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When I was a teen and my music taste was really developing in earnest, I played Guitar Hero World Tour. So many songs in that game lodged themselves in my already rock-leaning taste and really pushed me further.
Trapped Under Ice by Metallica got me into old trash, and cemented Ride the Lightning as my favorite Metallica album. Pull Me Under by Dream Theater and Parabola by Tool gateway'd me into prog and helped give me a respect for technicality in music and motivated me to play more difficult music later in life. Lazy Eye by Silversun Pickups got me into shoegaze. Assassin was my first Muse song and got me hard into that band.
Some Might Say introduced me to Oasis, Scream Aim Fire by Bullet for my Valentine pushed me into thrash as well, but when I discovered they were also a hybrid of metalcore that would later help get me into metalcore once I was nearing the end of high school and I got over my prejudice about metalcore being "all 0 notes with yelling guys".
And that game also really cemented me in learning the bass guitar, which I still enjoy very much to this day and has allowed me to meet some of the best people in my life through playing shows and being in bands. I have my dad to thank for planting the seeds of hard rock and playing an instrument, but Guitar Hero World Tour acted as a gateway to so much more musical development for me.