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

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.

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

Crash bandicoot 3.

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

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

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

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.

Myst was the first game I bought with my own money

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.

Holy shit am i the only minecraft generation kid here?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Please keep them coming and please please tell your stories. It’s the best part of gaming really

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

Blackjack on the RCA Studio II.

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).

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.'

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

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

Orange box, everything before was pirated lol

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.

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

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.

It was counter strike 1.6 on Steam