Games that got you into gaming?

[Katherine Cortner]

Ocarina of time and the Jak 2

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Grandia single-handedly got me to love RPGs the first time I played it on a demo disc.

Before that, I actually went outside to "play".

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I think another relevant question is what keeps you gaming.

To answer the first question, it was my Dad's NES and the combo-cartridge Duck Hunt/ Super Mario Brothers. I also couldn't get enough of Dr. Mario.

Games which have kept me into gaming over the years:

Spoiler: SNES

*Legend of the Mystical Ninja
*Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest
*Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time
*Star Fox
*F-Zero
*Super Mario Cart
*Biker Mice from Mars

Spoiler: Sega Genesis

*Golden Axe
*Sonic the Hedgehog 1-Knuckles
*Comic Zone
*Road Rash

Spoiler: Game Boy - Nintendo DSi

*Pokemon

Spoiler: Playstation

*Twisted Metal
*Final Fantasy VII
*Final Fantasy VIII
*Final Fantasy IX
*Metal Gear Solid

Spoiler: PS2

*Grand Theft Auto 3...
*...and Vice City...
*...and San Andreas
*Star Wars Battlefront II
*Kingdom Hearts
*Dance Dance Revolution
*Guitar Hero 2

Spoiler: Xbox

*Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
*Star Wars: The Sith Lords
*Halo
*Halo 2
*Fable
*Voodoo Vince
*Whacked
*Dance Dance Revolution: Ultra-mix

Spoiler: Xbox 360

*Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
*Fallout 3
*Halo 3
*Halo: Reach
*Mass Effect
*Mass Effect 2
*Left 4 Dead
*Fable 2
*Dead Rising

Spoiler: PS3

*Just Cause 2
*Batman: Arkham Asylum

 

[syndicated44]

My parents bought an NES back in when it first came out and got Mario and Tetris. So thats what got me into gaming. As time went on we got a mac in 95/96 where I was introduced to Marathon and Descent. After that we moved to a new house and when we got it someone left a commodore 64 with 3 boxes worth of floppies. I dabbled in a bunch of silly text based adventure games and when a family friend moved in with us they brought a Windows PC. I ended up playing Quest for Glory 5 and Homeworld. With Homeworld I was shown online multiplayer and was shown just how amazing the internet was. The player base was so small that it was like a small town and everyone knew eachother. Guilds were also shown to me but I never really got into them to much however I still proudly wear my DSD clan tag (nostalgia rocks).

Oh yea somewhere in there I got a N64 (forgot about that haha).

 

[Maintied]

First game that I got into was Pokémon Red on a red gameboy and my sister had Pokémon Blue on a blue gameboy. That was the first game that I really played and got into gaming. The time I spent "grinding" to get levels to beat the Elite Four was just silly. Years pasts with no noticable change to gaming then Diablo 1 was brought in which was my favourate game. After that came Diablo 2 and the expantion. That is where I truley found online gaming and RPG's. Best game in my opinion. Now following that trend of grinding and RPG's and onling gaming; I, ofcouse, play WoW.

 

[Teh_Dave]

Chip and Dale rescue rangers on the NES, can't remember what age I was but it definitely planted the seed. I think pokemon red and Mario 64 sealed the deal.

 

[demoman_chaos]

Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Genesis.

 

[SantoUno]

For me it was a game made by Brøderbund in 1990 called Prince of Persia. When I was 7 years old.
C:\
cd games
cd pop
pop.exe

Then it was Blues Brothers, 1991.

I never had a console. And good is that. If I had joined with the other kids to play whatever Nintendo had cooked up, I might've never gotten to play games like Civilization. The PC has always been the one spot for intelligent games.

Oh what, so consoles never had any intelligent games?

I started out on my brother's NES with dozens of games, but the ones that stand out were Super Mario Bros. 1 and 3, Silver Surfer, Rollerblades, Wizards and Warriors 1 and 2, Double Dragon II, and many more awesome ones that I forgot.

 

[deckai]

Either Warlords(1989), Dig Dug or Zelda II, if i had to decide, i would say Warlords, since it was the game I enjoyed most.

 

[icame]

Well my parents had a N64 and Mario 64, so i had a good start.

 

[Mighty Lighty]

A couple of games on the megadrive round at my babysitters house when I was 3/4

toejam and earl
sonic 1,2,3 and knuckles
B.O.B
streets of rage
golden axe
batman
the avengers

 

[Slangeveld]

Age of Empires, Then later Savage to get me in to online gaming.

 

[Delock]

[sub][sub][sub] Sonic the Hedgehog [/sub][/sub][/sub] on the GameGear
Anyways, the first game I really played exclusively (I used to switch between Tetris and Battleship on the gameboy when I was bored) was Pokemon Blue. Yes, that's right, my first big game was Pokemon.

 

[Blackmagic1515]

Duck Hunt was first I believe. Then moved onto Spyro the Dragon and some Mario and Sonic. Spyro is still the best though.

 

[Quillbell]

Ocarina of Time and pokemon silver. I remember getting an N64 and a GBC one christmas and playing nothing but those two games for weeks.

 

[Talshere]

My Sega Master System and my NES. Also, Mario is Missing and Disc World for the mac where you played a cartoony weird wizard, back in the days when your choices for a PC were dos or windows 3.1

 

[moonlantern]

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is the first game I can remember playing.

 

[oranger]

The original final fantasy, when it first came to Canada. It was sooo different from anything I'd come across before. It made TV and movies look like a waste of time.
I think I was 4-5 at the time.

 

[Snake Plissken]

The original Ultima for C64. My parents had it when I was very young, and they were having a competition with the couple who lived in the apartment next door to see who could finish it first. I also remember liking the original Defender of the Crown for the NES. It was the only NES game my dad loved to play, and I remember it fondly. I kept it and put it in a frame for him to hang on his wall. My mom and I used to play Bubble Bobble all day sometimes, which is my favorite NES game by far. I guess I was lucky enough to be born right in the middle of the arcade explosion and birth of GOOD console gaming (1985), and my parents were about 20 or so when they had me. As much as they hate to admit it, the fact that they were the game nerds of their generation turned me into a game nerd of my generation.

My parents are fucking rad.

 

[SonOfStayPuft]

mario bros/duck hunt is where I started.(age 5) also, Mike Tyson's Punchout. from there I moved to sonic the hedgehog on sega and it has gone on from there -_-

Same here.

I got a triple game cartridge that came with the NES and it had Super Mario Bros, Duck Hunt and Nintendo World Cup on and although I had played a mates Atari 2600, it was the NES that opened my eyes to gaming.

It would be about 21 years later when Gears Of War was released that I played a game that stands out alongside the first time I heard the Super Mario theme.