What video game was like pure magic to you?

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Hibern81 said:

curl-6 said:
Mario Galaxy. Reawakened my love for gaming after several years of barely caring and almost giving it up as a hobby.

Same here actually. I consider 2002 through the end of 2008 my dark age of gaming.  With work and starting a family I had all but gave up playing video games. Then, after an emergency surgery, my mom got me a Wii with Super Mario Galaxy to give me something to do while I recovered.  I think I milked my pain a good extra week so I could stay home and complete the game.  

I just started to lose interest in the 6th gen because Nintendo are the reason I love gaming, and their output during that era was, in my opinion, a massive step down from the SNES and N64 days.  Therefore, gaming as a whole lost a lot of its appeal. 

The Wii was a spectacular return to form for me, restoring my faith in gaming.