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

Gédéon_Lecanard

Gédéon_Lecanard
Ha! Unsurprisingly, Starglider 2 wins this one easily. I was fascinated by pretty much everything in that game, I was soooo fond of it. I've been contemplating working on a sequel, actually. Not so long ago, I managed to find Jez San via linkedin. But I'd like to complete an advanced enough pitch, before getting any further, and see if he'd be even remotely interested. Not sure at all.
 
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BlackSpaceCowboy

BlackSpaceCowboy
My High School Physics teacher had a bunch of floppy disk games. After Chess Master 2000 this was the first PC game I played. Before then I was just used to basic console 8 bit arcade style games. Space Quest blew my mind.


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Agony_Aunt

Agony_Aunt
Just remembered one.

Tau Ceti 2: Academy

The first (and only?) game i've ever played with a customizable interface.

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Navigare Necesse Est

Navigare Necesse Est
Gédéon_Lecanard said:
Ha! Unsurprisingly, Starglider 2 wins this one easily. I was fascinated by pretty much everything in that game, I was soooo fond of it. I've been contemplating working on a sequel, actually. Not so long ago, I managed to find Jez San via linkedin. But I'd like to complete an advanced enough pitch, before getting any further, and see if he'd be even remotely interested. Not sure at all.
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Starglider 1 wasn't bad either. I think I even almost beat it. Just like Blue Max, which I also loved.
 
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Old Duck

Old Duck
Pong

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This was the first device I encountered that let me interact with something on my television, the very first "video" game I ever played.
 
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biot

biot
The first Civilization on the Amiga. I'm playing the whole of history on my computer. Mind blown. First confirmed case of "just one more turn"-itis for me.
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
Assuming that we are talking about computer games then it is undoubtedly:

Colossal Cave Adventure

I got resoundingly told off for using up so much computer time (and printer paper!) at uni back in the 70's.
 

Geist

Geist
It was either Elite or Dragontorc both on the Speccy 48k. Can't remember which was released first but I spent hours playing both.
 

Necronaught

Necronaught
Gauntlet arcade. Myself and several friends could play all day on one credit (10p) with all the characters. Elf was the favourite. That extra speed, wow. Sadly I only got to play it on the speccy at home. Had Gauntlet 2 on the Amiga and that was cool. The first PC game to really catch my attention was OFP. The precursor to the Arma series.
 

Jools

Jools
It`s hard to point to one game, i was hooked at a very young age...

the first game that made me dream about it and made me go WOW was Black Tiger on the arcades... i had to stand on a chair to be able to play, the memory is so vivid even today, especially the music

but i guess that is not what you are asking about, because arcade games are pretty simplistic and while impressive they just come and go... if what you mean is a game that i was almost obsessed about and spent countless hours trying to figure it out that would be either settlers1 on the A500 or (and that is my pick) Frontier: Elite 2... I have spent far too much time on that game and gave it quite a lot of focus during my early years
 
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Zenith

Zenith
The first game that really drew me in and fascinated me?

Dragon's Lair in the arcade.
For the first time, you could play a cartoon!
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First COMPUTER game that drew me in and fascinated me?
Shadow of the Beast on the Amiga.
The box art. The t-shirt inside. Loading it up for the first time and having a soundtrack intro in the style of a movie. The impressive graphics. It just all came together so well for me.
 

Darkfyre99

Darkfyre99
Branithar said:
What is the first game that really drew you in and fascinated you?
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Argh... there are so many...

I'm tempted to say the Oregon Trail, because that was the first game I had "unlimited" access to... the Zork series was my gateway to the Infocom games in general... there was this text graphics game I believe was called Moria... and there were tons of quirky little games I would download from various bulletin boards for our Commodore 64 when my dad would let me go online for 30 minutes, including this kingdom simulator I remember fondly, where you could conquer the world via land speculation using the royal treasury...[where is it]
 
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Mo Ronik

Mo Ronik
Jenner said:
Starflight (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starflight).

It was the first game that really captured my imagination. As an avid space nut it pushed all the right buttons. :D
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Yep, Starflight here too. I still have my original 5.25 floppy disks, box, map and decoder. Starflight is actually how I found ED. When I was digging thru some boxes of stuff I had in storage I found it. Then I found an old Sega Genesis console with a bunch of games so I decided to get back into the Sega stuff. Then I was reading where Starflight was released on a Sega cartridge and went looking for it. Somehow when I was looking at images thru Google for what the cartridge looked like it showed an image of ED. Well, I checked out this thing called Elite Dangerous and I've been hooked ever since. Sadly Starflight went back into storage and the Sega console found it's way to my son's house. He said he wanted it so who am I to deny that.

I heard there was a kickstarter where a group of developers were trying to bring back a modern graphics version of Starflight and I really hoped it would come to fruition but no soap. It died a quick death in the fund raising stage. At least they didn't drag it on and on and on and make promise after promise after promise like some other game that shall not be mentioned.

Now, not a game but more of a multi-user 3D chat program called Active Worlds. I played, chatted and built my worlds in that environment for many years. I think it's still out there somewhere. That's the environment where I learned how to create 3D models and animated avatars. Still have my Truespace and 3D Studio programs and somewhere I have a copy of Lifeforms, the program used to create avatar movement.
 

Ahriman

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MUD.

I'd read an article about it in in one of the UK gaming magazines and was so intrigued I wrote a letter to Richard Bartle - one of the co-creators - who very kindly sent me a lengthy hand-written reply.

As I recall, it was being run on the Compunet service in the UK in the mid 80's and I ended up wracking up huge phone bills playing the game. [haha]
 

Dutchman141

Dutchman141
Three games turned me into a lifelong gamer.
Elite 1984, Silent Service and Temple of Apshai, all on the C64.
I've had the ZX 1 and Spectrum but neither one of them offered a memorable game to me.
 
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