What Was Your First...

[Nei]

JRPG: Phantasy Star (SMS): I was in 6th grade when I played it. The story, the graphics, the exploration. How every single weapon had a different graphical reprsentation, each planet had its own theme song, 3D dungeons that still look cool and animate incredibly well (nothing in the 16 bit era could touch them). It had lightsabers! It was an 8bit technical showcase. I love this game. It's probably the reason I love video games to this day.

Racing game: Pole Position (Arcade): Not much to say here. It was the only arcade game at some place I was vacationing as a kid.

Computer game: Zaxon (IBM PC): Although technically an arcade game, it was the first game I ever layed on a PC. I tried to play this again a couple of years ago and I just can't.

Console game: Defender (Atari 2600): I loved how the arcade game looked and sounded. I convinced myself when I played this at a friend's house that it was exactly the same

FPS: Halo (Xbox): So this is a genre that I was not into back in the day (I skipped Doom and the like). I got this as a gift from my best friend right after Halo 2 came out. I almost re-gifted it without giving it a chance. My wife convinced me by stating: "when has he ever given you a gift you didn't like?" So I popped it in and never looked back. I know there's a lot of hate for Halo, but it's the only FPS I really enjoy. In fact, I don't think that I own a non-Halo FPS. I'm not saying that it's the best the genre has to offer, I'm just saying that I like it a lot. I don't play multiplayer though.

Point n' click Adventure game: The Longest Journey (PC): As with the FPS, this is a type of game I just didn't play. The fact that I did not own a computer until my junior year of college did not help (yeah, my family was very very poor). I started this 4 years ago because of the praise it got on TNL. Because I was using a virtual machine to play it, the experience was not that great and I never finished it. I may go back to it some day.

Online multiplayer game: Street Fighter III: Third Strike. This is the game I purchased an Xbox Live subscription for.

[raystorm]

What was your first [time experiencing]...

JRPG? - Phantasy Star on the Sega Master System ...man was I blown away. The second was Dragon Warrior and I laughed at it.

Racing game? - Turbo in the early 80's arcade scene

Computer game? - I think the first computer game I ever played was some lunar landing game in the early 80's in grade school (4th grade I think). I don't remember the name. It had some kind of vector graphic look to it.

Console game? - Combat on the 2600 (my first console)

FPS? - damn...I think its Wolfenstein 3D unless you want to count Faceball 2000 back in '91 or something. lol

Point n' click Adventure game? - Leisure Suit Larry

Online multiplayer game? - Half Life Deathmatch when I bought my first pc in 1999 and went online for the first time.

[ElCapichan]

JRPG: Mario RPG
Racing game: Probably F-Zero or Mario Kart, though I'm sure I had to have played some racing game for the NES.
Computer game:Some DOS games that were for kids that helped you learn... something. They had several different games and I can't remember any names, but one of my favorites involved finding clues about which robot was causing havoc in some little 2 story shopping center.
Console game: Super Mario Brothers
FPS: Doom
Point n' click Adventure game: Maniac Mansion
Online multiplayer game: Quake III

[Hero]

JRPG?
Dragon Warrior

Racing game?
RC Pro Am

Computer game?
Goonies

Console game?
Super Mario Bros.

FPS?
Doom

Point n' click Adventure game?
LucasArts' Indiana Jones (forgot which one)

Online multiplayer game?
Phantasy Star Online

+ First sim game
Populous

[bVork]

JRPG: Final Fantasy. I played it at a cousin's house. And erased his save. Sorry, Mike! I recall being really impressed by how it looked and sounded, as the PC RPGs I had played had never been real lookers.

Racing game: Pole Position. At least, I think this was the first. It might have been some laserdisc racing game, but I was really young and don't remember much.
Computer game: Been playing these since before I could read. I think my first was Horizon V.

Console game: Super Mario Bros. It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out how to jump, as a controller with TWO BUTTONS was pretty shocking and beyond my limited knowledge.

FPS: Wolfenstein 3D. I played Ultima Underworld first, but that's not really an FPS. I was distinctly unimpressed with it when I played it at a friend's place, especially after the complexity and graphical detail in Looking Glass's classic. Conversely, he wasn't particularly impressed by the slow pace and limited viewing distance when he came over to play the game I had been raving about!

Point 'n' click adventure: Space Quest IV. I played my way through the majority of classic Sierra titles, and this was the first one I encountered that didn't use a parser.

Online multiplayer: Quake. I got my ass kicked. It didn't help that I was using some ghetto 486 DX2/66, and it thus ran at about 5 fps.

[Rumpy]

SimAnt.

Fuck that game and SimEarth.

JRPG- The Final Fantasy where those guys turn to stone for a reason I can't remember. Was that 3 or 4?
Racing Game- Pole Position, I think. Was never good at it.
Computer Game- Oregon Trail or Word/Number Munchers. Apple IIe at school jams.
Console Game- The pack in with the Atari 2600 that had 60 variations of the same tank concept. I remember a lot of Dig Dug and Pitfall with that.
FPS- Wolfenstein 3D
Point N Click Adventure- Either Space Quest or Leisure Suit Larry (I think around the 3rd game in each series). My friend Jon was a huge Sierra fan.
Online Multiplayer Game- Pretty sure it was Xband on Genesis, 90% sure it was Mortal Kombat II first. Quake shareware after that I think. Or Starcraft? I think SC came after Quake.

[MechDeus]

SimEarth was the fucking jam, although I could never figure out how to make anything sentient except birds. Fucking avian master race.

[ElCapichan]

I never got around to playing Sim Earth, but I enjoyed the shit out of Sim Tower. Sim Ant and Sim City 2000 were fun, but my neighborhood buddy and I would play Sim Tower as if it was the main controls to Jurassic Park and then go out in the woods with out toy guns as if we were hunting velociraptors. No idea how the two got connected, but damn it was fun.

[No One]

It's interesting how many people in that 30-35 age bracket were using Apple IIe computers back in the early/mid 80s. We had computer lab for an hour every week and I'd count the days until it was my turn again. I think we were learning to program in Logo?

Edit: When I say "program", I really just mean creating basic shapes.

[Diff-chan]

I didn't like SimTower.

I played SimAnt a fair bit though (on SNES!)