Well the first games I played were the mario/duck hunt/track meet combo game:
What really got me into gaming in general probably were these two games:
The art on the game still cracks me up.
And this:
I still don't remember what made me buy it, I was like 7 and had enough money for an NES game. I saw it and just bought it.
Anyway I got both games around the same time, and a year after that our elementary school library started getting nintendo power magazine and then I got other megaman games through renting and also metroid. Then I finally got an SNES. It was over when I found ROMS though.