I would looove nothing more than Witcher 2, so this is a timely giveaway - cheers!

I was a gamer from a young age, playing the original Diablo, Dune, Civilization and many, many more... but the memory that sticks out above all others, was when my friend and I stayed up half the night playing Pokemon. We caught a Magikarp and, I believe an episode of the cartoon had recently aired that showed it's evolution: Gyrados. So, using a Goosebumps book w/flashlight, we squashed ourself together to see the tiny gameboy screen and fought random battle, after random battle until it finally evolved. As these things usually go, it's the 'road to' rather than the destination itself... yeah, Gyrados was cool, but it didn't live up to the expectations.

Same friend, we played Battlefield 1942 on the same computer for a good year or two. We'd jump right into an airplane and one of us would drop bomps, while the other steered it. Then there's the time I raced a friend to get through the Thieve's Guild questline in Morrowind... I was stuck on finding someone and, in true friend fashion, he tipped me off and I went on to pass him...

Staying up all night playing The Sims; taking turns... he spent his hour throwing parties and trashing the place; I spent my hour cleaning up and earning the money for him to buy things like DJ turntables... god, growing up really sucks sometimes. Actually, I have amazing memories of 4 player LAN battles on Age of Empires 2. My Father and his two friends and myself, probably 11-13 years old, just duking it out. One of his friends would always wind up with a million Persian war elephants and just steamroll the others. I remember one battle on a dense, forest map where I spent every spare piece of stone putting up fortified walls and bombard towers. I don't think I got the victory, but it's pretty awe-inspiring to watch an army of war elephants attack your gates and knowing that the entire game rests on this one battle.

Then there's drawing maps of Goldeneye levels... and discovering you could climb back into the area above the toilets, if you strafe into at the right angle... Super Smash Bros... honestly, the list could go on forever. I wish we had games like Battlefield 3 when I was a kid, because I know we would've had an amazing time coordinating attacks. Anyway, thanks for the giveaway. xD

I'm in, but not for the Witcher 2 (my laptop couldn't run it, so it's best it goes to someone who can play it). With that said, count me in for $5.99!!!

My best video game memory would have to be playing Nox for the first time. I remember being amazed by the installation screens, and it was the first game I played where I needed to enter a serial number, so that was intriguing to me as well...and then the gameplay started, and I was "wowed" left and right. Awesome game.

+1 for the giveaway, thanks!

Yep! I think I'm going to have to change it to being two separate prizes altogether, really. This is a bit too confusing, otherwise. :) Yeesh, freakin' redeads. They were the WORST. Also, the Skulltula-people house. D:

One of my best video game related moments was getting BG2 ToB. I had been hooked on SoA for a while, but missed the relatively narrow window where the expansion was on shelves anywhere near where I lived, and this was before the internet made everything available everywhere. Months passed, and I had begun to doubt if I would ever see it in a shop again. Then one day my brother found a copy on a second hand market stall. It was a brilliantly unexpected surprise - I ended up playing till about 2-3 in the morning.

I'm in for either prize - thanks very much!

Ah, just noticed your question! That would be the 17th. It's pretty short, but it's also the date I get my school results, so it's partially a (very hopeful!) celebration.

Yay! thank you mister!

I'm in for the 5.99 game.

One of my favorite video game moments was maybe having a Heroes 3 hotseat party all night with my buddies, or a worms armageddon hotseat party all night.

I'm in for the 5.99 game, and thanks for the chance! Here's a memory I've posted before, but I'll repost it anyway since it seems to amuse people.

My story is a tale of videogame deprivation.

When I was a little girl, we didn't have a videogame system or a computer. The kids next door, however, had a ton of games on their Mac. I practically moved to live there. My first game love was Manhole, a children's game from Broderbund in the style of Myst (but, you know, with greyscale graphics and no puzzles). I played Manhole like crazy until the neighbour kid realized it's not cool to play with girls, and I was banished from their Macintosh (as well as their house).

"Playing videogames" got a whole different meaning for me after that. I built my own computer from cardboard boxes and designed a whole line of games for it. If I had a friend over and we "played videogames", I gave my friend a stack of floppy discs (also made from cardboard), each one with the name of the game written on it. Then I hid inside the cardboard computer and waited for my friend to slid a disc through a hole ("disc drive"), and started the game. Each game consisted of a stack of drawings, each one with a different scene from the game. The games were controlled by stucking fingers trough holes on each side of the screen, so I could see even from inside the box which way the player wanted to move. Then I'd just swap the appropriate drawing on the "screen". Sometimes my friend had to yell commands like "Okay, I'm gonna kill the dragon with the sword" and I'd swap the dragon drawing with a picture of a treasure.

A couple of weeks ago I was cleaning up, and found a cardboard floppy disc with "Manhoul 2" written on it with wonky letters.

So, about a year ago I was watching over my niece, and I showed her my DS to keep her occupied for a while. It turned out she absolutely fell in love with it, and she's begged me to lend her the thing every time we meet. Once she complained how much she'd like to have her own DS, I told her about the cardboard computer I made when I was her age. The next time we met, she proudly showed me a cardboard DS she'd made, complete with a stylus and all.

I wonder if I could play my Manhoul 2 on it.

First of all. Thanks Ellynandroid for your generosity. Hope you did well and get great results!

I'll enter for the 5,99. I have the Witcher 2 and it's great =).

So, about my favorite gaming memory. It's always hard to pick one. But I will go back to the old days. Somewhere around 1988-1990. I can't be more precise as I am getting older and my memory is starting to fail. But I was over at my best mates place, as I generally would be 3-4 times a week and we were up in their attic where they had several pc's standing. My best mates brother was stuck to the pc as per usual, but invited us to join him playing this game called Gauntlet II. Now for those of you that don't know it (I didn't till I just looked at wikipedia). Gauntlet started out as an arcade game in 1985 and you would be able to play it with 4 players. Same for the PC version that was released later. Back then LAN-multiplayer games were pretty much non-existant, but you had cool stuff like token ring/token bus network's and Null-modems. Anywho's, that didn't apply here, because Gauntlet was coop-multiplayer on the machine itself. So here we'd be. 3 young people sitting in front of one pc, with one keyboard. All needing approx 5 buttons on the same keyboard playing Gauntlet. It took a while to figure out what keys we could best use because of keyboard ghosting (I believe we used a different word for it back then), but after a while we were able to all play it pretty properly. I guess it was a tight fit, but that didn't bother us back then. I can't imagine now how we managed to use the same keyboard simultaneously with 3 people, but we managed. Best of all, it was great fun! Now that I think of it, we might have had an Atari 2600 controller plugged into the pc. That would definitely free up some space on the keyboard.
Gauntlet was one of the first games for the pc with spoken commentary (albeit through your pc speaker. But especially with "Valkyree is now IT" or "Wizard destroyed food" or "Warrior needs food badly" there was quite a bit of animosity going around.
I can't remember how far we got, but I do remember the fun and fond memories I have of it.
Actually, after writing this down. I think I will see if I can find an old abandonware version to give it a spin.

Good luck with the giveaway, and thanks for making me reminisce. I enjoyed it =)

I'd like a $5,99 game.

Been playing Jazz Jackrabbit for a few weeks. Goes to a friends house. Friend says he has this cool game called Jazz Jackrabbit which he and his big brother have been playing. For some reason they can never get past a certain level. They ask me if I wanna try. I start playing. I finish the game on one sitting. Friend and his brother are speechless. Dat feeling bro.:)

I used to go over to my friends house to play Oddworld and Dark Forces... we weren't very good. We were stuck on a level in Oddworld and then my friends older sister came in and beat it in like 5 minutes...

(I'd like to enter for the $5.99 game)

Thanks

I remember going round to my mates house in 1996 and being introduced to the Aliens mod for Doom. I had never played a FPS before and I was blown away. I got so into the game when crawling along the air vents, I would find myself craning my neck to look round the corner to see if an alien was hiding there. My mate would pee himself laughing at me. I spent the whole game on edge waiting for the aliens to jump out at me. It was a totally awesome experience and one I have kept with me ever since.

Thanks ellynandroid for this nice giveaway!

I think I'll enter for The Witcher 2, but I would be happy with either prizes, I have an eye on some games on sale...

Anyway, this memory is the first I can think of, but I'm sure I have many more. When I was "younger & naive" I tried my first RPG, it was for PlayStation, a JRPG called "Final Fantasy VIII (FF8)". I didn't understand many things about RPGs, so it was very hard for me to play that game, I didn't leveled up my characters, I didn't found special weapons or espers, I was just trying to finish the game and learning in the process, but I beated it. The final day of gameplay, it took me night and then morning, to reach the final boss (The Witch), and the final fight was an exhausting and monotonous fight of some puny characters with weak attacks fighting a very powerful witch. More than an hour later (8 AM) and with only two characters left in my party, the witch finally died. I felt like like one of my happiest days of my life... man, I was shaking in exhaustion, I felt like I won an epic battle, and the breakfast that day tasted sweeter than ever.

One year later, and this time much more experienced, I played that game again. I took me a little more than 5 minutes to finish the same fight... (:P)

In for Witcher 2.

As for favourite memory, probably playing System Shock 2 late in the nights one christmas holiday. Gods, that was a scary game, at least for me at the time, Playing it in the dark hearing all the creepy sounds in the headset...it's a wonder I managed to sleep at all during that christmas!

In for the 5.99 game:



I remember the first time I played Dune 1... I was 6, and mesmerized by how the game looked,by it's atmosphere, by everything. When I looked the first time in the mirror, I think I starred for about 10 minutes, and after that was over, I was thoroughly convinced that I am Paul Atreides. It took me 2 months to finish the game, but I enjoyed every second of it. I still play the game again once in a while, tho now I only need like 2-3 hours to finish it :P

I remember the first time my son noticed that the PC moniter wasn't just another TV screen.
I was playing Puzzle Quest.
He started calling it "The Bish Bash Bosh game!"
He still calls it that now & I wonder how many games I play that this description doesn't fit....

In for 5.99, thanks