earliest game that got you hooked?

[Littlenose]

the original football manager on the spectrum48k hooked me to the point of playing for hours on end

 

[minicle]

Mmmm.... Space invaders and Pac Man on an Atari, maybe a bit of Dig-dug...

 

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Marathon on my old Mac.

That was the game the spawned Halo

 

[Andy90]

First Comuter game that really got me hooked? - Lords of Midnight on the ZX Spectrum.

Following that - Dungeon Master on the Atari ST.

Then F/A-18 Interceptor on the Amiga

Doom on the PC.

 

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Then F/A-18 Interceptor on the Amiga

I used to play F/A-18 Korea with my brother over the lan on the old powerpc macs. that was great fun.

 

[AyJay]

G-police! Amazing game!

 

[spudbynight]

For me it was Chuckie Egg on the BBC B that really got me hooked.

On the PC it was probably HHGTTG or one of the other Infocom games.

 

[Phoenixdancer]

Legend of mir 2...

 

[overclick]

Lots of games i played loads, the 1st i would say i was 'hooked' on was tetris on the gameboy despite that i played great games like Privateer 2 the Darkening on PC. I would not say hooked unless i racked up over 200 hours on a game at least. but on PC 1st game i would say i was truly hooked on was CS. I have also been hooked on WOW, civ4, planetarion (web based mmo) and now mw2 probably makes the hooked definition with over 300 hours played.

But CS was probably the 1st PC game i would say i was Hooked on.

 

[mushroomsoup]

Marathon on my old Mac.

That was the game the spawned Halo

ahh, that brings back memories.. i had the sequel (marathon 2: durandal) and gave me the willies when i was 6 and probably still would. though, i wouldn't say i was hooked on it - too scary for me haha..

first game i was hooked on was probably warioland or warcraft 2 on internet cafe lan circa 1997

 

[boxman2000]

PC - Quake 2 and Unreal Tournament
Console - SNES - Street Fighter II

 

[Gypo]

Going back to the commodore and zx days, time bandits, football manager, beach head, who dares wins, microprose soccer.

Then first proper PC game was the first champ manager game.

 

[paradigm]

some really old jet fighter sim (F16?)

F29 Retaliator?

 

[skippy2421]

civ i think for me. Strangely i don't play any of the new ones nowadays.

 

[meghatronic]

On PC, Doom. I was was only 8/9 though. My parents rocked

Age of Empires 2 was a seriously time consuming game. As was Red Alert (with Counterstrike and Aftermath) and Star Trek Armada.

On consoles: Mario! Obviously.

 

[Nymins]

Hover! on Windows 95 i think it was.

Edit: Actually i completely forgot about the consoles. Would have been Sonic 2 on the MegaDrive.

 

[Ysmalari]

Defender Of the Crown on the Amiga, couldn't get enough of it.

I made the age old mistake of getting the pc compatible freeware version from Cinemaware's website recently, let's just say the rose-tinted glasses have been shattered

 

[Dave****]

IIRC it was a game on the atari 2600 called Defender. And Pitfall too, I loved that!!

 

[Liampope]

Ah... gotta be Granny's Garden on BBC at school

 

[Dj_Jestar]

Elite on the BBC Micro, and 747 Flight Simulator, also on the BBC Micro. Lol at 3 hours to load it from tape though.

On PC: Transport Tycoon, Wolf3D and Doom series. For multiplayer Quake got me going, then CS really pulled me in. Rise of The Triads was in there somewhere with Doom, too.