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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VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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.

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Lighttrails@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater for N64

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snooggums@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Can’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!

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- 64bithero@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Learned way later in life that’s what turbo mode was far. Slowing games down. Wish I knew back then haha
  
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  - snooggums@piefed.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The name was confusing!
    
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lakemalcom@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I know we had games. I think we borrowed an Atari for a while. I definitely remember the Superman Atari game.

But the first one I remember buying was when we got an NES. I think my dad went all out and got Super Mario Bros 3 and Megaman 2 all at once. What a day.

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- lakemalcom@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  We definitely had a Sega Master System too. I do not remember buying that at all
  
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Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  That’s amazing and it’s a great game. I need to play more of that …
  
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  - Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It was counter strike 1.6 on Steam

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thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
World Grand Prix for the Sega Master System 2.

Technically the second ever game I owned, as the system came bundled with Alex the Kidd in Miracle World.

Was maybe 6? at the time.

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Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
X-wing.

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- WindyRebel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  TIE Fighter
  
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  - Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Not tie fighter, just the original x-wing on a 486.
    
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eezeebee@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Majora’s Mask. I preordered it and saved up allowance for months. It came to like $100 CAD with tax. Played the shit out of it and finished it in 2 weeks. The game was good, but I was quite disappointed because LttP and Ocarina both took me at least a month each. MM only has like 4 dungeons. Ended up trading it to a friend for Smash Bros.

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jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Well, bought FOR me… Atari 2600 Combat (came with the system). I think I was 8 or 9? Totally worth it!

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- 64bithero@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Only played the tank game on Intellivison form that far back
  
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AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Couldn’t tell you the very first game I bought, but I definitely remember one of the oldest being either Ed Edd n Eddy: The Mis-Ed-Ventures for gamecube or Sonic Unleashed for PS2.

I could at least say with certainty my first Steam game purchase was most likely Portal 2 since I wanted the level creator super bad as an xbox port owner.

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THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I remember my mom bringing me to Best Buy in spring 2004 right after I had gotten my Gamecube the previous Christmas. I bought Smash Melee and Mario Sunshine. I was 7 years old.

I had gotten games before then but those were the first two I was taken to the store to buy myself.

I still remember holding them as I walked down the aisle toward the registers. Aaaand that was the cheapest those two games ever got lol

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- 64bithero@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Really nice story hope you enjoyed the hell out of ssmb
  
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hakase@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
First game I ever remember buying was Final Fantasy II. I was probably about 11 and it was definitely worth it. A friend had let me borrow it for a few days and I immediately knew that I needed to get my own copy. Still one of my favorite games ever.

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- lakemalcom@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  An excellent purchase
  
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Quicky@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Xenon 2 Megablast for the Atari ST, with my saved-up pre-teen pocket money. Was it worth it? Fuck yes.

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Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Oddworld : Munch’s Oddysee. It’s been 25 years, would love to replay it

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pressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Stonekeep with my birthday money! It was fantastic.

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- Quicky@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Banger of a game
  
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schwim@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Colecovision pong in the early 80s for console. Commander Keen would be my first for PC.

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TallonMetroid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
When 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.

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radix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
First 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.

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- 64bithero@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  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
  
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  - radix@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Our family computer at the time was well below the minimum specs, so i played for the first year or two at like 5 fps. Good game, not good as a slideshow. lol
    
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lath@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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.

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master_of_unlocking@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Sonic the Hedgehog for the Sega Genesis. Still one of my favorites so definitely worth it.

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matte@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
For my own allowance, it might have been a space shooter, Bosconian, on the C64. I must have been 12. The game was pretty bad unfortunately.

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ddssazsa@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I think it was KotOR 🤔

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CatalpaRed@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Croc

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random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
www.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.

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Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
First 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.

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altasshet@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I think it was Monkey Island 2.

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mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
GUNSHIP on tandy.

then a few years later the first game I pirated was LHX.

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Zarxrax@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The first game that I specifically remember buying with my own money was TMNT 3 on the NES. And hell yeah it was worth it!

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Macallan@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Man, that was so long ago. Thinking back it was probably Excitebike or Wizards & Warriors for the NES.

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