Buying Games Like It's 1989

[dakidski]

Back then you would play the games, whether they were fun or not. The amount of time I wasted on shitty Sinclair Spectrum games... It boggles the mind!

[Six]

I still can't believe Westone of all developers made a game as weak as Jaws.

Blasphemy! Jaws is one of the Best Worst Games of all time.

Back on topic.

I didn't buy many games but, like Josh posted, I played the hell out of the ones I did own. I was that kid who spent half of his childhood in the pink puff room waiting for the pink tail and trying to get all the worthless call spells in FFIV. And when the SNES games sometimes cost $70 (which is a helluva lot of lawns btw) who could afford to buy more than a few a year?

Oddly enough, when I did start having enough money to buy games when I wanted I splurged on a SegaCD. That may have been the first time I bought games and didn't play them. Maybe because the sucked ass (Nighttrap anyone) or because I started finding other things to do with my time. This is a trend that, unfortunately, continues today. Hell, I still haven't finished Halo3 or GoW yet =/

[Changeling]

I was a big renter in '89. My video place (Movie World) had pretty much everything EXCEPT for Genesis stuff, so I had to rely on EGM and buy genesis games blindly based on EGM. Usually it was ok, just sometimes it wasn't. I was obsessed alot more then than I am now. I played relentlessly then and bought alot of stuff. I did lots of grass cutting for my gaming habit.

I'd say the biggest turd I ever bought blindly was probably Storm Lord because I thought it'd be like Ghouls and Ghosts(how wrong I was)

[Frogacuda]

I remember they day that the local video rental place ("Talk of the Town") started renting games.

Talk of the Town in cherry hill?

[Yoshi]

I'm younger, but my experience was different because I shopped exclusively second-hand. I don't think I bought a game new at a game store before like... Vectorman, I think. edit: Maybe Skitchin'. It was mid-Genesis-era, anyway.

So I could get games for like $5, sometimes relatively new ones. I had more games than any kid I knew. NES and it's new games that you could buy at stores? That was the sucker's bet.

That's actually awesome. I remember getting an SMS in a trade for some basketball cards. I wanted one because everyone else had an NES, and I wanted to be an asshole. So much has changed...

[Yoshi]

Oddly enough, when I did start having enough money to buy games when I wanted I splurged on a SegaCD. That may have been the first time I bought games and didn't play them. Maybe because the sucked ass (Nighttrap anyone) or because I started finding other things to do with my time. This is a trend that, unfortunately, continues today. Hell, I still haven't finished Halo3 or GoW yet =/

If I remember correctly, the Sega CD came out about 5 months after I turned 16, so I had my first real job. Each store in St. Louis got three, and they were all sold out, except a Kay Bee that had its shipment get misrouted. I was standing in the store waiting for the box to arive and paid with 16 crisp $20 bills. I honestly never regretted that for a minute.

[Othello Harrington]

I remember taking my first check from working at my uncle's horse farm and buying Double Dragon II for the NES, man that game ruled!

[Frogacuda]

I spent my bar mitzvah money on a 32X when it first came out. That wasn't a smart move. Never did get another 32/64bit system. I just heard "You already got a 32X." Good thing I had a nice computer.

[SpoDaddy]

I played Double Dragon 2 on NES every day after school for months. I couldn't get enough of that helicopter level.

[Yoshi]

Wow. I was in college by the time 32-bit hit. My dorm room was the place to be, since I had a Jag, Neo CD, Saturn, PS1, and N64. Mario Kart 64 probably got the most multiplayer play time.