How old were you and maybe most importantly was it worth it ?
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21 daysAnd a cracking game it was, fellow silver surf–oh god, we really are old!
- anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish20 days
Used copy of excitebike with lawn mowing money. I’m not quite as old.
Flight simulator for the C64 (uncrackable at the time).
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR (the sound was just the engine)RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR…
- BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish21 days
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 😄
- Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish21 days
With my own allowance money instead of asking for it as a gift?
Sim City 3000First game as an adult with a job?
Halo 2- IWW4@lemmy.zipEnglish21 days
I dont remember. It was probably an Atari 2600 game sometime in the 80s.
How many versions do you own? Cyan can give Bethesda a run for its money.
- Canadian_Cabinet @lemmy.caEnglish21 days
At least each version of Myst was a dramatic increase in quality, unlike every Skyrim edition
- 21 days
I only have the very original on PC. Still have it in my basement somewhere too.
- cheat700000007@lemmy.worldEnglish21 days
Pokemon Blue. I saved up then learned about sales tax at the cashier, so my dad bailed me out with the extra $5
- otacon239@lemmy.worldEnglish21 days
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.
- 21 days
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
- 21 days
I don’t know for sure if it was my money or just my choice, but I went with Strife (1996). I chose it in the store after a long deliberation, my uncle was trying to get me to go with Half Life but I was drawn in by something on the back of the box. PC games used to come in big empty boxes with a lot of art and info on them.
It was unforgettable. Basically if you made an RPG in the old Doom engine with the sensibilities of the nineties and an overly ambitious art department. It was surprisingly well written, and I’ve been chasing that sense of an expansive, dark yet cartoonish, novelistic RPG ever since.
The magical days of getting lost in a box art and wanting to know and see more. Brings back memories !
You should check into the doom modding community. I don’t tend to play many rpg style wads but I know they’re out there. Some use the doom engine but the game is pretty much unrecognizable as doom (called total conversion wads). Here’s one article with a list.
One called Hedon got an official release and is on steam etc now
They also make some hexen levels (I saw Wrath of Cronos being recommended).
- 20 days
I used to play a lot of old school Doom and stuff like it (Rise of the Triad, Shadow Warrior lol) but I didn’t see anything in that article that was quite as story-forward as Strife. I still love a game that goes highly verbal on me.
- Vlado@feddit.orgEnglish21 days
Oh wow. I vividly remember playing Strife and that was really something else. It really had its own “soul” or charm or however we call it. But I can imagine that owning an original copy at that time must have been a very cool experience.
- 21 days
I was really young when I was into it, too. Thirteen at most.
- Vlado@feddit.orgEnglish21 days
I might have been even slightly younger than that. But after lots of straightfoward “doom” shooters, this was very refreshing. The fact that not every character is automatically an enemy, that you have a hub-like world. Together with the unorthodox aesthetics… Yep that’s a good memory.
- NinthGladiator@lemmy.zipEnglish21 days
Riven: The sequel to Myst. Had to visit a whole new world and write down my adventure.
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.
- tacosanonymous@mander.xyzEnglish21 days
Never has there been a game more worthy.
There’s a team putting together full voice acting for it, btw.
- dragontology@retrofed.comEnglish20 days
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.
- InvalidName2@lemmy.zipEnglish21 days
I don’t remember.
However, I gave up gaming when I was around 18 and preparing to head off to college. Then after I graduated, I was at a store and saw Quake Arena on deep discount (b/c it was a very old game at that time) and based on the hardware requirements, it looked like my crumby ancient tower computer could play it. I don’t know why, but I decided to buy it, and I guess that sort of got me back into gaming (ish).
I was in my 20s and although I barely remember the game now, yeah, it was worth it. The graphics and performance were far superior to anything I’d played up to that point. It had online play, which was entirely new to me at the time. And a few years later, I got major “friend points” when I gifted it to someone who was a game collector and had offered many times to buy the game from me.
Old doesn’t mean bad then or now. Hope You got a lot of hours out of it. I know I did
- thesohoriots@lemmy.worldEnglish21 days
Purchased was Tomb Raider II. So worth it because I loved Indiana Jones.
I’ll lock this battle up
like Winston in the freezer
💀 omg
- Mycatiskai@lemmy.caEnglish21 days
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.
