When's the last time you purchased a game at retail price?

[dieourumov]

I'm talking about store retail , not ebay, and what game was it?

I went on a trip to Japan in 2003 and purchased Mother 1 + 2 for 4500 yen, which is like $50 US or something like that...and that was the last game i bought for retail value at a store.

[zerohero]

Last month I purchased Fear Collectors edition for $45. The next game will probably be shadow of collosus.

[esquire]

Last night, Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow for NDS - $34.99

[VACRMH]

Just recently.

$20 for Capcom Classics

If it's something I really want i'll pick it up at retail, also if it's something I want to play and don't feel like tracking down later (Such as most Atlus games)

[BrokenFlight]

Probably Gran Turismo 4 for £30 on its release in March. That seems quite a long time to me. I may have bought one since, but I can't think what it could be.

[Wester]

Medal of Honor: Frontline
Bloodrayne

A little after MOH came out.

[drewbrim]

I haven't bought anything for myself at retail in years. But I did buy a couple greatest hits titles new for my kids last Christmas. If we aren't counting "budget" titles or price drops, then the most recent game I bought new at it's MSRP was Zelda OOT.

[dsullo]

Resident Evil 4 Collectors Tin for GC and Halo 2 Collectors were my last full price purchases

[Crazycarl]

yesterday truama center. Its deffently worth the the price. I will also be picking up Shadow of the Collosus for retail too. If i see a game i like i will pay the price, but unforntially they are few a far b/w. 50 bucks is a lot of cash to me so im a little more stingy when i drop my money.

[Mr.FoodMonster]

Sept. 28th, DDR Extreme 2

I buy new full retail price games quite often. Its a good way to support the industry. Something that many of the people on this board forget about.

[jajaja]

I think it was Super Mario Advance 4 for GBA. Aproximate $65 (normal price for a GBA game here).

[Quintracker]

Probably Drakkhen for snes in 1991 for $59.99, after that I don't think I've ever bought another game at full price. Do I win? ;)

[Garry Silljo]

Psychonauts. I usually won't pay full price, but I want to see more games like this so I voted with my dollars.

[Buyatari]

I buy greatest hits titles for myself for $20.00 all the time. Sometimes when I'm stuck I'll even buy a $49.99 title to resell for $49.99 at my store if a customer needs it bad enough.

When was the last time I spend $49.99 on a title I played and didn't resell in the next few days? Err.....Um...Sega CD games over 10 years ago.

[Mayhem]

As I buy everything online, it's never retail price in the first place LOL

[anagrama]

Early/mid 2001: Rez (DC), £29.99.

[diskoboy]

Last night when I bought Black and White 2.

And I still only payed $39 for it.

[McBacon]

When I get N64 carts for £1 - £5 each, its very hard to justify paying £30/£35 for a game, so I guess it was Wario Ware Touched on the European Release of the DS, back in march.

[ubersaurus]

Well, there were those 6 dollar N-gage games from ebgames.com. If you mean like, launch price, then it was Advance Wars Dual Strike at 35 bucks.

[Jumpman Jr.]

I guess it would have to be Super Smash Bros. Melee. I think I paid 49.99 (Canadian) for it a little while after it was released.

[Videogamerdaryll]

About two weeks ago..
I went to EB to buy several games used..

Picked up Darkwatch(Xbox) New at at retail price since they didn't have any used..
Silpheed PS2 new at $11.99..Very happy to get a new mint copy at that price since I've been looking for the game.
Any that I have used very trashed and close to that price.

My wife a couple of days ago picked up New at at retail price (for me)
Ghost Recon 2 Summit Srike & GTA SA se (Xbox)

[Spinal]

5 days ago, I walked into a store looking for a pair of bongo's for donkey konga (a present for a friend, so couldn't buy anything used :P)

I came out of the store with a SNES Madden NGL '94 (US) for £1, a pair of bongo's and a pre-owned Extreme G III for the GC... I repeat, game stores are dangerous! Every time I enter one, I get robbed! They MUST spray something in the air that forces you to buy until your wallet goes empty....

Michele

[cityside75]

Midway Arcade Treasures 2 for 19.99.

Before that, I don't even remember. The closest I've come to spending 49.99 on a game was buying 2 getting one free on full price games at TRU a couple of years ago.

I'm cheap.

[Griking]

It depends on the cost of the game. I'll buy a game brand new If its $30 and under and I can't find a mint used copy. Anything over $30 and I usually wait to find a used copy unless its a special game that might be hard to find down the road.

[DigitalSpace]

We Love Katamari for $29.99 on Monday.

[donkeykong1]

The last one I bought was Lumines for the PSP.

[Sylentwulf]

Final Fantasy X. And I regret it. Deeply.

[SKVermin]

This weekend, Capcom Classics Collection for Xbox at $29.99 CDN, and Batallion Wars for GameCube at $57.99 CDN.

[Retsudo]

Last week when I purchased Capcom Classics Collection.

[Malon_Forever]

I bougth X-Men Legends II for my GCN the day it came out. (September something...)

[-hellvin-]

DS - Casltevania: Dawn of Sorrow - 34.99

Of course, with employee discount it was only 25 bucks ;D.

[alec006]

Sonic Heros about 5 months ago and Sonic Gems in Augest. Both from Walmart. And i can remember Goldeneye in 1997 i got at Best Buy. And Rush 2049 in 1999 at Walmart.

[Rogmeister]

I paid full price for the last game I bought which was Mario Superstar Baseball for the Nintendo GameCube. I like Mario and I like baseball so I figured I just didn't want to wait for that one.

I probably could have waited but... :P

[hades]

Chalk another one up to We Love Katamari for $29.99. Well worth retail at that price. I don't think I'm ever going to buy a 'console' game retail if they're going the way of $60 unless it's a Katamari type game. I don't like the route that hand helds are going with the 35-40 thing.

Although I think I'm going to pick up that Castlevania game and a DS next paycheck... :/

[Leo_A]

Capcom Classics Collection and Midway Arcade Treasures 3. Shorlty before that I had bought Tecmo Classic Arcade, Sonic Gems Collection, and Namco Museum 50th Anniversary Collection.

[Dr. Morbis]

The last game I ever bought at opening retail price was Perfect Dark for N64, back in '99 (or whenever it was released). I was so pumped from how great Goldeneye was that I even preordered this quasi-sequel.

[miaandjohnrule]

Last one for me was Grand Theft Auto : San Andreas the day it came out back in June. It's alot of fun , albeit they are all a little bit of a rehash of the previous versions.

[MarkMan]

Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow for $34.99 and Lost in Blue for $29.99 the week before.

[sabre2922]

Final Fantasy X. And I regret it. Deeply.

I know exactly how u feel ;)

The last game I purchased at full price was Silent Hill 4: the room and it was worth every penny at least for me so dont bother flaming me -to those on here that are Silent hill haters or just plain ol SABRE2922 haters :D
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[videogameking26]

Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (DS)

[Mianrtcv]

Lunar Dragon Song... and the song suxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
LOL
That plus some $19.99 titles like midway collection 3 etc etc(if that counts)

[jdc]

Last one was Far Cry Instincts for Xbox last week. It starts out killer....but gets lame at the end. You can finish it in a day....and it's SUPER easy, even if you totally suck at shooters.

DON'T pay full price for it.

[Nesmaster]

Burnout Revenge, $30 (after my trade in credit) :)

[Vroomfunkel]

A loooong time ago. I bought Amplitude for the PS2 from Amazon the day it came out in the UK.

But maybe that doesn't even qualify, because I also used a £5 off voucher that I got from coming in the top 10 scoreboard on some online Super Off Road clone on the Micro Mart website. I was damn close to coming top and winning some completely awesome prize that was so cool that I have clean forgotten what it was. Probably a good thing, since if I could remember I'd still be cursing today.

The funniest part is that if you emailed three freinds about it and they logged in for a race then you could get some 'turbo engine' thing that let you go faster.

Well, I emailed three freinds, but not all of them logged in ... so I never got my turbo powered engine. But I still nearly came top anyway :)

Without such flaky friends, that prize coulda been mine I tell you, all mine!!


Hmm. I seem to have drifted off topic a bit. Before that, the last retail price game that I bought was probably Record of Lodoss War for the Dreamcast. Because it was £4.99 ...

Vroomfunkel

[squidblatt]

Lost in Blue and Trauma Center.

I don't want to pay more than 30.00 for a portable title, so I'm waiting for a price drop or used copies of quite a few others. If more games were released at that price point, I'd probably buy them. I did pay full price (35.00) for Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones and Meteos a month or two ago; I just felt I needed them.

[Gurn13]

Adventure for the 2600, since then.. never.

[CYRiX]

The last thing I have even received that was purchased at full price was Halo 2. As you can tell I don't buy much stuff when there are just released.

[josekortez]

Namco 50th (GC) last night at Toys R Us. Then, again it was part of the buy 2, get 1 free sale, so I still got a deal...:)

[le geek]

We Love Katamari for $29.99 on Saturday :)

Cheers,
Ben

[fishsandwich]

The original Conkers for the Nintendo 64 wayyyy back when. Ok, 5 years ago. Paid $50. Don't regret it at all.

:D

[Keir]

Katamari Damacy was only $20 wasn't it? That's what I paid for it, even though I waited nearly a year to get it. So, I guess that's it for me.

[Lady Jaye]

Yesterday, when I bought Karaoke Revolution 3.

However, I don't normally pay retail price, because I don't usually buy my games in retail.

[ClubNinja]

We Love Katamari, September 28th.

[VG_Maniac]

Metal Gear Solid 3 for $29.99....about a month ago.

[Daft Punk]

resident evil 4

[dreamcaster]

Soul Calibur II (GCN) - $93.50AU back in September 2003.

Unless we can count 'platinum' etc., in which case it was Sonic Heroes (XB) - $44.90AU last December.

[towerofsong]

Pro Evolution Soccer 4 for £38

[GameSlaveGaz]

Technically, We Love Katamari for $30. But that's only cuz I reserved it a GameStop but couldn't use my boyfriend's employee discount. I only reserved it and paid full price there instead of buying it with my 10% employee discount at Toys R Us because when you reserve something at GameStop you can pay it off in increments. So I may have paid the full $31.49 (that's with tax) but I did it $5 at a time over 3 months so it felt a lot less. :)

Other than that I NEVER buy games at retail price, because even if I buy a new game, I usually buy it at my work with my discount. But I'm always buying used games at GameStop with my 10% Game Informer discount or conning my boyfriend into buying it for me so I can use his 15% employee discount (I HAD to do this with Kirby's Til n Tumble. For a $20 GBC game, I'd rather save 15% than 10%. LOL)

So the only time I pay for games at full price w/no discount of any sorts is when I reserve them. And I only reserve the games I HAVE to have the day they come out. (We Love Katamari, DDR Mario Mix and Twilight Princess are so far the only 3 I've done)
And the one other time I paid retail price was buying KotOR at Target. I did it b/c my store had none, GameStop had none and it was advertised for $16.88, so it was a decent price anyway.

It's amazing how little I usually pay for games :)

[philosophyst]

Last night, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (DS) :D

[poopnes]

Pokemon: Leaf Green $29.99...but I did use some trade-ins so I got it for less, so I guess it doesn't count, but it was the last game I bought brand new.

Digging deeper I'd probably have to say Zelda: Wind Waker back on its release date for $49.99

[hegyak]

Zatch bell: mamodo battles. Got it yesterday.

[colonel_chambers]

Hmm..let's see. I think it was pro evo soccer 4 about a year ago.
I usually wait for second hand copies to become available, which is usually in the space of a couple of weeks.

[blissfulnoise]

An hour ago. Zoo Tycoon DS. $29.99

[cyberfluxor]

A couple of months ago I bought Guild Wars for $50 at Best Buy. The previous game was sometime early last summer getting Worms 3d for my Game Cube at Game Stop.

[njiska]

Castlevaina: Dawn of Sorrow, at Launch
Nintendogs, at Launch
Geist, at launch (Fucking disappointment)
Meteos, Mid July
Killer 7, At launch

Damn so much money. I look forward to buying Phoniex wright and Tramua Centre at launch too.

[sleepycal]

Resident Evil 4 gamestop limited edition.

Can't remember the price. $59.99 or something.
Back in Feb I think.

Before that? Might have been Evil Dead for the PS2 waaaay back in summer 2003. Everything else has been on sale, lowered in price over time, or pre-owned.

[Doku_san]

Metal Gear Solid 3. A veeery long time ago. I dont get many games :|

[Alska]

Psychonauts for me ($45) and ::twitch:: ::drool:: ::convulse:: a Nintendo DS and Nintendogs for the wife...

She...just....keeps....poking....them....

[namzep]

Warioware: Twisted! (GBA) back when I first bought my GBA (July I think). That was a big waste of $$$ (the game not the system).