I found something
Posted: May 04, 2012 • 4:51 am
As some of you know, I moved a few months ago when I found new employment.
In one of the boxes, in a paper bag, I found two receipts.
The first one is dated the 26th of May, 1997. It lists items such as a Samsung 8x CD-Rom, 1 x SoundBlaster 16, 1 Sony Floppy Disc Drive, 1 x Cyrix 166+ CPU, and 2 x 4 MB STD Simm. Oh, and a 14 inch Goldstar monitor.
I had a computer previous to this one, an old 486 I bought off a friend when he got his new computer. But it didn't have all the trimmings, and, let's face it, it was a 486 - which was getting on in years in 1997.
But that's just the set-up of the story. Here's the kicker. The punchline.
The other receipt was dated 30th of May, 1997. It was from what was then a local record store.
1 x CDR: KIXX-CDR/UNDER A KILLING M: 199.50 Norwegian Crowns.
It's my receipt from picking up my own copy of Under a Killing Moon. I had previously been playing it at a friend's house, but this time it was my own, to play as much as I wanted.
And I thought to myself... Why would fourteen year old me want to save these receipts? And I remembered: Because Under a Killing Moon was the first computer game I bought for myself. I had been into Nintendo and Sega consoles for years already, but this was my first real, proper, solid PC game. And it came on CD's.
And it was Tex Murphy.
-Fred
In one of the boxes, in a paper bag, I found two receipts.
The first one is dated the 26th of May, 1997. It lists items such as a Samsung 8x CD-Rom, 1 x SoundBlaster 16, 1 Sony Floppy Disc Drive, 1 x Cyrix 166+ CPU, and 2 x 4 MB STD Simm. Oh, and a 14 inch Goldstar monitor.
I had a computer previous to this one, an old 486 I bought off a friend when he got his new computer. But it didn't have all the trimmings, and, let's face it, it was a 486 - which was getting on in years in 1997.
But that's just the set-up of the story. Here's the kicker. The punchline.
The other receipt was dated 30th of May, 1997. It was from what was then a local record store.
1 x CDR: KIXX-CDR/UNDER A KILLING M: 199.50 Norwegian Crowns.
It's my receipt from picking up my own copy of Under a Killing Moon. I had previously been playing it at a friend's house, but this time it was my own, to play as much as I wanted.
And I thought to myself... Why would fourteen year old me want to save these receipts? And I remembered: Because Under a Killing Moon was the first computer game I bought for myself. I had been into Nintendo and Sega consoles for years already, but this was my first real, proper, solid PC game. And it came on CD's.
And it was Tex Murphy.
-Fred
My first PC game was Little Big Adventure after I watched someone else play it too but Under A Killing Moon wasn't much later I think. I don't have any game purchase receipts but I did keep some of the old scribbles I had done as a kid trying to solve various puzzles. 
I also keep my cinema tickets as a sort of overview of all the films I've been to at the cinema dating back to the 90s. Good for the nostalgia.