Games that got you into gaming?

[Talshere]

My Sega Master System and my NES. Also, Mario is Missing and Disc World for the mac where you played a cartoony weird wizard, back in the days when your choices for a PC were dos or windows 3.1

 

[moonlantern]

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is the first game I can remember playing.

 

[oranger]

The original final fantasy, when it first came to Canada. It was sooo different from anything I'd come across before. It made TV and movies look like a waste of time.
I think I was 4-5 at the time.

 

[Snake Plissken]

The original Ultima for C64. My parents had it when I was very young, and they were having a competition with the couple who lived in the apartment next door to see who could finish it first. I also remember liking the original Defender of the Crown for the NES. It was the only NES game my dad loved to play, and I remember it fondly. I kept it and put it in a frame for him to hang on his wall. My mom and I used to play Bubble Bobble all day sometimes, which is my favorite NES game by far. I guess I was lucky enough to be born right in the middle of the arcade explosion and birth of GOOD console gaming (1985), and my parents were about 20 or so when they had me. As much as they hate to admit it, the fact that they were the game nerds of their generation turned me into a game nerd of my generation.

My parents are fucking rad.

 

[SonOfStayPuft]

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 -_-

Same here.

I got a triple game cartridge that came with the NES and it had Super Mario Bros, Duck Hunt and Nintendo World Cup on and although I had played a mates Atari 2600, it was the NES that opened my eyes to gaming.

It would be about 21 years later when Gears Of War was released that I played a game that stands out alongside the first time I heard the Super Mario theme.

 

[OceanRunner]

The Sonic The Hedgehog games on Mega Drive got me started.

 

[Aeriath]

Altered Beast is what I remember from my Sega Mega Drive. Damn that game was awesome. I never had a PC until some time in the period 1999-2002 so I never grew up on PC games, but I think I still got a nice dose of gaming goodness from my consoles.

 

[Atmos Duality]

-AD&D Treasure of Tarmin for the Intellivision (an Atari competitor)
-The Legend of Zelda
-Metroid

Though my "glorious gaming years" didn't really start until the SNES era.

 

[helldragonX]

Metroid, for the Nintendo. I had like 40 games for that system, but that if the only one I can remember really.

 

[Palademon]

Dude, even I played SNES as a kid, and it wasn't new, I'm 16. But I really can't remember. I liked games for ages but mostly as a child watched my brother play and maybe join in on multiplayer. My first console was a preowned PS1. Good games, but the controller kept me from getting a PS2 (plus my brother got it so there was no point). After I got an Xbox, then a Wii and 360. Sadly, Nintendo was my favourite company, but the first console that wasn't handheld that I got from them was the Wii (probably the worst console). I didn't need consoles before then sicne my brother had them.

 

[fozzy360]

The game that introduced to me gaming was Donkey Kong 64, which still stands as some of most fun times I've ever had in a game. However, it was Halo: Combat Evolved that turned me into a hardcore gamer.

 

[theminiarkana]

Sonic the Hedgehog for the Megadrive when I was but a wee one. Then the Megaman games, as well as other NES titles.
That's where it all began.

 

[zombiestrangler]

It was either Quake 2 or Crash Bandicoot that really got me into it. Or Pokemon, it was a long time ago and I have a shitty memory.

 

[The Funslinger]

when I was really little, I got into gaming from the original Sonic the Hedgehog, and then a few years later I started playing the first Crash Bandicoot. Ugh, I really feel old... I'm only fifteen, but then just old enough to have gotten into gaming really young and still fondly remember the classics. I'm one of those people that will fight the new generation of gamers when they say the classics suck. You have to have grown up with something from the 90s at latest to have an opinion on gaming. Otherwise you're no better than the kids spamming xbox live and everything else like it.(I'm so glad I wasn't born a little later or got into gaming after the year 2000 or I'd be one of them)

After Crash Bandicoot I resurged with pokemon yellow, went on gaming from there.

 

[Guykild]

I used to have a Batman game for my Amstrad as a child - this took away hours of my free time. Overall Phantasy Star Online has been my biggest pull into gaming. How can repeating the same 4 levels be so addictive?

 

[MonocleClaire]

For my 9th birthday, my mother got me a GBASP and Pokemon Ruby.

-casts gaze over to 360, Wii, DSLite, SP and many, many games-

I'm sure she regrets it.

 

[Unrulyhandbag]

Chuckie egg (blech)
repton (Hardly anyone knows about it when mentioned it but it was pretty cool)
and elite (still play it now and then)

 

[blankedboy]

Well, for 4 and a half years I didn't have many games other than Trackmania and a 100-shareware-games thingy, so I suppose them.

 

[Burningsok]

super mario bros. would be one. Oh WCW vs. NWO on the N64. Yes I played a pro wrestling game, and yes it was awesome. The game that made me fall in love with rpg's was Morrowind.