What was the first game you ever bought ?

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How old were you and maybe most importantly was it worth it ?

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DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Pitfall by Activision for the Atari 2600. I’m old.

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- Brewchin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  And a cracking game it was, fellow silver surf–oh god, we really are old!
  
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- anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Used copy of excitebike with lawn mowing money. I’m not quite as old.
  
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- muxika@piefed.muxika.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Doom on CD-ROM. Was the first, still the best.
  
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- Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Flight simulator for the C64 (uncrackable at the time).
  
  RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR (the sound was just the engine)RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR…
  
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- TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Chopper Command for same!
  
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- Gerald@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeeees, me, too
  
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- BillyClark@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  They 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.
  
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  - DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I just gave my DnD blue box set to a friend last week. I bought it in 1979 😄
    
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Chainweasel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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

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- Harvey656@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Im not alone. Sim City 3000 gang roll put!
  
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ugjka@lemmy.ugjka.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Orange box

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- Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Such good value
  
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WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Myst was the first game I bought with my own money

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- muxika@piefed.muxika.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  How many versions do you own? Cyan can give Bethesda a run for its money.
  
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  - Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    At least each version of Myst was a dramatic increase in quality, unlike every Skyrim edition
    
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  - WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I only have the very original on PC. Still have it in my basement somewhere too.
    
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cheat700000007@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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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- towamo7603@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  King.
  
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unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Holy shit am i the only minecraft generation kid here?

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- 64bithero@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I am amazed with how many older folks I’m seeing to. But I’m not sad
  
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  - Agrivar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I feel like Lemmy skews older than Reddit, but I could be wrong!
    
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yakko@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I 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.

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- 64bithero@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The magical days of getting lost in a box art and wanting to know and see more. Brings back memories !
  
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- tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  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).
  
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  - yakko@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    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.
    
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- Vlado@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  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.
  
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  - yakko@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I was really young when I was into it, too. Thirteen at most.
    
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otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
My older sisters both had several games before I got one for myself. I think the first one that was actually mine wasn’t until Burnout 3 when we got a PS2. All the PS1 games were hand-me-downs.

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jimerson@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
With my own money? Chrono Trigger, shortly after it was released in the US. Took a while to save up my meager allowance.

I was a tween, and it was very worth it.

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- __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Nice. I just started another replay of that this morning.
  
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- tacosanonymous@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Never has there been a game more worthy.
  
  There’s a team putting together full voice acting for it, btw.
  
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NinthGladiator@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Riven: The sequel to Myst. Had to visit a whole new world and write down my adventure.

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- muxika@piefed.muxika.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That game took me six months to beat. On PlayStation.
  
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rosco385@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Altered Beast came free with the Sega Mega Drive I bought as my first console. Image

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- 64bithero@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You enjoy it ?
  
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dragontology@retrofed.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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.

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- 64bithero@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Sounds like 80s gaming heaven
  
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billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It’s been a long time ago….

For a console: probably en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaboom!_(video_game)

For a computer: for my C64 en.wikipedia.org/…/Ultima_IV%3A_Quest_of_the_Avat…

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Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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.

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- 64bithero@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I only played a pirated copy of the game :X
  
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BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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.’

Image

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- 64bithero@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Sorry to hear about your loss
  
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  - BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    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.
    
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thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Purchased was Tomb Raider II. So worth it because I loved Indiana Jones.

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- Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Oh boy. Have I got a treat for you
  
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  - dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    I’ll lock this battle up
    
    like Winston in the freezer
    
    💀 omg
    
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Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Super smash brothers mele, gamecube

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Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The 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.

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- 64bithero@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That’s amazing and it’s a great game. I need to play more of that …
  
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  - Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yeah, I remember rolling those big ass lawnmowers as much as I do the cramped hallways of the Ruins. That golf course is now gone but PSO is still here. I also have still never beaten Episode 2 to this day.
    
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roger.wood@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I lived in a pretty rural town at the time. This was the best game zcmi had for our brand new 386. World Gamee

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- 64bithero@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Only played winter games and much later with a crappy nes port
  
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Vlado@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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.

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- Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Same! Except it was a CD in a paper envelope, as a birthday gift to my brother. We already played it a ton but lost the original CD, and this was before steam was a big thing.
  
  Re-bought it on GOG and Steam a few times for myself and as gifts, too.
  
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InvalidName2@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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.

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- 64bithero@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Old doesn’t mean bad then or now. Hope You got a lot of hours out of it. I know I did
  
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jdr8@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Colin McRae Rally 2.0 for the PlayStation.

I wanted a PlayStation so much but simply didn’t have the money. I was saving for it.

But bought the game so I could go to my friend’s house and play it on his PlayStation.

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burrito@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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.

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- 64bithero@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Classic game. Near perfection
  
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Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That I bought myself? Dragon Warrior. I bought it from a teenager who lived nearby for 5$ (a couple hundred when adjusting for inflation). He even threw in a cut out of a Nintendo power article on how to beat it.

Was it worth it? Absofuckinglutely!

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rapchee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
i bought “sensible soccer” to impress my dad, how cool my amiga 600 was. he was not impressed. and i never was into soccer.

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namelivia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
If you mean own and not earning the money, Sonic 2 for Game Gear and god, it was worth every cent, what a great game

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- elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  This seems sad to me. I never “grew out” of playing video games. My tastes have changed a bit, but I still enjoy playing to this day. To not play anything anymore would feel like losing something.
  
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  - namelivia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yeah, idk circumstances change, life is change
    
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- 64bithero@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Never a bad time to get back into them!
  
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i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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.

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Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Final Fantasy 7 for the PS1.

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AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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.

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toynbee@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’m pretty sure it was Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II. I don’t actually remember buying it and might have played Warcraft 2 beforehand, but I spent many … Many happy hours on DF2. One of those two was my introduction to multiplayer gaming, but for sure I spent a lot more time on DF2.

As for whether it was worth it, it arguably shaped a lot of my life to date. Also I met at least one friend whom I still talk to (though rarely) to this day. I would say yes.

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