My first experience with Oddworld was at a friend's house. He had an Xbox and a copy of Munch's Oddysee, and I played a bit of that game for a while. Then, in my second experience, it was on a PlayStation 2, with a physical copy of the first game, Abe's Oddysee. It was back when I was a depressed, volatile teenager and because I gravitated towards FPS games back then, I stopped playing it after a while.
Now, that I'm branching out to other genres, I'm making my way through arguably the most accessible installment in the series: Stranger's Wrath, a standalone platformer/shooter hybrid, and really fantastic. Oddworld in general is unique in that it is overtly political, but done in a right, responsible way where the anti-consumerist messages are built into the fabric of each game's basic plot and the Oddworld itself. There are also spiritual themes in each game, and there's plenty of dark humour to balance things out.
So what was your first experience with Oddworld?
The first game on the PlayStation, about which I don't remember much except a music video or something. Then just the remake of the first game on the PS3 or 4.
There was a kinda similar game (no text and everything "alien") on the PS1 that was stop animated, I believe by that Christian cartoonist who was later blacklisted from the mainstream entertainment industry for his religious beliefs.
Remakes and ports of the original and other games like Stranger are on PC now. I've heard good and bad about both versions of the remade games.