Ever Get a Game Before the System to Play It?

[DDCecil]

For systems I finally acquired, Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (DS) and Gradius III/IV (PS2).

I own the following but have yet to own a system:

Downland and Slay the Nereis for the Tandy CoCo
A few VIC-20 games
Ys III for the PC-9801
Parodius and Quarth for the X68000
I, Cyborg for the Vectrex

[vrikkgwj]

Yup. For the longest time in my childhood I never had a PSX. I had a SNES, N64, and Genesis, but no Playstation. However, for some reason that I don't remember now I really really had to have Final Fantasy VIII. Being on a small weekly allowance, I had no way to buy a video game system and barely had enough from saving for a couple months to buy the game. Therefore, I had to use my sister's Playstation.

She was furious, but I got to own my first disk-based game. About a year later I owned my own console, and it was marvelous. It's probably my favorite system ever... maybe with the SNES battling very closely.

[gamedude45]

yea i'm notorious for doing this.

I got Sonic CD and two sport games years before I got a Sega CD.

I had Bomberman and Polarium a month before I got a ds.

I had Ratchet & Clank and Soul Calibur IV a year before I got my PS3

I had 3 PSP games half a year before I got one.

I had Road Rash long before I got my 3DO.

I have two 360 games lying around here somewhere but still no system.

I have 2 n-gage games but no n-gage.

and finally I have 32 Turbografx 16 games and 6 Turbografx CD games and i've never seen a Turbografx 16 in person!

[Yukima]

I bought Pokemon Crystal before I got a GBC, and a handful of Japanese PS1 games before I got a Japanese PS1. I'm even still getting US PS1 games and I no longer have a US PS1!

[Swamperon]

Yep, it's the compulsive collector/player within me. Currently I have:

Shining Force CD
Sonic CD

Knuckles Chaotix

Sonic Pocket Adventure (recently passed up on a NGPC for £20)

In the past I owned multiple gamegear games before finally getting one, and I bought Pokemon Pearl before getting a DS. Played it on my sister's DS, which means a 10yr old girl owned one before I, an avid gamer, did. I blame university.

[The 1 2 P]

I have two PS3 games but I don't intend on buying the system until it gets atleast one more price drop, if not two. In the meantime, I will continue buying games for it.

[Mikhal]

I got a few PC engine titles before i finally was able to make a deal for a PC Engine Duo. I hated seeing the games sit in my collection for as long as they did before i finally got the system. I had to different deals for a Duo fall through last year but was finally able to get a Duo R from a good friend in Japan.

[Therealqtip]

I did that with some psp games I think /shrug

[ganondorf]

I saw some turbografx and saturn games at goodwill so I bought them, but I don't have either system.

[Steve W]

I now have three TRS-80 Color Computer 3 cartridges, and still I don't have a console to run them on. I've got a Model 1 and 2 (and a Teletext) but not the last iteration of the CoCo.

[kandied91z]

Breakthru for the NES

some rescue/helicopter/fireman game for intellivision

[Phones]

I owned Armored Core 2 before I owned a PS2. I have around 20 DS games and I still don't own a DS. And when Kingdom Hearts 3 comes out, I will probably own that before I own a PS3.

[Richter Belmount]

Sure when I got my neo geo aes last year , 1st got last resort before I got the actual system. Aes carts are interesting for some reason on their own heh.

[DOAsaturn]

I think I've had this happen only once...when I bought some Xbox 360 games on the day before launch (they hit stores 2-3 days early and Gamestop was selling them).

[CapnCrunch53]

We got Zelda: Twilight Princess before our Wii, simply because the Wiis were out of stock everywhere.

More recently, the 5 SNES games I got on Ebay all arrived like a week before the SNES itself did. Every day, Zelda:ALTTP and Super Mario Kart taunted me!

[BiggerBoo]

I did this with Jet Set Radio Future because I was such a huge fan of Jet Set Radio on Dreamcast, but didn't get around to buying an Xbox until like last year, having long ago traded JSRF in for something else. !

[Ro-J]

I ordered the first Professor Layton game off of Ebay weeks before I ever bothered to go out and buy a DS. At the time I thought I found this super mega cheap deal out of Hong Kong that I just couldn't pass up.....oh well, I may never be able to sell the game, but at least I had a blast playing it.

[Hilltopper]

I bought Football for the Atari 5200 with some money from my birthday in November. For Christmas, I got the console. With the $30 rebate (and a little extra) that came with it, my mom bought me Mario Bros.

[Zama]

I currently have 3 Nintendo DS games in my collection but I have yet to buy a Nintendo DS. xD I'll get one eventually but until then, those games sit in brand-new condition.

[Ro-J]

I currently have 3 Nintendo DS games in my collection but I have yet to buy a Nintendo DS. xD I'll get one eventually but until then, those games sit in brand-new condition.

Just curious. What are those 3 games?

[TheShireGamer]

This has happened twice to me now, the first time was purchasing Chrono Trigger on the DS before buying myself a DSi. he other one was when I purchased Oot 3D before the 3DS and, I still dont own a 3DS :P

[DylanOZ]

this has happened to me a couple of times, i bought super metroid for snes before actually having a snes to play it on, and with my gamecube i had melee and mario sunshine before the console.

[The Adventurer]

Yes actually, I preordered Zelda: Wind Waker before I owned a Game Cube.


Also, I got a copy of Escape from Monkey Island before I had a PC that could run it.


Also, just this sunday I bought a copy of Flashback: The Quest for Identity for SNES without actually owning one (having sold mine last summer for a few bucks. Idiot)

[Froboz]

When Legend of Zelda came out, my friend got it first. He already had an NES. I didn't (couldn't afford one) but I'd already asked for one for Christmas. Still, Christmas was a long way away. Anyway, I used to go over my friend's house and help him play Zelda. Actually, he'd mostly play while I drew a map for him. But I loved the game so much I bought it a couple of weeks later even though I didn't have the system yet. But Zelda had become so popular by then that I was afraid there would be none left by the time I got the NES (which I did end up getting for Christmas that year), which is why I did that. And I knew I'd get the system eventually. That's the only time I've ever done that though.

[Schiggidyd]

Yes! Several times. I had a few Saturn games without a saturn, and still have a few GameGear games without a game gear.