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Interplay‘s Lord of the Rings was the first big box game I bought from my own money. It was on sale at the local Karstadt mall. I never completed the game, but loved it so much! What was your first game, bought with your own money?
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@[email protected] wow, two bundled games isn’t bad! Didn’t know they did that. Plus the lightgun was also included I guess?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, I bought it in the late '80s, I'd guess around '88 or '89 and it included 2 controllers, 2 games, and the gun. I recall the whole package being close to $100, maybe a little more.

On an inflation adjusted basis, that would be a bit under $300 today. Considering it would have been a 5-6 year old system at that point, it would probably be fair to compare it to the Xbox Series S today, which sells for $300-350 with one controller and zero games. So, it seems like that was a pretty good deal at the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

@[email protected] in US and Europe the NES came out 1985/86. So that makes it an even better deal!