Age of Empires 1 on PC, the AI totally wrecked me and the axe men used to scare me the second game I played happened to be AoE 2 which is still one of my favourite games ever.
The first game I owned I think is Super Mario Bros. 3, but I am unsure.
Mario 3 introduced me to Nintendo platforms, AoE 1 introduced me to PC gaming and the PS1 was my first home console and I played a lot on my friend's PS2 so I guess that introduced me to Playstation as well? To be honest I do not think my early gaming career had much influence other than I had a lot of variety starting off. Evenutally that variety grew as I got into collecting retro games and gaming on multiple platforms. But I credit my move towards collecting for classic console my main influence to how I am today.
