The first game you bought?

[shadow460]

What was the very first video game you purchased with your own money? Do you still have it, or have a copy of it?

 

My first purchase included Super RC Pro-Am, F-1 Race, the Punisher, and Tetris. The two racing games came together in a large package that also contained a four player adapter, and the Tetris game came with my very first Game Boy. I don't have the games I roginally bought, but I do have copies of them, and I also have an original Game Boy, link cable, and four player adapter as well as the box for F-1 Race.

 

This all went down in 1993. Little did I know I'd have such a large collection today...

[Spazmonkey]

I got my n64 when I was six, or maybe seven , my first game was Diddy Kong racing, I still have it.

[KIWASABI]

My first game is more memorable than the first game I ever bought (I don't think I could possibly remember which game I first bought...Contra from a flea market maybe?). Right before my mom married my step father about 18 years ago, my step father gave me Wolverine for NES for Christmas. My reaction was, "Uhh, how am I supposed to play this? I don't have a NES". But then my step dad said, "Don't worry, I have one", and we were about to move in with him so it worked out. It's pretty funny to think about this because it just shows how dumb you can be as a kid; I don't think he would've gotten me a game if he didn't know that I could play it .

[Linkz1]

My first game was Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble for the Game Gear. I remember saving up my allowance like crazy to buy this game. God...that was what, in 1994 I think? I remember I bought it at the old department store Caldors (if anyone remembers that!) and I remember playing it until I beat it. I'd play it all the time...I'd wake up early on school mornings just to play it! Man, those were the days.

[Mirage]

Dragster and Miniature Golf, with birthday money (my birthday was soon after the Christmas when I got my first 2600). I loved those games and still do. Yes, I love Miniature Golf.

[darthkur]

Dragster and Miniature Golf, with birthday money (my birthday was soon after the Christmas when I got my first 2600). I loved those games and still do. Yes, I love Miniature Golf.

 

I like Miniature Golf a lot as well. I remember having to buy it from a guy at the local bowling alley since I couldn't find it at any of the stores. As for the first game I ever bought I really can't recall. It would obviously be for the 2600. Maybe Adventure, Laser Blast or Boxing. Actually, the more I think of it I believe it could've been Asteroids. I remember anticipating that one a lot.

[accousticguitar]

The first game I bought was Space Invaders, along with the 2600 console.

Yes, I love Miniature Golf.

Another Miniature Golf fan here.

[Classic Pac]

It was Keystone Kapers and Seaquest 2600 they were bought at the same time

[Tempest]

With my own money? I think it was either Freeway or Phoenix.

 

Tempest

[+Ransom]

Being a formerly spoiled only child, I didn't buy any games with my own money until I was well into my teens. So it would probably be an NES game of some sort. Actually, I bought the NES with my own money, so I guess it would be SMB/Duck Hunt.

 

No, I don't have the original games any more. I sold them a few years later in order to raise money for a TG-16 (which was then sold a few months later to raise money for a Genesis, which was then sold a few months later -- along with an Apple //c with lots of software and hardware-- to raise money for an IBM PC clone).

[gdement]

Either Xevious or Dig Dug for the 7800, don't remember which I bought first but I think Xevious. I still have those.

Those games were only $10 in the Sears catalog, but I think my allowance was only $2.50 at that point. I remember getting it out of the mailbox on a Friday. Arrived in a basic brown mailer, not sure if it was even padded. Collectors today would have a fit but I didn't care.

 

I think the first reasonably expensive game I bought was Ghosts 'n Goblins for the NES. It was about $30 at Albertson's. Seriously, they were selling Nintendo games there. $30 was cheap compared to most NES games, otherwise I probably would have bought something else.

By then I think my allowance was $4 + $4 for mowing the lawn. And the games got more expensive after that.

 

Funny how you spend your money when you're a kid.

[roland p]

Salamander for the MSX. Mainly because of the cool SCC chip.

[shadow460]

I was one of those spoiled kids myself. I didn't buy my own games until I was out of the house. The money I used on that Game Boy setup came from my first or second check from the US Navy.

 

I got all that from Babbage's in Orlando Fashion Square. I think it all cost me around $150. I know the Game Boy was $80 or $90, the racing pack was $30, and then there was the Punisher on top of all that. I think I bought a carrying case that night also.

 

As for my first game ever, I consider that to be Asteroids, which is the first of the Atari games I played which my parents had bought us for Christmas. The first I myself purchased for my current VCS collection was Ghost Manor in 2005, and the one I've had the longest (although I didn't purchase it) is Phaser Patrol. Confused yet? I think I am!

Edited March 20, 2009 by shadow460

[pinball22]

Well, my parents made me save up half the money to buy the 2600, so I guess the answer is Target Fun.

[monzamess]

Galaxian for 2600 when I was 10 or 11. I had saved up some money (for what I don't remember). I went with some friends to a mall and bought the game at full retail, partly because I wanted it and partly to show off. Lesson learned: buyer's remorse. It wasn't a bad game but it took a while to sink in that I was now broke.

[NE146]

With my own money? Hard to say since really it was always my parents money.. they just let me hold some

 

Considering the fact that I didnt really have my own money until I started working.. and I didnt ever have a job until I was out of college. I have to say maybe the 1st game I bought with my own earned money was probably something for the SNES.

[dommie]

Kid Icarus. I saved up a lot of lawn mowing money for that one. I think it was like around $35, but I could be off on the price.

[BSA Starfire]

The first game I bought with my own cash was a sale price (£40 reduced from £200) Oric Atmos system with games bundle, back in 1984,our local co-op electrical store was closing and i went in on the last day and there it was, took me months to pay back my dad for the loan

The replacement I bought a few years ago cost twice that at least from ebay

[+Random Terrain]

The first game I bought with my own money was Yars' Revenge for the Atari 2600. I was supposed to move some bushes for an old lady. I caught a ride to Woolco, which was only a few miles away from her house, so I decided to walk. I thought I could find a shortcut through some woods, but instead, it took many hours to get there because I kept hitting 'roadblocks' of all kinds: fences, trenches full of bushes and trees that were too deep and wide to cross, vicious dogs, and so on. I'm having trouble remembering how I finally got there, but I did get there. I transplanted the bushes, got paid around $30 and her husband drove me to a department store so I could buy Yars' Revenge for $24.97.

[Rik]

The 1st game I ever bought with my own money was 2600 Space Invaders.My father's best friend lived next door and I used to go over there to play SI.God we had fun!!!!!!!!.We played the 2 player co-op.Those memories are the best in my life!

[cimerians]

Ultima III at a bookstore called Crown Books (i payed with my hard earned cash)

 

My dad got me a 2600 Sears version with Target Fun (Air-Sea-Battle) so thats the first game I got.

[aftermac]

Hmm... first game I ever bought... I think it was the (original) Gameboy with Super Mario Land and TMNT: Fall of the Foot clan that I bought used from a friend at school in 1994 or 1995. I forget how much I paid for it, but yes I do still have them.

[+FujiSkunk]

Ms. Pac-Man for the Atari 2600. I saved for months to get that game, and my great-grandfather gave me the last few dollars I needed. I was proud of that purchase.

[STICH666]

My own money? Probably Driver on the PS1.

[edweird13]

The first game I bought? Boy that was a long time ago. It was probably a 2600 game. One game I do remember buying was Gauntlet for The c64 when it came out.