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Ask the Game Trust: The First Game You BoughtWas it arcade aliens, guns and demons, or lines of evocative text that got Crispy's Game Trust started on gaming? Find out in the first edition of Ask The Game Trust.
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I certainly can't remember the first game I bought with my own money. I can remember the first game I got, which was the Super Mario Bros./Duckhunt cart with my NES. It blew my little mind. The only thing that compared to that excitement was the first time I played Mario 64.
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I never had a 1st gen system, as my mother preferred that I play sports.
I believe the 1st GameBoy came with either Tetris or Mario, whichever one it wasn't is what I would consider the first game i ever bought.
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F-16 Fighting Falcon for the SEGA master system. Remember how it came on a card and not a cartridge?
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I don't remember what game I first bought, either, but the first game I remember playing was some ASCII thing that ran in DOS called Brick. You had to navigate through a maze and avoid some other ASCII characters. I think one of them had an evil eye.
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I remember playing some kind of Star Trek game on one of the (can't remember) either Apple PC or maybe a Commodore 64. All I remember is that it was on a cassette tape and you had to run the tape for a few minutes to load the game- wow, before even floppy discs were common place. I'm not that old! I think I was probably 10 at the time. The first game I bought (well begged my parents for was an Atari 2600 with Donkey Kong and Pac Man) Still wish I had the Atari 2600 these days - my PS3 is more capable and flashy, but I had a lot of fun on the 2600...
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Metroid for the NES. A local store was having a sale. I waited in line for an hour before opening and ran through the store to acquire my $25 (CDN) copy of the game. I had never heard of it before, but I wanted a new game and HAD TO HAVE IT.
I never regretted it.
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I had a lot of games before, but Super Mario Bros 2. was my first. I was living in Japan at the time, but I needed the US version. I made my mom order it for me from the Sears catalog!
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w1ndst0rm - I remember that! I loved the master system, I spent so much time beating Phantasy Star. Ah, the olden days
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I stunk at PacMan, Donkey Kong and Frogger arcade games. My turn was always too short, so I lost videogame interest quickly.
Fast forward many years, my first game purchase was Wii Sports!! I stood in line for over an hour at the NYC Nintendo store in March 2008. I was giddy with excitement for my Wii and Wii Sports purchase.
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@RyanKuo
There's a big difference in this question and that one. For me it would probably be Pong. For computer games, some lame cartridge game for the TRS80.
The first real PC game I played. God.. King's Quest? Leisure Suit Larry? Not sure.
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@CG=Prophet: I'm kind of embarrassed to admit this but I actually stole a version of Leisure Suit Larry (maybe the one on the boat?) from a Best Buy in the 7th grade. I was expecting it to be very dirty (from reputation) and was too embarrassed to actually buy it.
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@McMaster, please don't say olden days because, @Prophet, I remember programming in BASIC the games that came in the TRS80 manual. Hunting and pecking at age 7 to play an X-Wing clone was more fun than it sounds.
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@ CG-Prophet I see your point, I just wish I could remember what it was. The first game I very consciously coveted, I received as a gift -- it was Star Control 3, which was a big ball of lame (I was happy anyway).
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@evohollywood
Best line in LSL: - something like "drop the cup, you dirty coke sucker."
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The best part of LSL was the trivia from 10-20 years ago to make sure you were old enough to play. My 13-year-old friends and I had more fun figuring out the answers to those than playing the actual game!
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I just now remembered that I was a member of the Atari fan club. The first thing I ever bought may have been the replacement board you could use to fix your broken 2600 joysticks. Not a game, but close.
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I don't recall actually buying many NES games, but I do recall buying plenty of PC games. I know I bought Space Quest games and a combat helicopter game, but the game that really sticks out to me that I purchased with my own money is X-Wing. I remember the pink box, the manuals, the disks, and most importantly, the insane amount of fun I had playing it. It's too bad space combat games like X-Wing are no longer in vogue and we're stuck with the rare Freelancer or Darkstar One.
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I was big into space 'sims' too. The upcoming MMO Jumpgate Evolution might be good for a fix. Not sure yet.
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I honestly can't remember what the first game I bought on my own was. My family had a Pong machine and then an Atari 2600, but I certainly didn't pay for it.
I had bought some tape based games for my Micro CoCo...Omega Race cartridge for my Vic-20...definitely used allowance money on Dr. J vs. Larry Bird as well as Archon for my PCjr, plus any Infocom game I came across.
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