Link to the past, is by far my favorite of the series
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Itās been so long that my memory is fuzzy about which game was first. I remember playing on my friendās Commodore 64 back in the day. Some of the first ones I remember are Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, and Lode Runner.
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Itās no Pitfall II, but I did kind of like Pitfall The Mayan Adventure as well. Itās massively better than Super Pitfall on the NES. But, Iām using this as a springing-off point to list-not necessarily a favorite Genesis game but one I quite like (I didnāt play it until late-90s/early-00s less-than-legitimate means let me to first try some some Japanese releases)ā¦with my absolute favorite piece of music on Genesis: the stage 5 theme in Super Fantasy Zone from the great Sunsoft music team that mostly did their great works on the NES:
Actually, I love FM-synth, and not only is this my favorite on the OPN2 on the Genesis, but probably my favorite on any Yamaha FM-synth chip in video games, whether thatās the Genesis, Japanese Sega Master System FM-Unit, YM2151 and YM2610 in various arcade machines, or OPL tunes on the PC. I just love that song. I certainly enjoy earlier PSG sounds, later sample-based synth game music, and streamed digital audioā¦but, when I think video game music, the first thing I think of is FM-synth because that just simply the sound of mid-late-80s and early 90s arcades (with some PCM/ADPCM drums, voices, and sound effects thrown in)ā¦and I love it.
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Sid Meierās Civilization 3 when I was 6 years old. My father introduced it to me and after I started destroying him he refused to play against meā¦ Also I was playing at Deity difficulty regularlyā¦ so that explained why.
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Majoraās had them feels
The first game that got me into gaming was Nightstalker on Intellivision. Also, Pizza Hutt pizza was way better back then as well. Mind blowingly better than today btw!
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Pizza hut also had a small arcade room, I remember playing Rampage and centipede in them
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Super Mario Bros on the NES.
Also, hereās where I take the opportunity to post a couple of my favorite SNES tracks from my favorite composer on the system, Dean Evans (I also want to post some of his stuff because he just in the last 2-3 months started to release new music after a 15+ year hiatus due to illness). Now, I do love plenty of other music on the SNES both video-gamey and more orchestral stuff, but Deanās work quickly became some of my favorite when I stumbled upon a used copy of The Flintstones in the 00s. He makes heavy use of the pitch modulation register setting for the channels of the SPC700 on the SNES, which, when it was used, was usually only used for sound effects since turning it on for one of the sound channels eats up another sound channel for the modulator. It results in music that you generally wouldnāt associate with the SNES, but I love it.
These are mostly in my āgames undeserving of their soundtracksā list, since the games are mediocre jank from Ocean.
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Ya! I got them too!
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4th game for me. 2 mmos beforehand.
War 3 before that
Hell yeah!! Mine too.
My first game was DnD,fun for what it is but terrible with controls, then rift and EQ. Wow for the most part was easier for my to play and far better in some aspects to EQ though community wise EQ was better ,if you behaved.
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Pitfall and a Bruce Lee game on the Atari. Then Doom. Then various super Nintendo gamesā¦
Been gaming long before WoW and WoW wasnāt even my first online game I played (That would be Utopia, an old fantasy text-based ācompetitiveā kingdom management game) or my first MMO (which was Runescape).
Speaking of jank SNES games:
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I played EverQuest.
I played a Erudite Shadow Knight on Tallon Zek PVP server.
I also played DAOC and Asherons Call before I played WOW.
WOW was awesome when it first started and totally different now, like extremely different. 
I miss my PVP servers.
speaking of which i had the pleasure of playing one of the jaguar lol.
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My first game was Doom (1993). My father let me play it at an inappropriately young age and soon I was ripping and tearing with the best of 'em.
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My mom didnāt know what doom was, she regretted it later, lol.
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My first game was Super Mario Bros.
I didnāt have the chance to ever touch a computer until 2004.
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