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The first game I regularly played may very well have been Chex Quest. Unless you count Math Blaster. Or maybe Chip's Challenge.

Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Battle 22 started it, Toy Story 2 for PSX detonated it.

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.

Sonic the Hedgehog

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.

Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life

Only because Sonic Mega Collection wouldn't work on the defective GameCube I had.

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.

Dune II

My first game was Lego Island! I played it a bunch when I was around 6 years old. My first online game was Red Alert 2 which really kicked off my love for gaming. I still remember my friends being jealous when I upgraded my RAM from 32mb to 256mb. It was a simpler time.

NFS 2SE

Final Fantasy

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.

Pokémon then was reinvigorated but Minecraft.

Does jump-start pre k count?

Sid Meier's Civilization 1

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

A Sega Mega Drive Car Game called: Lotus Turbo Challenge by EA from 1990

Sonic Heroes

Xmen arcade game

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.

Neverwinter Nights and Roller Coaster Tycoon when I was a little kid. I watched my dad play Neverwinter and had to indulge in my own tiny fantasy to play as a "dragon." Still at it.

Pokémon Blue on a used Gameboy color when I was like 8. All downhill from there.

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.

Roller Coaster Tycoon Deluxe

Below the Root on Commodore 64. After that just the Mario Games and Final Fantasy games on NES and SNES.

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.

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 Bros. circa 1987. I’m getting old.

Need for Speed Underground 2

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 😁

COD:MW2, Halo 3 and Fallout 3

Monuments of Mars and later Command & Conquer were the two biggest.

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.

I think Super Solvers - Gizmos and Gadgets was among the first games that really got me excited for gaming.

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

I’ve 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 I’m playing the sequel, Tears of the Kingdom. They’re both fantastic games.

For me it was more a system than an specific game. I got a second hand GameBoy when I was like 5 or 6 and have been gaming consistently since then. Probably the highlight of that period was Super Mario though.

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.

Freddy fish 🐠

Forbidden Forest on my dad's Commodore 128. I still have a MIDI of the title music on my phone.

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!

KOTOR It is still one of the best stories in a game.