whats the first video game you ever bought?

[slickwilly13]

A hand held Pac-Man game back in 1981-82. Still got it and works fine. Atari 2600 came next.

[Eyebiter]

Mattel baseball handheld game. Combat for the Atari 2600 (shipped with the system).

[Danny]

looking at some of these posts thank god the ps-one was out when i started buying my own games.

[Chaos]

The first game I ever bought was KC Crazy Chase on the Odyssey. Either that or Parsec on the T.I.. One of those two.

[Exatreides]

console game was... C&C for Sega Saturn PC game was either Dune2000 or Red Faction, don't remember which. Or it's quite possible i got them both at the same time.

[Tricky]

The first PC game i bought was "commandos",man that game was tough!

[capncnut]

Good question Hellz. I had an Atari 2600 with a varied assortment of games but the first game I ever bought with my own money was for the ZX Spectrum. It was a game called Booty and it was pretty damn good. It was one of those Firebird Classics for £1.99 and was a platformer set on board a massive pirate ship. Dodging cutlass weilding bandits and the like, I enjoyed it immensely. Around the same time I bought one of them handheld LCD games at a market for about the same price. It was the one where Mario and Luigi pass pizzas to each other on conveyor belts through double screens. I cant remember the title but I still got it somewhere.

[MikePizzoff]

With my own money? My Mom bought me a PSX (along with Twisted Metal) not too long after they came out. I rented Resident Evil and completely fell head-over-heels for it. I remember saving up money and buying it. I think it may have even been in one of those old PSX game boxes that were huge (almost like early CD and 32X boxes)??? Not too sure about that... maybe that was another one of the first games I bought.

[Danny]

now thats a good one.

[MinionZombie]

Speaking of huge game boxes, anyone remember when PC games didn't come in DVD cases, but were in CD cases inside a chunky arse cardboard box, which often contained nothing but the CD itself, maybe some instruction manual, but that was it? I remember buying Worms on the "Sold Out Software" label and it was literally one of those cardboard CD sleeves inside a normal sized cardboard box ... WHY?!

[Danny]

yeah my grandad had loads of those, i never saw the point, talk about a waste of rescources.

[MinionZombie]

Grandad? You callin' me old?

[Danny]

no, honestly my grandad had those things, my dad had those massive floppy discs, those were jsut crazy.

[Tricky]

Speaking of huge game boxes, anyone remember when PC games didn't come in DVD cases, but were in CD cases inside a chunky arse cardboard box, which often contained nothing but the CD itself, maybe some instruction manual, but that was it? Yeah i remember those puppies!ive got populous the beginning,commando's & age of empires 2 in those big ass mo fo's.Theres a few times ive fancied a game of populous but it wont run on my new fangled rig

[MinionZombie]

Aye playing old school games is a bit of a nut-f*ck. I tried playing Kingpin recently, but it wouldn't load up... I'd imagine my games like Redneck Rampage and Carmageddon wouldn't work either these days, the computer is too advanced now, and isn't there some issue with MSDos-related games on XP or something? *snap* I had Commandos for the PC as well, noiiice, it was a good game, and looked rather spiffing too. I haven't played the FPS incarnation though... Hellsing - I'm not talking about "hard disks" (the pre-cursor to floppy disks - I love the irony of each describing the physical qualities of the other), I'm still talking about CD-Roms, back when games could fit on a CD that is, now it's 3 or 4 of the f*ckers or a whole DVD and GIGS of space being used up ... damn...I remember thinking "damn, 270mb required for install?! sheeeeeiiiit!" *sigh* I miss my don...er...I feel old...