I’m aging myself here.
The first game I really played (aside from my granddads super old Pong console) was Sonic the Hedgehog on my Sega Master System II.
Don’t remember much of it, but I know this: I never played a Sonic game since. I guess it just wasn’t for me.
What about you?
Pac-Land.
My old girl used to take me to a cafe most mornings for a cup of tea and a chat with her friends, and along the wall was an arcade cabinet of Pac-Land, 10p per credit. It was mesmerising for four year old me, and felt like something truly new and revolutionary.
She obviously took note and got me an Atari 800 XE, and that was it - a whole world of cartridges, tapes, and BASIC opened up and never really let me go.