How old were you and maybe most importantly was it worth it ?
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Pitfall by Activision for the Atari 2600. I’m old.
And a cracking game it was, fellow silver surf–oh god, we really are old!
Used copy of excitebike with lawn mowing money. I’m not quite as old.
Doom on CD-ROM. Was the first, still the best.
Yeeees, me, too
Flight simulator for the C64 (uncrackable at the time).
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR (the sound was just the engine)RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR…
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.
I just gave my DnD blue box set to a friend last week. I bought it in 1979 😄
Chopper Command for same!
With my own allowance money instead of asking for it as a gift?
Sim City 3000First game as an adult with a job?
Halo 2Orange box, everything before was pirated lol
Such good value
Myst was the first game I bought with my own money
How many versions do you own? Cyan can give Bethesda a run for its money.
At least each version of Myst was a dramatic increase in quality, unlike every Skyrim edition
I only have the very original on PC. Still have it in my basement somewhere too.
Holy shit am i the only minecraft generation kid here?
I am amazed with how many older folks I’m seeing to. But I’m not sad
I feel like Lemmy skews older than Reddit, but I could be wrong!
It’s been a long time ago….
For a console: probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaboom!_(video_game)
For a computer: for my C64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_IV%3A_Quest_of_the_Avatar
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.
I only played a pirated copy of the game :X
Purchased was Tomb Raider II. So worth it because I loved Indiana Jones.
Oh boy. Have I got a treat for you
I’ll lock this battle up
like Winston in the freezer
💀 omg
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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Sid Meier’s Civ 5, and I was 24 😆 (growing up, my family was piracy-only, so this was the first game I actually bought)
and was absolutely worth it :) I paid ~15 GBP for the base game + some expansions and DLC, and so far put 500+ hours into the game. I still reinstall it every few years.
The first game I ever bought with my own money was Metal Gear Solid 1. And the PS1 to play it on.
I wanted FF7 but they didn’t have it. But MGS was a good second choice.
Remember the old days when people ran out of stock on game copies ? MGS is no slouch of a purchase either
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.
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.
Never has there been a game more worthy.
There’s a team putting together full voice acting for it, btw.
Nice. I just started another replay of that this morning.
Crash bandicoot 3.
Considering how uninformed I was back then, it was a hell of a success.
I lived in a pretty rural town at the time. This was the best game zcmi had for our brand new 386. World Gamee
Only played winter games and much later with a crappy nes port
