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.
Flight simulator for the C64 (uncrackable at the time).
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR (the sound was just the engine)RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR…
Doom on CD-ROM. Was the first, still the best.
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 😄
Yeeees, me, too
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 2Im not alone. Sim City 3000 gang roll put!
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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.
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!
Pokemon Blue. I saved up then learned about sales tax at the cashier, so my dad bailed me out with the extra $5
King.
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.
The magical days of getting lost in a box art and wanting to know and see more. Brings back memories !
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).
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.
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.
I was really young when I was into it, too. Thirteen at most.
I might have been even slightly younger than that. But after lots of straightfoward “doom” shooters, this was very refreshing. The fact that not every character is automatically an enemy, that you have a hub-like world. Together with the unorthodox aesthetics… Yep that’s a good memory.
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.
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.
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.
Nice. I just started another replay of that this morning.
Never has there been a game more worthy.
There’s a team putting together full voice acting for it, btw.
Super smash brothers mele, gamecube
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
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.’
Sorry to hear about your loss
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.
