Your biggest misses of the year?

[ianoid]

I hate hearing about or seeing things that I just missed- a BIN you missed by a minute, or a flea market vendor saying 'aw, I sold that a few minutes ago.' My misses:

2600 heavy 6 switch boxed and a honey bee: $25- went to get cash from my wife- returned to the flea market vendor (who promised to save it) no more than 3 minutes later- already sold it. Saw the kid walking away with it. That hurt.

Another flea market seller told me he just sold a huge box of those (Atari 2600 games) when I show him the only remaining one at the bottom of a box of walkmans and other garbage- CN/AD Xonox double ender. At least I got that one for a buck. Dang it!

[Grim_Reaper_Bostock]

My buddy has a habit of keeping an eye out for deals for me (good thing) but then not telling me for a couple days (very, very bad thing). It's cost me more than my share.

What hurts the most isn't the ones that I just missed, but the ones that I can't afford. Those ones really hurt. Like, you go into a flea market or a Goodwill outlet, and you find something great, but you don't get paid until the next day. That hurts.

[Ed Oscuro]

~$250 complete x68K machine with tons of games; thought they were a ton of copies but turned out 85% were complete. Didn't have money at the time though. Would have helped the list I'm making! All the same gave me some titles to keep an eye out for (Bitmap Brothers' Xenon is on the system?!)

[Richter Belmount]

turbo express for $50 bucks -.-

[max 330 mega]

top hunter complete english AES for $38... it was before i never thought id get an AES system :(

[Nesmaster]

numerous nes games and systems at garage sales, bubble bath babes complete for $50, about 4 boxes of nes games from a guy who took them to a pawn and was refused. :angry:

[Aussie2B]

At an online marketplace, I just barely missed the chance to get official soundtracks for games such as Secret of Evermore, Terranigma, Super Mario RPG, and others... x_x You guys don't even WANT to know how much those are worth. The seller had obviously been a big game music fan at one point, but I guess he wasn't keeping up with values. He basically priced everything a bit less than their MSRPs were (he was asking around $25 for Super Mario RPG, $15 for Secret of Evermore, etc.)

I did get some really nice albums from him, but the ones I bought were ones that hadn't gone up in value, so the prices were pretty much as expected.

[Ed Oscuro]

numerous nes games and systems at garage sales, bubble bath babes complete for $50, about 4 boxes of nes games from a guy who took them to a pawn and was refused. :angry:
whoa whoa WHOA :o

[Qixmaster]

a complete in box stack up at CGE for 40 bucks. How did i scan over that??! at least swlovinst (a good guy) walked away with it.
I did however snag the complete dk jr math at the same booth.

fun n games 5.00 BIN... jonjandran beat me to the punch by seconds.... and i mean seconds. he used BIN right before i was about to hit it, seriously. oh well, i won another one for 23.00 bucks so i was cool with that. but 5.00 BIN for one of the rarest SNES? damn...

i'm sure there are others, but those are a few that came to mind.

[Gapporin]

I missed getting a complete Suikoden at a pawn shop. Price? $8. :frustrated:

Although, like Grim Reaper said, most of the times when I miss something, it's because I can't afford it at the time. It hurts even more when you go back with all the money needed, and it's not there anymore. :(

[drummy]

I missed getting a complete Earthbound for about $35 shipped. OH GAWD, THE HUMANITY!

[charitycasegreg]

Man reading this stuff is depressing. Mine would have to be going to a garage sale about 30 minutes late. I got there, asked if they had games, she said "we sold an xbox, a nintendo, a super nintendo, and a dreamcast about 20 minutes ago. Then I just had to ask how many games for the NES, and she said that system had a lot of games with it. Another would be an atari with about 20 gaes for 4.99 at goodwill that I saw in some lady's cart, she said she was going to resell the antique. I had many good deals to make up for it though so Im happy.

[Querjek]

\he was asking around $25 for Super Mario RPG :eek 2: :eek 2: :eek 2:

[eightbitonline]

this:

http://www.eightbitonline.com/graphics/2600a.jpg

for $10. i'm not a VCS collector, so i equated it to the sort of famiclones one sees all the time (esentially worthless), but i took pictures of it at the goodwill just to show any interested parties, and the reaction was overwhelming. i felt like a stooge for not having picked it up.

[kainemaxwell]

Missed getting a non-GH FF7 at my GS a few weeks ago. :(

[izret101]

I missed a complete Samba de Amigo with maracas.

[youruglyclone]

two turbo expresses with tv tuner because ebay did the verify password thing

[slip81]

Missed getting a boxed Buster Douglas Boxing for SMS for $9.99. I was so mad, I could have had it if I just remembered to bid :(

[Quintracker]

The only thing I recall is a yard sale that advertised snes games along with the usual junk. I figured there was no reason to get there early, usually no one buys this stuff around here. I get there about an hour or two later, and there are only a couple common loose games left. I don't know for sure, but I get the feeling there could have been a few gems that were snagged up before me.

[Cauterize]

£25 for a PAL Gamecube at a car boot...
I needed one as i have a USA/JAP switcher GC and its a pain loading up freeloader to play PAL games when im in a PAL region! Poo!

[Luke]

Mine was Eliminate Down for JP MD from Matt's sale. Sure it was still over US$100 but tell me where you can get a copy of Eliminate Down for below US$113?

Luke

[vintagegamecrazy]

Besides numerous Ebay losses, My friend was selling a Turbo Express and 2 games for 55 bucks, and I didn't have the money at the time, Dang it.

Probably my biggest letdown came from Sean Kelly's ChiTown party, I called him earlier that week and he said he had John's copy of Bounty Bob Strikes Back for the 5200 (sale for 200 dollars) I get there and had the cash in hand and asked him for it and he and Sean both said it was lost and none could find it, Holy Krap, you wanna talk about a fallout! Where else do you find that game for under $300 any more?

[MikeBoh8]

i saw sega gt 2002 for xbox only 4.99 :eek 2:
should have bought it

[Classicgamesdepot]

A box of 30 sealed Pilotwings non greatest hits snes (3 bux each :-(

and on e-bay, A complete pockey and rockey 2 for 12 bux I was too late to bid on ahhh

[EnemyZero]

Missed getting a complete gamegear in its original box, w/instructions posters and all the goodies it comes with, a brand new official sega carrying case, a brand new ac adaptor, 25 complete boxed almost new games for $100 bucks....i asked how much, he said 250...i was broke..and wouldnt of spent that much anyways....so im about to walk away and this little kid and his dad walk up behind me and ask him if he will take 100 bucks..he says yes and they walk away with a smile..and me wanting to punch all 3 of them

[YoshiM]

Because I didn't have the cash, I passed up a Japanese Saturn with a bundle of games (one of them was Castlevania: Nocturne of the Night) for $100.

Also I think...I THINK I passed by a Guardian Heroes for Saturn complete that I could have gotten for $10. But my memory is fuzzy on if I actually saw it or not (dude had a TON of Saturn games for sale).

[Ed Oscuro]

That'd be Nocturne in the Moonlight.

Curious, how many other games were in the bundle? Saturn NitM is a pretty horrible looking game, but it does pull down about $50-$60 complete.

[DigitalSpace]

A few weeks ago I was checking Gamestop's site and decided to see if there was a copy of Cubivore at any of their local stores. To my amazement, one nearby had a copy. So I went there as fast as I could, only to find out they sold it earlier in the day.

Should have probably just called the store before leaving, but I guess all I could think of was the possibility that I was finally getting a copy of Cubivore. At least the GS wasn't across town - that would have added more salt to the wound.

[YoshiM]

That'd be Nocturne in the Moonlight.

Curious, how many other games were in the bundle? Saturn NitM is a pretty horrible looking game, but it does pull down about $50-$60 complete.

Ah, thanks. I couldn't remember the correct title and didn't feel like looking it up.

I think it was a bundle of like 5 games, though I'll be dipped if I can remember them all. I think I saw a Virtua Fighter 2 but other than the Castlevania (which has pretty distinctive packaging) the rest was a blur. The guy used to work at a local new/used/buy game store that went out of business (where a lot of the games had that store's label on them) and was selling the stuff he didn't want at the annual "city garage sale". I hoped he'd come back but he hasn't.

[unbroken]

this year i missed out on:

~sega nomad for $5 at some random pawn shop. I had gone to the atm, took about 5 minutes, came back and some old homeless guy was taking it to the register, i almost shit myself.

~suikoden 2 for $10 at a flee market. same as above happend to me.

~one time at a flee market i had noticed a box full of random sega cd games, soundtracks, and nes games. as i was digging through them, they dude who was selling it said "you should have been here a minute ago, i had tons of this garbage, like nes and snes games that were still new in the box, i was sellin em for a buck each"

[Ed Oscuro]

this year i missed out on:

~sega nomad for $5 at some random pawn shop.

~suikoden 2 for $10 at a flee market. same as above happend to me.

...

they dude who was selling it said "you should have been here a minute ago, i had tons of this garbage, like nes and snes games that were still new in the box, i was sellin em for a buck each"
First two were your fault, last one...I feel sorry for ya, man. They were probably sports titles though (just BELIEVE IT ;)