Best Finds You Passed Up and Regret Now!

[j1e]

I'll tell you something I regret (not a pass up.) I sold a cart only 4.5/5 condition NES Panic Restaurant for $32 or $33 shipped. I swear it seems like a couple weeks later, cart only (whatever teh condition) was going for like $75-80 bucks :/

p.s. I wish now I would have held onto it. I remember it being a fun game.

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=125817 < Just dug this up. Laughable.

[Aussie2B]

Thankfully I don't have much of any regrets about things I passed on in the wild.

But there are several things I didn't buy in normal retail stores that I still haven't made up for. Back when GameStop was selling used NES/SNES/Genesis/etc. carts in the early half of this decade, I loaded up on a bunch of stuff, but I passed on some of the more expensive games. I really wish I had bought Earthbound, which was about $25, but I figured I could get two or three cheaper SNES RPGs or adventure games at that price (so instead I got stuff like Illusion of Gaia and Arcana). They also had several Genesis RPGs for $10 a pop, even multiple copies of some. I picked up a Shining Force 2, as did my fiance's brother, but I wish I had bought even more copies of that game (I know there was at least one or two more). I also didn't buy any of the multiple copies of Phantasy Star 2 and 4 since I already played 2 and didn't like it, and I figured I wouldn't like 4 either. Now I wish I had at least bought PS4.

Going a bit farther back, I loaded up on lots of PlayStation RPGs when the system was still alive, both new and used, but I regret not buying a used Tales of Destiny for 20-25 bucks. When I bought used, I tried to also spend less than $20, preferably under $15. So instead of Tales of Destiny, I think I bought Wild Arms and Brave Fencer Musashi, but I wish I got all three. At least I got a brand new Tales of Destiny II priced at $20 but free for me with an Amazon gift certificate I got for winning Review of the Week on GameFAQs years ago.

[The 1 2 P]

I think I actually passed on a Net version of Daytona for the Saturn, the $300 variant. I had just heard about this variant and looking at the pictures I wasn't 100% sure if this was a complete variant. I still should have grabbed it though.

[Koa Zo]

My biggest regret, and this is a big one, was passing up Keio Flying Squadron for Sega CD.
I liked shoot-em-ups a lot back then, but didn't buy Keio at release because it was $54.99 +tax, and I didn't care for the cute-em-up graphics style.

At the end of the SegaCD life-cycle all the stores were clearing games for $10-20 brand new.
One copy of Keio Flying Squadron sat in the bargain bin at a local Babbages store for over a year. It was priced at $14.99 but I was waiting for it to go down to $9.99.

I picked up that copy of Keio probably a dozen times and contemplated buying it. BUt I just wouldn't spend $15 when I knew it would be $10 at some point ...and I'd convinced myself no one else in my city was buying Sega CD games anymore.

The day that I finally decide I'll spend the $15, the game is no longer there. Someone else bought it, after 1.5-2 years of sitting in that bargain bin.

[ScourDX]

Atari Jaguar CIB with 3 games - AVP, Doom & Wolfenstein 3d. All for $40. I haven't found Jaguar in the wild since.

[BetaWolf47]

I do regret passing up quite a few overpriced deals. I mean, even if the price is higher than average, there's no guarantee you'll ever see it again.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Originally Posted by Koa Zo

My biggest regret, and this is a big one, was passing up Keio Flying Squadron for Sega CD.
I liked shoot-em-ups a lot back then, but didn't buy Keio at release because it was $54.99 +tax, and I didn't care for the cute-em-up graphics style.

At the end of the SegaCD life-cycle all the stores were clearing games for $10-20 brand new.
One copy of Keio Flying Squadron sat in the bargain bin at a local Babbages store for over a year. It was priced at $14.99 but I was waiting for it to go down to $9.99.

I picked up that copy of Keio probably a dozen times and contemplated buying it. BUt I just wouldn't spend $15 when I knew it would be $10 at some point ...and I'd convinced myself no one else in my city was buying Sega CD games anymore.

The day that I finally decide I'll spend the $15, the game is no longer there. Someone else bought it, after 1.5-2 years of sitting in that bargain bin.

Almost the same exact thing happened to me with Mega Man X2 and X3. A friend of mine and I were eying the two copies at a local Blockbuster when we were kids for $10 each. We loved Mega Man X1, but didn't have the money at the time. When we finally got the money together a couple days later, they were gone. I haven't seen a copy of either since

I picked up a copy of Keio recently from an auction. Original price sticker on it? $9.99...you don't happen to live near Indiana, do you?

[DragonmasterDan]

Originally Posted by The 1 2 P

I think I actually passed on a Net version of Daytona for the Saturn, the $300 variant. I had just heard about this variant and looking at the pictures I wasn't 100% sure if this was a complete variant. I still should have grabbed it though.

That's 300.00? Where did you find that price, is Virtual On worth about the same?

Added in edit: Ugh, I have Sega Rally Netlink, not Daytona.

[Archangel]

I saw a game.com version 1 complete in box and with game for $10 total at a farmers market.

I figured it was not enough of an oddity to go after but now I wish I did for the price they were selling it for complete...