THE BORE
General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Joe Molotov on June 20, 2017, 11:28:36 AM
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Stolen from Kotaku: http://kotaku.com/what-was-the-first-game-you-ever-paid-money-for-1796247405
I think the first game that I bought with my own money was Guardian Legend for the NES. It was $10 in the bargain bin at K-B Toys and I had a $5 off a video game coupon. $5 well spent.
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I was 7.
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Hmm...I can't remember for sure.
In the 80s, my dad bought us games. I remember my brother saving up a bunch of money to buy a Gameboy and some games at launch in '89. I got one in 1990 and I must have bought something for it. We didn't get an NES until late 1990 and my dad bought us a shitload of games since we'd find so many on the cheap. I know I bought TMNT II The Arcade Game with my own money. I'd saved for months and freaked out when a kid brought the manual to school. Had no idea it was out and couldn't think about anything other than racing home and begging my dad to take me to go get it in the afternoon.
I do remember buying Metroid II on the Gameboy in 1991- it was only $19.99 at release and I'd saved up enough allowance to buy it outright. My parents were kind of pissed because they clearly had bought it for me for the holidays but couldn't say anything about it. :lol I also remember buying Double Dragon on the Gameboy but I can't remember which one of those came out first.
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hrm not sure. I think my parents bought all my nes games, either for holidays or when my dad would see something cheap at Marshall's lol. i can remember buying things from around 91 - 92 like super r-type and a Genesis with sonic 1 & 2.
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hrm not sure. I think my parents bought all my nes games, either for holidays or when my dad would see something cheap at Marshall's lol. i can remember buying things from around 91 - 92 like super r-type and a Genesis with sonic 1 & 2.
Yup, same. Parents bought our SNES and paid the games. First I paid for myself must've been a PC game when I got my own desktop, but I can't remember what it was.
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With my own money, probably Gauntlet Legends on Nintendo 64.
I accidentally broke off the chip underneath while it was plugged into my Gameshark and Blockbuster charged my mom for it. I eventually paid her back. :doge
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>tfw you're an edgelord
WHO BUYS GAMES???? :kobeyuck :larry :holeup :heh
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Hmm I can't remember. Could have been any of the following:
Animal Crossing
Super Mario 64 DS (bundled with the first system I paid for, Nintendo DS)
New Super Mario Bros.
Pokemon Pearl
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Can't remember.
It might've been this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Galactic_Battlegrounds
Or this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Jedi_Knight:_Dark_Forces_II
:doge
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Joe and I got some money from selling our NES and games back in 1993, used that to buy Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
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The first TMNT game on the NES. It was amazing and worth it.
An
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I bought a PC game called Questron II with my birthday money.
Look at this glorious box art:
https://gamefaqs.akamaized.net/box/3/8/2/26382_front.jpg
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Huh. It was some NES game, for sure. Might even be the original Zelda.
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Probably RE on PS1. And I mean bought with my own money, not with bday cash or some shit.
Otherwise it'd be something on the speccy :doge
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Saved up allowance to buy Wizards and Warriors, game was OK.
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Either Infocom's Wishbringer or Hitchhikers's Guide. I'd played Zork I and II, but hadn't purchased them. I purchased their hint books with the markers which revealed the clues, which had been printed in invisible ink.
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Final Fantasy Tactics
everything from before that were either hand me downs or played at a friend's house
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It was far from the first I paid for but the one I remember the most is Halo 2. I bootlegged a dozen copies of an early leak of The Eminem Show and sold em for 5$ at school the day it came out.
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Final Fantasy Tactics
everything from before that were either hand me downs or played at a friend's house
You started off right! The only worthwhile FF game.
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Uh like some vic 20 shit maybe? I do not remember.
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Mach Rider for NES. My mom had me exchange it for Tetris after she discovered that it included shooting however. I hated Tetris at first.
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Saved up allowance to buy Wizards and Warriors, game was OK.
Woah, TIL there was a Wizards and Warriors 3. Released in 1992/3 only on the NES.
There are a lot of games like that, where they came out late in the NES lifecycle and I had no idea existed.
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ur mom
it wuz a tough platformer but eventually i reched hur goal
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^ virgin
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Saved up allowance to buy Wizards and Warriors, game was OK.
Woah, TIL there was a Wizards and Warriors 3. Released in 1992/3 only on the NES.
There are a lot of games like that, where they came out late in the NES lifecycle and I had no idea existed.
I hated that back then, because in '93 my brother convinced my dad that we didn't need the NES any more, and they took the console and all the games and sold them to one of those resellers listed in the back of video game mags for next to nothing. All my brother cared about was buying Mortal Kombat 1 and SF2 Turbo, and he got enough money for that. :lol :-\ It seemed like some games just lingered on the NES, like Mega Man, for a little while there.
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I don't know, probably Dragonstomper for the 2600.... I think. Almost all of those early games were gifts but I do remember going out and buying a Supercharger along with Dragonstomper with money I got from Christmas. It was such a weird thing too, playing the games off of a tape deck onto the 2600.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHwx3UPWd6U
The first game I bought with money I earned from a job was Super Pitfall on the NES. Holy shit I was pissed.
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Twisted Metal 2
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I don't know, probably Dragonstomper for the 2600.... I think. Almost all of those early games were gifts but I do remember going out and buying a Supercharger along with Dragonstomper with money I got from Christmas. It was such a weird thing too, playing the games off of a tape deck onto the 2600.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHwx3UPWd6U
The first game I bought with money I earned from a job was Super Pitfall on the NES. Holy shit I was pissed.
I never understood the excitement around Pitfall. I liked the last-gen reboot of it, where they had Bruce Campbell doing the voice for it.
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i was really excited about the snes version...because you could play the original game in it
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Probably Descent
ur mom
it wuz a tough platformer but eventually i reched hur goal
Ur mom was shareware
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With paycheck money: a 360, Mass Effect, and Modern Warfare.
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Dragon Warrior 3 for NES with birthday money. I was a nickel short and had to walk home. Was in Little Havana or whatever in Key West.
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I honestly think it would have either been Pokémon red or A Link to the Past. It obviously wasn't when ALttP was new, a kid at school told me about it and I had to have it because I loved Link's Awakening so much
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With allowance money? Uhhhhhh.
Yar's Revenge? I think
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Saved up allowance to buy Wizards and Warriors, game was OK.
Woah, TIL there was a Wizards and Warriors 3. Released in 1992/3 only on the NES.
There are a lot of games like that, where they came out late in the NES lifecycle and I had no idea existed.
It was REALLY bad, though. Total pile of crap compared to W&W and Ironsword. Check out a speed run of it sometime, it will likely make you wish you didn't know about it.
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FFVII with money i got busking with a recorder on the street when i was 9.... :esports :uguu
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Probably some Mastertronic budget game for my Atari 130XE. Action Biker, or maybe Kik-Start...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4FHwPL68JA
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Final Fantasy IX. I never got allowance, and I wasn't given money as a gift as a child until I was a teenager. First game I ever bought and first game I ever reserved. I kept the receipt in my wallet and kept it snug and tight so I wouldn't lose it. I walked from an early bus stop and walked back home with it. Played the shit out of it on thanksgiving break the following week. I loved that game so much.
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Zelda for the NES
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Final Fantasy IX. I never got allowance, and I wasn't given money as a gift as a child until I was a teenager. First game I ever bought and first game I ever reserved. I kept the receipt in my wallet and kept it snug and tight so I wouldn't lose it. I walked from an early bus stop and walked back home with it. Played the shit out of it on thanksgiving break the following week. I loved that game so much.
Sometimes there are games that we end up getting more than our moneys worth out of. I bet that was one for you.