What game first got you hooked on gaming?

First game I played a lot of was Super Mario World: Yoshi's Island. I got it and and crappy baseball game with a used SNES for my 10th birthday a bit after the Playstation came out. I played it a lot (and still have that exact system in a box somewhere).
But what got me really hooked on video games was Final Fantasy 7 for the PS. A friend had the game and let me try it one day and I was hooked for life. JRPG's have been my favorite genre ever since.
Also played a lot of Street Fighter Alpha 3 for the SNES rubbing my thumb raw with all the quarter slides on the SNES controller . Street Fighter games (and ones that use a similar control setup) are still my favorite style of fighting games.

Well like alot of people I started out with the good old Mario on the classic Nintendo and also Super Mario
BUT I got hooked to PC gaming when I first played Red Alert and the funny thing is that verry same game got my Dad hooked as well... the good old "Computer are not for gaming" my dad use to say flew out the window.

In 2002 however I got hoked to FPS with Americas Army played that game until 2010 (AA3 was a total failure) !!!

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Way back in the age of DOS. The game's name is frogger.

Dino Crisis on PS1. It came bundled with my system and I spent hours playing it-was really awesome. After that, I kept on looking for similar games and never stopped.

Mega Man 2 was one of the first games I ever played on a console and was the only game I played more than Mario bros, which also hooked me on platformers. My Dad, brother and I played it together for countless hours and it reflects a time when we were much closer. I plan to get a Mega Man 2 related tattoo to commemorate that special time in my life.

Ha! I'm the oldest here - got all of ya beat. The game that got me hooked on gaming was the original Pong. First the arcade version, then with the console hookup.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong

I remember playing my brothers Super Mario Bros 3 all the time, and occasionally the original Legend of Zelda but then when I got my own, definitely pokemon yellow and super mario advance 2. I played both of them for hours, beat Mario 100% multiple times.

In general, Sonic adventures 2 got me hooked on video games when I was 5.
Runescape was the start for PC gaming and UT3 was the start for FPS.

I never had a console (such a sad story) but King's Quest was what really sparked my imagination back in the day.

uff, I have to google it, the first game that got me hooked was Pitfall for the Atari 2600 (as far as I remember), when I was 3 years old .

Then a lot of good games come along, I have beated Contra, Super C, Contra 3 like 50 times (each), Super Mario World, Metroid 3, Deus Ex, and so many others.

Definitely the Mega Man series. I loved that little sprites. Also, Super Mario Bros 3 ate up a lot of my youth.

The first game that truly got me hooked on gaming was the original Age of Empires. The lengths I would go just to play that game still makes me question my sanity...

Rewind the clock a few years... (Ok, maybe a little more than a few). My dad gave me an old HP laptop that was from the late 90s running Windows 95, a processor that had less clock speed than a bottle of water, and just enough hard drive space to squeeze the OS and maybe one or two low-end games. The screen was no more than 7 inches and it had one of those pop-out mice attached by a flimsy piece of plastic. It didn't even have an integrated CD-ROM drive! The only option I had was a battery powered (Yes, that's right, 6 AA batteries!) LPT CD-ROM drive that lasted all of about 10 minutes at max speed before the batteries went dead. If I even wanted to install the game, I had to do extra chores for an entire week just so I could go and buy the batteries required to power it. I had my house, my backyard, and front yard looking pristine just so I afford the batteries to play what may have been an hours worth of that damned game.

Looking back, it was all worth it, as gaming has been a big part of my life ever since and I wouldn't trade a second of it for anything.

This one's actually a multi-way tie for me;
Metal Gear (NES)
Gato-1 (PC)
Stunts (PC) - the only make-your-own-track racing game I've sen to date..
Prince of Persia (PC)
Doom (PC)

I was totally hooked the first time we fired up the Pong console. Not long after came the 2600, and I actually got one for Christmas (with Combat, of course..think they got me Space Invaders, too). Only those who came of age in that era understand how magical a time it was. All this video game stuff was new and there was <b>always</b> something just hitting the shelves that you desperately wanted. Nowadays you almost have to fund a Kickstarter project to get a game you'd actually want to play.

Tribes Vengeance was my first online game, that one got me hooked.

Lost Vikings on PC, I was 4 years old so it was a bit hard at first

For me was The Legend of Zelda: A link to the Past. Is STILL awesome!!!

Super Mario World on SNES, also Half-life on PC

red alert

Everquest or should I say Evercrack took over my life for years! I still have so many fond memories of that game.