Best Finds You Passed Up and Regret Now!

[XJR15]

I would have to say a few years ago I passed up on 2 Commodore 64's with monitors, disk drives, with lots of accessories and games for about 20$

Tell the viewers your best finds you passed up on!

[Sothy]

a mug made from Abraham Lincolns skull at a yard sale for 7 bux.

[maxlords]

the only one I can think of at all is a boxed complete Odyssey 2 with Conquest of the New World complete and Lord of the Rings complete. Other than that, nothing...I buy pretty much everything that's a deal!

[Shadysmurf]

Dragon Warrior 2 Nes 2.99 Yesterday I told me self I was gonna go back and dude behind me grabed it

[ubersaurus]

30 dollars for a boxed complete flintstones 2. I wish I had known it was worth so much boxed. I truly do.

[DDCecil]

All those (about 100) $5 complete NES games that were at a video rental store back in Oregon in 2000. If I had the money back then, I would have bought all of them. I did get Mermaids of Atlantis and a few others though...

[atomicthumbs]

Well, not exactly a find, but close! I regret buying a $45 copy of Dragon Warrior IV. This crazy bitch I was dating also liked the game and took it with her after we broke up... Took the cat too.

[norkusa]

When I first started collecting 5 years ago, I went into a pawn shop that had a boxed Jaguar and a boxed Turbo Duo with a crapload of games. I only had enough cash on me to pick up the Jaguar, so the next day I got more money and went back to pick up the Duo. Of course it was already sold.

I'm still pissed-off about that one.

[Raccoon Lad]

I passed up taking a boxed Odyssey 1, pretty much complete, with a boxed light rifle......for free, >.<

[briskbc]

I passed up taking a boxed Odyssey 1, pretty much complete, with a boxed light rifle......for free, >.<

D'OH. With all due respect. Why turn down a free video game system? Were you not a collector at the time?

Bummer.

[Raccoon Lad]

It was a very odd point in my life, and I figured it was pretty much worthless anyway.....boy was I wrong.

[udisi]

I saw a sealed Magical chase for the TG-16, and they wanted to much for it, can't quite remember the price, but it was pretty insane....anyway, I haven't ever seen a complete one, yet alone a sealed one since..

[RetroYoungen]

That CGE I ran across an Aladdin Deck Inhancer for thirty bucks. I looked at it, thought about it, then walked away. I've kicked myself every day since.

[Zaxxon]

I remember how I could've gotten stacks of Jaguars and Jag CD units for cheap back in the day. I didn't think all these Nintendo Power reading fanboys who spent their days bashing the Jag/Atari would now be fighting each other to pay big bucks for these a few years later on Ebay.

[vintagegamecrazy]

I saw a Commodore 64 in a yard sale with everything but the monitor, it even had the printer. I told the guy I'd give him 20 for it and he agreed but I told him I would come back for it and I never did. The thing that grated on me daily is that I have well over 50 games and I can't play them.

I also got and Aladdin Deck Enhancer for free way back in the day I had it for a while then my nes broke and I gave it to my friend for free. I hadn't seen him for a while then when I started collecting I asked him about it and it had been stolen from him.

About a year ago on the bay I saw an O2 lot, system with about 20 games all complete, the sick thing there was a Powerlords in it. It went for about 80 bux. I was kind of broke and really couldn't afford it, but I should've made a way to buy it but I didn't. That really hurts me to this day. How often does that game show up? let alone complete? Man was I stupid.

[scooterb23]

ANd my annual admission of shame...

Quadrun - boxed $3

[Lost Monkey]

1994, Toronto: A videogame store called 110/220 went out of business and a liquidation company came in an started marking things down...

I went in on a Friday afternoon and picked up "New Adventure Island" and "Air Zonk" for $25 each (it was a very good price at the time...)

I went back the next day, and found they were closing up in a few hours and had reduced everything to $8....

They had a ton of Japanese imports for the PC Engine, SFC, Famicom, NEO GEO etc... Again... everything was $8.00CDN.

I took a quick look around.. picked up "Ys I&II" and "Sherlock Holmes" for the TgCD, and "TV SPORTS HOCKEY" for the Tg16. Gave the kid behind the counter $24.00, smiled to myself about my good fortune, and then walked out, ever to rue the day... >

[dave2236]

TRY had Startropics new for $.99 back in 1996, I was only 14 at the time and I bought 1 for myself. They probably had over 300 copies stacked around the store.

[udisi]

That reminds me of another bad one...My local wal-mart had stacks of Final Fantasy for the Nes for $10...my friend picked one up , but I didn't...they must have had close to 100 copies.

[Anonymous]

At a special sale, I came across a box of factory sealed SNES Exertainment Mountain Bike Rally/Speed Racer games. I only bought 2, the rest were tossed in the Auger.

[zemmix]

I passed on a few Neo Geo carts at a thrift for $7 each. Nothing special. All I remember is a Golf game and a Baseball one.

I picked up a few sealed copies of some Bandai Pippen games at a swap for cheap. I left a lot behind though because they were more edutainment than actual games (well there was a Power Ranger game too but buying that one was just plain wrong to me then.

Another thing that is sort of along the same lines is at a CGE two years ago I was talking to a guy there that claimed to have a lot of Bandai Pippen equipment. Gave him my email address but never heard from him.

[Keir]

ANd my annual admission of shame...

Quadrun - boxed $3

What the hell scooter?!?!

Here's mine:
Exus Video Jogger (2600) for $25
Remember that one Adam? It would have been my first 9 if only I had known.

[udisi]

@another fluke...you wouldn't still happen to have one of those Bike rally/speed racer games?

[calthaer]

The only thing that comes close for me was when a local arcade was actively trying to sell their machines and they had the G.I.Joe arcade game for $300. I was in college at the time and didn't have $300 and I had no clue where I would have stored it but I do wish I had bought it...that is my favorite arcade game and last I checked MAME didn't run it very well.

[carnage6]

Lost Monkey- I remember that sale and that store. Used to love that store. Only things I got in that sale was a SNES Knights of the Round and some crappy Sega CD game. Wish I had know about that $8 sale as I came before that. When I was in that store some kid and his dad were carrying off the TurboExpress demo unit.