What was the first game you ever bought with your own money?

What was the first game you ever bought with your own money?

I've never had a job so I've never had my own money.

Super Mayro Galaxy

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Does "own money" mean money from birthday cards and allowance?

Final Fantasy 13.

I'm 25 now, but at the time I sold my SNES collection I received as a gift for it to gamestop, the thought still makes me wish I was dead.

sure why not

Professor Layton and Pandora's Box

The Orange Box
I was 11 at the time and my parents flat out refused to buy it for me, but gave me money for my birthday, big mistake.

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spiderman on ps1
took 2 months of allowance

Do you think the game would have been as fun if you had just flat out gotten someone to buy it for you?

Before I was allowed to buy Sonic Heroes PS2 with my own money, my parents made me fill out my school planner in my PalmPilot every school day for 1 month. A strategy guide cost 2 weeks extra.
I loved that game.

Don't get one, I just got fired for missing one day when I was sick

Orange Box

Chrono Cross

If we assume "own money" can include things like birthday money: Sonic Heroes. I was only ten years old when it came out, and it took me less than an hour to realize I had made a horrible mistake.
If we assume "own money" means money made at a job while not being dependent on anybody, not sure. Probably Fire Emblem Awakening.

hard to say. I was monetarily invested for sure, but I think that game was genuinely fun
my neighbors had an n64 and they liked it a ton even though they played for free

literally Half-Life 2

The working world seems like a whole lot of bullshit. I'd rather be homeless than toil.

>my neighbors had an n64
fuck, this is not relevant in any way. sorry

>gamestop
I bet they gave you $5 for the whole collection.

Burnout 3
Best $40 i ever spent

RLH: run like hell

It wasn't an amazing game but it caught my eye and I had a pretty fun time with it.

About $50, I was still short a little and had to use my allowance.

Lost a bunch of great games for one piece of trash game, my second worst decision.

It's prostitution, and even when you just try to do your job with a good attitude some coworker is going to be a vagina and start spreading around rumors about you

I genuinely believe Gamestop is gonna go the way of Blockbuster and when they do I hope to god Valve offers to buy them out at 30% of their market worth

>10% of their market worth

Fixed that for you, the true kikestop experience.

From chores, Warcraft 3
From a job, Mortal Kombat 9

>gamestop about to go out of business
>gabe offers them $5 for it, or $10 steam credit.

starfox 64 from a paper route i had. felt good bros

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a major disappointment in pretty much every way, i forced myself to play it for hours because i'd spent my own money on it but it's such an unorganized fucking disaster of a game it became a chore to play it at all. and that's without having any series bias as i only played the original afterwards

With money I actually earned, as opposed to allowance money or anything.

The Wind Waker I think

I downloaded steam after playing Orange box at a friends house and used a prepaid card I got for christmas to buy CS Source and Gmod

then after that, TF2
then Half life 2
and finally, after I managed to get enough I got L4D 1-2

also ended up getting pic related after a while from a friend who finished it and gave me his CD

Diablo 2 I think.

The Orange Box

I bought a temp credit card to pay for it

Mace the Dark Ages for N64. I hated it and lost all interest in the N64 after that.

The Legend of Zelda for NES.

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Are you American? I have noticed American employers have a tendency to be sack happy.

Batman Arkham Asylum

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Man, I used to buy prepaid amazon cards in store so that I could order stuff online

books, games, whatever. shit, that's nostalgia

Team Fortress 2 back in 2008

The original Star Wars Battlefront