What Video Game Introduced you to your Favorite Genre?

[ParanoiD84]

Medieval 1 Total War, Command and Conquer and Age of Empires for Strategy

Resident Evil 1 for Horror.

[AceofH]

RTS - Command and Conquer
RPG - LoZ: Link to the Past though I became thoroughly addicted with Final Fantasy.

Zelda is not an RPG. it is an action adventure.

on topic - strategy - AoE 2
rpg - Golden Sun
Action Adventure - Zelda

[Poppincaps]

MMO - Runescape
Action RPG (More specifically Soulslike) - Dark Souls
3D Platformers - Either Jak and Daxter or Ratchet and Clank. Can't remember which I played first.
Turn Based RPG - Pokemon Blue
Open World RPG - Oblivion

[Borfl]

3D platforming was Super Mario 64.
Mythical/Fantasy-Action-Adventure-3rd person would probably be Mystical Ninja or Ocarina of Time.
RTS both WC3 and Broodwar.
MMORPG. Indirectly it would've been Warcraft 3 because I wouldn't have played WoW if I didn't like Warcraft 3 so much.
Karting would be Mario Kart 64.
FPS I started with either Goldeneye or World is Not Enough but didn't really get into FPS until I started on PC which was either with Wolfenstein ET or Halo:CE.
3rd person shooter was probably Army Men Sarge's Heroes.

[Ergar]

MMO: Runescape.
RPG: Dragon Age: Origins.

[Rusque]

RPG: Quest for Glory and SSI Gold box D&D games
MMO: Ultima Online and EQ
FPS: Doom / Pathways into Darkness / Marathon
RTS: Warcraft Orcs v Humans

[Chantique]

RPG: FF7

I still remember the first time i saw someone playing FF7 in a Game Store. I was still a owner of a snes back there and when i saw the game my jaw just dropped. I bought a PSX months later and the first game i got was FF7. After that i spent most of the PSX, PS2 and PS3 era playing rpgs.

For MMORPGs: Ragnarok Online

[Deleted]

Mount and Blade introduced me to the Mount and Blade genre.

[Katchii]

Final Fantasy IV was my first for RPGs, though Chrono Trigger was really what made them amazing to me.
Zelda 1 for Action RPGs
Splinter Cell for stealth based games
Everquest for MMORPGs
DOOM the original for first person shooters
Warcraft II for RTS

[kail]

Pokemon Red is the first video game I have owned. I'd say it started my love for several genres, got me to enjoy prpgressing something through playing the game. I never knew the concept of xp until that game.

[carnifex2005]

Civilization I. After that I was hooked on 4X games.

[FobManX]

RPG: Super Mario RPG. Never played an RPG before that, but I borrowed it from a friend when I was in elementary school and loved it. I was AWFUL at first though, had no idea what to do having only played platformers and the likes up to that point.

[LaughingMan]

FPS: Perfect Dark
MMORPG: Star Wars Galaxies
Racing: Diddy Kong Racing

[Sky High]

well I suppose if I have to settle on one genre I'd say Tiberium sun which introduced me to RTS's

[Jester Joe]

Since you said favorite, I'll go with RPGs, and Golden Sun would be the game.

[axell]

Hmm well let's see :

RPG - Diablo 2 ( though technically more of a hack and slash it was the most complex game i'd have played up until then. It opened my eyes to games like baldur's gate and morrowind and then i got hooked).
FPS - Quake 2 ( I did play wolfenstein before but tbh i was not much of a fan).
TBS - Heroes of might and magic 3.

[Jibjub]

Everquest. Forever Everquest!

[Cattleya]

Secret of Mana introduced me to RPGs, which has stayed my favorite genre ever since.

Some would argue LoZ on NES did it but I don't consider Zelda an RPG

[Ickz]

FPS
- Introduction: Wolfenstein 3D
- Childhood defining game: Starsiege Tribes

MMO
- Introduction: Everquest
- Childhood defining game: Dark Age of Camelot

[Deleted]

World of Warcraft - MMORPG
Diablo 2 - ARPG
KOTOR 2 - RPG

All of these three are my favourite genres.