1) I think the first one was Super Mario Borthers for NES. I'm not sure, though, I was only 5 years old by then and I probably forgot if I played something else before Mario.
2)That's a tough one... I got into the vieo games thing since I played Mario and my dad bought me my NES so many years ago, although I didn't like video games back then so much as I do right now. But I do remember that the epoch in which I was a real ill, sick minded boy of so many video games, and it was in the SNES era
I fell in love with fighting games such as Mortal Kombat 2 and Street Fighter 2 turbo. Later on I fell in love with The legend of Zelda: A link to the past and Mario RPG, and those were the ones which got me into RPG games.
I really don't have memory to recall a single game which made me get into video games.
Battle Arena Toshiden.... I remember years ago, I saw it and I thoguht "whoa, what an awsome game, look at the graphics!" and then last year I just had that "good impression" of the game, and I was going to buy a Battle Arena Toshiden 3, but as soon as I saw the intro video....... I wanted to cry
I didn't buy the game after all