Games that got you into gaming?

[mohosuru]

mario bros/duck hunt is where I started.(age 5) also, Mike Tyson's Punchout. from there I moved to sonic the hedgehog on sega and it has gone on from there -_-

 

[C95J]

MARIO! For the Game Boy Colour!

Although I don't play Mario anymore...

 

[CitySquirrel]

Rogue. I used to play that game for hours at a time. (stupid rattlesnakes)

Edit: Oh, I forgot! Also Protostar.

 

[Katherine Cortner]

Ocarina of time and the Jak 2

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Grandia single-handedly got me to love RPGs the first time I played it on a demo disc.

Before that, I actually went outside to "play".

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I think another relevant question is what keeps you gaming.

To answer the first question, it was my Dad's NES and the combo-cartridge Duck Hunt/ Super Mario Brothers. I also couldn't get enough of Dr. Mario.

Games which have kept me into gaming over the years:

Spoiler: SNES

*Legend of the Mystical Ninja
*Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest
*Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time
*Star Fox
*F-Zero
*Super Mario Cart
*Biker Mice from Mars

Spoiler: Sega Genesis

*Golden Axe
*Sonic the Hedgehog 1-Knuckles
*Comic Zone
*Road Rash

Spoiler: Game Boy - Nintendo DSi

*Pokemon

Spoiler: Playstation

*Twisted Metal
*Final Fantasy VII
*Final Fantasy VIII
*Final Fantasy IX
*Metal Gear Solid

Spoiler: PS2

*Grand Theft Auto 3...
*...and Vice City...
*...and San Andreas
*Star Wars Battlefront II
*Kingdom Hearts
*Dance Dance Revolution
*Guitar Hero 2

Spoiler: Xbox

*Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
*Star Wars: The Sith Lords
*Halo
*Halo 2
*Fable
*Voodoo Vince
*Whacked
*Dance Dance Revolution: Ultra-mix

Spoiler: Xbox 360

*Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
*Fallout 3
*Halo 3
*Halo: Reach
*Mass Effect
*Mass Effect 2
*Left 4 Dead
*Fable 2
*Dead Rising

Spoiler: PS3

*Just Cause 2
*Batman: Arkham Asylum

 

[syndicated44]

My parents bought an NES back in when it first came out and got Mario and Tetris. So thats what got me into gaming. As time went on we got a mac in 95/96 where I was introduced to Marathon and Descent. After that we moved to a new house and when we got it someone left a commodore 64 with 3 boxes worth of floppies. I dabbled in a bunch of silly text based adventure games and when a family friend moved in with us they brought a Windows PC. I ended up playing Quest for Glory 5 and Homeworld. With Homeworld I was shown online multiplayer and was shown just how amazing the internet was. The player base was so small that it was like a small town and everyone knew eachother. Guilds were also shown to me but I never really got into them to much however I still proudly wear my DSD clan tag (nostalgia rocks).

Oh yea somewhere in there I got a N64 (forgot about that haha).

 

[Maintied]

First game that I got into was Pokémon Red on a red gameboy and my sister had Pokémon Blue on a blue gameboy. That was the first game that I really played and got into gaming. The time I spent "grinding" to get levels to beat the Elite Four was just silly. Years pasts with no noticable change to gaming then Diablo 1 was brought in which was my favourate game. After that came Diablo 2 and the expantion. That is where I truley found online gaming and RPG's. Best game in my opinion. Now following that trend of grinding and RPG's and onling gaming; I, ofcouse, play WoW.

 

[Teh_Dave]

Chip and Dale rescue rangers on the NES, can't remember what age I was but it definitely planted the seed. I think pokemon red and Mario 64 sealed the deal.

 

[demoman_chaos]

Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Genesis.

 

[SantoUno]

For me it was a game made by Brøderbund in 1990 called Prince of Persia. When I was 7 years old.
C:\
cd games
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Then it was Blues Brothers, 1991.

I never had a console. And good is that. If I had joined with the other kids to play whatever Nintendo had cooked up, I might've never gotten to play games like Civilization. The PC has always been the one spot for intelligent games.

Oh what, so consoles never had any intelligent games?

I started out on my brother's NES with dozens of games, but the ones that stand out were Super Mario Bros. 1 and 3, Silver Surfer, Rollerblades, Wizards and Warriors 1 and 2, Double Dragon II, and many more awesome ones that I forgot.

 

[deckai]

Either Warlords(1989), Dig Dug or Zelda II, if i had to decide, i would say Warlords, since it was the game I enjoyed most.

 

[icame]

Well my parents had a N64 and Mario 64, so i had a good start.

 

[Mighty Lighty]

A couple of games on the megadrive round at my babysitters house when I was 3/4

toejam and earl
sonic 1,2,3 and knuckles
B.O.B
streets of rage
golden axe
batman
the avengers

 

[Slangeveld]

Age of Empires, Then later Savage to get me in to online gaming.

 

[Delock]

[sub][sub][sub] Sonic the Hedgehog [/sub][/sub][/sub] on the GameGear
Anyways, the first game I really played exclusively (I used to switch between Tetris and Battleship on the gameboy when I was bored) was Pokemon Blue. Yes, that's right, my first big game was Pokemon.

 

[Blackmagic1515]

Duck Hunt was first I believe. Then moved onto Spyro the Dragon and some Mario and Sonic. Spyro is still the best though.

 

[Quillbell]

Ocarina of Time and pokemon silver. I remember getting an N64 and a GBC one christmas and playing nothing but those two games for weeks.