Elfmania for my Amiga 500

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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

Pretty sure it was Quake

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

Rad Warrior.

Ran like a slideshow on my 8086 monochrome.

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.