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!
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 ?
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
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
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
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
Secret of Mana. I was 12, and went and worked under the table stripping tobacco. The game was well worth what I paid, the job wasn’t.
Secret of Mana is responsible for one of my earliest memories (gaming or otherwise) where my dad had given me a controller and convinced me I was playing with him. I dont know how long he got away with that because the memory is me slowly figuring out it means nothing.
Well that was a shit thing for him to do. One of the reasons I got the game is that my younger brother was 9 and youngest was 4. I also got a third controller and the 4 controller adapter.
I played Poppoi, younger bro got Marle, and youngest bro was given the sword boy and told where to go. Younger bro got quite good as the healer.
The three of us got all the spells to level 8:99, and yes, I do mean ALL. We also got all the extra weapon orbs out of the Mana Fortress, though I found out later that we did miss some really nice weapon and armor drops before the thing takes off.
It wasnt that bad. I’d have been about 2 or 3 so as far as I was concerned I was playing with my dad. Until the day I saw through the charade
With my own money, it would have been some ZX Spectrum budget title. I clearly remember Fantasy World Dizzy being mine and I think I bought it with my own money rather than it being purchased for me, so I’m going to go with that.
Please keep them coming and please please tell your stories. It’s the best part of gaming really
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.
