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.

Link to the Past for me

Asteriods, Atari 2600

First game was Safari Race on a Sega SC-3000. After that mainly played PC games when they were a thing and had a 1st gen Gameboy.

I gave up on games and tried to adult through my 20s... but after a bad breakup I bought an Xbox-360 and Skyrim and it's been a hobby ever since.

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.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Pong.

Carmageddon, it was the first 3d game I had played and I spent all my time at my grandparents house playing it. I still regard it as one of the best games ever made.

Pokémon then was reinvigorated but Minecraft.

As far as multiplayer games, I'd have to say Descent, the original one from 1994. I actually had a copy of the game years before I even had a PC capable of playing it at anything over 3FPS LOL!

Once I did finally upgrade to a decent PC, we held LAN parties at my place and we had an absolute blast!

Oddly enough, I can honestly say I've never played any games over the internet though. For me it's either single player games, or LAN party whenever we would play multiplayer.

Pitfall on Atari

Word rescue by 3D Realms, and maths rescue. Can still get them on steam!

Boulder Dash on a Commodore 64 connected to a 20 inch CRT television in the living room of my grandmother, I guess around 1985 or so...

Pokemon Platinum

Dangerous Dave.

Am I a gamer? Not sure. But Oblivion really blew my mind. I pirated it not knowing anything about it, I just googled "best games of last year" and that thing was the suggested result.

I was hooked. Years afterwards when my situation changed I bought it on Steam, along with Skyrim. I don't think I've ever played the steam copy.

Watched my dad play kings quest 2 when I was a kid.

Fallout 4.

I started Fallout 4, instantly loved it, and got the initial few quests done and made my way into the open world. There were also side quests asking for help and stuff though. I thought to myself - let's knock out the small stuff so I can get the hang of this.

400 hours later I was basically fighting deathclaws with a high XP character and had barely completed past diamond City I think.

I didn't realize the side quests never stop and I'm an idiot but I was having fun anyway. I eventually looked up why I had to do so many and realized my issue. Finished the game shortly after because I had a maxed out character basically for beginner missions.

first game I got into was Pokemon Blue, but Guild Wars is what turned me into a gamer

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.

Sonic the Hedgehog

Super Mario Bros got me in. It was my older sister's game, so it was just something we had around the house for as long as I can remember. I think that's a great first game to get into, because it has wonderful art and music, and simple, straightforward challenges to overcome.

On the flip side, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain got me out of gaming for the most part. I had never been more excited for something than by the story being painted by the trailers leading up to the game's release. I was already a big time MGS fan, and I'd say I still am. I even enjoyed MGS5 basically right up until the moment I beat it, and then I reflected on everything I just saw and felt utterly deceived. Empty open world, lots if time wasting interstitial moments, grind-based mechanics, and an unfinished story that didn't need to take as long as it did to tell (and was stupid, too).

Super mario bros

Myst.

Super Mario Land on the Nintendo Gameboy, and Lemmings on PC/DOS.

Dune II

The Little Big Planet series.

Half-Life. The first game I played was Mech Warrior 2 and I played a few others like Lemmings, Warcraft 2, and Falcon 3.0. In fact, Half-Life I played for about 10 minutes and put down. I hit the part right after the accident where you were supposed to go back to the lobby and go through the vent, but that wasn't obvious to me. So I got lost and didn't know what to do. I put it down for about a week until a friend came by and was like :o you have Half-Life?! That's a great game. I was like "I dunno, it doesn't seem great, I got stuck fairly early." They immediately went through the vent and I questioned why I didn't do that or see that at first. So I played the rest of the game and loved it.

BUT! It doesn't stop there because Half-Life had a huge modding scene and multiplayer. I remember playing and hosting a ton of different mods from my broadband internet. It was like I was a beacon for these mods where I'd just host the server as a listen server, play along with everyone, and moderate while playing. It was a very amazing time where I could really feel a community building up in games.

Couldn't give you the exact game that got me hooked, but I have been playing for pretty much my whole life. Earliest I can recall that could have gotten me hooked is either Yoshi's Story on n64 or some edutainment PC game where in one part you were moving pirate objects like a pyramid of cannon balls and other stuff away to clear a stone room.

Otherwise it could have been plenty of other games like some ps1 Egypt pharaoh themed game that was something like tetris or something similar.

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

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

Bubble Bobble on the C64 :)

Neverwinter Nights and Roller Coaster Tycoon when I was a little kid. I watched my dad play Neverwinter and had to indulge in my own tiny fantasy to play as a "dragon." Still at it.

Pokémon Gold, when I was 8, got it for Christmas. Technically my first game was Battleship, which I opened first, but I probably spent thousands of hours playing Pokémon Gold. :) I've played almost every Pokémon game since, up until Scarlet/Violet, which I haven't gotten yet, but maybe I will eventually.

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.

While there was a bunch I played before it, Quake 2 and the rabbit hole of mods for it, were what really got me hooked. Really loving the remaster that just launched and what that is bringing to the mod community that is still going strong to this day.

A Sega Mega Drive Car Game called: Lotus Turbo Challenge by EA from 1990

How do all of you even know? I was like 4 and played an NES at a friend's house then got a game boy. Did you all get in at older ages? My memories at 4 are mostly gone.

In theory, Super Mario Bros. on the NES, because that's the first game I really played by myself. But I'm not sure it really is, because at that time video games were just a thing you did, like watching TV. So I never considered myself a gamer as such, just someone who would casually drop in on games here and there. I was never involved in them, I'd just play for a bit, then go and do something else.

Fast forward to a few years ago, and my wife (who plays a lot of games) suggested I play To The Moon, and that got me hooked. A video game that made me cry - amazing.

Since then I've played more games, looking for ones with a great story. Played RDR2 last year, and nothing has come close to it since.

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).