First games you ever bought?

Scratch Acid

The first games I remember buying were Batman Returns and Bubba 'N' Stix for the Amiga. The first batman game kicked serious posterior, and I had high hopes for "Returns", but alas, twas total ****. Bubba was way natty though...

krattapopov

terminator 2 on cartridge and robocop 2 on cartridge for commodore 64, god i loved those games

DaithiSurfer

Way of the exploding fist and spyhunter for the spectrum .... wow

Gummy Panda

Hudson Hawk for the spectrum.

i_am_dogboy

The earliest games i can remember were spy vs spy, dizzy and jet set willy, all in the one day, the local computer shop had just expanded their commodore 64 range........damn it I wish it still worked.....

rainbow kirby

Tetris and Super Mario Land, when I got my first game boy at the age of 7. I'd played Super Mario World on my uncle's SNES before that though (got creamed!)

BLITZ_Molloy

Probably something like Kendo Warrior or Spyhunter for the Commodore 64. I had excellent taste even at that early stage.

RobertFoster

Mario AllStars came with the SNES, but the first game I bought was Super Ghouls and Ghost.

damnyanks

First games I actually bought were The Lost Vikings and World Class rugby for the SNES. Both 20 quid. I was like 12... good choices

Gremlines 2 on the gameboy as well. Never got past lvl 3 on that:(

Scratch Acid

World Class Rugby, hell yeah. best theme music ever

Wookie

Daley Thompsons Decathlon for the Spectrum, I think I was about 10 or 11 (feck that's 18 years ago!!!)

Cassette Cover

KdjaCL

Pitfall Harry on Atari 2600 god we didnt eat for weeks ,rather expensive think Peats was where i got it.

kdjac

Spocker

Panama Jack on the Spectrum 128 - I miss those coloured bars....

bizmark

Meh i have bought hundreds of games no way i could remember the first one

But the one i remember most from the "early days" is Silence service on the commodore 64

dazberry

Cyclone by Vortex.



D.

Retr0gamer

Creatures on C64

neXus9

I never really bought much games for the amiga.

The first one I bought, I think was a submarine game, with the whole keyboard for controls. Might've came with lame stickers to put over each key. I could of sworn though that it was only a sheet that you would put over the keyboard, but it couldn't have been that bad!!

The first I played I think was nightbreed on the Amiga. Very dark for an 8 yr old.

Dr_Teeth

Licence to Kill on the BBC. and it was crap.

Teeth.

sionnach

/me fondly recalls handing over £9 for a james pond floppy disk for the amiga600. Great game, hours of fun

Cake Fiend

IIRC, the first game I ever bought with my very own money, not my parents' or Santy's, was Street Fighter II on the SNES in '92 or so.

neXus9

Originally posted by sionnach
/me fondly recalls handing over £9 for a james pond floppy disk for the amiga600. Great game, hours of fun

I loved that game (I think the one I played though was the sequel). I remember using a cheat for unlimited lives, and I was on it for hours trying to beat it. Then I left it alone to get my dinner, and my dad turned it off. :dunno:

Anyone remember the excellent FLOOD, or RTYPE, or even the mario rip off: THE GIANA SISTERS??????

When I had the Amiga 500, all my friends were slumming it with their Commodore 64.
FLoppies were quite excellent back in the day compared to cartridges.

Do you know that Amiga are working on a new workbench?? It's been in the works for years (and got a vaporware award:dunno: ) so I don't know if it's been scrapped yet.

amp

Pacman for the Atari 2600. Newbs

tman

mercenary force on the game boy.
i learnt to read reviews before splashing out on a game soon after that...:D

Big Nelly

Ninja Karate or something called similiar on the Spectrum!! in the good old days when you typed in 15 pages of code and at the end you got a half circle!!

Manach

Manic Miner - Amstrad: One day I will get get that 16th level, one day.

DaithiSurfer

I forgot about 3d monster maze on the ZX81.
I played it yesterday on an emulator.
Scary stuff

Mr E

Originally posted by Retr0gamer
Creatures on C64

Snap!

Epitaph

Shinobi for the Commodore 64 - don't think it ever worked quite as it should have

Mr E

It was a great conversion - not entirely accurate (dropped levels, no music!), but still very good for the C64.

m4cker

it was 1 of the dizzy games for the C 64. i have no idea which one

Rabies

Can't remember any of the first games i bought. they were on the C64. prob some thing like IK+ or Barbarian.

po0k

First game I ever bought WIT MEH OWN MOONEH was Flashback on the Amiga600.

LoGiE

First Game I ever bought was Ghouls & Ghosts on the c64. An absolutely class game! the music was particularly good on the c64 version.

Deadwing

The first game ever played was centipede on the atari 2600
Im not sure but i think some of the first games i bought would have been with confirmation money, i think i got Cabal, R-type and Last ninja 2 all for my beloved atari ST

LegacyUser

It was a nintendo and tetris came with it. I didnt buy it. Mom did. arph arph.

tba

Daley Thompsons Decathlon for the C64

Originally posted by i_am_dogboy
local computer shop had just expanded their commodore 64 range........damn it I wish it still worked.....

My ones broken too:(
just the power supply though so theres some hope:)

Placebo

Supermario world ( 2 ?) on snes.


later in my life, i had the original pong system and a spectrum, cassette thing.
Then an N64 , now ps2.

Bigshot

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the NES. Loved it. Never did get very far though i was about seven and it was rock hard to me then.

Remember before memory cards and you would get further than ever in a game and then your mum would make you turn it off so she could watch bloody inspector morse or something, then you would have to start all over the next day? No! Must be just me then.

The Brigadier

A version of Lander that I bought in a magazine. I had to enter the code myself!!

KdjaCL

Originally posted by Bigshot

Remember before memory cards and you would get further than ever in a game and then your mum would make you turn it off so she could watch bloody inspector morse or something, then you would have to start all over the next day? No! Must be just me then.

3 days straight we played Commando on atari 2600 taking turns convinced after level 99 there was somfin indeed there was LEVEL FUKKIN 1!!!!!

So as kids are idiots we convinved ourselves there was an ending after beating the game 10 times (level 999) INDEED THERE FUKKIN WAS LEVEL BLOODY 1!!!

Fun tho


kdjac

TinCool

Meta Galactic Llamas Battle at the Edge of Time on the C64. Followed closely by Beach Head I and BC's Quest for Tires. Only Jeff Minter could come up with a title like that.

Giblet

Simon Says for the Oric-1

It was a book!!!!

My dad spent hours typing it in so I could play Simon Says. I was 2.

20 years ago!