Mine had to be playing Brutal Mario / Super Kitiku Mario back in high school. This is what got me into Mario Mods and just seeing Mario go through worlds and fight bosses from other games was insane.
I adored this ROM and still do to the day. Weirdly, nothing else wowed me like this or blew me away and I still play Mario Romhacks to this day. I guess the closest feeling I got since playing Brutal Mario when I was 14 was playing B3313 aboit 2 years ago.
But enough about me, what about you? What were the best moments you had in gaming? What was your high moment?
My memory is not the greatest, but nostalgia keeps trying to tell me playing Sonic Mega Collection on gamecube while also switching back to TV mode when commercials ended was one of the best gamer moments for me.
But I know that it surely must be a more current thing like me defeating the harder boss battles in the latest update of the pokemon fangame Pokemon Rejuvenation, good route, within the last month or so. Classic mode difficulty isn't a joke, even with facing zero IV pokemon with no enemy item usage thanks to the password system, if you are like me and still try to be a bit casual in your playthrough.
That makes my achievement of beating a Pokemon Reborn randomizer run ( not NPCs ) without resorting to legendaries, mythicals, or pseudos look like a playthrough of Pokemon Emerald in terms of difficulty, IMO.