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What was the first and latest game you bought?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭Lone Stone


    no idea what the first game i had was, i know it was on the commador 64, last game i got was Ac3 :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 221 ✭✭karl_m


    Then: Pokemon crystal
    Now: FF13-2


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    That I bought myself was Super Mario Land 2

    Last was AC3


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,047 ✭✭✭Mr.Saturn


    I got Mortal Kombat 1 & 2 on the Game Boy, that was my first, and probably the last time I took a box's synopsis as anything to go by. I was 7-8ish, so how it was sold to me I dunno. It's like MK was the deepest game back then, so you can imagine what happens when they compromise it for the 8-bit portables. I think it was my first, anywho.

    Last game I invested in was Puyo Pop on the GBA, as it came highly recommend, and I had a voucher to burn.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,974 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    A little hazy, but I believe my first game was Sonic 2 for the GameGear. I think I probably got past the first level around three times, because of a bouncing ball at the first boss that almost inevitably kills you every time, especially when you're seven or eight years old.

    Latest was Under Defeat HD.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,112 ✭✭✭Dacelonid


    If we are talking windows machines, got my first PC in '95 and bought Command & Conquer. Knew nothing about it, just liked the box, a case of judging a book by its cover not being a bad thing, last game bought was Legend of Grimrock

    Going back further though and the very first game I ever got was Beachhead on the C64.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    Not the first game I ever got, but the first I remember is Doom.

    Latest, Black Ops 2. Quite often, actually, whilst in the midst of playing current gen games, I'll stop for a brief moment to reflect on the games of today versus those of the day, and imagine how people would react had they not been present for the interim.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    First I bought myself was Starcraft: Brood War (my brother had bought the original).

    Latest? Diablo 3.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,911 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    first game i am pretty sure was this:



    I knew that fecking game inside out. I LOVED IT!


    Last game was borderlands 2.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭Harps


    Sponged off my cousin who had various Nintendo and Atari consoles through the 90's so I managed without a console until 98 or so, think the first game I bought myself was Top Gear Rally on the N64

    Most recent, both Vanquish and Bayonetta


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,900 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    I think the first game I actually bought was Prince of Persia. I think.
    Last game I bought was an expansion pack for Hearts of Iron 3.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭deathrider


    I really can't remember the first game I bought myself, because the first ones I owned where xmas/birthday presents and the likes. Tetris and Fortress Of Fear on Gameboy would have been my first. Oddly enough, the latest edition to my collection is an old Megadrive game I picked up last week- Tiny Toons: Buster's Hidden Treasure.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 815 ✭✭✭animaal


    First: Battlezone for the Atari 2600
    Last: Counter Strike Global Offensive

    Battlezone's better :pac:


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,261 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    First game I bought myself (not presents or paid for by the parents) was Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy VIII. Got them at the same time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 776 ✭✭✭sellerbarry


    First: Monty on the run (c64)
    Latest: Sniper Elite 2 (xbox 360)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    first:resident evil PS1

    Last: Forza Horizon.It's a keeper.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,296 ✭✭✭RandolphEsq


    First I bought was FIFA 98 on the SNES, last was Tetris for my phone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 126 ✭✭deblacker


    First I had (not bought): Super Nintendo.
    First I bought: Medal of Honour:Frontline I think
    Last: Max Payne 3


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 776 ✭✭✭sellerbarry


    First game I bought myself (not presents or paid for by the parents) was Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy VIII. Got them at the same time.
    Jasus, i feel old.:):)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 907 ✭✭✭1hnr79jr65


    First i bought myself - Xenon 2 on IBM 286
    Last Modern Warfare 3


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 655 ✭✭✭marvsins


    First was when i got a megadrive for christmas with Sonic the Hedgehog and EA Hockey/John Madden double header on the one cartridge.

    Last - Black ops 2 today


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭Adyx


    First would have been something for the Atari 2600, I have a feeling it was Gorf or Dark Chambers. Latest was the Humble Bundle although technically I first bought the pc version of Crayon Physics a few years ago, the rest are new purchases though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 171 ✭✭civilnug


    First: Metroid II for the gameboy. I could nearly do it my sleep to this day.

    Last: Borderlands 2


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,166 ✭✭✭Beefy78


    First game I ever bought was bought before I'd even got a computer to play it on. I'd been nagging my parents for ages and ages to get a C64 and I picked up enough hints that they were finally going to do it so a few weeks beforehand I picked up a text adventure game for like 50p at a car boot sale. I don't think I ever played it to be honest as as soon as I got my C64 I got swept away with the likes of Platoon, Miami Vice, Turbo Outrun & Emlyn Hughes International Soccer.

    Most recent game I bought was last weekend when I finally bought Flower on PSN. Most recent physical game was FIFA 13 about six weeks ago.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,026 ✭✭✭H3llR4iser


    Ah, trip down memory lane. Identifying the first game in my case it's impossible - you see, back in the mid '80s Italian copyright laws were wonky at best, and a few publishers got away with cramming a handful of C64 games on a cassette and selling them as a "magazine" in the newsagents; They would edit the opening screens, change the title to some cheesy sounding Italian version (e.g. "Paperboy" became "Il postino", which translates into "the postman") and get a COURT AUTHORIZATION to sell them as "publishings", mostly because judges in 1986-87 had no idea what a videogame was :)
    The "final product" looked more or less like this:
    EDIGAMMA.JPG

    A collection like this, 6 cassettes with between 8 and 20 games on each of them, cost roughly the equivalent of today's 5 Euro. For a small boy, it meant saving the equivalent of only 1 or 2 € each week from his weekly 5€ allowance and then...Christmas every month :D

    The first "single game" on a cassette I bought, however, was "Ferrari Formula One" in 1990. This beast:

    http://www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/games/details.php%3FID%3D900

    Latest game, F1 2012.


    details.php%3FID%3D900


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,579 ✭✭✭✭Frisbee


    First game I bought was'Die Hard: Trilogy' on the Playstation. What a game that was.

    Last game was AC3, which I then traded in with something else yesterday for Dishonored.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,536 ✭✭✭✭Varik


    Tekken 2

    Jak and daxter collection, ( if you don't count that, then Borderlands 2)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,870 ✭✭✭mikeruurds


    First game was Jetpac on the ZX Spectrum 48k.

    My latest acquisition is COD Black Ops 2.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,516 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Legend of Zelda Nes, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 PS3.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,340 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    I think the first was Galaxian 3 for the PS1.

    The last game I bought was splinter cell convictions in the steam sale a while ago.


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