What's the 1st Game You Ever Bought Loose?

[Ascending Wordsmith]

Pick your brains. What's the first game you ever bought without the box OR manual?

I'd answer, but I still can't recall. O_O

[Cmosfm]

Well, I think the only people that can answer this are those who recently started buying games. And that's not many of us.

I remember buying loose Atari 2600 and NES games 10-12 years ago. I dunno, I just can't answer this question, because I have no earthly idea.

[Ed Oscuro]

I would guess it's one of the loose N64 carts I bought from a friend when I took his N64 (it was my second one, and I eventually sold that to an acquaintance for just a little bit of money, something like $20 - then the guy who sold the N64 to me in the first place started to regret selling his console! :P), and I still have all of those.

I wouldn't say I bought those because they were collectable, or even that I wanted to play them (garbage sports titles) - they just came with it.

Great question!

[izret101]

The only ones i bought until recently were N64 games from BlockBuster.
The first i think was StarWars Episode 1 racer(no manual). I can't remember for sure any more. I used to have my games in order of purchase but now they are alphabetically so i can't be sure.

[Cryomancer]

Probably some used NES game.

[FlufflePuff]

I remember my first loose cart very vividly. It was 1989 and I was the proud owner of a new NES. Some of my friends had also received NES's as presents. Some of my friends were also stupid and through away all the packaging after they got said games/systems. One of my friends got The Legend of Zelda and hated it. He ended up selling it to me, minus the packaging and manuals (grr), for $15 bucks. Which, for a 9 year old, is a ton of money. Best $15 I ever spent.

[Achika]

Back in the hey-day of NES, Goonies II for NES from a fleamarket that I still frequent

[Barbarianoutkast85]

I remember before I started collecting videogames I found this pawn shop and decided to buy some loose NES games they were Operation Wolf and Contra Im pretty sure those were my first 2 loose games that was like 5 years ago. Dont know why I remember

[kai123]

I am pretty sure that mine was Mortal Kombat for the Genesis. I traded one of my games towards it back when it came out and it didn't have the box or the manual. That has to be it.

[marshalldylan1]

It would probably be Athena for the NES, I remember buying it at a video store.

[Duncan]

NES games, and most probably gun games because my dad is into those. We had to buy them loose, though, because the NES era had ended a couple of years previously.

That being the case, the first one might have been Freedom Force, but I really do not recall.

[Flack]

I remember a kid in 4th grade trading me a loose Pac-Man cart for the 2600 for my milk money for a week. That was '83 I think. There may have been ones before that.

[fishsandwich]

Haunted House for Atari 2600. I am getting old and congealed.

Cheers :D

[Half Japanese]

Most likely it was Earthworm Jim 2 for the Genesis at a yard sale a looong time ago.

[MarkM2112]

Diner for the Intellivision

[Emily]

Adventure Island 2 foe the Gameboy, back when Rays Video was still open in Chico....memories... -_-

[DTJAAAAMJSLM]

Warsong.

[Graham Mitchell]

Skykid for the NES back in 1986.

[tholly]

i have no clue....i know its a random unboxed NES game...but i have no clue which one it is exactly

i think i was given some unboxed NES games before i ever bought one though

[max 330 mega]

i think my very first loose games i bought were disk-only sega cd games from a video store

[whoisKeel]

when i was young, and nes was still thriving (years before snes came out)

i bought castlevania, gradius, solomon's key, metroid and maybe one or two more off of my cousin (well, he really wasn't my cousin, but i called his parents aunt and uncle because we were close). i would guess i was about 10, and he was probably 18 or so. funny, those are 4 of my favorite nes games to this day, and i don't believe i had ever played those games before i bought them from him. he hooked me up :)

[JR]

Ok while we are on this subject why te hell do people throw awaty instruction manuals, or Genesis cases. I mean they hold everything, cant be put into a cd holder like cd/dvd based games, but people toss them.

WTF peoples! :angry:

I can sort of see cd/dvd's based games doing it. snes/ nes is totally understandable, but genesis doesnt make sense at all!

[Brian_Provinciano]

First game I bought loose was Kirby's Dream Land for GB, followed by Star Wars for the NES. Shortly after, I got into ordering NES games from Funco Land. Being young, I would scroll though their list in EGM looking for the cheapest games (although I would buy some more expensive games when I really wanted them). I remember a typo once, which made a $49 game look like $.49 or something, but when I called, they wouldn't honor the price, haha. Oh well.

I remember that the used games ordered from Funco Land were very random, in that, you might get a mint complete game, or a very roughed up cart. I remember getting Batman for the NES with a manual which looked to have a bit of puke on it or something... although it was better than nothing... or was it? Who knows, heh

[-hellvin-]

Up until about a year ago, when I started collecting retro stuff I had always gotten complete stuff. I think the first loose game I got was Ninja Gaiden & Double Dragon for the NES. Then I realized loose carts suck and I vowed only to buy complete games from then on ;D. I just gotta have those boxes and manuals.

[DigitalSpace]

Ok while we are on this subject why te hell do people throw awaty instruction manuals, or Genesis cases.

Obviously, this isn't always the case, but a few months ago, I found a complete copy of X-Men for Genesis for $2.50. The only thing was that the clamshell was in bad shape and falling apart. The spine was cracked like it was ready to break apart. I wound up throwing the clamshell away and kept the game and manual. But if that box had been in good shape I would have kept it.

Oh, and Funcoland/Gamestop was notorious for tossing out boxes and manuals for cart based games, in order to save space. Shitty, I know. :angry:

Anyways, I recall buying a loose Zelda LTTP for SNES from a Gametrader store about 5 years ago. In fact, that was the first game I bought with my own money.

[charitycasegreg]

the first game I can remember buying was a few years before I started collecting, it was busters hidden treasure for sega complete for 7 bucks back when I was in 7th grade. I used to love that game. Then after that it was mario is missing, paperboy, tmnt, zelda and super team games all loose for nes after i started collecting in after 9th grade.

[dreamcaster]

Technically, it was the first game I ever bought! Super Mario All-Stars for SNES.

I say technically because back when Nintendo Australia sold the SNES + Super Mario All-Stars pack, the game didn't come with a box.

So yeah, my very first game, was also my first loose game. LOL

However, if we're talking on the intended subject of games that I bought loose as pre-owned games, then it would have be to Super Mario Kart for the SNES back in June 2002.

But! Before that, I received many games free off people, and the first loose ones I go were a four Sega Game Gear carts (came with their clamshells though). They were Sonic the Hedgehog, Streets of Rage, Columns and Ecco the Dolphin.