Whats your first and last game you ever fall in love with?

First love: Mario Bros, on the original NES in 85 or 86. It was so much better than the Pacman and Q-Bert I used to play at home on my Commodore Vic-20. I could not sleep for weeks in expectations to go back to someone else's house where there could be a NES so I could play again, or at least watch someone play.

Later I got a 386 to replace the Commodore, and another computer later. I fell in love with Civilization, Heroes of Might&Magic, Ultima Underworld, SimCity, Wolfenstein, Stunts, Another World, Syndicate...etc... those were my childhood games I played over and over.

I fall in love with games a lot less frequently now, but when it does happen it's still special and fun.
Dark Souls, FTL and Darkest Dungeons are probably my favorites from recent 10-15 years.

First one that I really fell for must have been Shenmue on the Dreamcast.

Last one was Adventures of Chris.

The first one was probably UFO: Enemy Unknown or Starcraft + Brood War.

The last one was Mass Effect Trilogy and Tomb Raider Trilogy (Legend, Anniversary, Underwold).

I have too many to count on several mediums, so I'll just stick with PC 'cause... Steam.

First love: Diablo 2 and Vampire the Masquerade - Redemption (tied), with Bloodlines being a close second. As much as I love ARPG games, especially in 3rd-person that I remember first experiencing with the original Diablo, they are games that I still find myself replaying at least once a year.

Last game: Ironically it is a tossup between older MMO's... probably because they are intentionally designed to keep players addicted: SWTOR and Mabinogi. It is that addictive quality that if I find myself spending a certain amount of hours per day/week/month, as well as something that tempts me to pay more than what I have budgeted, I will take at least a 2-3 year hiatus while I look for other games that will temporarily scratch my itch.

I guess you could say that games that I love are based on replay value. Something I have yet to find with any modern AAA or indie releases as of late. Publishers and investors just don't let the developers make games like they used to.

I have two firsts and no last, because who can follow rules. Obviously I can't, for one.

The first first is the first game that ever struck me with its sheer joyous brilliance, back when games were young dinosaurs (or something like that), and that was Rogue, soon to be Nethack. I first saw it, as Rogue, in 1981, and first played it heavily a couple of years later on my college roommate's PC-AT. We must have put in a few thousand hours over the next few years, and I played it for years and years. Not so much lately, though its time is probably coming around once again.

Mind you I never made it all that far. But we sure loved it.

Once games grew a bit and came with pictures and fancy sound, I fell hard again for Thief: The Dark Project (now sold as Thief Gold). The game shows its age - it was released in 1998, after all - and I think it has, simply, never been matched. It was so fresh, so new, so thrilling, so weird, so comfortably nestled in its stark nighttime world. A real masterpiece from Warren Spector/Looking Glass Studios. Maybe it can't ever be matched because it so perfectly fit the technology of the time, making the most of both the simplicity and the complexity of the computers of its day. I loved that game and played it for years.

Persona 3

Every year I replay Gothic and Dragon Age series. With DA I slightly failed last year, cause they were in 2020 releaaed on steam and I underrated my free time capacities, when I decided replay them on steam all together. Somehow special is for me also Ultimate fishing simulator, few days ago I realized that I haven't even played it almost year. Need to change it since there is going to be another game.
Last game I fall in love was Elex. It is more like love/hate relationship, because I like start of story, companions and its open world, but after 30 hours I m getting mad by stupidity of NPC, nonsesnse loot places (like hacking safebox to get toilet paper and fork, bad made combat system, cause Piranha bites don't know how to work with stamina in rpg and then gramatical fails in my language subtitals. The gramatical part is the worst, cause some npcs don't have constant name or they change gender during game. So I always start game with "That game is so awesome, I just love it", but end with "why I have to do that to myself?".

first game was jade cocoon for the psx and last was fallout new vegas. every few month, i play theme again

First game was Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil for the good and old PS2. I made a tradition of replaying that game at least once a year, on my birthday.
I can't even tell what's so special about it. Of course, the simple yet creative gameplay, the music that to this day follows me in my playlist, the iconic and memorable levels, the charming characters and the deep and bittersweet story... But these are all things that I didn't catch at all the first time I played it. For the young, young me it was just a funny-looking platformer on one of those demo discs (remember those? with the acid trip-like menu backgrounds?) that one day I was so lucky to find in a store. And even after playing the full game, I just tought it was neat, and not much else. I can't describe how I felt when, after something like 12 years, I finally 100% the game and got the secret unlockable, thanking you for playing the game (to this day, it's my screensaver). I could go on talking about Klonoa for days, but I've already been long-winded enough;)

The last one... hard to decide... probably Devil May Cry 5. The fun yet hard gameplay, the satisfaction from pulling off tricks, the awesome head banging music... I find myself thinking "man, you know what? I'd like some DMC5 right now" way more than I care to admit!

Interesting, I never heard of Heroes of Might and Magic III till now! For me, it was either Bully or Ratchet & Clank on the PS2 when I was a kid. Would love to go back in time and play both for the first time again. Last game I recently fell in love with... probably Stardew Valley. It can be addictive at times!

First: Perfect Dark on the N64
Last: Ghost of Tsushima

first: resident evil 1 (PC version at 640x480)
last one: BioShock infinite.

I can name a Lot of them, games that I enjoyed a lot, but If I have to choose just 2… are those two for sure

edit:

NES: ( no way I remember how many games I played on NES)
Batman 1
Super Mario Bros 3

SEGA ( More than 50 games for sure)
Sonic
Robocop vs Terminator

PS1 (More than 100 games, my best friend give me the PS1 when his father buy him a PS2)
metal gear solid
silent Hill 1

PS2: ( the first and only console that I pay myself - about 150 games played)
God of War 1
Project Zero 2

N64: (emulated, it was very expensive in my country/ those years there was a terrible financial crisis here) but I always wanted to have one, love the controler desing)
Leyend of Zelda ocarina of time
Banjo kazooie

game cube: emulated about 20 or 30 games, never have the oportunity of buy one
Metroid prime
Resident evil remake

Wii: emulated, about 10 games only
Legend of Zelda twilight Princess
Super Mario Galaxy

Nintendo DS: emulated, about 4 or 5 games only
Leyend of Zelda phantom hourglass

*Never played a PS3/ps4/ Wii u/ any other plataform.

First ever game on PC
Maniac mansion ( great game, for those days was the better thing one can play on win95)
played a Lot of games on M.A.M.E. (about 100games) on phisical machines i leave a fortune when i was a kid on KOF98 and Die Hard.

I have 5 Pc along my live, and apart from nes and SEGA, that I havent a PC at home as kid, the rest I always prefer PC over my friends consoles, have the oportunity of buy a PS3… but I didnt want to spend money just for a few games. On PC I must have played over 500 games all these years.

im that old.

The first... I really love (as i remember) Megaman 2 from NES
I'm sure that these was my very first fall-in-love-game

aaaaand the last... well... Xenoblade Chronicles from Wii, I guess
wow... so many years that I'm not going mad because of a game

First game I really loved? Probably one of Dune II, Transport Tycoon Deluxe or FIFA 94.

The last one is Mount&Blade: Warband.

Easy. Fallout was the first. Fallout 2 was the last one :-D

For me the last is much easier, as I'm currently playing it - It's "Half-Life: Alyx".
I've tried quite a few VR games so far, but nothing comes close to the HL:A.
This is the first VR game I've encountered that was a full fledged game. With all the bells and whistles.
Other VR games I've experienced so far, have felt more like a "VR experience" and usually fall into one of the categories:

1. Fighting games (first, swords, guns, etc.) - where you just fight people in a loop.
2. Exercise "games" - music, fun, and move as much as you can
3. Interactive stories - not much choice, you just follow a selected path for an hour or so.
4. Puzzles / Escape rooms.
5. Casual games
   It's not that they're not fun, but none of them is Civilization, Assassin's creed or Cyberpunk of VR. They feel more like Tetris / Pacman than a full fledged game.

While HL:A is the first full fledged VR game.
Even though my Vega 64 can barely handle it - it's amazing to play.

And the first is much harder, as there were so many over the years, I can't quite remember who was first.
The 2 games that are most memorable to me, were the ones I needed to go to a friend to play, because my 80286 couldn't handle them.
So they may have not been the absolute first, but Maniac Mansion 2: Day of the Tentacle and X-COM: UFO Defense were 2 of the first games I obsessed about.

My first one was Final Fantasy VI (III).
And my last one was Persona 5 Royal (In a pretty addictive way)

Definitely Age of Empires II.

Few games provoke strong emotions in me. between them I remember Pokemon red, Shadow of the Colossus, Devil may Cry franchise, Resident Evil franchise, N64 Legend of Zelda games and some Bethesda games.

And the last game I fell in love was The Last of Us.

Edit* I forget The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth but maybe it only causes me addiction :/

hard to choose one...

Before colour :jungle hunt, choplifter, donkey kong... on Apple IIC

with colour :
Gryzor (Contra in Europe) on Amstrad was amazing
Double Dragon I & II on Atari

gameboy first gen... so much good games...even a game as Alleway could make me happy. Super Mario Land may be the best

SNes : F-Zero , Zelda, Street Fighter II, super mario, yoshi island, earthworth jim...

PS1 : Tekken, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Gran Turismo, GTA, AC, Wipeout...so much mythic games here again

PC: theme park/sim city/disciples for the first ones ,
and to close the list nothing original... maybe GTA V or RDR2 and a little earthstroke for Little Nightmares

First - Captain Tsubasa
Last - Yakuza 0