The video game that got you into gaming

[Stealthygamer]

Pokemon Stadium

 

[Eric Hislop]

Duke nukem 3D
and
age of empires

Wow now thinking about it when i was 6 or 7 giving money to pixelated dancers seems wrong. Man my brother was cool letting me play on his computer

 

[TehCookie]

I don't know what game got me into gaming, what got me into it was my parents putting a controller in my hands before I could walk or talk. If anything I could say all the 2 player games since at that age I couldn't beat any on my own and loved playing with my big brother. Though the first single player game I remember loving was Duke Nukem. My parents were not very happy with my choice.

 

[9Darksoul6]

Jesus... uuuh... I think it was Wings of Fury for the ZX Spectrum.

sorry but whats a spectrum?

Fuck... I'm old...

What the hell is that thing. Looks like some kind of keyboard, wat.

It is! You'd plug it into your TV, and then play the games, which came on audio cassetes. It was AWESOME!!!

... back in 1985...

And you had to wait a week to load the damn thing... :|

 

[liquidsolid]

My first game was Pokemon Yellow Version, which started my gaming career. I first played Mortal Kombat on Playstation which inspired me to get a Playstation for myself. Got one for Xmas and recieved my first Playstation game that skyrocketed me into gaming as a hobby:

Spyro The Dragon

 

[InfectedStar]

STAR WARS: Shadow of the Empire for the N64 first game I'd ever played in my life and sucked at it pathetically but none the less it did open my eyes to video gaming.

 

[Gus Hauser]

my mom started me playing Super Mario Bros. 3 and I got hooked
been gaming ever since

 

[deshorty]

Liero or Red Alert 2. They were the only things that my computer could play at the time.

 

[AgDr_ODST]

my first game was Super Mario on the NES but the game that actually got me into gaming was the FPS OG Goldeneye on the Nintendo 64

 

[praygon]

Final fantasy 7 got me into gameing . I rember my older brother playing it when i was 6 i used to just watch him play it and i was fasinated since then iv played it throught about 6 times great game...shame about the majority of the fan base but never the less great game.

 

[orlandu4ever]

I've been playing video games for about 25 years now but living in a place where my gaming selection was limited to the desires of a high school football star meant that all i had to play were sports titles and fighting games.

It wasn't until 1998 when i was introduced (thanks to my best friend) to Final Fantasy Tactics, to this date my favorite game and the one that transformed me from a casual gamer that knew more about Madden and NBA Live than he wanted into an RTS and RPG fanatic.

 

[figday]

skifree and reversi... the year they came out.
yeah im old :3

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

Crash Bandicoot, Spyro and Twisted Metal.

And yes, I literally am giddy for the new Twisted Metal

 

[Flaming Narwhal]

Playing Super Mario Bros. 2 in the hot-ass summer of 1999 when I was four years old with my older brother. It was something he and I could compete in that didn't break anything, so mom couldn't mad when we broke something

Then Earthbound came along and that sealed everything. O, Earthbound, I love you so.

 

[Black-6]

Pong on the Atari 2600...

Yes I am old.

 

[Xan174]

I remember seeing Total Annihilation at a friend's house when I was 8 or 9, and just being mesmerised. Still one of the best game soundtracks I've ever heard, and the game has held up pretty well. Obviously I was too young to worry about occasional pathfinding issues (which they still hadn't fixed by Supreme Commander!) and dodgy A.I.

I also sunk an obscene amount of time into Pokemon Red on the Game Boy Colour.

 

[Killing_Time]

A master piece platformer, it had everything, jumping, boss fights racing levels, side scrolling sections and even a bit of third person shooting.

This.

 

[orangeapples]

Lots of stuff on our old Apple II, but I do not remember what they were... I just know we had a big book of floppy discs...