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Asteroids, the arcade game.
My dad bought us a multi game pong console, then an Atari 5200 years layer.
But we often went to arcades and got $20-$40 in quarters.
In later years I remember truly loving the Buck Rogers and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom arcade games.
First computer was an Apple II and I had about 500 floppies of pirated games by the end of its life.
Always always been a gamer. Also had a Merlin handheld game for car trips, which saw constant use.
Age of Empires II
I'd have to go all the way back to pinball, since I've always been fascinated with games.
But the very first video game that really sucked me in was Batman on the NES. I'm talking fully immersed; no awareness of my surroundings. Jacked in.
The music paired with the grim visuals was such a vibe. Just playing it made me feel cool. My parents had to drag me away from that birthday party haha.
Earliest memories of video games were titles such as Aztec, Spy vs Spy, Frogger, King's Bounty.
But what really got my eight year old mind captivated on a summer vacation in the 80s was Elite on C64. I've spent hours into the night trying to get as far away from Lave as possible, all while trying to make some profit on hauling food and computer parts. I did not understand the concept of saving and loading a saved game back then, so there was a lot of trial and error into permadeath involved.
Kingdom Hearts II
That game is the reason the X button stopped working on my PS2 controller when I was like 4 or 5
Breakout, Sokoban, Prince of Persia, Command & Conquer, Tilt!, Space Invaders, Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis, Full Throttle, Fallout, Raptor: Call of the Shadows, Wolf3D.
This was in the '90s but some of those games were already quite old by that time.
The early 90s Lucas Arts adventure games. Most notably Monkey Island 2.
It was called "Water Carrier". It was a simple labyrinth game that - because I had no way of saving it to a tape, disk, or similar - I had to type in line by line whenever I wanted to play it.
Yes, I'm a bit longer in the business than most of you.
Probably Space Invaders
That and Asteroids in arcade cabinets.
The first game I regularly played may very well have been Chex Quest. Unless you count Math Blaster. Or maybe Chip's Challenge.
Fallout 4.
I started Fallout 4, instantly loved it, and got the initial few quests done and made my way into the open world. There were also side quests asking for help and stuff though. I thought to myself - let's knock out the small stuff so I can get the hang of this.
400 hours later I was basically fighting deathclaws with a high XP character and had barely completed past diamond City I think.
I didn't realize the side quests never stop and I'm an idiot but I was having fun anyway. I eventually looked up why I had to do so many and realized my issue. Finished the game shortly after because I had a maxed out character basically for beginner missions.
Played my first game on a dedicated Pong console but my first transformative gaming experience was either Ultima III, Archon or Starflight. Those games were on IBM DOS machines with only 4/16 colors and a floppy drive. In the arcades it was Dragon Slayer and a little later the original Street Fighter.
Word rescue by 3D Realms, and maths rescue. Can still get them on steam!
Gaming in general would be the original Far Cry, Fallout 3, Battlefront 2, the Sims, and Age of Empires.
You can trace a lot of the games and genres I play today back to them.
Memory, Monkey Island, Diablo 1 and Street Fighter 2
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.
Carmageddon, it was the first 3d game I had played and I spent all my time at my grandparents house playing it. I still regard it as one of the best games ever made.
Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Battle 22 started it, Toy Story 2 for PSX detonated it.
Dune II
Pokemon Platinum
Pong.
Honestly? This hole in the wall food store in my home town managed to pick up a pretty early release of the arcade game Robotron. I was instantly enthralled, visiting arcades any time I could. From there, I played on friends' Atari 2600s and Commodores until I managed to get my own C64, and I've never stopped since. From there, I migrated through their products and stayed a diehard fan till the mid-90's - C128, Amiga 1000, Amiga 500, and Amiga 2000.
I played a few early x86 games on demo machines in stores, but I didn't finally relent and build my own x86 rig until the release of the Descent 1 demo, which single-handedly destroyed all of my remaining resolve. I already considered myself a pretty consistent gamer, but that was the nail in the coffin. The rest, as they say, is history. It was only 4 years later that EverQuest came out, too, and that swallowed me whole.
Sonic the Hedgehog
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...
Asteriods, Atari 2600
Myst.
Evercrack and Diablo 2 were my starter games
PokΓ©mon Gold, when I was 8, got it for Christmas. Technically my first game was Battleship, which I opened first, but I probably spent thousands of hours playing PokΓ©mon Gold. :) I've played almost every PokΓ©mon game since, up until Scarlet/Violet, which I haven't gotten yet, but maybe I will eventually.
Think Brave Fencer Musashi or Zelda Ocarina of Time.
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.
Bubble Bobble on the C64 :)
Super Mario Bros 3. Never beat it until the Allstars version on SNES, but it's the first video game I remember playing. Or maybe it was Gauntlet, but SMB3 was the funner one.
first game I got into was Pokemon Blue, but Guild Wars is what turned me into a gamer
Super Mario World and Donkey Kong Country
Two great side-scrollers
Age of Empires 2 on my parent's crappy old laptop.
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.
Pac-Land. 10p per play in the cafe that my old girl used to go to in the mornings - she clocked that I wa I to that sort of thing and kindly got me an Atari 800 XE for a birthday or Christmas - I forget which.
It was all downhill from there.
The First Metroid. We had a shop nearby with a NES and the multi cartridge switcher. There was Zelda, Super Mario and all the rest. But Metroid always caught my attention. To this day I think metroidvanias are my fav genre.