Asklemmy

Final Fantasy

Myst.

First games i played were Pokémon and super Mario, but I think the first game that REALLY got me hooked was Banjo Kazooie.

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 😁

Final Fantasy VII. I've been gaming since the late 80's but the compelling story of FFVII completely cemented me as a lifelong gamer.

Sid Meier's Civilization 1

Sonic Heroes

Planescape: Torment was the game that popped my cherry, my very first. After that, I played links awakening, and that was it I've been a gamer ever since.

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.

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

Pokémon then was reinvigorated but Minecraft.

Super Mario Bros. from the famicom

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.

Evercrack and Diablo 2 were my starter games

Pong.

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

Asteriods, Atari 2600

Half-Life. The first game I played was Mech Warrior 2 and I played a few others like Lemmings, Warcraft 2, and Falcon 3.0. In fact, Half-Life I played for about 10 minutes and put down. I hit the part right after the accident where you were supposed to go back to the lobby and go through the vent, but that wasn't obvious to me. So I got lost and didn't know what to do. I put it down for about a week until a friend came by and was like :o you have Half-Life?! That's a great game. I was like "I dunno, it doesn't seem great, I got stuck fairly early." They immediately went through the vent and I questioned why I didn't do that or see that at first. So I played the rest of the game and loved it.

BUT! It doesn't stop there because Half-Life had a huge modding scene and multiplayer. I remember playing and hosting a ton of different mods from my broadband internet. It was like I was a beacon for these mods where I'd just host the server as a listen server, play along with everyone, and moderate while playing. It was a very amazing time where I could really feel a community building up in games.

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).

Sonic the Hedgehog

Dune II

Super mario bros

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...

The Little Big Planet series.

Pitfall on Atari

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.

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.

Doom II was probably the first game I ever saw and it made me ask for a computer. Got a hand-me-down pretty much the next day.

Dangerous Dave.

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

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Bubble Bobble on the C64 :)

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

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

Pokemon Platinum

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

I got a Sega Genesis at 5. I had Sonic 1 and 2, and tiny toon adventures. Tiny Toon Adventures slaps.

Uh... probably one of my dad's Atari games. For PC games, though, it would be space sims, like the old Privateer or X-Wing. My dad loved them, and so I grew to love them, too.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Need for Speed Underground 2