Share Your Favorite PlayStation Moment and Win PS Retailer Vouchers!

Get your memories ready! We invite you to share with us your favorite PlayStation-related gaming memory, mainly for the sake of storytelling, but we’ll also review them at the end and choose a winner who will receive a game’s worth of vouchers for the PlayStation Store. Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas.

We’ve conducted a few of these memory threads in the past, and they have led to some of the best comment sections ever on the web, thanks to your generous sharing. Most recently, we did one for our Eurogamer 25th anniversary, which was genuinely emotional, but we’ve also done them for Christmas, Star Wars, Zelda, and Street Fighter, all of which have made me laugh and tear up a little. You might have some epic tales to share.

So what do you do? Simply share a story in the comments below. Recall a time when PlayStation was part of your life for a memorable reason – maybe it brought people together, perhaps someone did something silly that still makes you chuckle, or something entirely different – and tell us about it. It was PlayStation’s thirtieth anniversary this week, as you might have seen if you visited our homepage, so I hope the memories are already coming to mind. There’s 30 years of material to draw from.

A PlayStation memory that sticks in my mind is me hunched over an ironing board one summer, aiming a lightgun at a small TV in a stifling hot conservatory – I have no clue why I set my friend’s borrowed PS1 there – trying to conquer Die Hard 2, which was incredibly tough, to say the least. I reckon I lost a few pounds in sweat that weekend. However, I also remember borrowing my friend’s PS2 to play Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and I recall…