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  SMB for me : spectr3
  • Same here. We had a few Atari games, but I can't remember them. : mobab
• I played a bunch of Atari games, but the one that really sold me on gaming was Mega Man 2. I vaguely reme... : Clasifyd
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  Choplifter! : walker270
  • This and PitFall on the Atari : hrdwregk
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  pitfall for NES, it was the 8 bit Uncharted : gmd
  • pitfall for me too. : deskill
• Super Mario World for the Super Nintendo. : Ellissd
• GORF... Commodore Vic20 : ShadowRam
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  Probably The Black Cauldron, if anyone remembers that. : Lone Swordsman
  • man i couldn't wait for that game after reading the book of three series as a kid. then i bought it and m... : qwpeoriu
  • yesssss this game rocked. : Xanthos
  • Oh Fuck. My afterschool had that and Zaxon. I did play a lot of those. : mrblarg
  • Hell yeah! It even had multiple endings and multiple ways through the game. : Omaha
  • Haha I still have the original box/disks for this. : kelerian
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  Wolf3d.exe : MercFox1
  • probably this? i dunno...there were so many. : ass-street
  • Same here. : Syrek
  • Came to post exactly this : chrisschutz
• Wings of Fury by Broderbund Software. : tomservo
• defender, atari 2600. My first game : X-GOUKI
• Super Mario for the NES. Got me totally hooked. Wolfenstein got me hooked on the PC : legsbrogan
• I saw an Asteroids machine at a laundromat in 1987. I wanted to put my little hands all over that thing,... : mrblarg
• Descent : rms
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  Mario Bros, Duck Hunt, Track & Field package was my first console. Half Life / Star Craft are what hooke... : shadebane
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    Yars Revenge for atari was fun, and it came with an awesome comic book! : shadebane
    • Yar's Revenge was such a good, overlooked game. : AxeMan808
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  Sonic the Hedgehog : purekillforce
  • iawtp. This is the first one that I just had to finish. : lord_omega
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  MunchMan, Parsec, and Hunt the Wumpus for the TI99/4A. : Deathlove
  • Man I rocked the TI99/4A too. I loved that goddamn thing. I was a Parsec MASTAH. : Thornfist
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    I fucking loved all of those games, plus many more. I remember playing the shit out of, and never beating... : zerog83
    • Everest was a motherfucker, I remember that. : Deathlove
• Combat on the Atari 2600. I remember playing that with my step brother when I was like 4 years old. : mrwolf710
• Golden Axe, that was when I really got into games. I had played them before but just passingly. : moe6
• I had been playing games occasionally since the Atari days, but the game that moved it to a primary inter... : cetra00
• Xenon 2: Megablast and Day of the Tentancle... ahhhh those were the days. I'd sit in my fathers office fo... : vujinovicm
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  Galaxian. : AxeMan808
  • Gunfight. : AxeMan808
• pitfall 2 for me, i think. or jumpman from the C64, i don't remember which i had first : aurealis
• Super Mario Bros. First videogame I ever played when I was 4, was at a family friend's place and was a... : kallanta
• New Rally X http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Rally-X : =]Milo[=
• Dinopark Tycoon in grade school. I was addicted to that game. The first game to get me into PC gaming for... : at0micgarden
• Oregon Trail and/or Tetris : NexusOne
• Tron: Deadly Discs on the Intellivision. Well, really, my first game was Sharp Shot, which was made to b... : mopic42
• I guess it would Doom. : Saman
• Alternate Reality on my Apple ][ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_Reality_(series) Then Might and... : quazar
• Wolfenstein/Phantasmagoria on PC (though it was a mac at the time), SMB for NES on consoles. I never had ... : MrBig0
• KC Munchkin on the Odyssey 2. My parents got it for my brother and I use to sneak into his room when he w... : denixen
• Ultima III. IV sealed the deal though. : Cubictoast
• Probably Space Invaders. I remember pounding $2 into the machine which was my life savings at the time. : Dave-A
• This is an interesting question. There isn't a single game. I have always enjoyed gaming. I just love tha... : LoioshDwaggie
• I was surrounded by PC games as a kid, but never go into them until I discovered that I could make levels : TaintedSyringe
• Super Mario Bros and DOOM were the first two games i played, SMB first and then DOOM later. I was hook... : alphablu
• Super Mario Kart for the SNES. : The Grolar Bear
• Super Mario for consoles, Doom shareware for the PC! : jad3d
• Star Wars arcade (the old vector graphics one). My dad held me up and let me be luke skywalker when I wa... : flagg209
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  pong or mr driller : sanewave
  • i mean dig dug :) : sanewave
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  Herzog Zwei - this should be an iPhone app : TheArtMan
  • ^^^ this was great game : sanewave
• Dune II. When I fell in love w/ this game, this is when I switched from your "typical console gamer" t... : goatjc
• Combat cause it came with the Atari system : ultramega
• Mike Tyson's Punch-Out : CrabsJarrard
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  Aztec. Apple IIe. 6th Grade. Had a dick of a teacher that would let you play after class if you were ... : ezkilla2
  • That game was gloriously messed up. I don't think I ever got very far with it. : Dave-A
  • paging sesmaster : dirge23
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    YES! I had it on my Apple IIc and it was great. I never got past the Allosaurus / dinosaur dude :( I s... : tomservo
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      J: jump! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aztec_(Apple_II).png hell yes :D : tomservo
      • L: was lunge if you had a machete! Oh so many memories. : tomservo
      • Holy shit, I'd forgotten all about this game. : ColoradoCNC
• Space Invaders : owly
• Pole Position for Atari. I played the shit out of that game : jcrockerman
• Duke Nukem 3D : noxiousgg
• I remember playing that game -- mostly the music, which is no surprise. And jumping around with the flas... : zipr
• It would have to be something on the Apple II. Maybe Choplifter? I don't really remember what came firs... : Johnny Law
• "Single" - No. Well, maybe Pong. Many: "Hours of time"? Atari 2600 Adventure Atari 2600 Riddle of : Sylvanus
• Probably Adventure on the 2600: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE6MSXqouSk : bozer
• No. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• Hmmm that would be pretty difficult, but probably SMB1 on NES. Maybe Simcity 1 on PC. I didn't get huge... : Shadowdane
• I can trace it to a specific game and also a specific business. Every sunday after church my family wo... : kenmis
• I was into games and stuff since the 2600. But the day my friend showed me Mechwarrior on a 286, with ... : Thornfist
• It was definitely SMB/Duck Hunt. I played the shit out of those games when I got my NES and never looked ... : Evil Benius
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  pong early on, but the atari with pitfall really got me into it : moshman
  • also, lots of them old arcade games played on ferry crossing between the uk and france as a kid in the ea... : moshman
• I had a booter game called Big Top. Weirdly enough it was by Michael Abrash, who would go on to work on... : GloriousCow
• Bruce Lee: Way of the Exploding Fist for C64 : Vangoghs Ear
• early games: space quarks, lemonade, apple 21, oregon trail, jumpman (c64) those were the first video gam... : EvilDolemite
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  Pitfall, Atari 2600 : amrbean
  • This was definitely the game that made me a gamer. I played the fuck out of Pitfall both forwards and bac... : Stoned Gargoyle
  • This might be the one console game that did it for me.. or Loderunner. Tempest was the first coin-op t... : tangles
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  Probably Final Fantasy IV. The cool story and bad-ass little characters are what made me become a so-call... : Orange Pylon
  • The opening to this game made me rethink what a video game experience could be - instead of a clear evolu... : mopic42
  • Nintendogs : Shivawn
• Probably Zelda. I played other games (atari/intellivision) before that, but zelda was the first one to to... : kelerian
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  Holy Shit! I loved Mountain King. Especially the music. This wasn't THE game that piqued my interest in g... : Stoned Gargoyle
  • Heck yeah! : Sylvanus
  • Yeah I loved it. It was one of the more involved Atari games that we had when I was a kid. : Omaha
• Gauntlet on the Sinclair Spectrum ZX48k. I was six years old and played with my older brothers. It tur... : gummijoh
• Quake, I never played video games, only pacman on my mother her PC and I was not so interested. Than I ha... : Snipergen
• Missile Command early on, then Galaga later. : reznory
• blake stone : maulla
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  rogue.exe This game spawned the "roguelike" genre, and was an obsession of mine. : re-verse
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_%28computer_game%29 : re-verse
• Super Mario Brothers and Tecmo Bowl. : orgcaptainnemo
• Mail Order Monster on C64. Awesome action rpg that got me hooked on games and the genre. : darcspeed
• original C&C on windows 3.1 for me. also doom, but i played more c&c i think : senor135
• Nah, as long it was on my brothers computer I would play it. : dael
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  Giana Sisters : alexpr
  • hahah I loved this game. terrible mario ripoff but pretty good gameplay on the c64 : manero
• Nah. I got hooked the second I saw a single text character moving on a screen. : stuka
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  probably wolf3d shareware or wing commander. : proclone1
  • oh, that's for computer game; video game easily = SMB : proclone1
• I've played video games before, but I don't think I got really interested until I played Punisher on a fr... : TrptJim
• Either Ms Pac Man or the oldschool vector Star Wars game : manero
• The first game I can remember playing was Splatterhouse in the arcades. First console game was SMB2. : herradura99
• King's Quest. First game was probably microsoft adventure though. : Bull
• Definitely Pitfall on the 2600. : o0JediBeavis0o
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  Combat on the Atari 2600. Me and my brother played the shit out of that when I was a kid. As far as PC... : ColoradoCNC
  • Combat was my first video game. : shyguy74
• There wasn't any one game, though Super Mario Brothers was probably the first video game I played. I just... : beanman101283
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  Whichever of these came first: Space Invaders on the Atari 2600 Breakout on the Atari 2600 Donkey Ko... : Captain Loco
  • Honorable Mention: Adventure for the 2600. I remember wanting to play this game for a long time before I... : Captain Loco
• Playing Double Dragon in the arcade. : Jimbo Ro
• pong : Fredrik S
• Transport Tycoon!!! : NeoMoose
• I think the original Space Invaders was the first game I ever played (back when it first came out). For h... : Sadogoat
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  excitebike : JINKY
  • basically the level creator was the fuckin' shit : JINKY
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  Hobgoblin on Acorn Electron. I remember it was a platform game which I found very hard. Buying new game... : dasampla
  • ha just found this on Youtube, this person is worse than I was! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8qP0Mj... : dasampla
• First game I really remember playing was Super Mario Bros. My older sisters played a lot of Atari, though... : BoKnows
• Final Fantasy 6 (FF3 USA) on SNES. God I fell in love with that game almost instantly. : dhvyse
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  Striker - PC : sheepraper
  • http://users.telenet.be/mpq/software/screenshots/striker.gif : sheepraper
• Shining Force took me to UO. UO took me into the realm of real gaming. : sKetchflow
• Double Dragon on an Amstrad with no hard drive. only 2 floppy drives. : yautja
• Donkey Kong started it all for me. I remember being so disappointed when it turned out the Atari version ... : Iazu
• Every single game at the local Chuck E Cheese (also showbiz if you want to go further back) : fadetofunk
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacomb_(video_game) I remember ordering this from a magazine on a disc an... : The Key
• King's Bounty, mostly. Wolfenstien, too. : MaJeStu
• Tie Fighter bitches! Watched my cousins playing video games. They were cool and fun. Then came Tie Fighte... : locater16
• For consoles it would be contra. We had an NES, but I discovered Contra, and then when I found out it wa... : uncle slappy
• King's Quest : kramweil
• The NES version of Metal Gear when I was like...five years-old? : IndigoAK
• Star Crusader, possibly one of the first games I remember playing. : duffman03
• Missile Command on Atari 400. : Freon
• Wolf3d.exe and Quake 2 : gydot
• Earthbound. I played a lot of games before this, but this game was my mecca. : notdeadyeti
• Probably Pac-Man. My parents knew some people who owned a bar/restaurant, and the owner put me in front ... : Rag and Bone Man
• pac-man and pong for the atari 2600 were my first games. : BaronVonSnakPak
• Kings Quest and the first Zelda : happynoodle
• Dungeon master. Not the earliest by a long shot but certainly the most influential. : Pandilex
• Any number of Atari 2600 games, and Taipan! for the Apple ][+. : cerealSAM2
• I was playing unnamed games on a Timex Sinclair that you had to write in Basic first. I remember getti... : Derringer
• I was never SUPER INTO GAMEZ untill i played Super Mario RPG. I sunk many many many hours of my life into... : squigiliwams
• Story time! I got an Atari 2600 Jr. with Donkey Kong Jr. as a birthday gift, but what really hooked me... : David Craddock
• the great escape. sinclair spectrum. : tohm82
• Pong, and I'm not just saying that to sound cool. My dad brought home one of the original home units and ... : nakedsavage
• Despite being awful games, playing E.T. and Pac-man on my very own Atari 2600 for the first time was what... : dirtboxer
• gaming story incoming first game was build-in pong on a brown console but the game that got me hooked : razorblade79
• Goldeneye 64 whose significance surpasses just that of video games, it was the antecedent to my preoccupa... : comiekazie
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  I think the very first game I played was the built in Snail Maze game for the Sega Master System - I reme... : Atma Weapon
  • OMG! http://www.smstributes.co.uk/snail/snail.htm That music brings me way back. : Atma Weapon
• Asteroids - atari 2600, played for hours. Next game to blow me away with multiplayer, Doom2. Then again Q... : shackwack
• Half-life and Diablo 2 were my first 2 PC games that I got when I got my first PC. They absolutely shaped... : TheDaFox
• The 2600 in general, but for 3D games, it was seeing Doom E3M1 back in 1993. : the archvile
• Captain Goodnight and the Islands of Fear on the Apple II. Anyone ever hear of this? Anyone happen to h... : her0d