Asklemmy

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Age of Empires 2 on my parent's crappy old laptop.

I was first blown away with SimCity 4. My uncle had a pretty decent computer for the time, which could properly run it and I spent hours loving it. My nephew had RTC2 which we played for days on end, the first game I played through at home was Age of Mythology. I guess it shows where my love for strategy/simulation games comes from.

Freddy fish 🐠

SpongeBob SquarePants: Legend of the Lost Spatula on Game Boy Color

Halo/a slew of freemium MMOs I'd play on my dinky laptop in the mid 00s

Pong.

Probably space invaders on the Atari 2600

I didn't have an Atari new I believe it was already an old system when me and my sister got it.

Flash games. Like the ones on Newgrounds, Y8, coolmathgames…

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.

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.

Link to the Past for me

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.

super mario brothers 2 baybeeeeeeee

gaming chooses you. you wake up one day and youre grinding something and u have a vague memory of games you played on these "old consoles"

Sonic Heroes

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.

Roller Coaster Tycoon Deluxe

Chopper Commando on the PC Jr and River Raid on the Atari 2600 were my first gaming loves.

Xmen arcade game

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

Pokémon then was reinvigorated but Minecraft.

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.

The first game I ever played was Mario on the NES, but the ones that really got me into gaming were Duke Nukem 3D and Quake on PC. It's been 27 years and I still enjoy them.

There was never really a single game. First game: Grand Prix on Atari 2600 Then The Settlers, Desert Strike, Another World and Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 on Amiga. Age of Empires 2, GTA, Stronghold, SHOGO, Morrowind, BG2 on PC After these titles I can try just about anything. That made me consider really wide variety of genres, styles and publishing formats (from indie to AAA).

Sid Meier's Civilization 1

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

Super Mario Bros. circa 1987. I’m getting old.