If you could go back in time and get one retro game...

[Tupin]

What would you get? (Assuming the time line isn't disrupted by your purchase.)

I would go back to early 1986 and get a copy or two of Stadium Events for the NES.

[TheRealist50]

I'd go back in time...find my old self...then proceed to repeatably slap my old self while screaming "Never...EVER...EVER!!! sell any of your games or systems, you hear me? NEVER...idiot" then leave...otherwise I'd just go back in time and get a copy of Suikoden 2...yeah Its not the rarest or most expensive game, but I'd keep it for myself. Its one of the few games I really want but probably will never get. So unless I build a time machine, I'm out of luck.

[garagesaleking!!]

i would go back and grab a few copies of chrono trigger.

[thom_m]

I'd go back in time...find my old self...the proceed to repeatably slap my old self while screaming "Never...EVER...EVER!!! sell any of your games or systems, you hear me? NEVER...idiot" then leave.

Took the words right out of my mouth, sir! That, and "DON'T listen to your mom! To hell if you got a new system; DON'T give those old consoles/games to your cousins!"

As for the game, I think I'd buy the lock-on Sonic & Knuckles. Today, they're expensive and hard to find 'round here. And Metroid, which I unfortunately only got to know better after my famiclones were long gone...

[retro junkie]

I think that the time line would be disrupted.

But I would get a complete copy of Chrono Trigger anyway.

[theChad]

I don't know if I could name a specific game, but as far as some advice goes I'd tell myself to keep all the boxes for my games, they're not just like normal packaging that you shred and throw out.

[skaar]

I'd have kept my NWC gold upstairs, instead of leaving it in the basement during the flood. I still had a grey, but still.... pissed me off.

I tossed it when it didn't play anymore.

[Sudo]

Whatever the most expensive game is and then sell it to buy a plethora of better ones.

[Push Upstairs]

I'd take a bunch of cheap retro games from today and sell them to those "used" places for more than I paid for them.

Buy a bunch of games I know are worth a bunch sealed and come back and make all the monies on Ebay!

If I only had a (working) flux capacitor.

[Sergeant Sega]

Thinking profit I would pick up Stadium Events, seeing as these games goes for insane amounts of money.

And I'd pick up a copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga for myself

[ronclon]

If I could go back in time I would just stay there. The eighties ruled.

[Sergeant Sega]

If I could go back in time I would just stay there. The eighties ruled.

No high-speed internet though

[j_factor]

Kizuna Encounter.

[drunkninja]

I'd go back and grab a brand spankin' new copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga and keep it sealed.

[eskobar]

i will probably try to go back in time to compete in the NINTENDO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, i didn't know if you need to be a U.S. resident to compete ...

[mailman187666]

I'd have kept my NWC gold upstairs, instead of leaving it in the basement during the flood. I still had a grey, but still.... pissed me off.

I tossed it when it didn't play anymore.

I bet you could have still gotten money for it even being broken. Some people would probably want it just to have.

[CosmicMonkey]

It'd either be somewhere in Akihabara during 1996/97 so I could buy as many copies of Metal Slug & Big Tournament Golf (Neo Turf Masters) on Home Cart as possible, or early 1997ish when Telegames UK got a stack of Euopean Kizuna Encounter carts.

May as well make time travel as profitable as possible, as it can't be cheap.

Hell, why stick to video games. I personally think the Jules Rimet trophy (original World Cup) would look smashing on my dining-room book case. God only knows what happened to it in 1983, so I'd save it from whatever did occur. And I hate Football.

It'd also be quite handy to be in the vicinity of Roswell, New Mexico on July 7th 1947 with a decent SLR and video camera. Just because, well, crashed weather balloons are quite interesting....

[SpaceHarrier]

Heh, you can tell the true collectors here, goin for the high-value, low print games and keeping them sealed.

I would simply purchase Super Metroid. I loved the game when I rented it and yet never got around to getting it. I know I have numerous ways to play it today, but just for nostalgia I'd go back for that. That, and Super Mario RPG.

Actually if I went back in time, I'd go back to 1990 and go to all my childhood arcades.

[Berserker]

Slight deviation from thread format, but if I could I'd go back in time and grab the source code for Daggerfall (Bethesda admitted to losing it some years back), so that modern source ports could be made from it. People could run it hassle-free, with GL-eyecandy if they wanted to, and possibly improved non-samey dungeon generation algorithms, support for modding and tools to easily facilitate user-made quests and mods (as well as things like improved textures, sprites, and ability to replace sprites with 3d models)... and maybe even networking code.

[DefaultGen]

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