For many generations, video games are above all a story of transmission. Rarely are there gamers who haven’t discovered the video game in the company of a loved one, be it a parent, brother or sister, cousin or even a friend. Video games have always forged lasting memories that are all the stronger when shared with others. Overnight, this injured player had a chance to, in a way, relive one of the most treasured moments he could have shared with his father.
Summary
- A ghost to leave a trace of your passage
- When a simple car race brings back fabulous memories
- Pokémon, Animal Crossing… Everyone has a cherished memory of video games
A ghost to leave a trace of your passage
Mario Kart 8 deluxe
Everyone has at some point got their hands on a racing game, if only in one of the episodes of the Mario Kart license. In this type of game, where the notion of time is often prominent, we encounter a feature that may seem strange at first glance: ghosts. These appear very often in time trial events and allow you to visualize your lap, study the layout and have an additional objective which is to overtake them, get better to improve your time.
Crash Team Racing with Nitro Fuel
Video games using this feature — and not just racing games! — number in the hundreds, and much more since the series of cult racing games or humble titles unknown to the general public are legion. Dirt, Crash Team Racing, WipeOut, Forza Motorsport, Mario Kart, Trials, SSX, Ridge Racer, F1, Gran Turismo, SEGA Rally, Nascar, Colin McRae Rally, F-Zero… You’ll get it, it’s possible to name more than one. But do you know the RalliSport Challenge?
Gran Turismo 7
As the name indicates, This is a rally racing game released on the very first Xbox in March 2002. On the program of this title, developed by Studio Digital Illusions and published by Microsoft Game Studios, forty-eight circuits divided into four categories (rally, rally-cross, hillclimb and ice race), each with their own distinctive features. To overcome all these trials, the player had the opportunity to drive up twenty-nine different vehicles.
Come on motorsport 7
Although its name isn’t as resonant as some of the genre’s cadors, the English-speaking critics surrounding the game still praised the teams’ work, even giving it very good ratings and a Metacritic score of 87/100. A success that was exported to France, where we granted it at the time the very good mark of 16/20. In short, the title had everything and even offered to play solo or in multiplayer. With so many activities to do in RalliSport Challenge, The player could participate in time trials where the driver’s best lap was recorded by materializing… a ghost.
When a simple car race brings back fabulous memories
Why specifically mention RalliSport Challenge ? Well, because the title is Digital Illusions Starting point of a story that moved more than one internet user have a passion for video games. Independent of social networks and other sharing platforms (4channel, 9gags, Reddit, youtube) this player’s story has been doing the rounds, so much so that it’s unclear where it was first published. The trail is re-shared by a whole host of other users and is a bit blurry. However, traces of it can be found on various sites, such as joy reactorwhere we can see that this story was shared further already in 2011 9gags.
As I said, we found this message all over the internet. Nevertheless, Surprisingly, it had the greatest impact on YouTube, which becomes the most popular comment on a video from the PBS Game/Show channel by other users of the Google platform. By the way, it says in the “Comments” section of the video ” Can video games be a spiritual experience? » that this story was relaunched on the Internet, collected almost 30,000 blue thumbs and even made the creator of the channel react. In around ten lines, the user 00WARTERAPY00 touched the hearts of thousands of internet users also have a special relationship with their father or with one of their family members that is strengthened by the video game.
Already at the time of this video, posted almost nine years ago in May 2014, this story’s beginnings date back several years, around the early 2000s. As he explains, assuming he’s the original author, When he was four years old, his father made the decision to buy the very first Xbox. Thanks to the catalog of the latter, they were able to discover a whole range of games and forge many beautiful memories together. Unfortunately, his father died almost two years later. After this tragic event The gamer says he hasn’t been able to turn on the console and play the games they loved so much in almost a decade. It wasn’t until the age of sixteen that he felt capable of reconnecting to Microsoft’s console and among other things RalliSport Challenge where he discovered a ghost there, and not just any ghost!
Suddenly he understood that the spirit of his father’s best days was still present in one of the races. As if to recall his memories with him, he explains that he trained tirelessly to compete with him. Except that one day he’d gotten better than that ghost, going so far as to overtake him just before crossing the finish line. However, in order to preserve this remnant of his father’s existence, he decided to quit in time for fear of seeing him disappear forever.. Many users who came off base for the PBS Game/Show video went home crying. Became a milestone in the history of video games, it paved the way for many other moving testimonies and stories.
Pokémon, Animal Crossing… Everyone has a cherished memory of video games
Among the players who have come across this news, there are quite a few who have the connection with one of the sequences between the two brothers of the film speed racersadapted from the manga of the same name by Tatsuo Yoshida and directed by the Wachowski sisters (matrix) and released in 2008. For others, It was an opportunity to share similar and equally moving experiences. This is less about ghosts and more about little tokens of appreciation left in a video game by a relative, not necessarily knowing that sooner or later a human will fall for it. In the stories quoted or directly told by users of social networks and other forums where this message was posted, We can quote this touching anecdote from a user of the site 4channel.
One day, when she was looking for something else in her late father’s carefully stored things in a box, the same gamer came across his father’s Game Boyhis favorite console, and on his blue version of Pokémon. Curious to find out the contents of his father’s safe, he was even more amazed when he caught a glimpse of his team of pocket monsters. It wasn’t nearly the most powerful – there was a Nosferapti, a Rattatac, and a Dardargnan among others, but it mostly featured a Tortank for the less original. When his father bought his starter, he had chosen not to keep the “Carapuce” name, instead offering it his son’s name.to have with you on this long journey to becoming a Pokémon master.
Always on the side of Nintendo, The Animal Crossing game is also full of heartbreaking anecdoteswho testify to the love that members of the same family can have for one another. There is for example, the memory of that player who discovered the game on GameCube and who said to himself that this might be the best way to introduce video games to his parents. When he and his brother left the game after a few weeks, it became a true escape from her illness for her mother who had polio. It was a revelation for this one, so much so that she put her heart and soul into it – which earned her being gently teased by members of her family – until the illness that eventually prevailed forced her to quit. It wasn’t until a year and a half later that the player in question restarted Animal CrossingShe discovered a lot covered in snow and weeds, as well as residents worried about her mother’s absence from the game, but it wasn’t the biggest surprise that awaited her in her mailbox. by opening it He saw face to face dozens of gifts she had sent him while she was alive, accompanied by the same little note to tell him that she was thinking of him and that she loved him.
Video games can be overwhelming in many ways. Not only because he can tell us wonderfully written stories, but above all because he can be that capsule that captures and preserves forever one of our most beautiful moments or one of the fragments of our lives that we never want to forget.
