I know we had games. I think we borrowed an Atari for a while. I definitely remember the Superman Atari game.

But the first one I remember buying was when we got an NES. I think my dad went all out and got Super Mario Bros 3 and Megaman 2 all at once. What a day.

It was counter strike 1.6 on Steam

First game I ever remember buying was Final Fantasy II. I was probably about 11 and it was definitely worth it. A friend had let me borrow it for a few days and I immediately knew that I needed to get my own copy. Still one of my favorite games ever.

Oddworld : Munch's Oddysee. It's been 25 years, would love to replay it

The Orange Box, absolutely worth it lol

I think it was Monkey Island 2.

GUNSHIP on tandy.

then a few years later the first game I pirated was LHX.

The first game that I specifically remember buying with my own money was TMNT 3 on the NES. And hell yeah it was worth it!

Man, that was so long ago. Thinking back it was probably Excitebike or Wizards & Warriors for the NES.

The first game that i remember buying was Baldurs gate. Real first was probably something for NES, megaman 2 maybe?

Gameboy + Zelda: Link's Awakening bundle when I was like 6. That was an absolute guarantee gaming would get its hooks in a person.

Castle of the winds for windows 1.somethng

Blaster Master for NES. I was like 11 and had earned some money somehow that was then burning a hole in my wallet. Hey Dad, take me to Toys R Us?

Worth it? Hell yeah, I loved that game.

No idea which game specifically. I used to walk to the pawn shop from my parents' work and buy NES and Gameboy games, cheap af. Prolly something like Turrican on the Gameboy or Tecmo Bowl.

Pokemon platium for the old nintendo ds, at the age 13-14 years old. Before that I useally got my copied games, on floppy disc and later on CD's.

I wqs pretty young, not sure how old but definitely still in middle school I wanna say. But the first game that I bought with my money was a game called Blockland, which was kind of a fusion between roblox and garrys mod that leaned more into the lego visual aesthetic. I remember doing a lot of map exploration solo to find secrets the mapmakers put in. Fun times.

Ultima III for Apple ][ in 1983. Paid with months of saved up allowance. So damned worth it.

Fun side note... I bought it from the same computer store where I nearly bowled over Robin Williams in 1984 (Santa Rosa, CA). I was very aware of who he was, having grown up watching Mork and Mindy and watched one of his standup specials a LOT of times.

I was wandering around the games case, fixated on said games and noticed a person out of the corner of my eye right before slamming into them. And it was HIM. I couldn't say a word. And he looked as if he couldn't figure out this weird nerd and just moved around me.

I still think back on that day frequently enough.

First game I ever bought myself was also a console. Bought a Jaguar with DOOM, even had the insert on the controller for all the weapons. Was totally worth it because it was bitchin'. Bought it from a car boot sale with my pocket money for £5.

Didnt last long because I melted it by trying to use the SNES power pack with it. I was about 7 so things like amps and watts didnt feature into my reasoning. Plug fit, plug works, its fine. And it was for about 5 minutes until it started smoking.

First with my own money was Rygar for the NES when it first released in 1987. My brothers and I had already played the original Zelda to death and we craved another fantasy action/RPG type of game. It was different but great - totally worth it.

Worms Armageddon! I vaguely remember being disappointed by the absence of some features I liked from Worms 2, but can't remember exactly anymore. I think I still have the CD somewhere.

Starfleet Command: Gold Edition

it STILL gives me fun playtime

I mean it had to be a puzzle book or something from the hobby shop but im not sure and it would have been single digits. Even ones that were a bigger deal im not sure. My friend intrduced me to d&d with the box version and im not 100% but I think the first rpg I may have bought is star frontiers. man that seemed so cool at the time. Honestly its still sorta cool thinking about it.

Links awakening on the Gameboy, great first game to own

Mario and duck hunt for the original nes. My parents got it for me when I was VERY young. And I was terrible at both for years. So much fun.

One of the first paid ones was Crazy Machines a puzzle game where you have to solve rube goldberg machines, i must have been around 8. I only know about this now because I have only recently dusted off the old PC I was playing on. Its fun, I like that they always added a small backstory to every puzzle. The puzzles I have created were no real puzzles and I have just built what I felt like building. Definitely worth it (the newer ones not so much.)

Me and my brother combined our money to buy Cyberia (1994). This was a fmv (full motion video) game, which still seemed like a pretty cool concept at the time. We bought it because we were really impressed with the demo, which came on a CD-ROM that was bundled with PC Gamer or some other magazine.

The demo was a section of the game where you were flying around in some sort of aeroplane. The only thing you controlled was the gun. The enemies were superimposed on top of the video, which was fixed.

I enjoyed the flying sections in the full game, but there were also parts where you controlled the main character on the ground. You could only move him between fixed positions and postures, because fmv. In some places you had to shoot enemies, which required very precise timing. This was too hard for me at the time.

I think I kind of regretted spending my money on it at the time, but only a little.

I don’t remember the name of the title. It was probably an Atari 2600 game sometime in the 80s.

In 95 I was stationed in Germany and I know I bought a number of PC games from the post exchange but again I don’t remember any of the names.

Sometime around 98 I know I bought Doom. That’s probably the first game I bought when I remember the title.

Pokemon SoulSilver for $20 when I was 8 or 9 years old. I don't have the cartridge or PokeWalker anymore and I weep at the value lost

It was a game for the C64 and I was 12, but I am not sure what game it was. Such a long time ago.