What are some really dumb moves you made videogame-wise?

[GENESISNES]

Hi I made some dumb moves here they are:
1.i ripped up all of my N64 boxes
2. I sold the game castlevania:bloodlines so I could buy toy story for sega genesis(UGH)

Well, submit your own dumb videogame mistakes.

[Raedon]

I spent a month of lawn mowing money on Total Recall.. :(

[Spike]

I traded in my PSX and DC games 2 or even 4 at a time in order to get just one game using store credit........... NOW, I find myself BUYING all the games that I traded in back b/c I want to play them again, lol.

[Achika]

I traded a mint, scratchless Game Gear and most of the accessories and about 15 games for a Nintendo 64 with Super Mario 64. Oh boy that was dumb.

[digitalpress]

Two that come to mind amdst a gigantic mountain of mistakes:

1. I threw out all of my ColecoVision boxes "back in the day".
2. I passed on Springer and River Patrol sitting in a KB Toy store's clearance bin in 1983.

Approximate COST of this error? Too high to think about.

[GENESISNES]

2. I passed on Springer and River Patrol sitting in a KB Toy store's clearance bin in 1983.

I remember reading about that in tips and tricks.

[slapdash]

Two that come to mind amdst a gigantic mountain of mistakes:

I think I can kind of parallel yours...


1. I threw out all of my ColecoVision boxes "back in the day".

I never threw any out, but to save space, I did cut down a BUNCH of boxes to save space. Of course I later figured out that most could be flattened without requiring cutting. Ouch.


2. I passed on Springer and River Patrol sitting in a KB Toy store's clearance bin in 1983.

I remember a Columbia House Video Game Club sale or two with a bunch of rare stuff (not quite River Patrol level, but some that took me a while to get again) for sale cheap that I didn't act on soon enough.

[Lady Jaye]

Paying money for Pitfall The Mayan Adventure on the GBA. Fortunately, it was only $35 Cdn, so I ended up not losing my money when I sold it back the next day to a videogame rental store and bought a used copy of Super Smash Brothers Melee for $35 Cdn (that's after store credit).

So a dumb move was fortunately salvaged by some luck.

[rbudrick]

Oh Man, There's just way too many:

I don't even know how many boxes I threw out.

The whole reason I started collectiing was to regain a collection of about 30-35 nes and vcs games I was forced to sell in 7th grade when I got this HUGE phone bill for calling a friend that moved to GA. Then, around Freshman year of college, I started getting them back. When Ebay happenned, it was a dream come true.

Here's where I pulled the stupidest blunder of all: I started collecting.

Man was that dumb. Shoulda started a coke habit. j/k!!!!!!

-Rob

[Spike]

Ya, drug habbit's are definantly cheaper than videogame habbits, lol. Those junkies don't know how good they got it, LoL!

[BenT]

I bought a Jaguar as soon as it was available in Philly. $250 down the drain, thanks to GameFan's crack-headed Jaguar jingoism.

This, in turn, caused my best friend to buy one. Guess he was jealous. Another $250 wasted.

[Charlesaway]

I bought a NES with 50 games in '97 for $50 bucks, then sold all the games except for SMB1, 2, and 3 because those were the only ones my wife and I were playing at the time. Probably weren't a lot of rare games or anything, but it took me a while (and a bit more than $50) to replace most of them.

[Cafeman]

Didn't we all throw out our boxes at one point? DOH! When I was in early high school I had all my 2600 game boxes tacked up on one of my walls in my bedroom. I loved to go in and look at that wall. When I got my 5200, I sold the 2600 w/25 games to a neighbor for about $30. Boxes were trashed. :(

I didn't buy Saturn import Metal Slug when I saw it discounted, next day it was gone. I sold my Genesis, Sega CD, and 32X (with all the games I hadn't already sold) in a garage sale for about $40. DOH DOH!

Perhaps the most recent stupid thing was not putting away a few Dreamcast disks, and not watching 2-yr old Café-toddler closely enough -- he's scratched up about 10 of them so far, most I was able to get unscratched at a store, thank goodness. I should have remember 4 yrs earlier, when then-2-yrs-old Caféman Jr (my oldest) twisted off all the volume &tone knobs off my Fender Strat! rrrrrrrrrrrrr!

[IGotTheDot]

I passed up a Bally Astrocade a bunch of years back because it did not say Atari on it. I didn't know what it was at the time.

I am sure I have done other stupid things, but I just have not realized it yet.

[Captain Wrong]

I dunno if it was "stupid" or not but I really wish I'd thrifted more 2600 games back in the late 80s/early 90s before they were collectable and when they seemed to be everywhere and dirt cheap. I wasn't collecting per se, so I'd rummage through and pick out the ones I'd wanted as a kid (mostly commons like Activision and whatnot) and leave the rest. Of course, this was before I really had an idea of the scope of 2600 collecting or anything like that. God I wish I could go back there though.

Also, our family used to have both an Odyssey (the first one) with the rifle and a Coleco Telestar Arcade with carts 1-3. All of which were garage saled or thrown away over time. (In my defense, I was still on the young side, really if you were 8 years old in 1982 would you have cared about that old stuff when you had a 2600 and a 400 in the house?)

[WiseSalesman]

1. Threw out all my NES boxes.
2. Imported Metal Slug for saturn with no ram cart with which to play it.
3. Not video game related, but back when I used to play the OverPower card game, I traded Wolverine for a bunch of crap characters to my best friend's shifty older brother. DAMN YOU! I WAS ONLY 8 YEARS OLD! DAMN YOU HARRY!

[buttasuperb]

traded all my snes stuff to get a psx for half price

[kontos]

I gave my Gemeni and about 75 Carts to my cousin. He ended up using the carts for target practice. One of the carts was Atari Video Cube, who know what else I had with it.

[RJ]

kontos- ouch!!!

I got PO'ed at a game & broke my Jag CD-ROM drive & ordered another- $149.

I sold back "Syndicate" & "Alien vs. Predator" for cash to use for "Ultra Vortek". Not a bad game, but later I bought "AvP" & "Syndicate" again(for a reduced price).

non game-related: I traded #3,4,5 G.I. Joe comics to a friend for, of all things, a bike horn. At Shinder's the next week, each comic was worth $10!!!

ah, youth...

[NE146]

I've thrown away every single box I owned and since it was par for the course, I guess there's no 'deep rooted' regrets. However, after seeing others and their nice boxes sometimes I think I should've kept them all. Oh well.. no use crying over spilled milk.. however maybe I shoulda kept all those nice Japanese handheld boxes... :/

[GENESISNES]

I sold my friend a sealed Bee 52(NES) I bought at goodwill for 2.99, and sold it to him for 2 bucks. WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING?????????????????????????????????????????? ????

[scooterb23]

I always threw out my game boxes, I have absolutely no regrets about that. Now I'll actually go out of my way to get a loose copy of a game, because I don't like keeping the boxes.

My biggest regret is ever getting rid of a system the first time around...I used to have a bunch of good rare games "back in the day" now I am spending 10-20 times as much to get the same games I had 15 years ago...all because my mom wouldn't let me keep more than 1 system at a time...

What I find funny now is that she's HELPING me with my collecting habit...she goes to the garage sales while I work to pay off the debts incurred from her last sales trip :D

[Felixthegamer]

I am sure I passed up many games when thrifting because I was not interested in certain systems at the time. I am not too upset over it because I don't know what I passed over. I also threw away all my SNES boxes. I don't know why because I have all my other boxes. Where did they go?

[theaveng]

I sold my Commodore 64! waaaaaah (sniff)

[SuperPsycho]

About 6 years ago It was my development's anual garage sale; I was riding my bike from house to house and passed up a $5 Game Gear.

[ClubNinja]

You want a regret? Back when I first started collecting, I picked up a complete, flawless copy of Mr Do's Castle for the 5200. It even had the shrinkwrap still clinging around the box like a sleeve. It was 25 cents. Could've been a brag if I knew about the community back then.

Anyway, I only cared about machines I had at the time, and the 5200 was not one of them. So, I traded it to some guy for four loose 2600 carts, the most notable being Spider Fighter. Damn me.

[Goodwill Hunter]

Two come to mind....I passed on a used Radiant Silvergun for $39.00 at an EB because I thought it was too much for a used game.

When I was just getting started collecting ( well, before I found the internet) I sold all my 2600 double-enders to a flea guy for 25 cents each because the games sucked and they didn't fit in the little trays I was storing my games in at the time.

("25 cents is all they're worth to me"...sly bastard!)
Rich

[y-bot]

In 1997 just a few months before I got bit by the video game collecting bug I bought a Vectrex with the 3-D Imager & about 10 cartridges for $10. It was part of a huge 70's/80's toy collection I was buying. I had never seen one before and didn't know what it was. I was going to keep it just because it was neat but I was collecting old Star Wars toys at the time and I got talked out of it by a friend for $300 worth of Star Wars stuff. It wasn't a terrible deal at the time but 5 years later that Star Wars stuff (which is long gone) is worth about $50 and I'm still looking for a 3-D Imager.


Y-bot

[Chakan]

Here's a dumb move I regret doing all the time, but somehow can't seem to avoid doing every 3-4 years or so:

Selling off some of my collection.

It hurts each time, and I feel the sting until I pick the good stuff back up again.

[Dobie]

I have two:

1) I passed up an NES Myriad 6 in 1 cart for $7 because it looked a "bit scratched." When I came to my senses a day later, it was gone of course. :(

2) I sold my PSX & PS2 because I "hardly played them." Regret that one every day. I'll probably break down and buy a PS2 again very soon, for more than I sold the both of them.