It was the Sid Meier games, Pirates, Civilization, Master of Orion, Railroad Tycoon and the riddle & fun games like Monkey Island. Nothing comes close to it today. Developers believes a good graphic beats a good game idea.
Atari game Pitfall! /Grand Prix/ Enduro River Raid/ Pac-Man/ Frogger/ Combat/ Donkey Kong/ Space Invaders "the game that make me addicted to gaming and the game only happen one life time is FFXI"
The one you hooked up to the TV that had no slot for anything. It was hitting a ball back and forth where you chose between tennis, hockey and a couple others. It wasn't actually Pong, but pretty much a knock off. Got taken away when my dad heard it was bad for the TV. Next was a couple years later (1981 or 82?) an Atari 2600. I think the first one I was into (at home) was Atlantis. Not counting at the arcade - where at first it was all pinball machines and air hockey until they added some video games. Also, pretty much all pizza places in the very late 70s/early 80s had early ones like Asteroids, Pac Man, etc...
must've been pong, I can't remember playing the real deal but I remember creating a version and playing that
Age of Empires gets special mention too for its memorable awesomeness
It's so hard to tell to be honest. Like I could probably say Sonic 2, but don't even remember how fully conscious I was. So maybe either Metal Gear Solid or Crash Bandicoot Warped. I know MGS was Definitley from watching my dad play it a lot lol.
off topic, but I still remember when my dad needed the disc switched for Twin Snakes on GC and my dumbass hits the reset button. and this was before we even had a memory card for it. oof
Ratchet and Clank, that was the first game that make something in my head click.
Before that gaming was a group thing I did with friends, but after that, well I do have around 600 physical games of which I have completed around 400.
And digital, on Steam I have around 1k games and I have completed around 300 of them.