Games You Discovered Too Late, Soon or Just At The Right Time.

[IHatedSega]

Reading The Adventure Island thread and reading other posts (not to mention thinking this for awhile now), I thought this might be a good thread to start somewhere. So Ill get this started.

Too Late: Gunstar Heroes, if I had found this game I would have bought a Genesis just for it. Castlevania Symphony of The Night, really wish I had gotten this when it came out, so glad I have it now, but if I had maybe it would be in the next category.

Too Soon: Nothing actually, but I thought some people may have a game they didnt like as a kid, but love today.

Right Time: RPG's, I only played a demo of Legend of Dragoon in a store and didnt really think much of it. Now I can appreciate RPGs for what they really are like. I played Pokemon, but I didnt think it was an RPG till I played Final Fantasy 1. Now I devour them as I can, and love so many and want to play many many more. As a kid I wouldnt have been able to read the text since I had dyslexia so any RPG besides Pokemon I wouldnt have had the drive to finish. Also Fighting games, I didnt have friends to play games with, but now Im older I can appreciate the move sets and the Capcom Vs games are always fun and easy.

[hbkprm]

i played sonic, mortal kombat, donkey kong country among others in the right time period

[bigbacon]

too soon: not console related but Operation Flashpoint. Bought it day one, stopped playing it day two. Picked up again like a year later and loved the hell out of it + the expansions that came later. Naive at first thinking it was an FPS and just didn't get the fun....that year later, it clicked that it was more of a sim and you had the think your every move and then it was a blast.

too late: Dragon Warrior 4....I remember looking for this game every where in stores back in the day and could not find it any where. I waited to long to find out about it and by then, NES was nearly dead in stores. Eyeing a copy on ebay right now.

[Genesaturn]

I don't think I played anything to soon or late, but I bought FF7 with my PSone back when I saw an add for FF7 in a magazine. So I found RPG's right at that perfect time ... I was around 13 or 14 and I been an RPG nut ever since. To soon and I would not of probably fully understood and appreciated it.

[wiggyx]

E.V.O. for the SNES. For whatever reason, I never knew about this game when I was younger despite being a SNES junkie. Now if I want a hard coy I'll have to sell an organ or two :(

[kaedesdisciple]

One series I caught somewhere between right time and too late was the Quest for Glory series. I was introduced to it with IV when it came out, then I had to go back and find I, II & III. Would have loved to have the experience of playing through this back in the day, in order, carrying the same character from one game to the next as intended. I had the collection CD, then lent it out, and you know how the story goes. I've been able to track them all down since then, just can't seem to track down the time to play them.

[XYXZYZ]

Journey to Silius, Metal Storm, Conquest of the Crystal Palace are all great games I'm just now discovering for the NES. Also, I would have flipped over Little Samson back in the NES days, but I was already on the SNES and obsessing over Street Fighter II in the arcades when it came out.

[RJ]

I guess the closest I come to qualifying here is finding PS2 Champions of Norrath: Realms of Everquest at a local GameStop for $25 used, about a week after its actual release. I'd read up on it & knew it was a Diablo-type game I'd like. I rarely buy a game at full price, so I knew it'd be awhile & I'd wait for a price drop.

So I grabbed it off the shelf & said "whoa, this is here used already? it just came out!" the clerk said "yeah, I guess whoever bought it didn't like it that much" & I got it then & there. One of my favorite games, probably never get rid of it, I've played through it at least 5x w/ different characters, & currently have a game in progress. Even though the plot is always the same, it just never gets old to me.

I guess I got in on that sooner than I thought I would. Still playing & loving it 8 yrs later.

[Dashopepper]

Too soon: Mario RPG. I didn't realize what a RPG was back then. I just thought it was a cheep game where you didn't actually get to fight. I love RPGs now and still have it in its box but my early impression of it still remains.

Just right: Sega Genesis (all). The best part about Sega Genesis stuff now a days is that it is cheap cheap cheap. I find it everywhere and the prices are low. While there have been games that I really liked, nothing so far has the thinking that I missed out of something really important at the time.

Too late: Earthbound... $ is a limiting factor.

[retroguy]

Just Right: Castlevania-Symphony of the Night. I got a PS1 when the price dropped to $99 and was able to pick up lots of good games for $15 as Walmart was getting rid of them. SOTN was and is one of my favorites and got me interested in the Castlevania series as a whole. Similarly, Alundra and Lunar-Silver Star Story Complete got me hooked on RPGs.

Too Late: The TurboGrafX 16 library, especially the CD games. It looks like prices are starting to come down on games (some of them, anyway) and that's good, but I lament that I may never be abe to afford a TurboDuo. The American system goes for ridiculous prices and the Japanese system, while a bit less expensive, is still out of my price range.

[Steve W]

Too late: Phantasy Star Online for the Dreamcast. A co-worker and I had gotten off early from an overnight shift and decided to go to Wal-Mart (might have been one of the last times I went there voluntarily). I picked up a copy of PSO version 2 on clearance for a few bucks, mainly to add to the collection - I was never a fan of RPGs, since I find turn-based combat painfully tedious. A couple weeks later I decided to pop it in, and was hooked right away with its third-person real time combat. But it was so late in the game's lifecycle that all the cheaters had ruined the online experience, never mind the fact that my town's phone lines were so bad I could only get half the speed of a 56K modem with dial-up. It's the only game I was ever tempted to go online with. I've never played multiplayer online anything before or since, PSO was the only game I would have set aside my dislike for the human race and would have played online.

[Tony Lama]

Too Late: Magical Chase for the TurboGrafx-16. I remember going to Electronics Boutique and holding the display box in my hand. The TG-16 was essentially dead and Turbo Duo was not going anywhere. I chose against Magical Chase and bought some common SNES game instead. Still kicking myself to this day.

Just Right: Earthbound and Panzer Dragoon Saga. I picked up Earthbound at Best Buy at a discounted price of $19.99 when the SNES was at the end of its life cycle. I got Panzer Dragoon Saga from Toys R Us when the Saturn was just about dead. I still own both complete! Panzer is actually still sealed!

Too Soon: Entire Sega Genesis library. The Genesis was my first foray into the 16-bit realm. But I soon favored my SNES and TurboGrafx-16. Something about the Genesis audio that bothered me. So I collected way more for the Nintendo and NEC machines. As a result I have very healthy complete libraries for SNES and TG-16. But a small complete library for the Genny. A shame, since in recent years I've collected loose and partially complete Genesis games and have found a great appreciation for the library. And the sound doesn't bother me so much anymore.