First time you said, "Woah, those graphics are amazing!"

Probably Mario 64.... yea.

If not that, then the first time I saw an FMV cutscene in FF7.

One of those are the first time. I've said it many more after that.

3-D Worldrunner, 3-D glasses.

Ironically, that was how I was introduced to Square.

Kings Quest 4. The jump from CGA to EGA was huge for me.dchan01

Snap! You are right. The difference between 3 and 4 was huge. I miss those games so much.

Definitely when you're coming out of the first dungeon in Elder Scrolls IV.

My 360 purchase was sooo justified when I saw that. :P

Super Mario Bros. was the first time I had that reaction. Coming from the Atari 2600 and then seeing that was pretty remarkable. There were so many colors and I could actually identify the character's features. Mario didn't look like a sleeping bag with a white block on top of him anymore. The mushrooms looked like. . . mushrooms!!! It was a pretty big deal.

The last time I had that reaction was the first time I saw Sonic Adventure. I couldn't get over how incredible good the water looked. Everything was 3-D and just amazingly smooth looking.

Since then I've admired a lot of game's art styles like Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, No More Heroes, and several others, but I've never had a jaw dropping experience where I just was floored by how good the game looked.

Flashback for the Amiga 500 way back when.

It was very well animated, epic game. It's the Amigas Super Metroid Prime.

For me, walking around Hyrule for the first time with Link in Ocarina of Time blew me away. But during the SNES, it was Chrono Trigger that caught my eye. For last-gen, God of War 2's intensity made my jaw drop, but it was Resident Evil 4 that blew me away from beginning to end. I think no other game blew me away as much as Resident Evil 4 did. Sure games like Bioshock, Call of Duty 4, and Gears of War 2 are currently making me say "wow," but the impact Resident Evil 4 had was tremendous.

So I guess that's my answer. Resident Evil 4 blew me away the most.

Streets of Rage (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis).

When i saw the little drops of water is Mission 2 (?) i thought the level of detail is mind blowing. And if i remember correctly that was on a B&W TV :oops:

Galaxian. Up to that point, color in games was only achieved by slapping colored see-through gel on the monitor. :shock:

The first Gears of War, got that the same day as my HDTV and when i played it i was amazed, other then that i suppose it was when i got MGS4

I think it might have been the water in Wave Race 64 on the N64. Then again maybe the first time I saw Tekken Tag Tournment.Kage1

For myself, it was Ninja Gaiden in 1989. Seriously, going from Frogger and Excitebike to Ninja Gaiden was huge.

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For me it would have been the original Doom. It actually sat on my computer desk for over a week after my brother in law introduced me to it. I saw no preview of it at all... but when I played the very first level I was just like "WHOA!!! THAT IS AWESOME!" :)

First time I saw Killer Instinct, I thought that it was unlike anything I had ever seen before. Like a moth to a flame, I was drawn in to the luscious visuals and all the little graphical touches that populated the screen. Everything about the game just blew my mind.

For some reason, I was expecting Rare to squeeze the arcade iteration onto an SNES cart but the moment I took it for a test run, I was left incredibly underwhelmed.

You all may think I'm crazy but the first time I thought "Whoa!" was when I played Jet Moto 2....... & in a close second was Virtual fighter.

At the time, they'd come a long way from C-Vision, Atari, & Odessy, which are the consoles I started with close to 30 years ago.

Looking back, yeah the cut-scenes from Ninja Gaiden were pretty awesome.

But, the moment that stands out most to me was the first time Halo was shown at E3. I think it took almost 2 years (and thus was surpassed by other PC FPS) before it came out for the X-Box, but man it was quite a leap compared to everything else when they first demoed it.

Resident Evil for playstation,I remember getting that when I was around 9-10 and me and my friends would be like

"It almost lifelike,nothing will ever surpass this,just look at the realism"

Now I look back on it and think

"Is that square blob me or a enemy"

Also Goldeneye 64