64bitheroWhat was the first game you ever bought ?
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SanctusThe first game I ever bought ‘by myself’ was a sealed copy of Phantasy Star Online for GameCube long after its hayday in like 2011. I worked all summer for it, and it was 200 fucken dollars for an unopened copy. Worth every penny I still have it today, just used the disc to load it into Dolphin.
Super smash brothers mele, gamecube
Purchased was Tomb Raider II. So worth it because I loved Indiana Jones.
Oh boy. Have I got a treat for you
Lara Croft vs Indiana Jones. Epic Rap Battles Of History.
dandelion
Dr. Bob
Brewchin
Valmond
muxikaThey didn’t say it was a video game. I’m also pretty old, and I’m sure the first game I bought was either playing cards or some version of Monopoly, or maybe a D&D starter set.
GeraldChopper Command for same!
CoelacanthFirst game I got or first one I bought for my own money? The first game I ever got and played was Super Mario Land for the GameBoy. I remember when the hype around Pokémon Red/Blue coming to Europe was building I was trying to calculate how many weeks of allowance I would need to save up to afford it, so that might have been the first one I actually purchased, I can’t remember for sure if I bought it myself or got it as a gift. Diablo 2 launched a year later and I know I bought that one as I vividly remember the car ride back from the store, so otherwise that might be it.
All of these were of course incredibly worth it. I would never have gotten into video games without that GameBoy and Super Mario Land I think, and Pokémon was a formative experience for me as I got to participate in the whole Pokémania phenomenon. And Diablo 2 is one of the games I have the most hours in over my childhood, it kept resurfacing over my school years as me and the other gamers in my school would randomly get the urge to start playing Diablo 2 again randomly almost yearly over the course of like 8 years after its release.
Random_Character_Awww.lemon64.com/game/skate-crazy
All was pirated, because nobody actually sold games. Some shops specialized in electronics slowly started having random C64 titles. This was one of the first ones I ever saw.
Never had actual original covers on any of my pirated casettes.
Croc
Pokemon SoulSilver for $20 when I was 8 or 9 years old. I don’t have the cartridge or PokeWalker anymore and I weep at the value lost
dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️Ha. I still have my Pokéwalker in my box of random Game Boy shit that’s on the shelf over there. Its battery is very, very dead. I imagine I left somebody in it before losing interest but I have no idea who.
I see these things sell for $50 to $80 on eBay now? Damn.
I have no idea. I was probably 5, and had birthday money.
With my own allowance money instead of asking for it as a gift?
Sim City 3000
First game as an adult with a job?
Halo 2
Harvey656Can’t remember if I purchased it or asked for it, but it is the first game that was just for me on the PC and would have been in my early teens. Wanted it as a computer version of the tabletop Battletech game that I was introduced to by a friend’s older brother.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BattleTech:_The_Crescent_Hawk%27s_Revenge
The play speed was tied to the CPU speed, so when we upgraded the family computer a couple years later all the movement happened at ludicrous speeds! Good thing it was turn based.
BATTLETECH 2019 was like a modern version which was pretty awesome and hit all the nostalgia buttons!
master_of_unlockingSonic the Hedgehog for the Sega Genesis. Still one of my favorites so definitely worth it.
Brave Little Hitachi WandI don’t know for sure if it was my money or just my choice, but I went with Strife (1996). I chose it in the store after a long deliberation, my uncle was trying to get me to go with Half Life but I was drawn in by something on the back of the box. PC games used to come in big empty boxes with a lot of art and info on them.
It was unforgettable. Basically if you made an RPG in the old Doom engine with the sensibilities of the nineties and an overly ambitious art department. It was surprisingly well written, and I’ve been chasing that sense of an expansive, dark yet cartoonish, novelistic RPG ever since.
Oh wow. I vividly remember playing Strife and that was really something else. It really had its own “soul” or charm or however we call it.
But I can imagine that owning an original copy at that time must have been a very cool experience.
I was really young when I was into it, too. Thirteen at most.
You should check into the doom modding community. I don’t tend to play many rpg style wads but I know they’re out there. Some use the doom engine but the game is pretty much unrecognizable as doom (called total conversion wads). Here’s one article with a list.
One called Hedon got an official release and is on steam etc now
They also make some hexen levels (I saw Wrath of Cronos being recommended).
I used to play a lot of old school Doom and stuff like it (Rise of the Triad, Shadow Warrior lol) but I didn’t see anything in that article that was quite as story-forward as Strife. I still love a game that goes highly verbal on me.
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater for N64
Fallout 3, when I was 15. I had read the strategy guide (with no pictures) at my library, and struggled to even comprehend a game that expansive.
Hell yeah, it was worth it.
I don’t remember, but it was one of those yellow cartridges the size of your palm. I think they were knockoffs. Can’t say for sure.
It was a side-scrolling fighting game with tiny martial arts dudes. It could be played co-op. I think the bald character was overpowered, or I just felt like he was. It was either a tournament style, attacking a rival dojo or both. Or something else.
I liked the cool art on the cartridge.
radixFirst game I specifically asked for from my parents: Stunt Driver. Must have been in the first half of 1990.
First game I saved up for and bought myself: Super Mario Bros 3. Much of the money I saved came in the summer of 1990, so that would have been in late summer of that year.
I got stunt driver form my cousin who just made us a copy back in 92 or 93. A lot of fun. Even if all we had was a keyboard
TallonMetroidWhen I was ~7, I got a Super NES bundle that included both Super Mario World and Super Mario Kart, as well as a second controller.
Myst was the first game I bought with my own money
I only have the very original on PC. Still have it in my basement somewhere too.
At least each version of Myst was a dramatic increase in quality, unlike every Skyrim edition
Riven: The sequel to Myst. Had to visit a whole new world and write down my adventure.
I don’t remember.
However, I gave up gaming when I was around 18 and preparing to head off to college. Then after I graduated, I was at a store and saw Quake Arena on deep discount (b/c it was a very old game at that time) and based on the hardware requirements, it looked like my crumby ancient tower computer could play it. I don’t know why, but I decided to buy it, and I guess that sort of got me back into gaming (ish).
I was in my 20s and although I barely remember the game now, yeah, it was worth it. The graphics and performance were far superior to anything I’d played up to that point. It had online play, which was entirely new to me at the time. And a few years later, I got major “friend points” when I gifted it to someone who was a game collector and had offered many times to buy the game from me.
edgemaster72It probably would’ve been something on the Sega Genesis but hell if I know now
Very first that I bought? Deus Ex. By that time I already played it quite a lot, but I felt that it deserves buying even though I didn’t have any income at that age. Looking back at that seems nostalgic. It had a proper manual and everything. It even seemed somehow “magical”, because as kids we weren’t really used to owning games (as in our “own” games, not just something borrowed from a friend which was usually just burnt on empty CD).
Good times.
Broadfern