What game first got you hooked on gaming?

Team Fortress 2, was about my first online shooter I play and it really got me into it. Have like 3k hours in it right now.
Too bad its starting to be ruined by the trading system.

It's a tie between Quake II and Freespace. Also the original Diablo was big.

Command & Conquer.

C&C set the bar for me. I grew up with C&C 95 and all of its subsequent iterations. Westwood set the bar so high that I've never really been able to enjoy any other RTS as much, save the first two Age of Empires. I still go back and play as the GDI looking to stop the terrorist NOD organization, or I play as the right-hand man to Kane in a bid to dominate the world. I'm getting way too nostalgic to keep on writing. The only thing I dislike about it is that Win7 doesn't support it.

Where's my XP disk...

Yars revenge on atari 2600.... damn game made me a "will mow lawn for video games" kid

I would have to say Total annihilation. Counter-strike and starcraft are close seconds though.

Multiple games in fact:
Road Rash 2, Max Montezuma's Return and Donkey Kong 64. Still play DK64 sometimes using emulator

Hey there, the first game that got me hooked was Super Mario Land (the one with the little dots on the map and the secret star world) for the Super Nintendo.

My dad bought me it when I was real little 5-6 and I loved the game and the console. It was a great addiction for my friends and I. Other notable mentions are quake 1 and rise of the triad, and doom, all of which I played while sitting on my dads lap using our Win 95 machine. LOL

Anyways I'm glad I was introduced to the world of gaming and I continue it to this day.

ZX Spectrum - Harrier Attack

Game boy advance - Pokemon Leaf Green
PC - American Conquest, A lot of different strategy games, World of Warcraft (2003.)
Now I play everything

Excite Bike on the NES. I would play it at my grandmas house. It was my uncles.

Star Wars Dark Forces for PC. big star wars fan, so I got hooked on video games since that day

The first game I ever played was called Midnight Madness on the Atari, I was probably 5. It was a pinball game separated into a top and bottom screen if I remember correctly. My father actually bought the Atari with Midnight Madness to take with him when he went on the road. Well he was playing it very late one night and I woke up. Him and I sat there for a few hours mesmerized by the graphics, being Atari they were just blocks, but I was amazed.

Warcraft 3 when I was in grade 7...I would sneak into my dad's library just to play it because I remember back then, his computer was the only one that could handle such a "high graphics" game =]

Well, as far as I remember it was Civilization I running on 4 floppy discs on Intel 286 processor in DOS system. Ahh good old times.

We had a Pong clone hooked up to our TV back in the 70s, and I was instantly hooked by the interaction. Space Invaders (arcade and Atari 2600) is probably what cemented my lifelong love of playing video games.

I had always wanted to fly, so when I got an Atari 800 computer I immediately bought Star Raiders, and later I played the snot out of F-15 Strike Eagle. I also immensely enjoyed The Great American Cross Country Road Race on the 800, and have always had at least one racer on every platform I have owned.

I bought my first (and every subsequent) PC for gaming, and played a ton of Freespace 2 and Crimson Skies. Unreal Tournament got me hooked on FPS games, and much later, Command & Conquer 3 got me going on RTS.

I have Gameboy Advance. I play Pokemon and was particularly addicted. I have about 12 versions of Pokemon. But I got switched to PC because my Gameboy was wiped out by Typhoon Ketsana. So then, I give PC gaming a shot. I started to play Fallout 3 and it's still very good past-apocalyptic genre.

Donkey Kong Country for the snes was probably the first game that got me addicted. Played a lot of snes for several years and then went on a gaming hiatus as I was really into outdoors stuff. Then I discovered Simcity 2000 and Rollercoaster Tycoon an I've been addicted to PC games ever since.

my first game I played for hours on end was Super Mario Bros 3 on the NES I bought from my neighbor at their garage sale for $25. many a day were spent playing that so many years ago...shortly after was pokemon Red on the Game Boy I got at another garage sale haha...Pokemon in general just hooks me every now and again still to this day.

Probably Asteroids, Pac Man and Missile Command. They were on arcade tables at the local pool/snooker hall when I was just starting out on my quest for enlightenment and fulfilling the expectations of teachers and family.
The arcade game started out a poor third (to 9-ball and pinball), but didn't take long to usurp pinball - being able to play while sitting was a pivotal factor when beer consumption inevitably increased...

I started on a handheld in the early 90s. Super Mario Land for the Gameboy was the first game I finished.