1980s, Space Invaders. That was my first PC game. Before, it was a very simple cannon shooting pixelated black and white game on a small tv. It then progrssed to : Madden, 1992 Dune by Cryo Interactive, 1993 Doom. Yes, the games were on floppy discs. They were initially very big before shrinking down to smaller squares. I started visualising what games would be like back then. I was thinking beautiful colours, characters would move realistically, a filled out game world, conversations.
What I dreamt of gradually came true through the years. The pinnacle of arena contests started with Unreal Tournament 1999 and ended with it because I could find no other MP like it in the years that follow. RTS started with Command and Conquer. Adventure games like The Longest Journey. My first RPG is Baldurs Gate 1. The first MMORPG is Asheron's Call, the last is Guild Wars 2.
I have very fond memories of Asheron's Call because the developers interacted with the players. Participating in story events in which they play the main antagonists of the story. It's fun, awesome and very funny because sometimes hiccups happened as in the case when Bael'zharon accidentally or seemingly killed Asheron. It wasn't in the script so the dev had to adlib and made a hasty exit, leaving the players wondering what had happened.
