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Below the Root on Commodore 64. After that just the Mario Games and Final Fantasy games on NES and SNES.
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.
Initially it was Animal Crossing: Wild World. One of my parents' coworker's daughter was babysitting me before school when I was in 3rd grade and she had the game on her DS and I fell in love with it. Still have the copy I got to this day. However, I wouldn't say I fully got into the hobby until The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and Twilight Princess (Wii). TP especially got me to fall in line with video games as a storytelling medium artistically and narratively.
PokΓ©mon Blue on a used Gameboy color when I was like 8. All downhill from there.
Tony Hawk's Underground, Need for Speed underground, and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. I don't remember which one I played first, but it was one of them.
COD:MW2, Halo 3 and Fallout 3
Portal. I have terrible FPS skills but love puzzle games. Having a FPS where I could proceed at my own pace and wasnβt constantly letting down teammates let me develop the skills needed to actually play.
Pole Position II on Atari 7800.
The first games I played were some Windows 3.11 and DOS games, like Microman, Space Quest V and Civilization (which I didn't really understand, mostly liked to build up a palace lol). But what really got me into gaming was probably my Gameboy Advance with Pokemon Gold.
There was never really a single game. First game: Grand Prix on Atari 2600 Then The Settlers, Desert Strike, Another World and Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 on Amiga. Age of Empires 2, GTA, Stronghold, SHOGO, Morrowind, BG2 on PC After these titles I can try just about anything. That made me consider really wide variety of genres, styles and publishing formats (from indie to AAA).
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.
Sid Meier's Civilisation. Got me hooked like what I imagine crack cocaine and meth would do to you.
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I got a Sega Genesis at 5. I had Sonic 1 and 2, and tiny toon adventures. Tiny Toon Adventures slaps.
Need for Speed Underground 2
Hell yeah. That and Colin McRae Rally 2.0 were my favorite race games back then.
KOTOR It is still one of the best stories in a game.
Roller Coaster Tycoon Deluxe
Dune 2, on our 386. Pretty sure my brother pirated the game from a BBS and at the time I didn't know piracy or BBS' were a thing.
Ultima online
Video games? Space Invaders on my mate's Atari 2600. Asked for (and got) one that very Christmas.
Board games? That's a tought one, but I reckon Talisman 2nd Edition, which my uncles had a copy of. Played maaaaany hours of that game.
Donkey Kong Country for SNES
First game I ever played was Donkey Kong country 1 at 4 years old and it shaped my hobbies up until recently. So definitly that
Iβve been playing games since I was a kid, but I never got hooked to any until The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Now Iβm playing the sequel, Tears of the Kingdom. Theyβre both fantastic games.
Super Mario Bros. circa 1987. Iβm getting old.
How do all of you even know? I was like 4 and played an NES at a friend's house then got a game boy. Did you all get in at older ages? My memories at 4 are mostly gone.
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.
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.
I have no idea. My brother is 10 years older than I am, (so he's 49, I'll be 39 in a few months) and it was definitely something he let me play, I just have no idea what it could possibly have been. I've had a controller (keyboard and mouse mostly now) in my hands my entire life lol
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.
Spiderman shattered dimensions
Played it half-way as a kid
That or nexuiz on my family linux desktop
Before that, I was emulating games
Mostly pokemon games
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.
I know for sure that Sonic and Knuckles was the very first game I played, or at least that I formed a memory of playing. I also had this handheld Radica Junior Bass Fishing game. And then I think I got to play Cruisin' USA at somebody's house and they had a full steering wheel setup for it.
Probably the pong game that my neighbours had hooked up to their tv in the very early 80s