Stolen from the PA G&T forums. Post the games that got you hooked as a youngin' and such.

RPGs : Breath Of Fire 2, the game I've had the most difficulty with to this very day. It's very hard when you're 8 years old (not to mention loooooooooooong)

FPS: Duke Nukem 3d/Wolfenstein 3d

RTS: Warcraft

Platformer: SMB baby, been playing it since I was old enough to hold a nes controller (2). Not that I was very good but I have pics to prove that I could at least get to 1-3 when I was 3 years old.

Puzzle/Games in general: Tetris. Still my crack.

Stealth: Metal Gear for NES. Had a nintendo power strategy guide/map and still couldn't beat it. stupid scorpions and having to run around the whole base looking for antivenom.

RPG: Deus Ex / World of Warcraft

FPS: DooM TNT / Far Cry

RTS: None so far, but was Warcraft III

Platformer: None, but I really want that new Klonoa for the GBA.

Puzzle: Bejewled. Shut up.

Stealth: Would be Splinter Cell 3, but I don't have a DVD-R, so it's Deus Ex / Far Cry.


Oh wait, as a young kid?


DooM.

Jedi Knight
Halo
Metroid Prime
Mechwarrior 3/4/Mercs

X-Wing, hands down. Then Wolfenstein, DOOM, then DF, then TIE Fighter, then DOOM 2, then Descent.

Ok, ok. New list:

Descent
DooM
Warcraft II
X-Wing /w B-Wing expansion
TIE Fighter
Dark Forces
Earthseige
Scorched Earth

Define hooked.

I don't know if I can say that I was ever hooked to a game before.

Wolfenstein
Master of Orion II
Final Fantasy VII

Damnit!

*Adds Master of Orion I/II to his list*

While I'm at it:

Diablo

oh, youngin hooked...
Dark Forces
Super Metroid
Tetris
Dr. Mario
etc

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.

I never HAD to play a game so much in my life. I once played it for about 9 hours in a row. The game itself takes like 30-30 hours to beat. I usually played like 1 or 2 hours at a time...but one weekend I just got hooked. I started playing, and when I finished it was dark out.

Duke Nukem 3D
Jedi Knight
Warcraft 2
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines

My addictive games are mainly RPGs

The list:
Neverwinter Nights
Knights of the Old Republic I/II
Final Fantasy V/VI
Chrono Trigger
Tetris (I'd play this during U.S. History class in H.S.)
The Legend of Zelda: Original, Lttp, OoT, WW

Final Fantasy VI, Tetris and Aces over Europe

Pirates!

*shudder*

Man, was that game addictive!

FPS : Jedi Knight
RTS: Age of Empires II
RPG: Gothic
FPS: Day of Defeat

TIE Fighter
Dark Forces
X-Wing Alliance

2/3 of which have been played within the past week (TF/XWA)

Oh boy, well... this'll be tough...

I'd have to say the game that was most influencial on me as a gamer, a designer, and a person? Zelda: Links Awakening. One of the first games I REALLY got into. Played it in the hospital while I was recooperating from a major back surgery. I could get up and move around, and one day found a nintendo just sitting there, unused in the back of some office with a broken ping pong table and some board games. I sat down and played that game for the full month I was out of bed. I beat it 2 days before I had to leave the hospital.

Other games that really influenced me would have to be Bomber Man, Streets of Rage, Sonic, Booger-Man, Duke Nukem 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Tomb Raider 1/2, MGS, Smash Brothers, Starfox64, Joust, Sinistar, Kingdom Hearts, FF8, Rayman, Conkers, Diablo, Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, Sim Town, Dr. Quandry, Chips Challenge, Oregon Trail, Number ****ing munchers, Double Dragon, And of course, anything mario.

JediKirby

Marathon and X-Wing. Marathon takes the cake as the game that got me addicted to First Person Shooters, and X-Wing was just... well... X-Wing. It was Star Wars, it had an X-Wing, and it let you blow stuff up with it. What was NOT to like?

Counter-Strike
Metal Gear Solid
Half-Life 2
SSX
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3

Links awakening was the gameboy game, right?

And your list...makes me wish I was 10 years old with nothing to do but play videogames and **** around with key-force and nerf again...*sigh*

btw keyforce RULES!!!

A minivan....
http://www.virtualtoychest.com/keyforce/key_force_van_1_crop.jpg
or is it...
http://www.virtualtoychest.com/keyforce/key_force_van_2_crop.jpg

Don't leech images. -DSettahr

Wow, NO clue why I said Links Awakening... probably because I've got that on my PDA and my GBA... no. Link to the Past is whata I ment. Duh. Sorry :-P

JediKirby

LttP was the snes one, right?

FPS: DooM
RTS: Warcraft 2
RPG: Baldur's Gate (Or maybe... Quest for Glory? Kinda adventurish)

Zelda: Link's Awakening was a serious influence for me.

Starcraft was my RTS influence. But Homeworld 2 is what re-awakened it in me.

Jedi Knight was my FPS influence.

RPG:
Quest For Glory 4 Shadows of Darkness
FPS:
Ultimate Doom
RTS:
Warcraft 2

FF6, Chrono Trigger, SMRPG, SSB, Starcraft.

Rogue Spear and currently Call of Duty. I play both fanatically.

No one else spent hours a day playing Age of Empires? Or was that just me.

RPGs : Crystalis for the NES

FPS: An old PC game called Terminal Terror, which I never did beat.

RTS: Command and Conquer (pre-gold version)

Platformer: Super Mario Bros. 3, Kirby's Adventure, Megaman V

Puzzle/Games in general: Tetris

Action: Contra/Super C/Contra Force

Adventure: The Journeyman Project (Turbo).

Flight: X-Wing and TIE Fighter

Sports: Mike Tyson's Punch Out

Wolfenstein 3D
Some DOS Mario game
Duke Nukem 3D
Shadow Warrior
Jedi Knight & Mysteries of the Sith
Rebellion
TIE Fighter
Command & Conquer
C&C: Red Alert
C&C: Tiberian Sun
X-Wing Alliance
Deus Ex
Final Fantasy VI
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy IX
Jedi Outcast
RTCW

These (for example, I'm sure I've missed some) got me reeeeeally hooked up back in the day and usually still do.

No game really hooked me, I was born a gamer.

Tetris
Dr Mario
Final Fantasy 7
Metroid 2
The original Sonic
Streets of Rage

Link's Awakening, Mega Man II, Burai Fighter, TIE Fighter and the Mario Bros G&W game where you're on an assebly line (I call it "Factory", dunno what the real name is).

Jedi Knight playing dark side

Vampire The Masquerade... got me into Vampires and World of Darkness

Halo - So much gameplay

At the moment, its KotOR cos theres SO much variable game play.

if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}

Same.

My first gaming system though was an old Gameboy my cousin gave me. I think it came with like 7 games... TMNT and Tetris were two of them. It might have had Super Mario Land too.

When I was really young, I got hooked on asteroids. Then in the early 90's, I was hooked on a game called "Shockwave Assault". Then, of course, JK.

I usually buy a game and stick with it for at least 6 months before the next one, so I am never really hooked. I just get comfortable with the SP, MP, and community.

Although I guess JK is an exception, because I played it and MotS for more than 2 yrs. straight without looking at anything else really (well, HL in between).

The Sims 2 - i waste my time

Crystal Caves (best platformer IMO)

Pokemon for GB (I did end up getting all 151 Pokemon, including Mew)

JK and more so, MotS (I remember getting them in a pack together and not even playing JK, just MotS)

HL/HL2

Diablo II

Golden Sun/2

Donkey Kong for SNES

Jedi Knight and Mechwarrior II! Yay.