How old were you and maybe most importantly was it worth it ?
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Pitfall by Activision for the Atari 2600. I’m old.
Used copy of excitebike with lawn mowing money. I’m not quite as old.
Chopper Command for same!
And a cracking game it was, fellow silver surf–oh god, we really are old!
Doom on CD-ROM. Was the first, still the best.
Orange box, everything before was pirated lol
Such good value
With my own allowance money instead of asking for it as a gift?
Sim City 3000First game as an adult with a job?
Halo 2Im not alone. Sim City 3000 gang roll put!
Pokemon Blue. I saved up then learned about sales tax at the cashier, so my dad bailed me out with the extra $5
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Holy shit am i the only minecraft generation kid here?
I am amazed with how many older folks I’m seeing to. But I’m not sad
I feel like Lemmy skews older than Reddit, but I could be wrong!
Rise of the Triads. It was not worth it because there was a fault on the 5th floppy disk so it never worked and I couldn’t bring it back to the store because I was 13 and wasn’t supposed to be buying violent games but I bought it without telling my parents. So I couldn’t take it back without them finding out.
I only played a pirated copy of the game :X
It’s been a long time ago….
For a console: probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaboom!_(video_game)
For a computer: for my C64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_IV%3A_Quest_of_the_Avatar
Altered Beast came free with the Sega Mega Drive I bought as my first console.
You enjoy it ?
Bought for me: the NES deluxe kit with console, controllers, light gun, and Mario/Duck Hunt.
I first bought Super Mario Bros 3 as in, with my own money.
Sounds like 80s gaming heaven
Myst was the first game I bought with my own money
How many versions do you own? Cyan can give Bethesda a run for its money.
At least each version of Myst was a dramatic increase in quality, unlike every Skyrim edition
I lived in a pretty rural town at the time. This was the best game zcmi had for our brand new 386. World Gamee
Only played winter games and much later with a crappy nes port
Final Fantasy 7 for the PS1.
Hell of a first game to buy !
It was actually bought two that day. Second being Resident Evil 2. Back in 1997.
Ultima Underworld.
Saved a whole year for that one. Took a whole day to figure out how to configure the EMM386 line that would enable me to have enough memory to run the damn thing (tears of frustration were shed).Absolutely worth it. Blew my little mind. Never got to finish it though, because of a bug in the quest in the last level T_T
Oh nooo classic series but evil bug :(
That was thirty four years ago or thereabout and I still remember the absolute panic of not being able to start the game I had just spent a year of pocket money on… The feeling when I found that bug was very similar, except I never found a way out.
Still, amazing memories!
Wordfeud premium.
Had it since Android started. It’s outlived one marriage (cancer), about six phones so far.
It’s a kind of Scrabble game but slightly different layout, and ‘just works.’
Sorry to hear about your loss
Thanks. Thirteen years ago now. I read that 2/3rds of cancers are genetic, so I don’t have survivor’s guilt. My now wife and I still play daily.
SimCity 2000. I got all my money’s worth out of it as I played it a ton. Came on 2 3.5" floppy disks and the fastest mode, African swallow, ran pretty slowly on my Packard Bell 386 SX. Later I got a Pentium 133 and it ran amazingly fast on that. I still play it from time to time.
Classic game. Near perfection
