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First games you ever bought?

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  • 26-04-2004 6:45pm
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    Scratch Acid
    Registered Users Posts: 456 ✭✭


    The first games I remember buying were Batman Returns and Bubba 'N' Stix for the Amiga. The first batman game kicked serious posterior, and I had high hopes for "Returns", but alas, twas total ****. Bubba was way natty though...


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    krattapopov
    Registered Users Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭krattapopov


    terminator 2 on cartridge and robocop 2 on cartridge for commodore 64, god i loved those games


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    DaithiSurfer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 843 ✭✭✭DaithiSurfer


    Way of the exploding fist and spyhunter for the spectrum .... wow


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    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Hudson Hawk for the spectrum.


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    #5
    i_am_dogboy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭i_am_dogboy


    The earliest games i can remember were spy vs spy, dizzy and jet set willy, all in the one day, the local computer shop had just expanded their commodore 64 range........damn it I wish it still worked.....


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    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Tetris and Super Mario Land, when I got my first game boy at the age of 7. I'd played Super Mario World on my uncle's SNES before that though (got creamed!)


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    BLITZ_Molloy
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    Probably something like Kendo Warrior or Spyhunter for the Commodore 64. I had excellent taste even at that early stage. :D


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    RobertFoster
    Registered Users Posts: 9,188 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    Mario AllStars came with the SNES, but the first game I bought was Super Ghouls and Ghost.


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    damnyanks
    Registered Users Posts: 4,276 ✭✭✭damnyanks


    First games I actually bought were The Lost Vikings and World Class rugby for the SNES. Both 20 quid. I was like 12... good choices :D

    Gremlines 2 on the gameboy as well. Never got past lvl 3 on that:(


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    #10
    Scratch Acid
    Registered Users Posts: 456 ✭✭Scratch Acid


    World Class Rugby, hell yeah. best theme music ever


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    #11
    Wookie
    Registered Users Posts: 171 ✭✭Wookie


    Daley Thompsons Decathlon for the Spectrum, I think I was about 10 or 11 (feck that's 18 years ago!!!)

    Cassette Cover


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    KdjaCL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,346 ✭✭✭✭KdjaCL


    Pitfall Harry on Atari 2600 god we didnt eat for weeks ,rather expensive think Peats was where i got it.

    kdjac


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    #13
    Spocker
    Moderators Posts: 6,860 ✭✭✭Spocker


    Panama Jack on the Spectrum 128 - I miss those coloured bars.... :(


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    bizmark
    Registered Users Posts: 6,892 ✭✭✭bizmark


    Meh i have bought hundreds of games no way i could remember the first one

    But the one i remember most from the "early days" is Silence service on the commodore 64


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    dazberry
    Registered Users Posts: 2,150 ✭✭✭dazberry


    Cyclone by Vortex.

    Cyclone.jpg

    D.


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    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,391 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Creatures on C64
    Untitled Image




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    neXus9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 947 ✭✭✭neXus9


    I never really bought much games for the amiga.

    The first one I bought, I think was a submarine game, with the whole keyboard for controls. Might've came with lame stickers to put over each key. I could of sworn though that it was only a sheet that you would put over the keyboard, but it couldn't have been that bad!!

    The first I played I think was nightbreed on the Amiga. Very dark for an 8 yr old.


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    Dr_Teeth
    Registered Users Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭Dr_Teeth


    Licence to Kill on the BBC. and it was crap. :)

    Teeth.


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    #19
    sionnach
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    /me fondly recalls handing over £9 for a james pond floppy disk for the amiga600. Great game, hours of fun :)


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    Cake Fiend
    Registered Users Posts: 5,335 ✭✭✭Cake Fiend


    IIRC, the first game I ever bought with my very own money, not my parents' or Santy's, was Street Fighter II on the SNES in '92 or so.


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    neXus9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 947 ✭✭✭neXus9


    Originally posted by sionnach
    /me fondly recalls handing over £9 for a james pond floppy disk for the amiga600. Great game, hours of fun :)

    I loved that game (I think the one I played though was the sequel). I remember using a cheat for unlimited lives, and I was on it for hours trying to beat it. Then I left it alone to get my dinner, and my dad turned it off. :dunno:

    Anyone remember the excellent FLOOD, or RTYPE, or even the mario rip off: THE GIANA SISTERS??????

    When I had the Amiga 500, all my friends were slumming it with their Commodore 64.
    FLoppies were quite excellent back in the day compared to cartridges.

    Do you know that Amiga are working on a new workbench?? It's been in the works for years (and got a vaporware award:dunno: ) so I don't know if it's been scrapped yet.


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    #22
    amp
    Registered Users Posts: 11,446 ✭✭✭✭amp


    Pacman for the Atari 2600. Newbs ;)


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    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    mercenary force on the game boy.
    i learnt to read reviews before splashing out on a game soon after that...:D


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    #24
    Big Nelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,613 ✭✭✭Big Nelly


    Ninja Karate or something called similiar on the Spectrum!! in the good old days when you typed in 15 pages of code and at the end you got a half circle!!


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    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,713 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Manic Miner - Amstrad: One day I will get get that 16th level, one day.


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    #26
    DaithiSurfer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 843 ✭✭✭DaithiSurfer


    I forgot about 3d monster maze on the ZX81.
    I played it yesterday on an emulator.
    Scary stuff :)


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    Mr E
    Registered Users Posts: 55,514 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    Originally posted by Retr0gamer
    Creatures on C64
    Snap! :)


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    #28
    Epitaph
    Registered Users Posts: 427 ✭✭Epitaph


    Shinobi for the Commodore 64 - don't think it ever worked quite as it should have :(


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    #29
    Mr E
    Registered Users Posts: 55,514 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    It was a great conversion - not entirely accurate (dropped levels, no music!), but still very good for the C64.


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    #30
    m4cker
    Registered Users Posts: 189 ✭✭m4cker


    it was 1 of the dizzy games for the C 64. i have no idea which one


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    #31
    Rabies
    Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    Can't remember any of the first games i bought. they were on the C64. prob some thing like IK+ or Barbarian.


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