I've been gaming since I was two years old...beating my parents at Atari Bowling, River Raid etc.

The first time I really felt proud was when I finally beat Castlevania II on the NES. I banged my head against that wall for a long time, trying to figure it out. I've now beaten more games than I can remember, and loved most of them.

Life would definitely a lot harder without my games to escape to :)

At the end of GTAVI, when Niko set himself free from all the tangled web he was in it.

my proudest gaming moment was when i finally completed super meat boy deathless. my thumbs bled because of how hard i played that game until i was finally able to do it. (good thing i had a vita to do on the move attempts at it.)

My Proudest moment was beating sigurin (queen of Valkyrie) in God of war extra hard mode.

Victory Royale Fortnite - Season 10

After months of building and aim training, over 1000 deaths and a few 2nd places. I took out the last player on the map with a shotgun blast, it took me a second for my brain to catch up that I'd actually won things happen so fast. Bearing in mind too I started in Season 8-10 and everyone had absolutely crazy skills, this was before they added bots in the next season because new players were getting murdered.

I was wearing my favourite ninja outfit Kenji.

Beating Orphan Of Kos in Bloodborne after 30+ attempts....

My proudest gaming moment was when I was a boy in the 90's watched my dad play games a lot as I was still bad at them but I remember always needing help especially with cyborg ninja fight on MGS. The first time I defeated him without help was in my young mind a pretty proud moment.

Not sure if it counts, but I taught my dad (a 40 year old man at the time) how to play Black on the PS2 over 10 years ago. It was the first videogame (other than Pac-Man and Tetris) he ever played and finished, not once, but multiple times. Every now and then we remember how he beat the last level using just a revolver, I believe that game is what made him change his mind about games and my hobby, an amazing bonding experience.

Oh, and he also overwrote one of my Resident Evil 4 saves not so long after that. That was not cool.

My proudest gaming moment occurred, like many listed in this forum, in my youth. However, unlike most, the time period of my youth was the 80s. While the mists of time have clouded many specifics, I do remember with great fondness receiving Ultima IV for the Commodore 64 as a gift (birthday or Christmas, not sure which) in or about 1986. Not only was it the first non-pirated game I acquired, it was the first I ever completed, thus earning my proudest gaming moment. Funny thing is, I can't remember the ending for the life of me, but what really sticks with me was the beginning and how your character choice was determined by answering all those moral dilemma questions from the gypsy. What a great innovation that was.

My proudest moment would have to be either:

1. Finishing the suicide mission in Mass Effect 2 with no companion deaths my first time, blind.

2. My first time completing a mission in the Hitman: WOA trilogy silent assassin, suit only, without using any online tips. I believe it was the Hitman 2 DLC New York level, "The Bank." I've since gone back and done it for most of the levels in the trilogy, but that first one felt amazing.

no doubt completing a Hades run without taking damage

My proudest gaming moment is being able to enjoy the games I play with my friends. Super cool to have people as passionate as you and with similar interests. We stream games with each other on discord sometimes when we're not playing together, and the overall experience is super fun!

The day I played Crash Bandicoot with my daughter 18 years after I played my first video game ever, Crash Bandicoot. Times pass fast my friends. Thank you all for your heartwarming stories.

As a single father, I struggled to find a way to teach my daughter how to read. She wasn't interested in reading, and she would shut down in frustration whenever she would make a mistake. Each error compounded into this great barrier to reading, alienating my daughter further from the goal of literacy, so much so that she would balk at the idea of facing the challenge. The frustration she felt started to spill over into me. I felt like I was failing my daughter because I couldn't find a way to engage her and teach her such an important skill.

That's when it hit me! I remembered something from my childhood; playing Pokemon Blue and Pokemon Yellow, and that there were no voiced characters meaning the entire game required reading to really understand the story. I also remembered how fun those games were despite the infamous grind they required. Anyway, I got the idea that we would play Pokemon Yellow on an old 2DS that my cousin loaned me. I am so proud to say that it was a success! By using the game, I had found a medium that made reading enjoyable for my daughter. We would play the game together for an hour a night, and she thought that it was simply game time, but she was practicing reading all along. It helped to chip away at the great barrier of frustration, making way for her to build a pedestal of confidence. This foundation is why she is now finishing 3rd grade but reading at a 5th grade level. While she never accomplished Catching Them All or beating the Elite Four, she discovered the marvel and wonder that reading imparts on the imagination.

When i was playing Doom 2016 the first time , i knew this is "the ShiT"

It was a GREAT experice i never forget

Thx folks