What game got you into gaming?

[Drummie666]

Uh.... First game I ever played, so...

My first memory of gaming is playing Twisted metal 3 with my brother when a friend of ours gave us his PS1 for a few weeks for reasons I can't remember. Fuck that thing was fun. From there, it went on to our Nintendo 64 with Super Smash bros (which is still the greatest fighting game I've ever played).

 

[GasMasksAreForChumps]

I watched my father play Legend of Zelda: Ocraina of Time, and was immediatly enticed by it.Another world than the one I lived in I can explore, filled aplenty with puzzles and imaginative monsters? There was not a reason I shouldn't be interested, especially since I was around 5-6 years old. I later went to play Conker's Bad Fur Day at around 7, and although I did not understand the comedy or allusions/parodies, I enjoyed it immensly as a kid. In fact, it stands as my favorite game to this day,nostalgia included.

 

[lacktheknack]

Myst. It grabbed my attention, puzzled me, angered me, awed me, and scared the ever-loving poo out of me.

Myst games tend to do that... They're all puzzles and exploration with two or three bits of pants-wrecking trauma.

Interestingly, all the other Myst games also had their own honors in my life as well...

Riven was the first game that made me cry, as well as the first game to make me shout with excitement.

Exile was the first game to make me scream (Brad Dourif, you evil evil man), and the first adventure game I completed without getting hints.

Revelations was the first game to make me upgrade my computer, as well as the game that solidified my status as a graphics whore. It looked REALLY good, OK?

Uru is my favorite MMO and my go-to game for how to design a level.

And End of Ages was the first game to make me actually wet myself.

I've played Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Fatal Frame, and Eversion, but it only took a crazy old man scratching a rock with a stick while laughing to put me on edge enough to physically leak. To be fair, THAT LAUGH WAS FROM THE DEEPEST DEPTHS OF HELL.

 

[silent-treatment]

Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt made me in love with gaming, but Donkey Kong Country 2, and Pokemon red/blue/yellow solidified my life long love.

 

[Launcelot111]

The first game I remember loving was the first Kirby's Dream Land for the Gameboy back when I was about 6 or so. I remember the first time I somehow managed to beat Lololo and Lalala at the end of the second level, it felt like the greatest achievement that any person could ever achieve ever (ignoring the fact that there were three more levels)

 

[DeadYorick]

The original Spyro

Ahh memories of amazing platforming, colourful maps, and interesting characters, and then Spyro 2 beating that game 100%.

So many memories of good platformers.

It is unfortunate all Spyro has become now is just a marketing stunt to exploit children. I'm looking at you Skylanders.

 

[thePyro_13]

Dune II. I must have been around 4-5 years old when I was introduced to it. It really opened my mind to the possibilities of video games, and it's been a solid hobby ever since. Hopefully it'll be a career one day too(once I finish my course).

 

[unindexedsearchengine]

My Brother
Due to him i was also "born" into gaming. compared to the other escapists here im quite young i was born in 97' but my bro made sure that i know all the classics and all the noteworthy games that i missed.

but the first game i played myself start to finish with no help what so ever was the original KOTOR.

Best bro i could have ever hoped for

 

[Luap26]

Adums Family for the SNES.

 

[Robert Hilliker]

Galaga and to this day it remains my favorite. Purchased For Game Boy. PS1 and Xbox 360.

 

[Canadish]

I don't even know it's name anymore...

It was some Marvel fighting game, that's all I know. But that laid the ground work for me I think. You had to collect all these coloured gems or something like that.
It was awesome as a kid to just be able to control Wolverine and Spiderman.
Only had it on a rented console.
Funny enough, I don't even like fighting games now...

After that, I only got more serious in my gaming once I got my hands on the original Playstation. Crash Bandicoot, Spyro and the Rugrat games were my childhood.
I think I got 100% on Crash 3, and that was a first for me.
Could never beat Spyro (still haven't caught Nasty Norg to this day...)

Shadow of the Colossus was the first game that really hit me in an emotional way.
(THAT is how you deliver a bittersweet ending my friends!)

Mass Effect 1 got me into RPGs after it blew me away with it's 3rd act, and that pretty much set me on the path of PC gaming.

Really need to get my console fixed so I can play Dragon's Dogma though...

 

[Bansheebot]

Arcade machines, ever since I became tall enough to play on them. But mostly the first Prince of Persia, I believe. Also Super Mario, though I had to go to other kids' houses to play it, never had any consoles myself. Even today I only play games for PC.

 

[Todd24ftw]

Double Dragon on the old Sega. Was my first ever game that I can re-call. I remember spending hours playing with my brother, trying to get past this level which I think we never ended up finishing

 

[malestrithe]

Video game crash of 1983-4.

I know that it was a dark time for the hobby because it almost killed it in the United States. When you are a kid who did not know sh-t about f--k about how the world worked however, it was the best time. Games that were previously 40-50 dollars a piece were now 2-5 dollars, some even less than that. My mom did not see a point in paying 40 dollars a game back then, but she was willing to splurge every payday and got my brother and I 5-7 games a piece for one summer. That got me into gaming and I'e been gaming eversince.

 

[FunGuy155]

I was given my Xbox when I was 10. It was about 2006 and I got into playing Halo 2. My cousin showed me Arby N the chief, I got interested in Halo and I got Halo 3 with a 360 in 2008. After that, well, I never really got much variety of games up till 2011 since I was still in that fanboy phase. But now, I'm ready to get into PC gaming and play me some Skyrim or Human Revolution by the time my exams are over!

 

[Savryc]

It was either C&C or Aliens vs Predator on the Jaguar. Can't remember which I played first of the two.

 

[Deadyawn]

I was a sega kid. Sonic 2 was probably what I first played porperly (I don't really count collumns) and I've stuck with it since.

 

[Scrustle]

Pokemans and Zelda. The first game I ever had of my own was Pokemon Yellow. Shortly after that I got an N64 with a bunch of Pokemon games, and then one day I came across a little game called The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, and the long love affair began.

 

[Mr_spamamam]

Commander Keene and Monkey Island. those were the days

 

[Kindastrange]

Final fantasy . I was born in 1988 , and i was about 3 when my dad got final fantasy on the nes , i used to watch him for HOURS playing that game . I wanted to play but that game was text heavy like all old shool jrpgs . My dad refused to read the game for me , he told me i could play it when i learned to read , by the time i was 4, i could read that gamr and every other game that came out. I could even understand old english ( althought not very well). When i staryed school i could already read better than everyone in my class .P

I have been a jrpg fan ever since , and a final fantasy fan , although square enix is pushing it's luck right now ( r .i. P squaresoft)

That's pretty awesome,

Games got me to the point that my english was really good before i started high school (i'm from the Netherlands, and we only get english when we start high school).

Games that really got me into gaming were basicly everything on de nes. And later the crash bandicoot series on the playstation.

But the one that really got me in to it was Zelda Ocarina of Time on the n64. By the time it came out i was i think 9 years old. And it was the first game i played on the *newer* consoles so to say. I remember pouring hours and hours into that zelda game with a friend of mine.... good times. Since then i've been a real gamer.