I was late to the Nintendo party. I did not grow up with Nintendo. In fact, my first Nintendo console was a GameCube just 3 years ago! Before I got it, I had not played that many Nintendo games, just Super Mario Bros. in arcade, and my first video game love, Super Smash Bros. Melee, at a neighbor's house for years.
However, my first console was a PS2 around 8 years ago, and my first game was NCAA Football. For years I was into sports games. Eventually I got into other games such as Star Wars Battlefront II, but it wasn't a while before I got into Super Smash Bros. Melee, which brought me into Nintendo. I got a GameCube 3 years ago as I said, and a year ago I got a Wii. With the Wii I got Super Smash Bros. Brawl, that was really all. In November I VC'd Ocarina of Time, and that started me on Zelda, and basically the rest is history.