What game started it for you?

    For console games it had to be when I went round my friend's house and he had a NES with Mario and Duck Hunt. Duck Hunt was good but Mario... oh my. I pestered my dad into getting me a NES, and instead he got me a SNES for Christmas (with Mario World). At first I thought the 'Super NES' was some cheap knock-off but Mario World was awesome. My console gaming basically went from there to the N64 and then to like all next-gen consoles.

    For PC gaming, I used to get a lot of games from my cousins as their dad was into gaming. However, I remember the first PC we got was an Amstrad 286 with Prince of Persia and F-15 Strike Eagle.

    Also had some good ol' times when my cousins brought round all these shareware games their dad got from the cover CD of a mag called 'Computer Shopper'. There was Commander Keen... all those knock offs like Jill of the Jungle, Jazz Jackrabbit and Halloween Harry.

    Wolf3d was my first FPS, but I basically skipped over Doom (tho I did play the shareware) since it never really interested me.

    And YES... I remember Alleycat! I thought I was the only one in the world who'd ever played that game.

    We used to take turns seeing how many times we could jump over that dog in the hub bit, he was scary as feck. My brother got pretty good and eventually was able to jump him 100% of the time. Although sometimes thrown bottles'd get him.

    Great thread, btw.

    Haha, its good to see so many people with an appreciation of Alleycats, that game is awesome.

    Anyway, I have a hard time remembering and totally defining what probably fueled this never ending fire of gaming madness that I am today, but games like Sonic 1 for the Megadrive and alot of other Megadrive games. Civilization 1, Dune 2, Prince of Persia, Wolfenstein 3d, Populous and Monkey Island, plus all the Apogree classics for the PC, plus some Amiga games even earlier.

    Its just that the start of my gaming life seems like a blur today, so many games and so many impressions

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    It was a penguin game on my friend's Amiga or C64. I can't remember the name of the game or which system it was for because I was so young I didn't even know there were different systems.And when I was six years old I got my own NES with Mario for Christmas.

    James Pond, Robocop???

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    For me it was an arcade hame called Marble Madness.

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    And then i was hooked on games.

    Bought me a C64 at first and played through a lot of games on it and then i upgraded to Amiga and jumped on to PC after that.

    Spellbinder.

    Wolfenstein 3D, Doom or Duke Nuken 3D, not really sure about what game I tested out first.

    But Rainbow 6: Rogue Spear really got me into "serious" gaming.

    The staging after each round is the best idea since the internets, cause you always get a few seconds to chat with the people you are playing with, so the fun factor gets alot higher etc.

    PC gamer from the very start ^^

    Tetris, Adventure, DigDug, Hard Hat Mack, Ys, had a bunch of them old 5¼ floppies.

    On the 2600 it was all about Asteroids and Combat. Anyone play Yars Revenge?

    To this day I consider Tetris the best game ever on any platform including board games and sports. I remember playing it on one of my dad's old portable computers, the kind that had a one-bit display at about 480x128. The vertical column had to *scroll* lol. Later when we had a Mac LC my dad would play Super Tetris two-handed (two games at once). Not terribly well but it was pretty hard core.

    that little apple game on the Apple II. It had a ramp sort of thing, and at the end were two boxes, and a small board you could move over one or the other. Then little apples, filled in or hollow, would come down the ramp and you had to put them in the right box.

    My first console was an atari, I remember playing pitfall and enduro but I was like only 4 or 5

    Then I saw a Master System and I was like "OMFG I NEED ONE". So after bothering my aunt for some time she got me one. BUT, she parked her car on the streets and went home to have some coffee. When she went back to the car again she found out that someone had broken into it and taken my master sytem

    I had to wait like almost an year untill she get me one. On the master system I wasted all my time playing Sonic, Alex Kid (omg best evr~~) and many others. I didnt have a PC at that time but my aunt did, so I could play duke 3d, SIM CITY 2000 (wasted a lot of time on this one), road rash 3d, lode runner 95, corel (or some other graphical program, I dont remember), doom and skunny kart.

    On the SNES I wasted a lot of time with my brother playing super street fighter 2 (blanka 4lyef), International Super Star Soccer Deluxe, Mortal Kombat 3 and Mario Kart.

    Fiendish Freddie's Flying Circus started it all for me, when I was 4 and received the holiest of the holy: a Commodore 64. You can see the cheeky chap as my avatar, taking it back to grass roots.

    Half-Life 1 got me into level design. Including Hammer on the disk was a stroke of genius.

    Wolfenstein 3D is what started it all for me. My oldest brother got it the day it came out and I was hooked. I was about six when it came out.

    First console I got into was a SNES. I was a PC gamer before I even knew about consoles. Didnt get an SNES until way after they came out. Super Mario World was my crack.

    Duke Nukem 3D started the whole modding thing for me. Made levels and changed the enemy stats so you could kill the biggest, baddest boss with one pistol shot and made it so it took about 18 shotgun blasts to kill a pig cop.

    Oh Mortal Kombat III (Sega megadrive) for sure. I had a notebook (or whatever it was) where i had all the fatalities and animalities and everything else, ooh!

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