GTA Vice City - being over at my buddy's, drinking sodas and just free roaming, listening to the awesome soundtrack, hitting jumps and causing mayhem, and laughing our butts off about it. Specifically the jump over the water by the nightclub, or setting up a rampage outside the stadium, and using its natural protection to see how long you could stay alive from the cops. Funny how long we kept that up for before actually even starting story mode. It's the game that got me into the GTA series.
Street Fighter II - finally beating M. Bison for the first time. Cheapest fighter ever.
Madden / EA NHL tournaments - while growing up, getting together with friends, grabbing some paper and drawing up a huge hockey tournament, complete with draft order for team picks. Then as I got a little older, doing the same with a couple buddies in Madden, in what we dubbed the "Basement Bowl". Loved being at someone's house with a bunch of people, pre-gaming before the bar and playing either NHL or Madden. I could tell I was getting too old for the club scene in recent years when my favourite part of the night had become those pre-game tournaments.
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