Best Finds You Passed Up and Regret Now!

[charitycasegreg]

what happend to this topic? no one else have anything they regret buying? Id say recently, well 2 months ago, a box with a saturn and about 25 complete games included all 3 sonics, panzer dragoon 1 and 2. It still went to the good home of xenu. I just didnt have money at the time.

[Pantechnicon]

A couple of years ago at Goodwill I passed on a complete Bally Astrocade with about 12 games for $20. I keep going back waiting for another one to materialize but it hasn't happened yet. One day....

[max 330 mega]

i passed up a mint dragon warrior 2 cart, because i didnt have enough for dragon warrior 2 and 4 about 2 months ago.

i went back about 3 weeks ago, and was looking around in the display case.. IT WAS STILL THERE WOO!
and i bought it , and im happy .... and WOO!

now the bad part, back when EB was new, i bought a copy of radiant silvergun.... heard it was awesome, i got home played it for a few hours, it kicked my ass (i was in fifth grade at the time) and took it back, most likely traded it for somethiing completely worthless.


GOD DAMMIT I HATE ME!!!!!!!!!!!

[underexposed+]

I remember seeing a loose copy of Earthbound fo $10 Canadian and passing on it a few years ago before I collected.

Nothing else really come to mind...

[Jestr]

Pirates Gold for the Genesis. 9.99
I went back to get it a week later and yep, it was gone.

[jono]

Passed up on three dirt cheap Vectrex's in the space of one month in the wild before i started collecting.
ALL had games and overlays and were under a tenner. DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN!!!!!!! i'VE NEVER SEEN ONE SINCE!!!

[Mitch_Naz]

Atari Lynx for 35 bux with games and ac on eBay with fairly low shipping -

[joeshmoe713]

Not really something I missed, just some things that I did that I regret:

Keep in mind all this happened way before I started collecting.

My frist system was my Genesis. A few years later, I got a N64 for Xmas. I didnt really play my GEN anymore, so I sold it and all my games. Then, after a few more years happily pass with my N64, I get a Dreamcast. I loved my DC and my N64 immensely. A while more passes, and the new fangled PS2 comes out. I, being the moron that I am, sell all my N64 and DC stuff for a stupid flat box.

I never really played my PS2 much. So, I sold it for some cash, and got a GCN. I so found out that I didnt like this much either. I decided that I liked games much more on my old GEN and DC that either of these next generation consoles.

Thusly, I started retro "collecting." I say that because I love playing the games more than creating a huge collection.

So, because of my stupidity, I have been slowly building back up my GEN and DC libraries, and am now starting a new Saturn collection

Even though I have another Genesis now, It is not the same as having one that came new out of the box, so I know what it has been through. The one I have now is great, just not so reliable.

[Classicgamesdepot]

There really hasn't been too many things over the year that I regret not buying, I have more of a problem with buying stuff I wish I didn't buy, but anywhow, this just happened about 2 months ago and I'm still not over it. Guy at the swap I know had some copies one weekend, really old and in awesome shape. I always pick up really old books that I know well, spiderman, superman, x-men , etc. but didn't always remember to carry around a price guide. Anyhow he's showing about 10 books to one guy and I'm bummed cause they're all .12centers and I figured he was definitly gonna buy em. Guy still has em the next week and I'm thinking damn, if he still has em they must not be worth too much, he wouldn't sell less than 5 bux though so I grabbed the 9 out of 10 I knew were worth cash, I was thinking Sgt. fury and his howling cammondos? It may be #1 but it's not worth sh*t. I go home and look online, I passed up a 1000 dollar comic book... AHHHHH

[mb7241]

I got all of you beat badly. I was no older than 8 at the time, looking through a stack of NES games at a flea market. I saw (I promise you) a gray copy of the 1990 Nintendo World Championships cartridge. The games were all $5 US each, but since it wasn't Zelda (which I was into at the time), and didn't look "real" (i.e. licensed), I didn't get it. You think you guys are kicking yourself? I'm kicking a friggin' 90-yard field goal with myself! If only I had bought it, I'd be one of only about 100-110 people who own that game, and it would be the best single purchase I ever made. *kicks 90-yard field goal*

[whoisKeel]

I too, saw the $10 final fantasy games at wal-mart. luckily i bought one (was into ff3 at the time) wish i woulda bought more.

here's a kicker tho. about a year and a half ago, i threw out about 30 nes boxes, and 15 snes boxes. i was moving and decided i didn't have the room for them. 2 months later, i start collecting. nothing too rare, but alot of good commons (super metroid, metal gear, contra) luckily i kept my ff1 and ff3 boxes out of nostalgia. good thing is that led me to the decision to NOT collect boxes, which has saved me lots of $$$.

2 weeks ago i passed a $8 snes (yellowed) with 2 con., rf, ac. i think i shoulda got it and sold it.

i remember seeing lots of 2600 games for $1 at flea markets when nes was popular. i'm talking hundreds and hundereds of them. but i was probably 10 or 12 years old at the time, i know there had to be some rares in there.

[TRM]

I passed up a few boxed Tengen games for $5 each at a Babbages. Later I ended up getting most of the Tengen NES games, though I am missing boxes.

Another thing, not related to buying videogames, but related to videogames nonetheless. I had an oppurtunity to dump an unreleased NES game, Cue Stick. Since I do not have a rom dumper, I told the owner that I wasn't able to dump it for him. A day or so later, I wrote him again and suggested that I get someone I knew to dump the game. Unfortunately, at this time the seller had already sold/traded the game (funny he wasn't willing to sell/trade it to me) to another NES collector, who hasn't seemed too keen on releasing the rom to the public.

[Bronty-2]

I was thinking Sgt. fury and his howling cammondos? It may be #1 but it's not worth sh*t. I go home and look online, I passed up a 1000 dollar comic book... AHHHHH

that sucks. sgt fury 1 is htf too. you would have had a lot people interested in it. what were the nine books you did get?

[SebasC]

Dragon Warrior 1 through 4 for $10 dollar each... All Boxed, Manuals.. perfect state

[SebasC]

Dragon Warrior 1 through 4 for $5 dollar each... All Boxed, Manuals.. perfect state

[Avenger]

Dragon Warrior 1 through 4 for $10 dollar each... All Boxed, Manuals.. perfect state

i feel for yah man

thankfully since ive started collecting ive never passed up a deal...my one regret is that i used to sell my old systems for newer ones when i was younger, as im sure most ppl here did....a NES for a SNES, SNES for a N64, N64 for a...(dont shoot me) PS2 ....why oh why...

oh also tradin in a crap load of games for Enter The Matrix...which now can be bought for the low low price of 2 dollars :S ...oh...my...god

[Yamdasrd]

In 1998 while shopping at Walmart with friends I saw a complete brand new Earthbound for $14, I didn't have any cash on me so I went home to bum some money off of mom, she decides not to so she can teach me the value of money. ?!

In that same year a couple months before the Earthbound thing my local babbages had a import copy of Castlevania SoTN for the Saturn, I did have enough money for it but I put off buying it the whole summer until I forgot about it. By the time I did remember, 2 years later, the only Saturn games they had were used, no trace of import games anywhere.

In 1997 the local kay-bee toys had a Jaguar bundle with a game for $20 and they had one left. I wanted to get it but the cashier actually talked me out of buying it.

These games I regret trading, all boxed and complete:

Mega Man X2
Secret of Mana
Breath of Fire

I traded the Mega Man X2 for a boxed copy of NBA Jam TE, worst trade ever. My brother traded off my complete boxed Secret of Mana and Breath of Fire for random SNES games because he was bored of them. I have no idea why I let him and I smack myself everytime I think about it.

[Avenger]

I traded the Mega Man X2 for a boxed copy of NBA Jam TE.

oh...man...

[Wavelflack]

So many things to feel sorry for myself over...

1. $20 Jag CD at Wal Mart. This was in the period when you could get new Jag units for $10 and all the games for $5 each (from VGLQ and many other places.) I actually asked the electronics lady if she could lower the price (I figured clearance items could be priced at the store's discretion), and she told me that they had just lowered it to $20, and wouldn't go any lower.
I said "Fine!" and walked away. Certainly it would be down to $10 in a week or two.
Of course, the next time I went back, they were all gone.
At that point, I decided that I REALLY wanted a Jag CD, so I went online...only to find that even VGLQ (who was the cheapest by far) was asking $70+ for their Jag CD units!

2. 2 X'Eye units at the local pawn shops, $20 each. I saw one, and I passed it up for months on end, expecting it to go down to $10 or $15 (go figure). Eventually they sold it, and I kicked myself over it.
Here's where I turn into a fucking idiot: Within a week of this happening, ANOTHER X'eye turned up at a pawn shop about a mile from the first one. I figure it's the same one, only the owner probably found out it was defective or someting. It's also priced at $20. I decided to wait until it's priced as defective ($5-$10). It sells a week later. Out of curiosity, I ask the pawn shop guy about it. "Where did you get that Xeye?" I'm expecting him to say "Oh, this guy brought it in about a week ago." What he tells me is that it was actually PAWNED a month or two ago, and never picked up. So they put it out for sale. Two different X'eyes, $20 each. None for me.

[Heartwarming tale of redemption]
The saving grace here is that six years later (which would be last year), I managed to come across another X'Eye, right here in little bitty Hutchinson. This one was boxed (good box!) and complete (Prizefighter and Comption's included), and even had a pair of microphones and some karaoke discs in the box. $30. I moved so fucking fast that they are still viewing my afterimage today, a full year later.


3. All three Panesian NES games, from a Hastings store here in town. Technically this was not my fault, but it still hurts. My cousin and I rented all three games from Hastings, so we knew they were there. I suppose if we had known how much those games would be worth and how rare they were, we would have simply "lost" them. But we didn't, and we didn't.
Anyway, I went in the store one day, and noticed a decent amount of NES games for SALE. This had not happened before, except with the occasional overstocked rental title. It seemed suspicious, so I went to the NES rental section. It was gone. They had cleared out ALL of the NES games, and the ones I saw were the only ones left.
I asked an employee how long they had been for sale, and he told me it was only a couple of days. Which means that, had I visited a day or two earlier, I would have gotten all three Panesian games for $2.49 each, box and instructions included.
The worst part is that even at that time, I was not aware of just how rare they were or their $$$ value. I knew they were porn NES games, and they were funny as hell, and I'd never seen them before. That's why I wanted them so bad. It was only a few years later that I found out their true value, and I kicked myself even harder for missing out on them.


Now, there is a strange ending to this incident. A little less than a year later, I was in Overland Park (part of Kansas City), visiting my cousin Mike. As usual, we went game hunting. In a game store right across the street from Oak Park mall and right next to TRU, we found a copy of Hot Slots! The only problem was that it was $20. We debated about it for awhile, and I was pissed that I missed out on the ones at Hastings, but we still decided to pass on it. It was funny and probably rare, but that $20 would snag many other cheap NES games.
In the next two years (yes, two years), I visited Mike six or seven times. Everytime we would go game hunting, and every time we would look at that copy of Hot Slots, debate about it, then decide to buy cheaper games. $20.
If you haven't caught on yet, it's almost unbelievable to think about now, but it's true. A $20 copy of Hot Slots sat in a prime location game store in KANSAS CITY for two years (actually a little more).

You're probably expecting me, at this point, to tell you how the next time we went, it was gone.
Well, I'm very happy to NOT say that.
What happened was that my first copy of the DP guide (fifth ed, I think) finally arrived. I looked through, started checking off the games I had, and at some point noticed the rarity and value ratings for Hot Slots. I called Mike that freaking instant, and told him to drop everything he was doing and go get Hot Slots! He complained that it was $20, and I just told him that it's "mega fucking rare" and to GO GET IT!

He went to the game store.
He called me back.
They still had it.
He got it.

So that's how we got Hot Slots, despite my cheap-ass idiocy. Hopefully that makes up (somewhat) for missing out on the three games at Hastings.

[Classicgamesdepot]

The other 9 books were descent but nothing crazy at all, I don't really member off hand right now, something fantasy #1, worth about 100.00 , Iron man #12, Death of super bagged (black) (always wanted this issue as a kid) , a bunch of other silver age comics worth 40-60 dollars, I'll probably be kicking myself forever on this one