What video game has influenced your love of video games the most?

[McLovin']

Tomb Raider. Then onto Mario. Then to FF.

Tomb Raider was friggin scary. Dem tigers.

[Levian]

Super Mario Bros was the first game I played, but I found it pretty boring. Still do! I think what first made me spend hours in front of the TV was playing various multiplayer SNES games with a buddy. Lost Vikings, Mystical Ninja, Street Fighter II, Donkey Kong & Super Mario World. In that order probably.

Final Fantasy VII was probably the one that got me sitting there alone though.

[Nifleheim7]

Tomb Raider 2
Final Fantasy VII
Shadow of the Colossus

and currently i'm under the influence of Demon's Souls.This game will probably make me hate every other game i play afterwards.

[Vermachtnis]

Everytime someone says something from the PSOne Era and above I feel old.

[Kossage]

The game that really got me interested in video games was Turrican II: The Final Fight for Amiga 500. Awesome graphics, addictive gameplay, kickass soundtrack... it opened a whole new world to me and still remains as one of my favourite games.

[leader of mortals]

When I was younger, I had an nes and a sega...

The sega broke, so I played the nes. My brother, later, got a psx, so I played that, and my favorite game was FF7. If it weren't for FF7, my mom would not have thrown out my nes, and I probably would have stuck with nintendo though the generations instead of Sony, so I would call FF7 most influential to me.

[theundeadhero]

I only owned an NES from 1986-1997, not counting a gameboy. It was in 1997 I bought a SNES and then not until 2001 when I bought a PS.

[eestlinc]

The Legend of Zelda was the first game I ever had dreams about. What a great game.

[Dreddz]

Final Fantasy VII. While it was Sonic on the Megadrive which got me into gaming, it was FFVII that made me realise how much video games could effect me. I realised that games weren't just about having quick reflexes. I suddenly had a greater appreciation for the music and worlds that occupy these games. It wasn't till Deus Ex that I started to appreciate the characters and story within a game though.

[JKTrix]

I'd say my gaming 'renaissance' happened during my first year of college in 2001/2002, when the Xbox 1 came out. The main thing was Halo 1, but there was also stuff like Soul Calibur 1 that were mainstays at the school's 'gaming club'. I've been around video games my whole life, but with just the NES and 'all the gameboys' growing up, it was largely a single-player thing. But the first time I hooked up with 15 other guys to play Halo in one room over 4 screens, it was like magic.

In high school, I had played several different PC multiplayer games over the school's LAN and Internet--stuff like Jedi Knight, Starcraft, Chasm, Diablo and the first few Unreal games, but playing with all those people in the same place was totally different. So looking back, Halo 1 is probably what really sparked my current fervor for videogames, while my 'heritage' still draws me to portable games.

[Barraza]

Mine is much earlier: when I was five, playing Final Fantasy IV for the first time.

I had played other games, of course, and they were fun as hell for a child, but Final Fantasy IV just seemed so adult (ironically, it's pretty childish). But that got me craving, and even at a young age (talking six or seven) I became a bit of a snob - I only liked "games with stories". Period.

[silent_symphony]

Hmm.. Me? when I was three yrs old, I started playing Super Mario Bros. and soon came the Mega Man series and enjoy wooping Dr. Wily's behind..(started at Mega Man 1 @ the age of 7)

[I Don't Need A Name]

Took up Tomb Raider 2 as my first PC game, along with the original Age Of Empires.
Although it was Guardians Crusade that started off my love for gaming (especially RPGs). From then on, it was Final Fantasy VII (even though I now regard it as a poor title compared to the rest of the FFs) and Metal Gear Solid that took up the obsession xD. And obviously Pokémon Red and Blue took over hand held gaming

[P4ine]

zelda: a link to the past or super mario brothers 3, maybe both

[~*~Celes~*~]

Super Mario Bros. 3 was my first game at the age of 3. Then we got an SNES a couple of years later and I got into Link to the Past, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Killer Instinct, Mortal Kombat... Pretty much my first video game was my gateway game