How old were you and maybe most importantly was it worth it ?
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Elfmania for my Amiga 500
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
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 2I dont remember. It was probably an Atari 2600 game sometime in the 80s.
Im not alone. Sim City 3000 gang roll put!
Orange 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.
Pokemon Blue. I saved up then learned about sales tax at the cashier, so my dad bailed me out with the extra $5
King.
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.
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!
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.
Riven: The sequel to Myst. Had to visit a whole new world and write down my adventure.
That game took me six months to beat. On PlayStation.
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
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.
That’s amazing and it’s a great game. I need to play more of that …
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.
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.
Old doesn’t mean bad then or now. Hope You got a lot of hours out of it. I know I did
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
Bought for me: the NES deluxe kit with console, controllers, light gun, and Mario/Duck Hunt.
I first bought Super Mario Bros 3 as in, with my own money.
Sounds like 80s gaming heaven
