Ys Memories

[Arjak]

What is the best, worst, or weirdest Ys memory for you?

This is an idea I got from Super Mario Brothers Headquarters, which has an ongoing column on this.


For me, I have only played Ys I for MSX and I'm still working on beating it.

I would have to say that my best memory is beating that $#@$#@$@$@#$ BAT!
My little sister calls it Count Dracula.
I'm now at Darm Tower. Yeah!

This is also my 50th post, so thats always a good Ys memory!

[Brocksketchum]

My best memory is when I passed the game...

just to have the words scroll at a billion miles per hour!

I also laugh out loud when I keep on getting Game Over

because I always forget to take off the Evil Ring with the Blue Necklace.

The coolest memory has to be when I

heard the Palace of Destruction music for the first time.

But the second time I played through, I saved the game past the door

which required the key.

I was stuck there with the girl forever!

That's when I decided to change one digit in the save game to create glitch city.

I also decided to switch some music so

that the harmonica and the Palace of Destruction themes

can play during places it wasn't supposed to. You can do that with DOS games.

Sigh... so many memories all in one post of one game.

[LatchKeyKid]

Back when I originally got the Turbo CD. Playing Ys, I was digging it. Got up to where you rescued Feena and she TALKED! And not just "Round 1" or "Start your engines", she like spoke full dialouge. I never had played any CD based games and it just blew me away back then. Ys was the first game that really put me in the story rather than just being a game. I remember I kept saves and passwords before each cutscene and boss fight so I could watch them all the time. I can recite the TG16 Dark Fact, Dalles, and Darm's speeches to this day

Bad memory... when all the good Japanese Turbo Duo games, like Dawn of Ys and Dracula X, didn't get translated for the US owners and instead we got It Came from the Desert and Camp California -_-

[Maverick]

I swear, it took me 20 minutes to beat that bat boss... of course I later realized I could have gotten the silver sword beforehand, but anyway...

Best memory would be when I beat Ys I and just kind of thought about the game as a whole and the music... it was simply fantastic. A single moment that stood out would have to be the first meeting with Feena

[WisebearAZ]

I think the best memory I have of Ys was on Christmas morning hooking up my new Turbografx-16 CD play and seeing Darm Tower with all the lightning in the opening sequence of Ys I&II. I still get chills when I listen to the opening music off the CD.

My worst memory is really just a boss fight from Ys IV. That ice monster boss who spins around the room and you have 2 seconds to hit him... I must have spent hours trying to kill that guy and leveling up to be able to do more damage.

[sideshow]

My fondest memory is also when I first fired up Ys Book I and II for the first time on my TG16CD. It was the first game I got for the CD attachment and the opening cinemas just blew me away, especially the soundtrack. Once I got to the first boss in the Shrine, I was hooked from there because the music was just so awesome and nothing at the time could even compare. Its strange how the videogame industry is so consolidated nowadays where all the current consoles are pretty much the same damn technology with only minor differences. Back then, TG16, Genesis, and SuperNES were really distinguishable from each other in terms of graphics and sound.

[ichibanrei]

My Fondest memory was buying Ys and Last Alert for TGCD the same day and starting to play last alert. I figured I would have more fun with it being an action game, then they talked. I laughed cuz it sounded like me and my cousin could have recorded the voices ourselves on a boombox. I figured Ys would be the same and boy was I wrong, from the intro to the music, everything was so polished for it's time. My worst memory was, well I can't think of one. Oh yea, having to buy it again from TZD 11 years later. I found my original copy under some box in my garage after moving. It was broken. The new CD looks different with a blue bar and blue text. The original has the cool Ys logo on the top. Of course I saved it, broken or not.

[zeomare (old)]

one of my best memories of Ys was when i first got the turbo grafx CD during its launch it was the first game i got for the system, in fact i got it and Monster Lair before i got the system, (it was a Christmas gift and i knew i was getting it so i picked up a few titles before hands). It was the first Cd game i ever played as soon as the game loaded up i was introduced to The opening music and lighting behind and around darm tower that was a awesome way for me to start my Ys memories, then the talking began with the history of Ys and how it dissapeared once then i knew i was going to be playing a incredible game, I was not to be disapointed to this very day i still listen to the Redbook Audio tracks from this game and have them on my MP3 player. my second biggest memory was finding out about the re-release of Ys 1 & 2 as Ys Complete. i did not know about the normal Eternal versions because i had just gotten my first computer and was behind on all the new Ys stuff suffice to say i picked them up real quick.