The first game that I specifically remember buying with my own money was TMNT 3 on the NES. And hell yeah it was worth it!

Man, that was so long ago. Thinking back it was probably Excitebike or Wizards & Warriors for the NES.

I think either gobliiins or starush for the Amiga

The first game that i remember buying was Baldurs gate. Real first was probably something for NES, megaman 2 maybe?

Gameboy + Zelda: Link's Awakening bundle when I was like 6. That was an absolute guarantee gaming would get its hooks in a person.

Castle of the winds for windows 1.somethng

Blaster Master for NES. I was like 11 and had earned some money somehow that was then burning a hole in my wallet. Hey Dad, take me to Toys R Us?

Worth it? Hell yeah, I loved that game.

No idea which game specifically. I used to walk to the pawn shop from my parents' work and buy NES and Gameboy games, cheap af. Prolly something like Turrican on the Gameboy or Tecmo Bowl.

Holy shit am i the only minecraft generation kid here?

Wordfeud premium.

Had it since Android started. It's outlived one marriage (cancer), about six phones so far.

It's a kind of Scrabble game but slightly different layout, and 'just works.'

Let's see... when I was 4 I got a Sega Genesis for my birthday. It came with Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and Granddad took me shopping to pick out two other games for it. I picked Sonic the Hedgehog and Ms. Pac-Man, and both were bangers. The Genesis port of Ms. Pac-Man had a bunch of alternate modes with different mazes.

I became a big fan of the Sonic the Hedgehog games. I got Sonic 3 for my next(?) birthday, and Sonic and Knuckles the Christmas after that(?). I was convinced that Lock-On Technology was going to be the future of video games!

Also my recollection is that Sonic 2 wasn't actually packed in with the system, Granddad had to fill out like a rebate form to claim it from the retailer and it came in the mail. It had a NOT FOR RESALE sticker on it which I now understand meant "only for use in the promotion, don't put this on the shelf" but as a kid I was very confused about what peril would befall me if I sold it to someone else.

X-wing.

Pitfall by Activision for the Atari 2600. I'm old.

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.

Myst was the first game I bought with my own money

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

I remember my mom bringing me to Best Buy in spring 2004 right after I had gotten my Gamecube the previous Christmas. I bought Smash Melee and Mario Sunshine. I was 7 years old.

I had gotten games before then but those were the first two I was taken to the store to buy myself.

I still remember holding them as I walked down the aisle toward the registers. Aaaand that was the cheapest those two games ever got lol

The first game I ever bought, was the still absolutely brilliant, 1997 Blade Runner point and click made by Westwood Studios. Still one of my favourite games ever. I was 12 when I bought it.

Pokemon platium for the old nintendo ds, at the age 13-14 years old. Before that I useally got my copied games, on floppy disc and later on CD's.

Orange box, everything before was pirated lol

Majora's Mask. I preordered it and saved up allowance for months. It came to like $100 CAD with tax. Played the shit out of it and finished it in 2 weeks. The game was good, but I was quite disappointed because LttP and Ocarina both took me at least a month each. MM only has like 4 dungeons. Ended up trading it to a friend for Smash Bros.

Had games before on the ZX Spectrum but probably Prince of Persia (original) on our first PC. But it was a pirated version as that was all you could get in the country I lived in. First boxed game I bought was Sim City.

I was about 8 or 9ish. And yes, to both.

Very first that I bought? Deus Ex. By that time I already played it quite a lot, but I felt that it deserves buying even though I didn’t have any income at that age. Looking back at that seems nostalgic. It had a proper manual and everything. It even seemed somehow “magical”, because as kids we weren’t really used to owning games (as in our “own” games, not just something borrowed from a friend which was usually just burnt on empty CD). Good times.

Well, bought FOR me... Atari 2600 Combat (came with the system). I think I was 8 or 9? Totally worth it!

I wqs pretty young, not sure how old but definitely still in middle school I wanna say. But the first game that I bought with my money was a game called Blockland, which was kind of a fusion between roblox and garrys mod that leaned more into the lego visual aesthetic. I remember doing a lot of map exploration solo to find secrets the mapmakers put in. Fun times.

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.

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.

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.

Riven: The sequel to Myst. Had to visit a whole new world and write down my adventure.

Colin McRae Rally 2.0 for the PlayStation.

I wanted a PlayStation so much but simply didn’t have the money. I was saving for it.

But bought the game so I could go to my friend’s house and play it on his PlayStation.

Xenon 2 Megablast for the Atari ST, with my saved-up pre-teen pocket money. Was it worth it? Fuck yes.

Purchased was Tomb Raider II. So worth it because I loved Indiana Jones.

Super smash brothers mele, gamecube