What game made you the gamer you are today?

Difficult to say a few games but, platform-wise it'd probably be the Intellivision, Commodore 64, Amiga, Playstation and xbox.

B-17 Bomber, Bard's tale, Elite, Moonstone, Final fantasy series and the Baldur's gate games. Oh and Starcraft for the PC.

And hundreds more :)

Ultima

I won't say any games "made" me the gamer I am today, since I don't really define myself that way. As for games that were "important" during my childhood...

Sonic 2 was the first game I ever played.

Spent many days of my early childhood on my Sega Genesis.

Super Smash Bros. and to a greater degree, Melee.

No game was as competetive during my childhood than Melee. My brother and I would get pissed at each other during some matches.

I'd have to say Mega Man X. The whole X series really. They stole hours away from my life. When all of my brothers were sitting around, experimenting with smoking, I was up in my room playing Mega Man :)

Champions of Norrath.

Turned me hardcore.

Call of Duty 4 got me into hardcore gaming, but Pokemon Blue was my first ever game and I played that soo much ( probably over 10000 hours :P )

Secret of Mana - started my love for co op

Final fantasy IV started my love for story telling

Mechwarrior started my love for complex games.

Doom, Command and Conquer, and Super Metroid.

The games that had the biggest impact on me were:

Doom & Doom 2-- To go from playing NES side-scrollers to this engaging 3D fragfest was a huge leap. Even at that young age, I was absolutely amazed at the graphics and gameplay. It really opened my eyes to what might come in the future as technology progressed, and I think it's part of the reason why I'm pursuing a career in the industry now. (I have no idea why my parents let me play this game, considering they were pretty strict with everything else, but I'm glad that they did.)

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic-- It was the first game I had ever played where the emphasis was on story, more so than combat or puzzle-solving, and it felt more like reading a good book. I'm now a huge Bioware fan, as well as a fan of story-driven games in general.

final fantasy 7 was the first game i ever completed and i have been waiting pateintly for a game as good ever since

Probably Super Mario Bros 3, I played that loads as a kid and I remember sitting up until the early hours of the morning with a mate trying to finish it one night with out skipping levels. There were a few spectrum games I loved too but I couldn't name them for the life of me now :(.

winning eleven 3 on the PS1

NFS 3: Hot Pursuit - Used to play it on my cousin's PC when I was little, always trying to beat his times while he was sitting next to me giving advice. I believe that that was the influence that made me the fair, competition-loving fellow I consider me to be now.

Too many to list.

While I'd been gaming for years before playing it, Morrowind was the one game that really made me into a gamer.

Well, SMB got me started in console gaming when I was 5 or 6 years old. So, that had a part in making me the gamer I am today.

I'd have to say that my favorite genre is FPS, and so I'd have to therefore say that Goldeneye 007 made me the gamer I am today in that respect.

This is the game that really got me interested in gaming

But I didnt start to consider my self a gamer until I played this one.

Donkey Kong, it was the first game I ever played. It was for my Colecovision.

rez, most probably.

the player i am today, right now is different to the player i was 2 years ago, and the player i was 2 years ago was different to the player i was when i began playing video games. rez was simple, satisfying, bright, deep, conceptual, and how do i say... 'funky'? lol. it defines my player identity well for this period of time. games i play regularly are often japanese rail shooters, sidescrolling shooters (or 'run & gun'), and action games. those are the habitual games i play. of course i play other types of games too.

oringinal COD

Donkey Kong Country 2 and Super Mario World.

Mario Bros. made me start loving games.

Dunno if I commented on this thread before but oh well I'll comment again.

Bunch of games on the MSX, the SNES, Megaman X4, Final Fantasy VIII

A bunch of Atari 2600 games: Enduro, Frostbite, H.E.R.O., River Raid, Demon's Attack, Pitfall, Jawbreaker, Adventure, Decathlon...

Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt was the game that got me gaming but the one that got me hooked was probably Donkey Kong Country that is the first game I ever beat.

Do I take the nostalgic approach, or the Buddhist approach? I probably would have been no where today without Super Mario World and Doom II: Hell On Earth, two of my first games during my formative years... but I would argue that Minecraft, my last-played game made me the gamer I am today, which is different from the gamer I was yesterday. And going to play Metroid: Other M right now is going to alter my gamer continuum yet again.

Do I take the nostalgic approach, or the Buddhist approach? I probably would have been no where today without Super Mario World and Doom II: Hell On Earth, two of my first games during my formative years... but I would argue that Minecraft, my last-played game made me the gamer I am today, which is different from the gamer I was yesterday. And going to play Metroid: Other M right now is going to alter my gamer continuum yet again.

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Crash Bandicoot 1&3, Ace Combat 2

Warcraft 1 and 2 really got me into Blizzard games

mortal kombat 2

Super Mario Bros and Legend of Zelda were the two that started it all. :)

In my case was SMB and Mega Man 2.