Interplay‘s Lord of the Rings was the first big box game I bought from my own money. It was on sale at the local Karstadt mall. I never completed the game, but loved it so much! What was your first game, bought with your own money?
#retrogaming #interplay

  • sevan@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I bought the original NES with my own money, so I guess Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt were my first since they were included.

    • root42@chaos.socialOP
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      2 months ago

      @sevan@lemmy.ca wow, two bundled games isn’t bad! Didn’t know they did that. Plus the lightgun was also included I guess?

      • sevan@lemmy.ca
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        2 months ago

        Yeah, I bought it in the late '80s, I’d guess around '88 or '89 and it included 2 controllers, 2 games, and the gun. I recall the whole package being close to $100, maybe a little more.

        On an inflation adjusted basis, that would be a bit under $300 today. Considering it would have been a 5-6 year old system at that point, it would probably be fair to compare it to the Xbox Series S today, which sells for $300-350 with one controller and zero games. So, it seems like that was a pretty good deal at the time.

        • root42@chaos.socialOP
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          2 months ago

          @sevan@lemmy.ca in US and Europe the NES came out 1985/86. So that makes it an even better deal!

  • Oliver Klink@retrochat.online
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    2 months ago

    @root42@chaos.social first games were ‘Pssst!’ and ‘3D Combat Zone’ for the ZX Spectrum. The choice in our local computer shop in a small town in northern Germany was not big. I think they had maybe 5 games for the Speccy and 10 games for the C64. So it was pure luck that ‘Pssst’ was well made and actually fun. ‘3D Combat Zone’ was a Battlezone clone, but I had never heard of that before. I wanted it because it had 3D in it’s name. Was not that bad but a bit slow compared to the original.

  • Turrican@social.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    @root42@chaos.social My very first self bought game was some kind of soccer LCD game. I bought it for DM 19,80 at our local stationer’s. 😄 It’s still working!

  • Julien Messager@framapiaf.org
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    2 months ago

    @root42@chaos.social Dune II : Battle for Arrakis for me ! (PC version)
    I still have the bigbox and the manual ! The floppies are still there but dead for a looong time !

  • Jan Beta@chaos.social
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    2 months ago

    @root42@chaos.social Either Mr. Heli or Abyss for the C64, not sure which one came first. Both really good games that I bought from my pocket money when they were discounted to around 10 DM. I don’t have them anymore, they got sold together with my original Aldi C64.

      • reidrac@mastodon.sdf.org
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        2 months ago

        @root42@chaos.social the game wasn’t fully compatible with the +2A model I had and it run at a 6 FPS or so (didn’t say anything in that beautiful box though, this is my putting together 1+1 35 years later).

        Needless to say I was disappointed.