RetroGaming

And OoT still holds up. Gameplay still feels pretty modern even if you play it today unlike most games on the N64 and PSX. Even the single analog stick controls with z-targeting hasn't really aged much. Also OoT and Majora's are still my favorite Zelda games, the non-Switch mainline games after the N64 era just feel derivative with gimmicks slapped on top to make it feel new even tough it still the same quests for the same items you gather in the same type of settings with the same kind of dungeons. Wish they just followed Majora's Mask and completly mixed the gameplay up for every sequel, instead of rehashing LttP and OoT in a different theme. While BotW and TotK are a breath of fresh air and they are great games, they lack that Zelda magic and feel more like sandboxes where you can fuck around rather than an epic adventure in and they lack proper dungeons.

Lucky you. I only had Lee Carvello's Putting Challenge. I kept hitting the ball in the parking lot.

Meanwhile 8year old me with a ps1 seeing this for the first time and thinking I can never be happy again

Me, but when I gave the stripper money in Duke Nukem 3D.

Me having my first 'open world' experience with TES Oblivion and not enjoying it until my inner monologue suddenly switches from "I don't know where to go. I don't know what to do" to "I can go anywhere. I CAN DO ANYTHING!" and then I am slaughtered by the guard for trying to kill the nearest random peasant.

-Sometime in 2007

First time playing oblivion, still in the tutorial/intro. Grab the first bow and arrow laying a few meter from a well. Of course the only targety looking thing is the well's bucket. Hit the bucket, it swing, cool. The bucket stop swinging and behold! It is now tilting on the side where the arrow is stuck in. Coming from Morrowind I had lots of gripes with oblivion, but that first arrow in the bucket feeling has been in my mind forever.

Same but the 80’s and you picked up the first Triforce.

I'm not entirely sure what scene I would've said had me similar when I could still more surely remember those first years. Possibly a game I've forgotten since. Maybe one of the Bionicle Mata Nui Games or some other big online game. Or Imperium Galactica 2.

But a moment that will always stick with me is from the first Homeworld game: when you return from your first hyperspace voyage. That entire game was epic, including the intro sequence, but it's that sequence that I think can stand forever as a masterpiece.

Is this real?..

Or is it Memorex?

Same, but in Breath of the Wild, circa a few years ago.

hey i just did this for the first time last week!

The coolest thing ever HAD just happened

See, to me it was more like the first level of Panzer Dragoon in 95, because yeah, I was that guy.

By 1998 it took a lot to blow my hair back, though. I'm not saying it was a better game, but FFVII had been out for a year, and Quake 2, Half-Life and MGS had come out already. Things had changed.

But hey, the good news is by the time I did get around to OOT, later and through emulation, I still thought it held up alright, even if I'm not on the same "best game ever" boat as a lot of people.

I wonder if there's a timeline where Link is wearing flood pants when he first meets Rauru on that weird fountain platform in the Chamber of Sages

And then you got outside, there’s a fiery volcano and zombies that make Link shit himself.

Me seeing the starting screen "These are the end-times... There was no hope of survival... This is how you died." For Project Zomboid the first time. The one and only Zombie-Survival-Game that absolutely hit the nail on the head in relation to an atmosphere of despair and gritty survival.

I remember a friend of mine got an N64 with Super Mario near release date and I hadn't seen anything like it at the time. First time playing that and jumping through paintings and just playing a game in 3D