How old were you and maybe most importantly was it worth it ?
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Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers.
The 3.5" floppy version for PC.
In a box, off the shelf at Kmart.
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.
Tales of Symphonia, GameCube.
Final Fantasy 7 for the PS1.
Secret of Mana. I was 12, and went and worked under the table stripping tobacco. The game was well worth what I paid, the job wasn’t.
Secret of Mana is responsible for one of my earliest memories (gaming or otherwise) where my dad had given me a controller and convinced me I was playing with him. I dont know how long he got away with that because the memory is me slowly figuring out it means nothing.
Well that was a shit thing for him to do. One of the reasons I got the game is that my younger brother was 9 and youngest was 4. I also got a third controller and the 4 controller adapter.
I played Poppoi, younger bro got Marle, and youngest bro was given the sword boy and told where to go. Younger bro got quite good as the healer.
The three of us got all the spells to level 8:99, and yes, I do mean ALL. We also got all the extra weapon orbs out of the Mana Fortress, though I found out later that we did miss some really nice weapon and armor drops before the thing takes off.
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.
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.
I lived in a pretty rural town at the time. This was the best game zcmi had for our brand new 386. World Gamee
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.
I’m pretty sure it was Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II. I don’t actually remember buying it and might have played Warcraft 2 beforehand, but I spent many … Many happy hours on DF2. One of those two was my introduction to multiplayer gaming, but for sure I spent a lot more time on DF2.
As for whether it was worth it, it arguably shaped a lot of my life to date. Also I met at least one friend whom I still talk to (though rarely) to this day. I would say yes.
It’s been a long time ago….
For a console: probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaboom!_(video_game)
For a computer: for my C64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_IV%3A_Quest_of_the_Avatar
Just Cause 2
I was 13 and wanted to play it with my friend. God that was awful.
Two answers to this question.
The first game that my parents bought for me was Wing Commander from a garage sale when I was like six.
The first game I bought on my own was Freelancer when I was around fifteen via eBay.
Both were totally worth it.
