- The Final Battle in Super Metroid. They really found a way to convey a lot of rage and raw emotion when you get to wail on Mother Brain.
Coincidentally, the SNES game was my first introduction to the Metroid series. I picked up the original for NES around the time Super Smash Bros. came out for N64. "Ooooh so this is what Mother Brain is from..."
- First time I saw Giga Bowser in Melee. The game had been out for a good long time, and I thought I saw everything it had to offer. Then this freak shows up.
- The cellular walls and growing tissue in stage 1 of Life Force (NES). On many occasions I got trapped behind that tissue and crashed. The cell wall at the end of the stage had to be fired through, but it would regrow after a few seconds, which gets kinda scary when you're digging through it for the first time on the way to the boss.
- Stage 3's eruptions, same game. Stage 3 was fire-themed, and seemed to take place on a star, but in true Gradius fashion, the surface is both above and below you. Okay, upside down fire, not weird at a- HOLY SHIG!!! This is the point when enormous Prominence emerges from below and almost crushes you in a firey blast. Or maybe it does crush you. Either way, wow.
- Chrono Trigger DS, seeing the new postfinal boss. Since it just came out, I can't really describe this one, but fans of the game (who have been fans for a good portion of the last 13 years) will crap their pants.