The game that got you into gaming

[BreenIsALie]

I got in kinda late, but i got the original xbox when it came out, and with it came Halo: CE. I played the crap out of that. Got lots of good memories of playing multiplayer with friends. After that i got more and more games for it, until i got a pc good enough to play games. And onwards it went.

 

[N3squ1ck]

I remember playing Duke Nukem 2 with my sister, she ran and jumped and I shot. I really don't know when that was anymore, but I was really really young.

After that I played some other DOS games until I got my gameboy and a new pc, so I played Age of Empires and Pokemon.

I guess it is save to say that I was a gamer my whole life. All thanks to Duke Nukem 2

 

[Pink Gregory]

I was basically fascinated by games since the first time I saw them at age, I dunno... four?

There wasn't any "that one game" for me.

Same here, it wasn't one particular game (my first was probably Micro Machines V2 on the SNES, hardly something I hold at the centre of my universe), just really the prospect of video games.

That being said, the first one that absolutely fascinated me was Donkey Kong Country 2; there's not a whole lotta why in there, apart from it being good.

 

[Brainwreck]

Prince of Persia 2. The one from 1994.

Dat jump for the boat...

 

[Coffeejack]

Terminal Velocity. Flying along and shooting lasers at anything that popped up from the flat 2-D landscape.

Awesomeness warning:

Spoiler

 

[Brainiac 5]

The Spyro games for the PS1. No idea what age I played them at but I remember them being my first proper games. I never played them when they moved onto the PS2, I just stuck with the early PS1 games. Everyone went from there.

I'm sad when I look at him now... I remember a dragon and now he's a deformed angry chihuahua. Sad times.

 

[OrpheusTelos]

Twilight Princess.

No, really. I'd played a lot of games before that, but Twilight Princess was not only my first Zelda game, but the game that opened my eyes to the possibilities of video games

 

[Xanex]

Alien Invaders on the Atari.

 

[Floppertje]

Supaplex! it was a rocks 'n diamonds clone, my whole family went nuts over it. then there was Billy the Kid, a sidescrolling western... thing, and a really old F1 racing game. Then came Prince of Persia 3D and Age of Empires 2 as my first 'big' games, then SW:JK 2 and then it just went nuts.

 

[bafrali]

Original Megaman. It took me a while to learn that you get boss weapons after you beat them. After that boss fghts became ridiculously east. Curse the Iceman stage and whoever designed it though. I haven't beaten it even to this day. Damn you Yellow Devil.

 

[laggyteabag]

I dont really know, I dont think it was just ONE game that got me into gaming, it was more like a joint effort between a lot of games on a lot of different platforms before it finally clicked that "Oh hey, I am actually really into games"

Pokemon Blue - Gameboy
Pokemon Satdium - N64
Turok: Rage Wars - N64
Age of Empires - PC
Super Mario 64 - N64
Sonic and Knuckles - Sega Megadrive

I was pretty much born into gaming (Thanks to my brother, who is a boss) with the N64 and the Sega Megadrive, and I have loved every bit of it.

 

[krazykidd]

The original Fianal fantasy on the nes . I still got the catridge too! I have played games prior to that ( mario and stuff ) but final fantasy is what made me fall in love with videogames . And i have been a Final fantasy fan ( note i said fan and not fanboy) ever since. Although square is testing my patience , i shall remain loyal out of past respect i had for them.

 

[Tom_green_day]

My PSP. Medieval Resurrection and the Monster Hunter games, along with SW Battlefront 2 and a bit of Locoroco on the side

 

[Hagi]

Always really liked games, can't remember the game that really started that. I remember playing Commander Keen a lot when I was very young, that might've been it.

Morrowind took it to another level though, never before played any game nearly as much as I played that.

 

[Living Contradiction]

Heh. I was intrigued by video games when I met my godfather's Intellivision (gods, I'm old) and I followed them at a distance, playing and continuing to be intrigued, until a Commodore 64 arrived when I was nine and a copy of M.U.L.E. found its way into my hot little hands.

From there, I was lost in pixelated wonder. I've looked back from time to time and wondered what might have happened had I not been so enamoured by games. Then I shrug my shoulders and turn back to the screen.

 

[blackrave]

Depends
If you mean first games then those were Tetris and Contra on NES
If you mean game that interested me into gaming than it was Dune2:Battle for Arrakis
If you mean first games that got me emotionally invested in gaming then those were C&C:Tiberian Sun and Neverwinter Nights
If you mean first game I got lost in and loved to death then it was The Elder Scrolls 3 : Morrowind
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Look, it's complicated.

 

[Fuzzed]

Super Techmo Bowl for the NES (in your face Madden!). Still play that game till this very day. Ya. pretty sad.

 

[Nero18]

My first real game was Super Mario World or Final Fight on SNES, dont remember which was the first. But the games that really got me interested in video games and realize gaming could be something deep were RE2 and MGS1. The PSOne really hooked me to gaming.

 

[Grimjo16]

Pokemon Sliver Version is what did it for me.

 

[HardkorSB]

Look back and find the game that made you realize you truly wanted more of the medium.

I used to have an Atari 2600 and my friend had a Commodore 64 and we used to play Pong, International Karate etc. It was fun but nothing special.
After that, my other friend got a NES and I got a taste of Contra. That was it, I think. It's still one of my favourites and still one of the best 2D shooters, I think.