What game got you into gaming?

[Elgnirp100]

My first ever game was Pokemon Yellow...
My first ever console game was Spyro: Year of the Dragon...
But what really got me into gaming was my first ever PS2 game: Ratchet and Clank. Such an awesome game (HD Collection FTW!!)

 

[Ruedyn]

The first game I ever played was Pokemon Red, and then a few months after that started my cousin showed me this great game called World of Warcraft. I guess Pokemon got me in, but I don't think I'd be half the nerd I am now without WoW.

 

[Jodah]

Hmm, not sure if it is what got me into gaming but I remember playing this old Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers game on one of those really old dos only PCs. Back before GUIs were common. I could never talk my parents into getting a gaming console or anything but I eventually talked them into getting me a Game Gear and an original Playstation. Fun times those were.

 

[scarecrow350]

I was intoduced to steam via the orange box in 2008
from there on is history

 

[TheOneMavado]

The Adventures of Captain Comic [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Comic]. First game I ever bought...

 

[Lucem712]

So, I'm sure this has been done to death (But not by me, so it doesn't count! >)

Actually no, I've never really seen it done before.

Really? Huh. Awesome!

 

[JaceArveduin]

Honestly? No idea, all I know is I was staying up to 3 AM playing Mario when I was 3 or so.

 

[shurikenshado4]

Definately Tekken 3

 

[KyleXYZ]

Sega Master System with Thunder Blade, Hang-On and Safari Hunt. It was cool, but when my brother brought home an NES with Mario 3, my mind was officially blown. A few weeks later he told me to pack it up, took it away, and returned with a SNES: Mario World was astounding... Then I played Street Fighter II, Darius Twin and Peacekeepers. Good intro, real good introduction.

Shoutouts to OKAMI!!

TL;DR Super Mario Bros. 3

 

[dessertmonkeyjk]

Here for the record is this little guy.

 

[Eldrig]

Ocarina of Time. Although, as a kid, the Redeads freaked the hell out of me.

 

[Mariakko]

I always played demo discs on my older brother's PS when I was around 5 and I had been watching him play since I was around 3. There was one demo disc that I played all the time and I finished the demos on it so many times. I remember it had Spyro and Tombi on it. They were the most amazing games.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

My first real game was the original "Sonic the Hedgehog" on the Mega Drive, thanks to my brother (even though he's a lazy dick).

 

[Lucem712]

I had an original Nintendo. You know, the gray box with the red lettering that looks like it should contain nuclear secrets.

Man, I missed out on that. I had a SNES, with the purple sliders on the top. My brother broke it, though. -_-

 

[Sansha]

Thinking back to the days of playing my first games with my childhood friends. I barely remember all of the, but Jazz Jackrabbit, Commander Keen and Doom, and later Blood, were my first. There were some other titles I can't remember the names of.

Good times. Really good times.

 

[johnboy424]

The first games that I remember playing extensively are Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Goldeneye, Super Smash Bros., and Ocarina of time. However, I wasn't very serious about gaming until this generation.

 

[Magnicon]

We had a system that predated Atari. Some incredibly simple thing with built in games. I sold it a couple years ago and the store owner had no idea what it was, and couldn't find any record of it.

Then I had like 250 Atari games.

First specific game I remember is Final Fantasy 1.

Then I played Descent, and eventually became PC only. (only played consoles after this for Final Fantasy games, and don't do that anymore)

 

[Eamar]

My interest was piqued when I watched a friend playing System Shock 2, some Lara Croft game or other and a Star Trek: Voyager game as a kid. Another friend and I used to play games when I visited her house. I remember KKnD and some educational thing about digging up different dinosaur bones and then bringing the dinosaurs back to life.

Once my family finally got a laptop I spent WAY too long playing Mary King's Riding Star (I was a pre-teen girl who liked ponies, ok?!) My parents really aren't keen on video games, so I couldn't get into real gaming properly until I turned 18 and they stopped having a say in how I spent my money.

The first game I played properly and really got into was WoW, for my sins.

EDIT: I lie, I completely forgot about non-PC games. The first game I played properly was Pokemon Red on a Gameboy Colour borrowed from a friend at primary school. This was such a seminal moment in my life that last year I finally bought both the game and the console for myself

 

[kyle_silver]

For me.. While Halo was the first actual Modern games I played, it was Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth that made me love Video games...

 

[Number-14]

Pepsi man

oh wait let me rephrase that.

PEPSI MAAAAAAAAN !! *hums the theme*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfV8q9rkq0k