Purgator on 10/3/2014 at 19:44
2001.
My fiancé and I had just tied the knot, and subsequently tied ourselves to a mortgage.
Times were tough, but we managed to scrape enough together to buy a PC for doing the household accounts, and keeping in touch with the family and friends who were scattered about the globe.
Soon afterward, I took a trip to a local bookstore that also dabbled in cheap PC software.
I was looking for Landscape Gardening programs, it seemed like a very grown-up thing to do.
There wasn't a huge range of software on that rickety old bookstore carousel, but as I thumbed through the various "Lifestyle" enhancing titles, I chanced upon a copy of Thief.
In fact, it was the only game title in the entire store and at a budget friendly 7.99, I bought it pretty much without thinking.
What it gave me in return is priceless.
R Soul on 10/3/2014 at 20:32
Later that day:
"I'm back."
"Did you get that landscape gardening program?"
"..."
sNeaksieGarrett on 10/3/2014 at 22:26
Haha.
Purgator on 10/3/2014 at 22:28
:laff:
arandomgamer02 on 11/3/2014 at 02:05
Got TDP as part of a video card upgrade late 1999/early 2000 (got TG from eBay a few years later). At least I'm pretty sure it was a video card. Might have been a sound card. Either way, it was for "free." Very close after that, got TMA in-store. I remember the trapezoidal box but in my infinite wisdom I threw it away, because why would you ever want to keep a box? Wish I had it back. A few years later, got TDS at release.
Just upgraded my 5-6 year old desktop computer. Got a new AMD video card*, and since Thief 4 is 'powered by AMD,' got a free steam copy. Also got a free copy of Hitman Absolution. Pretty sweet deal.
So I've gotten 50% of the series as part of computer upgrades :D Very worthwhile purchases.
*Radeon R7 200 series. My first AMD card. Works great so far.
downwinder on 16/3/2014 at 04:47
here is my story,i was in a comp usa store,at the time i was into unreal,and unreal 2,then unreal tournament came out in 1999,so one day i was looking for an expansion and happen to see a strange shaped box on the shelve it was the first thief,i opened the flip top and looked at it and was like that seems cool,so i got it,i never looked back
Dahenjo on 16/3/2014 at 19:37
I also bought TDP at CompUSA in the trapezoidal box when it came out in '98, and had read a preview saying it made use of the latest computer advances such as 3D sound to create a realistic gaming world you could explore freely and play without combat if you chose, which appealed to me as someone who usually played rangers and thieves in the early RPGs. I was just a young kid of 48 at the time. :cool:
Tomi on 16/3/2014 at 19:57
How did I find Thief, you ask?
I didn't. It must have been rats.
Keeper Diana on 16/3/2014 at 21:02
I've been playing it since I could get my hands on a computer, so i think . . I started around the age of, like. . . 7?
At first it was scary as hells - zombies freaked me out and I can't even describe to you how Haunts made me frightened xD And then. . . robots. Love 'em and hate 'em but they're just the right amount of 'I don't wanna screw with that' and 'I'mma screw with it' to entertain me and keep me on my toes lol
weapon_zero on 17/3/2014 at 10:07
A friend of mine had bought TDP and told me it was awesome. Later on, the schoolkid i was tutoring at that time also told me that his teacher had recommended the game to the class. So i went and bought TDP.
Have to say i only owned TDP ever; back then from reviews i thought that Thief 2, when it came out, wasn´t true enough to the legacy of TDP to justify me investing some serious time into it. Might try and buy T2 from GOG once there is something like a HDMod for it. :ebil:
