Oooh great question!
Let's see...chronologically, and will add more as I remember more.

- ZX Spectrum 48k, little black keyboard with black keys, connected to a tape player, spending ages waiting for it to load. Then, touching it and it crashed because it was held together by sticky tape. Argh. I was about 9 or 10 I think.

- Kick Off 2 on the Amiga 500, the players somersaulting through the goal when celebrating scoring (and the fact that the ball didn't 'stick' to them).

- Completing Golden Axe for the first - and only - time, again on the Amiga. Took me aaaaages and I was well chuffed, and I was only 11 or 12 maybe. And it was in the days when you didn't get lots of re-starts and lifes like you do now.

- Sensible Soccer and all it's other versions, particularly Sensible World of Soccer. Probably the first game I was obsessed with. I reckon I broke every joystick I ever owned because of this game. Amazing though.

- Championship Manager (and subsequent Football Manager series) - my sister once caught me punching my bed in a fit of anger at a result. I was about 13 and FURIOUS! Only at my team/the game, not at life.

- Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe - Again, Amiga. The call of "ice-cream! ice-cream!" from the seller in the crowd when there was a break in play. Classic game, available in it's original form on Xbox Live Marketplace and still great fun to play.

This should be a QOTW, I could go on and on...
(Zutroy started without you, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 7:36, 2 replies, latest was 17 years ago)

aha oh god,
I remember back a couple of years ago - I was playing WoW - and managed to have nearly all of those reactions as a response to something.
I quit when I punched my bed over losing a battle with this giant overlord thing for about the 11th time that day. But it was ace while it lasted!
(Poppet some assembly required., Wed 17 Jun 2009, 7:39, Reply)

The amount of times...
...my parents used to stick their heads around my bedroom door to see what the noise was, release it was game related, sigh, roll their eyes, then walk away shaking their heads, was a little bit ridiculous.
(Zutroy started without you, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 7:47, Reply)

I think my parents are quite thankful I've got far less time to play games now,
considering the number of times I spent playing from pretty much when I woke up to when I fell asleep with only food and rest breaks!
(Poppet some assembly required., Wed 17 Jun 2009, 7:52, Reply)

I deliberately held off the WoW bandwagon
as I tend to get a little absorbed in games when I start playing them. As I understand it, pure Crack is used to wean people off WoW.
( chart cat has an itch, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 8:49, Reply)

Christ, you've picked some good ones there
Speedball 2: I wasted months of my school life playing that bugger.

Same for Sensible Soccer (which reached pure gaming Nirvana with Sensible World of Soccer). I can still hear the little 'phweep' of the ref's whistle now.

Champ Manager 3 almost cost me my degree until I banned myself from playing it.

As you seem to be an Amiga man, you will undoubtedly have played Syndicate and Cannon Fodder too. I lost the use of my mouse hand wanking spanner for all the wrong reasons as a teenager.
( chart cat has an itch, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 8:47, Reply)

Ahhh
Mate, two supreme games there. My original Amiga mouse ended life without the left button because it got pressed so hard, so often...so quickly. Ooft.

I remember when I first played Syndicate, watching the opening titles...particularly the crunching noise of the legs being replaced. Hook, line and sinker. And look what I found - www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBiHuAwyHR8
(Zutroy started without you, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 11:21, Reply)