Ask VN Den Week #1: What was your first Visual Novel?

This first question post for the community will just be very simple and straightforward. Since this is a very new community, there won't be any kind of prize outside of curation and whatnot. Instead, anyone that responds with a complete answer will get a shoutout in around a week in a new post that will get pinned to the top of the community page until the next week's question.

Rules for posting (taking heavy inspiration from @theanimerealm with this; go follow them):

1. Keep your submissions at no more than 6 sentences; a paragraph should be plenty to make your point without going too heavily into spoilers or full synopsis territory
2. Respond to at least one other reply to start discussion about what was posted; try to make this as thoughtful as your own submissions
3. Avoid major spoilers in your submissions; spoiler tag your replies if you're going to talk about details that could be problematic for other people
4. All of the rules for the community apply and new full posts aren't required as an answer