who/what got you into video games?

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as the title says, who or what got you into games in the first place?

when i was a kid my sisters played with me on a snes, and then i got a gamecube for (i think) my 5th birthday, and ive been hooked since
 
I am a pathetic youngling, so my first console was the Wii.
It was just that a friend had one, and I thought it was cool.
We played Mario Kart Wii, and I was terrible. I drove into a wall, and stayed there for the entire race.
Now, things have changed. The world has moved on, and I have improved at Mario Kart Wii.
But, to commemorate this event, every now and then I go on to Luigi Circuit and ram myself against a wall for the entire race.
 
either the N64 Mario plushies or that Super Smash Bros. 64 commercial which prompted them to buy the game and it's the first game that hooked us

or that's the narrative my family told me since I was in to Mario at, like, five years old.
 
Well, the rest of my siblings were already into Nintendo when I was born so I was into video games as soon as I was old enough to play them.
 
On something like my 5th birthday, I got a bootleg 8-bit console, forgot what it was, but it somehow had Super Mario Bros on it. My mom told me that this guy was Super Mario, and I was like "he's cool!"

Then I got the Wii, and discovered how big Mario's world really was.
 
My Mom used to play Video Games, and owned a GBA and a DS because of it. When I was around 4 or 5, my Mom let me and my sister play her GBA and DS. She wasn't and still isn't interested Video Games anymore.

I remember tapping the single player icon in the bottom right corner of the screen while Playing MKSC, wondering what it did.
 
When I was about 2 years old, I had to go to the doctor a lot for an injury I had at the time. At one point they said I had poor hand-eye coordination. My mom had an NES growing up so she popped in Super Mario Bros.. I died a lot and got frustrated, but my coordination was better and I've been playing games since.
 
I don't remember much, but I started with Game Boy Advance. When we (my family) saw the Wii, we decided to get it (back then it was for Wii Sports duo). The rest you can say is history.
 
Well, when I was like 6 or 7, i got to play Super Mario Bros Deluxe on a friend's gameboy, and that was my first experience with vidya.

What really actually got me into video games, though, was everyone in like... first or second grade, I forget which, talking about Pokemon. So I decided I wanted to see it for myself, asked for Pokemon Blue and a GBC for christmas, and I never looked back!
 
It was back in 2009, and my Mum and Dad bought a Wii for us as an anniversary present to themselves, along with Mario Kart Wii. I think we had Wii Sports with the console, but I don't remember that, and my earliest memory is me sat on my Dad's lap with the two of us holding the Wii wheel and controlling Peach in the Wild Wing approaching the first set of jumps on DK's Snowboard cross. All of my early Mario memories are with Mario Kart Wii and Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games for DS.