old school guy here too
first FPS for me was Wolfenstein 3D... shareware
Quake 1 was my favorite online FPS
started Counter-Strike in like 1.2, in 2000 or 1999
Played Half-Life 1 day 1, Unreal 1 day 1
Quake 1 day 1...
Ultima Online my first MMO...
Started WoW day 1
first PC was an amiga or commodore as a young kid
first console Atari 2600 (Adventure was my favorite game)
started Zelda, Castlevania, Metroid series on their first entries
remember Pac-Man table top arcade games at Pizza Hut as a little kid
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first RTS was Red Alert 1
I did play a little bit of WarCraft 2 around the same time.
first IBM PC was my 386 turbo in 1989, Packard Bell