Interplay‘s Lord of the Rings was the first big box game I bought from my own money. It was on sale at the local Karstadt mall. I never completed the game, but loved it so much! What was your first game, bought with your own money?
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I bought the original NES with my own money, so I guess Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt were my first since they were included.
@sevan@lemmy.ca wow, two bundled games isn’t bad! Didn’t know they did that. Plus the lightgun was also included I guess?
Yeah, I bought it in the late '80s, I’d guess around '88 or '89 and it included 2 controllers, 2 games, and the gun. I recall the whole package being close to $100, maybe a little more.
On an inflation adjusted basis, that would be a bit under $300 today. Considering it would have been a 5-6 year old system at that point, it would probably be fair to compare it to the Xbox Series S today, which sells for $300-350 with one controller and zero games. So, it seems like that was a pretty good deal at the time.
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Not 100% sure, but probably Fantasy World Dizzy on the ZX Spectrum.
@root42@chaos.social first games were ‘Pssst!’ and ‘3D Combat Zone’ for the ZX Spectrum. The choice in our local computer shop in a small town in northern Germany was not big. I think they had maybe 5 games for the Speccy and 10 games for the C64. So it was pure luck that ‘Pssst’ was well made and actually fun. ‘3D Combat Zone’ was a Battlezone clone, but I had never heard of that before. I wanted it because it had 3D in it’s name. Was not that bad but a bit slow compared to the original.
Seven Cities of Gold and Archon for the Amiga 1000.