What got you into gaming?

[War Penguin]

I actually didn't start gaming until I was about 10. I have, however, had been exposed to it since I was 5 or so and have been fascinated since. It all started with Myst. My dad got it on our old PC and it was really interesting to see how it worked. Then a year later, my downstairs neighbor invited me to play Golden Eye. I sucked but I had the time of my life. Then my parents sort of cut me off from gaming. I wasn't allowed to play any games at all. I was, however, allowed to see my friends play, and see gaming magazines. Cutting me off from gaming made me want to know even more. Then finally, at age 10, I got my first Gameboy and the rest is history.

So to answer your question OP, it wasn't really a specific game that got me into gaming, it was the lack of gaming that got me into gaming. Weird, right?

 

[crazyfoxdemon]

My mom bought me a gameboy when I finished Kindergarden... And so changed the rest of my life...

 

[Slaanax]

Watching my father playing games.

 

[dangitall]

My little brother's Gameboy.

 

[catalyst8]

I saw Atari Lunar Lander in the upstairs gallery of my local swimming pool & was mesmerized by it.

 

[Blueruler182]

Halo CE. My little brother was insanely into it so I played it with him. Found it pretty fun. Then my dad and a bunch of his friends started doing lan parties with it. FANTASTIC!!!!

 

[Lalalarzi]

pokemon gold, also when I moved to a co-ed school I ended up hanging out with the computer geek crowd

 

[traineesword]

i think it was a game about Taz, "the Tazmanian Devil" for a sega console... to be fair to me, i am only 17, and the doom series swept waaay over my age limit. But yeah, i really liked that game, i played it when i was very young... about 3, maybe 4 (alongside the other sonic games for sega).
But that game really is my earliest memory of playing a video game, and i think i've been playing them ever since. (oh, and a 2player one concerning Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse (my strongest memory of that game being that on 2 player, Donald got his bum stuck in a crawl-through passage, and Mickey would have to push him through)

 

[Dyme]

Warcraft1, Z, Command&Conquer were my first games. RTS, and I was like 5 years old. First things I could write were cheats for Warcraft and my name. I beat Z without cheats though.
Half Life and Counterstrike were first ego shooters. Gothic1 and 2 were the first RPGs I played.
Tetris and Soccer games for SNES.

 

[Anaklusmos]

Would have to be Sonic, the only game my mum or dad would play with my brother, I felt left out, I joined in the fun, and here I am today.

 

[Digitaldreamer7]

SMB on SNES, I had nintendo power. I enjoyed computer games such as the oregon trail and number munchers, but the first PC game that sucked me in was X-com ufo defense

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INB4 use the search button

 

[MercurySteam]

My original Xbox and my PC I downloaded games for

 

[Enagan]

Believe it or not it was Gran Turismo 1 on the PS1..
I played the hell out of it when I was 8.

That was the one that got me fired up, but the one that chained me forever to gaming was Final Fantasy IX later on

 

[Mr Thin]

Well, first it was watching my dad play Wolfenstein 3D, back when I was just a small child, and occasionally he'd let me play for a bit.

But the game that really got me was either Mario Kart 64 or LoZ: Ocarina of Time. Did those games ever kick ass.

 

[murkybizzare]

T'was the dear old Nintendo 64. My bro got it around the launch date in 97/98 (?), and I was 5. Super Mario 64, and watching the bro playing LoZ: Ocarina over his shoulder launched my gaming career. Nearly 5 years later, Morrowind birthed my preference for RPGS.

 

[ThePurpleStuff]

I started out my gaming, if you could call Mario Paint a game, on SNES when I was only 3, then when I was 6, I played NES over at a friends house with the first Zelda game. But, I never really started gaming till I played and finished Ocarina of Time at 8 years old, since then I've branched out and played games on all different consoles. I've had a good time with games in my life.

 

[Artina89]

My dad brought home a SNES when I was 2 or 3 and we spent many happy hours playing Super Mario kart. Thank you dad