The proudest moment to me would be when I got my paws on Bubble Bobble. It was during the C-64 era and a good friend lent me her copy. I only had about a week to beat this 100 level game which was quite a challenge. I didn't think that it would be possible since my skills with Arcade platformers on this machine have been mediocre at best. Which personally I blame it on the use of Joysticks. So coming home from school every afternoon I tried to beat this game. After doing my homework of course! Thinking back this is also something to be proud of! :-p Until one day previous to where I had to return the game to her I finally managed to get past the dreaded level 67. This I was very proud of, but this wasn't the whole story! I even managed to lose exactly 1 life and when I finally had to face Baron Blubber my hard was racing. Heavens, was I proud to have beaten that game!

Another proud moment was when I was able to beat Ring: The Legend of the Nibelungen. Don't ask how many weeks this has taken to figure all those weird puzzles out. Reason of being proud to have beaten it is that I managed on my own without looking up the solution. Many times I was very close to open the manual and see what the heck I was supposed to do. Think of this game as a Myst-like game with some ludicrous puzzles such as the one I clearly remember: Make the rainbow bridge appear, a clever puzzle, really. One you have to pay attention to music playing in the background. But figure that one out when you got no other clue available? This was about the same a-ha! moment as when I found out what it was I had to do in one of the Deponia games. I don't wish to spoil it so let me just say that it's also got to do with music.

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There are several other proud moments, big and small ones, which I would like to share here - contest or no. For instance when I played The Last Ninja 2, there is this sewer level, there is a crocodile at the end of it moving in and out. My idea was to jump over it to reach the exit - which was clearly wrong of course. Each time I tried to jump over it would this beast eat me ... It must have been some weeks until I figured out that a molotov cocktail would be the solution ...

A rather more recent moment of pride was beating Risen, 100%, picking everything up, killing all enemies and monsters, doing all the quests in their correct order at the highest difficulty level, without dying once. Okay, no, that's not quite right. I had to use a Titan weapon to beat the final boss, sadly ... So 99% melee/fist-fighting and kickboxing all monsters and 1% beating the boss with the spear I guess I used? All this done from memory and a recording of it to proof it happened. Longplay

Most of what I take pride in is beating a particularly tough game and there were many such over the years. Some I only just this year managed to finish in a way that's not just barely managing to stay alive or avoiding tough spots. One of them is Wizardry VIII which I was proud of because it has taken me several times of starting and then being so overrun by enemies - I guess by virtue of playing it on the hardest difficulty also - not Iron-Man (never tried that), that a series of successive fights has taken almost an hour and sometimes more ... I guess the same is true with Gothic II which I was able to beat some days ago. I wouldn't say that there is much pride in there because it all comes down to level only one stat and a couple of abilities and going about doing quests and tasks in a particular order. The rest is child's play. :-)

Thank you! It took me a very long time though! I fully understand people resorting to walkthroughs for this one, and with my current schedule, I wouldn't have the patience for it like I did back then.

Thanks for such an awesome opportunity you guys!

Personally speaking, my favorite gaming moment has to be when I decided to Never play a certain game again; that game in question would be NieR Automata, after completing the final ending of the game. I know it’s pretty ironic that my favorite gaming moment is a non-gaming decision, but in truth, the last ending of the game just left such a deep impact on me, having highlighted the pinnacle of the characters’ struggles throughout the story, and also speaking to the heart of gaming as a whole community. In that way, it just didn’t feel right to me to play the game again and put the characters through those same struggles after all that was endured by them to get to that point.

I’d posted this response to you guys on Twitter, but I just wanted to share to the stellar community here as well, with hopes for as good a chance as anyone else and a chance to start a conversation with a ton of amazing people.

My proudest gaming moment was playing Morrowind back in the day and sharing the game with my best buds and family. These were the days where, if I wasn't gaming, I was thinking about gaming. I specifically remember the first time I found Morrowind at a Best Buy while browsing the Xbox section. I picked up the Game of the Year edition and looked at the back cover, imagining the different creatures and quests that awaited me. I had never seen anything like this. A 3D open world? And I can create any character that I want? I made the purchase, and immediately opened the manual to start reading about character creation and thinking of my major and minor skills. I used to obsess over that game and the characters that I could create within it. Being a kid, it was fun to discuss different types of builds with my friends and think about what kind of character I would like to be in a game world that was so foreign and unforgiving. I have fond memories of playing Morrowind on the TV in my dad's office with my brother beside me, or huddling together in my cousin's room, eating snacks and tromping through Seyda Neen and Balmora. There was always a new quest to discover, a new NPC to meet, a new armor to try on, or a new enemy to fight. That game will always hold a special place in my heart because of the memories that I made while discovering all that it had to offer.

My proudest gaming moment:

The day I created a character in Oblivion that looked good .... without mods.

Sorry my english is bad, Greeting from Venezuela

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my special moment was finishing the deathtrap dungeon for the first and only time (late years)


My first console was an Atari2600 and the last was the Snes. Over the years I got to know steam, but 3 years later I got to know GOG, in 2016 my first purchase was the Deathtrap Dungeon, at first it gave me problems, I even complained in the forum, but then little by little it was running, well and improving the patches of gog. Until the game finally ran as I remembered it and even with more quality, since at last I could run it in high quality with filters, which my old pc could not at that time. Little by little I was buying more games and I was seeing the beauty of gog. Play those games again, without all the complications of forced emulation, touching commands autoexec.bat, config.sys etc. Thanks to gog, more than a tear of joy has brought me gog by bringing me those games from my childhood, youth, etc ... and the best thing is to be able to share the experience of those games through gog galaxy, apart from the solidarity prices of gog, they help me a lot since I am from Venezuela one of the lucky few who gets dollars.

Another thing, that I love about gog is that most of their games are the UNCENSORED versions, hopefully that uncensored version games policy does not change. Another point is that gog has been a window to those fun times where creativity was free, today sadly with political correctness, that freedom has been lost, but thanks to gog we still have a small window to remember better times.

Thank you GOG for these years of memories and joys since 2016 when I met you. :D

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mi momento especial fue terminar por primera y única vez el deathtrap dungeon (tarde años)

Mi primera consola fue un Atari2600 y la ultima fue el Snes. Con los años conocí steam, pero 3 años después conocí GOG, en 2016 mi primera compra fue el Deathtrap Dungeon, al comienzo me dio problemas, hasta me queje en el foro, pero luego poco a poco fue corriendo, bien y mejorando los parches de gog. Hasta que el juego por fin me corria tal como lo recordaba y hasta con mas calidad, ya que al fin podía correrlo en alta calidad con filtros, cosa que mi pc vieja no podía en aquella, época. Poco a poco fui comprando más juego y fui viendo la belleza de gog. Volver a jugar esos juegos, sin tanta complicaciones de emularlos forzados, tocar comandos autoexec.bat, config.sys etc. Gracias a gog más de una lagrima de alegría me ha sacado gog al traerme esos juegos de mi niñez, juventud, etc.. y lo mejor poder compartir la experiencia de esos juegos por gog galaxy, aparte que los precios solidarios de gog, me ayudan mucho ya que soy de Venezuela uno de los pocos afortunados que consigue dolares.

Otra cosa, que me encanta de gog es que la mayoría de sus juegos son las versiones sin censura, ojala que esa política de juegos versión sin censura no cambie. Otro punto es que gog a sido una ventana a esas época divertidas donde la creatividad era libre, hoy en día tristemente con lo políticamente correcto, se a perdido esa libertad, pero gracias a gog aun tenemos una pequeña ventana para recordar tiempos mejores .

Gracias GOG por estos años de recuerdos y alegrías desde el 2016 cuando te conocí.

For me, it would be beating Half-Life without cheats.
Back at times when we were playing FPS with friends, the custom was to start the game and immediately put cheats on (immortality, ammo, etc.). We weren't actually trying to play the game without cheats. And it was Half-Life (well, actually HL Blue Shift) that I first played and finished without any cheats. It was much more rewarding and enjoyable + I felt super proud afterward. It was also a turning point when I stopped using cheats altogether.

Well, it's not technically complete but I'm a few levels away from maxxing out my character in RuneScape. That's 15 years in the making and it makes me happy that I've enjoyed the game that long!

Hmm... Proudest moment would probably be being in the top 5 on the Guild Wars GvG ladder.

Finishing my first CRPG, the Golg Box classic, Curse of the Azure Bonds.

is that teh game where teh main character looks constipated?

At the skating rink where I grew up there was an arcade machine for X-men. I was obsessed with that game, and memorized the enemy numbers spawn points and strategies. It cost a small fortune in quarters, but eventually I mastered it. At one point in time I held the high score on the cabinet. Unfortunately I was dethroned after about a week, but it was great while it lasted. I never met the person who outdid me, but kudos RLM.

It's hard to choose what my proudest gaming moment is. My dad got me into gaming when I was young, I have alot of fun memories gaming with him. Exploring the world of Ultima, playing Wolfenstein 3d. It's been along gaming road since then with many victories and defeats but when I try and think of a moment that really got me up on my feet would be winning a round from Rainbow 6 Siege as the last man alive in a 1v5.
I don't normally stream games but on this occasion I happened to be streaming to some of friends. I normally play strategy games but for this game I may as well have been a retired pro fps player. While flanking around the map all behind the objective I came up behind two players, who just finished off my last teammate, and quickly downing one and eliminating the other with a headshot. Hearing footsteps behind me I spin around, taking out the 3rd opponent coming up the stairs. I'm now alone In the objective room planting the bomb defusal kit, heart pounding in my ears. I hear a rustling to my right and see a torso lean out of a doorway to which I reply with a burst of gunfire, hitting him in the chest and face. Some urge came over me and I immediately whipped my gun to the left to snipe a face that had appeared through a tiny hole in one of the walls. I didn't even consciously register the presence of the last opponent as pure instinct took over for the win.
I gave a loud whoop! as the game ended and practically hopped out of the chair. It was such an adrenaline rush and I had a huge grin as I listened to my friends marvel and joke about the ridiculous display I had just put on that. One I could only dream about being able repeat. Like the villains in Mad Max I just wanted to scream "WITNESS ME!".
My friends did a good job hyping me up and congratulating me. I don't remember having been that proud for a long time if ever. I felt like a twitch stream with a crowd of fans at my back. It's a good memory to look back to.

I saw someone say how they had fun reading the entries of GoG giveaways and their totally right. It's awesome to read all the different experiences of gamers speaking fondly about something they love. Goodluck everyone.

I was trying to figure out the last puzzle in Portal 2 after an all-nighter when suddenly my aunt's cat jumped on the table. I got startled and shot at the Moon and catccidentally did the right thing. Better lucky than good. I'm in space!

Top of the high-score table on the local Gaplus arcade machine! For a time, the three letters "ZIN" symbolised a god amongst schoolkids: proud, powerful, a living legend. Until one day, out of the blue, I was supplanted by the dastardly and mysterious "DFT", whose identity remains unknown to this day. My glory days cruelly snatched away in an instant! A tragedy of truly Shakespearian proportions. If you're still out there, "DFT", know that you will never, ever be forgiven...