The 1st Video Game You Ever Purchased.

[SuperPlay]

The first game that I had purchased for me was Space Invaders for the Atari 2600.

As for the first one purchased with my own hard cash would have been Starquake for the ZX Spectrum:



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[esteban]

the first 2 games I got with my own money were bio hazard battle, jungle book and golden axe cib at the good will for 2 bucks each like 8 years ago. all from allowance money

Dude, how young are you?

Holy crap, I'm ancient.

word.  pushing 40 in not to long.  haha, some already hit the big 4.0. here.  One thing I do like over at Neo-Geo.com forums is the AARP fan club sig haha.

Yes, I've seen the AARP sigs over there (not that I go there often, I was reading some crazy thread).

Hilarious. Sad. And true.

We are old.

[Gentlegamer]

I never had money, from any source, to buy games until I had my own job after high school. I don't remember the order, but I bought ActRaiser and Tecmo Super Bowl on clearance sometime around buying an N64 and Star Wars Shadows of the Empire in 1997.

[seieienbu]

When I was in first grade I managed to scrounge together $100 and buy an NES with Mario/Duck Hunt.  I don't recall how I got the first $50, but I magically found a $50 bill floating in a breeze when I was with my father one afternoon.  I asked him what I was supposed to do with it, he told me to look around and see if anyone was looking for anything.  I looked all around, saw no-one else, and told him that, to which he responded that it was my lucky day and that I could keep the money.

[MrBroadway]

the first 2 games I got with my own money were bio hazard battle, jungle book and golden axe cib at the good will for 2 bucks each like 8 years ago. all from allowance money

Dude, how young are you?

Holy crap, I'm ancient.

word.  pushing 40 in not to long.  haha, some already hit the big 4.0. here.  One thing I do like over at Neo-Geo.com forums is the AARP fan club sig haha.

You should try AtariAge, though you'd be surprised at the (unwelcome) influx of younger users (15-20) that trickle in.

[_joshuaTurbo]

My first gaming rig was a Tandy CoCo 2, I was 5 years old during that Christmas of '84!  I don't believe I ever used any of my own Birthday/Xmas $$ on any games for that.  In around '87 we moved to town and I do remember using some chore moneys I saved up at a garage sale a few blocks from our house on purchasing a Coleco Vision with Donkey Kong and Tac/Scan.  That was pretty awesome.

[VenomMacbeth]

My first gaming rig was a Tandy CoCo 2, I was 5 years old during that Christmas of '84!  I don't believe I ever used any of my own Birthday/Xmas $$ on any games for that.  In around '87 we moved to town and I do remember using some chore moneys I saved up at a garage sale a few blocks from our house on purchasing a Coleco Vision with Donkey Kong and Tac/Scan.  That was pretty awesome.

Tac/Scan is the tits, but I didn't think it came out on colecovision.  Did you have the expansion module?

[NightWolve]

word.  pushing 40 in not to long.  haha, some already hit the big 4.0. here.  One thing I do like over at Neo-Geo.com forums is the AARP fan club sig haha.

Yep, it's my time this year to hit the big 4 0 in September. All I can say is, at least I still have a pretty good hairline - could do without weird pinched-nerve and joint pain though, but oh well...

[CPTBadAss]

Wish I could remember mine. I want to say it was Starcraft BroodWar or Rollercoaster Tycoon for the PC. But I'm not sure.

 I didn't get to experience a lot of the games y'all did. I didn't even know TG16 existed until last year or so.

The retro video game youtube influx has really drawn a lot of people into older systems. I know things like Game Sack and Video Game Years aren't that popular around here but they do bring awareness and an introduction.

[technozombie]

I think the first game I bought on my own was Wild Arms for Playstation but it might have been Final Fantasy 7. That was around the time I got my first job at Dairy Queen and started to make money on my own. Before that it was all presents and renting. I wasted so much damn money renting games I could bought a few goods ones.

[_joshuaTurbo]

My first gaming rig was a Tandy CoCo 2, I was 5 years old during that Christmas of '84!  I don't believe I ever used any of my own Birthday/Xmas $$ on any games for that.  In around '87 we moved to town and I do remember using some chore moneys I saved up at a garage sale a few blocks from our house on purchasing a Coleco Vision with Donkey Kong and Tac/Scan.  That was pretty awesome.

Tac/Scan is the tits, but I didn't think it came out on colecovision.  Did you have the expansion module?

I honestly can't remember if I had any expansion module. 
I just remember the 1st controller port being shot and needed a connection re-soldered, which my uncle helped me with (did it for me!) 

[VenomMacbeth]

Whoa!  That must be super rare because I can't find any on the bay...or any videos on YouTube.

Shame I love it on the 2600...but I guess I really don't need another reason to purchase yet another console.

[MrBroadway]

Tac/Scan never was released for the ColecoVision. Rumors of a prototype exist, but any gameplay/cartridge covers are forgeries.

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/221911-colecovision-vaporware-games-progress/

[VenomMacbeth]

In that case, Josh, you probably had the expansion module for playing Atari games.  Definitely not knocking it, though, as it's one of my favorite games for my 2600, despite the missing gameplay segments.

[Digi.k]

I know I had both of these at some point but I don't know which was owned first..





if they don't count as video games then probably this: