How old were you and maybe most importantly was it worth it ?

  • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    12 days ago

    With my own allowance money instead of asking for it as a gift?
    Sim City 3000

    First game as an adult with a job?
    Halo 2

  • cheat700000007@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    11 days ago

    Pokemon Blue. I saved up then learned about sales tax at the cashier, so my dad bailed me out with the extra $5

  • otacon239@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    12 days ago

    My older sisters both had several games before I got one for myself. I think the first one that was actually mine wasn’t until Burnout 3 when we got a PS2. All the PS1 games were hand-me-downs.

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
    8·
    12 days ago

    I don’t know for sure if it was my money or just my choice, but I went with Strife (1996). I chose it in the store after a long deliberation, my uncle was trying to get me to go with Half Life but I was drawn in by something on the back of the box. PC games used to come in big empty boxes with a lot of art and info on them.

    It was unforgettable. Basically if you made an RPG in the old Doom engine with the sensibilities of the nineties and an overly ambitious art department. It was surprisingly well written, and I’ve been chasing that sense of an expansive, dark yet cartoonish, novelistic RPG ever since.

    • 64bithero@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      11 days ago

      The magical days of getting lost in a box art and wanting to know and see more. Brings back memories !

    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      12 days ago

      You should check into the doom modding community. I don’t tend to play many rpg style wads but I know they’re out there. Some use the doom engine but the game is pretty much unrecognizable as doom (called total conversion wads). Here’s one article with a list.

      One called Hedon got an official release and is on steam etc now

      They also make some hexen levels (I saw Wrath of Cronos being recommended).

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
        3·
        11 days ago

        I used to play a lot of old school Doom and stuff like it (Rise of the Triad, Shadow Warrior lol) but I didn’t see anything in that article that was quite as story-forward as Strife. I still love a game that goes highly verbal on me.

    • Vlado@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

      Oh wow. I vividly remember playing Strife and that was really something else. It really had its own “soul” or charm or however we call it. But I can imagine that owning an original copy at that time must have been a very cool experience.

        • Vlado@feddit.orgEnglish
          2·
          12 days ago

          I might have been even slightly younger than that. But after lots of straightfoward “doom” shooters, this was very refreshing. The fact that not every character is automatically an enemy, that you have a hub-like world. Together with the unorthodox aesthetics… Yep that’s a good memory.

  • jimerson@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    12 days ago

    With my own money? Chrono Trigger, shortly after it was released in the US. Took a while to save up my meager allowance.

    I was a tween, and it was very worth it.

  • rosco385@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    6·
    11 days ago

    Altered Beast came free with the Sega Mega Drive I bought as my first console.

  • Sanctus@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    6·
    12 days ago

    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.

      • Sanctus@anarchist.nexusEnglish
        3·
        12 days ago

        Yeah, I remember rolling those big ass lawnmowers as much as I do the cramped hallways of the Ruins. That golf course is now gone but PSO is still here. I also have still never beaten Episode 2 to this day.

  • Mycatiskai@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    11 days ago

    Rise of the Triads. It was not worth it because there was a fault on the 5th floppy disk so it never worked and I couldn’t bring it back to the store because I was 13 and wasn’t supposed to be buying violent games but I bought it without telling my parents. So I couldn’t take it back without them finding out.

  • InvalidName2@lemmy.zipEnglish
    6·
    12 days ago

    I don’t remember.

    However, I gave up gaming when I was around 18 and preparing to head off to college. Then after I graduated, I was at a store and saw Quake Arena on deep discount (b/c it was a very old game at that time) and based on the hardware requirements, it looked like my crumby ancient tower computer could play it. I don’t know why, but I decided to buy it, and I guess that sort of got me back into gaming (ish).

    I was in my 20s and although I barely remember the game now, yeah, it was worth it. The graphics and performance were far superior to anything I’d played up to that point. It had online play, which was entirely new to me at the time. And a few years later, I got major “friend points” when I gifted it to someone who was a game collector and had offered many times to buy the game from me.