Sure, I had seen videogames as a kid, but the game that made me a lifelong gamer was Super Mario Brothers 3.

It was:
The first game I played on my first game system.
The first game I ever beat.
The first game that I had to leave the power on for days for.

I'm happy I played one of the greatest games of all time as my very first game. No wonder I'm a Nintendo fan.

My first system was an arcade, it wasn't mine but playing the Xmen classic was a good game. My first home console was a atari, I was 4 at the time but didn't really play it much. Later on in life I got a nintendo, the super mario brother series and batman was the games I would play everyday. I'm a nintendo fan but not a very big one after 2000

Well, three games stand out for me.

Arcade - Gyruss (a space shoot-em-up) addicting. On road trips with my parents, I would always hope the hotel we stayed at had an arcade with Gyruss in it.

Atari - Mountain King (a terrible game, but I found this glitch where I could just keep sailing up and too the left into infinity) I kept trying to find some secret level up there in nowhereland. I played that game for hours on end, just searching for glitches in the software.

I would have to say that Castlevania for Nintendo was one of the games (if not the game) that clinched my future love of gaming, though.

Oh, wow, I have no idea. An old home movie shows that I got real excited when I got my NES (the SMB/Duck Hunt bundle) in '89, so I can only assume it started before then with the Atari 2600 (both my grandfather and my younger cousins owned one). I can't even remember how I heard about the NES, much less what I learned in order for me to shout out "IT'S A NINTENDO!" when I unwrapped it that fateful Christmas morning.

It's real funny, too. While I don't remember anything about learning about the NES or getting excited about it, I remember very specifically where we opened the box, how the NES/controller/Light Zapper were arranged in the styrofoam holding, and playing Super Mario Bros. for the first time on that old couldn't-have-been-more-than-14-inch black & white TV. It's almost as if being taped made me forget everything, because I certainly don't remember recieving the NES; just the events that followed (which were not taped). I wouldn't even know the year it was if it weren't for the date on that tape. BTW, I was 6 1/2.

But yeah, it's hard saying when it was I actually became a gamer, as I still wound up playing that old Atari 2600 for years later, which makes it hard knowing which Atari-playing memories occurred before getting my NES and which came after (I more easily remember the old TV I owned during that time). But I can say with certainty that it was before I got my NES.

EDIT: Incidentally, I just now realized why one of my two favorite numbers is 6. I figured it was something that happened to me while I was at that age, and this event has to be the reason. (The other favorte number is 11, and your guess is as good as mine as to why, though I have a hunch it happened during the summer. EDIT: No, wait, just nailed it. Favorite movie The Lion King comes out, Super Game Boy comes out, Donkey Kong '94 comes out, and I'm subscribed to Nintendo Power for my 11th birthday with resubscriptions coming every birthday after until a few years ago. Might've been a few other things.)

I would say for me.. Now this is years ago.
Has anyone ever hurd of "Monkey Acadmy?"
For the Coleco. I don't remember anything
about the game. AT ALL. But I know my folks
still today say," You really loved that game.
You would not put the controler down. "

It's foggy.

But around when I was 4, my mom got an NES. And we'd play games together.

Then, I moved to SNES. I got addicted to Super Mario All-Stars and DKC. My mom's ex-boyfriend introduced me to RPGs via Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy III, Lufia II, and Secret of Evermore.

I've been addicted since. A fond memory I have is when my mom's ex couldn't beat the Phantom Train in III. I mashed A and beat it.

The first game I played was Super Mario World for the SNES...

The first time I played it was when I was 8 months old.

I is a BIG Nintendo Fan

the original zelda is probably the one that got me into video games initially i'd say.

but, more than that, i remember final fantasy II for the snes... that was when i realized how incredibly immersive they were. they stole my life from then on. i was obsessed and i would try my best to draw or make up my own characters in my school notebooks. then came breath of fire, shining force, chrono trigger, final fantasy III... i couldn't let go.

i've eased up on the trying to draw part because i'm not an artist, but video games are still my main hobby. the game companines, the systems of old and new. i just have a facination.

when rpg maker was released for ps, i thought my dreams had come true! but, then i realized how much work it took to really make something special, which gave me an even deeper appreciation for what artists and developers do.

There were numerous arcade games that got me into gaming, but console-wise, I'd have to say Pitfall, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and (yes, it's sad but true) E.T., all for the Atari 2600. I tended (and still tend) to like longer, adventure style games than button mashers or twitch arcade shooters. When my brother got his NES, the games that sucked me in were the original Zelda and the original Final Fantasy. I had never played games like these before. For action games, I was partial to Golgo 13. Once the SNES came out, some games on that system pushed me toward my favorite genres that I previously knew nothing about. These were Sim City, Civilization, and Ogre Battle. Still to this day, my favorite genres of games are strategy and strategy/rpgs. Ogre Battle made me fall in love with video games all over again.

not sure i was 3 when i started playing video games XD

Super Mario Brothers is what introduced me to gaming. Good times, good times.

Mega Man was the first game that mede me really start to care about playing video games. When I was younger I couldn't beat any of the bosses, but I still loved that game. And I still do.

Hm, I can't really recall my case, but the earliest game I remember playing would have to be Shining Force for the Genesis. Ever since I played that, I started playing the earlier games on the NES, and from the NES and Genesis I moved to the SNES and so on.

super mario world for the snes, or bonkers for snes.