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
Altered Beast came free with the Sega Mega Drive I bought as my first console.
You enjoy it ?
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!
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.
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
Starcraft
Pretty sure it was Quake
Could your computer run it xD mine couldn’t :(
The Settlers 3
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
Couldn’t tell you the very first game I bought, but I definitely remember one of the oldest being either Ed Edd n Eddy: The Mis-Ed-Ventures for gamecube or Sonic Unleashed for PS2.
I could at least say with certainty my first Steam game purchase was most likely Portal 2 since I wanted the level creator super bad as an xbox port owner.
First I rember buying with my own money is zelda oracle of ages for gbc I would have been about 13, and it was absolutely worth it.
Kind of evil they essentially split one game into two. Common for GBA Nintendo games tho
Nifty Lifty!
I had games brought for me, but the first game I brought was GTA III (cos I was 12ish and my parents refused to buy it for me)
And yes it was worth it, blew my mind back in the day.
One of best out there. So many hours lost committing crime
Some Atari ST game, not sure which. Maybe Spacola? Early teens.
