what genre of games did you grow up with and what was the first game you played?'

[Guffe]

I come from a Nintendo family and the first game was the Mario vs Donkey Kong game and later it's been main Nintendo 64 stuff like Mario, Zelda, Metroid Prime, Star Fox etc

 

[tombman888]

Super Mario 64... Ahh, god memories... fist game i 100%ed too.

 

[EHKOS]

Crash Bandicoot was my first game, besides platformers I grew up on FPS' too.

 

[littlebunnyfifi]

Fps Wolfenstien.

 

[Syndarr]

I'm surprised there weren't more wee PC gamers. We never had a console growing up, so I played things like Lode Runner, Treasure Mountain, Duke Nukem, Commander Keen, Lemmings, Jazz Jackrabbit, and One Must Fall: 2097. Watching Youtube vids of those games makes me very nostalgic. However, the game that first defined me as a "gamer" was Ocarina of Time.

Yessss OMF! I have some great memories associated with that game. And most of the others in that list, too. *high-five*

I grew up on Sierra and LucasArts adventure games: King's Quest, Quest for Glory, Space Quest, Police Quest, Monkey Island, Loom, etc. Oh yeah, and Oregon Trail. I remember playing some simple kiddy puzzle-ish game when I was very young--hell if I can remember what it was called--and also Burger Time, but I think the game that actually marked the beginning of my life as a gamer was King's Quest IV.

 

[Electrogecko]

Platformers and adventure games. I think that's the reason I hate brown/gray "realistic" games so much, I see no imagination or fun behind them. give me banjo-kazooie any day. I'd rather play as a bear with a bird in his backpack collecting puzzle pieces to fight an evil witch and save his sister with the help of a witchdoctor who can turn him into other animals (when you say it like that is sounds silly) over you are soldier #834765 go kill those guys because they are fighting for a country that is not yours...
I think I started flaming halfway through that and i apologize.

i grew up on N64 platformers, my first being super mario 64. but the one i really liked was banjo kazooie

Banjo-F***ing-Kazooie. I played a few before it, but that was the game that started it all

Platformers. Banjo-Kazooie.

I love Banjo Kazooie, and as great as my childhood memories of playing it are, I believe that Banjo Tooie is the better of the two. If you haven't played the second one, I implore you to either find it if you have a working 64 (good luck with that) or purchase it on XBLA. Only after recently completely beating the first one within 10 hours did I realize how astronomically bigger and more difficult the sequel is. Your arsenal of new abilities is larger in Tooie, even though you start with all your moves from the first game, and the ability to separate Banjo and Kazooie provides many complicated puzzles that wouldn't be possible in the first. The worlds are many times bigger than those in the original and can be traveled across through teleporters, and the castle hub world was replace with a large, open, and populated overworld.

I honestly believe that Banjo-Tooie is in the top 5 best experiences you will get on your 360. I absolutely cannot recommend it enough. PLEEAASE give it a try if you have not already.


As for me, I realize that virtually all my earliest video game memories (I've really been playing games for longer than I can remember) are of 2d platformers. Megaman X, DKC, DKC2, Kirby Superstar, Mario All-Stars and World, and even a few movie titles like the Lion King, Aladin, and the Pagemaster, (I'm relatively sure that all 3 of these were good games....but I haven't played them in a looong time) all for the SNES.

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

Command & Conquer. I don't mean RTS. I barely played any other RTS. No, i mean every single C&C Westwood ever released. from C&C1 to Renegade (f%&k that game for being the vanguard of westwood's demise) I did literally grew up with GDI and the Allies; Nod and the Soviets.

After they killed Westwood, I boycotted EA games for 3 years. And i came this close to punching my best friend in the face when he told me he liked Red Alert 3. As if that racist, sexist, humorless garbage can be "liked".
Too bad Petroglyph's games didn't turn out that good.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Platformers, and Spyro the Dragon. Fucking best game ever.

 

[Weaver]

My first game was super mario bros on the NES.
Grew up with consoles and PC. Love strategy, shumps, platformers, puzzle, adventure (REAL adventure), etc.

 

[mParadox]

FPS's. Delta Force being my first. That was good time. End to an awesome 90's era.

 

[mythstoorfoot]

When I was really young, like 5 or so, we had a Sega Genesis. I vividly remember playing a Lion King side-scrolling game, and Ecco the dolphin! Oh my did that game terrify me.

Then I started playing RTS on the PC, because my dad would play all these cool games and I couldn't wait until he would get off so I could try them. The first PC game I ever played was Age of Empires, and then Civilization II. I think I was about 7. Shortly afterwards we got Escape from Monkey Island... and then the first Tomb Raider game.

EPIC CHILDHOOD!

 

[InnerRebellion]

My first game was some Spiderman game for the Gameboy color. After that, I mainly played RPGs like Pokemon.

 

[blankedboy]

Platformers. Duh.

 

[Volafortis]

RTS and RPG

Also of note are FPS, Adventure, and Platformers

First two games: Warcraft 2 and Escape Velocity

 

[Aurgelmir]

for me i grew up playing rpgs and loved them basically inspired me to do the things i do now. The first game i can remember playing was final fantasy 8 when i was 6 and only just got FF7 to play. So what about you guys?

You youngling

My first game must have been some Space Invaders type game on the Commondore Vic 20.

The genere I grew up with though was the Adventure games of the 90s, then later I moved over to RPGs

 

[kingcom]

First game I played was Commander Keen, grew up playing RPGs and RTSs

 

[Ironman126]

I grew up with flight simulators and Real Time Strategy. My first game was "Star Wars: X-Wing." I was four-year-old.

 

[Jaidenator]

Spyro and Crash Bandicoot.soooo Platformer?

 

[Ddgafd]

I grew up with platformers mostly. First one I ever played was Super Mario 64, but it wasn't my own console. Later on I got a PS2 and the first thing I played on that was Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex.