Or the hunt for the holy grail.
I’m curious how many folks keep their childhood stuff around. I have the first two games I ever owned still (Pokémon red and Pokémon crystal). Alongside several of my GBA games and that’s about it.
I’ve played that copy of Crystal so much it corrupts when you try to save, I assume the battery is just that dead.
no.
next question!
I don’t have any of my original games, I think. Either traded stuff into Gamestop, as was the style at the time, or gave 'em away. Doesn’t bother me much, honestly.
Yes!
I’m not 100% sure of the chronology. My childhood memory isn’t all that great. It might actually be my Zelda OoT cartridge instead but I don’t have that at hand right now. I DO have it though.
I think a huge swath of my kid stuff was a victim of GameStop, so it’s interesting what people hold on to.
I’m too old to remember the first game I ever owned, let alone still have it! Best guess is it was an Atari 2600 cartridge.
First game I ever bought with my own money?
Don’t own it anymore though, but that was it!
The first game I played was my sister’s, she still has that copy of Sonic 1. The first game I owned was the Quackshot/Castle of Illusion duo pack, which I no longer have. However, I have other copies of the same games, so in a way I guess I still have them?
Trade-ins weren’t really as prominent of a thing here in Germany. Or at least kid-me wasn’t aware of them. At the time I learned they were an option I was also old enough to realize how much of a scam they often were.
At around 15 or 16 years old I was lucky enough to get a 20€ allowance per month. I felt that was a lot but I also went to a rich kid school so comparatively it wasn’t but it taught me early on to think long and hard about how I spend my money. That made me very protective of the games I have bought. I also benefited from my older brother’s extensive PS2 collection which consisted of mostly ripped games for his modded PS2 so I rarely ran out of games to play and never felt the need to sell stuff off to get a new game.
Not only do I not have it, I have no idea what it would even be as my dad was gaming long before I was born as was my older brother. I was born in a world already replete
It’s funny, because a lot of stuff I got post-Atari 2600 I subsequently sold, traded in, or gave away over the years (I’d kill to have my original Saturn collection, my 3DO, and my NeoGeo)! But somehow I still have everything I ever owned for the 2600, including a bunch of boxes and manuals. I have no idea if it all still works since I haven’t hooked it up since the 90’s. But here’s the first game I owned, the manual for it, and the Activision 1-year warranty! They look pretty good given they’re 42 years old!
The first games that I remember having played at home were Atari games, and those a long gone by now. >.> I think the oldest game that I still own might be Mega Man Legends on the PS1.
I definitely do not - the first games I owned were intellivision and 2600 games, which my dad got at a thrift store in large volumes for cheap (like, a console with 20 games in a baggie). At some point I decided that this was one area where I could slim down - I don’t need to play that era of games on the original hardware because frankly I don’t like them that much! So at some point I gave them all away.
Now as for everything since then, I’m not sure I’ve gotten rid of anything on purpose, except to slim down like… a 360 collection where some of the games are on better platforms now.
That reminds me that my neighbor borrowed my copy of Mega Man Legends 2 with the strategy guide and then MOVED TO ANOTHER CITY!!! I haven’t forgotten, Ethan!
I don’t, and I actually don’t remember what it specifically was! I only know it was a Genesis game because that was the first console I owned ~1995 when it was on the way out. Ended up getting a bunch of games cheap at flea markets and stuff. A selection of what I had included: Sonic & Knuckles, Vectorman, MK2, and Rocket Knight Adventures. So it was probably one of those.
It’s fun how good some consoles get on their way out. With the genesis, every team was just so much better at making games for it at that point, so even licensed games were looking real good.
You see that with the PS1, the PS2, just the baseline of what a game could look like rose so high. You still had your late-era shovelware (for the PS2 especially) but the general level of visual quality was so high.
Gosh. I’m guessing the first game I ever played, at home at least, would’ve been Blue Meanies from Outer Space on the VIC-20 and so no, I don’t own that 
That came on a tape with the VIC itself so I think the first game we bought was a HAL joint, Radar Rat Race
I also don’t own that. I think it came on a cartridge.
PS. The music might make you want to go on a murder spree though 
This was the first game I ever owned:
I received my copy for Christmas from my parents when I was four-years old. I also received a copy of Sesame Street Numbers that Christmas, but that wasn’t much of a game. Ducktales was also the first game I completed(not including Sesame Street) when I was in kindergarten. I knew I could beat each of its’ Mega Man level-select syle levels individually, so over the course of two days I left the NES running and beat the levels piece by piece. When I got to the credits I was taken aback, I thought all video games were nigh unbeatable and here I’d managed to do it myself.
I don’t have Duck Tales anymore. I have a brother who’s seven-years older than I am, he owned the NES I would play on. A few years after that Christmas I played my brother in a match of his game he had bought, Bulls vs. Blazers on the SNES(the SNES I owned) and beat him pretty convincingly. He was ultra competitive at everything, but had been losing interest in video games. Losing at anything to me must’ve been too much of a shot to his ego, shortly thereafter in a sociopathic act he swore off games and gave away the NES and Gameboy he owned, along with all of the games(including the ones I owned and ones I purchased myself) to my cousins(who already had plenty of video games) without saying a word to me. I remember telling my mother that I thought it was pretty messed up that he would give away my stuff to someone else without asking, so she made him pay me $20 in recompense. I would’ve much preferred the half dozen or so games I owned to $20.
In conclusion Duck Tales rocked and siblings can suck sometimes.
Yes and I will be buried with it
cartridges over the eyes so charon can play mega drive on the boat over
