It's been a while, but finishing Panzer Dragoon Saga was very rewarding, not because of the dificulty itself, but the whole experience at the time. Something Horizon Zero Dawn came very close to replicating.

My proudest moment was completing the Death Star trench run and saving the rebellion in Star Wars: X-Wing. At the time, it felt like the Force was with me.

My proudest moment was, when I finally finished Prince of Persia: Sands of Time.
It was my first 3D adventure game, that I finally really managed to finish, without any help or tricks.

Before that, I only played and finished some 2D platform games, like Blackthorne/Blackhawk, Cool Spot, Cuke Land, one Nestle game (Quicky something) and that is.

I had very good progress in shareware version of Prickle Wars, but than something happened with the computer and it had to be reinstalled, and the game and my savegame is gone. :(

Oh and I almost finished the shareware version/episode of Crystal Cave. At least I remember so.

My proudest moment was beating all games I own from my childhood on Nes. Saves or quick save/ quick load didn't exist (or maybe by letting the console switched on for days, which was risky) and being able 20 years later to complete after hours games like Castlevania, Simon's Quest, the Super Mario Bros trilogy or even that stupid Paperboy make me proud today.

My proudest game moment is playing Forza Motorsport 4 on XBox 360 with my mother, who played a videogame for the first time in her life, and making her win. Her joy in believing she won is my pride.

My proudest gaming moment was the first time I completed Doom (1993) .
Doom was the first game I ever played, still remember the day when I went to my godfather's house and he bought a new computer, his daughter show me Doom and let me play it (probably was the shareware version), it was love at first sight and I was only 3 years old at that time. Years later when I finally complete the whole game was a moment of joy that still remember to this day and makes me really happy. Doom was id Software's masterpiece and my favourite game to this day!!!!

I'm very much a puzzle game fanatic, starting from the days with Myst, and so finishing those games has always been a proud moment - Myst and Obduction stand out strongly, both finishing them and solving some of the individual puzzles along the way. But I think the proudest moment was in Portal 2 Co-op; there's one puzzle in the Hard Light section that can only be solved by engineering a mid-air collision with your partner, and I remember when it dawned on me how that could be arranged. I've revisited that room twice with other partners and I still get a little tingle when I recognize it now.

Finishing Brood War with no cheats.

Unquestionably the hardest RTS of my childhood, about halfway through the Zerg campaighn I gave up and just used "power overwhleming" in each mission... and I still managed to lose a few times.

Coming back to OG StarCraft when Remaster was out a few years ago, I went at it again... and this time I persevered. And it felt GOOD.

I was running about randomly in PUBG trying to get hit by a bomb in the bombing zones to unlock and achievement. Ended up accidentally getting 1st and a chicken dinner.

Some of my proudest moments in gaming are less about the games themselves, and more getting them set up. I play a lot of games from the '80s, '90s, and early 2000s, and oftentimes you can't just pop in the disc and start playing because of compatibility issues. The two games I was proudest of getting to run are:

Rollercoaster Tycoon; The disc I had for this one was screwed up. After some work, it let me install and run the game, but it couldn't read any of the game files. Basically, it was stuck on the main menu, and I wasn't able to start or load a game or anything because it wasn't able to read the files on the disc. The way I ended up solving the issue was actually installing the expansion pack. Once you installed the expansion, it used the expansion disc to read the files instead of the base game disc, which solved the problem because it was the files on the base disc that were corrupted.

Civilization IV; The problem with this game is actually a very common one for games from the very early 2000s. The file that runs with the game to check whether or not the disc is in the drive is incompatible with Windows 10, meaning that the game couldn't run because it didn't think the disc was in the drive even if it was. Looking online, the main solutions I could find were to either install some unofficial patch, or use a cracked version of the game (neither of which I was willing to do.). My solution ended up being to give up trying to run it on my computer. Instead, I got my dad's old desktop with Windows 7 OS, and installed it there! As I had hoped, Windows 7 was able to run the file that Windows 10 was not, and the game ran great! (That computer also had a floppy drive, so that opened up even more retro game options.)



Also, I'd just like to say thank you to GOG for all of these givaways. I've been a part of three (including this one) in the past, and even though I hadn't won either of the others, I had so much fun reading all the entries and writing mine. Thank you so much GOG, and best of luck to everyone participating!

Probably beating D'Sparil in Heretic on the hardest difficulty (Black Plague Possesses Thee). He has 2 phases. At first, he is riding a Chaos Serpent. That phase is pretty easy and after you kill the Serpent, you have to fight him alone. And this is when he pulls out most of his dirty tricks. Most notably, he begins spawning a pair of Disciples from time to time (a regular flying enemy that fires a salvo of projectiles at a pretty rapid pace). If you take too long, the arena gets completely filled with them and you are sure to die. D'Sparil also randomly teleports to one of the 6 places in the arena and he does it more often the lower on health he is. I've been at it for several hours of failed of tries when I finally beat him but the way it happened was pretty funny.

I brought him quite low in HP, since he was teleporting almost all the time and it was basically impossible to hit him anymore. The arena has also been filled with dozens of his Disciples. It was pointless trying to shoot him from a distance because his minions would just absorb the shots. If I tried to make my way closer to him, he would just teleport away before I could get even a single shot in. So I was just running around, desperately looking for an opening to try and get any damage in on D'Sparil while the number of his minions kept constantly increasing. It eventually reached critical mass and it was simply no longer possible to keep dodging all the projectiles due to their sheer amount. As I was slowly getting chipped down, slowly but surely using up all my healing items one by one while running around wildly, already thinking that it was yet another failed attempt, suddenly, just as I was about to die, I hear a loud death cry and moments later, all the Disciples crumbled to dust around me. I was wondering what happened for a while, just standing there with single digit HP and no healing items when I suddenly realized... D'Sparil died to the stray projectiles of his own minions. There was so many of them that even he started getting hit by them too and I brought him low enough so that he died moments before I would have.

So, the fight I've been trying since like 2 AM finally ended at about 6:30 AM. And not even by my own hand. It was one of the weirdest victories I've ever achieved in gaming. But finally beating something I've been trying for several hours straight felt incredible. D'Sparil will forever remain one of the toughest bosses I've ever fought. The weakest of the 3 Serpent Riders lore-wise, still gives me the chills to this day upon hearing his name and remembering the epic struggle it was to defeat him.

When I was about 12 I used to play crossfire. One game I was doing so well (I had 0 deaths and 25+ kills) I got kicked for hacking. Aside from being pissed for being kicked for something I didn't do, I also felt like a badass for being so good they couldn't believe their eyes

My proudest gaming moment was introducing my little nephew to gaming world, guiding her in this magic realm, sharing with her this once all mine passion and now hers too. Showing her differences between fiction and real, teaching her that victory is sweet, often rare and defeat can be more common but not negative at all, just a way to learn lessons, to improve while climbing the mountain of the success, full of obstacles and adversities. She also learned that a winner never makes fun of the opponent, but respect the contender because it's a person with a life and feelings too, just like her. Nothing is impossible with discipline, perseverance and dedication, she knows that the price of success is paid with sweat and sacrifice. She makes me proud of her.

One of my proudest gaming moments was 112% completing Hollow Knight on my first playthrough without a guide. While playing through the game I was absolutely captivated by its art style, fluid mechanics, fantastic soundtrack, and brilliant story. Now, I am normally not adverse to using a guide when playing a game but in the case of Hollow Knight, I was so enamored with and invested in the world that Team Cherry had created that I felt it would be a disservice to myself and the devs if I didn't experience everything naturally.

Exploring every corner of the world I found every upgrade, every piece of gear, talked to every character I could talk to, soaking up all the lore, beat every regular and dream boss, and relished in the moments of quiet pause while resting on the benches. However, I think my proudest moment throughout the entire playthrough was beating the Pure Vessel. One of the hardest bosses in the game I kept getting so close to beating the pantheon of the Knight but kept falling so short every time I made it to the pure vessel. After a lot of practice though, I was final able to nail down the bosses attack patterns and was able to finish the fight without taking any damage and went on to beat the Radiance right after that on my first try.

So yeah, I would have to say my proudest gaming moment was beating Hollow Knight 112% as it was such an emotionally fulfilling and rewarding game to get through and I cannot wait to get the sequel, Hollow Knight: Silk Song on GOG.

My proudest game moment was achieving 100% on the Wii Lego Indiana Jones 2 on every hub world without walkthrough's or video tutorials on how to do it. Also in the long time it took me to, which was long of a tome around a year or longer to 100%, I played really slowly trying to get everything. In that long time I found a very short level to just grind money to buy everything from the very first hub level. I was very surprised and proud of that moment, since it was and still is the only game I was able to 100% without walkthroughs or tutorials.