What Game Spiked your interest into Computer Gaming?

Even if I add up all the PC games I've ever got in the last 17 years, it still comes to an average of one new game a year.? I might not be hardcore in the sense of getting many types of games, but I don't get bored easily with the games I have, so every chance I get I'm always playing something;?I'm not casual.?
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First ever games on computer I played were while at school in the 7th grade on a Mac, Simcity and A-train:

Simcity 1.0
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A-train 1.0
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Both RTS, I casually played afterschool, 45min each day, but never thought of asking my folks to get a computer for our own for it.
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Family didn't get a computer until I was in high school, and my first PC game was a DOS simulator game in 1996:

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Played it for three years, it was the only game for PC I had and was a major eye-opener (I don't play for graphics, but I do treat it as a bonus).? At the time we also has an SNES with Donky Kong Country, Mario All-stars and Yoshi's Island to keep up occupied.
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Very first RTS game was Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness in 2000 (game came out before Jane's ATF):

The primary difference between A-train and Simcity with Warcraft was that the A.I. was actively fighting against me,?pushing a new challenge level.? This got me hooked on Microsoft Ensemble's Age of Empires and Mythology series of RTS', as well as Sierra's World in Conflict.? Never got into Total War or Civilization series yet, don't plan to.? Although, Age of Empires 3 was the first RTS game to tell me my computer was slow, lowest settings gave me 9-15 frames per second.? The chipset was an Intel 845G.
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Very first First-person shooter for Windows Halo: Combat Evolved in 2004:

This was the first game that told me my computer was slow (AoE3 came a year later), although I only upgraded the RAM as I had a Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop.
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This game scared me for a month before I got back into it and finished in a week.? With RTS and simulators, the mouse is independent of vision, so I never noticed that my hands were always moving all over the map.? With first-person, your mouse is your eyes/neck and suddenly I got dizzy fast and didn't know why and didn't like that game.? This wasn't something motion sensitivity would fix, I had to change how I played a game, that took a while.
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Even afterwards I got into F.E.A.R. (2006), HL2 (2007), Crysis (2008), Mirror's Edge (2009), Halo 2 (2010) and Crysis 2 (2011)?in that order.?I'm pretty conservative with games I do get and not to read too much about them,?so I love every single one and don't ruin the experience (unlike many that read too much and build up their own idea of what to expect only to feel let down when it wasn't, then they blame the developer rather than themselves-- I'm not like that).
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I want to get into the rest of the Halo series, just not yet willing to get an Xbox for it; nothing to do with image quality:? I'm not into other Xbox games and a console isn't a PC in terms of more than gaming, internet, movies or music?so it would sit there until I use it.? My computer can do MS Office and AutoCAD, a console can't.

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