what game got you into gaming

[Bravo 21]

Without a question it would be Stronghold: Crusader, got it from a friend when I was less than 10, and racked up way to many hours playing that game, now that I look back on it, I realize, ``I was really shitty at tactics at a young age`` now i`m a little better, and i`m certain that if I were to go back to that game now, i would hand the AI`s their asses, because tactics extend further that just having as many cheap, unarmored units as possible, unless I plan to SLAVE RUSH, with more slaves (armed with only torches, and armored with their immense numbers) than common sense should dictate possible
EDIT: oh, and runescape, me and my friends played to much of that too, thank goodness I was both to young and to broke to get into WoW, or I would have become fused to a computer at all times.

 

[vkola]

NES back in 86 or so.. SMB, Metroid, Zelda, Excite bike, Ice climber.. ahh, the good old days.

 

[Powertool]

MechWarrior 2, I would play so much that in 3rd grade I drew a Summoner/Loki for what I wanted to be when I grow up. When my teacher asked what it was I told her it was a 75 Ton Mech. She asked what I wanted to do with it and I said, "I want to blow up Clan Jade Falcon" Now I am older and I realize that I would need a whole lot more than a single assault class Mech to do that.

 

[remnant_phoenix]

The Legend of Zelda.

Yes, the first one.

I was introduced to video games via Super Mario Bros, but The Legend of Zelda was the game that drew me in and made me a gamer.

 

[aashell13]

the first game i recall playing was some DOS-based adventure thing. you ran around a high school collecting clues for something.

First game I really got into was Novalogic's F-16. my little brother and I used to take turns seeing how long we could go without crashing, nevermind the missions.

 

[Enigma Syndrome]

Oh probably Metroid for the gameboy. Either that or Megaman 2. Later on in the SNES years Super Metroid pretty much cemented that post in forever.

 

[Akimoto]

PC, Jane's Combat Simulation, played it on the atrocious Windows ME Edition.

For Console it was the first Pokemon Red on Game Boy Color

 

[Tselis]

The original Duke Nukem.

 

[Screamarie]

As far back as I can remember there were games in my house. Crappy little computer games, an original nintendo that we still have though never use, my brother had a sega that I had to beg to use, and then of course the original gameboy (Super Mario Land 2!). But the point where I REALLY started to love gaming was with the original Playstation.

See I heard about the PS1, how I can't remember, I don't even remember what it was that drew me too it and made me want it so damn much but for all of december I begged my mother "If you get me anything, get me a playstation." Well I got one...but I don't think I told my mother to get me any games! (I was 9, 10 at the most and an idiot.) So my mother got me some PS1 demo discs that Pizza Hut was Selling at the time.

That's when I fell in LOVE with the Final Fantasy series. One of the discs had a demo for FF8. It ends in a boss battle you can't win and it DROVE ME NUTS! that I couldn't beat it. So that was one of the first games I ever bought for my PS1 and it's what led me to loving all kinds of games. Now with a PS3, 360, Wii, 3DS, and PSP it's safe to say that gaming runs deep. And my parents have never worried that video games are rotting my brain.

 

[Daniel Ferguson]

A mix between Sonic (though I sucked at it), Pokemon (I was better than my brother at least, who just rushed in to everything with the strongest, in every scenario in every game), and Baldur's Gate, which I suddenly want to play again for the 10,000th time.

Followed shortly by Final Fantasy 8. And then 7. Then 4.

 

[zuro64]

While I do remember playing Starcraft and GTA before this, the game that lead me to become a gamer was without dought Battlefield 1942! I loved and still love that game more then any other game!
I will say thought that Halo:CE did give a extra boost to my gamer soul! Maybe thats why the Battlefield and Halo series are my favorites

 

[A Weary Exile]

Duck Hunt was my first game ever, but I think the "Getting me into gaming" trophy goes to Super Mario 64.

 

[Tazzy da Devil]

Sonic 2 was the first game I remember loving, but I didn't really get into gaming until Final Fantasy X.

 

[Lawrence Salcido]

Pokemon Yellow.
Coincidentally, also my first game.
I choose you, Pikachu!
...And Charmander
...And Bulbasaur
...And Squirtle.

 

[thereverend7]

Mega Man 5. (very first game i ever played)

and 1, 2, and 6. (The other ones i had and my favorites, other then 7 and 8 but i wouldn't play until much later)

Mega Man X 1, 2, 3 (and no more after)

There were others but those were the first and the biggest in my memory. From them on, I basically couldn't live without games. Such happy times...

Beg for your life and i'll forgive you, Wily. (Even though you destroyed my city and blamed my brother)

Explode and someone come back to life in the next one, Sigma. (seriously WTF stop coming back to life)

I will never forget the awesomeness i felt as a kid playing those games.

(If it wasn't clear these were not only the first games i played as a kid around 4 and 5, but the ones that made me love games all the way up to my current 20 year old self.)

 

[Insanity72]

I literally cannot remember exactly, i've been gaming pretty much my entire life so it's hard to remember. the only answer i can give is.....probably Crash Bandicoot or Spyro the Dragon

gex: enter the gecko in playstation.
i had played sonic 3, and indeed the first gex on computer (oh, and jazz jackrabbit and duke nukem) but i think enter the gecko is what got me really into it.

Oh my god i remember Gex and Jazz Jackrabbit, it might have been one of those actually...

 

[DrederickTatum]

Although I don't think this is the original soundtrack to the game for some reason.

 

[Sexy Devil]

Jak 2 was what really got me full swing into gaming, but I'd always been playing the bigger brands like Pokemon and Mario before that.

 

[mediarulestheworld]

Ape Escape and Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation on the PSX. Ah, the good old days.

 

[Joe Cobler]

Parsec and Miner 2049er on TI Basic. I was 4. My mom showed me how to use the controllers.