What video game has influenced your love of video games the most?

I'm not sure if you're a bot or not, but i'm bored and I think i'll write out my own story.

Growing up, I remember playing the early versions of Nintendo. There were the Mario games, Punch out, etc. All the classics I can remember playing almost everything. But at a young age, it never dawned to me that I actually loved video games, back then it was just to burn time when I had nothing better to do. Around age 10ish I got into Chrono Trigger. This could be where the upswing in gaming really clicked to me. I'm not sure who all has played it, but for SNES it was game-changing. RPG's were my new love, I couldn't get enough of this game. I felt as if I was living another reality, it was monumental. Somewhere around Jr High I finally got a decent enough computer to run Starcraft and from there, I was addicted.

Sure, Diablo I was fun and my friends all played it, but I didn't care I was more into Starcraft. I got hooked and the competition of the game definitely got me hooked. I got into Diablo 2 pretty heavy as well, and console games never quite gave me that niche I was looking for. I played other FPS shooters during this game like Counter Strike and eventually got into some Battlefield, but that was later on.

Ultimately I upgraded to the highest gaming drug available, World of Warcraft. Somewhere near 2005 or 2006 I got into the game with some of my buddies who also had played other games on Battle.net, and from there the story continues. It was like I had opened a plethora gaming world, with almost unliminted possiblites. I got swamped in and played nearly every day for a year straight. It was bad, it was a literal addiction, but don't you love what you're addicted to? That is the ultimate question.