How old were you and maybe most importantly was it worth it ?
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!
What was the first game you ever bought ?
Submitted 1 day ago by 64bithero@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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Zarxrax@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Macallan@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Man, that was so long ago. Thinking back it was probably Excitebike or Wizards & Warriors for the NES.
__Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
The first game that i remember buying was Baldurs gate. Real first was probably something for NES, megaman 2 maybe?
BromSwolligans@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Gameboy + Zelda: Link’s Awakening bundle when I was like 6. That was an absolute guarantee gaming would get its hooks in a person.
thezeesystem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Castle of the winds for windows 1.somethng
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Blaster Master for NES. I was like 11 and had earned some money somehow that was then burning a hole in my wallet. Hey Dad, take me to Toys R Us?
Worth it? Hell yeah, I loved that game.
64bithero@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Played the hell out of that game! Never got very far though :(
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
Yeah, it was hard. I had the NES Advantage arcade stick controller and that helped a lot. Between its rapid fire buttons and figuring out that you could grenade the bosses and hit pause and it kept doing damage to them, I got a good ways in, but I certainly never beat it.
I play it sometimes on my little R36S handheld. It’s still hard AF
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 1 day ago
No idea which game specifically. I used to walk to the pawn shop from my parents’ work and buy NES and Gameboy games, cheap af. Prolly something like Turrican on the Gameboy or Tecmo Bowl.
MarauderIIC@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
Yeah I think mine was from the flea market - Life Force for NES probably. A stall there always had a ton of cartridges for cheap and usually had something running on the TV
BaroqueW@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Super Mario All Stars bundled with a SNES. I remember going to the supermarket with my grandmother to get it.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Jet Set Willy. It was on a cassette tape, for the spectrum computer. My brother’s and I got probably hundreds of hours out of it.
AnAnonymousApe@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
The first game I ever bought was, the still absolutely brilliant, 1997 Blade Runner point and click made by Westwood Studios. Still one of my favourite games ever. I was 12 when I bought it.
Quark@feddit.dk 1 day ago
Pokemon platium for the old nintendo ds, at the age 13-14 years old. Before that I useally got my copied games, on floppy disc and later on CD’s.
orenj@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
I wqs pretty young, not sure how old but definitely still in middle school I wanna say. But the first game that I bought with my money was a game called Blockland, which was kind of a fusion between roblox and garrys mod that leaned more into the lego visual aesthetic. I remember doing a lot of map exploration solo to find secrets the mapmakers put in. Fun times.
Minnels@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
I can’t remember if I ever bought a NES game but I know I bought the SNES with turtles in time with my own allowance money when I was like 8 or 9. First PC games was Theme park and Transport tycoon deluxe bought at the same time.
dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Ultima III for Apple ][ in 1983. Paid with months of saved up allowance. So damned worth it.
Fun side note… I bought it from the same computer store where I nearly bowled over Robin Williams in 1984 (Santa Rosa, CA). I was very aware of who he was, having grown up watching Mork and Mindy and watched one of his standup specials a LOT of times.
I was wandering around the games case, fixated on said games and noticed a person out of the corner of my eye right before slamming into them. And it was HIM. I couldn’t say a word. And he looked as if he couldn’t figure out this weird nerd and just moved around me.
I still think back on that day frequently enough.
64bithero@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Wow what a crazy story ! Can’t say I ran into any celebrity when buying a game before !
Agrivar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
First with my own money was Rygar for the NES when it first released in 1987. My brothers and I had already played the original Zelda to death and we craved another fantasy action/RPG type of game. It was different but great - totally worth it.
64bithero@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Both great games !
grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Worms Armageddon! I vaguely remember being disappointed by the absence of some features I liked from Worms 2, but can’t remember exactly anymore. I think I still have the CD somewhere.
64bithero@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Lost most of pc games from the early 90s to careless scratches :(
tehsYs@discuss.tchncs.de 18 hours ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(video_game) Worth it, played the hell out of it. Though I’m not sure if I ever beat it.
TaeKwonDoh@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Metroid Fusion. Such an awesomely replayable game.
j4yc33@piefed.social 1 day ago
Starfleet Command: Gold Edition
it STILL gives me fun playtime
MixOpossum@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I don’t remember exactly, but it was definitely a Valve game. I think it was Portal 2 or Half-Life 2
HubertManne@piefed.social 1 day ago
I mean it had to be a puzzle book or something from the hobby shop but im not sure and it would have been single digits. Even ones that were a bigger deal im not sure. My friend intrduced me to d&d with the box version and im not 100% but I think the first rpg I may have bought is star frontiers. man that seemed so cool at the time. Honestly its still sorta cool thinking about it.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Links awakening on the Gameboy
mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 day ago
Mario and duck hunt for the original nes. My parents got it for me when I was VERY young. And I was terrible at both for years. So much fun.
vogi@piefed.social 1 day ago
One of the first paid ones was Crazy Machines a puzzle game where you have to solve rube goldberg machines, i must have been around 8. I only know about this now because I have only recently dusted off the old PC I was playing on. Its fun, I like that they always added a small backstory to every puzzle. The puzzles I have created were no real puzzles and I have just built what I felt like building. Definitely worth it (the newer ones not so much.)
64bithero@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I played the later ones. A really great game series !
Ftumch@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Me and my brother combined our money to buy Cyberia (1994). This was a fmv (full motion video) game, which still seemed like a pretty cool concept at the time. We bought it because we were really impressed with the demo, which came on a CD-ROM that was bundled with PC Gamer or some other magazine.
The demo was a section of the game where you were flying around in some sort of aeroplane. The only thing you controlled was the gun. The enemies were superimposed on top of the video, which was fixed.
I enjoyed the flying sections in the full game, but there were also parts where you controlled the main character on the ground. You could only move him between fixed positions and postures, because fmv. In some places you had to shoot enemies, which required very precise timing. This was too hard for me at the time.
I think I kind of regretted spending my money on it at the time, but only a little.
64bithero@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Ahh the good old days where most things had demos.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I don’t remember the name of the title. It was probably an Atari 2600 game sometime in the 80s.
In 95 I was stationed in Germany and I know I bought a number of PC games from the post exchange but again I don’t remember any of the names.
Sometime around 98 I know I bought Doom. That’s probably the first game I bought when I remember the title.
titanicx@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Blackjack on the RCA Studio II.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It probably would’ve been something on the Sega Genesis but hell if I know now
keimevo@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
A cassette tape for my MSX with 2 games by Konami: Hyper Rally and Antarctic Adventure. That was in 1988.
I’ve been gaming ever since.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
GUNSHIP on tandy.
then a few years later the first game I pirated was LHX.