The game that got you into gaming

[AgentLampshade]

I guess it would be Metal Gear Solid 3. That's the game that made me step back and start thinking about the medium seriously (before that I was just playing because escapism.)

Captcha: old codger. Nope, that was MGS4.

 

[snappydog]

I had a few Pokémon games on my GBA that I guess were the first I owned, but the game that made me a gamer was...

Kingdom Hearts.

Yup. Seems a weird one, but up until then I'd been playing stuff like the Harry Potter games on my GBA, things like film tie-ins and stuff related to other things I was into at the time. Then I got a PS2, and the first game I got for it was, at the recommendation of my friend, Kingdom Hearts. From that moment on, I was not just somebody who played games, I became a gamer.

 

[WhiteTigerShiro]

N/a

As far back as I can remember, my family always had one gaming machine or another in the house, all the way back to the TI-99 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A], the first video game console I ever played. So gaming just kinda always was, for me.

 

[EHKOS]

Crash Bandicoot was the first game I ever played, and my dad liked playing it too, so that helped because that game is fucking hard as balls at points. (Looking at you Sunset Vista gem) And I suppose Pokemon Blue hammered it home. I still remember playing it for the first time during a garage sale my family was having, it was rainy and I got stuck in a Metapod Vs. Metapod battle because my starter had fainted.

 

[Tdoodle]

Sonic 2, used to play that with my friend all the time when we went to the childminder's after school.

 

[corneth]

If we're including flash games, it was probably playing a crappy flash ripoff of breaker when I was like 4. If we're not, Braid was the first actual game that I sought out, bought with my own money, and played. Seriously, I haven't been in this scene that long

EDIT: I remember that I had the original Harry Potter games for PC before that

 

[uchytjes]

The game that introduced me to gaming: Metal gear solid. It hooked me as a kid and I can still play it today.

Game that actually got me INTO gaming: Minecraft. It came around at the perfect time. I was a sophomore or junior in high school, not really doing anything, getting bored of gaming because nothing seemed to be good anymore. Then, I found a flash by the name of Minecraft Pals on newgrounds. I watched and thought to myself: "you can build stuff? anything you want? sweet." So I went and played the free version, having no idea what the hell I was doing. I then tried the multiplayer and learned some building styles. After that, it all snowballed into what I am today.

 

[Orphillius]

I probably started playing games when I was 4-5 and got a gameboy color with Pokemon Silver. That game was my life. Only time I've ever legitimately trained a pokemon to level 100 was that Feraligator. I've still got the game somewhere on my desk.

 

[Dead Seerius]

My cousins owned an SNES before I even knew what video games were. I remember playing Super Mario Bros. 3 for the first time and immediately getting hooked.

What really sealed the deal though would be Pokemon Yellow Version, the first game I ever actually owned. Didn't hurt that Pokemon was also the biggest thing ever among my schoolmates at the time.

 

[SeQuest]

Tamagotchi, absolutely loved it when i was a little kid.

 

[Skeggers]

Midtown Madness 2 from 2000 was the first game I ever installed onto my family PC and I became obsessed with it, even though I was pretty young I managed to get through a good chunk of that game. Fun times.

That and Theme Park World.

 

[Proeliator]

Buck Bumble. It's about a bee with a gun that shoots stuff.....plus it had a horrible but ridiculously catchy title screen theme song that you could never get out of your head. Ah the good old days, but I think the game after that solidified me into gaming was Pokemon.

You don't mean...


OT:
Well, For me I'd guess it'd be Ocarina of time, Golden Eye, and maybe a couple other N64 games. Before that I remember playing POD on 95/98 and Jet Fighter III, but it really wasn't till Battlefield Vietnam and Halo that I thought, "Games can really be awesome. I want to play more."

 

[Nightmare-Child]

Mega Man X on the SNES.

 

[BrotherRool]

I like to think it was FFX, but in retrospect it was more likely Pokemon Yellow

 

[Akytalusia]

adventure, for the atari 2600. none of my other siblings cared much for it, but i saw great potential in that game. it was from that point i looked forward to the future of gaming.

 

[shrekfan246]

Sonic The Hedgehog. As soon as I heard Green Hill Zone blasting away, I knew I'd be hooked.


Who knows what would've happened had I never played that?

Damn ninjas. Stole my song and everything.

There's usually a few more Sonic answers in these threads, though...

OT: Yeah, it was kinda a combination for me too. I played the original three Sonic games on the Genesis to death from a very young age, and then my family got a Nintendo 64 and I got a Gameboy Pocket and there was a trifecta of Banjo-Kazooie, Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer, and Pokemon Blue.

Three games in particular always maintained my interest in PC gaming, as well: Star Trek: Birth of the Federation, Star Wars: Dark Forces II - Jedi Knight, and Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Outcast.

 

[Mrkillhappy]

For me it would be between Donkey Kong Land on the original gameboy, Super Mario World, or Sonic the Hedgehog. Mainly because those are some of the earliest games I can remember playing.

 

[enriquetnt]

PONG, yes... im THAT old (i was 4 when they brought the pong machine into the house)

 

[BartyMae]

I can't tell what game specifically, because I started playing at such a young age, (3-4), but it'd be between Age of Empires, Baldur's Gate, Diablo, and Ocarina of Time. Counterstrike, Diablo 2, and Warcraft 3 are what got me into online gaming...and Team Fortress 2 is what got me mostly out of online gaming.