Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 545 Joined: 27 Dec 2008     | |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 737 Joined: 23 Jan 2008     | I believe my first game was Super Mario Bros. for the NES, but the game that turned me into a gamer was Diddy Kong Racing, the first game I ever got for my shiny N64. Surprising thing is, I was about 6 or 7 and had never heard about the N64 until my Dad just brought one home in a new box from work one day. Wasn't anyone's birthday or a holiday or anything, he just got it. |
Paperboy  Posts: 45 Joined: 4 Jan 2009    | Rampage.. When I realized that destroying things for no apparent reason was the most fun you could have with your clothes on. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 621 Joined: 21 Aug 2008    | Aladdin on SEGA Megadrive! It was the first game I ever beat my brother at >< |
Beat Writer  Posts: 137 Joined: 16 Jul 2008    | Civilization 4. Sooooooo many hours wasted to that game. And I actually learned some useful stuff through the Civilopedia. In before WoW... |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 939 Joined: 7 Jan 2008  |
I LOVED playing Rampage. I'm surprised I didn't break my Playstation by playing it so much. For me, it was Crash Team Racing. It was fun (infinitely better than Mario Kart, in my opinion), and it was the first game at which I was better than all my friends. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2231 Joined: 5 Jan 2009    | Goldeneye on the N64, such a good game. Also Super Mario 64 |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2349 Joined: 21 Aug 2008    | Tales of Symphonia was one of the first non-platformer games I played, and due to its sheer amount of awesome I started to play games other than Mario, so not a life changer but a game habits changer. |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 926 Joined: 14 Feb 2008     | LoZ: OoT. Made me a gamer. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3664 Joined: 21 Jan 2008   | Donkey Kong for the SNES was the first game that I got hooked on, and made me a full-fledged gamer. That said, it was Halo that introduced me to the FPS genre, Brothers in Arms that got me interested in History, and The Orange Box that got me interested in PC gaming. |
Muckraker  Posts: 276 Joined: 8 Jun 2008  | Battletoads and super mario bros. were my first gaming fixes,followed by doom and the quake series, then mariokart 64 and goldeneye turned me into a fullfledged gamer, and the rest, so they say, is history |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 1 Joined: 7 Jan 2009 |
Ditto. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 624 Joined: 8 Dec 2008   | The game my life has centered around most is DOOM. I first played it at a nephew's house back in 1994 or so, got it on my PC at home soon thereafter, and then played it almost daily for years. Ah, wonderful times. These days I don't play it so much anymore, but I think still not a month goes by without me playing it (or DOOM II / Final DOOM) at least for one level. I've played it so much for so long that it has become more than a game to me, it's almost a different world I keep going back to. Videogames for me are divided in two categories: "DOOMs" and "other". It's just that awesome. I have DOOM games for the SNES, GBA, N64, Xbox, Xbox 360, source ports and early versions on the PC, I have strategy guides, the four DOOM novels (bad as they are), books about editing DOOM, CDs with thousands of .wad files etc. Well. I just really like DOOM! |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 84 Joined: 28 Sep 2008 |
Same here. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 392 Joined: 31 Dec 2008  |
Same here. Got it for my birthday (surprise from uncle ed!) and was addicted ever since. That and Wave Race 64. The only game on N64 besides Starfox where you can make a fat guy do a barrel roll. And when the instructor says "Do a Barrel Roll," it even sounds kind of like Peppy. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 115 Joined: 12 Aug 2008   | Starfox 64 for the N64 was the big one for me, i played this constantly every day and that was what got me into gaming |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 476 Joined: 8 Apr 2008  | No More Heroes |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3508 Joined: 20 Aug 2008    | SimCity on the SNES. After spending the first four years of my console-gaming life on a steady diet of NES classics, namely sports games and platformers, the very gaming concept of a city-builder absolutely blew my mind. I'd never seen anything like it in the 15 years I'd been on the planet to that point and I sought out simulations, builders, and the like. After two years or so of playing games like Aerobiz, SimCity, and Pilotwings, a girlfriend gave me a couple of floppy disks and a photocopied page from a manual and said "put this on your computer. You'll love it." The game? Sid Meier's Civilization. I was in PC gamer's heaven. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2113 Joined: 15 Jun 2008   | Two games spring to mind. Numero uno would be Civilization II. This is the first game I can remember playing (no joke) consistantly, and it really made me into a gamer. Number the second would be Age of Mythology. It spurred my interest in mythology to great heights, and I have spent many a day reading the massive mythological omnibus I have. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 456 Joined: 3 Jan 2009    | The old Pokemon games GBA, and Crazy Taxi. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1409 Joined: 16 Dec 2008  | WoW changed mine, I played on my friends account at his house for 5 minutes and decided I was never going to get that game, but the first game that changed me into a true gamer was mario 64, I never put that amount of time into a super nintendo game ill tell you that much |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 3 Joined: 4 Nov 2008  | Has to be Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for me! Brill game. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 202 Joined: 19 Oct 2008  |
While that was an important part of my life, it's only second in my book. When I was growing up, I grew up with the Sega Saturn. The VERY first game I ever played was the original Sonic the Hedgehog, and I loved it. I fell in love with the little blue hedgehog who could move across the map at high-speeds, pull off loop-de-loops, and keep beating a fat guy in a robot suit. I followed the franchise until I got a Nintendo 64, and discovered Miyamoto's amazing games. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 69 Joined: 16 Dec 2008  | Ocarina of Time |
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Back in the 90's, my sister had been wanting to get a Nintendo 64 because her friend had a Playstation. Eventually, she got one. Though she preferred to watch people play them instead of actually playing them. I on the other hand, enjoyed playing these games, and the very first game I ever played was Super Mario 64. I was flabbergasted! I spent hours exhausting every possibility, reading through the manual hoping to find a hidden clue, and just loving every second of this game. It may not be the best game I've ever played (don't worry, it's up in my top 10 (hey, I just thought of another forum idea)), but was this game alone that got me into gaming.
So I ask of you, what game impacted your life (either as a gamer or as an average person), what was your first game, what was your first system, or even what game you still enjoy playing to this day?