What got you into the genre?

[kainemaxwell]

What game or games, got you intrested in your favorite gaming genres, be it SHUMPS to rpgs to sports games?

[Sylentwulf]

Nintendo power put out the Dragon Warrior color "insert" and I was SHOCKED, Absolutely BLOWN AWAY by all the different monsters , weapons, stats, etc... Then Final Fantasy came out, and the rest was history

[DarkSoul]

Quest for Glory III (PC) was my wonderful intro to the world of Adventure (Point and Click, more RPG than adventure really, in that case) games, which bled easily to a great hearting of RPGs.

[Retsudo]

My favorite genre is fighting games. It was the SNES version of Streefighter 2 that got me into playing video games again.

[maxlords]

I started with ye' olde Genesis RPGs like Phantasy Star 2.

[CrazyImpmon]

Ultima for NES was the first RPG game I got (got it because graphic and some game play appeared to be similiar to Zelda back then) but it wouldn't be until Dragon Warrior for NES and Ultima V for C64 that pretty much glued me to RPG genere for life.

[wizardofwor]

Believe it or not, it was Pac-Man for the 2600. That was the first game I can remember to covet. The rest is history. If not that, it was the first time I inserted Combat into the VCS, but I really think that the ultra-crappy Pac-Man is what converted me into a junkie! 8-)

[kainemaxwell]

Playing Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior is what got me into RPGS more.

[Kid Fenris]

Final Fantasy II (IV) was my introduction to RPGs. I saw the feature in Nintendo Power back in 1991, and I knew I had to have it.

Axelay got me into shooters, Street Fighter II into fighters (and Soul Blade into 3-D fighters), and Cyberbots into the world of import games.

[Starcade]

I got started on RPGs from FF: Mystic Quest for the SNES.

[Dahne]

Chrono Trigger and FFVI are what turned me from casual to hardcore.

When I first got to Lucca's flashback, where her mother gets stuck in the machine, I messed up and didn't input the code fast enough. The ensueing scene traumatized me, even though I just reset afterwards and did it over.

I was a weird little kid.

[Tritoch]

Chrono Trigger is what got me into RPGs. I always thought they were stupid (stuck to my Marios, Punch-Outs, Zeldas, etc.), but the CT "Time" ad in Game Players really grabbed me for some reason. After $80 at TRU and much agonizing (my car payment wasn't much more than that), I was hooked.

[EnemyZero]

Yeah, you will all shoot me for this but i was a late bloomer to the rpg genre. i think final fantasy 7 for psx got me into rpgs o.O well not INTO them, i played ones before but seeing as ff7 is still my fav game of all time, i guess you can guess why i love rpgs' ^^

[bargora]

Xevious (arcade) and Twin Eagle (arcade) got me into shmups.
Darkstalkers (PSX) was my recent entry point into fighters.
Star Raiders (Atari 2600 and then Atari 8-bit) and later X-Wing (PC) got me into space shooter sims.
Doom II (PC) broke me in to FPS.

[zemmix]

1943/42 and Tiger Shark got me into Shmups
Sim City and Aerobiz got me into construction type games

[Raedon]

Zork got me hooked on adventure games like Zelda

The Bards Tale and Pool of Radiance got me hooked on RPG's

Donkey Kong got me into 2d platformers.. I wasn't very good at Pitfall! on that INTV controller

Astrosmash got me hooked on shooters.

Blockout (that 3d well tetris arcade game) got me hooked on Puzzle games

Outrun got me hooked on driving games.

SFII.. nuff said..

[tynstar]

I played a 2600 as a kid with my grandma so that got me started. When I was older I bought a Genesis and started playing EA NHL games way too much.