For me my first gaming experience I was about 7 years old. I went with my mother to visit one of my cousins. When I got there two of my cousins were sitting in front of the tv using a gun to shoot things on the screen (duck hunt lol), so I decided to give it a try and I love it. After Duck Hunt we played Super Mario Bros. then I was really hooked.
I had another cousin that owned a NES and they owned Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and we always played that all day. Eventually I beg my parents for a NES and one Christmas day I didn't get it :( but instead a SNES :), after that my video game obsession started. I was introduced to the PS1 (a friend owned it, we played Driver constantly) and of course Final Fantasy.
I never ever heard of Final Fantasy when I first bought FFVII (I was still pretty young), the only reason why I bought it was because it had three disc and I thought there was three games inside of it, I never thought it was just one lol (I was such a noob), also it was selling for like 15 bucks so I never hesitated to buy it (sinse I was really young and the most money I ever owned was like 40 bucks). Anyway it was my first RPG so I was really confused and never really knew what the hell was going on, the first time I played through the game I never updated any of my weapons or armor, I had all the original equipment lol, eventally I figured it out the second time playing through. I really liked the story and characters, I wen't days where I would wake up and play FFVII till I went to bed, I was obsessed. Eventually my Final Fantasy collection grew.
Anyway I can keep going on and on but I know nobody wants to keep reading me blabbering on lol so anyway tell me your first gaming experiences!
Edit: Don't forget to add details guys, plain simple answers are no fun :(
Also tell me about your first experience with your favourite genre or series.
