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.
Yeeees, me, too
Flight simulator for the C64 (uncrackable at the time).
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR (the sound was just the engine)RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR…
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!
Myst was the first game I bought with my own money
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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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!
Super smash brothers mele, gamecube
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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!
Also my recollection is that Sonic 2 wasn’t actually packed in with the system, Granddad had to fill out like a rebate form to claim it from the retailer and it came in the mail. It had a NOT FOR RESALE sticker on it which I now understand meant “only for use in the promotion, don’t put this on the shelf” but as a kid I was very confused about what peril would befall me if I sold it to someone else.
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!
What an awesome story ! And very cool games for sure
Secret of Mana. I was 12, and went and worked under the table stripping tobacco. The game was well worth what I paid, the job wasn’t.
Secret of Mana is responsible for one of my earliest memories (gaming or otherwise) where my dad had given me a controller and convinced me I was playing with him. I dont know how long he got away with that because the memory is me slowly figuring out it means nothing.
Well that was a shit thing for him to do. One of the reasons I got the game is that my younger brother was 9 and youngest was 4. I also got a third controller and the 4 controller adapter.
I played Poppoi, younger bro got Marle, and youngest bro was given the sword boy and told where to go. Younger bro got quite good as the healer.
The three of us got all the spells to level 8:99, and yes, I do mean ALL. We also got all the extra weapon orbs out of the Mana Fortress, though I found out later that we did miss some really nice weapon and armor drops before the thing takes off.
It wasnt that bad. I’d have been about 2 or 3 so as far as I was concerned I was playing with my dad. Until the day I saw through the charade
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater for N64
