The 1st Video Game You Ever Purchased.

[Desh]

Just as the title states, what is the first video game you ever purchased (with your own money)?



Don't laugh, but the first game I ever bought with my own money was none other than Bill Elliott's NASCAR Challenge on the NES.  Sure, I used to get money for Christmas and birthdays and such but that all had to go into a bank account.  I would get 50 cents at a time for doing household chores or if grandpa or someone would give me a dollar I could keep it.  Finally, in the summer of 1991 (I was 6) I had saved up $46 and some change.  I knew the only thing I wanted to buy with that money was a new NES game.

I didn't yet own a racing game but, had rented Days of Thunder and played Bill Elliott at a friend's house.  I really wanted to buy Days of Thunder because I thought it was so cool that you had to "pit" your car manually.  I also thought the graphics were "sweet".  Unfortunately, when we arrived at Toys R Us they were all out of Days of Thunder.  When you're 6 you just stick with what you know.  I knew I wanted a racing game and the only other one I knew of was Bill Elliott's NASCAR Challenge.  There was nothing like that smell of cracking open a brand new game.

Obviously, by today's standards this game is not very good.  I still love it though.  My only gripe is that the road courses are not even recognizable compared to real life because they just programmed them to be flat.  Other than that I don't have any major gripes.  I can really appreciate what the developers were trying to do with the minimal capabilities of the NES.  You could choose between 3 manufacturers and tune many parts of your car just like the modern simulation racers.  In fact, this game is probably what started my love for racing sims in the years to come.  I even once played and won a full distance "Daytona 500" in the game while my dad watched he actual 1992 Daytona 500.

Notable things about this game include: being the first officially licensed NASCAR game, the first game to feature the likeness and name of a real NASCAR driver and all of the manufacturer and sponsor licenses in the game.  Another fun fact is Daytona is a track that would not officially appear  in a NASCAR racing game again, until the release of NASCAR Racing 4 on PC in 2001.

[thesteve]

i bought a NES with 100 $1 bills

[toymachine78]

Just as the title states, what is the first video game you ever purchased (with your own money)?



Don't laugh, but the first game I ever bought with my own money was none other than Bill Elliott's NASCAR Challenge on the NES.  Sure, I used to get money for Christmas and birthdays and such but that all had to go into a bank account.  I would get 50 cents at a time for doing household chores or if grandpa or someone would give me a dollar I could keep it.  Finally, in the summer of 1991 (I was 6) I had saved up $46 and some change.  I knew the only thing I wanted to buy with that money was a new NES game.

I didn't yet own a racing game but, had rented Days of Thunder and played Bill Elliott at a friend's house.  I really wanted to buy Days of Thunder because I thought it was so cool that you had to "pit" your car manually.  I also thought the graphics were "sweet".  Unfortunately, when we arrived at Toys R Us they were all out of Days of Thunder.  When you're 6 you just stick with what you know.  I knew I wanted a racing game and the only other one I knew of was Bill Elliott's NASCAR Challenge.  There was nothing like that smell of cracking open a brand new game.

Obviously, by today's standards this game is not very good.  I still love it though.  My only gripe is that the road courses are not even recognizable compared to real life because they just programmed them to be flat.  Other than that I don't have any major gripes.  I can really appreciate what the developers were trying to do with the minimal capabilities of the NES.  You could choose between 3 manufacturers and tune many parts of your car just like the modern simulation racers.  In fact, this game is probably what started my love for racing sims in the years to come.  I even once played and won a full distance "Daytona 500" in the game while my dad watched he actual 1992 Daytona 500.

Notable things about this game include: being the first officially licensed NASCAR game, the first game to feature the likeness and name of a real NASCAR driver and all of the manufacturer and sponsor licenses in the game.  Another fun fact is Daytona is a track that would not officially appear  in a NASCAR racing game again, until the release of NASCAR Racing 4 on PC in 2001.

 You redneck lol my first game was Kid Icarus which I still have

[ClodBuster]

The first game I bought with my own money must have been Terranigma for SNES via mail order. I think the shop was called F.R.E.A.K.S. Shop or something like that.

[wildfruit]

I remember it was duck tales on the nes. That shiny blue box. I had £40  birthday money and spent it all. From an actual independent video game store. Something that doesn't really exist in UK any more. Needless to say I was very pleased with the purchase.

[NightWolve]

Was it Xevious for NES ? Hmmmmm... I remember blowing $50 bucks on it, and after beating it 3 days later, it helped move me in the direction of mass weekend rentals from the local videostore since I found I could beat most NES games on a weekend.

(If you're not counting the Super Mario Bros. pack-in game that came with your NES, then yeah, this might've been my own first purchase. Do recall my dad buying us some Atari 2600 crap way back.)

[Otaking]

Not sure, but probably was Daley Thompson's Supertest on the Spectrum.

[SplatterTrigger]

I believe mine was Super Mario 3. I honestly can't remember though. But I do remember saving up for SM3 when I was 10 (1990) and going to Toys R Us to buy it.

[Lost Monkey]

Mine would have been Combat - the Atari 2600 pack in.  I saved up my paper route money and bought the system myself.. It was around $300 at the time...

The first cartridge I bought for it was Pac Man. Whoops!

[Desh]

i bought a NES with 100 $1 bills

This is awesome!  My brother and I bought our Nintendo 64 with mostly 1 ' s and 5 ' s and a decent amount of rolled change too.

[NightWolve]

i bought a NES with 100 $1 bills

I had saved up money from Christmas cards from my wealthy godmother and from some birthday cards as well to buy mine.

[majors]

First system in my house was a NES Action Set, so SMB/Duck hunt was the pack-in. I got Metroid as a 8th grade graduation present. But my first cart bought with my own moneys was Castlevania.

[MNKyDeth]

Honestly  I cannot remember. Most of them were bought by my dad. So I figure when I was in high school when I got my first job I know I used to buy a game or two every week.

I always bought TG-16 games, SegaCD or Jaguar ... JaguarCD games. I remember when I traded in all my Jaguar gear for an N64 and a hand full of games I wanted. The guy at the shop said he never saw such a large Jaguar collection.

I had two Jags, one cd-rom unit, the link cable, two Dooms for multiplayer. And almost every single game out at the time. Not sure how many were released for the system but I think I had somewhere between 40-60 games for it.

Meh, first game was most likely Neutopia 2 or Dungeon Explorer 2.

[Necromancer]

I'm not certain which title it was, but it would've been some 2600 game picked up at a garage sale for a quarter or two.

[DragonmasterDan]

I recall being about 5 years old and going to a dollar store that had a bin of 2600 games. I bought a few that had cool looking covers and got around 2 dollars and some change back. The games were terrible and I can't even remember what they were.