what game got you into gaming
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It wasn't so much the game, but the NES that got me introduced to gaming. Along with the Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt game, a arcade TMNT game, and a football game that took place between '96-'98 cause the Cleveland football team was named the Crunchies since Art had taken the Browns to Baltimore, I got my first taste of gaming then.
Pokemon helped me get into handheld gaming, and Silver launched me into the Gameboy Color years...but the game that got me hooked has to be Paper Mario. Not playing it, cause I only got to experience it from the spectator's chair at a friend/neighbor's house. But wanting to play it, my parents got me and my sister the Gamecube, and from then on I've been a gamer. From Luigi's Mansion starting it off, to me now owning almost 200 games across multiple systems, and the last game I recently (re)played (starting my 3rd play through) being Deus Ex:HR, if it wasn't for that desire to play Paper Mario, I don't think I would have had the push to get the system and find my love of gaming
Pokemon helped me get into handheld gaming, and Silver launched me into the Gameboy Color years...but the game that got me hooked has to be Paper Mario. Not playing it, cause I only got to experience it from the spectator's chair at a friend/neighbor's house. But wanting to play it, my parents got me and my sister the Gamecube, and from then on I've been a gamer. From Luigi's Mansion starting it off, to me now owning almost 200 games across multiple systems, and the last game I recently (re)played (starting my 3rd play through) being Deus Ex:HR, if it wasn't for that desire to play Paper Mario, I don't think I would have had the push to get the system and find my love of gaming
I'd played PC games before, but the game that made me get a console so I could actively get and play new games as opposed to just the ones my Dad already had was Final Fantasy VII. It coincided with the right age for me to know it was something I wanted to actively pursue.
1st game that got me excited about gaming was Ultima: Exodus for the NES or the "Famicom" for you older individuals.
1st game that really got me into visuals and PC gaming was EF2000 and when I say PC I mean DOS... made me giggle when I wiki searched it and saw the PC specs needed at the time.
apparently they made a version 2.0 after a few years that was compatible with win 95 and 98
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EF2000_(video_game)
On a side note I have to say that was my first experience with DOS when I was a kid, god it took forever to figure out how to make a boot disk for that damn game.
1st game that really got me into visuals and PC gaming was EF2000 and when I say PC I mean DOS... made me giggle when I wiki searched it and saw the PC specs needed at the time.
apparently they made a version 2.0 after a few years that was compatible with win 95 and 98
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EF2000_(video_game)
On a side note I have to say that was my first experience with DOS when I was a kid, god it took forever to figure out how to make a boot disk for that damn game.
I didn't actually become a proper gamer until I played Pokemon Diamond when I was 17. I played video games before that but I never really enjoyed them.
it would be a little hard for me to say the exact game but i have fond memories of final doom, tomb raider 2 and crash bandicoot 2 wrath of cortex
Whilst I've played games since the Atari 2600, I was never really "into" them tbh. It was Gran Turismo 3 that I bought on a whim that really got me into gaming. It gave me proof that spending time on a game and having the ability to save and get rewards from extended periods of play that made me realise my time spent having fun was worthwhile. It also allowed me better value from the game and all the other games I'd managed to literally just complete the story..