what game got you into gaming

[Adeptus Aspartem]

Ahjeah, and how could i forget Tetris and Super Mario World 1+2 on my old gameboy. Which i still have this day and age.. though i guess that thing probably wont work anymore.

Gotta check that this week :> Maybe my Poke Red still has the old savegames.

 

[2xDouble]

Yars Revenge. I got to be a giant space bug and that ate lasers and spit acid. After that, video games had my attention.

 

[thiosk]

Original Metroid!

Super metroid, incidentally, made it about serious business.

 

[Nazulu]

It didn't take me much to get into gaming, Labyrinth on the Mac (our first ever computer) was my first game. Spectre, Descent, Myst and You Don't Know Jack extended my interests into gaming like entering a new world. And Super Metroid was the first game I fell in love with, so much so that now I'm making my own games and hope to compete and entertain like Super Metroid.

 

[limping beaver]

Super Mario Land on the Gameboy.
Never realised how short it was until I actually beat it, but I still love it to hell.

As did I

 

[chinangel]

Super Mario Brothers

 

[Vigormortis]

A good question, to be sure, but my answer depends on the specifics.

First game I was "introduced" to? Pong.

First game that showed me the fun of video gaming? Super Mario Bros.

First game that truly hooked me on gaming and started my addiction? Half-Life

I was mildly into gaming through most of the last 80's and early 90's. Pong was the start with the old faux-wood tv box from the 70's. SMB was the start of my early console years, when I started to learn how fun games were and how much better they were with friends. However, it wasn't until Half-Life came along that I realized two things. First, the depth and variety available in PC gaming. Second, just how incredible video gaming could be.

So in a way, I had three major "firsts" in gaming.

 

[AlexLoxate]

Some Atari 2600 games which I can't recall. I remember that it was a privilege just to watch my cousin play it, let alone play it myself. Shitty times.

 

[General Tharivol]

Pokemon Red Version. That game pretty much taught me how to read as a child.

 

[Conza]

For me it was Super Mario All Stars. I played them all, as it contained a package of several games together, and I believe the actual game that I first started learning on was called Super Mario World.

 

[Yoshemo]

Good ol' PacMan

 

[tmande2nd]

Age of Empires 1.

WOLOOOLOOO!!!!!!!!

 

[JdaS]

Tekken 3.

For reference I'm 21 and until I was 9 my days consisted of playing outside with other kids.

Thank the PS1 for saving me from that load of bullshit, right? Am I right guys?

It's still a very fine platformer, and Stewart Copeland's score imbued it with a kind of timeless quality.

Ironically I once won a bicycle in a raffle. I sold it and bought Spyro 2 with the money. Imagine my face when I found out that the drummer for The Police did the soundtrack.

 

[Mugen Weston]

Sonic the Hedgehog on the good old Sega Mega Drive

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

Well, I played the classic NES games first, you know, Mario, Super Mario. Zelda, etc. However the first game that really got me going was Doom for the PC.

 

[Ranthus]

I remember playing lots of games as far back as I can remember.
I can't really say just one of them got me into it, so I'll list all of them.
-Zombies Ate My Neighbors
-Sonic 2
-Super Mario 64
-Super Smash Bros.
-The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
-The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
-FF7 (kind of)

Diablo 2 and Counter-Strike aided in bringing me over to PC gaming, but it's actually TF2 that made me switch to mostly PC.

 

[Jaeger_CDN]

Since I'm an old fart, the first game that hooked me and my 2 brothers on gaming was Questron on the Commodore 64 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Questron]. It was the one and only game my dad ever bought for us.

We played it so much that we started to wear out the old 5.25" floppy discs and it stopped saving. Just meant that me and the brothers had to do marathon sessions playing from start to finish without a save.

 

[DRes82]

First Zelda back in '86 really sealed the deal for me. I wore my NES out playing it and Adventure of Link. Continued on in the '90s with Link to the Past. The best Zelda ever released, imo.

so...yeah, Zelda. I'm old.

 

[Riggsby101]

Croc: Legend of the Gobos.....many, many moons ago

 

[Fleetfiend]

No, I don't believe that is a stupid thing to ask. Mainly because my first game, as with most peoples' first games, are what got them into gaming, because that's what a first game is: an introduction.

Anyways, Spyro: the Dragon was mine. To this day I still play and love that game, and most of the rest of the main franchise, up until A Hero's Tail. That one was okay, but it kind of ruined it for me.