What was the first game you ever bought ?

[Richlough]

This could get entertaining . Even if it was the 1st game you chose [e.g. when you were younger and do not have a job , etc.] . Just list name of game and include the system , or computer it was for . :P Mine's , Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back , for 2600 . http://www.atariage.com/2600/carts/c_StarWarsEmpireStrikesBack_end.jpg

[CheapyD]

Telstar Ranger.

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/coleco_telstar-ranger_with_gun.jpg

Picture from http://www.old-computers.com

[zewone]

Ice Climbers.

http://darkscarfy.tripod.com/iceclimber/ice_mountain.gif

[rockhero]

Dragon Warrior

[bignick]

SMB/Duck Hunt when I got my NES for my 10th BDay.

[spyhunterk19]

Super Mario 64, what a great way to start.

[GenDV138]

It was either Game & Watch Manhole or Super Mario/Duckhunt.

[repetske]

Contra NES - $28 & change from Wal-mart.

[RaekwonThaChef]

Super Mario World when I got my SNES for christmas one year.....hmmmm how old was I..... 7 maybe?
Anyways, that's the first game I owned, but not the first I played. Played some SMB, Duck Hunt, Aladdin, etc. on my friend's NES.

[Scahom1]

With my own money? wow...the first game I can remember buying by myself was Punch-Out! for NES. It was $10 on clearence at Kay-Bee Toys.

[ZForce]

Las Vegas Poker and Blackjack for Intelllivision

[Tricky]

Pole Position for the Clecovision was the first game that I bought.

[btw1217]

IIRC, the first game I bought with my money was Sonic and Knuckles for the Genesis. :)

[OiBoy]

It's a tossup between Pacman for Atari, or some crappy RPG from Sierra Online in '82 or so when I got my first computer at 4.

EDIT:

Thinking about it a bit more, it was definately Pacman and some other Atari games. My parents bought me the computer when I took apart the Atari to see how it worked.

[repetske]

I'm just wanting some claffification. Are these the first games people played, or actually bought with their money, whether it was from allowance, cutting grass, gift money?

[OiBoy]

If it's the first game that I bought with money I earned myself, it'll be Zelda. Did chores at my grandfather's for quite awhile for that, though he'd paid generously.

[fugazi_chichimon]

First ever system for me was a hand me down NES but the first i ever bought was a donkey kong SNES set...

[davidmt]

The first game I bought was Breakout for the Atari 2600. Good memories. Of course, the first game I technically had was Combat, but that came with the Atari (back in the day when consoles always came with pack-ins).

The next game after that, I believe, was Missile Command. Both games were bought with b-day money and whatever else I saved.

[Richlough]

I'm just wanting some claffification. Are these the first games people played, or actually bought with their money, whether it was from allowance, cutting grass, gift money? The first game that you chose . If you asked for it for a gift , spent birthday money on , earned money to buy , Etc.

[PhrostByte]

Mega Man 4.

But I gotta thank my fellow CAG's for telling me about gamefly's $10 Mega Man Anniversary Collection :)

[tyecko]

with my money? Jeez that's tough. It may have been Goldeneye but it also may have been a DC game like Sonic Adventure.

[WarrenGekko]

Pacman for the Atari 2600

[gamefreak117]

Kirby's Dream Course when I was 6 years old, than soon followed by Mortal Kombat 3, both for SNES and at Toys'R'Us. :)

[onikage]

I think it was Star Raiders for Atari. Actually I didn't buy it, my mom did. I was only about 2-3 years old when I first got my 2600. I'm glad my parents got me started so young. The first game I bought with my own money was the original Metal Gear for NES, which I think came out around Christmas when I was 5.

[Richlough]

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[godhatesjustyou]

Mario Paint for SNES? although, i seriously have not the slightest clue. but for sure, it was some SNES game, possibly Sim City?

[jimbodan]

Kung-Fu for NES. I still have it too! Although I lost the cool case, IIRC it looked those Disney VHS cases.

[DOMINATOR912]

Super Mario World was the first I got, but the first I bought with my own money...........Mega Man X I think.

[anonymouswhoami]

Donkey Kong for the Atari 2600 - $30. Almost as bad a port as Pac-Man.

[BlueWingX]

Maze Craze for the Atari 2600. Good times.

[CouRageouS]

Zelda II was my first game I ever picked out. I admit it was a blind buy solely based on my love of the cartoon. Now its my all time favorite.

Mario 3 is the first game I actually paid for. Birthday money and a trip to TRU after a successful visit to the dentist. Great way to reward a kid for not having cavities. I still remember looking for the ticket and how nervous I was paying the cashier. We have had a previous trip where they ran out of the game but still had tickets on the floor. Those bastards...

[Death2Sanity]

A PlayStation, with Metal Gear Solid, Street Fighter Alpha 3, and maybe one other game? I don't remember.

[dopa345]

It would have to be a game for my Atari 800, probably either River Raid or Centipede.

[mofo1115]

Super Mario World for SNES for me =)

oh man that game was so good I was addicted
i played through it so man times haha

[tenzor]

SMB/Duck Hunt when I got my NES for my 10th BDay.

same here

[Astinus Majere]

Final Fantasy 1 complete for $5 at a garage sale about 10 years ago.

[Darkside Hazuki]

With my own funds:

http://www.phantasy-star.net/art/covers/cover1main.jpg

Photo courtesy of The Phantasy Star Pages (http://www.phantasy-star.net/index.html)

[Survivor Charlie]

I believe the first game I ever bought with money I earned myself was Snoopy & The Red Baron for the Atari 2600. When I was like three, and I remember it was something like $4 in a video game crash bin at the KB Toys at the Mall in Vancouver, WA. A CAG at the age of three.

[mario23air]

The first game that someone bought for me was Freeway for the Atari 2600. the first I bought with my own money, The Legend of Zelda for the NES.

[crazytalkx]

Star Fox 64

[vihit]

Metroid for the NES

[Trakan]

SMB/Duckhunt

[tinman_licks]

I can't believe no one has mentioned this already. It was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that was ported to the NES from the awesome arcade game (I don't count Super Mario Bros. or Duck Hunt since those came with the system). Paid $35 bucks for it at KBtoys. It's the first and only game I bought for the system, sadly since I didn't have the money for games growing up. But I'm more than making up for that now, having discovered this site from reading EGM.

[Logain8955]

I'm pretty sure the first one I ever bought with my own money was
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/Logain8955/ff3.jpg

It was a long time ago so I'm not sure...it was either FF3 or it was http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/Logain8955/chrono.jpg

...pretty sure it was FF3.

[jshorr]

The first ones I can remember are Mouse Trap and Donkey Kong for ColecoVision to go along with the Donkey Kong Jr. the system came with.... IIRC .... those would be the first console games.....the Coleco Mouse trap had the keypad overlay and different keys to switch the doors and turn into the dog....it ruled the Atari version where 1 button did everything....fond memories.

[converge]

mike tysons punch out and an NES bundle with super mario bros. I know it was christmas time right when the NES came out, maybe 86?

[smalien1]

Handheld- Tat version of Tetris with the little monsters, or Kirby Pinball land, I don't remember


Non-handheld- Banjo-Kazooie and Starfox64 at the same time

[PaulEMoz]

I think, although I'm not 100% certain, that the first game I ever bought was Activision Grand Prix for the Atari 2600.

[x0thedeadzone0x]

Bought independently, with my own $$?

It might have been Yoshi's Island, otherwise either Bomberman, or Pokemon Red/Blue.

[Senaz28]

E.T. for the Atari 2600, bought it at a (now extinct) Toy King store for $4.00 out of their "going out business" bargain bin.

Brian P

[Randomthts]

For me, the first game I purchased with my allowance was either Jungle Hunt or Battlezone for the C64.

[road3283]

I think it was Rambo for the Sega Master System.

[jam3582]

one of the best games ever made for genisis gunstar heroes

[icemanjmw13]

Pro Wrestling for the NES, plus the NES itself and the SMB/Duck Hunt game that came with it. All my own money when I was like 10 or something.

[GuilewasNK]

Radio Shack Pong was the first that my parents got me.

http://www.iaw.on.ca/~hdeklein/pong04.jpg

I think the first game I bought with my own money was Basketball for the Atari 2600 but I am really not sure.
http://videogamecritic.net/images/2600/basketball.png
Now thats sexy...


Either way, I think it was during the big game crash of 1983 because I remember lots of 99 cent Atari 2600 cartridges at that time and being only 7, that would be at my price range.

[epobirs]

It was a game from Broderbund for the Atari 800 on cassette tape back in 1981. I can't remember the exact title but I remember it was at the Big Ben's music store on Ventura Blvd. in Encino. Back in those days you had to drive a ways to find the stores that handled computer games.

I can't find a listing through Google but I believe the word 'lunar' was in the title. The game was a variant on the 'Lunar Lander' genre in which you had to land on one of three locations with a stranded astronaut so he could scamper into the ship. The major complication was a big lizardoid monster that would show up. If you landed on the opposite side of the monster from where the astronaut was, he would still try to run to your ship and leap into the monster's mouth en route. The monster had some cute masticating animation that would cause us to feed it repeatedly instead of playing the game correctly. Big novelty value back then.

You didn't have any weapons except for your ship's thruster. If you hovered over the monster close enough it would be killed but this expended fuel, of course. I could probably put together a clone with immensely better presentation in Flash over the course of an afternoon but it wouldn't have the same specialness as it did.

After that I got a few other cassettes and cartridges. Shamus, Star Raiders, Missile Command, Centipede, Galaxian, Miner 2049er, and a few others. Then I fell into the world of piracy and ruined my appreciation of game purchases for years.

[TJordan522]

Well, I didn't buy it. I got N64 for Christmas with Mario Kart and Goldeneye.

[CapAmerica]

I'm not going to count Super Mario Bros / Duck Hunt since it came with the NES.
First game I bought was Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? for the NES.

[Brad906]

Well, I didn't buy it. I got N64 for Christmas with Mario Kart and Goldeneye.

Same here. (we're brothers)

I really have no idea what the first game I bought with my own money was though.

[mst3k_stud]

amagon

[Richlough]

/\/\ BUMP /\/\ , How lame , my 100th post is a cheesy-ass bump .#-o Oh well , woo-hoo! 100 posts ! :applause:

[cruster]

First game I remember owning - a birthday present - was Necromancer for the Apple II+. First game I remember spending my own money on was Karateka for Apple II+.

[PaulEMoz]

Haha, Necromancer was surprisingly fun. I just played the Atari 800 version a few months ago and enjoyed it quite a bit. :)

[NesHavok]

The first game I personally had ever purchased was Roller coaster tycoon for the PC, Since my parents bought the Nintendo with mario when I was younger...

[t0llenz]

Hmm, out of pocket with my own money would have to be Sonic the Hedgehog 2...when I bought my Sega Genesis. Ooh, it was magical.

[BLarR]

Final Fantasy 7 for PS1. Up until that point I had never had a source of income so I had to wait for videogames as presents. This was the beggining of the era where all my systems from there on out held massive collections of games, the PS1 managing triple digits.

[Msut77]

My own money? Earthbound Snes.

[Slipknot9762]

Sonic for Genesis, I never had NES or SNES when I was younger, sega was my first system

[regisphilbi0]

Super Mario World and Super Mario All Stars for my birthday in 1st grade. What a great way to start!

[hutno]

Little nemo : the dream master for the NES. Its still one of the best games I've ever played

[Theenternal]

Ice Climbers.

http://darkscarfy.tripod.com/iceclimber/ice_mountain.gif

Same here ;), not counting the bundle game....

Altough, it think the game is pretty decent...I was 5 when I got it and its pretty sorry for a 5 year old :P

[dratsacras]

SwordQuest Waterworld, Atari 2600, $3 from KBToys. Yeah, WATERworld, the rare one. Don't ask me why KB had it.

Actually, odds are pretty good that it wasn't -the- first game I bought with my own money, but it's gotta be close and certainly worth bragging points.

[JEKKI]

Ninja Turtles for NES.

still cant beat dat got damn game!!

[azel]

First game I chose - Parsec for TI-994a. First game with my own hard-earned money -- Contra (I think it was $40).

[Rodimus]

With my own money I think it was Battletoads for NES.

[Jaket]

That I bought was... hmm... i believe wave race 64... but that was bought for me....

either teenage mutant ninja turtles attack of the foot clan for GB (with the system) or mario bros/duck hunt for snes (with system)

[epobirs]

Haha, Necromancer was surprisingly fun. I just played the Atari 800 version a few months ago and enjoyed it quite a bit. :)

Bill Williams was a genuine genius. I had the pleasure of working with him, albeit over the phone, at Cinemaware. I've never met another single individual who was so capable in so many aspects of game development. I was shocked to learn tha he died of cystic fibrosis a few years ago.

[spoo]

Mario Bros. for the 2600 from a garage sale for around $1 when I was about 7.

[kaji7p56]

The first game I chose?

Stunt Race FX for SNES

The first game I bought was Sonic Adventure along with the Dreamcast.

[Mr Unoriginal]

First game I ever bought with my own money was Hero for Atari 2600. Of course it didn't work and had to return it. It's hard to teach a kid the lesson of patience when he has a new game he wants to play.

[killswitch64]

Keystone Kapers (spelling?) for Atari 2600 was the first game I actually purchased.

[Zincdust]

I had lots of games purchased for me by my parents for the Atari 2600, but the first game that I bought for myself (with birthday money) was "Steeplechase" for the 2600.

[doubledown]

Must have been something for Nintendo when I actually had my OWN money to spend.

[schultzed]

My first was the Coleco Pong game . . . 1976???

http://www.pong-story.com/pics/coleco/telstar.jpg
http://www.pong-story.com/coleco_telstar.htm

My own money . . .

I remember buying Atari 2600 Outlaw with tips from my paper route. 1978? Designed by David Crane before he left for Activision.

http://www.videogamecritic.net/images/2600/outlaw.png

My god! I'm too old to play video games!

[r1s3n]

Pro Wrestling for the NES

r1s3n

[tornadomann]

The first game i bought with my money was super mario bros 2 for NES when I was 5!

[alongx]

Megaman 2 was the first game I bought, I think it was the 3rd game I ever owned. I don't count SMB/Duck Hunt since it was a pack in, and I almost never played Magic Johnson's Fast Break, which I got from one of my grandmothers for xmas.

[crowbb]

Hmm, first one I can remember buying was The Bard's Tale for my Amiga 500.

[tcrash247]

Spiderman and the Sinister Six for NES

[sying]

I lost my virginity to Kid Icarus on the NES.

[sotb_96]

sold pecans i picked up when i was 7..bought haunted house and raiders of the lost ark for the 2600!!

[Richlough]

My own money . . .

I remember buying Atari 2600 Outlaw with tips from my paper route. 1978? Designed by David Crane before he left for Activision.

http://www.videogamecritic.net/images/2600/outlaw.png

My god! I'm too old to play video games!

That's cool . My mom picked out that game for herself , the day we bought our Atari VCS [2600] . I think my dad picked out Street Racer .

[screwkick]

Excitebike for the NES.

[willardhaven]

I picked Fall of the Foot Clan for Gameboy, well I wanted it and then was surprised with it, I believe I was 4.

[TheGreat2nd]

Let's see here...
I think it is probably Super Mario Land for the Game Boy.
That was awesome.
Or it might have been Super Mario World for the SNES.
I can't remember :P

[chickenhawk]

I honestly have no idea. My earliest memories of gaming involve Contra on either the NES or SNES. Before that I really have no idea. I know I had an Atari, but can't remember anything about it.

[coolz481]

Mine (and my brother's) was Ghosts N Goblins for the NES. I remember thinking the two screenshots we saw were the best graphics ever. This was during that brief time Nintendo replaced Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt with an 'Official Players Guide' that featured 50 or so NES games as a pack-in with the system. We cried over that purchase, as it was physically impossible for an 8-year old and a 6-year old to get past the second level in that game. I doubt I could do any better today.

[jughead]

the first game i ever owned was super mario brothers 3

[javeryh]

with my own money - Ms. Pac-man for the Atari 5200 from Service Merchandise back in the early 80s. It was $52.99 and I remember I had to save up an extra week of lawn mowing money because of the tax (my parents weren't too fond of video games and refused to put even a penny towards them even at Christmas and birthdays - now they've created a monster).

[soulyogurt]

Hmmm... first game ever would be the Magnavox Odyssey 100

http://www.cyberroach.com/cyromag/eight/nw2k0011.jpg

But first one purchased under my direct influence... hm...
a 2600 title for sure, I bought plenty and got my folks and such to get many.... but the one I remember really pushing for was Star Raiders (even though this one came later in the life of the system, I must have gotten other games before this), which I thought would completely open up new vistas of gaming goodness for me.

http://www.cyberroach.com/analog/an20/pictures/star_raiders.jpg

http://www.atari-computermuseum.de/pics/thumbs/cx21.jpg

[SEGA128DC]

Q*bert for the Atari 2600...

[Agent_logan]

My first video game was a Pong system that used static plastic graphics of a tennis court, hockey rink or soccer field. Billed as 3 games, but it was the same game with different plastic overlays. This was replaced when we got a TV too big for the overlays with the National Semiconductor Adversarry game system (Pong).


First cart based game was Baseball for the RCA Studio; still have it today; big yellow box.

First game my Mom would play was Pac Man on the 2600, I would come home after a hard day at school and hear pac-man going once I got to the porch... for some reason that would piss me off that she got to stay home all day and play. :) Now at 60 she stays up all night and plays Zumba.

[Pure Apathy]

The only one I can really remember buying for myself was Royal Rumble for the SNES. I remember paying my grandma for it on New Years Day around 1994. I was 9 and I remember it was a shitload of money. Maybe 60 bucks. I saved forever.

[SEGA128DC]

My first video game was a Pong system that used static plastic graphics of a tennis court, hockey rink or soccer field. Billed as 3 games, but it was the same game with different plastic overlays. This was replaced when we got a TV too big for the overlays with the National Semiconductor Adversarry game system (Pong).

How did you put those plastic overlays on a TV?...

[mousin]

donkey kong country for original GB. =]

[PenguinMaster]

First I bought, can't remember. I know it was a PC game, probably a Sierra Adventure game (I used to play so many of those).

But, I'm pretty sure the first game I played was Wolfenstein 3D back when I was about 4 (Great game for a 4-year-old isn't it!).

[PenguinMaster]

donkey kong country for original GB. =]

I assume you mean Donkey Kong Land, Country was on GBC.

[projecteightysix]

i bouth teenage mutant ninja turtles for the NES at a toys r us for $20 WHOLE DOLLARS!!
i thought that was so expensive.

[KingDox]

I can't believe no one has mentioned this already. It was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that was ported to the NES from the awesome arcade game (I don't count Super Mario Bros. or Duck Hunt since those came with the system). Paid $35 bucks for it at KBtoys. It's the first and only game I bought for the system, sadly since I didn't have the money for games growing up. But I'm more than making up for that now, having discovered this site from reading EGM.

My first game I got with my own money was TMNT 2: The arcade game. It cost me 50 bucks (birthday money). And I got it from Fedco. It came with a coupon for a free personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut. I thought it was cool to get pizza and not have to read a Book to earn it.

Great game, and I even got my name as the top score in the old SWAT PRO magazine. It was something like 1140.

[DigitalSpace]

The first game I ever got was SMB/Duck Hunt when my mom bought me an NES as a birthday gift in the late 80's.

The first game I ever bought with my own money was a loose copy of The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past for SNES for $14.99 back in the late 90's (the price is still the most I've paid for any SNES game). I still have it in my collection. :)

[zman73]

pac man for the atari 400 (which was a million times better than the crap for the 2600

[Othergods]

The first I saved money for and bought myself was the NES (Mario/duck hunt) and Double Dragon.

[chubbyninja1319]

It wasn't my first, but I distinctly remember buying Chopper Command for the 2600 and I also remember buying Super Mario Bros 3 with my christmas money. That was after I lost interest in games for a couple years and I haven't lost that love since SMB3.

Good thread, OP.

[Parathod]

I think Contra. Whatever it was, I remember I had to save my allowance for a very long time.

[Rig]

My brother had an NES, which later became my NES. He had a few games. The first game I bought: Metroid! I was six. It took me so long to earn that much money! I remember the first system and games I truly purchased for myself (through a job) was my Sega Genesis and its games. I paid $80 for my Genny, when I was 10-12 years old. I bought it at Aldi, if anyone knows what that is! :D

[ryosnk]

Ghost house for the Sega master system is the first game I saved money for and bought. Unless, you count the double dragon tiger handheld :D .

[chubbyninja1319]

I remember when I got my Atari 2600 for Christmas, I had to be 5. Then I remember when my best friend got an NES for Christmas and we played Kung Fu for a week straight. Good stuff.

[woobacca]

i think it was karateka on the apple iic

[big_squirtle]

Jr. Pac-Man for Atari. At Sam Goody. I think it was like $20-$28.
good times, good times.

[starbury805]

mine was Super Smash Brothers and Super Mario 64 me and my brother worked w/ my dad for weeks and finnally got about $130 and we still have the games today hehe!

[KrazyKefka]

I think the first game I bought with my actual money was the original Castlevania for the NES.

[radjago]

We had a ton of games for the Commodore 64, but I don't recall ever buying any on my own. Same for the Atari 2600, except maybe a game or two at a garage sale.

The first game I remember buying with my own money was the Sega Master System II (~$60 in ~1990). I didn't even have enough money left over to buy a game with it, but luckily it came with Alex Kidd in Miracle World built into the system.

[megashock5]

Venture for Colecovision