What was the game that made you a gamer?

some random atari game made me a "gamer" can't remember but I didn't become a hardcore gamer till Halo CE came out. That was the first game that I ever really put in hours upon hours to master and then play multiplayer in. Before then I was just a casual who didn't even finish 99% of the games he played and only really played sports games and the occasional fighter or maybe run around GTA or something. Now I play all genres and probably put way too much time into gaming lol.

Super Mario Bros. on NES. Once I started playing it, I knew.

Super Mario 64

Pokemon Blue. I mean I had played Tetris and Pong and whatnot but Pokemon blue was when I played a game for HOURS for the first time

@blamix99 said:

Yep.

Can't remember but games on Atari console (was already there in my home , owned by someone for few years) , Contra and Street Fighter 2 were one of the very first games . The games that seriously brought me into gaming were Megaman and Max Payne .

Alex Kidd in Miracle World (1986, Sega Master System)

Game I can remember was Toe Jam and Earl on Genesis. I still remember quickscoping waterfoul on duck hunt too. Still got the pistol and everything

Super Mario Bros 3 on NES was the first game to hook me. But I don't think I became the big gamer I am today until late into the PS1's life, as well as the PS2-era. Kingdom Hearts, Halo, FFX, THUG, NFSU, God of War, there were a lot of games that I became absolutely absorbed in in ways that I hadn't in previous generations. That was also when I joined Gamespot and began reading up on and conversing video games heavily.

Pokemon R/B/Y and Super Mario Land made me a handheld gamer. Starcraft and Red Alert got me gaming on the PC. PS1 was my first console but I was a casual then. Though I suppose Ace Combat helped.

you know something, it was mgs1 for me too. I had played many games before then, but I never knew a game can be so beautifully made. the story, the setting, the amazing atmosphere, the sorrow, it was and still is the best game I have ever played. Even if kojima remakes it with the new fox engine, I have a feeling it won't be the same. masterpieces like that should be left alone, its like remaking The Godfather, just don't do it.

Just a gamer? don't remember..Hardcore one (gamer at heart)? Prince of Persia.

That's a tough one... I really started to get into gaming after I bought my first console, PS1. So games like Crash Bandicoot really got me hooked early on.

From there however, I think games like Halo (original Xbox), then later on Half-Life 2, really turned it into my main hobby.

Super Mario Bros. Battle City and Final Fantasy VIII after these games, the flood gates just opened. MGS, Soul Reaver, Suikoden, Tenchu, Gran Turismo and Front Mission. I'm a big PlayStation fan so most of my games are PS exclusives and multiplatform on the PS1,PS2,PSP,PS3 and soon PS4! Thank you Sony!

@SolidGame_basic: ATARI 2600 in general

I started playing SMB3 1990 when I was 2 years old. Been hooked ever since.

I don't really like this question upon reflection, I've been a gamer for as long as I can remember and it's just who I am, it's in my blood I guess. We don't ask gay people when they became gay, they're just born that way; same applies here.

sonic the hedgehog. but pokemon red took it to another level.

Sonic 1 & Sonic 2.

Tennis for the Odyssey (basically Pong before Atari stole the idea) is the game that made me a gamer. The game that really got me hooked (or addicted I guess) was Pitfall.

Mario.

Contra.

Road Rash.

Drakan: Order of the Flame

Super Mario Bros. 3

Pong, Odyssey home console, Space Invaders, Pacman, Atari 2600.. the rest is history. :P.

Super Mario Bros got me into gaming. I played it a bunch until I got to the World 7 castle, but then I decided the game was just unfair and therefore not fun. The first game I played hardcore was Mike Tyson's Punch Out. It took me a couple of years to beat it, but it was really rewarding knocking out Iron Mike. The game that really steered me to the hardcore stuff was Castles: Siege and Conquest, though.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2....it came with my Genesis. The rest is history....

Asteroids.

A Link to the Past

It shit on every game released up until that point.

Hell, it shits on 99.9% of games released afterwards.

Combat for the Atari 2600 was the game that got me interested in gaming in the first place but it was Sonic the Hedgehog (Genesis) was the game that cemented my love for it.

I became a gamer at a very very young age so I'm not sure what game did it for me. Could of been Asteroids, Lemmings, or some robot fighting game called One Must Fall.

Return to Castle wolfenstein or Medal of Honor AA

My ZX Spectrum 128k came with some games (Navy Seals, Space Harrier, Sir Fred, Dizzy and a few others), so i dont remember the exact game that made me a gamer! Those were some of my first favourites.

An earlier version of this Interstate 1160. We had the Interstate 595 - The controllers are different and it didn't have the gun or gun games. If I remember correctly it has 10 pong style games like football, grid ball, basket ball, tennis, basically various version of sticks and squares getting knocked around the screen at faster and faster speeds. I really can't be arsed climbing around in the loft trying to find it, it's there somewhere though and as far I know it still works.

The most amazing thing about was full colour, if 4 colours count as full!

Yes I'm older than the average person in here.

Combination of Legend of Zelda, Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy.

Combat on the original Atari. I was 6.

Berserk and River Raid for the Atari 2600.

I was playing Atari games before I was three and I disliked the graphics of the games I was playing. My first favorite controller game was Super Mario Bros. and my first favorite gun game was Duck Hunt which came with it.

@GarGx1 said:

An earlier version of this Interstate 1160. We had the Interstate 595 - The controllers are different and it didn't have the gun or gun games. If I remember correctly it has 10 pong style games like football, grid ball, basket ball, tennis, basically various version of sticks and squares getting knocked around the screen at faster and faster speeds. I really can't be arsed climbing around in the loft trying to find it, it's there somewhere though and as far I know it still works.

The most amazing thing about was full colour, if 4 colours count as full!

Yes I'm older than the average person in here.

Interesting. I've never heard of the Interstate 595 or Interstate 1160 before. The interwebs doesn't seem to have anything on the 595, and the site on 1160 says it was some kind of Pong knock-off made in Hong Kong in 1977. Still, the 4-colour palette is pretty impressive for a first-gen console. If the 595 was released before the Fairchild Channel F in 1976, then it may very well be the first colour console.

Zelda OOT

Pokemon on my gameboy!

I'd have to say Pokemon Red, never before had I spent hundreds of hours on a game.

Moon Patrol on the good old Atari 2600.

Street Fighter II, without a doubt.

Donkey Kong and Pac-Man arcades

+1

As a kid, I had an old Commodore 64 and then one day I had a NES hooked up to the TV and SMB blew everyone away. The difference was like how I imagine moving from a third world country to a first world country must be like.

pokemon red / blue

Mario brothers, donkey kong, gauntlet in Atari. Umm probably so other Atari or NES games as well.

Jungle Hunt sparked my interest in games and SMB solidified it.

Mario/duck hunt