Pitfall by Activision for the Atari 2600. I'm old.

With my own allowance money instead of asking for it as a gift?
Sim City 3000

First game as an adult with a job?
Halo 2

Orange box, everything before was pirated lol

Myst was the first game I bought with my own money

Holy shit am i the only minecraft generation kid here?

Pokemon Blue. I saved up then learned about sales tax at the cashier, so my dad bailed me out with the extra $5

My older sisters both had several games before I got one for myself. I think the first one that was actually mine wasn’t until Burnout 3 when we got a PS2. All the PS1 games were hand-me-downs.

I don't know for sure if it was my money or just my choice, but I went with Strife (1996). I chose it in the store after a long deliberation, my uncle was trying to get me to go with Half Life but I was drawn in by something on the back of the box. PC games used to come in big empty boxes with a lot of art and info on them.

It was unforgettable. Basically if you made an RPG in the old Doom engine with the sensibilities of the nineties and an overly ambitious art department. It was surprisingly well written, and I've been chasing that sense of an expansive, dark yet cartoonish, novelistic RPG ever since.

With my own money? Chrono Trigger, shortly after it was released in the US. Took a while to save up my meager allowance.

I was a tween, and it was very worth it.

Riven: The sequel to Myst. Had to visit a whole new world and write down my adventure.

The first game I ever bought 'by myself' was a sealed copy of Phantasy Star Online for GameCube long after its hayday in like 2011. I worked all summer for it, and it was 200 fucken dollars for an unopened copy. Worth every penny I still have it today, just used the disc to load it into Dolphin.

Rise of the Triads. It was not worth it because there was a fault on the 5th floppy disk so it never worked and I couldn't bring it back to the store because I was 13 and wasn't supposed to be buying violent games but I bought it without telling my parents. So I couldn't take it back without them finding out.

It’s been a long time ago….

For a console: probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaboom!_(video_game)

For a computer: for my C64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_IV%3A_Quest_of_the_Avatar

I don't remember.

However, I gave up gaming when I was around 18 and preparing to head off to college. Then after I graduated, I was at a store and saw Quake Arena on deep discount (b/c it was a very old game at that time) and based on the hardware requirements, it looked like my crumby ancient tower computer could play it. I don't know why, but I decided to buy it, and I guess that sort of got me back into gaming (ish).

I was in my 20s and although I barely remember the game now, yeah, it was worth it. The graphics and performance were far superior to anything I'd played up to that point. It had online play, which was entirely new to me at the time. And a few years later, I got major "friend points" when I gifted it to someone who was a game collector and had offered many times to buy the game from me.

Bought for me: the NES deluxe kit with console, controllers, light gun, and Mario/Duck Hunt.

I first bought Super Mario Bros 3 as in, with my own money.

Purchased was Tomb Raider II. So worth it because I loved Indiana Jones.

Super smash brothers mele, gamecube

Altered Beast came free with the Sega Mega Drive I bought as my first console.

Colin McRae Rally 2.0 for the PlayStation.

I wanted a PlayStation so much but simply didn’t have the money. I was saving for it.

But bought the game so I could go to my friend’s house and play it on his PlayStation.

Wordfeud premium.

Had it since Android started. It's outlived one marriage (cancer), about six phones so far.

It's a kind of Scrabble game but slightly different layout, and 'just works.'

Very first that I bought? Deus Ex. By that time I already played it quite a lot, but I felt that it deserves buying even though I didn’t have any income at that age. Looking back at that seems nostalgic. It had a proper manual and everything. It even seemed somehow “magical”, because as kids we weren’t really used to owning games (as in our “own” games, not just something borrowed from a friend which was usually just burnt on empty CD). Good times.

I lived in a pretty rural town at the time. This was the best game zcmi had for our brand new 386. World Gamee

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater for N64

The Legend of the Red Dragon (L.O.R.D.)

(A BBS "door" game.)

Absolutely worth it.

The first game system I ever had was a Game Gear when I was 6, but I think every game I ever got for it was a gift. We got a Sega Genesis the following year, when I was 7 (1996). Little did I know at the time it was actually obsolete at that point, but that's why my parents got it for me when they did; it was dirt cheap. So were the games. I kid you not when I say I could walk into a FuncoLand with $10 and walk out with 20 used Genesis games, most of which were $0.25 each. So as a result, I have no idea what the first game I bought was, because my brother and I bought a plethora of games all at the same time. In that haul though, probably, was Vectorman, Jurassic Park, Clayfighter, and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (we already got Sonic 1 and 2 with the console, as well as a couple of Mortal Kombat games that our parents made us return when they realized how violent they were, because I guess the title left it ambiguous).

Crash bandicoot 3.

Considering how uninformed I was back then, it was a hell of a success.

Final Fantasy 7 for the PS1.

With my own money: Link to the Past. Most definitely.

Fallout 3, when I was 15. I had read the strategy guide (with no pictures) at my library, and struggled to even comprehend a game that expansive.

Hell yeah, it was worth it.

That I bought myself? Dragon Warrior. I bought it from a teenager who lived nearby for 5$ (a couple hundred when adjusting for inflation). He even threw in a cut out of a Nintendo power article on how to beat it.

Was it worth it? Absofuckinglutely!

Can't remember if I purchased it or asked for it, but it is the first game that was just for me and not anyone else in the family and would have been in my early teens. Wanted it as a computer version of the tabletop Battletech game that I was introduced to by a friend's older brother.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BattleTech:_The_Crescent_Hawk%27s_Revenge

The play speed was tied to the CPU speed, so when we upgraded the family computer a couple years later all the movement happened at ludicrous speeds! Good thing it was turn based.

BATTLETECH 2019 was like a modern version which was pretty awesome and hit all the nostalgia buttons!

Let's see... when I was 4 I got a Sega Genesis for my birthday. It came with Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and Granddad took me shopping to pick out two other games for it. I picked Sonic the Hedgehog and Ms. Pac-Man, and both were bangers. The Genesis port of Ms. Pac-Man had a bunch of alternate modes with different mazes.

I became a big fan of the Sonic the Hedgehog games. I got Sonic 3 for my next(?) birthday, and Sonic and Knuckles the Christmas after that(?). I was convinced that Lock-On Technology was going to be the future of video games!

Also my recollection is that Sonic 2 wasn't actually packed in with the system, Granddad had to fill out like a rebate form to claim it from the retailer and it came in the mail. It had a NOT FOR RESALE sticker on it which I now understand meant "only for use in the promotion, don't put this on the shelf" but as a kid I was very confused about what peril would befall me if I sold it to someone else.

i bought "sensible soccer" to impress my dad, how cool my amiga 600 was. he was not impressed. and i never was into soccer.

I'm pretty sure it was Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II. I don't actually remember buying it and might have played Warcraft 2 beforehand, but I spent many ... Many happy hours on DF2. One of those two was my introduction to multiplayer gaming, but for sure I spent a lot more time on DF2.

As for whether it was worth it, it arguably shaped a lot of my life to date. Also I met at least one friend whom I still talk to (though rarely) to this day. I would say yes.

SimCity 2000. I got all my money's worth out of it as I played it a ton. Came on 2 3.5" floppy disks and the fastest mode, African swallow, ran pretty slowly on my Packard Bell 386 SX. Later I got a Pentium 133 and it ran amazingly fast on that. I still play it from time to time.

With my own money, it would have been some ZX Spectrum budget title. I clearly remember Fantasy World Dizzy being mine and I think I bought it with my own money rather than it being purchased for me, so I'm going to go with that.

Secret of Mana. I was 12, and went and worked under the table stripping tobacco. The game was well worth what I paid, the job wasn't.

The first game I ever bought with my own money was Metal Gear Solid 1. And the PS1 to play it on.

I wanted FF7 but they didn't have it. But MGS was a good second choice. It was also the first time ever buying anything from a second-hand store. I wish I could remember the name of the store; it wasn't Funcoland or EB. They had a logo that was an anthropomorphic SNES cart, tho.

Ultima Underworld.
Saved a whole year for that one. Took a whole day to figure out how to configure the EMM386 line that would enable me to have enough memory to run the damn thing (tears of frustration were shed).

Absolutely worth it. Blew my little mind. Never got to finish it though, because of a bug in the quest in the last level T_T

Baldur's Gate 2. The manual was so good, and the map. You'd pay $200 for some kind of special edition for that quality these days. Totally worth it.

The Orange Box, absolutely worth it lol

That I personally bought?

Pretty sure it was King's Quest VIII: Mask of Eternity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(video_game)Worth it, played the hell out of it. Though I'm not sure if I ever beat it.

Illusion of Gaia at an Alco for Christmas. A great SNES game. Graphics have aged very well and gameplay is still solid. It's an ARPG like Zelda kind of. Lots of puzzles. Swap out your character for other heroes occasionally to tackle different puzzles/dungeons.

I was pretty young, around 11. It was in the clearance bin, like 30 bucks. I was initially kind of disappointed because most of the games there we had or they sucked. But that one stuck out. Was definitely worth it.

A couple Christmas(I was 13) later I got FF7 for PC. I had previously beaten 1 and 3(6). FF6 was great. I'd play that game start to finish in about 8 hrs. Which really isn't that bad for 100% run.

Then I got really into StarCraft (bnet) UMS games. Cat v mouse varieties were especially fun.

One of those handheld football games with little red dots for players.

If you mean console or computer games, asteroids for Atari 2600.

The football game was too hard for a 5 year old.

I still like playing an occasional game of asteroids to this day.

I think it was either Soleil or Dune 2 for the Mega Drive/Genesis. I was 10 or 11 at the time.

Halo. Worked a paper rout to buy an OG Xbox and Halo all by myself.

Starcraft

Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers.

The 3.5" floppy version for PC.

In a box, off the shelf at Kmart.

Had games before on the ZX Spectrum but probably Prince of Persia (original) on our first PC. But it was a pirated version as that was all you could get in the country I lived in. First boxed game I bought was Sim City.

I was about 8 or 9ish. And yes, to both.

I think either gobliiins or starush for the Amiga

I remember my mom bringing me to Best Buy in spring 2004 right after I had gotten my Gamecube the previous Christmas. I bought Smash Melee and Mario Sunshine. I was 7 years old.

I had gotten games before then but those were the first two I was taken to the store to buy myself.

I still remember holding them as I walked down the aisle toward the registers. Aaaand that was the cheapest those two games ever got lol

Well, bought FOR me... Atari 2600 Combat (came with the system). I think I was 8 or 9? Totally worth it!

Majora's Mask. I preordered it and saved up allowance for months. It came to like $100 CAD with tax. Played the shit out of it and finished it in 2 weeks. The game was good, but I was quite disappointed because LttP and Ocarina both took me at least a month each. MM only has like 4 dungeons. Ended up trading it to a friend for Smash Bros.

Croc

Sonic the Hedgehog for the Sega Genesis. Still one of my favorites so definitely worth it.

For my own allowance, it might have been a space shooter, Bosconian, on the C64. I must have been 12. The game was pretty bad unfortunately.

When I was ~7, I got a Super NES bundle that included both Super Mario World and Super Mario Kart, as well as a second controller. Absolutely worth it.

Colecovision pong in the early 80s for console. Commander Keen would be my first for PC.

First game I got or first one I bought for my own money? The first game I ever got and played was Super Mario Land for the GameBoy. I remember when the hype around Pokémon Red/Blue coming to Europe was building I was trying to calculate how many weeks of allowance I would need to save up to afford it, so that might have been the first one I actually purchased, I can't remember for sure if I bought it myself or got it as a gift. Diablo 2 launched a year later and I know I bought that one as I vividly remember the car ride back from the store, so otherwise that might be it.

All of these were of course incredibly worth it. I would never have gotten into video games without that GameBoy and Super Mario Land I think, and Pokémon was a formative experience for me as I got to participate in the whole Pokémania phenomenon. And Diablo 2 is one of the games I have the most hours in over my childhood, it kept resurfacing over my school years as me and the other gamers in my school would randomly get the urge to start playing Diablo 2 again randomly almost yearly over the course of like 8 years after its release.

https://www.lemon64.com/game/skate-crazy

All was pirated, because nobody actually sold games. Some shops specialized in electronics slowly started having random C64 titles. This was one of the first ones I ever saw.

Never had actual original covers on any of my pirated casettes.

Game was shit.

First game I specifically asked for from my parents: Stunt Driver. Must have been in the first half of 1990.

First game I saved up for and bought myself: Super Mario Bros 3. Much of the money I saved came in the summer of 1990, so that would have been in late summer of that year.

I think it was KotOR 🤔

Stonekeep with my birthday money! It was fantastic.

I don't remember, but it was one of those yellow cartridges the size of your palm. I think they were knockoffs. Can't say for sure.

It was a side-scrolling fighting game with tiny martial arts dudes. It could be played co-op. I think the bald character was overpowered, or I just felt like he was.
It was either a tournament style, attacking a rival dojo or both. Or something else.

I liked the cool art on the cartridge.

It probably would've been something on the Sega Genesis but hell if I know now

Xenon 2 Megablast for the Atari ST, with my saved-up pre-teen pocket money. Was it worth it? Fuck yes.

X-wing.

Final Fantasy IV, completely worth it and I still have it. My parents were mad that it was $40 used.

I didn't sell many games back, but for some reason, I sold that same game store Mega Man V for Game Boy complete-in-box, probably for a pittance.

I really think it was that set of three games, Half Life, Portal, and whatever the other one was. The orange box was it?

Where did I get that first xbox 360? I think it was given to me or traded... I dont remember, but I think I went out and got Portal as my first ever game purchase.

we had games and consoles before that, but I didnt buy them.

I think my buddy back then, got the ring of death, and he got it fixed through the mail. They sent him two xboxes on accident, so he gave me the extra one. I think thats how I got it.

I def remmeber going to game stop to make the game purchas though, I was giddy with excitement

I think it was the GameCube version of Sims 2. I remember going with a friend to get it to play before another friend came over for a sleepover. We loved Sims Bustin Out when I rented it from Blockbuster, but figured Sims 2 was even better cause....I mean it has a number in the title so it was probably the sequel to Bustin Out. I also remember being extremely nervous cause it was rated T and I was like 11 or something.

Sid Meier's Civ 5, and I was 24 😆 (growing up, my family was piracy-only, so this was the first game I actually bought)

and was absolutely worth it :) I paid ~15 GBP for the base game + some expansions and DLC, and so far put 500+ hours into the game. I still reinstall it every few years.

Tales of Symphonia, GameCube.

It was either Lost World: Jurassic Park, or Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits for the Game.com. I think I was the only kid in the world who had a game.com lol

Back when I was 12 or 13, I saved up money for a PSP bundle. It came with a leather case and... Ridge Racer . Unfortunately, I didn't think of a proprietary Sony memory card so I had to play it from scratch every time I turned the PSP back on. Once I got the memory card, I also got myself Ghost Rider which was surprisingly good for a licensed Marvel game. Basically, it alternated between hack & slash/beat 'em up levels and racing segments with obstacles to avoid and enemies to beat up with your chain. It also had unlockable comics for collecting certain skulls in levels/during challenges, so I spent hours with it either playing or reading comics on a tiny LCD screen.

StarCraft. I tried to make friendly AI by messing around with the editor, to make the AI do what I want at certain times, mimicking an ally.

I think, it was Duke Nukem 3D, or Warcraft 2, and I'm pretty sure it was on a pirated CD of 100 in 1 games, but maybe those were later

It might have been a used copy of Guild Wars 1.

Pretty sure it was Quake

the first I remember buying with my own money probably The secret of monkey island

Can't remember the specific one but probably one of the Dizzy the egg games for the Spectrum.

Rad Warrior.

Ran like a slideshow on my 8086 monochrome.

I wqs pretty young, not sure how old but definitely still in middle school I wanna say. But the first game that I bought with my money was a game called Blockland, which was kind of a fusion between roblox and garrys mod that leaned more into the lego visual aesthetic. I remember doing a lot of map exploration solo to find secrets the mapmakers put in. Fun times.

Gameboy + Zelda: Link's Awakening bundle when I was like 6. That was an absolute guarantee gaming would get its hooks in a person.

Super Mario All Stars bundled with a SNES. I remember going to the supermarket with my grandmother to get it.

Pokemon platium for the old nintendo ds, at the age 13-14 years old. Before that I useally got my copied games, on floppy disc and later on CD's.

Castle of the winds for windows 1.somethng

Jet Set Willy. It was on a cassette tape, for the spectrum computer. My brother's and I got probably hundreds of hours out of it.

Pokemon SoulSilver for $20 when I was 8 or 9 years old. I don't have the cartridge or PokeWalker anymore and I weep at the value lost

A cassette tape for my MSX with 2 games by Konami: Hyper Rally and Antarctic Adventure. That was in 1988.

I've been gaming ever since.

I don’t remember the name of the title. It was probably an Atari 2600 game sometime in the 80s.

In 95 I was stationed in Germany and I know I bought a number of PC games from the post exchange but again I don’t remember any of the names.

Sometime around 98 I know I bought Doom. That’s probably the first game I bought when I remember the title.

I think it was Monkey Island 2.

I can't remember if I ever bought a NES game but I know I bought the SNES with turtles in time with my own allowance money when I was like 8 or 9. First PC games was Theme park and Transport tycoon deluxe bought at the same time.

I dont remember which I bought for myself first since I used to raid gamestop regularly in high school but I remember my cool aunt taking me to gamestop when I was a kid and I asked her to get me Metroid Prime 2 and that shit was excellent

Blackjack on the RCA Studio II.

Two answers to this question.

The first game that my parents bought for me was Wing Commander from a garage sale when I was like six.

The first game I bought on my own was Freelancer when I was around fifteen via eBay.

Both were totally worth it.

Metroid Fusion. Such an awesomely replayable game.

I think it was new super mario bros for the ds

Couldn't tell you the very first game I bought, but I definitely remember one of the oldest being either Ed Edd n Eddy: The Mis-Ed-Ventures for gamecube or Sonic Unleashed for PS2.

I could at least say with certainty my first Steam game purchase was most likely Portal 2 since I wanted the level creator super bad as an xbox port owner.

Oddworld : Munch's Oddysee. It's been 25 years, would love to replay it

First game I ever remember buying was Final Fantasy II. I was probably about 11 and it was definitely worth it. A friend had let me borrow it for a few days and I immediately knew that I needed to get my own copy. Still one of my favorite games ever.

World Grand Prix for the Sega Master System 2.

Technically the second ever game I owned, as the system came bundled with Alex the Kidd in Miracle World.

Was maybe 6? at the time.

Starfleet Command: Gold Edition

it STILL gives me fun playtime

Worms Armageddon! I vaguely remember being disappointed by the absence of some features I liked from Worms 2, but can't remember exactly anymore. I think I still have the CD somewhere.

Links awakening on the Gameboy, great first game to own

GUNSHIP on tandy.

then a few years later the first game I pirated was LHX.

The first game that I specifically remember buying with my own money was TMNT 3 on the NES. And hell yeah it was worth it!

One of the first paid ones was Crazy Machines a puzzle game where you have to solve rube goldberg machines, i must have been around 8. I only know about this now because I have only recently dusted off the old PC I was playing on. Its fun, I like that they always added a small backstory to every puzzle. The puzzles I have created were no real puzzles and I have just built what I felt like building. Definitely worth it (the newer ones not so much.)

I don't remember exactly, but it was definitely a Valve game. I think it was Portal 2 or Half-Life 2 Someday we'll see the 3

Me and my brother combined our money to buy Cyberia (1994). This was a fmv (full motion video) game, which still seemed like a pretty cool concept at the time. We bought it because we were really impressed with the demo, which came on a CD-ROM that was bundled with PC Gamer or some other magazine.

The demo was a section of the game where you were flying around in some sort of aeroplane. The only thing you controlled was the gun. The enemies were superimposed on top of the video, which was fixed.

I enjoyed the flying sections in the full game, but there were also parts where you controlled the main character on the ground. You could only move him between fixed positions and postures, because fmv. In some places you had to shoot enemies, which required very precise timing. This was too hard for me at the time.

I think I kind of regretted spending my money on it at the time, but only a little.

I mean it had to be a puzzle book or something from the hobby shop but im not sure and it would have been single digits. Even ones that were a bigger deal im not sure. My friend intrduced me to d&d with the box version and im not 100% but I think the first rpg I may have bought is star frontiers. man that seemed so cool at the time. Honestly its still sorta cool thinking about it.

Mario and duck hunt for the original nes. My parents got it for me when I was VERY young. And I was terrible at both for years. So much fun.

Ultima III for Apple ][ in 1983. Paid with months of saved up allowance. So damned worth it.

Fun side note... I bought it from the same computer store where I nearly bowled over Robin Williams in 1984 (Santa Rosa, CA). I was very aware of who he was, having grown up watching Mork and Mindy and watched one of his standup specials a LOT of times.

I was wandering around the games case, fixated on said games and noticed a person out of the corner of my eye right before slamming into them. And it was HIM. I couldn't say a word. And he looked as if he couldn't figure out this weird nerd and just moved around me.

I still think back on that day frequently enough.

The first game I ever bought, was the still absolutely brilliant, 1997 Blade Runner point and click made by Westwood Studios. Still one of my favourite games ever. I was 12 when I bought it.

No idea which game specifically. I used to walk to the pawn shop from my parents' work and buy NES and Gameboy games, cheap af. Prolly something like Turrican on the Gameboy or Tecmo Bowl.

First with my own money was Rygar for the NES when it first released in 1987. My brothers and I had already played the original Zelda to death and we craved another fantasy action/RPG type of game. It was different but great - totally worth it.

The first game that i remember buying was Baldurs gate. Real first was probably something for NES, megaman 2 maybe?

Blaster Master for NES. I was like 11 and had earned some money somehow that was then burning a hole in my wallet. Hey Dad, take me to Toys R Us?

Worth it? Hell yeah, I loved that game.

This might not actually be the first one, but one of the earliest games I definitely remember actually buying with my own money was Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix 2. I would have been around 7 or so.

Definitely worth it, great game and the demos on the CD introduced me to Transport Tycoon, and the XCom and Worms franchises - and things kind of snowballed from there!

I know we had games. I think we borrowed an Atari for a while. I definitely remember the Superman Atari game.

But the first one I remember buying was when we got an NES. I think my dad went all out and got Super Mario Bros 3 and Megaman 2 all at once. What a day.

A PC game called Iron Helix. I was really young when I got it and it has already been out few years at that point so I'm pretty sure it was a discount re-release I found in a bargain bin.

Back in the FMV craze of the nineties, it was one of the better titles. It's an incredibly tense cat-and-mouse game, kind of like a 3D Pac-Man. You control a scientific research probe navigating a drifting deep-space battleship in an attempt to prevent it from autonomously attacking a peaceful planet, all while trying to work out what happened to the crew and deciphering the clues they left, and the whole time you are being hunted by the ship's security robot with nothing but a chiming proximity sensor letting you know when it's approaching. Brilliant game, super tense.

Man, that was so long ago. Thinking back it was probably Excitebike or Wizards & Warriors for the NES.

First I rember buying with my own money is zelda oracle of ages for gbc I would have been about 13, and it was absolutely worth it.

The Settlers 3

Some Atari ST game, not sure which. Maybe Spacola? Early teens.

I had games brought for me, but the first game I brought was GTA III (cos I was 12ish and my parents refused to buy it for me)

And yes it was worth it, blew my mind back in the day.

Just Cause 2

I was 13 and wanted to play it with my friend. God that was awful.

Left 4 dead 1&2, I was early 20's, and I arrived to gaming late in life. Was it worth it? Yeah, I was pretty addicted to zombie shit back in the day. XD I only played the campaigns tho, wasn't confident in my ability to play with others.

Nifty Lifty!

Must have been Gran Turismo 3, during those days I was switching from pocket money to spending my own income so it's not sure if GT3 was still a gift and GT4 was actually my first self bought game.

I do remember i owned the platinum edition of GT3 and GT4 was bought at release.

It was definitely worth it, Up until today I still dream about owning a race sim setup to do some serious racing and developing my skill. But I never got past a used Logitech G29 mounted to a desk and a chair that kept rolling away from the pedals type of setup.

I had a fairly long term of being unemployed during Covid which ended up in me buying that G29 as I spent a lot of time playing GT sport and finally for the first time ever got all gold on the licenses, so I knew I was making some good progress from all the time spent.

I even dared to try online racing and as I got better slowly managed to hold myself among others, which made me happy.

Elfmania for my Amiga 500

Platoon for C64. Saved up for it.

Piece of shit. And disc 2 didn't work.

I think it was either Beyond Good and Evil or Guilty Gear Iruca for PC. And then there were psychonauts and Megaman X8, I think all of the were worth it. Guilty Gear Iruca might have been the weakest in the series for me but I had a lot of fun with it too, and it got me to try X2 later.

And the Megaman game was actually my favourite in the series, I liked having lower difficulty with Axel and replayed it a few times, I was surprised to discover that the difficulty changed the ending on my second playthrough. That was such a great time in gaming.

the first grand theft auto. you had to be at least 13 to buy it and I think I was 12

The Ball. Because at the time I played only cs on steam being a kid with no income. The Ball was 99$, couldn't run at all and I needed to buy something at the time to actually add people to my friendslist.

First game I ever bought myself was also a console. Bought a Jaguar with DOOM, even had the insert on the controller for all the weapons. Was totally worth it because it was bitchin'. Bought it from a car boot sale with my pocket money for £5.

Didnt last long because I melted it by trying to use the SNES power pack with it. I was about 7 so things like amps and watts didnt feature into my reasoning. Plug fit, plug works, its fine. And it was for about 5 minutes until it started smoking.

It was a game for the C64 and I was 12, but I am not sure what game it was. Such a long time ago.

Something called "Hang On Harvey". It wasn't tech though. It was plastic.

I have no idea. I was probably 5, and had birthday money.

If you mean own and not earning the money, Sonic 2 for Game Gear and god, it was worth every cent, what a great game.

With my own money... none, by the time I started working I wasn't playing videogames anymore