what game got you into gaming

[Filiecs]

Half life 2. The first game I ever played for real, and the last time I was ignorant about the gaming world.
That experience was freaking amazing.

 

[ResonanceGames]

Looks like my post voodooed away for some reason.

The game that got me into gaming was Star Wars: Rebel Assault. It was a shitty rail shooter, but I thought it was super cool at the time.

Later, DF: Jedi Knight sold me on the FPS genre, and Half-Life, Baldur's Gate and Thief convinced me that gaming was worth doing as a hobby.

 

[gizunt]

The original Duke Nukem series, the 2D ones. they were great....

 

[David Bjur]

Super Mario Advance was the one that cursed me.

 

[Saw767]

Four games: Banjo Kazooie on N64, Goldeneye on N64, Spyro The Dragon for PS1, and Red Alert 2 on PC.

I was never more enthusiastic about a game since those, somehow the first you play are always the best, I only hope that some new game will one day prove me wrong.

 

[Erttheking]

Good ol Super Mario RPG, back on the Super Nintendo.

 

[Virmire]

Pokemon Gold, first game I ever owned. Oddly, my strategy hasn't changed. Over-train one pokemon until it is abobut 20 levels higher then everything else, and then tank everything.

 

[lRookiel]

The original age of empires converted me to gaming.

<spoiler=Just for lulz>

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Space Invaders.

My dad had to tear me away from it when I was 4 or 5. His friend gave him the Atari 2600 I was playing it on. Never looked back!

 

[winter2]

H.E.R.O. on the venerable Commodore 64.

 

[Knusper]

The first serious game that I wasn't borrowing off my big brother was Rome Total War. I guess it's that.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I think it was either Super Mario Land 2 or Super Mario World that got me into gaming as whole.

I know for one thing is that it was C&C Red Alert had gotten me into RTS and Unreal Tournament that got me into FPS.

 

[Rikkano]

Jak and Daxter, the Precourser Legacy. That is the earliest memory I have of gaming.

 

[thedevildancer]

Honestly I don't know, I've been playing games since I was 1 year old...
But the first games I remember loving and playing over and over are Sonic The Hedgehog and Jazz Jackrabbit, 10 points if you didn't have to google Jazz Jackrabbit.

i love you jazz jackrabbit was the shit i remember playing it co-op on a single keyboard and pushing my brother away and taking everything

 

[KiloFox]

well the first games i played were Legend Of Zelda: Link to the Past on the SNES (which i've been told is one of the best) and Pokemon Blue and Yellow. but what got me INTO gaming was years later, when my friend played Phantasy Star Episodes 1&2 Online on the GameCube with me... a game i still play to this day, though less on the GameCube and more on the PC where i can actually play online and it's free...

 

[kayisking]

I guess I'm one of the more recent ones. KotOR was the thing that got me into gaming.

 

[targren]

Parsec (TI/99)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCSQd0eJKQQ

 

[JasonKaotic]

You'll see it to your left - Final Fantasy VIII. Which remains my favourite game to date. Yeeahh.

 

[Kopikatsu]

The first two games I ever played were Pac-Man and Galaga. Galaga was my favorite, though.

Not sure which I played first. Probably Pac-Man. It was closer to the door.

Edit: Everyone in this thread makes me feel old.

 

[ryanthemadman]

age of empires 2 and the ratchet and clank games