Games that got you started as a gamer?

I'm sure this thread has been made plenty of times but anyway what game(s) got you into gaming? I'm an oldie first game I probably played was pacman or donkeykong.

Golden axe

The original Zool, Lemmings and a few others.

Super Mario  (NES)

Super Mario. I know it's cliche but, it was Super Mario.

Joust for the Atari. Then i played the First Zelda fro NES and i was hooked.

Leisure Suit Larry 2, Quest for Glory (then called Hero's Quest), and Super Mario Bros.

Link to the Past taught me to read.

The very first Zelda game.

Super Mario World and Tetris were among my firsts.

Wolfenstein 3D and Doom.

<3 id Software.

crash bandicoot-ps1
ridge racer 3-ps1
tomb raider II-ps1
air and ace combat series-ps1

Pong, but not until the Atari 2600 and Pitfall did I consider myself a... player.

Wave Race for the n64.
Woo hoo? It's a fairly good game, but it's no super mario world.

I'm an oldie first game I probably played was pacman or donkeykong."

I'd probably say Super Smash Bros. Melee. I played many games before it, but this was the game that started me on the path of the gamer.

Little Nemo the Dream Master. First console game I ever played when I was a kid, and I was hooked. Bugged my parents to get me an NES after playing this for hours and hours at a friend's house. 

Mario Kart 64...

Super Mario Bros

Easy answer: Pong on the boardwalk at Wildwood, New Jersey.

Crash Bandicoot

Donkey Kong Country all the way

Either Super Mario World or Zelda A Link to the Past when I was like 4 or 5. The guy that lived in the apartment next to us played games so it was cool. He told me what was good and let me borrow a lot of stuff. It's funny cuz those are the two games that I've prolly beaten the most.

My Sega Genesis came with Ms. Pacman and I got Mickey Mouse's Castle of Illusion for my birthday that year. That was it for me.

Sonic 2 sealed the deal when it came out.

Command & Conquer: Red Alert and Red Alert 2.

Super Mario Bros. for me.

Centipede, Mario Bros. and Pac-Man amongst others, for the Atari.

Sonic the Hedgehog! on the Sega Mega Drive

Super Mario World, and i believe Donkey Kong Country

zelda: ocarina of time, super mario kart, and KIRBY

I'm gonna have to hand this one to Super Mario Bros.

Probably Tetris or some LoZ game.

"My Sega Genesis came with Ms. Pacman and I got Mickey Mouse's Castle of Illusion for my birthday that year. That was it for me.Sonic 2 sealed the deal when it came out."

I played a ton of C64 games when I was a kid, but I can't really remember any of them.

However, I have a few game experiences that have defined me:

• Super Mario Bros.: I got a NES for christmas and I probably lived inside the mushroom kingdom for a month afterwards.
• Mega Man 5: While I appreciate MM2 and MM3 more today, MM5 is the game I played the most and it was awesome... or so I thought...
• Final Fantasy VII: My all time favorite, this game really was my introduction to the RPG genre and the first time I played it, I thought. "This is dumb." and chucked it behind my copies of *shameful admission* Battle Arena Toshinden and Tomorrow Never Dies... But I brought it out a year later and I was spellbound from beginning to end. I would sit for hours running around, fighting monsters. ***spoiler, I guess*** And yes, I cried when Aeris died. ***you can look now***
  
• Tekken 3: Best fighting game ever, and I know a lot of people will dispute me on this. To me though, this game was mindblowing when I first played it.
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblvion: Okay, this doesn't really belong here because it's too new, but I thought I had to mention it. While I still maintain that FFVII is my favorite game of all time, this runs a very close second. In fact, there's no game I've ever played as much as this and I play games for a long, long time. I've put in 1000 hours at least, or a month and a half.
  

Golden Axe, Sonic the Hedgehog and Gunstar Heroes.

Man, the Mega Drive was such a great console.

Super Mario 64 ;)

Generic Atari 2600 games, Link, and Mario Bros.

The first game I remember playing was one of the Alex Kidd games which was built into my Master System.

The first game I ever "chose" to buy was Chameleon Kid on the Megadrive.

But at the same time I remember playing alot of Street Fighter II on the SNES at a friends place.

So yeah, a bit different to others.

Donkey Kong Country and Super Mario World made me want to play games. I tried, but I only kept falling and dying. I'm thinking that might be the answer you're looking for.

Dangerous Dave- in 1992 (or was it in 91?). And then Prince of Persia.
Oh yeah- and NES games. Mario was AWESOME.

Pong, Freeway, Super Mario Bros., Duck Hunt.

Super Mario Land, Pokemon Blue and Mega Man 2(GB).

Im fucking young.Probably posted this sometime but Half Life 1.
I played small pointless games like Bubble Bobble,Pacman and Counter Strike but Half Life 1 convinced me that games actually interacted with me as a player and had a point to them.I didnt have much exposure to games at that time.I was young and lived in a tiny Eastern European country.

Kirby.

Mario Bros/Duck Hunt and Tetris.