How old were you and maybe most importantly was it worth it ?
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SimCity 2000. I got all my money’s worth out of it as I played it a ton. Came on 2 3.5" floppy disks and the fastest mode, African swallow, ran pretty slowly on my Packard Bell 386 SX. Later I got a Pentium 133 and it ran amazingly fast on that. I still play it from time to time.
Classic game. Near perfection
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
That I bought myself? Dragon Warrior. I bought it from a teenager who lived nearby for 5$ (a couple hundred when adjusting for inflation). He even threw in a cut out of a Nintendo power article on how to beat it.
Was it worth it? Absofuckinglutely!
Altered Beast came free with the Sega Mega Drive I bought as my first console.
You enjoy it ?
Elfmania for my Amiga 500
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. It was also the first time ever buying anything from a second-hand store. I wish I could remember the name of the store; it wasn’t Funcoland or EB. They had a logo that was an anthropomorphic SNES cart, tho.
Remember the old days when people ran out of stock on game copies ? MGS is no slouch of a purchase either
It might have been a used copy of Guild Wars 1.
Great game, I was playing again last week
I think it was either Beyond Good and Evil or Guilty Gear Iruca for PC. And then there were psychonauts and Megaman X8, I think all of the were worth it. Guilty Gear Iruca might have been the weakest in the series for me but I had a lot of fun with it too, and it got me to try X2 later.
And the Megaman game was actually my favourite in the series, I liked having lower difficulty with Axel and replayed it a few times, I was surprised to discover that the difficulty changed the ending on my second playthrough. That was such a great time in gaming.
Indeed it was a grand time for gaming!
I’m pretty sure it was Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II. I don’t actually remember buying it and might have played Warcraft 2 beforehand, but I spent many … Many happy hours on DF2. One of those two was my introduction to multiplayer gaming, but for sure I spent a lot more time on DF2.
As for whether it was worth it, it arguably shaped a lot of my life to date. Also I met at least one friend whom I still talk to (though rarely) to this day. I would say yes.
Pitfall by Activision for the Atari 2600. I’m old.
Used copy of excitebike with lawn mowing money. I’m not quite as old.
And a cracking game it was, fellow silver surf–oh god, we really are old!
Ran like a slideshow on my 8086 monochrome.
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
StarCraft. I tried to make friendly AI by messing around with the editor, to make the AI do what I want at certain times, mimicking an ally.
That’s neat! Never dug into that much just beat bad even by the “ai”
I think it was either Soleil or Dune 2 for the Mega Drive/Genesis. I was 10 or 11 at the time.
Metroid Fusion. Such an awesomely replayable game.
