What was your first major game?

What game got you started in playing video games?  Not necessarily the first one you got but what was the one that really got you started into playing?
 
For me it was Dragon Warrior I way back in the 80's.  I was terrible at the game and never quite got around to beating it but I was totally hooked on that type of game play.

What game got you started in playing video games?  Not necessarily the first one you got but what was the one that really got you started into playing?
 
For me it was Dragon Warrior I way back in the 80's.  I was terrible at the game and never quite got around to beating it but I was totally hooked on that type of game play.

Mega Man 2. It is also the reason I learned how to swear.

A pile of archaic shite known as Loaded.

Mega Man, came with the console. 
 
Rage.

The Battle for Middle Earth. I have not been gaming very long.

Brother had a SNES with Super Mario World and Pilotwings that I first started playing on. First game of my own was a Genesis with Sonic 2.

Sonic 2 and Ocarina of Time.

Probably Pitfall. I thought it was awesome at the time.
 

Ninja gaiden

Super Mario Bros. Not the most unique answer, but it's true dammit!

Star Wars was basically what got me into gaming, so my first BIG games were Jedi Outcast and KotOR. My first BIG non-Star Wars game was Halo: CE. Good times...

Sonic and Knuckles Collection for the PC.

Between Super Mario Bros. and Tetris.

Joe Montana Football for Genesis. My dad had it and Altered Beast 
When I finally got to play it, I played Altered Beast, but my dad wouldn't let me touch it so I watched him play JMF. 
 
 I loved mimicking Joe's commentary. 
 
"Great Catch!" 
"Great Game" 
"Great Play!"

Duck Hunt, Super Mario Bros.

Kings Quest III.

Super Mario World. First game I ever played and to this day, still the best.

" Super Mario Bros. Not the most unique answer, but it's true dammit! "

Eh, Super Mario Bros. I guess? I never stopped to think that there would be a time when I wouldn't want to be playing videogames. If not that then probably one of the other Marios'.

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Halo, It was the first game i beat where i actually paid attention to the story.

Hmm that would have to be Super Mario. I started playing those Mario games when I was 5 and I've been gaming ever since :)

Final Fantasy IV for the SNES 

Super Mario World. I liked the NES and the games well enough, but World really blew me away.

Super Mario World

This may sound somewhat odd, but Super Smash Bros. Melee. I played a lot of it back before Brawl took over, and eventually grew curious of just where the hell Marth and Roy came from. After finding out, I decided to play a bit of Fire Emblem, and then emulated it. My first ever emulated game was Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu. That game frigging ruled, and it started a long love of Fire Emblem and gaming. Interestingly, I also grew curious about Ness' game, and decided to play Earthbound. I originally did not like it. I was an idiot, but in that regard, only.

" Super Mario Land (Nintendo GameBoy) 

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" @shadowknight508 said:

" Super Mario Land (Nintendo GameBoy) 

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Ohh, I remember I opened that gift first that Christmas morning...me not being the sharpest six year old, I thought Santa messed up because I didn't have a Gameboy. Guess what else I got that Christmas. "

super mario/ duck hunt, contra. these games were the most played game that i played.

I don't know.

super mario bros! ill never forget the day of playing it for the first time seeing my dads smile while i was playing it was priceless. i was 5 years old.

I have been playing games since I was very young starting with Super Mario Brothers, but I never really got super hardcore into gaming until I started playing Counter-Strike with some friends from school.

I'd say Combat, probably. Either that or Pitfall!

For me, my first major game was also my first game.
 
Donkey Kong Country

It's hard to say because it was pretty gradual.  I had wanted a Gameboy for months after it came out, and by then I would say my mindset is much what it is now.  I will say that I didn't define myself as much as someone who loved video games before I had the GameBoy, but it wasn't really Tetris that did it for me.

While it wasn't the first game I played (fucked if I remember which it was) Doom was the first memorable game I played that solidifed my gaming interest. 

All started on the PC, games like the Mechwarrior series, lot's of Earthsiege aswell. Wasen't far after i played the demo of Starcraft from PCGamer i believe, fuck i was loving it!

" A pile of archaic shite known as Loaded. "

Super Mario World and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

SMB3 was my very first game.

I think the first system I had was a Gameboy Colour with Pokemon Silver or something? or perhaps the PS1 we got with Formula 1 and Tekken 3. I played a bunch of PS1 games, but got hooked when I picked up my first FF game, Final Fantasy IX. It was so different to everything out there I'd been playing. The original Tony Hawk games (THPS1 & 2 on PS1) were really big in our household too as my brother was a skater back then. Was pretty big on the original Crash Bandicoot games as well, and the original Spyro. (I know I'm naming a lot of games, but my memory is struggling to single out just one major game influence)

Pokemon and starcraft. Still love them both <3