What do you regret pawning off or selling?

[Richter Belmount]

Well I was 13 not into colletiong much and pawned off 37 bucks for breath of fire 2 complete , if i knew anything about collecting back then i would of kept for it a while still sealed like i bought it

[MegaDrive20XX]

CastleVania Chronicles :(

[-hellvin-]

My boxed Diner for the Intellivision. I didn't really have to sell it to make the bills, I could have kept it =\. My Galaxian Vic20 cart I kind of regret too.

[vincewy]

Final Fantasy 3 and Chrono Trigger SNES, both complete, no bend on the box and manuals, sold both for $25 each back in 1994, ouch, to this day it still hurts, even though I do not collect SNES games, I keep everything in new condition as I bought it.

[Ed Oscuro]

All I miss are some PSX games I traded away - I let somebody borrow my copy of Metal Gear Solid (with the guide, mind you all was new at the time) and I eventually traded it away for the equivalent package in Tomb Raider 3. Eh, maybe I'll care enough again to pick up the game + guide someday.

Plus I miss my "Duke Nukem: Time to Kill," what with its silly music video intro clip and funny levels.

[racecar]

YO ED UNDERTAND HOW U FEEL MAN I, LEND OUT A FEW GAME FROM MY COLLECTION TO SO CALL FRIENDS WHO MOVED AWAY.... GAME ARE VALKYRIE PROFILE, SUIKODEN 2 (ITS PAINFUL) OTHER NON IMPORTANT TITLE

[Dire 51]

What do I regret selling? My entire collection. :(

[tonyvortex]

1.when i was inhigh school i pawned off my whole game gear collection and the nice multicart bootleg .
2.in the dark ages when i fought off collecting i sold my my mint action 51 for nes my parents bought me at the CES in chicago.it had the stickers and even the plastic around it still from only being played like 5 times.oh and i also sold him my mind boxed megaman #1.

[Britboy]

150 PS2 games in one lot on Ebay


Oh and my XMen #101 (Phoenix), signed by John Byrne. Argh.

[FlufflePuff]

During my lull in gaming (end of SNES until PS2), I got into CCGs. When Star Wars first came out, all of my friends played it. I didn't have a job and was too invested in Magic to buy any Star Wars cards so I was left out. Long story short, I saw an advertisement that EB was giving 100 bucks in credit for a SNES with 5 games. I traded in a boxed/complete SNES and 5 boxed/complete games. Those games were Final Fantasy 2, Megaman X, Megaman X2, Ninja Gaiden Trilogy, and Lufia 2. I had 7 games at the time, and while I'm not entirely sure what I was thinking, I know that I regret the two games I decided to keep. Super Mario World and Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball. *shudder* I used the credit to buy cards they were selling. On the plus side, I did get a black bordered Darth Vader and Obi Wan. On the bad side, those cards are worth nothing today :o

[Ed Oscuro]

YO ED UNDERTAND HOW U FEEL MAN I, LEND OUT A FEW GAME FROM MY COLLECTION TO SO CALL FRIENDS WHO MOVED AWAY.... GAME ARE VALKYRIE PROFILE, SUIKODEN 2 (ITS PAINFUL) OTHER NON IMPORTANT TITLE
Ouch.

I meant the story.

Anyhow, that MGS came back THROUGHLY scuffed...even the entire outer case had a patina on it. I'd never see anything like it again until I saw a friend's Final Fantasy VII PC discs a half year ago or so.

On the plus side, the neat breakage of my original Half-Life game CD's case (or rather...the couple I've gone through) was pretty surreal. There was actually a section punched into the middle of the jewel case. That one was also lent to somebody, who back in 1998 thought he could copy it. Failure was the result. Plus my CD key's still good, the box is on my shelf, and the CD itself works. All is good!

[junglehunter]

I regret trading my copy of Bounty Bob Strikes Back for the Atari Computers before I knew exactly how much it was worth (about a year ago). I got so little for what it was worth. :(

[Push Upstairs]

I regret selling my first NES.

It wasn't a toploader and I didnt own any rare games for it.


I regret it because it was MY first game system and i had so many memories from that system. I hated myself for selling it off and i swore i'd never sell my Genesis.

I guess i shouldn't be that bummed about it because i own another NES and all the games i orginally had that i wanted (plus a few more).


My other would probably be trading away my complete copy of "Zombies Ate my Neighbors" for Genesis.

[davidleeroth]

Complete copies of FFII, FFIII, Secret Of Mana, Secret Of Evermore, Lufia, Chrono Trigger and Breath Of Fire. I hope those were all. All in one go traded for PSX and stuff when it was released. Ouch. x_x :embarrassed:

[Videogamerdaryll]

My almost complete Sega Saturn Collection..(years ago)

(the girl I was chasing/dating was just too hot and hated games.)

[Nz17]

Five Game Gear games for Tail's Adventure. It was a Sonic game I'd never heard of at the time, and I traded away the two Mickey Mouse games, the Donald Duck game, the Little Mermaid game, and Dragon Crystal.

Me hatie myself so very big much over that indeed yes. :angry:

[SebasC]

Pff i dont regret selling anything cause i dont sell my collection :D I still own everything i bought since 1990.. never sold anything :P

[Jedi805]

My original NES collection. It was only 15 games but they were complete with boxes and manuals. This was before I got into collecting and didnt really care but now it still pisses me off when I think about it. Sold them about 9 years ago for 50 bucks. :angry:

[max 330 mega]

i sold my original game system too,my nes, and 2 years later i was very sad i did it.....
so i went to my next door neighbors house , said i wanted to borrow it back (the guy who bought it was away at college) and never returned it.. never will either! i now have my original system back! WOO!

[The Manimal]

one of my 'top loader' NES's.

[DigitalSpace]

For a while, it was selling my original copy of Super Mario RPG for $20 back in high school. Fortunately, I got a replacement a few months ago when a friend of mine was generous enough to give me another copy for free.

[charitycasegreg]

During my lull in gaming (end of SNES until PS2), I got into CCGs. When Star Wars first came out, all of my friends played it. I didn't have a job and was too invested in Magic to buy any Star Wars cards so I was left out. Long story short, I saw an advertisement that EB was giving 100 bucks in credit for a SNES with 5 games. I traded in a boxed/complete SNES and 5 boxed/complete games. Those games were Final Fantasy 2, Megaman X, Megaman X2, Ninja Gaiden Trilogy, and Lufia 2. I had 7 games at the time, and while I'm not entirely sure what I was thinking, I know that I regret the two games I decided to keep. Super Mario World and Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball. *shudder* I used the credit to buy cards they were selling. On the plus side, I did get a black bordered Darth Vader and Obi Wan. On the bad side, those cards are worth nothing today :o

Damn that sucks. The only games I have ever sold off is my gameboy pocket with pokemon blue. Sold then for $13 total a few years ago. I have kept every other game and system Iv'e got since 1987.

[kainemaxwell]

Having to pawn off Secret of Mana. Looking back I do regret it but I got something really cool from it seeing how I'm a Star Wars fan and game collector.

[Sniderman]

I sold my complete Sega CD/Genesis many years ago. Why do I still regret it? 'Cause this package included:

- Front-loading Sega CD system - pretty darn rare now
- *All* of my games were purchased new and I kept their cases/boxes in pristine condition. This collection included Night Trap (original run, purchased on day of release), Vay, Shining Force CD, and - hoo boy - Snatcher. Plus about 30-40 other like new, in the box Sega CD rarities.

Got a good price for it at the time. Worth TONS more now. Plus, I miss the system. Great games.

[Mr-E_MaN]

I don't think I have any regrets of things I have sold in the past. I did sell off my NES for $35 at a garage sale when I was a kid, and my SNES for $100 in the paper, but that was a LOT of money for me back then, and I think I had more fund with that then I did with those systems. I got back all of those games, and more, so I don't regret selling them back then...

:D :D

[Flack]

When I was 18 or so I traded my NES and entire collection (20 or so games) to a Pawn Shop for a car alarm. To tell you how good of a deal I got, a month later my car was broken into, and while they were there they stole the alarm. X_x

[QBert]

I regret selling my old Intelly, coleco, NES and SNES.
All with at least 20 games, and up to 35-40 in the case of NES and SNES.
All with boxes, complete and sexy condition.

Oh yeah, thats right, I "upgraded" to get the newest system. x_x

Never do that shit again.

[Fuyukaze]

Selling? My Atari 2600 with all the games, controlers, and accesories to buy a NES. My NES and all the games as well to buy a SNES. Plus a number of SNES games to buy a PS1.

Trade? When I traded FF2, FF3, Crono Trigger, Ogre Battle, Uncharted Waters:New Horizens, Civilization, Breath of Fire 1, and Breath of Fire 2 for store credit at Fun-co land and picked up Metal Gear solid, Parasite Eve, Brave Fencer Mushahi, and Xenogears when they were new. I still have the boxs, manuels, inserts for them all thankfully (got most back again as well).

Loan? When I loaned all the PS1 games from the trade above as well as Kings Feild 1 and Kings Feild 2 to a friend who I found later pawned them all.

In the end I traded my SNES clasics because I thought I would never want to play them again. I loaned what I got thinking I could trust friends. I ended up with nothing. Well, not exactly nothing as I'm a little more wise and a lot less trusting.

[9c1lt1]

Coleco tabletop Pac Man arcade

[Bluteg]

Well for me it would be trading my minty mint complete FF2+3 and Secret of Mana for SNES plus Mega Man 4 and Ninja Gaiden 3 also complete for 4 brand new Dreamcast games when DC firct came out. It didn't seem bad at the time but I got SCREWED over for the long term.

[20eyes]

A sealed copy of Street Cop for NES.

[fishsandwich]

I regret trading away my SNES Dracula X, even if it was loose.

I regret trading off my Jaguar Cd and a sealed copy of Dragon Force (Saturn) for a bunch of Brazillian SMS games (this was before the things started popping up on Ebay all the time.)

I regret loaning that skanky chick my 5200 and games YEARS ago, and I regret dumping all the empty game boxes years later when I realized I'd never got it back. :angry:

Cheers

Fish Sandwich

[fishsandwich]

My almost complete Sega Saturn Collection..(years ago)

(the girl I was chasing/dating was just too hot and hated games.)

@_@

Scary and sad, I say.

I hope you got some and it was as good as you'd hoped...

:devilish:

Cheers

Fish Sandwich

[Videogamerdaryll]

[quote=Videogamerdaryll]My almost complete Sega Saturn Collection..(years ago)

(the girl I was chasing/dating was just too hot and hated games.)

@_@

Scary and sad, I say.

I hope you got some and it was as good as you'd hoped...

:devilish:

Cheers

Fish Sandwich


I hope you got some and it was as good as you'd hoped

:D Yup...It was very good...That's all it became though..She was all about "Party all the time"...a sex maniac too.
We had nothing in common and that lasted only 6 months before we parted our ways..Well she moved to Florida. LOL (I'm glad)

Rocking in the Bed but nothing else...

I don't regret those 6 months of ..... :embarrassed:,but I do regret selling all those games...She tried to get me out of games totally and it partially worked with that sale.
Until I came to my senses..
Things like my job started to become affected by this constant running around with this girl and I had to nip it in the butt.

It's amazing what a hot girl will do you.. x_x

My wife is a game player and I told her when we met..I will always play and collect games..
Get that straight from the door and I'll never change..

[GameNinja]

I regret trading in most of my complete n64 collection. It was only about 15 games, but they were good (paper mario, mario 64, SSB).

[mhsy2a]

Trading in all my older consoles for newer ones. I traded away my Nintendo, SNES, and Sega/32X in order to get a PS1 and N64. I didn't have any rare games for any of them, but it's something that bugs me to this day.

[LeGIt]

I regret selling my £2000 PC for £500 to buy a DC Dev Kit.

Then I regret selling my DC Dev Kit, GD-R Spindle (50x Blanks) and 10x GD-R prototypes to pay the bills / cover my debts.

I also regret taking apart & breaking my GD Writer! :embarrassed:

[klausien]

I would have to say these:

Sold my Kisado for $30 back in 1998 (that was the going rate) when I needed the dough.

Traded Strider Hiryu ACD for Mad Stalker ACD. Downright stupid.

Sold my Arcade Card Duo with the Kisado for an additional $30.

Traded Shining Force III in for $25 credit at Funcoland back at the end of the Saturn's life.

I have definitely had my share of costly doozies. At least I hung onto PD Saga 8-)

[Cmosfm]

About 2 months before I realized that game collecting was my calling, I sold a Maxi 15 NES cart I had bought a long time back at a flea market. Sold it on eBay and made about 30 bucks on it.

Still, DAMN, I wasted it on some shitty DVD's or something.

[TheJuggala]

The only thing I every regret selling was all my N64 stuff. THe system, memory cards and all my colored controllers and games. Still to this day i wish i never sold it, especially for only 60 bux. :(

[YoshiM]

I really regret selling my Intellivision. Given as a gift from a friend who owned a local arcade, I held onto it for quite a few years and even added to the collection with more titles and an Intellivoice. But then it sat, unplayed for some time and I lived in a mobile home so space was scarce. Sold it on eBay for I don't remember how much. Recently I found one of my old catalogs and promptly downloaded an Intellivision Lives! demo with Space Spartans. When I heard the voice announce the game, memories came flooding back thmy visits with my cousin who had an Intv. I wasn't really good at Space Spartans so I handled the repairs and hyperspace while my cousin was the pilot and gunner-essentially I was Scotty to his Captain Kirk. Intv had a great combination I didn't quite appreciate: simplicity with complexity. An oxymoron but one that fits in this case. This one I'll probably get again.

Another minor regret was selling my Atari 5200. Not that it was a big deal as I didn't like the controls but it had a coolness factor about it. I also had a bunch of decent games (Space Dungeon, Pitfall 2, Dreadnaught Factor, etc.) Don't know if I'd buy one again or not but I do think of it from time to time, crap joysticks and all.

[Yago]

YO ED UNDERTAND HOW U FEEL MAN I, LEND OUT A FEW GAME FROM MY COLLECTION TO SO CALL FRIENDS WHO MOVED AWAY.... GAME ARE VALKYRIE PROFILE, SUIKODEN 2 (ITS PAINFUL) OTHER NON IMPORTANT TITLE

Man, sorry, I have to say, TURN YOUR CAPS LOCK OFF, IT'S EXTREMELY ANNOYING WHEN YOU TYPE LIKE THIS!

Many years ago I ended up selling most of my game collection, but kept some things around. After time I got back into it and started over. I have more now than ever. Oh, why I sold it. Well, I got bored of the hobby. I pursued other interests and just did not calculate into keeping the stuff. I'm going through that feeling now, but having already learned my lesson, I put all my games in a storage facility. Maybe one day I'll get back into it again.

[mezrabad]

About 7 years ago my wife says that my PC games are taking up too much space, "when will it end?" I get the bright idea of reducing them to just manuals and media. I crush and toss most of the boxes (about 60 of them) and store the manuals and media neatly in white storage crates. It did reduce the space taken up and it seemed like a good idea at the time as I wasn't really a collector, I was really just a pac-rat. After I commit this foul act (not before and not during, despite me talking about it to her and her being around while it was happening) she then says she did like the way all the pretty boxes looked on the shelves, "much nicer than the new storage containers even though they only take up half the space". Grrr. What I had done began to sink in and I've regretted it ever since.

I no longer act so quickly to appease her casual remarks regarding my hobby.

[wufners]

As I began to grow out of my NES, I sold off some of my collection to friend of my moms. While I didn't sell the system, I did part ways with handful of games and accessories. Included amongst those accesories was "the incredibly lame" R.O.B. :puppydogeyes: 12+ years later, he's no longer quite so lame.

This story does have a happy ending, tho, as after a year of hunting I finally found him at the swap meet for around $3. He only came with one gyro and the red and blue button attachment, so I'm still short a complete gyromite set. But I'm pleased to have him here on my work desk with me.

[Rugal]

Headhunter DC
Project Justice DC
Intelligent Qube PS1

[joshnickerson]

I sold a complete Super Scope at a garage sale during college for only ten bucks (after purchasing it from another garage sale years earlier for ten bucks), and I still regret it.

[EricRyan34]

Final Fantasy 3 and Chrono Trigger SNES, both complete, no bend on the box and manuals, sold both for $25 each back in 1994, ouch, to this day it still hurts, even though I do not collect SNES games, I keep everything in new condition as I bought it.

I did the same exact thing!! I hate thinking about it!

[motley6]

I regret selling my copy of Super Mario Bros. for NES last week. But I only had $0.90 and I really wanted that bottle of diet Coke.

[stuffedmonkey]

Traded a bunch of atari carts for bootleg concert tapes in 98 - don't regret it.
Gave away a 90% of my snes stuff to a friend in 2001 - definately regret it.
Sold nes at yard sale in the late 90s - don't regret it.
Sold turbografx 16 at same sale - wish I had that stuff back.

[sabre2922]

when I was a kid I sold or traded all of these and I regret just about everyone of em :(
SNES 2systems
Genesis 3systems including the cool Genesis 3 that I bought for a measly 25$ brand new!
Nintendo 3or4 of these were all traded or sold at one time or another
TURBOGRAPHIX-16 damn i luved this system! but I traded both one for a buch of SNES games wich wasnt such a bad deal and the other for a freakin 3DO :angry:
My first DC but thats because it was just about worn out so I got my use out of it
all the gameboys I had at one time or another
and more recently the GC but IM going to pick up another one if for for nothing else except RE4 and the new Zelda @_@

[slip81]

I've sold Shining Force III, and both Lunars for the Sega CD, all complete, and Phantasy Star II, complete. I wish I had them all back.

[dcescott]

I sold my T-16, not once, not twice, but three times! And yes I want another one! My wife wonders why I sell them in the first place. The only excuse I have is, well I have no excuse. I'm just plain nuts.

[Barbarianoutkast85]

When I had a Sega and Super Nintendo I gave my aunt my NES for her kids well I didnt want to but my mom was like "she cant aford to buy them new games" and when before i started collecting id trade games in all the time for new ones *sigh*

[klausien]

A Kisado Converter... for $30.

That was the going rate at the time, and I took zero loss then, but now I wish I had it so I could get some arcade card games and try out Sapphire. Sucks that they are so expensive now.

[Gzilla23]

everyone can start laughing now but I regret selling my complete mutant league football for genesis. I can't find one anywhere where I live and that was my favorite game of all time. If anyone has a double I'll give you my kidneys for it....or money whatever works.

[Proclus]

I used to "upgrade" frequently from 1993 to 1996, selling "old" games/systems to get new ones. Since I'm now a retro gamer, I don't think I made very good decisions at the time... but I don't necessarily regret it. There's a time for everything.

[o2william]

The only regret I really have is trading away ColecoVision Fortune Builder. I found it in the wild before I had a ColecoVision console, so I traded it toward getting an O2 Great Wall Street Fortune Hunt set. I'm happy to have the GWSFH set, but over the years, I've picked up and traded several of them. I've never come across a second Fortune Builder.

[ReaXan]

Sega Dreamcast-Got really tired of it and traded it off at used CD store for a "Cracker" Keronsine Hat Album

GoldStar 3DO-bought it for 50 dollars,sold it for 45,should have just kept it for the collectors value of it

NES-gave to my cousin but my damn bitch aunt bought him a N64 and threw the system out when they moved

Jaguar-Threw Away because the sound went out on it,still shouild have kept it.

[kainemaxwell]

I also regret selling off many my old NES games back in the day, before becoming a collector as well as a gamer.

[astronautcowboy3]

I sold House of the Dead for Saturn at a garage sale for $12.

Two weeks ago I picked up another copy on eBay for...nearly $60. :(

[Cobra Commander]

Earthbound. Sold it totally complete with the huge box for $80 almost 3 years ago. I hate myself for that.

[astronautcowboy3]

I also sold my DC BBA for about 80 bucks. Now its going to cost me about $20 more than that to get a new one.

[briskbc]

I've sole a ton of games I would love to have back:

All mint and complete.

Shining Force 1 and 2
Castlevania Chronicles
Chrono Trigget
Earthbound (new)
Snatcher
Dracula X (SNES)
Mega Man X3
Metroid
Braindead 13 (PSX)

....and 23 sealed Bubble Bobbles (PSX) for $30 to $40 each. That's what they were going for at the time but I would have held onton all of them for a few years. I figured they were going to be worth more but I really needed the cash.

[rayearthknight]

I regret selling my Sega Saturn with netlink modem..since long distance is pretty much free nowadays...also my Sega CD

[zerohero]

I pawned,

Paper Mario 64
Ogre Battle 64
Contra NES
and, Final Fantasy II - SNES.

I'm so mad at pawning Ogre Battle 64. I original paid 45 bucks for it.

[Jumpman Jr.]

I pawned off all of my Nintendo games a long time ago, which I regret now. There wasn't anything rare or anything, but its still a pain getting them back.
Same goes for my SNES and games.
I even gave my freaking N64 games away about 5 years ago, which I, of coarse, regret now.

[hu6800]

Half my Turbo Collection including my Pcengine LT.

[TurboGenesis]

Back in my youth I used to sell my games to get cash to buy games. So I went thorugh alot of games back then. Kind of wish I had them all today though I am slowley rebuilding my collection on those things.

I guess I regret pawning my Sega CD (model 1 w/drawer). I originally bought it at launch and well a couple years later I packed it up and pawned it off for a measly $50! It was totally complete with all heat sheilds, all pack in games and even that little screw to secure the base plate on the bottom of the genesis. I still to this day am in need of a Sega CD system so I can play my games that I have now.

[ice1605]

Well, the only trade-in, which I regret, is a complete copy of NES Play Action Football (I have never gotten rid of anything else, except for doubles).

Ice

[kainemaxwell]

Many my other SNES or NES games that I later wanted back when I started collecting for whatever reason or another.

[scorch56]

I regret putting Tactics Ogre on eBay a couple of years back when I was desperate for money and letting it go for somewhere around $35. Especially since I found it, complete; at my local Software Etc. for only $8. I tried to play the game.. but really wasn't into it.. but that's beside the point.

[Mr_Elimin8]

Team Buddies. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

[Retsudo]

Some of my PS1 games. They had great art work on them like, Ace Combat 2 and Tekken 2.

[petewhitley]

I regret selling, trading, or giving away every single piece of videogame history I've ever parted ways with. I've only had to repurchase or search frantically for all of them ever since.

[Haoie]

Tombi [AKA Tomba] really comes to mind. A year or 2 back I got both games in the series and sold them off before trying them out. About half a year ago I got Tombi 2 back but still looking for the first.