What was your greatest moment as a gamer

[swlovinist]

So many to choose from, I will pick a couple. Recently, a good friend of mine and myself beat Ghouls and Ghosts Twice on the Sega Genesis. It took us a couple of hours, but it was fun to play though a game that is rarely seen at its true ending.

Also, about 6 years ago, I played though Magician Lord with some of my friends on my Neo Geo AES. The ending is extremely brutal, and it was a very savory moment to see the ending of that game.

[Nirvana]

Taking second place in a pretty big Street Fighter IV tournament in Chicago 2 years ago. It was the best I've ever played. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to go to other tournaments due to my work schedule. I would love to top this achievement.

[Collector_Gaming]

since i love love great stories that pull you in and mess with you almost on a emotional level.

I think my greatest gamer moments would be Beating

Both Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess
and Beating Half Life 2.

You get attached to characters and you lose them just like that and theres not a damn thing you can do about it.

[slapdash]

One of the more stupid ones... A friend got Mortal Kombat on Sega CD and we were playing it. One match I had Sonya Blade, and came out kicking -- and kept kicking. I literally just hit the high kick 4 or 5 times and dropped him without taking any damage myself. I don't know if I'd EVER seen him that pissed off before. :-)

[bb_hood]

Beating Dynamite Headdy without continuing, the last boss is just a nightmare...

Also beating Beyond Zork with minimal (very minimal) use of the hint book, the game is sooo difficult. Played this for the first time in grade school, finally beat it when I was in college. It was very rewarding to finally get that coconut back!

[Leo_A]

I belonged to a big group that sanctioned league races in the old Papyrus developed NASCAR games. One year, probably back in 2003, they started to do the occasional full length race.

That required lots of planning on the part of the league, qualifying competitions (We had far more than just 42 members, the limit for a single race), people would paint custom racecars for the special events, and the drivers had to be able to accomodate a 4-5 hour length of time on the morning of raceday to do some final practicing, qualifying to detirmine where you were going to actually start in the race, and the race itself.

That first year, we ran a full 400 mile race under the lights at Daytona, a full 400 lap (300 mile) race at Richmond, and a full 500 mile race at Talladega.

I walked away with the victory in all three events. When I finally stopped racing several years ago, I had won an even 150 races in NASCAR Racing 4/2002/2003 in league environments (Usually around 40% of the length of the real thing), something like 10 league championships (I'd have to check), and countless numbers of random pickup races on public servers that I never bothered to track (I'd say it's fair to say that the number is somewhere around 500). And a rough estimate places me at around 750,000 miles ran.