Your First/Greatest Gaming Victory?

[Amarok]

I remember when I was a wee child of just 6 or 7 and I had Croc: Legend of the Gobbos. The first boss in that game was some yellow bird thing that chased you round a circular battlefield. However, I was young, and a bit stupid, and didn't realise I had to run from him and wait for him to get tired. Weeks and weeks passed with me dying over and over, as I would just run up to him in the hopes that somehow, for some reason, I'd kick his ass this time around.
Then one fateful day I saw an ad for Croc on the TV, featured in the ad was footage of Croc running away from a boss. I thought to myself "hmmm, I'll try that", so I did, and lo and behold, I finally beat the boss I had been stuck at for almost a month!

Ok, it's no amazing feat or anything, but that was my first real "Gaming Victory", any o' you Escapists remember the glorious time you first beat a difficult challenge? Post your stories here!

 

[J-Man]

Headshotting 4 guys in CS for the first time with the starting Terrorist pistol. I've never done that again.

 

[MasterMuffinMan]

My first was completing the first level of Mario on the Gameboy. My greatest was completing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 to 100% without using cheats. I loved that game.

 

[ROFLross]

I remember when I was younger, playing Final Fantasy VII, having no idea how to use the Materia system, I went all the way through to the Boss, Rufus on top of the Midgar Tower, took me ages to actually do it with Cloud not having any healing magic and me not actually knowing that I could buy potions; some how I actually beat him and just as I got into the open world I learnt what the damn Materia system was; I also think that was the first time I ever major facepalmed at how silly I was for not knowing that.

 

[Goldeneye103X2]

Discovering metal gear online.

Beats cod 4/5's ass anyday.

 

[KiiWii]

Oldest and greatest gaming victory: completing Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening for the gameboy when i was 8. Took me bloody ages.

Most recent gaming victory: Psyconaughts. That last platforming section made me emotionally breakdown.

 

[coldfrog]

Beating Cool Spot for Genesis with all the letters of "UNCOLA" and taking a picture of the secret ending screen! I should scan that in to the computer some time if I have a scanner around.

(Sadly, the contest was long over by the time I got that, but I was like 10, it was exciting!)

 

[Baby Tea]

Greatest? Marching proudly through Baldur's Gate 1 AND 2 (AND both expansions) with one character. He was magnificent!

First? Beating the first, and original, Prince of Persia.
I still remember loading it up...

CD C:\prince
prince.exe

Awesome.
I love DOS.

 

[sirdapfrey]

I don't know which is my greatest victory, but the first game I ever beat was Strider on the original NES.

No, I didn't beat Super Mario Bros. first. For some reason that damn game eluded me until I went back to try it again about 6 years ago. Go figure.

 

[stompythebeast]

My first pc game, Medal of Honor Allied Assault. The second campaign with the U-boats, during your escape your supposed to run to the train waiting on for you with some allied soldiers trying to give you covering fire, but your supposed to run through 30 - 40 meters of open ground with a few boxes for cover and 50 German soldiers trying to stop you. After you make into the train one of the allied soldiers says " I think i wet myself". WIN

 

[FalloutJack]

Well, I got news for ya. I'm 27 and that makes me old enough to be in the Atari age, which I have been. So, first victory would be in dominating a fair few of them simple-but-fun games in my youth.

Spoiler: As for my greatest victory...

That would be Persona 3, in my use of Satan and Lucifer to make the fusion spell, Armageddon. An ultimate damage spell using all of my character's magic energy...except that Lucifer had an ability to cut the usage of energy in half, and he had Victory Cry, which replenishes all energy after winning. So, without cheating, I discovered ultimate power in the game, one-hitting every creature from then on, including the Grim Reaper and Nyx itself (once Nyx was at full power).

As for my first greatest victory...I have no freaking clue at this point.

 

[ContemporaryStudent]

The first time I got MVP in Hardcore team deathmatch on COD4. Not particularly amazing, but it made me feel good.

Greatest? Tanking Karazhan as a frost mage in Warcraft.

 

[curlycrouton]

My first pc game, Medal of Honor Allied Assault. The second campaign with the U-boats, during your escape your supposed to run to the train waiting on for you with some allied soldiers trying to give you covering fire, but your supposed to run through 30 - 40 meters of open ground with a few boxes for cover and 50 German soldiers trying to stop you. After you make into the train one of the allied soldiers says " I think i wet myself". WIN

Yes! My god that was a fantastic game, and back then World War Two games weren't everywhere you looked.

And that was my favourite moment of that game.

 

[Iron Mal]

First would have to be completing Alien Trilogy (the first game I ever played to completion) while my greatest would have to be...can't really decide on a greatest achievement to be honest.

 

[Fraeir]

My most memorable moment in gaming was a LAN not too long ago where I managed to kill the entire opposing team of five guys in a game of CoD4 multiplayer with one, single, well-placed RPG rocket! 8D

 

[Iampringles]

Hmm, not quite sure what my greatest acheivement would be...

Possibly getting gold for my M60E4 on CoD4. Not paticularly amazing I know, but noteworthy.

 

[damion559]

finishing gears of war 2 on hardest difficulty without dying once

thank god its over

 

[Fightgarr]

First? Probably beating one of my SNES games with my brother. It was either Goof Troop the game or Spiderman and Venom: Separation Anxiety.

Greatest: Well that would be beating Thunder Ripple in Shadow of the Colossus. I know its not exactly hard, but I'm so terrified of underwater creatures that to finally beat him and be over with that section of the game felt better than beating three FPS games in a row.
Notable others include: Finally beating 3 computers at Starcraft in a free-for-all.
The sensation when you've been stuck for a while in Grim Fandango and you figure out that you were supposed to do X with Y object.