Das schwarze Auge it means Black Dark Eye and is a Pen and Paper Roleplay.

Edit: corrected due to the correction right under me. thx

How do all of you even know? I was like 4 and played an NES at a friend’s house then got a game boy. Did you all get in at older ages? My memories at 4 are mostly gone.

Counter-Strike 1.3

Pitfall on Atari

Flash games. Like the ones on Newgrounds, Y8, coolmathgames…

Lode Runner on an old C64 clone. That was back in '86 I think, at a local computer center in Kyiv. They had other games too, like Karateka, Rescue on Fractalus, etc. But Lode Runner made such an impression on my little mind, and got me hooked on gaming.

Later on, in that same center a teacher was demoing various computer viruses. That one got me into programming.

Bubble Bobble

Pong.

Pokémon then was reinvigorated but Minecraft.

Quake 3 was my first but Ultima Online is the one that made me fall in love.

Sonic on sega was the first game I played, FF7 was the first game I loved.

I always clicked with it really hard as a kid, but my parents banned me from it, so I just wound up making friends so I could play OG Red Alert or Commander Keen or whatever. I also played Tabletop 40k from a pretty early age, which my parents were more permissive of. In tabletop I have a very good systemising mind, so I wind up being the rules person, but I’m not super obsessed about any one system (I am a little “obsessed” with how few people play something other than D&D systems).

Half-Life. The first game I played was Mech Warrior 2 and I played a few others like Lemmings, Warcraft 2, and Falcon 3.0. In fact, Half-Life I played for about 10 minutes and put down. I hit the part right after the accident where you were supposed to go back to the lobby and go through the vent, but that wasn’t obvious to me. So I got lost and didn’t know what to do. I put it down for about a week until a friend came by and was like :o you have Half-Life?! That’s a great game. I was like “I dunno, it doesn’t seem great, I got stuck fairly early.” They immediately went through the vent and I questioned why I didn’t do that or see that at first. So I played the rest of the game and loved it.

BUT! It doesn’t stop there because Half-Life had a huge modding scene and multiplayer. I remember playing and hosting a ton of different mods from my broadband internet. It was like I was a beacon for these mods where I’d just host the server as a listen server, play along with everyone, and moderate while playing. It was a very amazing time where I could really feel a community building up in games.

For me it was more a system than an specific game. I got a second hand GameBoy when I was like 5 or 6 and have been gaming consistently since then. Probably the highlight of that period was Super Mario though.

Moraff’s Revenge