What game got you into gaming?

[octafish]

The first game that really "popped" for me and became obsession would be that great open world sand-box masterpiece of fighting and stealing, Sid Meier's Pirates! on the C=64.

Do you know when the treasure fleet arrives in Caracas in 1660?

Winter Olympics on the Atari was what got me into gaming. nothing like a stick figure getting to the bottom of the stick slalom to be eaten by a snow monster.

Wasn't that SkiFree? And didn't Winter Olympics for the 2600 get cancelled? Or did you mean Winter Games?

Or even Skiiing by Activision? No yeti in that though.

 

[Darren716]

It wasn't really a game but a show that got me into gaming,in late 2008 my friend told me to start watching the AVGN which led me to start vising screwattack which ultimatley plunged me into the internet and the modern gaming scene as a whole seeing as before hand I didn't have a clue what was going one when me and my friends started getting into gaming around 2003 or so. Two games I do still remember and play from my early days before getting iinto the internet gaming scene was Starwars Battlefront and Battlefront 2.

 

[RedDeadFred]

F-Zero Racing on the SNES or Duke Nukem 3D on PC.

 

[Agayek]

Depends on how you define "into gaming". The first game I ever played and fell in love with was the original Doom, way back when, but it belonged to a friend of mine and, my parents being Mac addicts, I didn't have a functional computer. The first game I ever owned and really lost myself in was either Ocarina of Time, Banjo Kazooie, or Super Mario 64. I got all three and an N64 at the same time as a present and I honestly can't remember which one I got absorbed in first.

 

[samaugsch]

I think I was introduced after playing Super Mario World on the NES. I also enjoyed Tetris Attack, Donkey Kong Country, and Donkey Kong Country 2 as a kid.

 

[EmperorSubcutaneous]

It depends on your definition of "gaming."

Riven is what got me really interested in games in the first place. I'd always been more into books when I was a kid, because I thought video games were just violent, ugly-looking, and uninspiring "guy" stuff, like Mortal Kombat.

I was 11 when Riven came out. My dad picked it up, since he enjoyed Myst, and I became obsessed with watching him play it. I was too much of an idiot to be able to contribute to his playing, but I couldn't get enough of the world it was set in. It's the whole reason I started worldbuilding and conlanging, which have been favorite hobbies of mine ever since.

I didn't get into games in a serious way until early 2006, when some gamer friends convinced me to start playing Final Fantasy XI. Again, it was the world that I fell in love with. From that point on, encouraged at first by said gamer friends, I became more and more of a gamer myself, though I wouldn't have used that term to describe myself until about a year ago when I moved in with someone who owned an Xbox 360, a PS3, an enormous game library, and a nearly bottomless wallet when it came to Christmas/birthday gifts for me. At that point I could begin to experience a wider variety of games than I'd had access to previously and feel like I qualified as a "gamer."

So yeah, Riven in 1997 and then FFXI in 2006.

Of course, I'm still more into artsy, puzzle-y, exploration-based games than anything else, and generally on the PC just because it always seems to work out that way.

 

[BathorysGraveland]

Some old Monsters. Inc game. I remember my older cousin playing it on his playstation and I more or less took it over and enjoyed the hell out of it. So I guess that would be the game that truly got me into gaming. However, I haven't touched a console properly in years, so for PC gaming it would be Powerslide. I played that game to death when I was younger.

 

[targren]

I started gaming when I was 7 years old with Atari, Commodore 64 and TI-99/4A. Then later on with Nintendo, Sega Genesis. PC gaming started heavily around 1991 for me.

Another old fart here.

Parsec [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZgFAgmJkiE]

 

[Zenomorph]

The very first video game I ever played was actually when I was about 5 maybe 6 and it was Mechwarrior 3 on my dads computer and I was surprisingly very good at it.

 

[Laser Priest]

This ************.

This was my primary source of entertainment for a long time. Hell, I had this and a few other handheld games long before I ever got a computer game or a console.

 

[Mike Richards]

I was 11 when Riven came out. My dad picked it up, since he enjoyed Myst, and I became obsessed with watching him play it. I was too much of an idiot to be able to contribute to his playing, but I couldn't get enough of the world it was set in. It's the whole reason I started worldbuilding and conlanging, which have been favorite hobbies of mine ever since.

Basically this, but I was eight and it was the original a few years after it had come out. We would play it together since I usually didn't make much headway on the puzzles, they weren't really what I was there for after all. Some days I would fire it up on my own just to walk around the island, or go into the library and read all the journals, wasn't like anything I had seen before.

After that Metroid Prime came out and that's pretty much when everything exploded.

 

[Strain42]

I honestly couldn't tell you. One of the earliest games I remember playing was Super Mario Brothers for the SNES.

But one game I would be utterly remiss if I didn't mention was Pokemon: Blue Version. I can honestly say I would probably be a very different person if Pokemon had never entered my life.

 

[Elvis Starburst]

Jet Force Gemini. I remember playing co-op on it with my brother all the time, while struggling in the really flipping big single player mode XD

 

[mechalynx]

and

 

[ImperialSunlight]

The first game I ever played was on my Dad's Turbografix, Bonk's Revenge. Also a few scrolling shooters that I can't remember the names of. One was Dead Moon.

The first game I owned and played myself was Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Closely followed by Super Mario 64, Pokemon Stadium, Pokemon Red/Blue, Banjo Kazooie/tooie, Super Smash Brothers, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, Diddy Kong Racing, Ocarina of time... good times.

 

[Slvrwolfen]

I can't remember the titles anymore, but watching friends play some games for NES and SNES probably helped. What I owned first myself though, was Croc: Legend of the Gobbos, Ridge Racer and ESPN Extreme Games for the PSX. From there my trip began and ever since I've just discovered more and more.

 

[Gennadios]

My cousin was the first person in my family to get a computer and my introduction was watching him play Quest for Glory and Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures on his IBM pc, those were also the two games I inherited from him when I got a PC of my own.

 

[Ljs1121]

Well, I was a bit of a sheltered child, and, as such, my first experiences with gaming were educational computer games such as JumpStart and Cluefinders. However, the first proper video game I remember ever playing was Goldeneye 64.

 

[Lucem712]

Well, I was a bit of a sheltered child, and, as such, my first experiences with gaming were educational computer games such as JumpStart and Cluefinders. However, the first proper video game I remember ever playing was Goldeneye 64.

I think that's the first Golden Eye I've seen, forgot how awesome that game was. So, kudos to you, mate!