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.
What game got you into gaming?
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.EmperorSubcutaneous said:
After that Metroid Prime came out and that's pretty much when everything exploded.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
yea same here...the intellivision (played pitfall on there)...but then the Atari and pitfall 2?Sanguinedragon said:
that's when i did my first all night gaming experience and did not stop till it was done
In retrospect it was fucked up to start in one spot in the game and after hours finish just the level below you at the begining 
International Karate + on the Amiga 500. Great, simple game. Great sound effects as well from memory.
Did have a C64 before that, but can't remember any specific games.
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Did have a C64 before that, but can't remember any specific games.
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All the arcade machines of the early eighties. Gyruss, Defender, Ghosts'n'Goblins, that kind of thing. I spend so much time and so many twenty cent coins in arcades back then. My first real home game obsession was Elite, the Amiga version. And Laser Squad.