what game got you into gaming

[Kapri]

It was either Link to the Past or Megaman X. Sooooo many hours of my life gone as a kid and I'm not sorry.

 

[Lokithrsourcerer]

hmm it was probably pac-man on this:

shit am i that old!! :-s

although i remember this quite strongly too

 

[wooty]

Sonic the Hedgehog, waaaaaaay back when dinosaurs ruled the earth and no one had ever heard of "loading times".

well except for those unfortunate children who had to play on the commodore 64, amiga and the like.

Was'nt me

But seriously, I know the games were simple things, but you forget how quick they loaded on the early-mid gen consoles. Then the agony of Playstaion/N64 loading times and now the curious nature of console game installation which is a mix of both.

 

[Hopeless_One]

Nintendo.

Or more specifically, Nintendo.

 

[LinwoodElrich]

Starcraft / Pokemon Snap. The latter was the first game me and my brother owned but pretty sure it was the former that we played first / the most

 

[ScoobyDizzle]

Alex The Kidd in Miracle World came built into a Master System II, those were the days

 

[LSPena]

Pink Panther Passport to Peril and some other adventure games (like Full Throttle) I also played lots of games on my old SNES, mainly F-Zero, StarFox and Stunt Race FX.

Half Life 2 was my gaming renaissance.

 

[Rathinosk]

I was first exposed to video games when I got to play 'Tennis' (Pong) on a Coleco Telstar Alpha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleco_Telstar) in 1977. I've pretty much been playing some game or another since then, far too many titles to count easily.

A handful of my favorite games from the 'really old days':

Space Invaders (1978 - Arcade)
Adventure (1979 - Atari 2600)
Pac-Man (1980 - Arcade)
Galaga (1981 - Arcade)
Ultima II (1982 - Apple II)
Ultima III (1983 - PC)
King's Quest (1984 - PC)
The Bard's Tale (1984 - PC)
Gauntlet (1985 - Arcade)
Starflight (1986 - PC)

 

[Gmans uncle]

GENERIC SOUNDING RESPONSE INCOMING!

Eeyup, me too.

 

[thelustyargoniandude]

Super Mario Advance for the Gameboy Advance. Got it back in '05 as a holidays gift. I loved it, but I was so bad at it, I mostly watched my dad play it for me. I eventually got good enough at it to have dad watch me play. From then on gaming has been my favorite pastime.

 

[TheGreatKlaid]

Sonic and Quackshot. it's what we had when I was growing up and my dad played games too. Pokemon started my gaming as a hobby.

 

[soes757]

I remember play Ocarina of Time, or watching someone play it (I was like 3) but for me it was getting my first Gameboy, the Pokemon games got me into games in a strange way, they also made me read way better.

 

[Sir Rammington Steel]

That various kirby games from the game boy to the super nintendo. Those are the games that really got me off the ground.

 

[razor343]

It may or may not have been duck hunt. As far as I can remember it was my first ever video game, but the one I spent playing a lot as a child and hence used to get myself into gaming was Yoshi's Island for the SNES. Super Mario All Stars, Bomberman (2?) and one of the Sailor Moon games helped a tonne too.

 

[Composer]

Harvest moon 64!

 

[CroutonsOfDeath]

 

[Foxpack1]

007 Nightfire, still has better multiplayer than COD.

 

[Fodder Aplenty]

it was so long ago i can't remember exactly. i think it was either pokemon blue or spyro 2

 

[Rule Britannia]

RAYMAN. long time ago though

 

[darkmushroomm]

My earliest memories of playing games to death were Crash Team Racing and Rayman 1.