Most Regrettable Gaming Moment

[Smashed Brother]

Selling my CIB Genesis and around 5 CIB games (including Fire Shark and Splatterhouse 2) to some crappy game store to purchase Star Fox for the SNES! Yeah, that's right.... all of that to purchase ONE SNES game! And this was in '93!

Selling my PSX and all 20-something CIB games (including Lunar: SSSC, Einhander, Time Crisis, etc) for, maybe $150 or so to pay for part of the rent, only to land a decent job 3 days later, which would've negated this whole need to sell my games in the first place. I actually have re-acquired all the prized gems that I sold (except that CIB Time Crisis set), but I still think that this was probably the dumbest move that I have ever made when it comes to games.

[Aussie2B]

This is an easy one for me to answer: throwing away all of my boxes prior to around 1999 when the bug to hunt down classic game bit me. If I was only into the really mainstream stuff, it wouldn't matter so much, but I was into RPGs and other stuff that was more obscure at the time and later became valuable. I'm guess I'm fortunate that my collection only dated back to the SNES and Game Boy back then, so it's not like I was doing it for decades. But still, just a sampling of what I threw away includes the boxes for Castlevania Legends, Lufia II, Super Mario RPG, and Harvest Moon.

I can be thankful that I always kept manuals at least, and the one exception I made to my throwing away rule was definitely a wise one. I loved Chrono Trigger so thoroughly that I saved the box just out of sentimental value. It's slightly squished from having something light resting on top of it for years, but in general, it's still very mint.

Another regret is buying the original Japanese-only King's Field for my boyfriend. I don't regret that in and of itself, but I wish I had done it at a later point in time or at least switched the memory card in the system. Little did we know that there was an option to format the card right in the game's menu. And I'm not talking an option menu on the title screen. I mean the in-game menu in which you also put on equipment and such. We were just trying to find the option to save the game. Well, we did, but bye bye 100 hour Tactics Ogre file I had been working on, getting deep into the bonus dungeon. I hadn't even beaten the game yet, and I still haven't because I sold the game. I bought the game with the intention of selling because it was a scratched up loose disc and I wanted to replace it with a complete copy. I was intending to beat it before selling it, but because of my disgust over losing my file, I sold it off then and there and still haven't bothered buying a complete copy of the game.

[Dirkfunk]

I have a lot of "selling things" regrets.

In 1995 I sold my NES, Genesis, and SNES. . . all with several games to get a Playstation with Tekken.

FuncoLand/Gamestop is pure evil. I wish I just kept everything. They give the absolute worst prices possible.

Letting my sister anywhere near my games is a regret. I gave my copy of Mega Man 2 to a friend because my sister had literally spilled a liter of soda on it. He eventually got it to work. She also traded my NES copy of Snow Brothers for Super Mario Brothers 3 or something extremely common. I'm glad I don't share a state with her anymore.

Oh yeah, I raged out once and kicked a hole in a wall after getting worked in World Heroes. That was stupid.

[PC-ENGINE HELL]

Renting Pit fighter for Snes. Well, that and renting The Rocketeer for Nes.....

[EColeman24]

This would be without a doubt the moment(s) I traded in my Final fantasy games (1-6) *sniffs* to get newer games...if only I had know *sobs openly* *_*

[Xian042]

Letting my dad throw away all my Odyssey II stuff.

Letting my dad throw away all my Atari 5200 stuff.

Letting my dad sell my Atari 2600/7800 stuff towards a Nintendo.

Letting my dad sell my Nintendo stuff to get a Genesis.

Letting myself get completely out of control with hording games, can't imagine why.

[Parodius Duh!]

NOT buying an assload of copies of Radiant Silvergun when Electronics Boutique was selling import saturn games (my store had 20+ copies of NEW RS back in the mid-late 90s)....Thought to myself "I bet this game is crap" how dreadfully wrong I was.

[Richter Belmount]

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[Zama]

Hmmm these things come to mind:

-Getting Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 as a birthday gift back when I was 8.

-Playing Shaq Fu on the SNES.

-Buying the E.T. game for the Atari 2600 from the flea market for $1.

[Tsar]

Giving my sega genesis and a all my sega games away:( And getting my game gear stolen.

[Jaruff]

- Allowing my mom to give away my SNES, NES, Sega Genesis, and 32X.
- Not selling common PS2 games when they were still valuable.
- Buying Kane & Lynch when it came out just because it was developed by the Hitman creators.
- Selling my Panasonic 3DO because I wanted some extra money.
- Recently passing up on a copy of Sunset Riders for the Sega Genesis ($2) because I figured it wasn't worth anything.
- Playing GTA IV with my friend and getting beat by a Faggio on GTA Race while I was driving a Comet.

And that's just off the top of my head.

[M15fit]

Selling my atari 2600 cart collection for next to nothing. I had over 300 carts, Needed space desperately. It depresses me to this day, I can't start collecting again since it would take years, Not to mention losing trust in myself.

[NomadGamer]

Selling my Nintendo 64 collection bit by bit. Followed closely by the ps2.

[TheShireGamer]

This one I REALLY regret doing, on Pokemon red I had all 8 badges 2 of the legendary birds and a lot of greatly leveled pokemon and really cool items, but when I went to Nova Scotia for my sisters 1 year wedding anniversary, my other sister wanted to play my pokemon game. Instead of refusing I simply just said sure and lent her the game, costing me my file and everything and all the hours I put in that game, I got the game back almost a year later where I saw she barely played the game at all. Im never doing this again lol

[Genesaturn]

When finding games for my Saturn back in the day became harder and harder..I did what a lot of people id and bought a Playstation. In order to do so I needed to sell all my saturn stuff off as I was only a freshman in high school and had no money. I sold the system for 75$ with 10 games.... 2 of them were Guardian Heroes and Panzer Dragoon Saga

[DylanOZ]

I think the biggest regret I've had was trading my Mega Drive II and all the games i had with it towards a nintendo 64. None of the games i had to my knowledge were rare, but i regret it still. Nothing against the N64 ofc, but if i could go back i wouldnt have made the same decision.

[Gunstar Hero]

No one has any game PLAYING moments they regret? It's ALL about collecting and getting rid of stuff?

Mine is probably the time I broke my friend's nose after he 'accidentally' reset the NES after I won a game of Baseball Stars. I didn't get the money, didn't get to power up my shortstop... so I threw him off the couch. Unfortunately he landed on his face. Ow. I think we were 16.

Another was watching another friend catch an ass whuppin from his father because of Zelda. We'd sat there for like 5 hours trying to beat the blue knights, the whole last hour his mother telling us to stop playing and go outside. When we finally beat the knights, we went nuts, jumping all over the furniture and being generally insane. His mother came in and turned the NES off BEFORE WE SAVED and told us to go outside. My friend had a monster tantrum calling her every name he could think of in English AND Italian... and then his father decided enough was enough and gave him a whuppin. The whole time I'm sitting there like "uh, I don't THINK he'll whup me... but maybe he will, who knows?" He didn't.

How many more people have PLAYING regrettable moments? I suspect that's what the original poster wanted.

The first time I beat bowser in Super Mario World I was so proud that I told my friend that my SNES was the best system ever and while I said that I patted my SNES, and of course it reset before I could see the ending ... I wanted to see the ending so badly that me and my friend spent the next 3 hours trying to beat bowser again and finally did... I never touched my SNES while it was turned on again... I learned my lesson.

[Gunstar Hero]

Another I can think of is when I let my little sister play Super Mario 64 and she erased my 108 Star file.... 64 hours I'll never get back...

[streetsofrage]

getting the the final boss in streets of rage and choosing yes to be on his side only to be brought back to level 6 or something haha

[nintendoclassic]

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[Nes]

I bought a giant Mario statue before I got married. My wife didn't exactly want it in our first apartment (and it wouldn't have fit well anyway) so I was forced to sell it and must have lost around $300 in the process. (I got in a bidding war when I bought it and then sold it in a depressed market)

[Genjackson]

I passed up buying a CIB copy of Custer's Revenge because it was like 40 bucks and I was 14 shopping around with my mom. I was in the early stages of collecting and I did buy my 3D0 that day. I just didn't make the connection of Atari porn being rare at the time. I honestly didn't even make the connection that it was porn. I just saw a cheesy box with a hot indian and a naked cowboy and to my everlasting shame kept on walking.

[Genjackson]

The thing I most regret is throwing away my Nintendo 64 Box.
Don't know why but back in day I didn't care about the box but nowadays I wish I still had it, so I could put it with my Nintendo collection.

You can sometimes find just the box on ebay for like $25. It's kinda hard to find the box that goes with your system though. It's usually like an atomic purple box or some bundle set box.

[GamerTheGreek]

The biggest regrettable thing that ive been through was realizing how i negatively impacted gamers on buy and sell deals over 7 years ago when i was younger and foolish. It was a life learning experience and even though I corrected my wrong deals and worked to make things right I still regret ever being that way. Still a few game sites wont allow me back due to it. But I have to say I have learned from it moved forward and working to be the best person I can be in and out of the gaming world. That is a bigger regret than anything item i have ever sold or missed out on. Definitely a low point in my life that I never want to go back to again.