What game got you into gaming?

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maddness666

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My dad used to game. And it was either watching him play Baldur's Gate or Age of Empires that got me into it. I would hover at his elbow watching until he offered to set up his old computer so I could have a go.

We did have an Atari before that but it was definitely those two that got me into gaming.

Now I sit in my parents house and play vieo games for most of the day and idly browse the internet the rest. My dad no doubt regrets setting up his old computer.
 

Techno Squidgy

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First games I ever got really into was the original Rayman and the original Crash Bandicoot. However, what got me into multiplayer gaming in a big way was Timesplitters 2. Day of Defeat: Source then sparked my love affair with PC and online gaming, and CoD4 turned me into a competitive player.
 

mitchell271

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Super Mario Bros. Deluxe for GBC. It included the original SMB (plus a save feature), the japanese version of SMB2 and a race minigame where you race against Boo. Love that game so much.
[sub][sub][sub]Still haven't been SMB2 though...[/sub][/sub][/sub]
 

fwiffo

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The Bard's Tale (1985) on an apple IIc. Good old black and yellow screen. Good times.
 

TitanAtlas

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Oh god... i remember playing old games from arcades and such, but the one that strucked into my memory will always be Sonic and Rocket Knight for the Mega Drive...

Those made made me a gamer :D
 

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I did have some great fun playing Alex Kidd and the original Sonic the Hedgehog on the state-of-the-art Sega console on display in the little book/toy shop at my hometown's tiny, crappy shopping mall, but the first game I ever wanted to actually own, was Super Mario World on the glorious SNES. Which I first encountered in the toy shop at Oslo City, an enormous shopping mall in Oslo. (Yeah. Nintendo in the capital, Sega in the boonies. Go figure.)

Super Mario World was one awesome game, all right - I ended up playing it almost until the PS2 came out!
 

Rooster893

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I grew up on the N64/PlayStation, but the two games that REALLY got me into gaming were Super Smash Bros. Melee and Sonic Adventure 2 Battle on the GameCube.
 

DrunkPickle

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I didn't "enter" into gaming, I was "born" into gaming. I grew up playing games, and I never stopped to think that there was another world out there. Games were all I knew.

Although, with each day, I find that I'm less and less interested...
 

Chanel Tompkins

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Probably a combination of Pokemon and Dragon Warrior Monsters. I got both of them around the same time, loved both of them to death.
 

iLazy

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I'm pretty sure it was Super Mario on the NES. If not that, then probably GTA: San Andreas. I had all the cheats memorized. My brother was quite impressed.
 

imperialwar

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well I'm about to show my age, although I'm not really that old :p
the game that I first played a lot of was a game on my commodore 64 when I was 13.
It was a game called Wizball. You controlled a wizards magical creation to collect icons that gave it power ups, like when you first spawned you would be bouncing in huge leaps, then you got a power up to reduce that, then to be able to fly properly. After A starting stage of like 10power ups each life you got into the real stuff of killing waves of enemies. One of the power up you could get was your cat minions creation that could collect coloured droplets from certain enemies. And that was the whole plot of the game, to add colour back to the world. After you filled you couldren with the appropriate colour you played a bonus stage, where if you cleared you could make you power ups permanant, so each life you started off a bit better.
It was also the first game where I clocked the score.
I loved that tape, thats right a casset tape of games. It had 6 games on it.
 

JCBFGD

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Half-Life. My dad let me run around on empty multiplayer maps when I was three. I eventually moved on to singleplayer, further solidifying my love of games.
 

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DoPo said:
Hmm, while I had been fan of gaming (Mortal Kombat/Tekken mostly but other titles as well) the first game I consider got me into it was Delta Force and Blood 2. Delta Force was the first game I watches somebody play in LAN and also the first with really detailed and awesome graphics I had never before seen[footnote]Yes, I know I laugh at it now. I've laughed at it before, too[/footnote] and Blood 2: The Chosen was the first game I played[footnote]as I said, there were others before but I only used them as toys not viewed them as part of "gaming". For example Solitaire doesn't count as "gaming" to me.[/footnote] on a PC. And Quake 3 was the first game I played over LAN with a friend of mine.

Well, that is really about PC gaming, if I have to be correct Super Mario Bros was the first real video game I played back when I was...I don't know but very young. Probably 5-6 years old.
Oh trust me, it happens to the best of us. When I first put in MGS3, I thought to myself, 'It doesn't get much better than that'
 

omglazorspewpew

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I dont think a single game got me into gaming. I kind of grew up with it. I was born in '85 and have a brother that is 10 years older than me. By the time I was old enough to understand how to work a controller there was already a NES in my home with Super Mario/Duck Hunt, Ninja Gaiden plus whatever other games my brother would swap with his friends. Back then I didn't know what was considered a good or a bad game, I just played whatever was in front of me and if it sucked I just assumed there was something I was missing and not the games fault

I think gaming is what got me into building stuff or being handy in connecting things together to make it work. My brother would make me hook up the NES all the time since my hands were smaller and could move behind the TV easier....then I just got really good at it.