I've just met an old friend. We haven't seen each other for fifteen years but we immediately started talking about THAT day. It was in 90s, we were both fans of the Warlords II and she challenged me to a duel. After the game we both agreed that she was indeed better than me but I had one advantage: I played a lot against my brothers. Not Warlords II but still - I had a lot of experience playing with a real opponent so I knew that some tricks that worked on AI wouldn't succeed with a human opponent. She was about to learn it hard way ;) We played the whole night and finally I won! The terms of our duel were that a loser would recite poetry of the a winner's choice. Man, she had (and still has!) such a lovely voice. I don't think I've ever heard any amateur reciting poems so beautifully and passionately. She was better than many professionals too! To this day when I read those poems I can almost hear her voice... That is one of the best memories of my life...

Care to share your own games-related memories?

Not gaming related, but I did re-hash a friendship a few years back with someone I went to elementary school with and haven't seen for close to 15 years also. Funny thing he still lived in the same house he did back then (plus we both love to game)

Gaming related memory: Spending 7 years of my life playing Counter-Strike 1.5/6 Competitively. VERY Competitively. I was so good at CS that I got called a hacker on an hourly/daily basis. Quite sad, really... not a very good feeling =/

My best gaming related memories... It's so hard to just pick one..

I would say the first time I played Baldur's Gate II, (At a proper age) and actually understood the game fully. It opened my eyes to one of my favorite games, and the game became my 'carry-on' for nearly any trip after that. I loved it so much!

crying at the end of Final Fantasy 10.

Im a wuss i know

You didn't celebrate the end of FFX?

You ARE a strange person, sir!

Easy.

I was ridin shotgun on 8-mile and I seen this mutha fucka who bin talkin shit bout my old lady, so slid up and put a cap in his ass. Motha fucka dead!

Oh wait, that's best 'gang-related' memories.

Ooops.

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon was just one big fantastic memory for me

Playing the High Overseer level in Dishonored and my mind going nuclear at all the different ways I could approach the objective. This was again met in the first level of the Knife of Dunwall DLC.

Me feeling like a horrible person after Virmire in Mass Effect is another, although sadder, memory

Lets just put him down under 'Saints Row' or 'GTA'

One of them is back when I was playing System Shock 2 in a dark room with my best friend at the time and I was looking around a bathroom for supplies and such and all of a sudden we heard "I'm soooorry" from the speakers, that scared the crap out of us. Stupid.. zombie.. guy...

LOL, right! Fun games though...

I was rather expecting that somebody would mention FFVII here ;)

One of my oldest gaming memories is of The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time back on the N64. Would have been six when my family (that is, my father, mother and sister) and I first started playing it on Christmas Day. We'd already played a bunch of games together as a family but I remember that this was the first one that my mum enjoyed so much that she went out to find a strategy guide to buy, despite all the Christmas shopping madness going on, and it was also the first time my dad let me stay up way past my usual bedtime, into the early hours of the morning, to complete the game with him some days later.

But, honestly, I have a ton of gaming related memories and I wouldn't necessarily call any my favourite. Most are things that happened in the game in question, I suppose, but I prefer ones like that where someone else was involved.

One of mine is being super excited as a kid to play Tie Fighter. I had just loaded it onto my computer the night before but had to go to bed before playing it. The next day was a school day and I was bummed. The next morning when I was eating breakfast and getting ready for school I told my mom that I wished I could stay home and play my new game and not go to school. She smiled and say ok (which blew me away because my parents push good grades like you would not believe.) She told me to go back to my room and get some more sleep and she told my siblings I was not feeling well (so they would not be jealous). After the school bus came and picked up my brothers and sisters my mom came into my room and told me that this would be a onetime thing but that everyone needed a break every now and then. It was dead of winter and the house was a bit chilly. My mom made me some hot cocoa and I stayed in my pajamas playing hooky from school and played Tie Fighter all morning and afternoon.

Another one involved being snowed in. School got canceled due to snow and I was super excited but I grew up on a farm so there were certain chores that had to be done in heavy snow. After helping clearing snow from the walk ways and the barn and machine shop I was cleared to go play. After a two hours of shoveling snow playing outside was not what I wanted do. So I came inside got showered and dressed and played Doom 2 for hours watching the snow come down.

Good times

My thoughts exactly!

One more that I've just recalled. My friend wanted to visit Międzyrzecz Fortification Region which is basically a fortified military defense line with many underground tunnels like this. And since she knew I had been there she asked me if there is anything she should be beware of. I was intensively playing Dungeon Keeper 2 then so I answered: "Beware of micro piglets stalking your dungeon" The look on her face... priceless ;)