What game made you the gamer you are today?

There has to be one game or game series that led you into the life of gaming. For me, Spyro the Dragon, Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter definetly made a huge impact on me. What games made you the gamer you are today?

Without Street Fighter II, I would've undoubtedly lost interest in gaming by the time I hit my teens.DarkCatalyst

Heh, Croc 2, and Alladin: Nazeera's Revenge or w.e :P

ms. pac man

Grand Theft Auto 3, Tekken, and Gex. :)

I would have to say Super Mario 64 or 007:Goldeneye. I remember playing those games non stop when I was younger. I never really got into Mario though. But Goldeneye definitely got me interested in first person shooters.

- I was 6 years old and I really enjoyed spending hours of my life watching the t.v show and playing the game ( it was such a great rpg )

- My first game ever. I was very lucky to play this as my first game instead of some other crap game like fifa 1988

Street Fighter 2 on the Snes.

Yoshis Island

Super Mario 64

GTA: San Andreas

Super Mario Sunshine, without a doubt.

DEFINATELY Pokemon Blue. It was the first game i ever actually cared about

I'd say without Grand Theft Auto (PS1) and Sega Rally on the Mega Drive, I wouldn't have an interest in gaming at all. Those games brought me into the gaming world properly.

the Legend of Zelda: Link to the past, and pokemon silver turned me into the gamer I am today.

Majora's Mask and Metroid Prime kept the ball rolling.

You can probably guess it if you look at my avatar.Treflis

Socom (the very first one)- got me into online shooters

Goldeneye was awesome, but I never had a N64 :(

MVP BAseball 2004- got me into baseball/sports games

Pokemon RBY- got me into RPGs

Final Fantasy X definetily had the most impact on the gamer I am today. Call of Duty 2 really helped me become an avid multiplayer gamer though.

Final Fantasy 7 was the video game that really pushed me into the threshold of the video game community. The title really showed me the kind of experience you can get in a video game which that I've never experienced before.

Halo and DoA

I got into gaming by the time the GBA came out. :P

Pokemon Sapphire really got me into video games.

Super Mario Bros.

Ninja Gaiden

The Revenge of Shinobi

TMNT The Arcade Game

Double Dragon II The Revenge

Ms. Pac Man

I would say Zelda LTTP on the SNES

Original C&C

Sonic The Hedgehog... may he rest in peace...

pitfall 2 that game was so epic

The original Super Mario Brothers on the NES was what got me into gaming.

There's been a few. It's mostly the games that inspired me to buy certain consoles...

However there's a couple that deserve a special mention...

- The Last Ninja (Commodore 64) This was the first game I remember wanting so badly, that I had to get the console.

- Double Dragon (Arcade) This game had me travelling to the arcade with my mates every day as a kid, and stole more money from me than any arcade game before it.

- Street Fighter 2 (Arcade) When this first hit the arcades, my friends and I wagged about a week of school to play it. Never before had fighting games been anywhere near this cool!

- Mortal Kombat (Arcade/ Mega Drive) I'll never forget the first time I saw MK. My younger brother dragged me into his bedroom to show me this new game he had (and promptly thereafter enjoy kicking my a** at it). So he gives me a hiding, and I'm ready to get back to whatever I was doing, then he rips my still beating heart out of my chest! WHAT ? ? ? Never before had I seen such a bold display of violence in a video game! I was blown away, and let him kick my a** with every pleyer to see all the fatalities. I bought a Mega Drive the next day, and became a bit of a legend at our local arcade... Undefeated for over a year at MK1. Then undefeated throughout the run of MK2. ;)

The first game I ever played was Super Mario Bros. Classic. But the one game that got me into gaming and into the community- Burnout 3 Takedown. Brilliant racing game. And this generation, The Orange Box got me hooked onto first person shooters. Thanks Half-Life 2!

Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord started my love of RPGs.

There has to be one game or game series that led you into the life of gaming. For me, Spyro the Dragon, Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter definetly made a huge impact on me. What games made you the gamer you are today?

bigboss1203

The old Game Boy and Game Boy Color pokemon games. They are what got me into RPG's as well as pokemon games.

Primal Rage for the PC got me into fighting games, which i play a lot of now.

I think that was it for me.

mario, zelda wind waker, spyro year of the dragon, and final fantasy

Some arcade game (maybe Contra) was my first step. First game of my own was Super Mario Bros. You could probably say that they made me become a gamer (I was really young at the time, though). However, I have to credit Turok, Halo, and Morrowind for opening the doors to FPSs and PC gaming for me, as I'm mostly a PC gamer these days, focusing on FPSs, WRPGs, and action/adventures.

Fury 3 on PC back when I was 4-5. I still remember playing it like it was yesterday.

Though I'd been gaming long before the game I'm about to mention, I feel my hobby just changed into something much better after I played it. The game I mention is my favorite game, Kingdom Hearts. Something...struck me by the game. It not only changed my outlook on gaming, it made me appreciate the little things in life a little bit more. Thanks KH, you will never be forgotten.

Though in retrospect, the games that formed my childhood were the Pokémon games, Crash Bandicoot series (Naughty Dog, of course), Spyro series (Insomniac), Banjo Kazooie (and Tooie), Majora's Mask, Donkey Kong 64, Star Ocean 2, Final Fantasy X and Monster Rancher 2, most in different points in time. Magical games, all of them.