Your First/Greatest Gaming Victory?

[Aardvark]

4 player deathmatch Doom.

Two of my friends had told me how much better the game is using the mouse, but I adamantly refused to abandon my keyboard-only controls and I destroyed them all utterly.

Of course, when it came time to move to Quake, I was repeatedly owned as I adjusted to the Y axis.

 

[YukoValis]

Getting my parents to buy me a NES

 

[y8c616]

Discovering metal gear online.

Beats cod 4/5's ass anyday.

Agreed. getting it set up is a pain in the ass but once your playing, its second to none.

 

[Jonathan Hexley]

Finishing Painkiller on Singing AND Guitar, second time, with a 3/4.
I felt quite proud of myself actually.

 

[Combined]

I love DOS.

You and me both.

Ah... Greatest victory? I suppose it'd be winning colonization. That game is pretty hard. Also, I remember beating all my friends at Civ2, back when it was the height of gaming excellence.

Also, my first gaming "victory" was when I performed a successful operation in Life and Death 2. Man, was I happy. And relieved.

 

[darrinwright]

First: beating DuckTales on NES. That game still ROCKS.
BEST: probably FF VIII. only had three party members left and luckily they were my best. We're all reduced to one hit, when I decide to gamble and just keep using Limit Breaks to see how far I make it. Rinoa's dog keeps using Invincible Moon. Lasted the rest of the boss fight (two more transformations) somehow miraculously without dying.

I've beaten other games since then, but still - EPIC. WIN.

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.

Don't feel too bad, it took me 21 years to beat that bloody game. Last October I was just on fire, I guess.

 

[yzzlthtz]

first: finding the dot in Adventure for the Atari 2600
best: hmmm...
either - beating the first X-Com with one guy left and one piece of guided ammo left fired from many rooms away,
or entertaining a bunch of people under the influence of psychedelic mushrooms for several hours by beating the original Sonic the Hedgehog using the upc, downc, leftc, rightc code...

 

[stormcaller]

First unaided? Mew in Pokemon Snap the little bastard

Greatest? Doing a Leeroy Jenkins in WoW for the hell of it, though I did tell them before hand and they were fine with it.

 

[Goldeneye103X2]

Discovering metal gear online.

Beats cod 4/5's ass anyday.

Agreed. getting it set up is a pain in the ass but once your playing, its second to none.

Wait. setting it up? What do you mean?

 

[jayjaydoubleyou]

Finishing Streets of Rage 2 with my mum when I was about three.
Life defining moment.

 

[spuddyt]

greatest: beating two friends at once 2v1 with unlimited funds to choose our armies on rome TW
first: getting the damn gameboy off my brother for 5 seconds -_-

 

[GoblinOnFire]

My first AND greatest victory: World Of Warcraft!

 

[s0ap sudz]

My greatest was finishing Cod 5 on Veteran today, not because it was impossible, but because I lost all my mission progress up to Vendetta and had to start the whole game again.

I can't even beat ONE level in Veteran. Good job.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

When I beat Captain Skyhawk for the NES with a friend during a sleepover. It was the first game I EVER beat.

 

[y8c616]

Discovering metal gear online.

Beats cod 4/5's ass anyday.

Agreed. getting it set up is a pain in the ass but once your playing, its second to none.

Wait. setting it up? What do you mean?

when you first go on you have to go through a massive registration process with konami. Plus all the version updates etc take a while to download.

 

[Goldeneye103X2]

Discovering metal gear online.

Beats cod 4/5's ass anyday.

Agreed. getting it set up is a pain in the ass but once your playing, its second to none.

Wait. setting it up? What do you mean?

when you first go on you have to go through a massive registration process with konami. Plus all the version updates etc take a while to download.

GAH! I don't have to do all that stuff with the demo.

 

[RavenDrake]

My first real victory was beating Bionic Commando on NES. I still remember taking the swing over the spikes and dropping a super rocket right in Not-Hitler's face through the chopper windscreen.

One of my favourite childhood games....

 

[hattifnatt]

14 kills in one life in TF2.