guile. Made it to Balrog. Won Round 1. Balrog won Round 2. Round 3 was a double K.O. (way to keep the suspense, right?) It's the final round and I'm doing well. Still got more than half my life bar and Balrog has only slivers of life left. I'm crouched in position for a Flash Kick to counter his inevitable charge (predictable AI...). Balrog charges, I Flash Kick (roundhouse) and it connects. Balrog is knocked in the air but, to my agony, loses no life. He touches the ground before I do and instantly executes a triple charge. As I'm still recovering from the Flash Kick, his third charge attack connects with me for an instant K.O. (drains over half my life bar). Bull $#!+. Pure and simple. After that humiliation, I came back with Ryu and just spammed Hadoken until he fell over.
Probably contributes to my general disinterest in the Balrog character to this day. Douche bag. But perhaps most wounding, no one believes me when I tell the story. They assume that I'm just misremembering or exaggerating the details. Because it's impossible, right? The game can't legitimately cheat like that, right? If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I'd probably feel the same way.
Screw you, Balrog.
Awesome story!
Awesome story!
Thanks! It's been over 20 years but telling it again after so long has me all fired up to knock Balrog's teeth out one more time...
I also got a hole-in-one at a pitch and putt, but I haven't bothered to tell him about that one
Not video games, but one of my best friends refuses to believe I chipped in a hole-in-one on a par 3
I also got a hole-in-one at a pitch and putt, but I haven't bothered to tell him about that one
Very nice!
That also reminds me: I bowled a Six-Pack (six consecutive strikes) in Wii Sports once. Would probably be more impressive were it "real" bowling but people still give me funny looks when I tell them that.
That also reminds me: I bowled a Six-Pack (six consecutive strikes) in Wii Sports once. Would probably be more impressive were it "real" bowling but people still give me funny looks when I tell them that.
That reminds me that my 60 year old uncle has bowled tons of perfect games in Wii Sports bowling. He has a trick where he holds the face of the controller against his thigh, positions a certain way, and releases at a certain point. It's very rare that he doesn't get a strike.