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[Azure J]

In my case, the first games I played were the reason for me investing into the hobby.

 

[Bowler]

Shinobi ~ mastersystem

Sword of vermillion ~ Genesis Sega does what Nintendon't

Strider ~ Genesis

SSS

 

[Sponge]

 

[Edwards_Omatic]

Spoiler

I always played Oddjob, come at me

 

[Monty Mole]

 

[Goldenmoney]

 

[Edwards_Omatic]

this

and this

You did good kid, real good.

 

[Darmik]

This was the first and only game I had for several months. I was thrown in the deep end but kept wanting more. I've been playing games ever since!

 

[That1BlackGuy]

Don't think it was necessarily one game but Gameboy Pocket's catalog (i.e. Pokemon, FFA, BAT, etc.) was my first console so those games.

 

[RangerX]

Creatures on the commodroe 64 i loved that game asa kid.

 

[jimi_dini]

 

[Ahmed360]

Donkey Kong Country, oh the memories :*)

 

[Green Yoshi]

At the age of eleven I played Super Mario 64 at a mall and after that I really wanted a N64. Played Gameboy, SNES and Genesis before when I visited relatives, but I wasn't that interested in video games. The kids I grew up with weren't that interested in video games either because we were always playing outside.

 

[disastermouse]

As a little kid, it was Pitfall II (Colecovision version). I actually did a perfect run (every time you got killed on Pitfall II, you lost points as you ghosted back to a nearby start area).

As a not-so-little-kid, it was Dragon Warrior on NES.

Also, the guy who posted screens of Sword of Vermillion and Stryder - OMG, nostalgia!

 

[Zaki2407]

It's funny that I don,t remember certain game which made me a gamer. It started back at the NES era in the 80s and it just flows until now. ^_^

 

[kami_sama]

Pokemon Gold. It was the first game I've ever owned.

 

[Booker Dewitt]

Yep.

 

[hardvibes]

My precious

and then many years later

 

[Steve McQueen]

 

[Daedardus]

Does it have to be a game though? The internet just hooked me on gaming.

 

[Koren]

I truly loved Pong back then. I got a small computer, and enjoyed games I was typing using books & magazines.

I spent an awful lot of time on my first commercial game, Silent Service, but I was sold even before this.

 

[hippobloated]

Surprised Im the first one to say this, I thought it was really common.

SMB and Duck Hunt - yup!

 

[Fezzan]

Grand Theft Auto.
Just something about it made me really like games and I kept on buying more so that I could scratch the same "itch" and now I play them all the time.

 

[Warablo]

 

[nicknick]

 

[nkarafo]

 

[Wyndstryker]

The original mario and zelda 2 were the gateway drugs, this sealed my fate. Took me a year when I was 6 years old to beat it >_>

 

[Roq12]

Phantasy Star, somwhere around 1990.

 

[Baron Von Beans]

The year was around 1988-89. I had gotten a NES when I was about 5 or so, shared present with my older brother. We had always played games, and I sorta remember those. But it wasn't until a family vacation, a couple years later, one where we stopped off at my aunt's house. I remember vividly. Walking through the dimly lit archway, going from humid sticky Pennsylvania air to cool(ish) AC, punctuated with old furniture smell, despite my aunt not being that old at the time. Eyes adjusting, I see my puke of a cousin in law playing Sega Genesis. More specifically, Sonic 1.

Mario? Mari-who? Mari-no?

I was blown away at everything the Sega did. The sound, the graphics. There was a freaking volume slider on the outside of the system!! We played Sonic 1 for what seemed like ages. We'd pass the controller each time someone died, and being kids and totally new to the system, my brother and I got a lot of turns. Even when it was my turn, the short stint of running forward into some spikes, or a robotic bug to immediately die was still an incredible experience. Then here came Pit Fighter out of nowhere.

:mindblownfacemeltingwithjoy.gif

Needless to say, I was hooked from then on. My new joy in life was playing these amazing games that allowed me to do things I knew I'd never do in life. They almost became an obsession at a young age, just as they are now for me. TurboGrafx-16, SNES, all GB iterations, NGPC, and so on and so on...

 

[StiLt]

Yis. Memories right there.

 

[Xeno_V]

My precious

+1.
Christmas 1992.
Soooo good.

 

[disastermouse]

Wow. Some of these make me feel like a VERY OLD GAMER.

 

[Bending_Unit_22]

I played Atari games and didn't care for them, then I played Super Mario Bros. and was intrigued by video games, but what really ignited my passion for video games was:

The idea that a game could more than just running to the right or racking up points blew my mind. It was everything I still love in games, just exploration, self-improvement, and making your own adventure in a world.

 

[Misterinenja]

 

[Currygan]

 

[michalmarek77]

For me it was Keystone Kapers on A2600.......
That game literally made me a gamer thirty years ago....
Still love it I even bought a A2600 with that game to my son I'm gonna give him that on his 6-th birthday /he's only 2,5 so he's gonna wait a bit for that)

 

[Lapidus' Beard]

I think Pitfall! and it's sequel Lost Caverns (Metroidvania avant la lettre) on the Atari 2600 did it for me, but this one surely launched me into the world of action/JRPG's. Nice one!

 

[disastermouse]

For me it was Keystone Kapers on A2600.......
That game literally made me a gamer thirty years ago....
Still love it I even bought a A2600 with that game to my son I'm gonna give him that on his 6-th birthday /he's only 2,5 so he's gonna wait a bit for that)

I had totally forgotten that game! Also, Elevator Action!

 

[borghe]

 

[MrT-Tar]

Well, Pokemon Blue was my first game and got me obsessed by gaming as a whole. However, SSB Melee really broadened my horizons and introduced me to Nintendo's non Pokemon/Mario/Zelda first party IPs, so maybe that as well.

 

[Acti]

Raptor anyone?

 

[Halcyon]

I played all sorts of random Atari games.

I learned to read by playing Zork.


NES was what made it a passion though.

 

[969]

Prince of Persia (PC '91-'92)

Sonic the Hedgehog (Game Gear '91-'92)

Doom (PC '93)

Mortal Kombat (PC '93-'94)

Lotus III: The Ultimate Challenge (PC-DOS '93)

 

[Nyx]

Sid Meier's Pirates on the C64.
The first game I remember playing all day long and still one of my alltime favs.

 

[derwalde]

This and Monkey Island!

 

[Tadger]

Streets of Rage!

I put hours and hours into the whole series of games, loved it.

Wish they would do more side scrolling beat em ups these days

 

[LiK]

Super Mario World and Street Fighter II

 

[MoonsaultSlayer]

Tekken 2. Before that, I played games regularly but it wasn't an obsession. I loved Mortal Kombat for example. But I was still going outside and playing sports in the street or peoples' backyards. But the combination of highschool and what Tekken 2 offered, turned me into a habitual gamer which took up most of my free time. Downhill ever since haha.

 

[Dr. Kenneth Noisewater]

Crystalis

 

[F0rneus]

I was about to go with Final Fantasy VI as it opened my eyes up about jRPGs but became my first obssession (lol nope). I spent days reading the Nintendo Power guides about it over and over and thought about it day and night.

Still not a major jRPG fanboy except for SMT, but otherwise FFVI was the first game that felt like something truly epic to me. It was the moment I started seeing games as massive worlds filled with possibilities and made me imagine what the world would feel and look like, if it was real. Back in the day, I couldn't even play Dragon Warrior. The random encounters startled me.

And I realized. My actual first and foremost gaming obssession is Mega Man. Back in the NES days, it's all I played and thought about. Castlevania, and Zelda yes. But the entire Mega Man series was my bread and butter. I can't count the number of Robot Masters I created and drew up. I literally cried like a babe when I saw the Mega Man 9 trailer and it's still one of my lamest moments ever. So yeah, that.

And Mega Man 3 is the best Mega Man. It's top 3 best games of all time material IMO.