Games that absolutely blew you away when you first played them?

[CountDeMoney]

The original Resident Evil.  Got so wrapped up in that, I called off work the next day.

Why doesn't that happen anymore?

Because the RE franchise sucks now.

Nice dodge.

Nice troll.  Nigger.

[Scipio]

Doom.

[saskganesh]

Blitzkrieg by AH (first war game)
T&T (first RPG)

15 years or so later: Civ I

then 10 years after that:
EU (even though I had no idea how to play it)

[saskganesh]

Damn. Forgot Ultima II

[mongers]

Damn. Forgot Ultima II

Old skool. 

hello Sask, how you doing ?

[The Brain]

We got any unions thread going right now?

[Tamas]

The first Hungarian pen-and-paper RPG. I was like 10, and I had it ordered because the description in the book catalog sounded cool, but I was expecting a boardgame. The whole concept was totally new to me. Fantasy as a literature style, in fact, was totally new to me. Because of these two it had to be the most decisive gaming "encounter" of my life.

Very similar was my chance encounter with a Hungarian WW2 strategic boardgame at a town fair of all places. It was something like between A&A and Third Reich, in the ETO. Was awesome. But it took me like a decade more to realise the whole wargaming hobby was out there in the world, after I got connected to the tubes of the Internets.

Frontier, Elite 2. Boy did I spend a lot of time with that.

EU1 of course. But due to their forum I was already pretty excited by the time I got my hands on my Germany-bought copy.

[Scipio]

Trade Wars.

[Maladict]

Simcity
Leisure Suit Larry
Civilization
Europa Universalis
Test Drive
Wolfenstein 3d
Command & Conquer
Flight Simulator (not sure which one)

[Razgovory]

Due to the nature of the question most of these will be older games, (though honestly don't feel so old).  Most of the games were the ones that inspired me to play others of the genre.

Civ 2:  The first 4x game I played.

Fallout: first PC RPG that really captured the tabletop feel for me.

Command & Conquer:  Not the first RTS I played, but first that really got excited about.

Half-life:  First RTS I really enjoyed.  Before that, I felt they had potential but were all dull key searches through mazes.

Final Fantasy: first RPG I remember playing.  It got me interested in tabletop and video game RPGs.

Couple of newer entries:  Company of Heroes which is the best RTS ever made and Arkham City which was the first beat'em-up I played since I was like 12. 

Honerable mention are Wing Commander and MechWarrior, but I never really got into flight sims or space sims or whatever.

[chipwich]

Europa Universals 1 and Red Alert 2. Played both of them until I was physically sick.

[11B4V]

Steel Panthers. It's what caused me to get my first computer.

[fhdz]

Bard's Tale. Wasteland. Fallout. Daggerfall. Morrowind. King of Dragon Pass.

[Barrister]

Damn. Forgot Ultima II

II????

It was IV for me.

[fhdz]

Damn. Forgot Ultima II

II????

It was IV for me.

Same here. IV was soooooo good.