Growing up right in the middle of a city, the only game I had access to was Tetris.

Though, Miss PacMan was also quite popular.

The first game I bought was Probotector for the NES, also known as Contra.

The first game I remember actually buying with my own money was Star Wars - Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy.

1996, my first computer, Sim City 2000.
Complete Waste of Time was, I think,the third or fourth game I bought.
I would not mind seeing it on GOG,but there are licencing issues and it was a 16 bit Windows Only game and would take quite a bit of work to run on a modern computer.

I honestly can't remember. Must have been either Soul Reaver or Dark Reign. Buying software wasn't exactly a thing in this part of the world, at least not last century.

Can't remember. It's too long ago.

Enchanter, with my parents' money.

I don't remember what was the first game I bought with my own money. It must have been terrible. (And "my own money" is kind of a fuzzy concept for me, as I'd been getting a stipend and doing leak detection at the lab off the books years before I got a legal day job.)

The way I see it; it's money you can spend on whatever you want without asking permission. A lot of people have it until they get married. :-P

On Marriage: Own money has changed its nick to Secret Stash :P

Probably Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast. Before that, I had either been given the games, or copied them. It was a bit weird buying the expansion to a pirated game, but I had copied the base game off a classmate, and try to get the expansion off a 56.6kbps connection was not something I wanted to do, so a trip to the store it was.

Yeah, pretty accurate...

My memory's a little fuzzy but I'd say that it was either Pitfall II for the Atari 2600 or Lode Runner for the Apple ][c clone that my family had at the time. ^_^

Either way, it took several weeks worth of my allowance in order to purchase them.

(Anything leftover often fed the coin-operated arcade games that invaded my neighborhood. Good times) ^_^

Airborne Ranger for Commodore 64

It was in 19...