I started with hack (the one
before nethack), and I still remember the first time my character teleported out of a shop without paying. I'd eaten a Leprechaun and was teleporting randomly, and I hadn't
intended to steal anything, and I was quite shocked to have done so unintentionally. I went running off to get my husband, "Norman, Norman -- you'll never guess what happened!"God, running a game AND a word processor AND a bunch of other stuff on a computer whose hard drive was only 10 MB -- The Witcher is about a thousand times as big as my whole hard drive was then.
There's nothing quite like your first game, when everything is new. The Witcher beats hack in every possible way, yet I still have a soft spot in my heart for it. And there are lines from hack that are still catchphrases in my house:You are blinded by a blast of light! (Usually said by my husband, first thing in the morning.)You only feel hungry now. (Usually said by my husband, whose appetite is legendary, for all that he's extremely skinny.)Perhaps not what you'd hoped for. (Said whenever either of us is disappointed.)And I
could go on, but I'll not try your patience further.