Paper Mario & the thousand-year door!! My bestie at the time had a GameCube & so many fun games; one of her special interests was 1990s-2000s nintendo games n consoles, but specifically the GameCube. it was the first game i felt drawn to, and i've been playing adventurous storied RPGs ever since <33
Mike Tyson’s Punchout. The moment Bald Bull KO’ed me and laughed in my face, there was no way I was putting down the controller until he learned his place.
I was already a "gamer" at the time, but I vividly recall my emotions about Link to the Past. I thought it was the most engrossing, beautiful, epic game that could possibly be created. It still holds a very special place in my heart.
Space Invaders. My Dad used to take to the local working men’s club while my Mam prepared Sunday dinner. Pile of 10p and I was hooked. Then got the Atari 2600 for my 4th birthday.
Tapper and Prince of Persia (1989). I was only 5 y/o when I played them on my first PC - it was a USSR-developed UKNC. It's funny that my first games were older than I am
Tetris, Zelda LttP, Zelda 4 (Gameboy), Mario Kart, Mario Land 2, Mario World, Command and Conquer (mostly Red Alert), Diablo, Counterstrike, Civ, Gothic and Imperialism.
This should be the most important early ones (1994-2000 for me, Gameboy-> SNES ->PC, definitely upward trend)
Mario Kart 64! My parents taught me when I was 2 ☺️ I was absolutely AWFUL at it in the beginning.. but my dad told me “don’t quit, you can do it.” And eventually I did and he could never beat me again 😂
First system I played was my parents Atari 2600 use to play Pong with my dad I then got a NES for my 5th birthday with Mario and been gaming ever since
Space Invaders. My town's bowling alley had it in the pool room. Then they got Berzerk and finally Pac-Man. It took a bit of courage for a 9 year-old to put his quarter up in the queue and play with high school guys watching you.
Link To The Past, Mario 3, Yoshi's Island, Turtles In Time, The Simpsons: Bart's Nightmare(I loved it even though it was dumb), Super Mario RPG(the original but loved the remake), Super Punch-Out
Final Fantasy II (IV) for the Super Nintendo. It's still the benchmark that I compare JRPGs to. The characters, the sound design, the story, everything.
TMNT Turtles in time on the super Nintendo was the first game I remember playing. So probably that one. I played that shit basically as early as I could hold a controller since I could mash while my dad made progress 😂
FF1 on the NES. Parents just randomly rented it one weekend as a treat and boom, that was it. Cleared it and then had to go find and play everything like it.
Back in the day, I remember playing Mario Kart and Banjo Kazooie.
Didn’t play for decades after but what got me back into it was probably Kena:Bridge of Spirits on the PS5 and Luigi’s Mansion 3 on the Switch. I would play a little here and there but after those two, there was no stopping me :)
My Sega and Nintendo I kinda treated like arcade experiences. VII then metal gear solid and final fantasy tactics completely changed my view on gaming.
The original Legend of Zelda and Mega Man 3. Those were the first games I spent hours exploring and mastering the levels. I’ve always loved both of those series ever since.
Halo. The Original Xbox was ancient history by this time, but one day, my dad just gave me the controller and told me to play it.
that shit changed the whole trajectory of my life
Multiple a friend gave me his ps2 and all of his games when he got his ps3. So...bully madden 07 cod big red on..scarface...i had to play them all...mk like all the ps2 ones..just more than one. well not the game guess he made me a gamer.
Pokemon. That was the first game I played that made me realize games could be more than just moving from one side of the screen to the other. I could actually live in these worlds and experience my own stories within them.
I'm old enough to have started on Atari but I think Mass Effect showed me that I like different kind of games. Up until then I just played sports games really.
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It was the game that got my mom to buy me my first personally owned system.
It only escalated from there.
This should be the most important early ones (1994-2000 for me, Gameboy-> SNES ->PC, definitely upward trend)
And Larry 7. 😅
My politically correct answer though has to be Minecraft just due to the ridiculous amount of my life spent playing it.
Rodland, Simon the sorcerer and Monkey island were the biggest influence of making me a gamer.
But these helped Flood, Zool, Rainbow island, Wizball, Fire and Ice, Wiz and Liz, Dizzy series, Thundercat, James pond series and ofcourse Lemmings~
Mario at my best freinds place Best of both worlds as a kid.
Didn’t play for decades after but what got me back into it was probably Kena:Bridge of Spirits on the PS5 and Luigi’s Mansion 3 on the Switch. I would play a little here and there but after those two, there was no stopping me :)
My Sega and Nintendo I kinda treated like arcade experiences. VII then metal gear solid and final fantasy tactics completely changed my view on gaming.
that shit changed the whole trajectory of my life
Once Final Fantasy and Mario 3 came out, there was no hope of me stepping away from this hobby.
Yes, I'm that old school.
Dig-Dug, Joust, and Missile Command.
Oh and Yars Revenge.