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.:p)

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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[XYXZYZ]

If I go back in time I can't think of any game I would get that I can't get for a lower price today. I would not buy any game just because I know it'll be worth more later on.

While I'm there, I would buy stocks. Microsoft stocks. Lots and lots of Microsoft stocks.

[chuckwalla]

You got that right!


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

Gamewise, i'd get a rack of Colecovision Galaxians and Qbert Qubes - i've seen several auctions of both of them over recent years go for a few hundred $ sealed in the box.

Systemwise, i'd get a bunch of Sega Nomad's and CDX's - which i've also seen go for hundreds each brand new. I got my Nomad in '97 for $50 at Toys R Us and I remember how pissed off I was that I was strapped for money back then and couldn't afford more than one - but atleast I got one!

[Tron 2.0]

If i could go back to the 90's snaging a,Magical Chase u.s version.

Given how much it go's for these days at least the jpn version is cheaper.Even if it's not by much,not to mention the u.s version has more going for it in graphics.

I remember befor tradeing the TG16+TurboCD away at the time how cheap magical chase was.

Now it's worth alot and i don't see myself spending that much for a game.

[scooterb23]

Nothing I can think of.

I would have said Roc 'n Rope for the Atari 2600 a few years ago, because of the story I told here many years ago about it being a game I really wanted, but couldn't afford it, and then when I did have the money...it was gone.

But then, I would have missed out on the very special moment a few years back when a copy appeared in a Secret Santa gift...ending a long, and emotional nearly 20 year trek for that cartridge. A time machine would have made that moment impossible...and I would hate to lose that moment. And it is those moments, and few and far between they are anymore, that still drive me to this day.

[James8BitStar]

Dudes, if you REALLY want to profit from time-travel, don't go for video games... go for Golden Age comic books! Imagine going back to the days where they only costed ten cents, and buying a stack of Action Comics #1. Overnight millionaire.

The real nightmare is getting the money, since obviously today's money would be worthless in the 1930s (or even the 1980s)--everyone would think it was counterfeit. (Personally, my plan would be to melt down a bunch of quarters into silver ore, go back in time and sell it, then use the resulting cash to pay for everything. Repeat as necessary).

Personally, I would go back in time and find those hard-as-nails-to-find PC games, especially the ones that could only be had by mail order. Actually, I'd use time travel to accomplish my dream of owning every video game ever made.

I wouldn't stop there either. I'd buy a house and live in the past, but bring all my junk from the future there, so I'd be living in this house full of things that don't exist yet (imagine playing Morrowind in 1980). And I'd go into the future and acquire these fancy computers with bazillion-terrabyte hard drives and TV tuner cards that accept antenna signals, and their whole purpose would be to record the entire broadcast days of every channel in the area.

And I'd seek out each and every last one of you and allow you to do what you wanted to do, as long as it didn't mess up my past.

[Iron Draggon]

Psychic Assassin Taromaru

I doubt I'll ever be able to get a copy of it to suit my pickiness any other way

[NEOFREAK9189]

I'd go back in time. grab
My friend have copy of beta game bloody wolf for nintendo 8bit yes for NES also he have copy of bad dudes for nes 2 players like arcade version my friend lose the 2 beta games
also I grab like 50 Metal Slug 1 for neogeo AES
I grab 20 sega genesis Altered Beast system
find my old self. then I screaming hey jackass never sell any of your games or systems also copy all the video game show like video power. now only have 8 hour of the show video tape

[James8BitStar]

To tell you the truth, I'm starting to get a little disillusioned with game collecting.

Why am I reviving this thread to say this? Because honestly time travel is about the only thing that would give it any point. Why preserve a historic relic if you can't preserve it intact, as it was when it was new?

And also, I don't get the same "thrill of the hunt" others do. I mean, I like to shop at flea markets and pick up random baubles, but most of the time I just want the damn game and I hate the hassles modern collecting puts you through ($80 for Final Fantasy VII? Glad I bought it when it was new).

[k8track]

I would go back in time five hours and grab Guitar Hero III.

[Garry Silljo]

The reason Bio Force Ape never came out is I already went back in time and stole the REAL prototype.

[smork]

I couldn't care less about going back in time to make a profit getting rare games.

I would like to go back and get some rare stuff that's difficult to find in great condition now (if at all) -- I'm thinking AdventureVision, specifically.

Some NIB Game and Watches would be fun to have, too.

I'd like to have alot of the games I wanted in my youth brand new -- the tabletop arcades (not difficult to find, I know, but i'd want the joy of having them when they were cool to my 4th grade self), some groovy handhelds.

[calgon]

Good topic. I also don't care much for value, or rarity or money. For pure nostalgia, I would have loved to have been able to pick up a SNES on launch, brand spankin' new with the smell of the plastic, plus all the launch games. Sigh.

[theChad]

Good topic. I also don't care much for value, or rarity or money. For pure nostalgia, I would have loved to have been able to pick up a SNES on launch, brand spankin' new with the smell of the plastic, plus all the launch games. Sigh.

Yeah, you'd definitely want the plastic smell then. I got a SNES mini completely sealed in the box a while back, and I'm not one to really be picky about opening sealed stuff (if I really need money later, I'm sure there are other ways to get it) and when I opened it the box smelled like cat piss. Everything looked fine, no stains in or on the box, but the styrofoam or something being locked up in that cardboard box caused a violent odor which I am currently trying to remove with baking soda.