First console game you fully mastered

[DexAce]

Hmmm... two games immediately comes to mind. PS Ridge Racer and the arcade version of Punch-Out.

Played the JPN version of RR until I only managed to shave 1/100's of my time every now and then. I think I probably could have driven that track with the TV turned off. The game is a perfect example of quality over quantity and how game life can't be measured by the amount of tracks or cars.

People rarely talk about the arcade version of Punch-Out and Super Punch-Out but I think they are far superior to any of the console versions, much because they loop and become gradually harder when you've beaten all fighters. I actually made the score max out and restart at 0 in Punch-Out at one time until I eventually lost at fight 50 or something. Ahhhh... the memories.

[Resonance]

WE5T 0NE

My first game I mastered was kenseiden on the Master System. I one lifed it and was a true master of this game at so young 8)

dont know if it was the first, but i remember zooming through strider on the megadrive pretty easily any time i liked.

My brother was a Strider master but when he tried to one life the Japanese version, he could not as when he reache the last boss, it would not appear until he lost a life

[MonkeyJuggleDX]

Zelda LTTP on the SNES. Could do it start to finish with EVERY single item and easter egg uncovered in under 7 hours without saving or continuing.

[Binary Defence Crimson]

Super Mario World for me, such a beautiful game to sit down and complete it its entirety.

Same here.

Played SMW this afternoon with my sister. What a perfect videogame...

[son_of_bael]

Asterix on the SMS.

[endo]

I'd have to say Super Mario World too. That was an ace summer- playing it to death, trying to squeeze every last drop out of it. I hadn't really done that with a game before.

[Xhorder]

Super Mario Bros 2 might be one of the first games I totally mastered. And I didn't even own the game. I always played on the NES at a friends place. I can also remember a wrestling game on the machine where you had to hammer the buttons as fast as you can. I was pretty good at it.

My own first game was Sonic and I think I couldn't afford another game for a whole year, so I played it untill I was sick of it. After that I got some other games, one of them called Streets Of Rage 2. I mastered it and finished it a lot of times. Those were the days. Couldn't afford a new game every week, so you were forced to play those old games to completion.

[Leon Retro]

Xhorder 8) I share the same passion for SuperMariobros2. I am quite a lazy gamer; never really trying hard on too many games, but SMB2 really gripped me. I really got in to all the tricks, warps and methods; I eventually learnt everything and could complete the game with over 30 lifes to spare.

I hate the way people look down on this Mario game. Yeah, I know it was a game called Doki Doki Panic before Nintendo made it a Mario title, but who cares? This game is my favourite platformer ever; closely followed by SMW and all the other Mario games.

[SHDR]

I think the first game I totally mastered was Elevator Action for the NES, or perhaps B-Wings for NES ... later, I lost the interest, but nowadays, I love skill based games again. Nearly everything I buy is arcadey stuff.

[Big Seany]

Funny how some games seemed hard back in the day and you play them now and, well, some of the enemies attack patterns and things make them seem so simple. The other day I completed Streets of Rage 2 on one credit, and it was the first time I had played it for several years. It felt like I was cheating when I used the tactic of punching the enemies repeatedly with a small pause between each punch so they remain stunned. Did virtually the same with Alien Storm, and to the third level on Forgotten Worlds on my first go in, oooh - ten years?

Either games have got harder, or my skill levels have increased - christ knows.
I love all of these games, mind.

[TheForce]

Mario bros on the nes ..... but I've finished Ghost 'n Goblins on the C64 before that...

[Ady]

I was a don at Bubble Bobble when I was 11.

Stridet on the Megadrive was another game I got to know inside out years later.

[brokeback]

mortal kombat 1 on the arcade. i could beat it without being hit.

Interesting fact: If you get to the endurance matches and didn't get hit you could fight reptile and once you beat him you got to fight a secondry character from the normal fighter but they were green.

how about that then eh?

[dj_dee99]

Wonderboy In Monsterland on the Master System. Although it's a bit of a bugger when you do the maze at the end, cuz you really need the bell to know which way to go, but you also needed the other thing (can't remember what it was, but it was to help on the end boss), so I had to get the bell & make a map, then do it again with the weapon instead!

[Yoshimax]

Sonic The Hedgehog - SMD (console)