Is a gamer not entitled to his accolades? Are his mantles not strong enough to hoist bronze statuettes and framed placards? Is he never to rise from the solace of his throne of bean-baggery, clenched fists caressing the sunrise as a green-screened mountain range draped with opaque patriotic banderole sails behind him?

No, say the parents of the would-be misanthrope, as they watch their progeny sink further into a headset.

No, says his social circle, shaking their heads and wondering why he’d enjoy such endeavors as they pile into a Pasat en route to giving Michael Bay $15 each.

No, says the FOX News anchor, as he spouts rabid talking points blaming videogames for the decline of modern everything.

But he deserves better. We deserve glory.

Being a gamer is no easy task. It seems that you will always catch some flak from people because of one person or another just because they probably don’t understand. Most all of us gamers have been in the situation where we do something in our favorite games that we didn’t think was possible or just got darn lucky. If it was beating the final level on the hardest difficulty, or finding that secret room that everyone said didn’t exist, we have all had our moments that we like to brag about.

Those of us that are gamers understand where our fellow gamers are coming from, but those who choose to miss out on the excitement of gaming will sadly never get to be a part of these great moments. So below is a list of nine moments that we gamers were proud to be gamers!

1. Finally Getting Past a Tough Boss
2. Reaching 100% Completion for the First Time
3. Beating a Game Without Cheating or Using Codes
4. Beating a Next-to-Impossible Game for the First Time
5. Getting a Higher Score Than Your Sibling
6. Being the First to Camp Out for Midnight Launch
7. Discovering a Cheat or Easter Egg Before Anyone Else
8. Beating a Smack Talker
9. Knowing More Than the Clerk at Game Stop

So there you have it… nine moments that without a doubt would make just about any gamer proud! I am not going to go into detail with each of these nine moments because they are all pretty self-explanatory. If you don’t seem to understand some of these moments listed… well then I am sorry to say that it looks like you are not a gamer and you just probably wouldn’t be able to understand.

Most gamers love a game they can play side by side with a friend. Working together to complete a common goal or mission is always fun and is becoming a very popular feature in new games that are being released. There were a good number of great games released this year that allowed gamers to take advantage of a great co-op mode, but only one can take the title as the best of 2008! The guys over at GamesRadar.com put together a panel of testers to figure out what the best co-op game released this year was and here are the games they decided to review for this award:

• Gears of War 2
• CoD: World at War 
• Resistance 2 
• Saints Row 2 
• Left 4 Dead
• Fable 2

After much testing of the following titles there was a winner crowned. Left 4 Dead has won the title of the best co-op game of 2008 by their panel of judges and I couldn’t agree more. Lately I (and everyone where I work) has been pretty obsessed with Left 4 Dead with a couple of us on a mission to complete as many of the achievements as we possibly can! The gameplay it has for both 4 player co-op and 4v4 versus mode couldn’t be better. It seems as though Valve nailed this game right on the head for an addictive co-op shooter which in my opinion couldn’t have been any better. Check out this HD video review of Left 4 Dead if you would like to get a little taste of what it has to offer! Lastly if you would like to check out the original article for some more details on each game reviewed, simply go here! So, Enjoy!

Being an avid FPS (First Person Shooter) gamer myself it seems that this list is only necessary. There have been tons of FPS games released in both the console and PC world of gaming, but there is only an elite small group of those games that are played time and time again despite how old they get. With myself playing many of these games over and over, I can for sure agree that this is is almost dead on when it comes to the 28 best FPS games of all time. So without wasting anymore time…. here is the list:

28. Return to Castle Wolfenstein
27. Blood
26. Tribes 2
25. Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
24. The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
23. No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.’s Way
22. Alien vs. Predator 2
21. TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
20. Counter-Strike: Source
19. Thief: The Dark Project
18. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas
17. Battlefield 1942
16. Far Cry
15. Unreal Tournament
14. Metroid Prime
13. Perfect Dark
12. Crysis
11. Deus Ex
10. F.E.A.R.
9. System Shock II
8. Halo 3
7. Duke Nukem 3D
6. Quake II
5. Doom II
4. GoldenEye 007
3. BioShock
2. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
1. Half-Life 2

So there it is, the games that are in bold are the ones I either own myself and/or have played a good bit of. (which happens to be quite a few of them) For anyone who wants to read up on the full article from GamePro.com which has little summaries for each game and why it was picked, just follow this link to read it from their website.