What game turned you into a gamer?

[BethesdaLove]

Street Fighter

 

[Micmu]

Frogger.

 

[Carlos' Bitch1]

Ultima 4

I played other games before that, but until U4, it was all casual.

 

[Major_Boobage]

Not my first game, but i have fond memories of Syndicate. Maybe i should play it again.

The version i played is apparently Syndicate Plus.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

Leisure Suit Larry 1. EGA, motherfuckers.

 

[maverick]

Dooooooooommmmmm!

 

[obediah]

C64 all the way. Gold Box games, Pirates!, Mail Order Monsters, rogue clones, text adventures, wasteland, alter ego - a ton of great games.

I think the atari was first - but while plenty of games were fun, none of them were addictive to me. My micro sucked then as well.

EDIT: I've never been a big FPS fan, but the first time I stumbled into a computer lab where people were playing DOOM, it was a sea change. I'd played wolfenstein on an underpowered machine, but it was nothing like seeing DOOM in all it's glory. I can't think of any other game that completely changed my expectations of gaming at a glance. Then 6-12 months later I was playing System Shock which put DOOM in it's twitchy place.

 

[Talby]

Alley Cat. When I was five, I was terrifed of that bloody dog that comes after you.

 

[Panthera]

Super Mario Brothers & Duck Hunt, or some Space Invaders port on an IBM XT. Can't remember which I played first.

 

[Arcanoix]

What game/s turned you into a gamer? This brings back childhood gaming memories!

Doom/Doom 2, Lands of Lore 2, Quest for Glory V, followed by Journeyman Project: Legacy of Time, Phantasmagoria, and OddWorld : Abe's Odyssey. After that - EverQuest, 3-months before Kunark came out. Fuck yeah! I bought QfGV about a year and a half ago off Ebay and had more pleasure conquering it through then I did boning my then girlfriend. She was a pretty little princess...Wait..uhoh...

 

[PrzeSzkoda]

C64. There was this really nice text-adventure kind of game about Columbus' journey to the new world. I can't remember the exact title, and I think it was in Polish.

Plus, this ye olde soccer game for C64, can't remember the name, either. And Contra on a faux Nintendo.

 

[mondblut]

Gyruss.

 

[Norfleet]

Pong.

 

[BLOBERT]

Damn, I started with Intellivision. Phantasie III and Alternate Reality: The Dungeon on the C64 were my first roleplaying loves.

Mike Tyson's Punch Out got me totally addicted.

 

[beaker]

Donkey Kong. And River Raid.

River Raid.

anyone know where to get the windows port/remake ?

here

 

[Twinfalls]

Space Invaders on the Commodore PET, age 6. My 14 year old brother convinced Dad to get one of those machines, 'we can do all sorts of things like word processing and banking!'

I liked the PET coz it looked like a desktop Sphinx.

 

[GarfunkeL]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for C64. And Mario for NES. But I wasn't completely hooked until Ultima IV on Amiga500 and finally Pool of Radiance on C64. Oh boy, after that I was lost.

 

[Luzur]

Space Invaders on the Commodore PET, age 6. My 14 year old brother convinced Dad to get one of those machines, 'we can do all sorts of things like word processing and banking!'

I liked the PET coz it looked like a desktop Sphinx.

i got 3 PETs, lovely machines, fits perfectly into any IKEA modernistic home. :D

 

[LittleJoe]

Anyone remember this:

Or this:

Tai-Pan was a kind of trading/adventure game.

Total Eclipse was a dungeon explorer, sort of a forerunner to Tomb Raider.

 

[sportforredneck]

Wizardry 6.

 

[MetalCraze]

Total Eclipse was a dungeon explorer, sort of a forerunner to Tomb Raider.

Yeah I know this one. It is also first person real-time game with shooter mechanics from late 80s - obviously people didn't understand the awesomeness of that back then and embraced that innovashun only today.

I've also played a similar game called Prince Nelson, except it was a medieval castle instead of a Pyramid

 

[Claw]

Hmm... tough.

When my parents bought a C64, I played so many games.

The first proper computer game was Star Raiders 2.
Ah, the joy of bombing an alien civilization into oblivion.

I don't think any game turned me into a gamer. I was born a gamer. I played whatever I could find, starting with arcade games - Moon Patrol! - and friend's consoles until I got my own computer.

 

[Wyrmlord]

Come to think of it:

It was the Alladin sidescroller.

 

[Hory]

I don't think any game turned me into a gamer. I was born a gamer. I played whatever I could find, starting with arcade games - Moon Patrol! - and friend's consoles until I got my own computer.

Indeed, I think the thread question might not apply to a lot of people. It's in the kids' nature to like games. I don't think that particular games turn them from non-gamers to gamers. It's more a question of "which was first". A game that really changed my attitude towards the medium of games was Fallout 2. Relatively high interactivity, fun gameplay, um... unique writing, nice artistic direction and music, ITZ HEAVAN.

 

[Luzur]

Total Eclipse was a dungeon explorer, sort of a forerunner to Tomb Raider.

Yeah I know this one. It is also first person real-time game with shooter mechanics from late 80s - obviously people didn't understand the awesomeness of that back then and embraced that innovashun only today.

I've also played a similar game called Prince Nelson, except it was a medieval castle instead of a Pyramid

reminds me of Castle Master, it looks the same.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv1OFYH9SYo