What games caused you to fall in love w/ your fav genres?

[scott]

What game or games started your love of your favorite genres? We all have genres that we gravitate toward more than others, and its caused from early experiences with those genres and the great games within them. So, what one(s) brought about your love of them?

For me I'm big into shmups, rpgs and platformers.

Platformers is an easy one, and its all because of Super Mario 1-3 and Castlevania III.

Rpgs: My free copy of Dragon Warrior thanks to Nintendo Power, along with Chrono Trigger & Final Fantasy III.

Shmups: 1943 on NES and Centipede at the arcades. Then years later I rediscovered shmups with Gunbird 2 and it all just snowballed from there, causing me to build a mame cab dedicated to them.

[varkias]

Shining Force II - SRPGs all day long!

[ffxik]

RPGs: Final Fantasy 
Shoot'em Ups: Tiger Heli
Fighting: Street Fighter II
Platformers: Super Mario World
Beat'em Ups: Double Dragon

[teknophyl]

Action - Gunstar Heroes
Shmups - Timepilot on the Colecovision!
RPGs - Faxanadu. Took it to the next level with Shadowrun... JRPGs with FF VII and Wild ARMs.

[azmar]

RPG - Chrono Trigger
Shooter - Goldeneye 007
2D Action Platformer - Megaman X / Super Metroid

[soera]

RPG - Its split between Miracle Warriors, Phantasy Star, Dragon Warrior, and Final fantasy.

[pacpix]

Platformer: Super Mario World
Adventure: The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time
Arcade: Pac-Man

[htimreimer]

2D and 3D Platformers:Super mario 64,Sonic cd pc & Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters
Point and Click Adventure:Nancy drew games
FPS:Perfect dark on a emulator
Tycoon:Mall Tycoon

[matt]

FPS - I was always a PC gamer until recently. Started and played through all of the early games and was a huge Doom addict. I played through pretty much every FPS but landed hard on Counter-Strike. Spent years of my life playing casually and competitively. The genre has lost a lot over the last few years but I still enjoy it.

[jobocan]

Let's see...

Platformers: Mario
RPGs: Mario RPG (I didn't really "get" RPGs before that... but after I became a fan)
Racing: Mario (I think I see a pattern here)
Fighting: Street Fighter 2
FPS: Wolfenstein 3D (I think)
Shmup: Gradius 3
Adventure: Monkey Island
Action Adventure: Zelda

[madmax]

jRPGs: Final Fantasy II
First person RPG: Skyrim (I hadn't really experienced good ones before)
Racing Simulation, Gran Turismo 3
Fighting: Mortal Kombat
FPS: COD: MW2 (not so much love but I really got into the game, there was no evolution in the genre so I stopped playing)

[htimreimer]

not so much love but I really got into the game, there was no evolution in the genre so I stopped playing

try some the old first person shooters like soldier of fortune

[amauriel]

My very first RPG was Earthbound, which I'd now state as my favorite game, so it was very natural to fall in love with RPGs after that.

As far as Simulation games go, my cousin gave me a copy of SimCity for Win 3.1. Sim games became a love for me. And then I found Harvest Moon...

I played some RTSes back with Civilization II and Alpha Centari, but I really got into them with Age of Empires II, running a CAT 5 down the hallway to my sister's room. Adding a live opponent made all the difference.

And Action RPGs, Ocarina of Time, easily. I actually never played a Zelda game until that one, and just fell in love with everything about it.

[jcalder8]

NHL '94 my brother and I played the heck out of all of the NHL games but 94 was our favorite and I still enjoy playing sports games today.

[darko]

Action: Super C
RPG: Super Mario RPG (First true rpg I ever played)
Adventure: LoZ
Arcade: TMNT 2