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
Elfmania for my Amiga 500
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 ?
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
Ultima Underworld.
Saved a whole year for that one. Took a whole day to figure out how to configure the EMM386 line that would enable me to have enough memory to run the damn thing (tears of frustration were shed).Absolutely worth it. Blew my little mind. Never got to finish it though, because of a bug in the quest in the last level T_T
Oh nooo classic series but evil bug :(
That was thirty four years ago or thereabout and I still remember the absolute panic of not being able to start the game I had just spent a year of pocket money on… The feeling when I found that bug was very similar, except I never found a way out.
Still, amazing memories!
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!
Nifty Lifty!
A PC game called Iron Helix. I was really young when I got it and it has already been out few years at that point so I’m pretty sure it was a discount re-release I found in a bargain bin.
Back in the FMV craze of the nineties, it was one of the better titles. It’s an incredibly tense cat-and-mouse game, kind of like a 3D Pac-Man. You control a scientific research probe navigating a drifting deep-space battleship in an attempt to prevent it from autonomously attacking a peaceful planet, all while trying to work out what happened to the crew and deciphering the clues they left, and the whole time you are being hunted by the ship’s security robot with nothing but a chiming proximity sensor letting you know when it’s approaching. Brilliant game, super tense.
Sounds similar to a cd game I played called the Journeyman Project
I dont remember which I bought for myself first since I used to raid gamestop regularly in high school but I remember my cool aunt taking me to gamestop when I was a kid and I asked her to get me Metroid Prime 2 and that shit was excellent
Cool story , sounds like an awesome aunt
The Settlers 3
A cassette tape for my MSX with 2 games by Konami: Hyper Rally and Antarctic Adventure. That was in 1988.
I’ve been gaming ever since.
Jet Set Willy. It was on a cassette tape, for the spectrum computer. My brother’s and I got probably hundreds of hours out of it.
With my own money, it would have been some ZX Spectrum budget title. I clearly remember Fantasy World Dizzy being mine and I think I bought it with my own money rather than it being purchased for me, so I’m going to go with that.
