What game genre actually attracted you to games?

[handsock]

I'd have to say the hundreds of great RPGs I've played over the years.

[Henkie]

It was mostly platform games when I first laid hands on a computer...

[Frood]

arcade style games.

I played Timon and Pumba's Jungle Games when I was like seven, never looked back.

[Total Madman]

Probably stuff like streets of rage. Or Dangerous Dave on MS DOS lol

[NMpwnsTX]

pretty much the same, for me it was playing double dragon on a old shitty computer at a friends house.

[Lunacy182]

Mortal Kombat. Bubble Bobble



i fucking love bubble bobble

[pstain]

I went to visit my step-brother one day and he was playing DOOM on his computer. I tried it and was instantly hooked. I bought my first computer about 2 weeks later. I bought DOOM, Operation Body Count, and Rise Of The Triad: Dark War. I guess FPS games are what attracted me.

[bobscott]

Blast Chamber (http://img.gamespot.com/gamespot/images/screenshots/2/196772/blastcha_screen004.jpg)

Fuck yes.


That was the first game that really got me into games, but the first good game I've ever realy played was Toe Jam and Earl (http://wiinintendo.net/wp-content/ToejamEarl_Split.jpg)

[YouEnjoyMyself]

First person shooters, turn-based strategy games and real-time strategy games got me hooked.

edit: Doom, Quake, Wolfenstien, Warcraft, Civilization, Sim City and the hundreds of obscure strategy games released in the 90s.

[break3r]

GTA 2 was where it started for me

[ahaga]

Sim City and Myst

[PsiRedEye22]

RTS. Specifically Command and Conquer, was the first PC game I ever played.

[shawneboy]

GoldenEye ruined my life, then to please my addiction I moved on to the stronger crack, Unreal Tournament. It's been a FPS life since.

[Meuchelmorder]

Super Mario Bros.

[homicidal_pete]

I played video games casually for a while, but the game that elevated me to hardcore status was FFVIII. It was the first RPG I had ever played and remains my favorite game to this day. RPG's are pretty much the only genre I still care about.

[its me]

Dead Space.

[SatanTheSith]

Spryo the dragon and tomba 2 really got me into games.

[bobscott]

Spryo the dragon and tomba 2 really got me into games.

holly shit I remember Tomba. I got a demo disc in the mail and played it like a million times. Great shit.

Never really found out why I got it in the mail though. I never sent out for it...

[cloudfox]

Super Mario Bros. 3 was all it took for me. Then I moved on to RPG's like Final Fantasy VII and Brave Fencer Musashi. I spent months trying to N. Oxide on Crash Team Racing.


JRPG's do it for me, though. Squaresoft made awesome games like the Final Fantasy series. Star Ocean was fucking awesome too. I know they get a lot of hate on these forums, but RPG's are my life. LULZ!

[Daucus Karota]

Roleplaying games like Fallout, Planescape Torment and Baldur's Gate

[Lividum]

Halo 3 .

[MaltLiquor]

Super Mario Brothers 3, then Tomb Raider.
RPG/Adventure Games...

[BassGuitar25]

...but the first good game I've ever realy played was Toe Jam and Earl (http://wiinintendo.net/wp-content/ToejamEarl_Split.jpg)

Fuck yea!! Early NES games like zelda and mario got me into gaming, then the Genesis sealed the deal.

[FlyinG ShoosteR]

Platforming games (rest in peace), got me into gaming, with awesome shit like Super Mario World and Donkey Kong Country. The first system I bought was an N64... those were the days.

[DannyboyKills]

I started playing the original Diablo, then later Diablo 2, that got me completely hooked into gaming, and as I was older, the idea of gaming with other people.

So now I'm an MMO nerd with no life.

Thank you Diablo.

[sKin]

Super Mario :)

And Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time took it to a whole new fucking level.

[rerat]

First I ever played was Wolfenstein,
What got me into games was Sonic 2, Comix Zone, Chuck Rock.
Later- Silent Hill, MGS, TOmb Raider(I fucking loved just fuckin around in the house, jumping off shit into the pool and whatnot).

[clutch-monkey]

At first it was 2-d shooters - like that raptor game that had a shareware copy on a lot of new comps - and then FPS's like wolfenstein.
then later, Goldeneye.

[goatastixx]

I played video games casually for a while, but the game that elevated me to hardcore status was FFVIII. It was the first RPG I had ever played and remains my favorite game to this day. RPG's are pretty much the only genre I still care about.

basically the exact same thing for me, except it was final fantasy 9. that game was my crack for like a year. had good times(chocobo hot and cold), bad times( files getting erased, spending a month on a boss to finally beat it and then learn it takes 1 item to kill instantly:wah:). but to this day is my favorite game of all time.

[/rant]

[Total Madman]

Dead Space.

So, you've only been playing games for a few weeks? I s'pose you gotta start somewhere.

Wanna come over? :cool:

[YorkshireMan]

the first game i can remember the name of playing is Total Annihilation, hell of a game.

[Total Madman]

the first game i can remember the name of playing is Total Annihilation, hell of a game.

I re-installed it after about 8 years of not playing, and I don't know what the hell I'm doing lol

[YorkshireMan]

I re-installed it after about 8 years of not playing, and I don't know what the hell I'm doing lol

he he think I sold all my TA games.......Tried that Supreme Commander demo, but couldn't get into it really. Thought I would like it.

[shane7x]

Doom then Duke Nukem

FPS FTW

[Rootraz]

Platformers, Fighting games, and LucasArts point-and-click adventure games

[burningcow422]

old DOS platformers and 3d shooters back in the day where you had to type shit to get into games lol

[Fungus Amungus]

Myst and RTS, like Age of Empires.

[homicidal_pete]

basically the exact same thing for me, except it was final fantasy 9. that game was my crack for like a year. had good times(chocobo hot and cold), bad times( files getting erased, spending a month on a boss to finally beat it and then learn it takes 1 item to kill instantly:wah:). but to this day is my favorite game of all time.

[/rant]

Yeah, the first time I played FFVIII I got to the end of the third disc and got stuck on a boss. After countless attempts I finally beat it, and didn't save and went straight into another boss fight with one KO'ed character and the other two almost dead. After that I wasn't able to beat the first boss again. All the characters in the strategy guide had 9999 HP, and mine only had about 1500.

So I restarted the game and took more time leveling up and learned how to use the junctioning system, got back to the end of the third disc again, and then my file corrupted.

I was pissed.

[PokemonMaster]

Toejam Earl, the first prince of persia, then what really brought me into it was Megaman 8.

[Fruity_monster]

It was Tony Hawk: Pro Skater for me, then i got around to Tomb Raider, then GoldenEye from there.

[BangoBango]

diablo2 for me...he is the one who started the gaming frenzy.I was playing games before it but really casually, like 5 hours a week maybe less.