It's cheating, but a buddy and I used to take turns seeing how high we could get one team to score on NFL Blitz in Dudley's. The "loser" would purposely throw an interception if they could, but worst case, turn the ball over on downs by running directly out of bounds with their QB on every play. Then the "winner" would throw a pass while the "loser" would pull all of their defenders away by changing which ones they control until the "winner" scored a TD. We would use the cheat codes to make our guys run faster, too. I honestly can't remember the highest score we ever achieved, but it was ridiculous.

Yes, we were bored with playing for real.

Sick day victories as a kid:
Beat TMNT the Arcade Game
Beat Sonic 2
Beat Mario 3

Beat Ocarina of Time while "working" at the West Campus Media Center.

Nothing huge, but good memories. Quality thread.

I beat Emerald Weapon on FF7 as a kid without a guide. That was pretty cool.

Most of my achievements are either time spent on a game, or related to Guitar Hero or games of that ilk. I could get 5 gold stars (so like 98%) on Ride the Lightning on Expert. Stuff like that.

I killed 4 ducks in one shot.

redline248 said:

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Oh, and pat yourself on the back if you cleared this f-cking level.

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Clearing this with one turtle, yes. Very tough.

Here's the dirty secret. You didn't have to beat it with one turtle. Once one started to get low health in the seaweed crap, switch to another one. It's an immediate swap, so your health goes right back up. As long as you had a couple turtles with close to full health, this level is a piece of cake. The rest of the game is much harder.

My top tier would either be:
- Completing all songs on expert in Guitar Hero 2
- Finishing all of the Halo games on Legendary
- Beating Nightmare King Grimm in Hollow Knight (didn't have the patience for Path of Pain, and the last Pantheon kicked my butt)

Getting a KO against Tyson. I was only able to do it once, but get the TKO fairly consistently. I actually had more problems with Mr. Sandman for some reason.

Somehow beat Ninja Gaiden and Castlevania on NES. Got to the Technodrome TMNT.

I am pretty terrible at everything else now.

Found all 96 levels in Super Mario World on SNES.

That's about it. I went super low on Golden Tee a few times to get on a leaderboard, but was drunk and have no idea what the score was. Never was great at any particular game. The kids still have me help them sometimes on games like Mario Odyssey because I have some retained skills.

And I can thump them all at chess.

Unfortunately I only made it up to CAL IM in CS was so close to getting to M.

Kill chain medal in black ops ii. Got 14 kills in like a minute.

**** that game

redline248 said:

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Oh, and pat yourself on the back if you cleared this f-cking level.

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played it enough to clear it with one turtle hardly taking any damage….I grew up with an NES and was the only kid on my street without a SNES so I played this sucker a lot….

Never enough to fully beat it though….could never figure out the town where you drive the turtle van around…

I found out that one of my friends beat Hollow Knight on Steel Soul mode (if you die, you have to start over from the beginning of the game) on his second try, which is impressive.

Beat the secret boss in Octopath Traveler 2 last night. Was orders of magnitude harder than anything in the first or second game.

After I won, I did some Google searching to see what other strategies people came up with. There's some really interesting and creative tactics I never would have thought of. This series has really impressed me with how many options you have for building your team.

If someone here has managed to beat Ori and the Blind Forest on one life difficulty, that would be really impressive, considering the fact that there's instant death obstacles.

I don't have that many that I can think of besides beating my older brother once in Goldeneye when he used Oddjob.

I also once got 17 wins in Champions League on FIFA Ultimate Team back in 2020. Not that crazy but I was super proud of myself.

The only other one I can think of is also on Ultimate Team as I was playing Champions league and was down 4-2 in the 87' and ended up winning 5-4 after only 4 minutes of stoppage time. I was so pumped up knowing that the other guy had to be so mad.

I remember when Contra 3 came out on SNES, rented it, nearly beat it on my second try. Final boss took some work. (First try was learning controls, the nuke button was a great touch).

I picked it back up recently and couldnt get out of the first stage. I was so dialed in back then. It was like art in motion: avoiding hits, getting kills, anticipating NPC patterns.

Vince Blake said:

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Around 2000, Duddley's had a South Park pinball machine and I held the highest score on it for quite a while.

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Around 1992, Duddley's had a Terminator pinball machine and I held the highest score on it for quite a while.

I died 152 times in the Gameboy Advance version of A Link to the Past (the game keeps track of how many times you died). To be fair, I was fourteen when I played it.

I hired every single courtesan in the Witcher 3. Well worth every penny.

Beat the original NES Battletoads without warps, all 3 Ninja Gaiden games, all 3 Castlevania Games, Ghosts N Goblins. Nintendo-Hard was some real *****

goadius6 said:

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I'd like to know if anyone ever figured out that stupid dolphin game Echo on sega genesis.

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Nope, but did beat Aladdin on Genesis several times. Must have run the rug ride level over a hundred times.

On Tecmo Super Bowl, I maxed out the Receiving Yards and Receiving Touchdowns for Jerry Rice in a season - I don't remember the exact numbers, but the stats quit counting at some point.

Getting hummer while playing Madden????