I used to watch my eight years old cousin play Resident Evil 2 (or was it 1?) on the Playstation 1 when I was four years old. I was scared like sh't xD However, I was only interested in animals then, so I was a major Spyro fan and saw nothing else but Spyro and Crash Bandicoot x)
However, then, when I was ten years old (maybe even a little older), my cousin and I watched a certain Resident Evil movie on the TV-Channel. Then, I started to get interested in Resident Evil, and wherever I looked, I saw Resident Evil 4, so obviously that was the first game I played.
(but Resident Evil 2 obviously was the best. Maybe because I got some childhood memories attached to it, I don't know x))