Super smash brothers mele, gamecube

The first game I ever bought 'by myself' was a sealed copy of Phantasy Star Online for GameCube long after its hayday in like 2011. I worked all summer for it, and it was 200 fucken dollars for an unopened copy. Worth every penny I still have it today, just used the disc to load it into Dolphin.

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.

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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.

Wordfeud premium.

Had it since Android started. It's outlived one marriage (cancer), about six phones so far.

It's a kind of Scrabble game but slightly different layout, and 'just works.'

With my own money: Link to the Past. Most definitely.

Baldur's Gate 2. The manual was so good, and the map. You'd pay $200 for some kind of special edition for that quality these days. Totally worth it.

Crash bandicoot 3.

Considering how uninformed I was back then, it was a hell of a success.

Sid Meier's Civ 5, and I was 24 😆 (growing up, my family was piracy-only, so this was the first game I actually bought)

and was absolutely worth it :) I paid ~15 GBP for the base game + some expansions and DLC, and so far put 500+ hours into the game. I still reinstall it every few years.

I think it was the GameCube version of Sims 2. I remember going with a friend to get it to play before another friend came over for a sleepover. We loved Sims Bustin Out when I rented it from Blockbuster, but figured Sims 2 was even better cause....I mean it has a number in the title so it was probably the sequel to Bustin Out. I also remember being extremely nervous cause it was rated T and I was like 11 or something.

Please keep them coming and please please tell your stories. It’s the best part of gaming really

I really think it was that set of three games, Half Life, Portal, and whatever the other one was. The orange box was it?

Where did I get that first xbox 360? I think it was given to me or traded... I dont remember, but I think I went out and got Portal as my first ever game purchase.

we had games and consoles before that, but I didnt buy them.

I think my buddy back then, got the ring of death, and he got it fixed through the mail. They sent him two xboxes on accident, so he gave me the extra one. I think thats how I got it.

I def remmeber going to game stop to make the game purchas though, I was giddy with excitement

Something called "Hang On Harvey". It wasn't tech though. It was plastic.

the first grand theft auto. you had to be at least 13 to buy it and I think I was 12

Very first that I bought? Deus Ex. By that time I already played it quite a lot, but I felt that it deserves buying even though I didn’t have any income at that age. Looking back at that seems nostalgic. It had a proper manual and everything. It even seemed somehow “magical”, because as kids we weren’t really used to owning games (as in our “own” games, not just something borrowed from a friend which was usually just burnt on empty CD). Good times.

Platoon for C64. Saved up for it.

Piece of shit. And disc 2 didn't work.

Colin McRae Rally 2.0 for the PlayStation.

I wanted a PlayStation so much but simply didn’t have the money. I was saving for it.

But bought the game so I could go to my friend’s house and play it on his PlayStation.

The first game system I ever had was a Game Gear when I was 6, but I think every game I ever got for it was a gift. We got a Sega Genesis the following year, when I was 7 (1996). Little did I know at the time it was actually obsolete at that point, but that's why my parents got it for me when they did; it was dirt cheap. So were the games. I kid you not when I say I could walk into a FuncoLand with $10 and walk out with 20 used Genesis games, most of which were $0.25 each. So as a result, I have no idea what the first game I bought was, because my brother and I bought a plethora of games all at the same time. In that haul though, probably, was Vectorman, Jurassic Park, Clayfighter, and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (we already got Sonic 1 and 2 with the console, as well as a couple of Mortal Kombat games that our parents made us return when they realized how violent they were, because I guess the title left it ambiguous).

One of those handheld football games with little red dots for players.

If you mean console or computer games, asteroids for Atari 2600.

The football game was too hard for a 5 year old.

I still like playing an occasional game of asteroids to this day.

Starcraft

I think it was either Soleil or Dune 2 for the Mega Drive/Genesis. I was 10 or 11 at the time.

Let's see... when I was 4 I got a Sega Genesis for my birthday. It came with Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and Granddad took me shopping to pick out two other games for it. I picked Sonic the Hedgehog and Ms. Pac-Man, and both were bangers. The Genesis port of Ms. Pac-Man had a bunch of alternate modes with different mazes.

I became a big fan of the Sonic the Hedgehog games. I got Sonic 3 for my next(?) birthday, and Sonic and Knuckles the Christmas after that(?). I was convinced that Lock-On Technology was going to be the future of video games!

Also my recollection is that Sonic 2 wasn't actually packed in with the system, Granddad had to fill out like a rebate form to claim it from the retailer and it came in the mail. It had a NOT FOR RESALE sticker on it which I now understand meant "only for use in the promotion, don't put this on the shelf" but as a kid I was very confused about what peril would befall me if I sold it to someone else.

Must have been Gran Turismo 3, during those days I was switching from pocket money to spending my own income so it's not sure if GT3 was still a gift and GT4 was actually my first self bought game.

I do remember i owned the platinum edition of GT3 and GT4 was bought at release.

It was definitely worth it, Up until today I still dream about owning a race sim setup to do some serious racing and developing my skill. But I never got past a used Logitech G29 mounted to a desk and a chair that kept rolling away from the pedals type of setup.

I had a fairly long term of being unemployed during Covid which ended up in me buying that G29 as I spent a lot of time playing GT sport and finally for the first time ever got all gold on the licenses, so I knew I was making some good progress from all the time spent.

I even dared to try online racing and as I got better slowly managed to hold myself among others, which made me happy.

Final Fantasy IV, completely worth it and I still have it. My parents were mad that it was $40 used.

I didn't sell many games back, but for some reason, I sold that same game store Mega Man V for Game Boy complete-in-box, probably for a pittance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(video_game) Worth it, played the hell out of it. Though I'm not sure if I ever beat it.

Illusion of Gaia at an Alco for Christmas. A great SNES game. Graphics have aged very well and gameplay is still solid. It's an ARPG like Zelda kind of. Lots of puzzles. Swap out your character for other heroes occasionally to tackle different puzzles/dungeons.

I was pretty young, around 11. It was in the clearance bin, like 30 bucks. I was initially kind of disappointed because most of the games there we had or they sucked. But that one stuck out. Was definitely worth it.

A couple Christmas(I was 13) later I got FF7 for PC. I had previously beaten 1 and 3(6). FF6 was great. I'd play that game start to finish in about 8 hrs. Which really isn't that bad for 100% run.

Then I got really into StarCraft (bnet) UMS games. Cat v mouse varieties were especially fun.

Fallout 3, when I was 15. I had read the strategy guide (with no pictures) at my library, and struggled to even comprehend a game that expansive.

Hell yeah, it was worth it.

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater for N64

Can't remember if I purchased it or asked for it, but it is the first game that was just for me and not anyone else in the family and would have been in my early teens. Wanted it as a computer version of the tabletop Battletech game that I was introduced to by a friend's older brother.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BattleTech:_The_Crescent_Hawk%27s_Revenge

The play speed was tied to the CPU speed, so when we upgraded the family computer a couple years later all the movement happened at ludicrous speeds! Good thing it was turn based.

BATTLETECH 2019 was like a modern version which was pretty awesome and hit all the nostalgia buttons!

I think it was KotOR 🤔

Halo. Worked a paper rout to buy an OG Xbox and Halo all by myself.

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

Some Atari ST game, not sure which. Maybe Spacola? Early teens.

Left 4 dead 1&2, I was early 20's, and I arrived to gaming late in life. Was it worth it? Yeah, I was pretty addicted to zombie shit back in the day. XD I only played the campaigns tho, wasn't confident in my ability to play with others.

Just Cause 2

I was 13 and wanted to play it with my friend. God that was awful.