I blame this game for my social life crippling game addiction

[Eclectic Dreck]

The game that started me down the Dark Path was Captain Skyhawk, an NES game. I also suspect that game was partly responsible for my decision to join the armed forces 13 years later. The game that ensured I would forever be doomed to play games was Doom, or rather the shareware version of Doom.

Of course, my social life isn't crippled as a result. I can still talk to people and whatnot, make new and interesting friends and navigate the murky waters of many a social occassion.

 

[Dectomax]

Army men 3D I remember getting all my mates round to hammer that on split screen versus...The memories

 

[Ascarus]

the only game i allowed to interrupt my life at times was WoW. missing the gym or skipping out on engagements with my friends in lieu of playing a game was a new experience for me. it's one of the reasons i quit.

other than that, i feel i am pretty good at managing my gaming hobby around my life.

 

[Harlemura]

Crash Bandicoot 2. I sucked at the first one and always saw my dad doing well and thought "I wanna be like that". Then the breeze of a sequel comes out and I assume it's just as hard as the first, making me think I was really good.
To prove how good I was, I'd just play it all the time. I'd get up early to play it before school and it'd be the first thing I'd do when I got home.

Fuck you Naughty Dog. My life could've been so much more! Ah well, off to play Team Fortress 2.

 

[Free Thinker]

It was a combination of 2. Super Mario 64 and Pokemon Red. Between completeing Super Mario 64 100% at age 6, I dominated the school yard with my pokemon because I spent the time to get them all to lvl 100 without the Missingno glitch. Good times.

 

[The Amazing Tea Alligator]

Hercules: Action Game. Incidentally, the first game I ever owned.

Hol-ee shit I think I remember that.

 

[CovertCell]

Grand Theft Auto 3 would certainly be up there. But Morrowind is a close second.

 

[Sejvos]

Street Fighter on Snes.

 

[Skoldpadda]

Probably Mystic Quest on the gameboy. I think it was called differently in other regions, I believe it bore the Final Fantasy moniker, whilst actually taking place in the Secret of Mana universe, it had a city called Wendel y'see, and a tree of Mana. No wait, it also had a chocobo. With mechanical legs.

Anyway, I was 10 (I think) and absolutely obsessed with the thing. First game that did that to me. I just wanted to see how it all ended, and that's still how I play games. To see how it ends. Endings are important to me. And that game had a great one, in my youthful eyes.

 

[Sundavar]

Probably Pokemon Blue.

 

[kwagamon]

Mine was Final Fantasy VII. I also blame FF7 for warping my then-young mind because most of the subject matter was a little too mature for a seven-year-old kid. Seriously, by the time I beat that game, I was an eight-year-old (I got the game a short time before my birthday) swearing like a sailor who thought that people getting run through/jumping off cliffs/suffering total loss of mental control due to radiation/running around an office building slaughtering everyone in sight was all perfectly fine for someone my age. Curse you, FF7! But don't get me wrong, I still love the game to this day and I'm a mostly functioning human being now.

 

[Danman1]

The Wind Waker. Or maybe The Hobbit. The Christmas I got a Gamecube was the best one of my life.

 

[deus-ex-machina]

Parasol Stars on the Game Boy, then Donkey Kong Country on the SNES in terms of TV stealing consoles. I got my first TV when I was 5 or 6 so I could play games on my own TV.

 

[Vrach]

So what started it all for you? Not the first game you played, but the first game that you played that pushed you into becoming a gamer.

Mine is for sure Legend of Zelda OOT.

Oh God, too many. Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Commandos, those were my earliest "real" games that I can think of in the "gamer" sense.

Oldest game I can remember playing was Frogger, or maybe it was Sonic on my Sega, not sure on the chronology, but that's more fucking around than gaming for me, no offense to those games, they were awesome and I loved them, but there's a sort of a difference, at least for me, between those and "real" games. Real's probably a bad word, but can't think of a more suitable one.

 

[decaying dead]

its a tie...
NES megamans and MarioRPG. My god i couldn't stop playing those games

 

[Ensiferum]

Wow, that would have to be waaaaay back when I first started playing video games at like age 3. I guess it started with games like Commander Keen that I'd play on my dad's computer at his work.

Then there was the NES, and even though I didn't own one myself, just about all of my friends did. I think my favorite game on there had to be TMNT 3; The Manhattan Project. I've always been a huge fan of the turtles and that game had everything I loved about them, including the radical music brah!

 

[Vhite]

Diablo 2 or Vice City.

 

[Serioli]

I wouldn't go so far as saying my gaming is a crippling, social life destroying addiction but the game that started it all for me was jet-pac on the ZX-spectrum. Before I'd played arcade game clones but jet pac was a little different.

You held a key to power your pac and releasing it let you drop instead of the usual up/down/left/right. (EDIT: to clarify this meant you did a hovering/fluttery thing to move left and right instead of going in straight lines)
This meant there was some 'minor physics engine' stuff going on with the flying.
Mission objectives were randomly generated (dropped from different parts of the screen) instead of being laid out for all to see at the start.
I was young and impressionable and didn't know what I was doing (Jerry).

 

[Wolfram23]

I first became interested in gaming on the NES. I watched my sisters play a lot of Super Mario Bros. I really got into gaming on the SNES tho. But the first game I can recall sinking hours and hours and hours into is either Duke Nukem 3D or Starcraft - I'm sure I played SC more but DN3D was first and I did play it a lot. I mostly played after school and still had a social life, games were just if I had nothing else to do (or as a way to not do homework). The first and only game to really hurt my social life was WoW. Kinda just fell into it, it was a fun and amazing game and I didn't realise how it was hurting my real life... played that stupid game for years too, although for the last year or two I definitely had it more under control...

Nowadays, I game at most 3 hours a day... usually I can't start gaming till about 9 or even 10 and I have to go to bed by 11 or 11:30 since I wake up for work at 7 so... yeah. I'd probably game more if I didn't live with my girlfriend lol. She's not much of a gamer (although we've beat several MW2 Spec Ops on Regular together )

 

[AugustFall]

Pokemon, so much time and first RPG.