What was the game that caused your gaming addiction to begin?

[Nefertazz]

Wacraft 3 and Heroes 3 I think

[LoneWolf532]

For me it was one of the few good EA games, Burnout 3: Takedown, the game was the reason i still have my old ps2. The game was amazing, the music, and the radio host, Stryker. The game is also the only game I ever truly loved, and I still do.

I am also looking forward to the spiritual successor to the game being made by three fields entertainment (aka the people from criterion).

[bombshell66]

for me there were games on the atari 2600 and commodore games but the game i was most enthousiastic about was Dune 2 a blast from the past and if been a rts player since...

and a fallout gamer ...

[obijuan415]

Hey everyone, new to the forums.

 

For me, I think it was an ancient stand up arcade game called Gorf(I think). Played it at a rollerskating rink way back when. I was probably something like 6 or 7 years old. 41 now.

 

Console gaming started on the atari 2600. What an awesome Christmas present that was! Pac Man and Combat were my faves.

 

My PC gaming started with an turn based RPG called Wizardry after I came home to find an apple IIe computer sitting in our den one day. That led to games like The Bard's Tale and Wasteland. Wasteland was by far my favorite game of all time. What do you mean I get to shoot lasers, rocket launchers, and I can build a cyborg?!?!

 

I was like "hells yeah! sign me up!"

 

:thumbsup:

[repusDude]

Snake game in my first mobile Nokia phone.

[100will]

The first games I got addicted to were Pokemon Yellow and Shining Force.

[MalachiDelacot]

Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0

on a computer... using DOS, not Windows

[Banzai Babe]

Pac Man on my elder brother's Atari console when I was a kid back in the early 80s. There was no save option back in the good ol' days, and I had a pretty good run. After a few hours the ghosts still hadn't caught me yet, but I'd excoriated my hand on that stupid Atari joystick. I tried to play the game with the other hand instead but finally had to admit that that silly joystick had beaten me. Other games followed, Barbarians on the C64 was great - I loved it. My first favorite game on a PC (286 with a 20 mb hard-drive *lol*) was Prince of Persia, yet another classic. The first RPG that really got me was Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny back in 1992, mainly because I also played the pen & paper game. My first adult game was Leisure Suite Larry I, and I felt like a real gangster playing it. :cool:

[rustydog10]

My first game was Pokemon Yellow, played the crap out of that on a green Gameboy Color, that i still have. I killed many hours on my Play Station 2 playing the various Ratchet & Clank games, still have almost all my PS2 games and the system. Hell, if some one remade all the PS2 Ratchet and Clank games for PC I'd buy that in a heart beat. First real PC game was Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 but Bethesda games and the abundant mods keep me on my PC, Oblivion, up to Fallout 4.

Edited November 25, 2016 by rustydog10

[imarikurumi]

MU Online for me.

It got me going all out into gaming and PC gaming, never touched console anymore.

MMORPGs usually have the strongest addiction factor since they're all about crazy progression & competition.