My proudest gaming moment was in 2020 when I defeated the shrimp boss in metro 2034 while having only one minute of air left and playing the game on hardcore on a gt 710 at 30 fps.

Even though I´ve been playing video games since the Cold War was still hot, I am in no way skilled or competent in games that require fine motor functions and lightning-fast reflexes.

However, like many of us here, I was enchanted by the mystery and beauty of Hollow Knight. With no easy, casual or story mode, that meant being subjected to brutal punishment and unending tribulations.

But I couldn´t let the small hero fail. I relearned how to play games and, eventually, I "got gud" and finished the (main) story.

Maybe it would be when I convinced my dad to let me collect soda/beer cans to turn in for recycling to earn money for an NES.

My proudest moment was completing "Final Fantasy VII" (the original 3 disc version on Playstation) then my son did the same many years later. I actually completed it just before he was born!

My proudest gaming moment is beating King's Quest III. My father bought a Tandy 1000 and a family friend gave me the 5 1/4" floppies of the game since they only used the 3.5" disks (back in those days the games included both sizes). It was my first ever computer game and I played it so many times I cannot even remember. Playing this game actually taught me how to be a touch typist. And, of course, like every other kid I tried to find how many curse words the game would recognize...especially when I got killed. This is the game, along with Quest for Glory, that kick-started my love of video games. Long live Sierra!

I get games all the time, Recently, ive been playing with my neighbor with bam and others

I have to say it has been wonderful

One of my proudest gaming moment was when I was playing CS:GO competitive in Gold Nova 1 and got an ace against a full buy CT Team using a glock.

Another one while technically only partially linked to gaming, was when I developed a skeleton code for a tile-based game engine using C#. It took me months to learn C# and monogame, so finally creating something that actually functioned and was usable in a real game felt awesome. The skeleton code was able to produce different shaped grids with varying numbers of squares and tiles. It was rather quite simple, as it read through a multi-dimensional array, with each element representing a different tile. Unfortunately I didn't carry it on as I found that I preferred ray-casting (pseudo 3D) my game world.

My proudest gaming moment is achieving double Yakuman in Mahjong Soul

I played "Bard's Tale III: The Thief of Fate" with a friend when it originally came out. We loved the puzzles.
We arrived at one where a magic mouth riddled us this: "...your best friend, I will kill you.".
We needed to input an answer but had no idea. We tried a lot of guesses and quickly realized there are too many options and we actually need to think about it and arrive at an answer that made sense.
The previous puzzles were somewhat tricky but nothing like this open ended one.
I think we sat in front of the computer screen for at least 2 or 3 hours brain storming it, until we came up with the answer.
The moment we had it we were sure it was the one.
We replied to the mouth: "SWORD", and sure enough it relented and revealed the door leading us onwards in our quest.

Many years ago when LAN parties were a thing, I attended my first ever at Carlton University. The indie game, Savage, took over the arena and I found myself in one hand as the RTS commander - not a role I ever liked our excelled at. However, I quickly figured out that I could make my friends sitting next to me my squad leaders, and somehow we created an amazingly cohesive team. I shouted orders at them over top of our monitors and they relate them to their squads. It was intense, with so much back and forth between the two teams but eventually we prevailed.

Proudest gaming moment is too hard to narrow down to just one, but maybe discovering the Konami code and finally being able to beat Contra. Too many others to list.

My proudest gaming moment was finishing Day of the Tentacle with my brother without walkthrough.
We were only ten/eleven years old at the time. ;)

Now I want to redo all the Point & Click I played when I was young. (Monkey Island, Roger Wilco, Loom, DIG, Full Throttle, Indiana Jones, Disc World, etc.)

My proudest momment was last winter when,due to the covid situation too, I finaly finished all,and I mean really complette, Halo saga games on PC and on hard level,after more than 10 years since I played the first one.I tooked to rest my gaming hero Master Chief.

Proudest gaming moment was completing my first ever "error free" lap of the Nürburgring Nordschleife in Grand Prix Legends although it made me realize I still had a long way to go to actually become a fast driver :-D

My proudest moment was learning even old dogs CAN learn new tricks when I started gaming for real on an Acer Nitro at age 69. My all-time favorites are the Myst. Series,, but I would really like to see more dinosaur hunting games.