I am old, so I was there in the very beginning.
I actually played Space Invaders in the arcade when it was a new concept (and most machines were pinball). I had (and still have) an Atari 2600 and a Commodore 64 (and an IBM PCjr...look it up, kids).
The game that hooked me on PC gaming was King's Quest...this is the first fully animated graphic adventure ever made. I still have my original copy and all packaging in mint condition (not sure what it's worth, but I'm assuming quite a bit given its place in history).
For more modern-era gaming, it was Wolfstein 3d/Doom/Half Life 1. Those games made me a FPS maniac in the day. Even now, and even though I'll play games from any genre, my two go-to genres are adventure games and FPS, depending upon whether I want more plot or more action. :)
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Pitfall, Boxing, Breakout, Galaxian on Atari 2600.
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter on arcades.
Contra, Exitebike, Tank, Duck Hunt, Virtua Cop, Hogan’s Alley, Wild Gunman on Nintendo.
Syndicate, Colonization, UFO: Enemy Unknown, Raptor on PC.
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What would you say is the first game(s) that got you from having a casual interest in games to someone really into gaming?
I would say I have two phases in this:
1) Super Mario Bros 2 on the Game Boy Advanced was the first time I really found myself getting into a game that made me want to play the rest of the series. It was a really solid game and I even 100% it because it was so fun. I also ended up getting the Game Boy Advanced versions of Super Mario Bros 3 and Super Mario World because of it. And when I bought the Nintendo Wii I got Super Mario Galaxy and Super Smash Bros. Brawl because they also had Mario and I knew I would have a good time.
2) Super Smash Bros. Brawl is probably the game that ultimately got me into gaming in the sense that from then on I would look into the history and current happenings of the game industry. This is the result of the fact that SSBB takes characters from multiple Nintendo franchises and puts them all into one game. I was familiar with Mario and all Mario related characters, but pretty much everyone else was new to me (well, I was also aware of Pokemon, but only in terms of the trading cards). This got me into looking into the other characters and wanting to play the games they were in. The first character I ended up looking into was Link, and so I ended up playing The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap. This was something new for me and I really loved it and now the Zelda series is one of my favourites. Another character I got introduced to was Ness from EarthBound, which is now one of my favourite games.
This in general got me into emulation and so it gave me a reason to look into the past of gaming looking for as many good games as I can that I might have missed out on. And nowadays I'm also always looking forward to new games as well, especially games that give new experiences which is most prevalent in the indie scene.
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