Post by carcinos on Nov 8, 2009 5:10:38 GMT -8
Tell us about the most glorious victories you managed to achieve in video games.
During my first year in Riverside, I lived in the East Lothian residence halls. In the middle of the fall quarter, the halls held a competition named the Lo-lympics for lack of a better name. Featuring several events, including a video game competition, all the halls were participating to win a ping-pong table that doubled as a foosball and billard table, among other games. I decided to make a name for myself among my hallmates and signed up to represent our hall in some of the events, including the video game event. All competitors will be playing the same game, but the title was kept secret until the event, so as to give everyone a fair chance. Until that time, I was training on Halo, Warcraft III, and Pokemon Stadium, but it turned out to be Super Mario Kart for the SNES.
When the event came, the leisure hall was filled with people crowding around the couches in front of the TV, including my hallmates cheering me on in all their raucousness. I, however, was still reeling from losing first place in the recent checkers event and was not as thrilled for more competition as the others were. The event played out as a tournament with several one-on-one matches. When up came my turn, I tried not to get my hallmates' screams to distract me. Remembering the times I used to play Mario Kart, I quickly selected the Koopa Troopa before my opponent could. As many of us may know that is the best racer, and I was able to select it before each of my races. Since I haven't played in some time, it took some getting use to the controls again, but despite bouncing around the walls and falling behind at the beginning, I was able to win the first race by using a mushroom to speed off-road through the dirt and a hole in the wall. In the second race, I was able to win again with a combination of brute strength through the ice blocks and a well-timed feather.
With each victory came roaring from my fans, much to my consternation. Then came the last race, which came right after my previous race, leaving me no time to recuperate. Taking the final battle to the dreaded Rainbow Road, I was off on a good start, only to miscalculate on the first turn. With a few more accidents, like using a mushroom on a long path and falling off at the turn, or using a star to plow through the twomps and falling off again, I was in danger of losing this one. As we both struggled to maintain first, I tried to take my time with the turns while hoping my opponent would falter and defeat himself. Eventually I took the lead again, but with him trailing close behind, I started taking risks again.
The most heroic event took place at the fork. I watched the twomps rising and falling on both paths and took the one I seemed best to travel, only to have twomps come down around me and in my way. With my opponent recovering from a fall, I attempted to slow to a crawl and move into the tiny space between a twomp and the edge. The crowd was cheering on while my hallmates were screaming in anticipation of my fall, but I managed to get through and speed away to the finish line.
The crowd went wild; I had just finished the most difficult track in the game, winning the event for my hall. In the closing ceremonies, I was awarded a certificate indicating my victory in the video game event to go along with my other certificate for earning second in checkers.
During my first year in Riverside, I lived in the East Lothian residence halls. In the middle of the fall quarter, the halls held a competition named the Lo-lympics for lack of a better name. Featuring several events, including a video game competition, all the halls were participating to win a ping-pong table that doubled as a foosball and billard table, among other games. I decided to make a name for myself among my hallmates and signed up to represent our hall in some of the events, including the video game event. All competitors will be playing the same game, but the title was kept secret until the event, so as to give everyone a fair chance. Until that time, I was training on Halo, Warcraft III, and Pokemon Stadium, but it turned out to be Super Mario Kart for the SNES.
When the event came, the leisure hall was filled with people crowding around the couches in front of the TV, including my hallmates cheering me on in all their raucousness. I, however, was still reeling from losing first place in the recent checkers event and was not as thrilled for more competition as the others were. The event played out as a tournament with several one-on-one matches. When up came my turn, I tried not to get my hallmates' screams to distract me. Remembering the times I used to play Mario Kart, I quickly selected the Koopa Troopa before my opponent could. As many of us may know that is the best racer, and I was able to select it before each of my races. Since I haven't played in some time, it took some getting use to the controls again, but despite bouncing around the walls and falling behind at the beginning, I was able to win the first race by using a mushroom to speed off-road through the dirt and a hole in the wall. In the second race, I was able to win again with a combination of brute strength through the ice blocks and a well-timed feather.
With each victory came roaring from my fans, much to my consternation. Then came the last race, which came right after my previous race, leaving me no time to recuperate. Taking the final battle to the dreaded Rainbow Road, I was off on a good start, only to miscalculate on the first turn. With a few more accidents, like using a mushroom on a long path and falling off at the turn, or using a star to plow through the twomps and falling off again, I was in danger of losing this one. As we both struggled to maintain first, I tried to take my time with the turns while hoping my opponent would falter and defeat himself. Eventually I took the lead again, but with him trailing close behind, I started taking risks again.
The most heroic event took place at the fork. I watched the twomps rising and falling on both paths and took the one I seemed best to travel, only to have twomps come down around me and in my way. With my opponent recovering from a fall, I attempted to slow to a crawl and move into the tiny space between a twomp and the edge. The crowd was cheering on while my hallmates were screaming in anticipation of my fall, but I managed to get through and speed away to the finish line.
The crowd went wild; I had just finished the most difficult track in the game, winning the event for my hall. In the closing ceremonies, I was awarded a certificate indicating my victory in the video game event to go along with my other certificate for earning second in checkers.