My proudest moment in gaming was when my daughter finished Mini Ninjas playing much better than me. I remember when she was just a little girl and just cheered to me when we played together... Now she still playes with this game sometimes again and again, so I think Mini Ninjas is a real good old game that should be here at GoG!

Well my prodest gameing moment is when I built my first gameing rig. I still recall evey click and mistake I made, when I finally got it to run.

But to give a Short history, I got in to video games when my Uncle introduced me Starcraft, fresh from the print. I was over at his house and he had something to do, and he introduced me to the game to keep me busy. Well I loved it, and when I came around again and again i slowly got it to video games. I slowly got games as I got in to gameing, however I ran across the issue of the family computer was not built to play the games I wanted to play. So I needed to buy, or as I settled learned more, to build my own computer (yes, I wanted to build my own computer in the 90s aka before it was cool). Well to bad for me, I was not allowed to own a PC for 2 reasons. 1) I lived in a small town and could not get parts. 2) The internet was new and parents did not like it, so I was not allowed to order anything online. ahh the old days.

Well that road block led me to going in to consoles just to deal with it, I then had collage, and all the time crunch that came with it. So I forgot about it. Till the nex gen consoles came along and I was thinking, hmmm I have money and time, lets go back and build my own computer. So I set out to do it, took me 2 months of research and window shopping till I bougth the parts I needed. I was so happy, like a child on christmas morning. I spent the weekend just trying to get it work. Then the next weekend. It took me a month to get it working. I made a few mistakes, But the main reason I failed was casue the wire that conects the computer to the screen was broken. Made me red with anger and embarrassment when that happened. But thru all that I finally had my top of the line hand built PC.

I then took out my Age of Empire II disc installed and played that. Such a great memory.

My proudest moment in gaming was and are become my family to share with me this amazing hobby I love play video games but are most enjoyable thing is share this happiness with your family and friends!

My wife hate it but now love it she loves games like Diablo 3.

My proudest gaming moment was beating Dark Souls for the very first time. Very challenging but rewarding game.

When The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing I, II, and III came out, I fell in love with them. Every gamer's got a game that just clicks into their gaming profile, and Van Helsings did that for me. The B-movie-esque story, the humor, the pop-cultural references, all that while still keeping the tone of the game on epic fantasy level - I just couldn't get enough.

And then the devs combined these three into one monster of a game: The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut!

Having grown up with a Commodore 64, I'm a hardcore gamer from hardcore times. So I got a crazy idea: let's complete the Final Cut with a hardcore character (permadeath) on Fearless difficulty (highest on which you can start the game), including all side quests. It would be my way of showing some respect to the authors - having to play the game with maximum concentration and everything to lose. There was just one tiny little problem: I'd never been particularly good at action games, and being in my forties, my reflexes were nowhere near the levels of my twenties, when I'd been on top form, being only very bad at action games. Thus, a long journey started.

I experimented with all the character classes and their builds. I spent weeks on finding the right key binds for all the actions, especially for drinking health and mana potions. Still, all that wasn't enough, and I kept losing character after character after character.

For the first time in my life, I bought a gaming mouse and I spent more weeks on finding a combination of actions tied to mouse buttons and actions bound to keyboard keys that would work for me best. I spent tens of hours on crafting, until I found a glitch that could be exploited to get slightly better gear. I got about 40% into the game before I died.

So I also optimized my modus operandi. Going 25 hours into the game only to die accidentally on level 45, I was not only frustrated, but it also meant I'd be prone to running into troubles on my next playthrough again, as you just can't remember all the dangers of a 60+ hour game. So I built a small army of ten hardcore characters and one non-hardcore. That one would go through every mission first, I'd try to memorize (or note down) the most dangerous bits and then lead the hardcore characters through the same mission one by one.

Of course, still I'd lose some over time. Twice, the number of hardcore guys I had went so low that I had to train four or five more and spend ages getting them where the others were already. But I was inching toward that ultimate goal. And guess what: after 4 years of intermittent playing, totalling up to some 1300 hours tracked in Galaxy and estimated about 300 or 400 more outside Galaxy, my ghost companion Lady Katarina and I finally stood victorious deep there at the dark heart of the Ink, having saved Borgovia, and the player part of my overjoyed self knew that with a bit of a dogged approach, some luck and some craft, almost everything is possible, even in spite of yourself.

So that, ladies and gentlemen, is my proudest gaming moment.

My proudest moment in game is...
When I was a student, I was playing a Japanes dogfight game "Air Combat".
A mission to escort a friendly transporter, when I was on my way home after escorting.
Already low ammunition, several enemies were waiting in front of the base.
I locked on the enemies and shot the rest of the missiles, but one enemy survived.
There were only dozens of railgun ammo, and even though I hit several shots while passing each other, I couldn't shoot down it.
I turned and chased the enemy, but the bullets ran out, and worst of all, I ran out of fuel.
I managed to make a successful landing while turning over the runway, avoiding enemy bullets.
Finaly cleared the mission.

My proudest gaming moment was beating the Hell difficulty of Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction on hardcore mode which is a permadeath. It took me 4 of my teen years with dozens of dead characters until I was finally able to get it. I tried so much on hardcore that chugging a health potion at the brink of death has become second nature for me, I don't even need to look at the health ball and improved my keys switching which is a skill that carried over to other games I play now and typing at work. Striking down the final blow to Baal in the hell difficulty for the first time was actually the first time I've felt an achievement in my childhood after working hard on something.

My proudest gaming moment ?

Figuring out by myself that I had to use Euclidean geometry to solve the arrow sign puzzle in Grim Fandango.

It sounds so obvious, but I've never seen anyone else figure that out without a walkthough or stumbling on the solution by accident.

Don't blindly follow directions. Use logic. It's a nice life lesson.

My proudest gaming moment is when I made my first blind run of Borderlands 2 a mostly no elemental challenge run. I limited the use of elementals to quests that list them as a requirement. Thankfully only a few early game quests do this. The rest of the game's quests where able to be completed without using them. I have to say this challenge made the game way more difficult then it needed to be. The real challege of this run was taking out all the Loader Bots with normal damage weapons. These enemies took forever to deal with when not using an elemental effect. Getting crits on them helps, but it just doesn't deal the damage you would have gotten from an elemental. Needless to say Loader Bots where the cause of most of my deaths. I didn't give up on the challenge tho, and I soldiered on till I was able to finish the game. I don't regret my choice in doing this challenge, but I sure as heck will think twice before doing a run like that again.

I don't know if "proud" is the right word, but when I received some (little) money for writing articles about games for the first time, I felt that I had stepped onto another level as a gamer.

Bowling a strike in Wii Sports.

king's quest 1 has a number of incredibly dumb puzzles, but the worst is the infamous rumplestiltskin puzzle.

the way it works is:
there's a gnome on a little patch of land, when you encounter him, he asks you to guess his name. he gives you three tries. you can type anything and it'll be taken as input. so if you MISTYPE, that's also an error.

anyway, if you try rumplestiltskin, he'll tell you that's close, but no cigar.

in an unrelated part of the game, there's a note that says that "sometimes it's helpful to think backward." so. ok. you think to type rumplestiltskin backward, because that's how old games work, rigiht? wrong.

in order to get this puzzle right, you have to take the alphabet, [a-z], REVERSE the alphabet [z-a] and THEN type rumplestiltskin.

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i actually solved this the proper way, way back in the days before the internet [at the time, sierra had hint books AND a hint line, but i didn't want to shell out for either on top of the cost of the game.]

and that's my proudest gaming moment.

because that's a very dumb puzzle :P

Proudest gaming moment? Actually they are two related ones.

Playing and completing Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge on release year, without looking at any walkthrough. I still have the original 5.25" disks and dial-a-pirate in the box of SoMI.

It might sound silly, old and somewhat easy by today's standards, but awesomeness level by then was beyond 5000...

Finishing the single player campaign in Carmageddon 1 when I played it for the first time.

My proudest gaming moment, was when I first managed to use my imagination, to support immersion in games; to imagine the smells, the texture on objects and surfaces, the temperature in the environment, the general atmosphere that the character is experiencing in-game. It felt like a gateway, for a completely new way of enjoying the video game experience.