Biggest Videogame Spending ERROR You've Ever Committed [Archive]

omnedon

02-20-2003, 02:42 PM

I bought a Sega CD when it first came out for like $300

me too. Except I did buy games for it, which made it worse for the most part. Of the 15 or so CD games I bought, the only ones I got that were worth anything were Silpheed and Robo Aleste. Sold it all at a big loss in 94 and bought a PC.

(I have one again now. I think my SEGACD/Genny/32x combo, plus over 50 assorted games[so far] have set me back less than the price of Silpheed back in the day)

With console purchases, patience is a virtue. My working Sunnyvale sixer is a testament to the fact that the console is not going anywhere, and there will be lots of time to play the game(s) eventually.

Bratwurst

02-20-2003, 02:54 PM

Not a game, but game related: I was among the first to get the Afterburner kit for the GBA, and I regreted it. Ended up messing up the light guide, considered it a waste of money. Screw that nonsense, I'm getting the SP.

Bought Megaman 5, NEW for about 50 dollars, but I beat it really soon and promptly decided to trade it in a week later for some crazy reason. Got 17 bucks worth of credit, spent it on some other used NES game that I traded in shortly after. And then there was the time I traded in my entire NES library (20 or so titles) back in 94', before I wised up.

My grandmother was an avid RPG fanatic, but when the PSX and Saturn hit the scene she no longer had an interest in the games anymore. Gave me the credits she had accumulated at a used game shop that totaled at about 100 bucks, but by the time I visited the store that happened to be out of town, they had gone out of business.

DREW

02-20-2003, 03:11 PM

It would have to be the time I bumped heads with Marco on a boxed Malagai, Spent way more than I wanted 1k+ but since I really wanted it for my collection, and will probably never sell it I can kinda justify it, well maybe if I just need to keep telling myself that

Arrrhalomynn

02-20-2003, 03:11 PM

Last year I bought a new game.com from ebay germany.
I forgot how much I paid for it, but it was a lot. Later I imported some extra games from the USA to go with it. I think I also overpaid those.

I'm sure I don't need to explain why this was a bad deal. >:(

kainemaxwell

02-20-2003, 03:14 PM

Bought Street Fighter Alpha 2 for $10+ at Chinatown last month thinking it was a big rarity..wasn't.

Captain Wrong

02-20-2003, 03:35 PM

I'm like MR. Careful when it comes to buying games and stuff. I mean I walked by my copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga THREE times before I finally bought it because I wasn't sure I'd like it. Lucky for me it was still there the last time.

So, the closest I can come was buying a PS2 a few months after release. Not at a jacked up price or anything, but it was still $299 at the time. For many of you this might not be an error, but for me, it was. Aside from the fact that there wasn't anything other than Gradius 3 & 4 I wanted to play (and even that wasn't a must have) in the time since then I still haven't found much I wanted to play. I'm sure I could have waited until it gets down to $99, but I got caught up in the moment.

Kid Fenris

02-20-2003, 04:22 PM

My biggest spending error wasn't so much a matter of what I bought as it was a case where I should have bought something else. After working for my grandparents and uncle for the summer of '93, I had about $120 saved up. It was just enough for a Genesis, but I decided to get Alien 3 and Mega Man 5 instead. Years passed before I bought a Genesis and realized what I had been missing.

Other that that, I don't have a major spending mistake to recall. Maybe I should make one just for the sake of my future nostalgia.

ManekiNeko

02-20-2003, 04:52 PM

My biggest blunder was buying a copy of Ecco the Dolphin for the Genesis when I could have had an entire game system, the Turbografx-16, for the same price. Arrgh, what was I thinking? Ecco's so dull that oil riggers in Alaska still use it as a boring mechanism.
I did get a Turbografx-16 eventually, but a lot of my game systems are in Arizona and I haven't a clue what happened to them. I'm a little afraid of what happened to them, frankly.

JR

hamburgler

02-20-2003, 05:22 PM

Olympic hockey for N64.I couldn't believe that i bought a game that was the same like Wayne grentzky's bu only with different teams.Luckly i traded this stinker to get a better game that's worth the money, virtual tennis,for dreamcast.

GENESISNES

02-20-2003, 07:46 PM

I spent 60 bucks on nightmare creatures for the N64. that game SUCKED

Cafeman

02-20-2003, 07:59 PM

Most recently, I bought a Sega CD / Genesis combo from a flea mart lady near me. Got home, the CD doesn't work. (grumble). I call her up, she hems and haws around, eventually she doesn't return my phone call so I quite bugging her. I traded with her an NES & some games for the CD/Genesis plus I paid $30. I was ticked -- I had also bought a few CD games from her and now they sit.

Last week , I finally found Einhander for PSX -- only $14.99 at Its About Games. Elated, I bought it and brought it home .. and I hate it. Slow, dull shooter, nothing like my faves of Darius Gaiden or Thunderforce games.

ManekiNeko

02-20-2003, 08:04 PM

"2. Being so into SF2 and buying a fighting clone for the snes for $60.. I even forget the name. Lets just say it was such a BAAAD poorly put together street fighter clone hashed together in about a week. ugh! "

Power Moves, perhaps? Or maybe Doomsday Warrior?

JR

maxlords

02-20-2003, 08:23 PM

Yup....a couple years ago I decided I REALLY wanted a Turbo Duo. At the time I'd never even HEARD of www.tzd.com or anything and there weren't any on eBay or anywhere. So I found this website that's selling "NEW" Turbo Duos for $300 + shipping! I get all excited and bought one. It comes in the mail..FINALLY...and lo and behold...mint box, mint Duo...looks new...BUT the manual is a photocopy, and the pack-in Gates of Thunder game (that's even advertised on the box!) is not there at all! So these guys are selling the manuals and game separately and selling their Duos new (tzd does that as well with the pack-in disc for some reason too...)! Made me so mad. THEN I found out I could have gotten a nice boxed used Duo for like $100 and a new one from TZD for $200...so I got totally ripped off basically. Sucked hard.

By the way...how can TZD advertise their Duos as new if they've removed the pack in discs? That bothers me but seems to be common practice for EVERY dealer in "NEW" Turbo Duos....

Bratwurst

02-20-2003, 08:39 PM

By the way...how can TZD advertise their Duos as new if they've removed the pack in discs? That bothers me but seems to be common practice for EVERY dealer in "NEW" Turbo Duos....

Or how about when they refuse to check the screens of their Turbo Express stock for dead pixels, claiming the 'new' factor?

They're selling Duos without the original gamepads as I recall it now, just TG-16 pads with the adaptor. TG-16 systems used to be for sale over there with the Keith Courage game removed too.

Six Switch

02-20-2003, 08:51 PM

Nothing really bad for me,a few bad N64 games for $60 and SoE for PS2 for $50 at launch day.

I am waiting to see what Joe has in store for us....... :hmm:

Tempest

02-20-2003, 09:04 PM

SoE for PS2 for $50 at launch day.

Am I the only one who liked that game?

Tempest

briskbc

02-20-2003, 09:53 PM

So far it is not a regret but ir could very easily turn out that way. I paid $75 Canadian (tax in) for Kakuto Chojin. Hell I don't even have an Xbox. With all the talk of this game being pulled I thought I should get it. It is the last one in my area. As for the price, well thats not unusual for a new game in Canada. Just the way it is.

This better end up being rare.

WiseSalesman

02-20-2003, 10:21 PM

What the hell is SoE?

Sniderman

02-20-2003, 10:27 PM

I'm guessing State of Emergency.

WiseSalesman

02-20-2003, 10:33 PM

:embarrassed: Thanks...I kept trying to figure it out, and it wasn't coming to me.

Joe: What's the story? You've got us all panting in anticipation!

My biggest spending blunder? Either the fact that I bought an N64 close to launch, or that I paid something like $50 - $60 for Saturn Metal Slug. Wouldn't be so bad, except I have no ram cart with which to play it....

jaybird

02-20-2003, 10:40 PM

When Tecmo Super Bowl II: Limited Edition came out for the SNES I couldn't find one anywhere. I'd read it was supposed to be hard to find, but I finally found it for rent at my Hastings.

I rented it, told them I lost it & paid $69.99 for just the cartridge. I wanted to ask them for the box & enclosed manual that was sitting on the rentals shelf, but thought they may catch on to my scheme & decided against it.

I was a sly fellow indeed...

WiseSalesman

02-20-2003, 10:45 PM

Update on my greatest blunder. This past summer I passed over a SegaCD with attached genesis and two (bad) games for something like $30. I'm regretting it now, because I checked online and it seems segacd games are really cheap right now....and I don't have one. BLAST!

EDIT: Oops...this belongs in the other thread.

ubersaurus

02-20-2003, 11:42 PM

I remember a few years back buying a boxed Chrono Trigger for 70 bucks because I wanted the game so damn bad...this wasn't even during the SNES's heyday, either. But that's about the craziest my spending ever got.

cheesystick

02-21-2003, 02:04 AM

This wasn't as much of a loss, as it was just plain stupid. I'm sure all of you saw those displays that gave away free gamecube preview DVDs? Well, in my haste, I bought one on ebay for 2 bucks. The nest day while at my local Fred Myers, I saw the free kiosk. I stuffed a whole bunch in my pocket and gave them to my friends. I got the DVD in the mail and just laughed at how stupid i was at my impulsive buying. I figured I would get the Kit Kat that was stated to come with it in the auction, but apparently, he forgot.
Know whats funniest about this whole story?
After i got my gamevube DVD, I went home and played it in my Xbox. He he he
-crispy

geelw

02-21-2003, 02:22 AM

lessee now:

paid $81 for a boxed copy of sorcerian for the PC, and 2 weeks later watching 2 or 3 more go for around $10

paid $50 for a 3DO game guru, then found a closeout place had some miscellaneous PC games for a dollar to 3 dollars each, and yes, there was one in the stack, emphasis on WAS, as some guy grabbed it and RAN to the register (i was about 10 feet away looking at some CD storage bins)

$90 for gleylancer for the mega drive (bid war, ebay- i got outbid and lost, but the guy who won didn't pay, and neither did the 2nd or 3rd bidders. one of the guys later contacted me an offered to buy it from me, but i turned him down flat)

$86 for zeiram zone for the ps (used/excellent shape). saw the game later for 20 bucks, new.

$85 for a new/sealed frame gride (dreamcast)- which wasn't THAT bad, but i had sold off mine a bit earlier, got another for $25 new, sold that one, and had a devil of a time locating one until the more expensive one was offered me.

there's a few more, but these are the ones that stand out... :embarrassed:

Charlie

02-21-2003, 02:41 AM

I honestly don't think I've ever made an error in judgement when it comes to the classic stuff, but I can think of three times off the top of my head I bought a game only to see it go on sale the next day. Bomberman Online for the DC for 29.99 at Best Buy... next day it was 9.99. Skies of Arcadia for the DC for 49.99. Next day it was 19.99 at Best Buy. And finally just the other day I bought Godzilla Melee for the Cube for 39.99 at Best Buy and then it dropped to 29.99.

OK, now I can think of one... my Sega Hologram. Costed a ton, and although it looks pretty (plays like shit, but looks pretty lol), I would have rather spent the money on a good coinop like Tapper, Sinistar, Tempest, or something along those lines.

NE146

02-21-2003, 02:43 AM

2. Being so into SF2 and buying a fighting clone for the snes for $60.. I even forget the name. Lets just say it was such a BAAAD poorly put together street fighter clone hashed together in about a week. ugh! "

Power Moves, perhaps? Or maybe Doomsday Warrior?

JR

POWER MOVES!!! OH GOD THAT WAS IT!!! >:( Yep.. you nailed it. EB sure ripped me a new hole on that one.

Thank you for reminding me (or is it no thanks) ;)

HaggarCodyGuy123

02-21-2003, 04:19 AM

I spent $30 on Genesis 1, Sega CD 2, and 32X combo just so I could get the 32X cables. So I spent $30 for a pair of wires that I have since found extras of at 2 separate occasions loose at a couple of thrift stores for less than $2 for both. :( >:( >:(

maxlords

02-21-2003, 06:49 AM

$90 for gleylancer for the mega drive (bid war, ebay- i got outbid and lost, but the guy who won didn't pay, and neither did the 2nd or 3rd bidders. one of the guys later contacted me an offered to buy it from me, but i turned him down flat)

Actually, that's a GREAT price for Gleylancer....that's not embarrasing, that's a score! Ususally a complete one goes for well over $100 :)

MankeyMan

02-21-2003, 08:53 AM

asharru

02-21-2003, 08:56 AM

79 bucks for a broken intelly.... This was my first retro system purchase a few years ago. I have REALLY learned my lesson since.

:(

Tritoch

02-21-2003, 09:09 AM

I haven't made any big mistakes either (overpayed by a couple dollars here and there), but I kinda regret buying the PS2 on launch day and an Xbox about a month after launch when I could've waited and saved $100. Neither had anything that compelling (save for Halo) that I just HAD to play when I bought them.

jonjandran

02-21-2003, 09:29 AM

I was at a flea market and saw a sealed black box NES game for $10.00. I remembered reading in this forum that they were worth a lot so I bought it. My wife was looking at it and said " It has a sticker on the spine with writing on it on the inside of the shrink wrap."
Yep sure enough it was a rental that was re-shrinkwrapped.
And it didn't even have the instructions. And it was BATTLE CHESS !!!!
:embarrassed: LOL

Nature Boy

02-21-2003, 10:59 AM

Joe, have you played N64 Superman? It's not a game, it's a form of torture resurrected from the middle-ages (and I spent £40 on it :embarrassed: ).

I have to get that game if only to truly appreciate how bad it is. Terrible games fascinate me for some reason.

I have to agree with Joe though - some of these are pretty lame. $50 isn't that big a mistake. And if his is a wopper I'm guessing well into the 3 digits range, maybe 4 :D

WiseSalesman

02-21-2003, 11:30 AM

So where the hell is it? I have this morbid curiosity, sort of like looking at a highway wreck, and it's making me all jittery. I'm not going to be able to rest until I read Joe's story!

orrimarrko

02-21-2003, 11:40 AM

Arcade Antics

02-21-2003, 11:57 AM

Joe's mistake probably doesn't have to deal too much with price - he already said in another thread that the most he has spent on a game was $250.

That was for Lochjaw boxed, and fairly recently.

My guess is the it is the game(s) itself.

I suspect that he meant, for example:

Billy went out and bought every single copy of NCAA Football he could find for the GameCube. He found 100 copies at ten stores and they were $30 each for a total of $3000.

Two months later, Billy realized that it's NCAA BASKETBALL people wanted, NOT Football.

THAT kind of error. :-D

Raedon

02-21-2003, 11:58 AM

I'm guessing Joe's big error has to do with a prototype type of purchase.. maybe..

Bratwurst

02-21-2003, 11:59 AM

I have to agree with Joe though - some of these are pretty lame. $50 isn't that big a mistake. And if his is a wopper I'm guessing well into the 3 digits range, maybe 4 :D

Well, we've coughed up enough stories and figures that cumulitively it might dampen whatever shockwave Mr. Santulli unleashes! I'm interested in what inspired him to start this thread as well. :D

buttasuperb

02-21-2003, 12:03 PM

I got into a bidding war for snes EVO complete, and paid 57 dollars. When I sold it to help get my MK2 cab, it only went for 27. LOL

Also others might consider me paying 500 for the MK2 cab an error, but I sure as hell don't.

Tempest

02-21-2003, 12:55 PM

Six Switch

02-21-2003, 02:28 PM

Come on DP...... :hmm: ;) -_-

lostsage

02-22-2003, 11:08 PM

i purchased a dreamcast as a x-mas gift for myself (i was really good that year). i don't regret this. but i do regret putting it on my credit card. within two months, the money i was making wasn't happening anymore. but i tell you one thing, it's the best $350 i've spent in a long time.

jonjandran

02-22-2003, 11:18 PM

Two months later, Billy realized that it's NCAA BASKETBALL people wanted, NOT Football.

Is NCAA Basketball actually worth anything or is it that we THINK its going to be worth something someday? I ask because I know of a place that has at least three copies, but I'm not going to pick them up if it's only worth $5 more than I paid for it.

Tempest

Let this be your answer.
http://search-completed.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&query=gamecube+basketball&cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&siteid=0&ht=1&from=R10&currdisp=2&itemtimedisp=0&st=2&SortProperty=MetaHighestPriceSort&SortOrder=d&BasicSearch=

WiseSalesman

02-23-2003, 03:06 PM

Come on, Joe .... you think we're just going to forget about this and let it slip into the annals of DP history without you ever relating your story?

Gamereviewgod

02-23-2003, 04:05 PM

Just recently I dropped almost $20 (after shipping) on Deep Blue for the Turbo. Worst...game...ever.

Raedon

03-13-2003, 02:33 PM

DP, I must know.. O_O

orrimarrko

03-13-2003, 04:05 PM

Someone pm Joe - it probably just slipped his mind.

Tetsu

03-13-2003, 06:01 PM

ooh, i got one:
Bought a GBA about 3 weeks after the Japanese debut. Spent a whopping $200 on it. A few weeks later, the price of the import drops to $100 to match the domestic release. Sigh.

Also, I bought an N64 for $200, brand new. Had it for a year, didn't buy a single game for it. Ended up trading it for a Playstation the following year.

ersgameboy

03-13-2003, 06:25 PM

I bought several game.com games (including Sonic Jam) for full price, back in 1998. It was a dumb move for a high school student with no job.

kainemaxwell

03-13-2003, 06:49 PM

I tried liking Quest 64 when I got it after wanting it for awhile.

Bighab

03-13-2003, 11:04 PM

I dropped $79US plus shipping and customs fees on a Tristar 64(plays Famicom,Snes/SFC and N64 games on your N64) I was told it had very few compatability issues with Nes games(had to use a GameAxe converter to play Nes games on it) I tried playing some of my favourite Nes games and they didn't work >:( None of my Koei games worked(6 different ones) and strangely enough Dragon Warrior 1 wouldn't work but 2,3,4 did. I also found the cheat menu hard to use too. Probally cause it was heavy Japanese :/ I ended up trading it away a few months later.

Ruudos

03-14-2003, 07:58 AM

Well I overpaid for some games, but not pretty big.
I paid like, I think $40 for an incomplete ROB, that's probably the worst.[/quote]

bargora

04-09-2003, 04:59 PM

I paid $35 for a PSX trac-ball.

I paid way too much for Radiant Silvergun.

And I bought DP's line of bull when he said he was going to tell us about his blunder. :P

Scoots

04-09-2003, 06:11 PM

Bought ECW:Hardcore Revolution (N64) the day it came out for $50 or $60....

lionforce

04-09-2003, 07:02 PM

Let's see, I purchased Marvel vs Capcom 2 brand new for DC for $80, Street Fighter Alpha 2 (not Gold Edition) brand new for Saturn for $45, I bought a Saturn brand new no games for $300 and a few days later the price dropped and Sega decided to pack 3 games in as well >:( I bought a Gamecube for $200 and a few days later Nintendo dropped the price to $149, I bought a Playstation for $200 and a few days later the price drop occured and it dropped to $149 (I sure know how to time my purchases eh) :( but for all the times I have gotten screwed I have also come away with some really good steals so I guess it balances out in the end

stargate

04-09-2003, 07:06 PM

Didn't DP say buying the 3DO system new was the biggest buying mistake he ever made?

Arqueologia_Digital

04-09-2003, 09:23 PM

Paid $ 20 for a pirate Pac-kong for 2600... :/

123forever

04-10-2003, 04:13 AM

I bought a Game.Com as soon as it came out. I think it was $70. I've yet to buy a game for it.

I sometimes wonder if anyone ever paid full price for the Genesis version of Virtua Fighter 2, and how they might have felt about that.

bargora

04-10-2003, 09:42 AM

Didn't DP say buying the 3DO system new was the biggest buying mistake he ever made?
Oh--missed it! :embarrassed:

DarkSoul

04-10-2003, 07:16 PM

PC: Outpost (Sierra). That wasn't so much a game as it was a cut scene that ended with "You Lose". $50, brand new.

I regretted Stronghold (SSI, $50- old one ~1990, not the new game with the same name) for a long while, but I eventually grew to really like the game... wee!

Console: Eh, not too much yet... I overpaid a little for a 2600, 2600jr, 800XL, and Intv2 lot (plus ~15 games) for somewhere in the area of $110-140, I can't really remember, but that's not as bad as it coulda been (though, that assmonkey said the INTV pads worked great, and they sure as hell didn't).....

ah, hmm... it's a tiny complaint, but I haven't been able to get into Shenmue on the DC at all, but that's only $15 out of my pocket. That and overpaying a little on my $15 Zelda (NES) or accidentally buying Rad Racer for $4 thinking it was something else, hehe

Videogamerdaryll

05-05-2003, 02:31 AM

Honestly..I bought two Steel Battalions.."thinking" they were linkable..

I was really sleeping when I bought them..But I love link games.
A friend told me that he read it was Supposed to be linkable..
I believed him without checking for myself..

It's an awesome game but I could of did without the second one if I had did the research..before I bought 2..
This was a very busy time in my life and I slipped..up..
But I keep the second one sealed..,..for future...hmmmm I don't know..

Probably for my son to play..when he gets old enough...
He wants to play what I'm playing now..and he's only two..

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hurstman

05-05-2003, 08:52 PM

I bought a Virtual Boy the day it came out *sigh* :( Cant remember how much it was exactly $150? Big mistake.Oh well,funny thing is I still got the damn thing for some reason lol.

DarkSoul

05-05-2003, 10:17 PM

I know I always hear terrible things about them, and I don't remember my one experience with one being at all good, but is it fun at all? I'd think that the Tennis game could, at least in theory, be amusing...

Mr-E_MaN

05-05-2003, 10:51 PM

The only thing I can think of that, in my opinion, I over paid was I bought a SNES for $40 dollars Canadian last summer. I felt like I got ripped off after I brought it home. I found another one for $10 a week later. Out of my entire collection that is my only regret.

Eternal Champion

05-06-2003, 10:33 AM

I'm glad to see other stories...we're human, after all...especially that these aren't earth-shattering, but still...

I only recently got back into collecting for NES/SNES/Genesis, and I'm done now, so here we go:

NES: Complete Zelda 1 and 2, the re-release "classic" editions, 20-25 bucks each--a little high, but the hell with it. I had insurance money from theft.

Buying a Top Loader for $81!! That was impulsive and ultimately stupid. I then bought a new controller from Nintendo. Then I found toasters with new 72-pin connectors. And read about the inferior video of the Top Loader. I didn't do enough research. Spent 50 bucks on a refurbished toaster (noticed the difference in video, even through RF, immediately), sold my Top Loader plus new controller for $115, so I broke even. :/

I still can't believe the demand for the Top Loader. It may be rare, but such high prices for a used system that's technically inferior to a refurbished toaster? That's just crazy.

The 50 bucks for a refurbished toaster was probably a bit high, but I've seen several such auctions go for similar prices. I didn't want to try repairing one myself.

Genesis: Castlevania Bloodlines, $30, with no manual!! D'oh!! That was my fault--I kept bidding and jacked up the price. Oh well, I like it, and I found the manual on Ebay for a buck!

SNES: 3 years ago, a complete FFIII plus RATTY-ass guide for 70 bucks. Nice set, but I haven't played it very much at all!! Oh well, I'm keepin' it though.

tynstar

05-07-2003, 01:47 PM

It was not a mistake at the time but I paid 50 bucks for a used Final Fantasy Tatics. They where going for 80-100 on E-Bay at the time. Now I can find them all over for 15 bucks. Stupid greatest hits series.

Jorpho

05-07-2003, 03:17 PM

I paid $35 for FF8 PC on eBay a year ago. I suppose that's probably pretty close to the eBay average at the time, except that I found it a few weeks later at a garage sale for $5.

Sometime around then, I traded NES Secret Scout for N64 Diddy Kong Racing, being sorely misinformed about the rarity of particular NES games. And I don't even own an N64. (At least I didn't pay much for Secret Scout to begin with.)
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zektor

05-08-2003, 01:12 AM

I once spend $180 for a complete Neutopia II for the TG16 on ebay a long while back! I don't know what the hell I was thinking...I was in a bid war and just really wanted that game. This will NEVER happen to me again however. I learned my painful lesson...right out of my pocket!

shai hulud

05-08-2003, 11:38 AM

Imported Zelda Wind Waker when it came out for like $90.00

Didnt buy every single copy of Ninja Gaiden Trilogy (sealed) that my place of employment was selling for $18

chocobokick

05-08-2003, 12:12 PM

I hate the greatest hits series too! I was dying to play Chrono Cross so I traded in my Final Fantasy 3 cart (the first game I bought with my own money). Even the employees at Game Stop told me not to do it. A month or so later is went Greatest Hits.
Not so huge, Brian bought me a complete copy to replace it but it was my first game :/

calthaer

06-04-2003, 01:46 PM

I don't know...some of these sound like bad games, but I honestly have to say that paying money for any massive multiplayer online game was the worst purchase I ever made. I've bought pretty bad games before, like Super Hunchback for the Game Boy or Darkened Skye for the PC, but at least in those cases I still have a game that I can play if I ever feel like it, and they weren't so awful I'm wallowing in shame over them.

But this, I would wallow in: I got caught up in the novelty and played EverQuest for a while and then recently tried Earth and Beyond. Having to pay monthly to play is bad, but what's worse is that you can't play again later even though you've bought the game. You are essentially paying $30+ and a monthly fee to RENT the game from the company.

That is the absolute worst purchase I have ever made, and if I could go back in time and tell myself not to, I would.

TokenGamer

06-04-2003, 04:15 PM

Fortunatly for me, I'm cheap as hell so I doubt it will ever happen to me but I did broker a deal once that seemed okay at the time but looking back on it... I feel terrible about it.
When the PS2 was first released here the demand seriously out weighed the supply and people where paying well over $1000 to get one for thier kids on chrstmas. I had a friend at the time who managed to get one. He needed some quick cash so I took it from him and sold it to a lady I used to work with for $1000. I got $50 for my trouble and I still feel bad for her and anyone else who got caught up in that stupid PS2 shortage.
My personal policy is to never buy a console untill the price has dropped twice at least.

Ed Oscuro

06-04-2003, 05:19 PM

I once let a friend (great guy, but not too terribly trustworthy lol) borrow my original Metal Gear Solid and the case came back all scratched up. I ended up trading that AND the guide for Tomb Raider 3 + the guide.

...I'm surprised I actually managed to type all that. o_O

Back when I used to use eBay, I had the wrong shipping info on a lot of my early auctions. Afterwards, I've had to write off something like $1000, I'm not sure how much.

I paid ~$675 for my Neo Geo, which wasn't in as good condition I thought it would be in. Honesty aside, I think the guy didn't think he was overstating things (he didn't disappear off my AIM buddy list afterwards) and he did have a number of bills to pay off. In the end, I really don't mind it. I helped somebody out, got a Neo in the process, and nobody really ends up losing (I make it up with all the other stuff I buy).

THAT is the COMPLETE record of my spending errors. Enjoy.

Ed Oscuro

06-04-2003, 05:20 PM

Didnt buy every single copy of Ninja Gaiden Trilogy (sealed) that my place of employment was selling for $18

Don't beat yourself up for it...it IS rare, but how would you have guessed? The presentation (what's on the screen, anyways) wasn't that big a deal.

tededfred

06-05-2003, 01:15 AM

I had my Cube modded by colorconsoles last summer so I could play PSO... Fedex lost it on the way back and I never got any money back or anything :(

I got a modded spice cube as a replacement, $225.

And then people were duping the first week of JP PSO so they made JP V1.1 and I never ended up getting that, which means I couldn't play with all my US PSO friends. :( At least I didn't waste $125+ on a keyboard.

Keir

06-05-2003, 08:28 AM

I won an auction around Christmas for "$100 worth of Amiga software" from Centsible Software for about $40. Seemed like a good deal (though most of what they sell is overpriced). Half the games were not at all as described on their site. For example, one new unopened boxed game turned out to be a used CD only. >)

I complained and they said to send the stuff back for a refund. I sent it back and never heard from them again. I should have just kept it. The bastards.

dodsworth

06-05-2003, 09:50 AM

I could nt wait so I spent 130.00 for a import copy of Super Mario 3 a month before it was released here.

Now I got about 20 copies of it :/

I spent 40.00 the small SNES system thinking it was a NES top loader >:( I was so happy till I got home and took another look at it. I look around a little better now.

Oberfuhrer Hamm

06-18-2003, 11:30 PM

When I saw that Zelda: Majora's Mask was in stores, I wanted to get it because I had Ocarina of Time and thought that it would be awesome. To get the money, I sold about half of my dozen or so N64 games, a few PSX games, and most of my GBC games.

Blunder #1: Most of the games I sold were games I liked.
Blunder #2: I am sorry, but Majoras Mask SUCKS!!!!! >:(

It only took about an hour to become totally irritated with the game.

At least the hock shop that I sold all those games to sold me FF7 for only $10CDN because I sold my games there. It was used but was in very good condition. This softened the blow a little.

Oh, and not to mention that I actually paid over $50CDN for Majoras Mask, brand new, gold cartridge, holographic (or whatever it is called) label. I suppose that this is not too bad comparde to some of the others on here, but it was the one that I regretted the most.

Dayewalker

06-21-2003, 03:32 AM

By the way...how can TZD advertise their Duos as new if they've removed the pack in discs? That bothers me but seems to be common practice for EVERY dealer in "NEW" Turbo Duos....

Q: Tell me more about this hardware you're selling...

A: In early 1994, TTi knew their days were numbered. They "Parted out" all remaining TG-16, Turbo Duo and Turbo Express units. They opened each box, removed each item inside, then placed those items in separate boxes. That is the way TZD bought them back in '94. Since they put the deck itself back in the original carton, we can re-create a complete Duo. When we sell a Duo, we open the box, add a pad, ac, av and owner's manual. That is why the Turbo Duo we sell does not have shrink wrap, pack-in games or the coupon book. They removed the batteries from the Turbo Express, so the units we sell are not shrink-wrapped. But again, it is factory fresh when you get it home. The boxes are perfect, not a blemish anywhere, and we pack carefully so you receive exactly what we ship.

videopac

07-10-2003, 06:53 PM

The greatest spending error for me was not in cash but a trade; back in my *crazy* Videopac collecting days I traded a set of boxed 3D glasses for the Vectrex for a five pack of the Loony Balloons game for the Videopac... they were new and in a packing box *but* I later got hold of (roughly) a hundred of the Loony Balloon games for almost free. ARGH! Boxed Vectrex glasses??? :(

ECWSandmanECW

07-15-2003, 12:53 PM

Crazy Taxi (Ps2) $50-should have waited for it to drop to $20
Final Fantasy X (Ps2)$50-The game I found out that I dont like RPG's (except Earthbound)

Freekstyle (ps2) $50-See Crazy Taxi

Ultima_fury

07-18-2003, 01:50 AM

YoShI'S sToRy,i BeAt ThE gAmE iN 83 MiNuTeS :oops:

atarifan

07-30-2003, 09:04 AM

Sothy

07-31-2003, 12:09 AM

ahahah @ atarifan that sucks.

Right now im pissed about buying the superviion and 7 games or whatever the count is for 30 bux.

Never saw one before and saw the name sachen and just wanted it real bad.

Oh well.

Whenever I feel bad about that kinda stuff I just think about the good finds like sealed guardian heroes for 8 bux.. MUSHA for 4 bux.. Box of 20 Complete Odyssey 2 games that had powerlords in it for 20 bux ...

atomicthumbs

07-31-2003, 12:57 AM

Well, this may apply. A few years ago I won an eBay auction for a North American Maxi-15 cart (mint). I went overkill and the auction ended at around $120. Sent payment via money order. Item was never sent, and I was a moron and did not keep my stub or keep the auction information. SCREWED OVER!

AND I still have no Maxi-15 cart!!!

Jasoco

09-27-2003, 02:57 AM

I don't know why, but I bought Pokémon Snap. I didn't like Pokémon, and knew my brother would be the one getting all the fun out of it.

I just wanted to see 3D Pokémon!

I also caved into my Brother's begging and bought PSO for Xbox. I don't even LIKE that sort of online game. Looks pretty damn boring to me.

There's probably more. I've spent a lot of money on stuff I later regretted.

atomicthumbs

09-27-2003, 03:10 AM

Dude! Pokemon Snap Rules! I just wish that you could save more than one game on the cart.

Jasoco

09-27-2003, 03:12 AM

Dude! Pokemon Snap Rules! I just wish that you could save more than one game on the cart.
I just wish I hadn't traded it in along with so many other games I once spent hard earned money on. I wasn't a collector until July so I am still kicking myself for dumping all that stuff.

vincewy

10-09-2003, 02:44 PM

How about buying new Neo-Geo home cart for $325 and found out the prices slipped down to $249 within a year? This was not the case for the earlier games but I've seen recently most games come out for $325 and the values keep going down, for that reason I'm holding off new Neo-Geo releases now until prices go down at least twice, I know, my collection won't be complete but it'll be later.

A few Dreamcast games (very late releases) that I paid for $20 and thought they'd be very rare, now you can get some for less than $10 on eBay, but it's not that much of a loss.

This is the reason I've not paid $50 for any games on current system for that reason, the minute you open the game, the value drops by half.

Miguel_The_Machine

10-09-2003, 09:30 PM

I bought a 32X, and a about a month later they stopped making games for the system :angry:

Nick Goracke

10-09-2003, 11:26 PM

Let's see, in terms of profiteering...

I picked up more than a few copies of Suikoden 3 at 30 bucks, completely unaware that the reason it was in stock at my local Toys R Us was that it had just been reprinted.

Same story with Xenogears... and what's worse, had I held on to them a little longer, I wouldn't have taken such a bath! This was, of course, after getting railed on an eBay auction for the Xenogears Perfect Works art book only to see the price bottom out. Factoring in the 3 hours I wasted totally lost in the "sewers" because I'm STUPID... I'd have to say it doesn't bring back the greatest of memories.

I picked up more than a few copies of Silhouette Mirage... can't see that price ever rising above 10 bucks - dead weight in my closet. Same with Bangai-o.

As for personal purchases, I remember nabbing Shadow Madness the day it was released. I... I liked the music! Had I waited, like, a month I could've saved 40 bucks. ;)

I'll never forget picking up Castlevania: SotN and FFT at Software Etc for 55 bucks a piece on release and finding them at Best Buy 20 bucks cheaper the next day, either. Divine punishment for not shopping around...

jaydubnb

10-10-2003, 11:30 AM

DigitalSpace

10-05-2004, 09:43 AM

Spending $15 on a loose Super Mario 64 shortly after I got my N64 earlier this year. A couple months after this purchase, I saw two copies for $5 each. A month after that, I saw one for $4.99 at a pawn shop. Each cart in as good condition as the one I blew $15 on.

Yeah, it's a great game, but if I had waited a couple months, I could have saved $10. After that, I vowed not to spend more than $10 on any N64 game, and less if possible. However, I made an exception when I came across a loose Paper Mario for $20, and I'll bend the rules when I come across Harvest Moon 64, but that's it.

Then there was the $1.49 purchase of Nanotek Warrior for the Playstation at an EB. It was complete but the disc was covered in rental stickers and I got bored with the game 10 minutes. Might as well have spent that $1.49 on a burger or soda or something.

fishsandwich

10-05-2004, 10:17 AM

Let's see, in terms of profiteering...

I picked up more than a few copies of Silhouette Mirage... can't see that price ever rising above 10 bucks - dead weight in my closet. Same with Bangai-o.

I'll never forget picking up Castlevania: SotN and FFT at Software Etc for 55 bucks a piece on release and finding them at Best Buy 20 bucks cheaper the next day, either. Divine punishment for not shopping around...

I'm stillnot so sure about Bangai-O... it did have a low print run, and the DC hasn't been dead long enough to see the prices go up on it. There's still hope, my profiteering friend!

Cheers :)

tritium

10-05-2004, 10:46 AM

I sold my copy of Mystic Defender for the Genesis for $2, and now I can't find it for less than $7.

I bought Soul Calibur used at Gamestop for the DC. I payed $25. It had a hairline crack, within a week, it split completely in half.

I spent $10 at goodwill for a genesis 2, it was broken. (goodwill here seems to be very pricy, several stores actually)

-Tritium

dracula

10-05-2004, 10:58 AM

fifty for an import soul calibur 2 with freeloarder for gamecube. dunno what i was thinking.

To make up for that I got the limited edition guiide with soundtrack and poster when it was pennied out at gamestop.

digitalpress

10-08-2004, 02:59 PM

Some of these sound pretty good, but most of them (N64 Superman? Beavis & Butthead? METAL GEAR SOLID?) I would hardly call MAJOR errors in purchasing. I have one that is going to blow the doors off of what I'm seeing here so far.

I'd rather not tell the story until the blow is cushioned by others. :/

Talk about "slipped my mind". That was in February of 2003 and I"m finally here to answer it (thanks Castelak!)

Someone guessed it - it was that 3DO purchase on the system's launch day. There I was, all proud of myself, blowing the whole paycheck on this system that was going to be GREAT FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. And playing Crash 'n Burn for the next two months until something else even came out for it. By '97 you could buy the same unit, which I paid $700 for, for about fifty bucks.

Ed Oscuro

10-08-2004, 03:23 PM

Now that I see some people are willing to pay insane prices for a Neo Geo AES Gold System, I don't feel quite SO bad about paying $650 for it (came with Baseball Stars Pro 2 and Fatal Fury 2 US versions, meh). Still about $100 too much.

My greatest error was without a doubt paying $233 for a copy of Akmajo Dracula x68000. It did come with a vintage dead spider underneath the plastic tray; still wonder if that was a Spanish spider or a Japanese one LOL

The game wasn't in terribly great shape - not bad by any means, but there is a lot of wear on the sides. Later I would go purchase a MINTY copy for $199; and NOW I know where to buy a pretty good copy for $70.

Another error of mine would be having put off buying the US version of Castlevania Chronicles for so long; now you can't find the damn thing for less than $50 new!

Nez

10-08-2004, 03:28 PM

Buying a game boy color a year after they came out. I had lost my game boy pocket for about 6 months and I was looking for a replacement. So I purchased a purple GBC and lo and behold my Dad found my GBP the next weak.

Ed Oscuro

10-08-2004, 03:32 PM

Heh, don't feel too bad. The Color was awesome when it came out (well, I thought so, anyway!)

I saw a really beat up one for $10 this summer a little ways down the road from my house. Didn't buy it.

tholly

10-08-2004, 04:03 PM

i saw NES Flintstones The Surprise At Dinosaur Peak box and cart for $20. I didn't know if this was the rare flintstone game, or the common one. i went to get my DP guide and went back, and the game was already gone. i feel very very dumb for not buying this one.

ozyr

05-04-2005, 04:43 PM

Well, I can't beat Joe for his 3DO purchase (that had to hurt), but the biggest mistake I made was...

Purchasing a Power Lords cartridge for $250. Doesn't sound bad at first, but I was not smart enough at the time to verify that it was actually 'Power Lords.' What I got in the mail was 'Serpente do Poder' - or the Brazil version of 'Power Lords.' Ouch!!!!! I Was mad as hell, but the bastard that sold me the cartridge insisted it was still Power Lords, no matter what the box and manual looked like. Argued like hell for a bit, but since it was a private sale, there wasn't much I could do about it. Just suck it up and deal with it.

Lesson learned - when paying for a high price item, ask every question possible. What is it, where was it made, what language, etc., etc. (and biggest question, does it actually work!). Shouldn't have to do this, but in the world of ebay and such, you have to... :hmm:

Jumpman Jr.

05-09-2005, 10:31 AM

The week I started collecting, I thought 2600's were sooo rare.
60 bucks for a 2600 Jr. LOL

Cryomancer

05-09-2005, 05:12 PM

I dunno, I can't think of anything that I truly regret to be honest.

Sure, I paid 50 for Shenmue II on xbox, and it's now what, 10 bucks? I don't care, it's a great game and I do my best to support Shenmue when i can, because I would like to see the story get told to completion. I'll be playing the MMO if we get it as well.

I also paid 50 for PSI I&II for xbox, and then had to go pay another 50 to get a live kit so I could play it. Honestly, I've got my money out of that game too. I paid more than i should have maybe...but damn I love PSO.

Other than those, I never have the cash to be making mistakes, so I'm damn careful with what I buy. If I think of anything I'll come back here though...

suppafly

05-12-2005, 07:06 PM

I live in mexico. But I spent 8 days in Xmas 2004 in Michigan, visiting my girlfriend.

From the first day I had a mission: Buying a Nintendo DS. I was a huge gameboy fan since 1990, and the GBA is one of my favorite systems..so i thought nobody could go wrong.

To make a long story a little shorter, i visited around 40 stores in 8 days trying to find a DS system...it was sold out everywhere...until the last day I finally found it on a Circuit city. I bought my DS console + mario 64 + Feel the Magic.

The thrill of having the DS lasted for around 24 hours...then I noticed how mario 64 is the same game I played on 1996 (somehow I thought I´d enjoy it the same way I did back in 1996). Feel the Magic was OK,,,I bought it because I read it was similar to Wario Ware, but somehow I enojyed Wario Ware MUCH MORE.

SO basically I spent 3 or 4 months wishing to get a PSP; until I finally sold the DS. I will NEVER buy a DS again.

squidblatt

05-14-2005, 07:43 AM

This is a little different since instead of overpaying, I accepted too little for something.

I used to be a very dedicated PC gamer, and I kept all the boxes, instructions, and original pack-ins for every game I had. And that was a lot of games dating from the early 80's to the mid nineties. So, I'm in college around '93 or '94, and I want money for pizza, beer, and weed. Do I need to say anything else?

I wasn't a collector then, but they did have sentimental value that I should have considered. I posted signs up all over campus, but nobody responded, so I ended up just giving everything to some guy down the hall for 50 dollars.

So, what was in the collection? Well over 100 complete games.. A complete set of Infocom games with all the original packaging and doodads including an almost complete run of the New Zork Times/Status Line, which probably just got tossed. Every Sierra adventure game, nearly every Micrprose published title, my favorite rpg's like the Magic Candle series, Wasteland, Starflight, Hard Nova, and many others. Also in the mix were early EA releases like MULE, Archon, and Seven Cities of Gold. All the Cinemaware games. The list goes on; I don't want to write a huge post listing everything I can think of.

I just drank, smoked, pissed, and barfed them all away in a night. It wasn't even a night that stood out.

phonox

05-18-2005, 02:51 PM

Wow, I mean some of these are a bit ridiculous some a bit stupid but I'm not sure that any of these measure up to some of my retarted buys.
1 on the list is a doll from Lunar of the pale white guy (cant even remember his name ne more lol want to say Gandalf) for $55 about a yr ago in a used game store(got on ebay saw it for about 6 bucks).
2 is when I way way way over bidded for a box of 30 empty playstation game cases...no need to say how much i paid. the point is when I read it I left out the key word.....empty

No need to go on. as kelso would say. i'm the king.

SlayerOfFurbies

05-22-2005, 06:57 PM

Unlimited saga. it wasn't even worth worth the $10 i paid for it. and to me $10 is usually a good price for any ames

BrokenFlight

05-23-2005, 04:36 AM

For some reason I bought Need For Speed: Underground on the PS2 :angry: It was £8 second hand.

I sort of regret getting F-Zero for the snes but it was only £2.50

Speedy_NES

06-01-2005, 11:25 PM

Paid 157$ for a 500-in-1 Famicom multicart 7 or 8 years ago on eBay...back then they were rare, now they are worth hardly anything...

Also spent around 250$ 7 years ago on a Famicom Disk System...now they go for 50-100$.

-Speedy

06-02-2005, 11:54 PM

I spent $100+ shipping for the Saturn version of Time Bokohan due to a stupid bidding war. :(

diskoboy

06-14-2005, 05:27 PM

The $350 I spent on the Sony PSP, and 3 games (Lumines, THUG, Metal Gear Acid) on launch day. I haven't played my PSP since the day after I bought it, and am seriously close to selling it.

Sony, realease some damn games already! GOOD ONES!

Moon Patrol

06-18-2005, 09:44 AM

Sports Talk Football 93 starring Joe Montana.

Why I bought two.... I don't know.... but it was three dollars I will never get back...... DAMN YOU ELECTRONIC ARTS!

walrusmonger

06-25-2005, 08:53 PM

When I paid $629 after shipping for my PSP+Ridge Racers from lik-sang on launch day.

I loved the system... when it was exclusive to me and my coworkers who ran out and bought them online after seeing how awesome it is.

I havent used it in a few months, and although I sold my first ds for what I paid for it, and got another one, I'm playing the DS way more than the psp.

And to top it off, I had 1.0 firmware which I upgraded to 1.5 for russian support. So I could have sold it for $350ish, but NO luck. Oh well :-/

phreak97

06-25-2005, 10:02 PM

8bitnes

06-29-2005, 09:02 PM

In a purchase of someone's entire NES collection (over 100 games) I ended up getting a Dragon Warrior IV cartridge that had its guts swapped out for Super Mario/Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet. It wasn't the cornerstone of the purchase, but it certainly pissed me off. This wasn't my worst buy by any means either, but the one that is the most interesting.

Poofta!

06-29-2005, 10:47 PM

Hybrid Heaven for the N64, i too was desperate to play something on that system, and i talked my dad into buying it for me, i think he paid some like 60 bucks for it. GODDAMN that game SUUUCKED. i eventually sold it off with all the rest of my n64 stuff, i think i got 100 bucks for it like 4 years ago.

i bought a shitty conidition, loose TG16 with 1 controller, T-Tap, and Dungeon explorer for 65 bucks at a flea market. the seller through in a broken Model1 sega CD which i fixed (needed a new fuse). i sold that console with a keith courage card for 35 on ebay. crap.

i also paid 100 bucks for a loose Nomad, with a couple shitty games. but i sold it back one bay for the same price.

those are the only 3 mistakes ive made in gaming (purchase) and hopefully ill never do more again.

bargora

07-07-2005, 12:18 PM

I was thinking that Disney's Tarzan was the R7 (or 6) so I picked it up last weekend. Then I got home and looked in the guide and saw that it was actually Herc's Adventures I was thinking about.

You win this time, Wee Bull!

Yamazaki

07-10-2005, 11:39 AM

I probably top everyone by buying Rise of the Robots when it came out.

McBacon

07-10-2005, 12:22 PM

Oh, you guys need to watch your wallets. My mistakes are so tame compared to some of you.

Got a boxed Expansion Pak for a fiver, looked in the box before parting with my money, saw the black plastic and handed over my £5

Then I picked up a Zelda Collecters Edition, these things go for around £18 on the bay. The guy wanted £5, I checked the case, yep, Zelda was in there.

When I got home, it was a Jumper Pak and the Ocarina/Master Quest Game! Gah!

To prove that these mistakes are fine, as we all learn from them, I rejected a SF2 Turbo for the SNES as the cart inside was for orriginal SF.

I think I have babbled on for too long already, for only £10!

Steven

07-15-2006, 06:08 AM

My biggest regret would have to be when i saw a used Official DrumMania controller on ebay for $0.01, no current bids. there was a couple of hours to go and i didnt know the shipping cost, i emailed the guy but obviously got no reply in that time. if i had thought about it, there was no way shipping would even come to half the things real value (~$200 at the time), it turned out shipping was $30, and the controller finished with 0 bids at $0.01.. i could have gotten a konami dm con for $30.01, and i didnt.
i emailed the seller afterwards, and he said "yes the controller most definitely is sold, i can get you another one, but it will probably be around $200.
i dont believe it was sold, i think he just wanted to avoid making a huge loss on it.

OUCH, sorry to hear that, my friend. Yeah I had similar haunting eBay auctions I watched, and either flat out forgot or my brother took position of the PC and wouldn't let go. When he gets on it, watch out. He's a monster, heh.

I remember watching Metal Black (Saturn import, worth around 40-50 bucks) it was starting bid $5 shipping $5. I totally forgot about it, and believe it ended with one bid. No guarantee his max wasn't like 40.00, but you never know. I never gave myself a chance. I remember lulling over this miscue for at least a couple weeks.

Other than that... hmm, I'm not sure if I have a "defining" blunder. My bro certainly does however.

In late 97 he allowed FuncoLand to rape him. He traded in like 8 classic SNES games we had over the years (including Tournament Fighters, sniff) for trade-in of a new SNES NHL 97 game. Highway robbery!

Psycho Penguin

07-15-2006, 06:46 PM

I bought a Nintendo 64 w/Mission Impossible for 300 dollars back in the day.

Pico956

07-17-2006, 08:05 AM

I can't recall the last game rape I've received, but I recently watched a friend get ripped off when purcahsing something.

We went to a local "Gamers" store where they had an old NES on display. It just had a controller, RF adapter, and the game system. She bought it for $50! I know for a fact you can find a way better deal on ebay. She just was spoiled and wanted it there and then. Oh well, it wasn't my $.

pickingupchange

07-18-2006, 03:52 PM

i was 9 or so and bought a sega cd with 300$ of saved up money. Stopped working after a month or two so I took it in the back yard and smashed it to pieces with a hammer (the model 2).. I took the cd loading part (mechanism still worked somehow) and nailed it onto the wall in my clubhouse over a hole so it was like a cool window. I was nuts when i was 9 haha.

Jasoco

07-24-2006, 10:19 PM

My brother spent all of his paycheck and more the otherday on a 360 and Final Fantasy XI.

Only to find out Final Fantasy XI.... sucks ass.

Fortunatel, since the girl who returned it is a friend, he got his money back for the game and cancelled his account after spending ALL NIGHT THE NIGHT HE GOT IT setting it up. My GOD. I felt like I was installing Windows. 5 freaking codes with 20-25 letters and numbers each.

Then to uninstall it he had to reformat the HD and lose his info and PD0 save.

Figures. Thank god and Marren that he was lucky enough to get his money back on an opened video game.

Kejoriv

07-25-2006, 09:55 AM

I would say, back in the day when I blew all my money on the Sega Game Gear. After a month, I realized I made a mistake. Never got use to the layout of the buttons. I remember trading it back to Funcoland for more b+w Gameboy games.

CreativeOnlineSurname

07-25-2006, 11:08 AM

Most of my mistakes come from being broke and misjudging the system. I assume certain games will be hard to come by in the future, so I get them immediately if I know I'll want them... Usually sacrificing something good in the process.

The worst one was when Mega Man Anniversary Collection came out. I was broke, so I ended up trading in Mega Man I-VIIII for it, plus Mega Man X and X2, since I figured the Mega Man X Collection wasn't too far off anyway. For a thirty dollar game that you can pick up for eight or nine dollars now. Plus, the cartridges looked a lot nicer on display. That was my worst mistake.

After that blunder, I reformed. That was enough to curb my trading habit for good, so I've been "clean" since that came out, which was 2003, I believe.

JPeeples

08-05-2006, 08:30 AM

My biggest one would be buying a ton of shit at the Circuit City $5 sale a couple years ago, and not selling all of it - leaving me with a bunch of games I have no desire to play, and can't even break even with on ebay.

Richter Belmount

08-06-2006, 06:38 PM

final fantasy legends 40 new i simply didnt enjoy it

mEgAsHoT

08-06-2006, 10:58 PM

Paying $50 for WWE Wrestlemania 21 for the Xbox right when it came out. The game was a total letdown. The gameplay was broken, slow, and very prone to freezing. I owned it for maybe a month or two and finally traded it in at Gamestop and got Crazy Taxi 3 instead, which I had been wanting for a long time. I will never pay $50 for a horrible game like Wrestlemania 21 again.

NintendoxPopCoRn

08-06-2006, 11:29 PM

Here it goes l went and bought Pokemon snap for 60 buks with the card thing l beat the game in 4 hours l was only 8
my brother was 12 we both chipped in

SeGaFiEnD

08-12-2006, 12:12 PM

There are to many to list. Put it this way, everything I ever bought before last month. Last month I started doing my shopping at DP brick & morter.

Want to see how bad I got ripped off. Take a trip to manhatten and go to St. Marks games!!! @_@

shadowkn55

08-12-2006, 12:44 PM

Paying $50 for X-Men Vs. Street Fighter for Playstation thinking it was the same as the arcade. What a disappointment. Not only was it slow (think snes dbz games), you couldn't even switch characters. The Saturn version was so much better. Buying Radiant Silvergun for $15 kinda made up for it.

Greg2600

08-13-2006, 12:26 PM

Being a 10 year old and not knowing any better, any NES game I purchased from Toys R Us simply by looking at that sheet of pictures of the front and back of the game. Thankfully I was a toddler during Atari 2600's heyday or I would have bought tons of those games that stunk, just by looking at the artwork.

Worst decision classic: NES Airwolf
Worst decision modern: N64 WCW Nitro

Rob2600

03-08-2007, 05:26 PM

One of the few errors I made was buying Pit-Fighter for the SNES in 1992. The original Atari arcade game was pretty good for the time and, in the hands of a competent developer, could have been faithfully ported to the SNES. However, it was ported by Toy Headquarters, now known as THQ, and ended up a glitchy, unplayable mess. That was $60 down the drain.

Another error I made was auctioning my entire video game magazine collection on eBay.com the week of Christmas 2006. I had a total of 175 magazines, books, and comics, plus posters, and I auctioned them all together at once. The winning bid was only $21. It was bad timing, plus I ended up not charging enough for the shipping.

In total, I had:

2 issues of Nintendo Fun Club: issue 6 (April/May 1988) and issue 7 (June/July 1988)...bad condition

119 issues of Nintendo Power: issue 1, 4-45, 47-69, 92-139, 142-145, and 173...condition varies, most are in very good and great condition (includes annual bonus issues and special covers)

18 Official Nintendo Player's Guides...most in great condition: The Official Nintendo Player's Guide (1987), Final Fantasy, Super Mario Bros. 3, Ninja Gaiden II, 4 Player Extra, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Top Secret Passwords, Donkey Kong Country, Donkey Kong Country 2, Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Star Fox 64, Diddy Kong Racing, Star Wars Episode One Racer, Jet Force Gemini, Perfect Dark, Pokemon Trading Card Game, and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

32 other magazines and strategy guides (EGM, GameFan, GamePro, Next Generation, Ultra Game Players, Gamer's Republic, etc.)...most are in great condition

the first (and only?) issue of IGN64.com The Magazine...great condition

3 issues of Super Mario Bros. comic books by Valiant: Super Mario Bros. from 1990 (issue 3 and 6...great condition) and Adventures of the Super Mario Bros. from 1991 (issue 1...a bit ripped, but not horrible)

PSXferrari

03-08-2007, 09:24 PM

Alright, this one is pretty tough to admit to-- it's not overpaying for a game, it's just making a really bad, dumb prediction...... this past Christmas I purchased 3 COPIES EACH of the Burger King games (that's a total of 9 games)..... Yes, I'm a moron. (Oh, and did. I mention that I had to buy their food too to get the games?)

I bought a set for myself and two sets to resell on eBay. I was anticipating them being worth double or triple what I had paid for them, because in the past weird games like that were released in limited quantities and then all of a sudden in high demand a couple years later (e.g. the FREE Zelda compilation given with Wind Waker pre-orders; which I resold unopened for $65). Plus, when I bought the BK games the set (retail value $12) was selling for $25 on eBay. I was thinking-- man, if it's overpriced while it's in production imagine once it stops after X-Mas. Sadly that was not the case, and the games ended up managing to sell over 2 million copies (when will good games start selling as many copies as mediocre/bad games?). They certainly aren't going for a premium on eBay either (and they sell used for $2 at EB Games). Now they sit stuffed in a drawer somewhere, which I open every once in a while if I ever feel that my self-esteem is getting dangerously high.

Nick Goracke

03-09-2007, 01:40 PM

I remember purchasing 3 factory sealed copies of Earthbound at Best Buy when they were clearancing them out for 6.99 each (and left 5 on the shelf). I then raced to Funcoland to trade them in for 14.00 store credit each...

I purchased an ORIGINAL copy of Sapphire for the PC Engine Duo for 400+. Shortly after, the bootleg copies hit the market and the prices of the originals dropped to at least half...

I picked up a new, factory sealed Dragon Warrior 4 at a local grocery store (???) for 10 dollars a few years back and sold it to a collector for 400... but left about 30 other factory sealed NES games on the shelf.

Rob2600

03-09-2007, 02:19 PM

I picked up a new, factory sealed Dragon Warrior 4 at a local grocery store (???) for 10 dollars a few years back and sold it to a collector for 400... but left about 30 other factory sealed NES games on the shelf.

Regarding the prices I've been seeing on eBay.com recently: who is paying these ridiculously high prices for factory-sealed video games and why? What's wrong with buying games that are already opened? Are you playing the games and having fun or are you worshipping the shrink-wrap?

Three-P

03-10-2007, 10:08 AM

I guess I've been lucky. The worst I got soaked for, thus far, was paying $5 for a copy of Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero for the Sony PlayStation.

Damn. I could've bought a BK quad-stacker for that much. (And maybe a Dr. Pepper, too.)

suppafly

03-10-2007, 01:17 PM

My biggest spending error and waste of time is when I bought the AFTERBURNER lightning kit for gba..it was a waste of 40 dollars, time and effort. What a piece of crap

I also regret paying 50 dollars (each game) back in 1993 for: John madden 93 (im not a football fan), ecco and flashback (i dont care how many people say its a good game...it really bored me!)

riffraff

03-11-2007, 11:37 AM

Not sure if this counts, but I bought rob the robot, stack em and gyro-whatever it was called from toys r us.. quickly got bored of the robot and returned everything the next day. That stuff is worth something these days?

Bought the O^2 chess unit (doesn't even work on NTSC o^2) for some stupid amount.. like $150-$200.

GuyinGA

03-11-2007, 12:23 PM

Muscelli

03-11-2007, 01:01 PM

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bangtango

03-11-2007, 10:37 PM

$14 on WWF Royal Rumble for the Dreamcast. The EB/Electronic Boutique employees actually questioned my judgment.

At the time I really knew nothing about the Dreamcast, so I would have purchased OTHER games for it now.

I'd have said to them, "If the game is that bad, then how about lowering the price a little?"

I have three errors that come to mind. This was back during the 16-bit era when I still bought a lot of brand new games, most of the games I get today are used.

1. Paid nearly full price for Cool World on the Super NES, back when the game was new, because I was one of the few people who liked the movie.

2. Bought Beethoven for the Super NES, fortunately that game was on clearance by then and I got it for around $20 new.

3. I also paid full price for one of the Tony LaRussa Baseball games on Sega Genesis, right around the same time it was released. I'm not sure if it was the first or second one, though. Before purchasing it, and actually PLAYING it, I was excited as hell to get it home. Big mistake. I laughed as hard as I have in awhile when I logged onto www.videogamecritic.net to read some Genesis reviews and found out that the guy who runs the page also bought the same game when it was brand new. Apparently, he was as disappointed as I was. Boy, did that game suck. I picked it up because I was a Tony LaRussa/Oakland A's fan at the time.

Steve W

03-13-2007, 08:07 PM

Worst decision? The Gameboy Advance SP. Piece of crap. I bought the SP because I couldn't live without a backlight. But the light was too dim to really use, and even in pitch darkness, the ultrashiny screen still somehow had glare on it. The dozen or so games I've picked up were all lousy and too hard to play on that thing. I eventually picked up the GameCube GBA player just so I could try to get some enjoyment out of the retro Gameboy games on the market. Even on a TV screen, the games somehow suck. Total mistake to buy anything Gameboy related. The Atari Lynx spoiled me for pretty much every other handheld for years.

DefaultGen

03-13-2007, 08:13 PM

In the early 90s I bought Genesis over SNES and didn't get an SNES until around 2004. What a mistake, now I have a worthless Genesis collection when I could have an awesome SNES collection. A mistake of almost the exact same nature was taking my Gameboy back to get a Gamegear when I saw Gamegear was color. Ugh.

SamirP

03-15-2007, 08:32 AM

Test Drive 2 for PC... it´s sooooo boring!!!

kaedesdisciple

03-16-2007, 12:30 PM

Just to name a few:

Bought an untested ColecoVision...nuff said

Actually paid full price for Resident Evil: Survivor. I believe I sold it that same day. What a turd.

Perfect Weapon for the PSX. Another piece of crap.

I'm sure there are more that I've long since tried to forget.

Nebagram

04-07-2007, 10:19 AM

$30 to bring Sonic Genesis over from the US to the UK. That was pretty depressing. :(

Ace Comics

04-29-2007, 11:20 AM

I think most of my buying decisions were bad ones...

When I was young I had a Paper route, each Christmas a lot of the subscribers would throw an extra few bucks my way as a "bonus" of sorts. I wound up with nearly $300 for that week (which, at 10-11 years old, I may as well have been a millionaire). Instead of buying some new games, or saving it for games I may want later... I plunked most of it down on a Game Gear. I still remember the batteries dying out ON THE WAY HOME from the store...

Unfortunately, bad spending wasn't a habit I kicked... I paid $50 each for State of Emergency AND Batman Vengeance for the PS2.

Most recently is probably my PSP purchase (which I finagled for like $125 thru discounts and what-not)... but, still... I hardly use the thing... it's just a really high-tech paperweight.

Fun thread... don't feel so alone, haha
-Chris

xtremegamer

04-30-2007, 04:19 PM

1993 - Bulls Vs. Blazers for the SNES. It was a former rental in a Rhino Video Games. I spent all my christmas money on it, $49.99. My dad talked me into this one since he told me it was more relistic than NBA Jam. Crazy pop! At least I got some money back from it, I think I got $8 credit at a local game store 5 or 6 years later.

Hounder

04-30-2007, 09:32 PM

Paid $150 for Mr. Gimmick for the NES about 2 years ago. At the time it was a bad price since they were selling at a high of like $80-$85. But it's a good game so it all evens out :)

Gabriel

05-01-2007, 12:13 AM

I think my worst mistake ever was buying a N64. I mean, I've had systems with just a tiny few good games, like the 3DO, Jaguar, 32X, and Dreamcast, but only the N64 has managed to not have a damn thing made for the system worth playing. Crappy system, crappy controllers, crappy games.

Other than that, I guess the next worst purchase I ever made were the Capcom Fighter Sticks for the SNES. They were these big plasticy things with loose sticks and really crummy buttons. The whole thing was just cheaply put together. You know those knock off LCD games that are made in China? These sticks made those things feel well put together. They were cheap in every way but price. In that department, they were $80 EACH, and I was a dumbass and bought two of them.

kataboom

05-01-2007, 04:24 AM

I think my worst mistake ever was buying a N64. I mean, I've had systems with just a tiny few good games, like the 3DO, Jaguar, 32X, and Dreamcast, but only the N64 has managed to not have a damn thing made for the system worth playing. Crappy system, crappy controllers, crappy games.

you gotta be kiding me! the N64 has some of the all time best games ever made including mario 64, zelda ocarina, zelda mask, mario kart, goldeneye, perfect dark, smash bros, paper mario & im forgetting some more im sure!

my worst purchasing decisions was me buying a used nes deadly towers a month after it came out from my cousin for $50. i didnt even think about the reasons he was selling it. duh

-_-Nintendo-_-

05-07-2007, 05:58 AM

Buying a PSP for $320
A loose Super Metroid cart for 35 bucks
An untested Sega CD unit for umm $120 or something... ugh.

otaku

05-19-2007, 01:01 AM

I've had a few regrets of sorts. First one was buying a PSone instead of dreamcast (which I remedied by borrowing my friends since he didn't have a psone)

Next mistake was PSP I don't know what I was thinking buying a 250 dollar portable which to this day I've played maybe 7 games on!

360 also somewhat of a bad decision-pretty pricey and it broke (under warranty thankfully)

Recently almost went broke trying to acquire a neo geo aes modded

The n64 to me is great cause it was my first system and I can't think of a single game I bought/played I didn't like. The only thing I regret is the prices I paid for some of them N64 carts could easily hit 100 bucks at times.

FlufflePuff

05-20-2007, 11:15 PM

ASSEMblerEX

05-28-2007, 10:38 PM

Import DC, release day. $500. No games for months after it came out,
and you can only play blue stinger so much.

grolt

09-20-2007, 04:34 AM

One word: Activator.

Griking

09-20-2007, 08:21 AM

I remember being 16 and I was stoked about my first "real" paycheck. I'd worked jobs before, but my checks never cleared past $50. So, there I am in the videogame store and I spy two PC games that I'd really wanted. Ultima: collection and Starcraft. Sadly, I chose Ultima: Collection, got really bored in like three days, and regretted the day ever since.

Actually I'd say you made the right decision. The Ultima games rock!

I remember when i was a kind (probably 8-10 years old) I was mowing lawns to make money to buy an Atari game. I then ran to my local Bradlees and when they didn't have anything new that caught my eye I spent my money on Air & Sea Battle *_*

Pilotwings

09-20-2007, 08:59 AM

mnbren05

09-21-2007, 03:09 PM

Buying a Jaguar with Cybermorph and Iron Soldier for $80 and I did not like either game at all. Only lasted me 2 months before I sold it.

ScourDX

09-24-2007, 11:06 PM

Bought Dragon Warrior Monster II: Cobi bootleg version for $25 at EB. I never realize it was bootleg until 6 months later.

Smashed Brother

05-03-2008, 02:41 AM

I have two 'what was he thinking' moments in my videogame purchasing history.

When I was a dumb kid, I traded in my CIB Genesis, 2 controllers and about 8 or 9 good games to some mom and pop game store in IA. Now, this is the Genesis that I had begged and pleaded my mom to buy for me and I would be the best kid ever and never ask for anything anymore. She bought it for me that Xmas. So, what artifact of gaming did I absolutely need to live that would necessitate me trading in all of this equipment that I had received only 1 year and a couple months prior? Starfox for the SNES... *hangs head in shame*

When Tekken 2 first came out for the JP PSX, a buddy of mine had his brother burn him a copy. I absolutely went apeshit over anything Tekken back in the day, so I borrowed it from him for about 2 months, unlocking everything along the way. After giving it back, I decided that I wanted my own disc, so I imported one through some company that I can't even remember. The price? A measly $80 shipped. I even gave the UPS guy 2 bucks in pennies because I came up slightly short. Not even two months later, the game was released in the USA. Walmart (my place of employment then) was selling the game for the low low price of $33 dollars...:(

An even sadder postscript to this pathetic tale: I had the 1st generation PS1 that had the overheating problems. I would get so pissed at the PS1 when it would randomly not play a game that I occasionally beat the shit out of it. It didn't want to play my Tekken 2 once, so I slammed the CD lid really hard. The force of this manuever knocked the game off of the spindle and cracked it right down the middle. Goodbye, $80 bucks...

Nes

05-25-2008, 12:29 PM

You traded all that in for StarFox? Wow. I don't feel so bad for buying the utterly worthless Quest 64. I bought it only because I was desperate to get an RPG for N64 and was willing to buy whatever garbage qualified.

bb_hood

05-25-2008, 05:21 PM

Nes

05-26-2008, 12:16 AM

Amen brother, I second this..

Mario 64
Paper Mario
Goldeneye
TOoT
Majora's Mask
Wave Race
Excitebike
Sin and Punishment
Banjo Kazooie
Conker's Bad Fur Day
Ogre Battle 64
Perfect Dark
Resident Evil 2
ISS '98
F-Zero
Donkey Kong 64
Space Station Silicon Valley
Shadow Man

DKTheArcadeRat

05-26-2008, 09:39 PM

Mario 64
TOoT
Wave Race
Excitebike
Sin and Punishment
Conker's Bad Fur Day
Resident Evil 2
F-Zero
Shadow Man

Correct me if i'm wrong, aren't all of these playable in some form on different systems thus rendering the N64 to play them obsolete?

I have a N64, and I hate it, I literally have 1 game for it, and I don't even play that one, good thing I got it for free. I'm glad I didn't pay for it, I mean, there are games I want to try out but I can wait however long. I'm so glad I got a PS1 over N64.

Rob2600

05-26-2008, 09:45 PM

Correct me if i'm wrong, aren't all of these playable in some form on different systems thus rendering the N64 to play them obsolete? ... I'm so glad I got a PS1 over N64.

By that logic, aren't PlayStation games playable on other consoles, thus rendering it obsolete as well?

DKTheArcadeRat

05-27-2008, 06:01 AM

Isn't the PlayStation obsolete now anyway? What with PS2(and some PS3's) having backwards compatibility?

PapaStu

05-27-2008, 12:04 PM

Isn't the PlayStation obsolete now anyway? What with PS2(and some PS3's) having backwards compatibility?

Well the PS2's have pretty great PS Emulation though some games have issues in cut scenes and the list of about 15 titles that won't work at all.

PS3 emulates the PS just fine so you can play pretty much any PS game on the PS3. PS3's have issues with PS2 games not PS games.

DreamTR

05-27-2008, 03:47 PM

I bought KOF 98 for Neo Geo at Game Dude instead of the two Neo Turf Masters for AES staring right at me. Must have been 2002 or so...

digitalpress

05-27-2008, 05:50 PM

Isn't the PlayStation obsolete now anyway? What with PS2(and some PS3's) having backwards compatibility?

Actually ALL PS3's do PS1 emulation. They kinda have to with all the PS1 downloadable stuff they offer on their online store.

Harkunan

06-01-2008, 05:30 PM

X_x600 dollars for a N64 I never got along with Cruising USA:rockets:

I should have just waited till Christmas.

Even so the N64 along with the Pokemon craze.

Buying Mew for Five dollars. I feel like James in Team Rocket buying magic-Karp.

bidding 3330,000,000,00 on a Saturn game by accident when my computer was running slow. It came out to 33.00 dollars. Bubble-Bobble of course.:eek 2:

Asking for Pokemon Pickachu N64 talk thingy for Christmas. I mean why oh god the money all that honey from the first NES could have been in a bank account for me accumilating but no the child gotta have toys to play with to create stimulus.:?

Buying a game for this guy ( that Capcom beat-em up ) who never returned two of my other gamesX_x

Buying the Gameboy Link cable for $10 only to get it stolen buy the people watching our stuff most likely. Then rebuying it but not the nice regular one the ugly clear one for $20:bad-words:

Giving into my Cousin to buy Street Fighter for like 20-40 dollars at the time ( I forget it was new ) and then again Turbo ( which is the same god auwful game ) but he was like ohh look you can play as the bad characters and tubo mode..
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I mean WTF you can go turbo with a code modifier and Turbo was originally a hack. I mean what the heck I even sold that recently ( not Turbo the original
game )

renting Mario's Missing then somethign cool like MMX.

Buying Mega Man X for twenty dollars.

Donkey Kong N64...............NEW:eek:

Gamecube over nothing at all. I mean I barely even touch that thing or even the PSX.

Correct me if i'm wrong, aren't all of these playable in some form on different systems thus rendering the N64 to play them obsolete?

No the N64 is a wonderfull machine ( crying while saying this ) no really it has a place in our home ( as a window holder ) . No really the N64 is a wonderfull machine with mayn wonderfull titles the problem is most titles that get here is watered down or never reach here at all.

The truth is the PSX is a SNES but with 3d built in and a cd drive. Nintendo and SONY never left the SNES era...

I have a N64, and I hate it, I literally have 1 game for it, and I don't even play that one, good thing I got it for free. I'm glad I didn't pay for it, I mean, there are games I want to try out but I can wait however long. I'm so glad I got a PS1 over N64.

The N64 gave us all these fancy effects the newer systems used ( crying while I say this ).

Isn't the PlayStation obsolete now anyway

No the PSX is a brilliant and it's revisions is just upgrades to keep people buying. It is just a SNES in truth. The SNES with the right ajustments could
run PS4 games.

The SNES and Saturn is two that will forever more stand tall. ( those are tears of pride and joy not me watching you buying another PS3 game for 40 dollars )

Gamecube over nothing at all. I mean I barely even touch that thing or even the PSX.

Oh wait I was playing PSX games on emulators on my PC at the time.

AllSchoolGamer

06-23-2008, 11:04 AM

my closest to this topic is forsaken on the n64...i got so overzelous with my collecting that i bought the ONLY game i have ever played that gave me extreme motion sickness. lol oh well would have bought it eventually anyway i guess

Smashed Brother

06-29-2008, 03:04 PM

Back in about 2002, I got my hands on an SNES after not having one for about 6 years and I was really wanting to play Super Metroid again. Well, there were no stores that carried old titles in my town and I didn't have a car to travel outside of my area. My buddy worked at EB during this time and he informed me that his store manager had quite a retro collection, which piqued my interest greatly.

I met this guy and inquired about Super Metroid, as well as Super Castlevania and Yoshi's Island, since I had the fever for those also. He told me that not only did he have those titles, but that he really didn't care for the SNES, so he was more than willing to sell them to me... for a price. The price of $25 per game, cartridge only! Now that's alot of money, especially in 2002, when the retrocraze hadn't really caught on yet. But, I was so desperate for these games that I immediately whipped out my checkbook and wrote a check for $75 :(

unwinddesign

06-29-2008, 04:21 PM

If it makes you feel any better, Smashed, those games are worth about $15 a piece...so you weren't out too much.

I bought Rocket: Robot on Wheels for $50 or $60. That game sucked. Otherwise, I'd say purchasing a crystal Xbox from the PAL region ($300 at the time -- it was new), swapping out the innards with new parts (another $150), trying to install a mod chip ($60), blowing out the new 1.6 board I had just bought, ruining the chip, and then having to purchase another 1.6 board ($100). And then selling the PAL 1.6 board for a grand total of $2 plus $40 shipping...which ended up costing me more to ship over to the fellow in England.

...so I ended up with an NTSC Crystal Xbox for a whopping $600. And then they released the crystal Xbox in Canada with two games for around $199 (or $249) about eight months later.

2nd most retarded thing ever was purchasing a blue crystal Xbox from Canada for $300, then deciding to open the shrinkwrap and use it, because the box was a bit beat up. Mind you, I already had the aforementioned Crystal Xbox, which cost me $600, and was hooked up in HD to a nice sized projector in the basement...but I decided I needed an Xbox in my room, as well. I bought another copy of Halo 2 so that I could play in both rooms whenever I felt it. God, how retarded. I think I sold the blue one for like $150 a year later, along with the crystal for around $100.

3rd was probably buying four boxed Sega Genesis systems (about 2 weeks apart), for a grand total of $250 or so. When my parents saw the CC statement, they were like what the fuck is wrong with you? I played Genesis maybe twice...I even bought that fucking piece of shit Menacer gun for like $20, new. I bundled up all this fucking Genesis shit, including a 32x, and sold it for like $59. I thought the Genesis was going to be sooooo awesome...and it sucked. So badly.

4th, perhaps, was purchasing the Halo 3 legendary edition...for $100 at launch. And then deciding to "sit on it" until Christmas...when my $10 - $15 profit suddenly turned into a massive $45 loss. WTF.

5th was I bought one of those shitty, horrible PS3 20GB bundles from EBGames and was super excited...and then proceeded to lose $400 on it, because the PS3 market dropped out about 48 hours after launch, and no one was going to pay full price for NBA 07 and shit like that.

I only buy stock, non limited edition shit now that is easily available on Amazon.com for an uninflated price. Works much better.

super nes

06-29-2008, 05:42 PM

1) Going to the flee market when i was young and stupid and paying $50 per SNES game which were loose and sometimes damaged and the guy that used to sell me those games sells them for the same price to this day!

2) Paying $300 or something like that for an Xbox when it came out. Then it stopped reading disks like two months later. So my cousin tells me he knows a guy at the flee market who can fix it. So we go in and guess who it was! the same guy that sells SNES games for $50. So im thinking to myself hes gonna charge me a shit load to get my Xbox fixed i ask how much he says $100 plus he will mod it for me for another $100. I said forget it but my cousin says thats the cheapest hes seen so i finally agree to let the overpriced asshole fix it. Note that i said 'FIX'. so two hours later i come back to pick up my xbox i hand him $100 he says "$200". I tell him "but you said it would cost me $100 to fix!" He then tells me that he modded it even though i told him to fix it I never even said the word 'mod' to him that day. So then he tells me that im not gonna get my xbox back until i pay $200. Then we started yelling, arguing and swearing (which im surprised i did since i was a really shy person back then) it made a big scene i then did what any twelve year old would do i pushed him grabbed my xbox and ran im surprised no one tried to stop me... He did keep the $100 though but after that day i never went to the flee market for two years when i did eventually go back the guy didn't seem to notice me. Anyways it was a mistake because some place called 'Rogers Computers' were fixing it for $50.

Xian042

07-15-2008, 10:22 AM

I just regret when I bought two PS2's at launch, and I wanted to keep one and Ebay the other. I wasnt too familiar with EBay at the time and I waited too long to post it, didnt make any money.

TheRealist50

07-15-2008, 11:33 AM

Hmm...well mine aren't really spending too much for a game, its mainly selling it for too little or something else...examples:

I had Misadventures of tron bonne, I loved that game...then the xbox and PS2 come out and blockbuster had a sale where I trade in 3 games of any system and get my choice of one of the 2 games they had...they were Splinter Cell and Spiderman. WELL...I for some dumb reason traded in misadventures of tron bonne and a couple more games for spiderman which i ended up trading back to blockbuster for next to nothing.

My friend sold me Silent Hill (black label) for 10 bucks...few years later I traded it back to him for something really stupid...THEN a year later I bought it back from him for 20 bucks but the manual is totally mangled and beat up badly.

I bought Rival Schools for 15 bucks when some store was trying to get rid of all the PS games to make room for the new systems...Then for some reason...I don't know why, maybe I needed the room or something, but I cracked it out of its original case and put it into a singular case (Rival schools had a FF type case...the doubles) and I threw out the front art work. It bothers the hell outta me that my rarest game (R5) is not even complete anymore cause i was a stupid kid.

I never really spent too much for a game or anything (even new systems I was always a year or 2 behind so I got it cheaper) but I made dumb choices with the games I had.

its nothing compared to others, but It really bothers me.

Arcade_Ness

09-08-2008, 02:42 AM

I think I paid 60-80 bucks for a copy of Rez PS2 at Ebgames, awhile back. I thought it was rare at the time, so I scooped it up. Later after playing it I didn't like it. I would sell it back, and then find a copy of it at another location >.<

Also I paid 80+ for the american port of Magic Knight Rayearth for the Saturn. It was in the case with near mint instructions and sticker pack. Great game and all just it was a lot of money for one game.

SpaceHarrier

09-11-2008, 12:57 AM

I ebayed a broadband adaptor for the Dreamcast at the height of my Phantasy Star Online addiction.

$200... (though the 600 something hours I put on it made it somewhat worth it)

Paid over $100 for an import copy of DDR 2nd Mix/Sealed (JP Dreamcast) just to play Butterfly. Ebay again. This is why I don't go there anymore. Can't trust myself. By the way, DDR Party Collection came out a year or so later, with my faves Butterfly AND Dam Dariram in 60 FPS (2nd Mix was only 30 FPS)...thus rendering 2nd Mix nearly worthless to me.

Last story. It's the worst. Ok. I have a penchant for SEALED GAMES. I don't keep them sealed, I just like to be the one to open them. Odd, I know. Anyway, at a certain point, Final Fantasy Tactics was really becoming rare. I decided I had to have it, before I couldn't get a good SEALED copy or a copy at all that hadn't been chewed on by a bunch of kids. I bid up a copy of FFT above $150 and WON. And I was HAPPY ABOUT THIS. Opened my sealed copy and was content.

A month later the GREATEST HITS version was released. *sigh*

ebay sucker, I am.

FrakAttack

10-09-2008, 08:39 AM

$72 for a loose SNES Civilization cart.

*drops trou, bends over, hands seller the lube*

Evilhead

10-14-2008, 02:12 PM

Damn, guys. I'm laughing my ass off here. :'D
Thanks, SpaceHarrier for that vivid description of your little fetish with sealed games.

My worst mistake has to be when I bought 20 sealed Sega Saturn games for a low price of 200 euros (that's about 300 of your dollars). Yeah, it'd be cool if those games would've been Panzer Dragoon Sagas or some shit like that, but noooo...
There were 10 copies of Fifa '07 and 10 copies of same years edition of NHL game.

I can explain: I heard from a friend of mine, that a local tattooist (or is it a "tattoo artist"?) had told him that he has a bunch of new Saturn games from the days of his videogame store still stacked somewhere. Sooo, I called the guy and as he told that some other dude had asked about those games as well, I panicked and wired him the money right away if he just promised to bring the games to me that same night, and so he did. I vaguely remember thinking that I should be fine, as long as there's not any sports games among those games.

Well, you live and you lea... wait, no you dont.

The 1 2 P

10-14-2008, 07:12 PM

Last story. It's the worst. Ok. I have a penchant for SEALED GAMES. I don't keep them sealed, I just like to be the one to open them. Odd, I know. Anyway, at a certain point, Final Fantasy Tactics was really becoming rare. I decided I had to have it, before I couldn't get a good SEALED copy or a copy at all that hadn't been chewed on by a bunch of kids. I bid up a copy of FFT above $150 and WON. And I was HAPPY ABOUT THIS. Opened my sealed copy and was content.

A month later the GREATEST HITS version was released. *sigh*

ebay sucker, I am.

I don't suppose you've won a sealed copy of Chrono Trigger on ebay for $1,200 just to open and play it?

Anyway, my spending error was on that Toys R Us Xbox exclusive game with the mouse. I don't remember the title and honestly I never even opened it to play it, but what ever rarity it had seemed to decipate after I won it. So I just resold it right back on ebay. Also, I heard it sucked.

SpaceHarrier

10-14-2008, 08:18 PM

I don't suppose you've won a sealed copy of Chrono Trigger on ebay for $1,200 just to open and play it?

I pretty much learned my lesson after Tactics. LOL It was that time; I had a job all of a sudden and could spend my money how I wanted, and was desperately trying to catch up on what I couldn't acquire while an unemployed teen. Add to this my Type-A everything-must-be-flawless attitude and you have a recipe for well...me.

I pre-order or immediately purchse any new game I think could become a must-have in the future. If not, I have learned to let it slide..

Arcade_Ness

10-15-2008, 03:02 AM

I imported a PSP before the U.S. launch, because I couldn't wait to get my hands on it. I must of spent 300+ on it and games too. I sure played the heck out of Darkstalkers Chronicles and Wipeout Pure. I would eventually sell it all to a second hand store, because of a lack of interest in the system's game lineup.

Famidrive-16

10-15-2008, 08:19 AM

Sonic and the Secret Rings for the Wii. Geez.

Xander

10-15-2008, 06:19 PM

A few..

I too felt victim of the Nintendo 64. Importing the system near christmas time for 400$ (standalone, no game) because there was a huge shortage in a 500km radius. I Ended up buying Mario 64 and.. waverace 64 with it. All of this because I was a fan of Nintendo and thought that the 64 would be the new SNES. I didn't even like Zelda: Ocarina of Time or Goldeneye =/. The N64 had some not-too-terribad games, but I should have just waited until the price dropped and buy a Playstation instead.

Very embarassing moment.. I bought what I thought was a loose copy of Dragon Warrior IV (or maybe it was II?) from a local collector for the sum of 35$. We met up a couple of weeks later at a bi-annual meeting for collector to finish our deal. When we met up, he gave me an enveloppe and asked for the cash.
Apparently I misreaded his auction, he was selling some kind of letter that was coming with the game, and not the game itself. Probably noticing my expression of pure confusion and shame, he started babbling about it being a high priced collector item.
I was so embarassed that I paid up anyway and took the damn enveloppe. To this day I still don't have the game, but I have a pretty enveloppe.

Not a lot of money but I remember going on a weekend trip in my hometown, and just before going back to the city, I went by this flea market and I saw a copy of Super Smash Bros. for 20 bucks. I happily bought it and didn't even look at the cartridge that was handed to me. When I finally arrived home 6h of car later, I plugged my 64 and went to play some Smash Bros only to realize that the cartridge I bought was EFFIN' MARIO GOLF. To this day I still don't understand what happened.

Oh.. and I bought Mario Paint with the mouse when it cames out, for like 90$. I played 20 min of it and realized how completely boring it was. I ended up playing the bug killing game furiously trying to convince myself I didn't blow 6 months of allowance on a game I had absolutely no interest in. I blame the mouse, it looked so neat. I ended up trading the whole thing for Super PunchOut!!! a few months later, I don't regret that.

Fuyukaze

10-15-2008, 10:02 PM

I've bought a number of games I regreted but none were ever realy so expensive as to cause much anger. It's hard to be upset when that $2-$10 game you just bought turned out to be a lemmon. I guess if I'd spent $50 or more, the case would be different. I'm more bothered with the games I've either let slip thru my fingers or the ones I've had to sell off to pay bills. Past couple years, I've had to let go a couple I'll never get back again for any reasonable amount.

BHvrd

10-15-2008, 11:01 PM

I guess I should say the Philips CD-i system I bought for $900 back in the day for unit with digital video cartridge, but I actually liked the system and at the time I had a shit load of fun with it and it was justified imo, still love it to this day actually. Can't really count that I guess, but it's worth mention.

What I regret the most is probably the Atari Jaguar system I bought from a local flea market vendor for $200 about 5 years ago. Sure it came with the Alien/Predator game but christs sake man, I took it home and wished I hadn't payed $20, that Cybermorph game made me want to kill myself.

fastlane250

10-28-2008, 08:45 PM

$29.95 for SMB3 about a few months ago. That was before I heard about Digital Press. :P

Spittin' Jack Sanchez

10-28-2008, 09:26 PM

I was exclusively an N64 owner back in it's early days and of course I was starving for something to play. So I bought Hexen. I paid $90 + tax which, in Ontario, came out to $103.50. Yup.

Of course the game sucks to boot so I eventually traded it in. I got so little for it I've blocked out the actual amount. Maybe $25. Maybe.

I haven't overpaid for a game since.

How can you not like hexen? I STILL TO THIS DAY Play hexen.

ANONPLOX

10-28-2008, 10:08 PM

I dnt know if this would count for many ppl but for others this maybe over priced.

I had bought a NEO GEO AES and NEO CD system with controllers and about 3 games for the AES and about 6-7 games for CD all together i think i spent almost $1200 if not more on both systems and games but from my perspective it was well worth the purchase because i now have 2 consoles iv always wanted. On the other hand money wise it may not have been the best idea that the times of purchase (literally a month apart).

Kid Dracula

11-01-2008, 07:04 PM

Haven't made many video game spending errors as I've found much of my stuff locally for cheap. But this was en Ebay purchase in a desperate attempt to complete a series. Bought Lolo 3 for the NES after I had recently found the first for 3 $ and Lolo 2 for free (literally found it). I searched ebay for the cheapest buy it now and it was 29.99. I figured I would find a Lolo 3 much cheaper in the wild but how long would it take? I caved and paid for it plus 6.00 shipping plus conversion rate (since I'm in Canada). It worked out to be about 40$ and when I finally got the game it was quite beat up. The top label was ripped, it had big scratches on it and was slightly discoloured. Recently I found a loose mint Lolo 3 for 5$ so I wish I had just held out. Great series though!

Volcanon

11-06-2008, 06:22 PM

You can neg him and force-refund if he said it was mint/nearmint.

SegaBoy

01-19-2009, 01:36 AM

Back in the late 90s, my friend and I were really into Virtua Cop, Virtura Fighter, and Fighting Vipers, so this one Christmas, we asked our parents for Sega Saturns. Keep in mind at the time, we had no idea that the Saturn was on it's death bed in the US, and we were oblivious to the greatness that would be the PS1 Anyway, we got our Saturns and had fun with them. About this same time, DragonBall Z started airing on Cartoon Network/Toonami and was all the rage at school. Anyway, across the street from the local mall was an anime store that sold Saturn and PS1 imports. Since I had a lot of Christmas money, I bought an ST-Key and all the DBZ games they had. I came home, started playing the games for a couple of days, and quickly realized they suck. Unfortunately, the anime store would let me return the games, only exchange, so I was stuck getting some anime on VHS. I then went home, got my Saturn and games, went up to Funcoland, and traded everything for a N64 and Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

Another Christmas, I asked for a Tiger Game.com with Resident Evil, Jurassic Park and Batman (based on one of the movies). What a mistake that was.....

sidnotcrazy

01-23-2009, 02:12 PM

I hate to say it because I love the system but..buying a Neo Geo AES system, and games. Spending around $450 in total. 4 years ago.

Why? Because I bought Snk Greatest Hits for my Wii, and got all the games, plus more for $20...

I still love my Neo Geo, but man if I had only waited a couple years...

TheGam3r

01-28-2009, 05:50 PM

9.99 For peter pan return to neverland Sealed at videotron.That game sucks.Glad i sold it yesterday

hellfire

01-29-2009, 09:34 AM

When my pc Was lagging I offered over 30 thousand dollars by accident on a pirated pokemon game on ebay, Im glad it ended at 30 dollars

koshichka

06-16-2009, 07:17 AM

Kinda pissed at myself for dropping 20 bucks last week on Super Buster Bros for SNES, not that it's a BAD rendition or anything, it's just....how the FORK can it not have a 2-player mode?! >< ARRRG

Haven't made many video game spending errors as I've found much of my stuff locally for cheap. But this was en Ebay purchase in a desperate attempt to complete a series. Bought Lolo 3 for the NES after I had recently found the first for 3 $ and Lolo 2 for free (literally found it). I searched ebay for the cheapest buy it now and it was 29.99. I figured I would find a Lolo 3 much cheaper in the wild but how long would it take? I caved and paid for it plus 6.00 shipping plus conversion rate (since I'm in Canada). It worked out to be about 40$ and when I finally got the game it was quite beat up. The top label was ripped, it had big scratches on it and was slightly discoloured. Recently I found a loose mint Lolo 3 for 5$ so I wish I had just held out. Great series though!
I just bought 2 and 3 recently and yeah, paid 30ish for 3 on ebay, but no regrets, cus it's awesome...

BetaWolf47

06-16-2009, 11:58 AM

I have no real regrets, other than buying a Genesis game on Wii Virtual Console when I had bought an actual Genesis a few months earlier. In reality not that big of an issue.

The 1 2 P

06-16-2009, 03:45 PM

I bet it's going to be Speed Racer for the PS2. I haven't played it yet and it was only $5 but if it's anything like the movie it's going to super suck. As for stuff I've played, the Incredible Hulk and The Crow(both on PS1) were some of the most horrible gaming experiences I've ever experienced. Don't even ask me why I have two copies of the Crow(US and Japan). I guess I was a glutton for punishment back then.

hellfire

06-16-2009, 05:52 PM

Baloo

06-16-2009, 06:16 PM

Probably the only reget I really have is paying $13 for Mario Early Years: Fun with Numbers, thinking it was a good game just to find out it was some crappy educational game.

Sonicwolf

06-17-2009, 12:34 AM

PlayStation 3. Less than an hour of game time since I bought it last September. I just use it for watching DVD's and BD's.

Game Freak

06-17-2009, 05:24 AM

I was offered the choice by my grandmother to either get $60 or have her buy me a Game Boy Player. I went with the game boy player (it was 50 bucks at the time) and when I got it, i ended up losing the disc in less than a month. By the time i found the disc, the thing was only 15 dollars at GameStop.

ughm, that 45 bucks could have been spent elsewhere....

retrocollectorguy

06-17-2009, 10:50 PM

I paid $120 for a NES system when I first got back into collecting. It arrived dirty and did not even work. Everyone knows you can get one with new 72-pins for under $50.
Paid $750 for PS3 on release week. Since have used it maybe 4 hours tops. Just sits in my closet now. At least its the 60 gig version!

Chainsaw_Charlie

06-18-2009, 05:45 AM

About 2 yrs ago I purchased a wii and havent played anything for it

BetaWolf47

06-18-2009, 09:06 AM

About 2 yrs ago I purchased a wii and havent played anything for it

I play mine, but I'm wishing I'd have waited to buy it. Being more conservative with game collecting is a good thing. It's impossible to keep up with the current gen and keep collecting retro games.

PentiumMMX

06-18-2009, 01:19 PM

My 2nd worst was buying Donkey Kong Country on the Game Boy Color back in 2002. I had been saving up all my birthday money that year to get Super Mario Bros. Deluxe, but at the last minute, I chose Donkey Kong Country because I had fun playing the Super NES version a few months prior. However, it was a big waste of $30; the controlls where terrible as where the graphics (Some enemies blended in with the background, making it hard to see them). Unfortunately, I couldn't return it, so I shoved it into a drawer, only to be dug out when I sold it on eBay for $4 (When I could have traded it in to Gamestop and gotten more for).

My worst still was Cubix: Race 'N Robots. Back in late 2001, I was saving up the money I had gotten that Christmas for Pokémon Crystal (It was to be the first Game Boy Color game I bought), but I was still $15 short. Instead of doing the smart thing and saving my money, I blew it all on Cubix: Race 'N Robots, because I loved the show at the time. I went home and started playing it, only to finish it completely about 2 hours later. This was one of the first games I traded in at my local Gamestop when they opened up in 2004, and it literally sat on their shelves until last year, when they somehow managed to get rid of it.

One mistake I'm glad I didn't make was back in 1998; almost a year after I had gotten my N64. I absolutely loved Rugrats, and when I heard a game based on it was in the works, I could barely contain my excitement. It was 2 of my favorite things coming together; Rugrats and video games. It was simply too awesome for my 7-year-old self to comprehend, and I eagerly awaited the release. Then a month before release, I learn that the game was PlayStation exclusive, and seeing as I only had an N64 at the time, I desperately begged and pleaded my parents to sell it (Along with my copies of Mario Kart 64 and Diddy Kong Racing) and buy a PlayStation and a copy of Rugrats: Search for Reptar. Thankfully, they refused because they figured that I'd get tired of the game and beg them to sell the PlayStation and buy another N64 in a few months. Thus, I still have my N64 and my original copy of Diddy Kong Racing (The same can't be said for Mario Kart 64, though...)

aingevt

06-18-2009, 01:34 PM

I really wanted Mega Man X3 back around 2002ish. I was in college and didn't have a ton of money. I found what I thought to be a boxed copy on ebay and wound up winning it for $50. Great I thought. When it arrived, it was just the box. I was going to post some serious negative feedback, but I looked back at the auction and it said "Mega Man X3 box" In my haste I thought there was a "with" in there somewhere. I was so angry that I bought the very next cartridge of X3 that was sold. It cost me $100. So in the end, I was left with a boxed copy of Mega Man X3 for only $150... At least it worked.

Mac Tonight

06-18-2009, 07:30 PM

The one that sticks out in my mind is the time that I traded nearly my entire collection of NES games (cart only) back in the 90s to whatever the game store at the time was called for roughly $50 bucks in store credit.

The store credit immediately went for MK2 on the Genesis. It was the week that it was released. I still regret that decision.

Enigmus

06-19-2009, 10:32 PM

My biggest error? Spending $60 on a 1st model PS2, only to have it break 5 hours later. I open it up, and guess what? Dust bunnies. 12 of them. 5 on a heat dissipitator. And there was no ability AT ALL for it to play PS1 or DVDs and CDs. That, and I bought Guitar Hero III with no guitar controller. God, I'm dumb. :frustrated:

FamicomFreak

07-19-2009, 03:49 AM

My biggest error was probably buying a copy of world cup 2002 for the ps2 for 50 bucks only for it to be 19.99 after the world cup.....man I try not to buy 50 dollar games anymore.

Swamperon

07-19-2009, 05:52 AM

I got caught up in the pre-launch hype for Super Smash Bros Brawl pretty badly and ended up importing it (I like in the UK, I wasn't waiting six months for a pal version) with a free loader for £50. The worst thing was that I was in my crappy student house at the time so the TV couldn't do 60hz, so I could only play it in black and white!

And then when Nintendo began blocking the freeloader via updates, I thought screw this and bought a pal copy for £25! And saves are not region free either... :(

Luckily I managed to sell my US copy and freeloader but still... I've managed to get much more for much less in the past!

sebastiankirchoff

07-19-2009, 11:55 PM

I spent 50 bucks on Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles. I was so fucking dissapointed by it that I kicked myself for weeks after buying it.

garagesaleking!!

07-20-2009, 08:05 AM

Mine would be,

Buying Donkey Kong 64 when it was released and then trading it in 3 days later with all of my n64 stuff for a ps1 with 2 games. I had about 15 n64 games. I had all the good ones, the pokemons, all the marios, i am somewhat pissed about it still today. I dont even have the ps1 anymore, i wish i would of kept somthing from when i was a kid.

Anyway the donkey cost about 60, and gamestop paid like 12, and thats with the expansion pack.

tofu

07-20-2009, 01:35 PM

I got suckered into paying $24 for a NES dogbone controller.:(

SegaAges

08-29-2009, 03:13 PM

I guess I can add to this now. I paid just under $100 for a fake copy of Alien Front and Virtua Cop for N-Gage. I am currently filing a dispute over it.

Baloo

08-29-2009, 03:34 PM

My worst spending error was paying $12 for Mario learns Numbers for SNES thinking it was a good game. What a piece of crap.

DDCecil

08-29-2009, 08:39 PM

My worst spending error was paying $12 for Mario learns Numbers for SNES thinking it was a good game. What a piece of crap.

Hey I thought it was $13! See Post #216 ;)

I guess mine would be buying a "sealed" Space Adventure for $Seventy-something right here on the forums. It turned out to be a re-seal.

Ed Oscuro

08-29-2009, 10:33 PM

Recently (i.e. within the last few months) I've gotten a bit wet on a few purchases...bought some MD games form a fellow here, probably not a bad price, but then they all showed up at Shmups Forum considerably cheaper. Sold a Pulseman I got here for about $99 for $75 shipped ($10 S&H to New Zealand). Doesn't really qualify as a terrible blunder though, since I got a game in amazing condition at the end, which is something you often have to go through multiple copies for.

Similar deal with my Rendering Ranger, though I haven't been able to offload that first copy yet.

I looked through my old replies in this thread, and didn't mention:

-$400 Astrocade in the shipping container (at least I think I paid $400 for it, I ended up selling it some years later at a loss)

-$500 Stratovox - somewhere out there, The Collector is enjoying his Neo candy cab, and I'm stuck with this game I hate ROFL Still looking to offload it.

There have been some other pretty epic bad purchasing errors I've made, but the upshot is...usually the money goes to a good cause, or I learn something from it.

I usually make much wiser purchasing decisions when I'm broke, though. :-D

Eightbit Allstar

08-30-2009, 11:19 AM

The problem I have is to be very impatient. That's why I sometime buy NES games for more money that I could have saved by waiting for a better chance.

Ufouria for the NES with the sleeve (no box, manual) for 30€. It is quite rare (DP states it is R4, I disagree with that, it's R5-almost R6) but I have found a copy of it in a flea market for 5€. Meh.

Solomon's Key 2 for 20€, again no box or manual just the cartridge and the sleeve. 2 months later I found the complete game for 20€ in a gameshop. Too bad I didn't have enough money with me and when I got back to purchase it, the game was gone.

b1aCkDeA7h

08-31-2009, 10:12 AM

Getting two Akuma 360 FightPads right as they started making them again.

sonic-boom

09-04-2009, 08:29 PM

Buying Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2, I never play it.

TurboCro

10-07-2009, 10:34 PM

Buying a Sega CD right when it came out. I still haven't forgiven Sega...

vivaeljason

10-07-2009, 11:31 PM

I've said it in other places on the forum, but I just got into the hobby of collecting and my first purchase was an SNES for $35...that doesn't work.

Peonpiate

10-11-2009, 05:41 PM

Im tempted to put Gamecube down, but I bought it play Paper mario and got my money's worth out of it [id have bought a WII to if they didnt screw up its release of paper mario by ditching its rpg aspect].

Besides that - Xbox 360. I dont play it at all, im into RPGs so I should have seen it coming that that wasnt going to be its strong suit.

TazVag

10-11-2009, 06:02 PM

Buying the Dreamcast when it first came out.....in Japan that is. Bought it from a local import shop. It cost me(well, my mother to be fair) like $700. And I only own a small few games for it to this day. Most of my others are downloads. Like the Sega CD guy above I still haven't forgiven Sega...

Lasermouse

10-11-2009, 06:17 PM

Paid too much for a Jaguar at launch. D'oh!

- Lasermouse

Gameboy Color

10-12-2009, 07:12 PM

Getting a Wii two years ago comes to mind first. I have two physical games to this day.

Then again, I just put Homebrew on the thing, so my Wii is suddenly getting a lot of mileage.

Tokimemofan

12-18-2009, 11:07 AM

My Broken PS3 60GB for $190 is beginning to look like a colossal repair job (the "Cannot read discs" that I was told about and the Cracked case + busted wires I WASN'T told about)

Tallise

12-18-2009, 11:46 AM

my worst deal was when i was colllecting atari 2600 game (early 90s) and i was visiting edmonton. i checked the local buy and sell and saw a "deal" 83 atari 2600 games for 100$ sounded like a good deal. at the time i was buying peoples whole collections so when i went to pick the games up they were in a grocery bag. well i didnt look inside i figured it was this guys old collection, well when i got home it was filled with 30 space invaders 30 combat 30 yars revenge and 10 assorted very common games. :angry: :( it took me 3 yrs to slowly add them to the collections i was selling to ge rid of them all but never got my value back. then the kicker is when i moved here i found out this guy sells games at the local flea market. now i check before i buy.

Edmonton is a HORRIBLE place to find games... I have never had any luck shoping there. I always find every game so over priced ($156 for mario all star?!) and thats if you can even FIND the game first. St. Albert is worse though, they basically have 'blockbuster' and 'mission fun and games', both are filled with stuck up ***holes and never having anything really worth buying. I'm going up there in a few days fro X-mas though, hopefully it has changed somewhat.

Also after buying too many old games that don't work from various places up there ($35 cnd for used castlevania 64, didn't let me test play got it home and it glitched and freezes, no refund policy!) I demand to inspect and test play each game before buying it. If they refuse then I just walk out. I could probably find a better deal elsewhere anyway, I'm a patient person. Where I live now in texas has a cluster of game stores in high competition with eachother, but only one that will sell retro games. My favorite store has great customer service though, and will beat other prices :3

Nebagram

12-18-2009, 01:12 PM

Buying DJ Hero for full price at launch. Loved the game but £30 cheaper less than a month later=ouch. :(

Aussie2B

12-18-2009, 04:35 PM

I'm too careful with my money to make any really bad blunders, so mostly I just regret buying some games at their MSRPs. I spent $70 on Tetris 2 for SNES, $70 for Killer Instinct Gold, $60 for Pilotwings 64, Quest 64, and Cruis'n USA. Well, Cruis'n USA I actually got a ton of enjoyment out of when it was new, but it's kind of silly to look back on it. I guess some may consider buying the Nintendo 64 at launch a mistake (for the $200 MSRP at least; not the inflated prices at Christmas time), and there were other N64 games I bought at the MSRP. But it was the only system I ever bought on launch day, and I don't regret it because I had a blast with it and wouldn't trade those memories of first playing Super Mario 64 just to have gotten everything at a cheaper price later on.

I've also bought just about every non-Square Enix RPG released for PS2 in the last year or two, and I haven't played any of them for more than an hour or so each. I just didn't want to have to pay huge bucks later on, since games like those released in a system's twilight years often have smaller print runs and get expensive down the road. I'm not sure how well some of those purchases will work out for me. I bet the fancy box sets will be worth it, though, since I keep them so mint that they even still have the plastic around them (I use a pocket knife to cut the plastic around the flap). Not that I plan to sell any of these, but I hope my copies will eventually be valued at around what I paid for them or more otherwise it was a waste.