What Game (No Matter What System) Made You a Gamer?

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#1 ckhan
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^^^

Don't you just hate & lovehow (during the holiday season) how many great games come and you can't afford all of them like:

Assassin's Creed

COD4

Kane & Lynch (I think it will be a good one)

Uncharted

probably more......you provide!!!

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#2 freakyzeeky1986
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For me, it would have to be Super Mario World... I can't tell you how many times I've cried and shouted at the TV whenever Mario fell off a stage... Classic gaming right there! :lol:
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#3 ckhan
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I forgot to post mine above and it would be Goldeneye 64. Admit it that was a GAME!!!
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#4 LivingReceiver
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Super Mario World, I was 5 years old and wasn't even sure if I asked for the console but I certainly loved the hell out of it.

15 years later Im in college and my roommate happens to have a SNES with SMW and I play it nearly everyday. Good times, I'm a killer in the game now.

Whats even cooler is that we have two tvs in the living room, one is JUST for the SNES. Classic

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#5 _sephex_
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I remember playing after burner at my uncle's place on his Sega Master System .... but it was later that year, for my 6th birthday my grandma got me a NES with Super Mario 3 & Final Fantasy. Been a gamer ever since. Of course, it wasn't for a few years that I learned about the word 'equip' and what it meant.... then I REALLY played Final Fantasy. Thanks Grandma!
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#6 vip3r666
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counter-strike. that game really made me start gaming
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#7 Thomas-Crown
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The game that made me a gamer was the one and only MGS for the PS1. :D Then later on, It will be Ico.
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#8 killerkane246
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Half Life 2/Half Life 2 Deathmatch

All started with Valve.

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#9 walton13
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My all time favorite game...

Diablo 2: Lord Of Destruction


Diablo 3 would be the sole reason I would upgrade my computer (unless it can't handle starcraft 2 *sigh*)
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#10 donnygorgas
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Super Mario Bros. 2 or RC Pro AM for NES. Those were my first two games and I haven't stopped since.
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#11 argianas
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While I played a number of classic games at arcades before and at friends' homes, probably Super Mario Brothers. Pac-Man probably was close, but SMB really set me down the path.
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#12 Big_Boss465
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I'm going with Mario Bros 3. I think that made me game crazy back when I was like 5 or so. The first Metal Gear Solid game for PS1 was the game that made me a hardcore gamer though. Metal Gear games consume me and I get really drawn into them.
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#13 Flame_Blade88
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Super Mario Bros./ Duck Hunt for NES.
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#15 BreakingPoint8
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Super Mario Bros./ Duck Hunt for NES.Flame_Blade88
Same.
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#16 pwnzor_sceptile
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I played super mario bros and duck hunt, then went on too super mario 64 (i was poor, and couldnt afford much)...But the one game that got me playing games all the time was pokemon blue version....:)
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#17 bobaban
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[QUOTE="Flame_Blade88"]Super Mario Bros./ Duck Hunt for NES.BreakingPoint8
Same.

Ditto. Plus the world track game(w/ pad)

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#18 Crazy87
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super mario world and goldeneye 64 god i all so remember starcraft 64
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#19 Tokyo90
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super mario world on SNES , then kirby dreamland 3 :)
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#20 Yng-ePIc
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Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past, I played a lot before it, but this game by far made me a gamer.
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#21 Kage1
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Street Fighter 2 for the Snes got me into playing games on a regular basis.
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#22 pandadude01
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Super Mario 64 on the Nintendo 64. That was the first console I got, when I was about 8 or 9. Loved that game. Have been a gamer ever since. Not too long ago, but I don't think I'd have properly understood what a game was if I were any younger.
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#23 BeyondPerfect
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I would have to say..

The Outlaws on PC. I think it recieved like a 8.7 here on GS.

I was about 8 or 9 when the game came out, but I played it constantly for about a year. I had a NES, SNES and Genesis but I wasn't seriously into gaming until I played The Outlaws.

Unfortunately, PC had become too much of a hassle to maintain up to standards so I just went with consoles..

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#24 JGHOST
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If i had to choose i would say Mario for the NES. The good old days :D

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#25 _MysTesO_
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For me it was Sonic vs Knuckles on the Sega Genesis, oh those were the days :D

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#26 rafa1213
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Great topic. Makes me feel all nostalgic again. I have to say that Contra and Mike Tyson's Punch Out! was what turned me into a die hard gamer. Cmon, who does not remember the code for 40 lives or getting obliterated by the gapped tooth assasin Tyson!!! God they dont make them like that anymore!! I stillcant beat Tyson!!! haha! Cant forget those childhood memories. And then of course, Metal Gear Solid on the PS locked me in forever.
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#27 Koneesha
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Sonic The Hehgehog on the Sega Genesis. Man i was only like 5 but man those were the days!
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#28 deactivated-5cc24faac533d
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[QUOTE="freakyzeeky1986"]For me, it would have to be Super Mario World... I can't tell you how many times I've cried and shouted at the TV whenever Mario fell off a stage... Classic gaming right there! :lol:[/QUOTE

Amen to that, I had my SNES before that but SMW got me into gaming. That and Zelda: ALTTP

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#29 Leerafel
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A combination of Crono Trigger on NES and Metal Gear Solid on PS1.

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#30 Leerafel
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A combination of Crono Trigger on NES and Metal Gear Solid on PS1.

Leerafel

I was wrong. Zelda: Link's Awakening was the very first to really make me a gamer.

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#31 W3dotCOM
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The original NA FF for nes. I didn't even know what an RPG was, or how it worked. I just pressed buttons untill they did something, but after I got the hang of it I was hooked.
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#32 baller72
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That depends. I was a gamer out the womb in 85'. Plus I was an only child.

But if I change the question: What was the first game that made yougo...awww yes? That will beTMNT on nintendo when me and my friend beat it. Still to this day I have only beaten that game once.

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#33 jdt532
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Atari 2600

Keystone Kappers

Tanks

Boxing

Pitfall

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#34 rafa1213
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hahaha, TMNT!!! God I remember that game!!! It was impossible to pass! I remember I got to the tecnodome once and only once. When I died, i let out the loudest expletive I have ever uttered, past and present, and probably future. I hated Michaelangelo, his nunchuks were useless! I remember that if Donatello and Leonardo ever died on me, i would just turn the damn thing off cuz they were the best ones. lol, ahhhh memories!
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#35 ScottEFresh
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Super Mario 1, 2 , 3.
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#36 baller72
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hahaha, TMNT!!! God I remember that game!!! It was impossible to pass! I remember I got to the tecnodome once and only once. When I died, i let out the loudest expletive I have ever uttered, past and present, and probably future. I hated Michaelangelo, his nunchuks were useless! I remember that if Donatello and Leonardo ever died on me, i would just turn the damn thing off cuz they were the best ones. lol, ahhhh memories!rafa1213

yea and ralph was no better...what sucked was the random as enemies that would come from no where just when you are about to get a pizza...you know count to think of it alot of games back then were alot harder that games now...

Remember doubledragon/battletoads the ultimate team... I REST MY CASE...lol

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#37 the-darcwake
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The game that made me a gamer would have to be.............

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time AND Goldeneye 64. It was kind of a mixture for me

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#38 Giff1988
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Centiped for the Atari. Everybody and I mean everybody in my family loved playing that game. Also Keystone cops, Superman, and Kaboom were favorites.
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#39 mitchconlin
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supermario64 hell yeah

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#40 baller72
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Also I will say that the best Arcade game was

Lucky and Wild

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#41 Jigsaw_McGraw
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I have played games for the Super Nintendo when I was a little kid but it wasn't anywhere near what it is today (played a bit of mario and megaman)...but twisted metal is the game that made me an avid fan of games...and probably violence too!
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#42 LORDDICE1
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My dads Attari when I was 3 years old and then going to my friends house and playing duckhunt/mario on the NES. After that I went home and whined until my parents gave in and got me a NES for my 4th birthday.

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#43 Blanco98
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Ill have to go with Doom, Definately made me a gamer.
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#44 jermaki
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I have to say...Contra, Metroid, and Ledgend of Zelda for NES. My NES still works to this day, and I fire'em up every now and then. Oh, yes I do use the "Game Geini" with my "Glove" controler. I"m old school.
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#45 H8s2spooge
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I remember playing Super Mario Bro. III at my friends house whenI was 6. I went over there everyday till we beat it... it was beautiful. That, and the original wolfenstein demo.Come on, who didn't play that?!

Lol some of you guys are pretty young... or nubs.

Someone started gaming with Half Life 2?! Wow... that's a good game to start with.
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#46 Quadrifoglio
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Mortal Kombat (I can't remember which one) for the SNES. I think I was around six at the time. I got a Playstation a couple of months later..
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#47 kenshinhimura16
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Super Mario World, I was 5 years old and wasn't even sure if I asked for the console but I certainly loved the hell out of it.


LivingReceiver

same here. I started with Mario when I was 5. 15 years later, I still play that game :D

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#48 Filena
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Warsong on sega genesis :)
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#49 PureDante
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sonic the hedgehog for sega genesis....and vectorman...vectorman was godly...
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#50 l8bitz
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Super Mario Bros. started my slow desent into gaming...