A Game that Changed Your Life

[thatstheguy]

Back in the 90's, my sister had been wanting to get a Nintendo 64 because her friend had a Playstation. Eventually, she got one. Though she preferred to watch people play them instead of actually playing them. I on the other hand, enjoyed playing these games, and the very first game I ever played was Super Mario 64. I was flabbergasted! I spent hours exhausting every possibility, reading through the manual hoping to find a hidden clue, and just loving every second of this game. It may not be the best game I've ever played (don't worry, it's up in my top 10 (hey, I just thought of another forum idea)), but was this game alone that got me into gaming.

So I ask of you, what game impacted your life (either as a gamer or as an average person), what was your first game, what was your first system, or even what game you still enjoy playing to this day?

 

[Say Anything]

I believe my first game was Super Mario Bros. for the NES, but the game that turned me into a gamer was Diddy Kong Racing, the first game I ever got for my shiny N64. Surprising thing is, I was about 6 or 7 and had never heard about the N64 until my Dad just brought one home in a new box from work one day. Wasn't anyone's birthday or a holiday or anything, he just got it.

 

[Dr. Crowbar]

Rampage.. When I realized that destroying things for no apparent reason was the most fun you could have with your clothes on.

 

[Cahlee]

Aladdin on SEGA Megadrive! It was the first game I ever beat my brother at ><

 

[Unmannedperson]

Civilization 4. Sooooooo many hours wasted to that game. And I actually learned some useful stuff through the Civilopedia.

In before WoW...

 

[Xojins]

Rampage.. When I realized that destroying things for no apparent reason was the most fun you could have with your clothes on.

I LOVED playing Rampage. I'm surprised I didn't break my Playstation by playing it so much.

For me, it was Crash Team Racing. It was fun (infinitely better than Mario Kart, in my opinion), and it was the first game at which I was better than all my friends.

 

[Flap Jack452]

Goldeneye on the N64, such a good game. Also Super Mario 64

 

[black lincon]

Tales of Symphonia was one of the first non-platformer games I played, and due to its sheer amount of awesome I started to play games other than Mario, so not a life changer but a game habits changer.

 

[MagnetoHydroDynamics]

LoZ: OoT.

Made me a gamer.

 

[stompy]

Donkey Kong for the SNES was the first game that I got hooked on, and made me a full-fledged gamer. That said, it was Halo that introduced me to the FPS genre, Brothers in Arms that got me interested in History, and The Orange Box that got me interested in PC gaming.

 

[FURY_007]

Battletoads and super mario bros. were my first gaming fixes,followed by doom and the quake series, then mariokart 64 and goldeneye turned me into a fullfledged gamer, and the rest, so they say, is history

 

[Warbear]

LoZ: OoT.

Made me a gamer.

Ditto.

 

[Antiparticle]

The game my life has centered around most is DOOM. I first played it at a nephew's house back in 1994 or so, got it on my PC at home soon thereafter, and then played it almost daily for years. Ah, wonderful times. These days I don't play it so much anymore, but I think still not a month goes by without me playing it (or DOOM II / Final DOOM) at least for one level. I've played it so much for so long that it has become more than a game to me, it's almost a different world I keep going back to. Videogames for me are divided in two categories: "DOOMs" and "other". It's just that awesome. I have DOOM games for the SNES, GBA, N64, Xbox, Xbox 360, source ports and early versions on the PC, I have strategy guides, the four DOOM novels (bad as they are), books about editing DOOM, CDs with thousands of .wad files etc. Well. I just really like DOOM!

 

[Alvandera]

LoZ: OoT.

Made me a gamer.

Ditto.

Same here.

 

[scatmanfan]

I believe my first game was Super Mario Bros. for the NES, but the game that turned me into a gamer was Diddy Kong Racing, the first game I ever got for my shiny N64. Surprising thing is, I was about 6 or 7 and had never heard about the N64 until my Dad just brought one home in a new box from work one day. Wasn't anyone's birthday or a holiday or anything, he just got it.

Same here. Got it for my birthday (surprise from uncle ed!) and was addicted ever since. That and Wave Race 64. The only game on N64 besides Starfox where you can make a fat guy do a barrel roll. And when the instructor says "Do a Barrel Roll," it even sounds kind of like Peppy.

 

[blaze338]

Starfox 64 for the N64 was the big one for me, i played this constantly every day and that was what got me into gaming

 

[Dogeman5]

No More Heroes

 

[SimuLord]

SimCity on the SNES. After spending the first four years of my console-gaming life on a steady diet of NES classics, namely sports games and platformers, the very gaming concept of a city-builder absolutely blew my mind. I'd never seen anything like it in the 15 years I'd been on the planet to that point and I sought out simulations, builders, and the like.

After two years or so of playing games like Aerobiz, SimCity, and Pilotwings, a girlfriend gave me a couple of floppy disks and a photocopied page from a manual and said "put this on your computer. You'll love it." The game? Sid Meier's Civilization. I was in PC gamer's heaven.

 

[Graustein]

Two games spring to mind.

Numero uno would be Civilization II. This is the first game I can remember playing (no joke) consistantly, and it really made me into a gamer.

Number the second would be Age of Mythology. It spurred my interest in mythology to great heights, and I have spent many a day reading the massive mythological omnibus I have.

 

[Shurikens and Lightning]

The old Pokemon games GBA, and Crazy Taxi.