How old were you and maybe most importantly was it worth it ?
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Elfmania for my Amiga 500
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
Ran like a slideshow on my 8086 monochrome.
Altered Beast came free with the Sega Mega Drive I bought as my first console.
You enjoy it ?
the first I remember buying with my own money probably The secret of monkey island
Fun fact creator of monkey island has a Mastodon account . He’s quite fun to follow !
Can’t remember the specific one but probably one of the Dizzy the egg games for the Spectrum.
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!
Chopper Command for same!
Doom on CD-ROM. Was the first, still the best.
Flight simulator for the C64 (uncrackable at the time).
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR (the sound was just the engine)RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR…
Yeeees, me, too
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 😄
I think, it was Duke Nukem 3D, or Warcraft 2, and I’m pretty sure it was on a pirated CD of 100 in 1 games, but maybe those were later
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
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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Pretty sure it was Quake
Could your computer run it xD mine couldn’t :(
It might have been a used copy of Guild Wars 1.
Great game, I was playing again last week
Orange box, everything before was pirated lol
Such good value
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”
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!
