(pursuant to this thread)
 
I'm talking about the feeling you had when you got your first RPG, or played for the first times--that feeling of enthusiasm, that everything is possible, of how excited and unlimited gaming can be. Where'd you'd roll up characters you were never going to play, and create elaborate dungeons no one would ever see just for fun. When you didn't care that your half-elf orphan barbarian set on avenging his father's death at the hands of the Black Mage had been played out 14000 times. Basically, that feeling you got from your first RPG.
 
Some of us have never lost it, and some of us have never had it. I'm lucky enough that I've never had a bad gaming burnout, and though much of what I want from a game has evolved from when I was Zachary, Junior High Edition, I still have that unlimited, shoot-for-the-moon feeling when I sit down to game.
 
Here's a few games that especially bring that feeling for me:
 
Truth & Justice
Rifts
Palladium Fantasy
Iron Gauntlets
Coyote Trail
Nebulon
And, of course, Encounter Critical.
 
And I can still crack open the Rules Cyclopedia or my Traveller LBBs and recapture that, too.

Moldvay Basic and Cook Expert D&D
Classic Traveller
Aftermath!
Palladium Fantasy (just picked up the first edition, and damn I would've loved this as a kid)
1e AD&D
Gamma World 1st/2nd
Star Frontiers

There's just something about those old games...the way they were written?  Typset?  The sparse artwork?...that just makes me want to play, rather than admire the cleverness of the system or setting.

MERP
WFRP
Pendragon
Ars Magica (which i've never had the opportunity to play! Boo hoo)

Most of mine have already been named.  I'll add Marvel Super Heroes, the FASERIP version.  Good game, good times.

Quote from: jrientsMost of mine have already been named. I'll add Marvel Super Heroes, the FASERIP version. Good game, good times.

I mentioned Truth & Justice because it reminds me so much of MSH.

Games that have given me that feeling in play:

Basic/Rules Cyclopedia D&D, 1st and 2nd ed. AD&D. (2nd ed. only because it was the edition I was introduced to the game with - I don't think it's really an improvement over 1st ed.)
WFRP
Call of Cthulhu
Ars Magica
Pendragon
The Dying Earth
Weapons of the Gods
Dogs In the Vineyard

Games that give me that feeling when I read them, but I've not played yet:

Tunnels and Trolls.
Burning Wheel.
The Riddle of Steel.
Runequest.
Classic Traveller.
True20.

Marvel Super Heroes
Gamma World's first three editions
Wilderlands of High Fantasy, Necromancer Games version
Tekumel, Gamescience version

The common thread among them?  The sweet, sweet maps.

D6.

Because it was my first game.

In the chronological order: Call of Cthulhu, Mage: The Ascension, Nobilis.

None of them do, or they all do. Take your pick. I have no nostalgia for games I used to play, so I get no special charge out of playing them. On the other hand, whenever I open a new game, I do get all goose-bumpy until I decide whether or not I like it. It's really just anticipation, I think. Maybe because I was fully adult and living on my own before I ever started, which is unusual.

So, no special feeling.

-clash

Whatever game I'm playing right now usually does that for me. Currently that's MSH. Another guy is contemplating running D&D 3.5, which has mostly lost its allure for me, but as soon as we actually start playing the campaign again I'll probably be jazzed about it again.

I get that feeling all the time, except with Swine games. It makes it easy to tell.

RPGPundit

D&D 3.5.

Because it's basically the D&D I used to play minus all the stuff that eventually learned to dislike.

Nebuleon
Roma Imperious
Shades of Earth
AD&D 2ed
Shadowrun
Vampire oWoD

the top three are my most recent ones that I have played enough of to tell, the bottom three are ones I started with. I didn't get to play much shadowrun, but it left me wanting to play it more.

CoC D100
WHFRP
Port Blacksand
Qin