What is the first game that really drew you in and fascinated you?

Branithar

Branithar
I’ve been playing games since Atari. But the first game that really fascinated me and drew me in was Thief: The Dark Project. I ended up buying Thief: Gold and Thief 2 from GOG during a sale, and installing HD texture mods, the levels editors & a few of my favorite fan missions. When I started playing them again, just recently, I immediately got sucked in, yet again. And when I deliberately made a ruckus and rushed to a safe spot to hide, I got the same feeling of tension again.

What is the first game that really drew you in and fascinated you?
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
I've always played games, but for a long time, until my late 20's I've never really put any thought into them. it was just a drop in/drop out fun.

The game that changed that outlook was The Longest Journey. I played that game for two days straight and at some point I realized what a game can be and what gaming really means to me.
 

JetsonRING

JetsonRING
I played lots of early games, a friend of mine had an original "PONG" on Atari and I spent many dollars in video game arcades in the late 70s and early 80s but, the first video game I ever bought was Microsoft Flight Simulator in 1980. Played it on an old IBM 8088 PC with 16 color VGA (whoo!) graphics.
 
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[VR] optimal_909

[VR] optimal_909
Bruce Lee on C64.

Edit: true fascination in a proper sense was Zak McKraken and the Alien Mindbenders. It felt like a sandbox game.
 
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kilvenny

kilvenny
Elite for making a game feel like a galaxy. Lord's of Midnight for making a war game feel like a world war. Elite Dangerous VR for fulfilling a boy's dream of flying in space.
 

Wescott

Wescott
The original Elite, running on a BBC B micro with 32k memory yes that is k's; Not Mb or Gb and loaded via cassette tape, dam I am getting OLD lol.. however never lost the gaming bug since :)
 

Brian of Ardagh

B
Home video games weren't really a thing when I was in high-school, they had just gotten started but my family was poor and we lived in a rural area. We did have a TRS-80 Model II in the library and the next town over had a video arcade.

I joined the military and eventually bought a VIC-20, later on a C64 but the one game I remember was a vampire text based game.

I didn't really get into gaming until I had my Mac and found Pathways into Darkness, I would say that's what really drew me in. After that I was hooked on Bungie FPS titles, including Halo and Destiny, although I no longer have an interest in Destiny 2.
 

Mole HD

Mole HD
Apart from the original Elite in 1984...Wings on the Amiga. The little story board snippets in between missions with that plinky-plonk piano music fascinated me. Then onto PC...1942 PAW.
 

Asp Explorer

Asp Explorer
Dark Sceptre for me :D

All those commands, all those possibilities, all those locations, all those objects, all those bugs! Why does my Herald always die? Why are Kuano's Assassin and Reaper always in a pair? What do those circle locations on the map do?. And dozens of other things. It was one of the first programs I went through with a Multiface and made a serious attempt to work out exactly what was going on - armed only with graph paper and ignorance :D

It absolutely fascinated me as a kid - and even today, it's still well worth a few hours of a weekend trying out something new for the lulz :D
 

Agony_Aunt

Agony_Aunt
Hard to say as i was pretty hooked on games since I first played on an Atari 2600. Or hell, even earlier with arcade machines, pinball machines, or this really primitive console my uncle got pre-Atari days where you could play pong.

Some notable mentions:

Pitfall
Spy vs Spy
Jet Set Willy
Jetpack

Special mention to Daily Thompson's Decathalon, the game that was responsible for my mum worrying about what i was doing alone in my room grunting and panting while screaming "Come on!" accompanied by the sounds of a waggling joystick.

Amazing things those 2600 joysticks though, damn near indistructable. Was still using one years later on the Amiga.
 

Frank

Frank
I've been playing videogames ever since Arcade Pong and mainframe Star Trek.

I guess one highlight for me was Quake. I played that game to death, and with Quakeworld there was no longer any need to lug my computer over to my mates.
 

Fishy

Fishy
There have been an awful lot starting with the Intellivision console, an Apple //c, Game & Watch LCD games and plenty of arcade machines... But if I had to single one out for the first "mind-blown" moment, I guess it'd be far later and it'd be Civilization. It seriously consumed me and absolutely amazed me at every corner. Frontier Elite 2 had the same effect a few years later with its scope and physics.
 
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