I'm not talking the first time you played Mario Bros and thought "Wow, this game is hella fun". I mean the first time you were so absorbed by a game's world, story, characters or whatever that it had a profound emotional or intellectual impact on you.

For me it would probably be Link's Awakening. As predicatable as it seems looking back, the end-game revelation that the entire island (and the entire game) was just a dream was mind blowing. Realizing that none of the people and places from the game were actually REAL--that Link had just been exploring a labyrinthian dream--shocked me. I think I actually almost teared up at the end sequence, where Link wakes up floating in the ocean and it plays a reprise of the Windfish's Song.

For the record, I was 8 when I beat it.

The first game that REALLY did it was: Rebel Assault on PC.

I was already playing game for years but this was my first game on CD (with video, epic music, voices !)... incredible...

My first mind blowing game was Super Mario 64. My first truly 3D game ever plus it was a Mario game. This game was pure win from start to finish. I don't think any other game will ever blow my mind quite like this game did although many came close including FF7 and Super Mario Galaxy.

Final Fantasy IV.

StarFox in 1993 on the Super Nintendo.

The mode-7 "3D" blew my mind...


I was 12 years old, and this game felt like a deep and realistic world to me.
The music, the adrenaline, the "3D" made me believe, it made me dream...

Holy crap!!! I forgot about this game! I'm ashamed of myself cause this was my first mindblowing experience. Although as it stands my Mario 64 was still greater than Star Fox (although not by much).

I had friends who also were amazed by this game because they hadn't played wing commander :P

Resident Evil I. I remember walking down a dark quiet hallway then all of a sudden zombie dogs jump through the windows and start chasing me. That was the first and last time a game/movie made me genuinely afraid.

Oh god, alephnull... please tell me you're joking...

Wing commander: a click and shoot game with a black background. It doesn't even feel 3D. Tiny screen and no ship movement.

Starfox = a TPS, you control, you dodge, you feel the 3D. Shapes, colors, sense of speed.


Wing Commander:




Starfox:



Please...

lmao you mean Resident Evil?