The first game you bought

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Jet5y
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Eddie Kidds Jump Challenge and Booty.

Clearly the budget game was the clear winner! Didn't buy many full price games after that, not that I could afford any anyway.
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I can't remember which was first out of Manic Miner and Krazy Kong... though I do remember playing Manic Miner to completion and just shoving Krazy Kong in a drawer after playing it twice!
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PeteProdge wrote: Mon Nov 13, 2017 1:50 pm Curse Of Sherwood for me. Although I had plenty of decent Ocean/Imagine hits already supplied with my ZX Spectrum 128K +2 in 1987 (thanks Dixons), the cartoon artwork on this £2 Mastertronic had been rather compelling. I'd stared at a rack of cheap games in Boots in the weeks leading up to getting my first ever computer.

It's largely forgotten because it's a budget release in the midst of the Speccy's commercial peak, but I think it's a pretty damned good title. Yeah, it's rather generic, but had it been released a few years earlier, it'd have been typical of full price offerings. There's something about it that makes it feel like a phantom Ultimate title. Call me a heretic if you wish...
I liked it. It reminded me of Feud but it was good. For a while. And then it was ruined by a swamp bit if I remember correctly.
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Lunar Jetman.. Once mastered, you will never forget how to play and win.
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My first game was a Pengo clone. Pingo, Pengo, Pingu. I don't know. I've tried to find out but they are all much of a muchness. It was a half decent conversion of the arcade game. Would have been around 1985 I think. 1.99 from the sweet shop sort of deal.
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At the beginning, I had only 2 cassettes with approximately 20 games in 1993. The first on the list was Air Wolf, but she did not boot. The second was Video Pool, it loaded well, and it was my first and one of my favorite games.
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It was either Orbiter by Silversoft or Spectral Invaders by Bug Byte, but both were bought after seeing them running at a ZX Microfair.

Spectral Invaders was particularly impressive at the time, being one of the first "hi-res" games I'd seen on the Spectrum. Seeing the machine achieve smooth movement :o made me feel like a world of possibilities were opening up, as this was back in 1982 when most other games still used jerkier, character based movement.
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Uff, I think my first tape was that:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=13609

And then "Turrican", "Don Quijote" (a spanish text adventure), "Mad Mix Game", "Humphrey" and a lot of more.

Yeah, I was in the lattest years of the Spectrum.
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Uh - this was my first one:

Frenzy (the Spectrum Games variant!)*

...and, boy, I was disappointed. The next titles were Jetpac and TransAm - faaar better games...:-)

*) I think I spotted an error on that DB entry: The first Crash magazine entry is *not* this Frenzy but the Quicksilva's one!
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Nice years!!
I remember the first game I bought was Babaliba from Dinamic. I recevied It with a letter written by one of the Ruíz brothers.
And still got it. Those treasures that you love...
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Mine was Luna Crabs by Micromega. Basically we'd had several Dragon 32's which had all died, so we got the cash back and bought a 48k speccy from Boots. I seem to remember that part of the deal was that you could select 1 free game off the shelf and I picked Luna Crabs, purely based on the fact that it had 3D in massive letters on the front
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I bought "Byte" a text adventure by CSS, which I took home with the ZX Spectrum I'd been given. What a mistake. I really wanted JetPac but couldn't afford the extra 50p. I was so upset with my (poor) choice that mum took me back to get that too.
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My first games where:
1 - Space invaders (it was a clone, with a different name)
2 - AirWolf
3 - Commando
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My first 3, from memory and (I think!) in order:

1. Kong - Ocean
2. Mined Out - Quicksilva
3. Leapfrog - CDS
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Thing Bounces Back. I already had more games, but this was truly and solely bought with my week assignment :D

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