How old were you and maybe most importantly was it worth it ?
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.
What was the first game you ever bought ?
Submitted 2 months ago by 64bithero@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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Quark@feddit.dk 2 months ago
orenj@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months 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.
dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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 2 months ago
Wow what a crazy story ! Can’t say I ran into any celebrity when buying a game before !
Agrivar@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Both great games !
grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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 2 months ago
Lost most of pc games from the early 90s to careless scratches :(
j4yc33@piefed.social 2 months ago
Starfleet Command: Gold Edition
it STILL gives me fun playtime
MixOpossum@lemmy.ml 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Links awakening on the Gameboy
mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
I played the later ones. A really great game series !
Ftumch@lemmy.today 2 months 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 2 months ago
Ahh the good old days where most things had demos.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 2 months 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.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It probably would’ve been something on the Sega Genesis but hell if I know now
UntimedDiffusion@piefed.zip 2 months ago
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@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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 $80 on eBay now? Damn.
PrivacyBean@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
The Ball. Because at the time I played only cs on steam being a kid with no income. The Ball was 99$, couldn’t run at all and I needed to buy something at the time to actually add people to my friendslist.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Something called “Hang On Harvey”. It wasn’t tech though. It was plastic.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
First game I ever bought myself was also a console. Bought a Jaguar with DOOM, even had the insert on the controller for all the weapons. Was totally worth it because it was bitchin’. Bought it from a car boot sale with my pocket money for £5.
Didnt last long because I melted it by trying to use the SNES power pack with it. I was about 7 so things like amps and watts didnt feature into my reasoning. Plug fit, plug works, its fine. And it was for about 5 minutes until it started smoking.
64bithero@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just says you were a tinkering from a young age !
DarkMetatron@feddit.org 2 months ago
It was a game for the C64 and I was 12, but I am not sure what game it was. Such a long time ago.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have no idea. I was probably 5, and had birthday money.
AnAnonymousApe@lemmy.ml 2 months 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.