Most you have ever spent on Video Games at one time?

[MarioAllStar2600]

What is the most amount of cash you have ever spent on video games at one time. Whether it be a lot off DP, a lot off ebay, and arcade, or a spending spree. What is the most you have ever spent?

For me it's my X and o's football I spent 410 total. But... I plan on taking $450 this summer to GameStop and going on a gamecube shopping spree. Cant wait. :evil:

[halbert]

Most I can remember is about $200 to get a bunch of NES, SNES, and Genesis stuff. Now may I recommend you take the $450 at buy older games? Wouldn't it be better to have about 200 NES games rather than 15 GC? ;)

[-hellvin-]

I spent about 150 on 2000 some odd snes boxes and about 120 on around 300 genesis boxes. My friend Nez spent 300 on a huge lot of atari stuff. In fact I am going now to the same store to either cherry pick or buy out ALL his NES stuff, bunch of boxed games and tons of carts. Closes in 2 days so I'm hoping to get a good price ;). Wish me luck.

[Darth Sensei]

I won an Ebay auction for $600 one time with many boxed systems and games.


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[leonk]

150$US for my copy of the the nintendo test cart..

[halbert]

150$US for my copy of the the nintendo test cart..

That's a great deal! X_x

[undead455]

The most I ever spent in 1 shot was $334 on E(vil)bay for my Neo Geo Aes. But I've been meaning to get one for about 3 years so I can justify it. :)

Keep on Gaming 8-)

[wberdan]

if you mean on systems while they were still in stores-
then prob about 600$ on the dreamcast in one night


willie

[Nez]

300 dollars on a bunch of old Atari carts systems and some boxed Intellivision games.

[Goodwill Hunter]

I was going to say it was the day I bought 25 Saturn games at 4 different Best Buys, the day they dropped 'em all to 10 bucks each...but it was actually the time I bought out another local collector for $500. Hundreds of games, dozens of systems, many of them boxed. Highlights included 32X Spiderman, SegaCD Snatcher, Jaguar AvP, TG-16 with CD expansion in hardcase, Virtual Boy in hard case, Boxed JagCD & Jaguar, Boxed 7800, Boxed Nomad, Boxed Lynx. Filled up my van, and took me weeks to go through it all. The most I ever paid, and the most I ever got in a single lot....definitely worth it though. :D

Rich

[norkusa]

Man, thats a good question. The most I've ever spent on games was ironically before I even started collecting. It was the summer of '90...about a year after I got my Sega Genesis. Got about $200 in birthday money that year and blew it almost all on games. Picked up Revenge Of Shinobi, Super Ghouls & Ghosts, and Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf at Toys R Us. The total was a little under $170 for those 3 (Shinobi was $70 I remember).

After looking at all the rare & valuable stuff I have in my collection, I think it's kind of funny that the most I ever spent on games at one time was retail for 3 new Sega Genesis games. I got an almost complete Japanese Virtual Boy collection and I didn't even spend over $100 for any of those. I guess collecting turns you into a thrifty person.

[dmhawkmoon]

I once spent $550 or so on a US home cart Metal Slug X. I later sold it and remade all the money I spent in favor of a MVS cart...

[robotriot]

I spent 250€ on a Vectrex w/ 16 games and carrying case, but that was probably a good deal :) The most I spent on a single game was probably 90€ on Great Giana Sisters.

[Gast]

340€ on a PS2 with GTA3 - it was worth it, but I'll never spend that much on Videogames again. The PS2 was a complete waste of money, at least I got to play Vice City and stuff before the PC gamers got it :)

[PapaStu]

Ive easily dumped 400 on games a few times, (basically my entire paycheck) on stuff for mutiple systems. My game store would love me on fridays.

[dreamcaster]

Most amount spent? I'd have to be my GCN I bought at launch (May 17th 2002)

$499.95 AU

GCN console
Extra controller (spice orange)
Memory Card 59
EB GCN Carry Bag
Wave Race: Blue Storm
Star Wars: Rogue Leader

Other expensive ones:

Sony PlayStation 2 + World Rally Championship = $395.00 AU new (Dec 2002)
Nintendo 64 + blue controller = $236.50 AU new (Aug 1997)
SNES + Super Mario All-Stars + extra controller = $209.00 AU new (Sep 1995)

[EnemyZero]

$650 when xbox was released

[musical]

$1000.

I bought ~100 PSone & PS2 games that were recommended to me.

[Flack]

I think my bill at SuperAuctions last time was about $700 for the three cabinets I picked up.

My biggest non-arcade one day bill? PS2 Launch Day.

PS2: $300 (Mine)
PS2: $300 (Wife)
Controller, Memory Card, 2 Games, tax: $200

That's $800. My wife and I were #1 and #2 in line for the PS2 in Mustang, OK. My license hadn't been updated, so we didn't have the same address on our licenses, allowing us each to buy one. I sold the second one later that day for a slight profit.

[ClubNinja]

$180 on five Neo Geo MVS carts from a local guy. We met on a dark Sunday night at the back of a Wendy's parking lot. It was sweet.

[charitycasegreg]

At one time? haha. Most I ever spent at one time was like 40 bucks on 30 nes games, 10 snes games, a nes, a snes, and some ps1 games, that was like my first big game find. I useually end up getting great finds really cheap so Im not use to spending more then 100 bucks at one time.

[VACRMH]

At first I was going to say around $300 for a saturn auction I won...

But now that I think about it... I bought a PS2 a few years ago and just the system was $300 (Then I bought a few games, extra controller and memory card)

[NintendoMan]

I'll list the ones that stick out on my mind.

All off ebay, my arcade units:
Playchoice 10 Dual Monitor Arcade - $525
Playchoice 10 Single Monitor Arcade - $450
Playchoice 10 Countertop Arcade - $500

EBAY things, in the past couple years:
Sealed GOLD ZELDA NES - $150
Sealed GOLD LINK NES - $125
New Sealed ROB Robot NES - $130
New NES Action Set - $130
New DK64 Special Edition Green Set - $200

Three weeks ago at Circuit City, Gamecube game shopping spree!
$200 - Got about 10 games
Dreamcast Launch day - $350

I have spent good amounts on just a bunch of loose stuff, but these are the cooler more rare ones that stick out in my mind.

[AMG]

$300 on my PS2 back when it first came out.

[Lemmy Kilmister]

When i was younger and had money finally after my first job i would never save anything. I think the most i ever spent on games at once was around 700 bucks.

[Tritoch]

$418.97 on Amazon for a black GameCube at launch with Wave Race, Luigi's Mansion, Rogue Squadron II, extra controller, and memory card. The "GameCube Jet Black Wave Pack".

In a virtual tie would be the day in May 1996 I bought a PSX for $300 (got tired of waiting for the N64), WipEout new, and Super Mario RPG new. Might actually be #1 since SNES games were usually $70 back then...

[jenzyme]

I can even remember the exact date I spent the most money (November 19, 2002). I spent about $600 at Gamestop because of our employee appreciation weekend where we got 30% off of anything. I bought Steel Batallion and pretty much every other big release game (Metroid Prime, etc.). It wasn't a good idea but.. it was fun. LOL