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Bubble Bobble on the C64 :)

The First Metroid. We had a shop nearby with a NES and the multi cartridge switcher. There was Zelda, Super Mario and all the rest. But Metroid always caught my attention. To this day I think metroidvanias are my fav genre.

Super Mario Bros. from the famicom

Sonic Heroes

Oh wow, this takes me back. I've thought video games were cool since the first time I saw a Space Invades arcade cabinet when I was like 4. But the game that got me really into video games? I dunno. It was either Donkey Kong or Ms Pac-Man.

Yes, I'm old. Yes, I've been playing video games since the 70s. No, I'm not particularly good at them. But ask me whatever I guess 😁

Super Mario Land on the Nintendo Gameboy, and Lemmings on PC/DOS.

Dangerous Dave.

Final Fantasy

Pong.

Myst.

Boulder Dash on a Commodore 64 connected to a 20 inch CRT television in the living room of my grandmother, I guess around 1985 or so...

Fallout 4.

I started Fallout 4, instantly loved it, and got the initial few quests done and made my way into the open world. There were also side quests asking for help and stuff though. I thought to myself - let's knock out the small stuff so I can get the hang of this.

400 hours later I was basically fighting deathclaws with a high XP character and had barely completed past diamond City I think.

I didn't realize the side quests never stop and I'm an idiot but I was having fun anyway. I eventually looked up why I had to do so many and realized my issue. Finished the game shortly after because I had a maxed out character basically for beginner missions.

Carmageddon, it was the first 3d game I had played and I spent all my time at my grandparents house playing it. I still regard it as one of the best games ever made.

Super Mario Bros got me in. It was my older sister's game, so it was just something we had around the house for as long as I can remember. I think that's a great first game to get into, because it has wonderful art and music, and simple, straightforward challenges to overcome.

On the flip side, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain got me out of gaming for the most part. I had never been more excited for something than by the story being painted by the trailers leading up to the game's release. I was already a big time MGS fan, and I'd say I still am. I even enjoyed MGS5 basically right up until the moment I beat it, and then I reflected on everything I just saw and felt utterly deceived. Empty open world, lots if time wasting interstitial moments, grind-based mechanics, and an unfinished story that didn't need to take as long as it did to tell (and was stupid, too).

As far as multiplayer games, I'd have to say Descent, the original one from 1994. I actually had a copy of the game years before I even had a PC capable of playing it at anything over 3FPS LOL!

Once I did finally upgrade to a decent PC, we held LAN parties at my place and we had an absolute blast!

Oddly enough, I can honestly say I've never played any games over the internet though. For me it's either single player games, or LAN party whenever we would play multiplayer.

Pitfall on Atari

Word rescue by 3D Realms, and maths rescue. Can still get them on steam!

Sonic the Hedgehog

First game was Safari Race on a Sega SC-3000. After that mainly played PC games when they were a thing and had a 1st gen Gameboy.

I gave up on games and tried to adult through my 20s... but after a bad breakup I bought an Xbox-360 and Skyrim and it's been a hobby ever since.

Pokemon Platinum

first game I got into was Pokemon Blue, but Guild Wars is what turned me into a gamer

Super mario bros

Kingdom Hearts II

That game is the reason the X button stopped working on my PS2 controller when I was like 4 or 5

Couldn't give you the exact game that got me hooked, but I have been playing for pretty much my whole life. Earliest I can recall that could have gotten me hooked is either Yoshi's Story on n64 or some edutainment PC game where in one part you were moving pirate objects like a pyramid of cannon balls and other stuff away to clear a stone room.

Otherwise it could have been plenty of other games like some ps1 Egypt pharaoh themed game that was something like tetris or something similar.

Watched my dad play kings quest 2 when I was a kid.

Wolfenstein 3D. I had played other games before but this one blew my mind and made me a gamer for life.

Asteriods, Atari 2600

Age of Empires 2 on my parent's crappy old laptop.

Probably going to date myself a bit here

Doom 2, I played Doom before it and it was really fun but Doom 2 just stuck it claws in me and I was hooked.

Dragon Warrior on NES is what really got me hooked. I'd played games on Atari but Dragon Warrior was my first introduction to rpgs. I'm glad the franchise is still going strong. Have slime magnets on my fridge.

Pokémon Blue on a used Gameboy color when I was like 8. All downhill from there.

Portal. I have terrible FPS skills but love puzzle games. Having a FPS where I could proceed at my own pace and wasn’t constantly letting down teammates let me develop the skills needed to actually play.

Minecraft Demo version on my grandpa's iPad. It blew my little 5 year old mind.

While there was a bunch I played before it, Quake 2 and the rabbit hole of mods for it, were what really got me hooked. Really loving the remaster that just launched and what that is bringing to the mod community that is still going strong to this day.

I was first blown away with SimCity 4. My uncle had a pretty decent computer for the time, which could properly run it and I spent hours loving it. My nephew had RTC2 which we played for days on end, the first game I played through at home was Age of Mythology. I guess it shows where my love for strategy/simulation games comes from.

My parents got me my first video game when I was 3 years old called Ready for Math with Pooh. I still remember some of the games!

I played games before, but my first obsession was Pokemon Blue, Diablo and 2 got me stuck into RPGs, and Halo CE got me into shooters.

I had a Sega Pico and a PS1 so early I can’t really remember. I was maybe 5/6, idk. But it wasn’t like today : I had to plug and unplug the console everytime I wanted to play, so I wasn’t playing a lot at all. Then I got a Game Boy Color and boi, game was on.

I’m from 1995.

Pokemon Blue that I got from a girl my mom babysat. But I think really getting into the hobby would be minecraft when I started hosting servers for my friends in middle school. I owe my career to that game.

Monuments of Mars and later Command & Conquer were the two biggest.

Sid Meier's Civilisation. Got me hooked like what I imagine crack cocaine and meth would do to you.