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Laughing, crying, or screaming in exhilaration are all moments we've experienced while playing video games. For 3 weeks the GamePro editors brawled over the most memorable story twists, boss battles, and game endings in history. Now we bring you the 55 greatest moments in gaming. Take a walk down memory lane -
let's get on with the countdown!
55. Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball (Xbox): That very first game with the D.O.A. girls changes your appreciation for game visuals. It's rumored that the release of DOAX coincided with an...er, spike in the demand for computer animation courses in high schools and universities as gamers across the country sought to better understand the exquisite mystery that is "jiggle" physics.
54. Call of Duty 2 (PC): Normandy Beach invasion! Nothing more needs to be said.
53. Final Fantasy VI (SNES): The opera house sequence with Celes and Locke.
52. Colossal Cave Adventure (PC): Getting lost in a "maze of twisty little passages, all alike" in the very first textual adventure game. Bonus points if you played it on a mainframe.
51. Crystal Castles (Arcade): This was the first arcade game to have an ending instead of simply repeating forever, and it also enabled players to warp ahead under precise conditions.
50. Devil May Cry (PlayStation): Realizing that you had the ability to swat an enemy into the air, keeping them airborne with a steady onslaught of bullets from Dante's twin pistols.
49. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (PC): Finally getting the blasted Babel Fish to land in your ear properly amid a flurry of junk mail and other debris.
48. Baby Pac-Man (Arcade): Discovering that this pinball/arcade game let you send the titular chomping yellow pie piece down a tunnel that released you to a half-table game of pinball. Perhaps most notable for its inexplicable lack of power pellets.
47. Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (PC): Walking out of the bathroom with toilet paper on your shoe in this masterpiece of crude humor and soft-core debauchery, from the days when there was no ratings system and sixteen color EGA graphics were state-of-the-art.
46. Castlevania: Dracula X (PC Engine Duo): Only available in Japan, this was the first CD-based Castlevania game. The musical score was something so brilliant and beautiful, but only a lucky few, namely the Japanese, were able to experience it.
45. Devil's Crush (TurboGrafx): Feeling the hair on the back of your neck stood up the moment the hard-rock music score kicked-in.
44. Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts (SNES): Reaching the last stage of the game for the first time, only to be told that you had to go all the way back to the beginning and find a magic bracelet.
43. Adventure (for Atari 2600): Finding the magic dot and hidden credits room was so unbelievably cool. It was the first step towards creating secrets in games like Mortal Kombat and the now-mandatory secret codes and unlockables.
42. Far Cry (PC): Crytek's innovative FPS is maddeningly difficult (but insanely fun), thanks to a small segment of the last level. Consider this: you're holed up in an amazingly well-stocked armory with hoards of uber-destructive super mutants outside barring your path to the game's final boss. The armory houses all the firepower you need, but you can only hold a few weapons at a time and once you exit, the doors lock. What to do?
41. Smash TV (Arcade): Laying waste to countless foes, collecting ten keys, progressing to the correct part of the map, and making it into the elusive (and babe-filled) Pleasure Dome.
40. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Atari 2600): While most of today's gamers will sneer at the ancient graphics, they were part of the game's abstract charm. Finding the Ark of the Covenant in the pixelated dunes took place more in the imagination of the player than it did onscreen, making the experience of winning all the more potent and memorable.
39. Galaga (Arcade): Figuring out that if you let an alien tractor-beam your ship away, you could set it free with your next life and fire two shots at once. This was the first game to have a real shooter power-up, everything from Gradius to Ikaruga can trace its origins back to it.
38. Narc (Arcade): There's nothing quite like running over drug addicts, dealers, and thugs in a cherry red Porsche 911, and then exploding in a fiery wreck when you slam into a dumpster.
37. Ghosts n' Goblins (Arcade): Expending countless quarters and fighting all the way to Astaroth's throne room, only to find you have to do it a second time to win, this was a sickening sucker-punch back in the day.
36. Halo 2 (Xbox): Halo 2 is still the #1 most-played game over Xbox Live. There's nothing cooler than covering a buddy for a flag run, racking up 20 frags in the process, and tea bagging every single one of them. Berserker!
35. F.E.A.R. (PC): As if taking out a mob of 12 well-armored cronies wasn't cool enough, F.E.A.R. puts all that exhilarating action into slow motion for you.
34. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (PC): Yeah, it may be a hefty RPG and really slow at times, but the first 30 seconds of playing Oblivion is the best tasting eye candy you've ever had.
33. Street Fighter 2 (Arcade): Some people collect quarters with fancy embroidered images on the back, others fill Street Fighter 2 arcade machines to the brim with them to pit Ryu versus Ken in an epic and emotional brawl to the finish.
32. Madden NFL '92 (Genesis): Playing a strong pro football simulation was a kick in the pants, but the life altering moment was the first time you discovered a money play in Madden. With that came the realization that at long last your long-suffering Bungles...er, Bengals (or whoever your favorite NFL doormat was) might finally reach the Super Bowl.
31. Burnout Revenge (Xbox): The Burnout series just keep getting more explosive and dynamic and the most recent addition to the franchise is no exception. The pinnacle of destruction begins in the crash mode where you strategically cause the largest traffic jam ever.
30. Star Wars: Shadow of the Empire (N64): This game served notice that the quality of Star Wars games was kicking up a notch. You definitely felt the Force when you piloted your snowspeeder into the cinematic battle on the ice planet Hoth and discovered you could take down an AT-AT just like in the movie: fire a spike with a cable and fly around the legs until it trips, falls, and explodes. Awesome!
29. Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master (Genesis): The Shinobi series is packed with cool moments such as when you first learn the rainbow shuriken toss. But true insanity runs rampant when Joe Musashi fights the evil flying jet ski ninjas as he rides a surfboard in Return of the Ninja Master.
28. Pitfall (Atari 2600): Realizing that the above-ground and subterranean routes lead to different screens separated the casual player from the extreme gamer. Some just played-others worked out elaborate maps.
27. Fable (Xbox): Running across a demon door that wants you to fatten up before he'll open up for you, demanding that you consume pies and snacks and all manner of goodies before you can gain entry.
26. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PlayStation): You think you finished the game, only to discover that a second castle awaits you...and it is upside down!
25. Breath of Fire II (SNES): Mina sacrifices herself to become Nina's "wings." Tragic, but sacrificial game progression earns Breath of Fire II bonus style points.
24. Doom 3 (PC, Xbox): All that future technology at their disposal, and nobody ever thinks to duct-tape a flashlight to their gun? At least the game is pretty-what you can see of it, anyway.
23. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Xbox): The story twist here is the Sixth Sense of the video game world. It's a reversal so brilliant that you realize you've known it all along but couldn't uncloud it in your mind. If you haven't played this game, run-don't walk-to the game store and start immediately.
22. Dragon's Lair (Arcade): Although the genre never quite caught on, Dragon's Lair was unlike anything we'd ever seen before. As much a landmark in the now-extinct arcades as any other game in history, Dragon's Lair caused the collective jaw of my entire generation to drop.
21. Combo Pack: Super Mario 64 (N64) and Tomb Raider (PS): The one-two punch in the polygonal revolution changed video games forever-- moveable cameras and true three-dimensional gameplay put these two games a full step ahead of everything that had come before. Remember what it was like to look at those games for the first time?
20. Doom (PC): When you reached the Tower of Babel level and heard the thundering hoof-steps of the Cyberdemon-one of the greatest bosses ever created, by the way.
19. Starcraft (PC): "Nuclear Launch Detected..." You have to admit, one of the greatest game moments ever is when during your first time playing Starcraft you nuke the hell out of an entire Zerg base. Radioactive giddiness sets in the first time your units calmly inform you that your atomic missiles are ready. KaBoom!
18. Sonic 2 (Genesis): The first time you reached the bonus stage and activated Golden Sonic to scorch the sky like a beam of light.
17. Resident Evil (PlayStation): The dog that jumps through the window early in the game provided one of gaming's scariest moments. Keep the screams coming, RE.
16. Contra III: The Alien Wars (SNES): One of the first games to use Mode 7. You knew you were in for a trip when early in the first stage, a vengeful enemy ship flew right at you at and launched two missiles that set the ground ablaze.
15. Mortal Kombat (Genesis): Experiencing your first Mortal Kombat Fatality is an anatomical epiphany. When Sub-zero rips an opponent's spine out or Kano snatches a pulsating heart from someone's chest, time stands still. Every kung fu exploitation movie you've ever seen comes to life...and then some.
14.The Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past (SNES): This game sent the message that there was a grand vision taking place at Nintendo under the direction of Shigeru Miyamoto. The brain synapses explode when after hours of gameplay you think you're about to beat the game, only to discover that there are two worlds, the Light and the Dark; you must now travel between the two, and you are only almost half way done.
13. Pac-Man (Arcade): Finding that nook, just up and to the right of the starting point, where the ghosts never, ever find our bright yellow hero.
12. Golden Axe (Arcade): Screen-filling magic attacks? Check. Epic mounts? Check. Kicking the crap out of thieving elves? Check.
11. Prey (PC): We won't ruin it for you, but suffice it to say that the big reunion with your abducted girlfriend isn't quite what you were expecting.
10. Guitar Hero (PS2): There's no feeling quite like ripping through a shred-fest of metal riffs while waving your axe in the air like a glorified tool of rock-but it could use a little more cowbell.
9. 007 GoldenEye (N64): GoldenEye multiplayer mode let the world know that first-person shooters for consoles were here to stay. But the crowning moment was when playing as James Bond you turned the corner to face--mini-Odd Job!
8. Seaman (Dreamcast): Here was one of the most unique experiences in video gaming. Your thought processes had to be a little wacko from the get-go just to make the decision to purchase this game, setting into motion a chain reaction of bizarre moments that culminated in you being verbally dissed by a grotesque, hybrid man-fish freak of nature. Sweet.
7. Medal of Honor: Frontline (Xbox): Hitting Omaha Beach on D-Day was almost terrifyingly real. With the experience of watching the harrowing opening scenes of Saving Private Ryan still fresh in most people's minds, this version was inspired, amazing, insane, and pure video gaming gold.
6. Super Mario Brothers (NES): Finding the -1 Level was an urban legend whispered about during tetherball games or while patiently waiting to get back into the fray of dodgeball. "Dude, there is totally a -1 Level in Super Mario Bros., my brother's friend can totally get there whenever he wants." Bouncy-duck-turn-slide- jump and you'll make it. The reward is a strange swimming level that you could not escape. Rumor has it there's a -2 level if you grabbed the correct sequence of coins, too.
5. World of WarCraft (PC): Getting any epic item in WoW is a major feat, but after countless hours of playing as a priest, and dreaming from the character creation screen of one day being worthy of obtaining Benedition (the epic Priest staff) when you finally actually equip it, your own personal life soundtrack shifts theme songs into a high gear victory march. Your friends, family and wife won't care, but it will truly be one of the greatest achievements in your life.
4. Shadow of the Colossus (PS2): Epic in design and flawless in execution, Shadow of the Colossus is a rare gem amongst pebbles. If slaying 16 giants wasn't cool enough for you, the ending was quite a surprise as the colossal deity takes control of your body and transforms you into a devastating behemoth of destruction.
3. Metroid (NES): You beat the Mother Brain, race through the tunnels, and when you reach the surface of the planet...blammo! You discover that your hero Samus Aran is a woman. The sneaky game manual referred to Samus as a "he" making the revelation all the more surprising. Cool feature: you could replay the game with Samus sans spacesuit.
2. Halo (Xbox): Surviving the last level of the original Halo, The Maw, was one of the most climactic experiences in modern gaming. After single-handedly destroying Halo, the Master Chief must man the wheel of a warthog and escape before he becomes a part of the rubble. The best part: as the Chief's rescue ship is taken out, Cortana says the jump to the platform ahead is a piece of cake, but instead the Chief and his warthog go veering down into an underground tunnel. Oh, and hundreds of pissed off Covenant soldiers don't help out the situation, either.
And the #1 moment you'll never forget is...
1. Final Fantasy VII (PlayStation): Aeris is killed by Sepiroth in one of the most heartbreaking scenes ever in a video game. Those big, cute eyes will never blink again under the wrath of Sepiroth. You'd only be lying if you said you didn't cry.
. Pero ok lang kasi tama naman yung sequence nung pagkakalaro ko in terms of chronological order 
