What Was the First Game to Make You Say 'WOW'?

#1 The original Metal Gear was mind numbingly hard IMO.

I still liked it, but just about everything in that game killed you in no time.

Zelda for me, my dad got it for me for my birthday or something. I still remember beating it.

#2 For me, it's a toss up between space invaders and pac-man. My dad used to own a candy-store when I was a kid and I spent way too many quarters on the games then. Even went so far as to pretend I was playing them on my Lite-Brite. Later on I started trying to program games on my PCjr in GW-Basic.

As a matter of fact, relating that kinda makes me feel old in here, and I'm only 28... :(

#3 The first one that really made me go WOW was probably Matchday 2 on the Spectrum. After that, the next one was probably Castle Wolfenstein or Doom.

#4 Quake 2 with fast multiplayer.

#5 I change mine, the first one that made my eyes pop out was Wolfenstein 3d...

#6 Lol, I remember when I first played Wolfenstein during my first year in college...I got nausious, and had no idea why :D

I liked Ultima Underworld a bit better tho :P

#7 Zelda for the N64 blew me away. The one to make me get into game development was fairly recent, Red Faction (geomod is awesome IMO).

#8 Donkey Kong Country for the SNES.

#9 For me it was Descent and Descent2 >:D

#10 Spin the bottle.

-J

#11 Well myself and my family went nuts over Woflenstein 3D. It was like a dream come true!

DooM made me go wow, but not as much, Quake was bigger in ways.

But wolfenstein 3D is the king! :-D.

#12 I think the first game that I ever hacked on was The Castle of Dr. Brain... I found a dumper tool that would let me browse the data files that went with it. I had great fun doing that, seeing what went on behind the scenes...

Edit: Duh, DOOM. How could I forget it? But really, it was wolf3d. Such fun fiddling with the level editor in that game...

#13 The first game that made my jaws drop was Wolfenstein 3D

#14 - Doom
- Marathon
- Warcraft
- Warcraft 2
- Quake

I could go on with the list of what games i have loved over time but doom and warcraft were some of the best

#15 Viewpoint on NeoGeo system
Dungeon Master on Amiga
FF VII on PS
Warcraft3 on PC

#16 EA's 7 Cities of Gold

#17 Simcity!

#18 Doom was the first game that made me want to make new levels.... and so I did. Game editing/modifying became an addiction after that ;)

#19 DUCK HUNT (Nintendo).

At the time, I hadn't really grasped how fun Mario was -- but I clearly remember being blown away by Duck Hunt. And that it CAME with that gun? Geez, it seemed way too good to be true. I remember thinking that I would have to save for years to afford one. Actually, MANY years, since at the time my allowance was 25 cents per week.

The next one was Chuck Yeager's Flight Simulator for the computer. I'm not that old, and we weren't early adopters, we were just WAY behind the curve tech-wise at the time. So that was my first 3D game at the time.

I made the switch straight from a DX2-66 at home and a P-133mhz at the Junior High to a BRAND new Pentium II computer, at the college labs, when I was 14. So I went directly from "Chuck Yeager's Flight Simulator" to "Starsiege: Tribes" -- the game that blew my mind and has still continues to do so.

And this will sound weird, but: Serious Sam. I mean, ALL OF THOSE GUYS, just POURING at you, filling the screen . . . it was SO insane. And when that dude showed up at the end? Just mind-blowing.

Great games all.

#20 The first games that made me say "Wow" (don't know in which order I played that, so...) were:

// For soundtrack
- Shadow Of The Beast (Amiga - Psygnosis)
- Blood Money (Amiga - Psygnosis)
// For overall
- ProjectX (Amiga - Team17)
// For graphics
- Wolfenstein 3d (PC - Id Software)
- Half-life (PC - Valve)
- Unreal (PC - Epic)
- R-Type (Spectrum - Team 5 or something like that)

Diogo de Andrade