What video game(s) got you hooked on video games?

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For me it was Combat,Warlords,Asteroids, and Kaboom.I did own that ugly orange and black console called 'Pong' back in the day.Of course the coin-ups at the time where I dumped all my allowance were Pacman,Centipede, Robotron. I probably just dated myself but hey once a gamer always a gamer.

 

If you can call the ancient Amiga 500 a console, the football manager games "The Manager" and "Championship Manager" definitely got me hooked on that machine.

 

championship manager rules supreme - but goalkeepers are still way too overpowered

 

What got me really hooked was the nintendo entertainment system and Super Mario Bros, Metroid, Zelda and other great games. But before that i had an black box of some kind with a huge joystick and plastic screens you put on the box screen if you wanted colour to games like asteroids and pacman.

 

Phoenix

 

Aztec Challenge on the good old breadbox C64.
My first D&D obsession was "Warriors of the eternal sun" on the Sega Megadrive.


[This message has been edited by BogiTheWaverer (edited November 16, 2001).]

 

Yeah, Atari 2600 reveled in it's time.

Then Apple/Commodore/Amiga took over.

Nintendo upped the ante.

And PC's did a hostile takover of the company.

And to top it all off, everyone is coding emulators that return you to start.

 

It all began when my Dad's Amoco (now BP) charge card sent him "PONG" as a gift.

From there we got Atari, and I loved "Adventrue" ... does anyone remember having a little smily face, carrying a sword to kill one of the 3 dragons, and then ... *spoiler* finding the little multicolored "DOT" and dragging it to the castle so you can get the cool hidden graphics???

I jumped from Atari to Commador 64 and got Zork, Bards Tale & Ultima.

 

Adventure was awsome!!! Venture for coleco, was another fun game. Winkey, the Hall monsters, those cheesey skeletons, WOW!!! What an upgrade we have now!

Sword of Aragon for Amiga was a classic for me!!

"Can I play with yer Ameeger? I don't really want to play with it, I just like saying Ameeger!"

 

First computer game - Hopper(frogger clone) on BBC Micro
First CRPG - Zelda on Gameboy
First PC games - Theme Park and C&C Red Alert

 

Arcade:
Space Invaders
Asteroids
Galaga

Trash 80:
Zork
Taipei

My buddy Chris had a Magnavox TV with Pong built in.

 

BBC Micro:
-Skirmish
-Temple of Evil
-Repton (in all his various incarnations)

Amiga 500:
-Civilisation
-Street Fighter II
-Mortal Kombat
-Monkey Island I & II
-Robocop ( :s )


[This message has been edited by Will (edited November 17, 2001).]

 

I first started with C64 I got somewhere in '88 but managed to make it work after whole 5 years, that is in '93. Some of the best games were Giana Sisters, 1942, Battle Trough Time. There was also a game called Druid, which I really liked because it had elements of fantasy, spellcasting and such.
Later I got the Gameboy, after my brother sold the C64. The best game was Zelda, definately.
Then, in '96, I got the computer and I mostly played Mortal Kombat and similar stuff. But then I got Daggerfall, in April of '97, the game that really got me hooked to CRPGs.
One of the best games ever. After that game I became an RPG fan and started my Wasted Years...

 

Ahh, nostalgia

I first started with alkabeth back in 1990, sure it was fairly old by then, but it played great, and I still love that little game Then I went on to play all the classic gold/silver box dnd games.

 

Well, I never owned a console, and my first PC game was some boulderdash clone, Rockford or something. So that's the game that got me into computers. How I miss that game...

 

Well the first stuff I ever played was on the old Atari system. Mostly pac man and ET. But what honestly got me hooked was my first experience at an arcade. It was for some birthday party, and at first I didn't like it. But for whatever reason I started playing Gauntlet. And I think that was the first game that hooked me. There were lots later of course, both arcade game and console game. Then years later came coputer game, and I think you all can figure out the rest of the story.

 

superfrog..ribbit..ha! gotcha mr bee!

 

My parents had an Apple IIe that had some fantasy game on it -- maybe it was "Adventure". This is circa 1978. But no computer game ever interested me much until Age of Empires I. So I'm a Janie-come-lately.

 

CBM64 (1984)
Temple of Apshai Trilogy. My 1st cRPG. *g*
Oh and China Miner.

 

mine was the mega drive and the sonic series but i got into RPGs with BG