What was the first game you ever bought ?

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• rockandsock@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  One of those handheld football games with little red dots for players.

  If you mean console or computer games, asteroids for Atari 2600.

  The football game was too hard for a 5 year old.

  I still like playing an occasional game of asteroids to this day.

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• yakko@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I was really young when I was into it, too. Thirteen at most.

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• fibojoly@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ultima Underworld.
  Saved a whole year for that one. Took a whole day to figure out how to configure the EMM386 line that would enable me to have enough memory to run the damn thing (tears of frustration were shed).

  Absolutely worth it. Blew my little mind. Never got to finish it though, because of a bug in the quest in the last level T_T

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• jimerson@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nice. I just started another replay of that this morning.

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  • tacosanonymous@mander.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That game took me six months to beat. On PlayStation.

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• TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  With my own money: Link to the Past. Most definitely.

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• prenatal_confusion@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Starcraft

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  • Trail@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same. Was playing custom maps with a 33k modem. Oh the memories…

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• otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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• Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Crash bandicoot 3.

  Considering how uninformed I was back then, it was a hell of a success.

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• fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Illusion of Gaia at an Alco for Christmas. A great SNES game. Graphics have aged very well and gameplay is still solid. It’s an ARPG like Zelda kind of. Lots of puzzles. Swap out your character for other heroes occasionally to tackle different puzzles/dungeons.

  I was pretty young, around 11. It was in the clearance bin, like 30 bucks. I was initially kind of disappointed because most of the games there we had or they sucked. But that one stuck out. Was definitely worth it.

  A couple Christmas(I was 13) later I got FF7 for PC. I had previously beaten 1 and 3(6). FF6 was great. I’d play that game start to finish in about 8 hrs. Which really isn’t that bad for 100% run.

  Then I got really into StarCraft (bnet) UMS games. Cat v mouse varieties were especially fun.

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  • 64bithero@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’ve gotten my curiosity with this RPG I’m going to dig into this!

    Thanks for the story and info

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• 64bithero@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Please keep them coming and please please tell your stories. It’s the best part of gaming really

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• BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.’

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  • 64bithero@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sorry to hear about your loss

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    • BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• JakoJakoJako13@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Halo. Worked a paper rout to buy an OG Xbox and Halo all by myself.

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  • 64bithero@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wasn’t my first buy but I did the same with chores and saving up money !

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• Drasglaf@sopuli.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think it was either Soleil or Dune 2 for the Mega Drive/Genesis. I was 10 or 11 at the time.

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• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The first game system I ever had was a Game Gear when I was 6, but I think every game I ever got for it was a gift. We got a Sega Genesis the following year, when I was 7 (1996). Little did I know at the time it was actually obsolete at that point, but that’s why my parents got it for me when they did; it was dirt cheap. So were the games. I kid you not when I say I could walk into a FuncoLand with $10 and walk out with 20 used Genesis games, most of which were $0.25 each. So as a result, I have no idea what the first game I bought was, because my brother and I bought a plethora of games all at the same time. In that haul though, probably, was Vectorman, Jurassic Park, Clayfighter, and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (we already got Sonic 1 and 2 with the console, as well as a couple of Mortal Kombat games that our parents made us return when they realized how violent they were, because I guess the title left it ambiguous).

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  • 64bithero@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My first personal system was a game gear as well. Still have it too! Parents bought it for me in the early 90s

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• Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Super smash brothers mele, gamecube

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• Vlado@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Final Fantasy IV, completely worth it and I still have it. My parents were mad that it was $40 used.

  I didn’t sell many games back, but for some reason, I sold that same game store Mega Man V for Game Boy complete-in-box, probably for a pittance.

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• ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Let’s see… when I was 4 I got a Sega Genesis for my birthday. It came with Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and Granddad took me shopping to pick out two other games for it. I picked Sonic the Hedgehog and Ms. Pac-Man, and both were bangers. The Genesis port of Ms. Pac-Man had a bunch of alternate modes with different mazes.

  I became a big fan of the Sonic the Hedgehog games. I got Sonic 3 for my next(?) birthday, and Sonic and Knuckles the Christmas after that(?). I was convinced that Lock-On Technology was going to be the future of video games!

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  • 64bithero@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What an awesome story ! And very cool games for sure

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  • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I grew up with many of these games!

    I remember going to pick out PS1 games. Spyro the Dragon was the one I put the most time into.

    On the Genesis, I also remember picking “Streets of Rage 2” simply because I liked Street Fighter 2 on the SNES and I thought it’d be the same kind of game. Best decision I made about a Genesis game!

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• jdr8@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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• thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Purchased was Tomb Raider II. So worth it because I loved Indiana Jones.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Oh boy. Have I got a treat for you

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    • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’ll lock this battle up

      like Winston in the freezer

      💀 omg

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• MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The Orange Box, absolutely worth it lol

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  • AnAnonymousApe@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What a bargain that gem was!

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• spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That I personally bought?

  Pretty sure it was King’s Quest VIII: Mask of Eternity.

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• Damage@feddit.it ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think either gobliiins or starush for the Amiga

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  • spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Loved Gobliiins

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• lakemalcom@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨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 ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We definitely had a Sega Master System too. I do not remember buying that at all

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• thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨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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• InvalidName2@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It was counter strike 1.6 on Steam

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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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