Ever Get a Game Before the System to Play It?

[Tron 2.0]

Done it once so far it was when i was switching from, AES to MVS on the NeoGeo setup.

While i was selling... the AES systems plus games i was buying MVS carts at the same time.

By the time i was done i didn't have the CMVS untile a month had gone by.

I remember the waiting part having all these carts and no system to 'try them out.

The day the, CMVS got here i was very excited like some kid getting a xmas present.

[Black_Tiger]

I bought Shape Shifter while waiting for the Turbo Duo to be released and my friend who didn't even own a Turbo CD like I did, bought Dragon Slayer because of the cool art and the fact that it was an RPG.

It was cool to see Dragon Slayer's System 3.0 warning screen. Too bad Shape Shifter's is just plain white text on a black screen.

Once I got my Duo, we got to play both and were very happy with the new format.

Soon after I sold him my Turbo CD and he mail ordered the System 3.0 card.

[Ryu]

I remember buying Donkey Kong Country before getting a Snes. I got Twilight Princess before I got a Wii.

[eternalblue81]

Wow, I think I'm one of the worst when it comes to this. I have a whopping 41 Xbox games, and no Xbox. Only about 14 of them are backwards compatible on my 360, which is currently broken now, anyway. :/

At first I picked up new games for it here and there because I'd find new console-exclusives that I was interested in for less than $5 or so. Then when I got my 360 I continued buying Xbox games in hope that they'd be added to the backwards compatible list. Now I continue to buy used and new Xbox games because since the console's more or less dead, I'd rather find the games I want for it now, rather than later before the games start drying up and become harder to find.

I also have 12 PSP games and no PSP to play them on.. I'm pretty certain I'll get either an Xbox or PSP later this year, but I'm definitely waiting to see if the rumors about a redesigned PSP come to anything.

[Magnum]

I have tons of games for systems I don't own yet

if you can find a cheap game, then buy it fer christ's sakes

[bust3dstr8]

I was buying GBC and GBA for about 6 months before I landed a Cube w/ Gameboy Player.

[Technosis]

I picked up some bargain basement priced Dreamcast games long before the console

[8Ways2Tuesday]

I think I got my first X360 game about a month before the system, since I knew when I got the system I wouldn't be able to afford a game with it. ^^;;

Got myself a couple wonderswan games in December because I knew I was getting one for Xmas. Same with my GBA a few years before. There's nothing worse than getting a system as a gift and having nothing to play for it (and all the stores are closed).

Right now I have a handful of Game Gear games and a non-functioning GG.

[S-Wind]

All the time!

It is inevitable that I will get what ever system comes out, so it is a no-brainer that when I see games for a system (regardless of whether or not I currently own that system) on sale or on clearance, I buy them.

[Habeeb Hamusta]

card fighters clash for ngpc.

[Dingo]

I've yet to buy a game before I have the system, but I have a feeling that I'm going to do that with Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles for PSP.

[chrissylas]

About 5 years ago some guy tried to trade in Panzer Dragoon Zweii at Gamestop (we'd long stopped taking in Saturn games) so I offered the guy $5 for it and he sold it to me. I probably didn't pick up a Saturn system until 2 years after that. It remained my only game for the system until about 6 months ago. I never seem to be able to find good looking Saturn games for sale.

[OatBob]

I've bought a bunch of NES games before the system. Actually, if you call the top-loader second rate, you could say that I still don't have a proper system.

[Rugal]

Yes i have, i did it with the SNES, N64 and the Sega CD. I have 2 SFC games but no SFC.

[Xizer]

Well, I've got six Atari 2600 games sitting on the shelf. I've had 'em for about a year now but I haven't gotten around to picking up a 2600 yet.

[hbkprm]

does pc count

[bangtango]

does pc count

Sure, I don't see why not. So what is the game or what are the games?

[dylan0228]

I`ve bought games before the systems were even released.

[Sparkster]

Yeah, I picked up Mega Man Anniversary for the PS2. I wasn't going to, but the dude was selling it for $2.

[Bassgrabber]

I have some GC games in anticipation of getting a GC or Wii. I also picked up a few PSP and PS2 games before I got those systems. No regrets :-)

[Barbarianoutkast85]

When I first started collecting retro games, I bought a box of 13 Atari Jaguar games. That box sat in my closet for a year and a half before I found a Jaguar in the wild.

[Fuzzball24]

If you count buying Xbox games before having an original Xbox, but being able to play them on a 360, yes!

Damn, you guys are now gonna make me do this. I'm a impulse buyer.:monkey:

[77punk]

i still have a copy of blue thunder (given to me for free) for atari jaguar cd that i will probably very likely never play. Im sure im missing out in those festivities..

[grolt]

I bought VIRTUA FIGHTER in a Wal-Mart bin in 1997 or so for $0.99. I bought it more for my love for the series than anything else, but did plan on eventually getting a system. Here I am now, ten years later, just finally getting my first 32X.

To a lesser degree, I bought a lot of Sega CD games a couple months ago, and only now bit the bullet and bought a boxed unit. Still, I really don't have much interest playing them, but those blue cases sure look pretty. :D

[mezrabad]

I have no XBOX 360 yet I'm feeling very compelled to get a copy of Bioshock. I also seem to be jonesin' for Oblivion GotY edition.

It just ain't right. :(

[Icarus Moonsight]

As of now I am holding 2600, Xbox and PSP games with nothing to play them on. Plus controllers, cables and what nots for those and a few other systems I don't have. While I plan on owning a xbox and PSP in the future I'm fine with my flashback 2 and atari/activision compilations for Atari stuff. I could do a cart slot mod on the flashback but it's not something I'm wanting to do at this point.

[108Stars]

I bought TMNT: Fall of The Footclan a few weeks before I got my Gameboy.

[Steve W]

I now have two Emerson Arcadia 2001 carts without a console to play them on, and a Commodore Plus/4 cartridge without a label and no computer to try it out with. I still haven't found a Fairchild Channel F to play my Bowling cartridge on, or a working Game.com to play the couple games I have for it.

[The 1 2 P]

Um...all the time. I had PS2, Gamecube, N64, CD-I, Saturn, Dreamcast and Snes games long before I ever had the systems to play them on. It's called early preperation.

[RadiantSvgun]

I bought 360 stuff 2 months before I got my 360. Can't pass up a good deal if I see it.

[klausien]

Many times. Almost a par for the course thing for me. I tend to get systems long after they have dropped in price.

I picked up Daytona USA for the Saturn before the system was even released. Listened to the music tracks in anticipation. It was a 3 month wait after launch, as I had to save up for it. Money well spent. I still love my Saturn to death.

I also had Halo 2 and Panzer Dragoon Orta before I got an XBox. I was between jobs, working part time at a Funcoland, so I couldn't afford it. It was a tough wait; almost a year. I had gotten a job way before a year had passed, but I was still tight financially. It didn't help that I also bought a launch PSP to congratulate myself for my new job. ;) (Had the import of Lumines before I got that one too actually). It was truly glorious when I finally got to play. PD Orta was especially worth the wait. That one still looks like a 360 game to my eyes.

Finally, I had Halo 3 for a couple months before I got a 360. I had also picked up Ridge Racer 6 (I'm a HUGE RR fan) and Wartech: Senko no Ronde (meh) by the time I got one. My wife ended up getting me an Elite for my wedding gift. I was totally flabbergasted. She is the best! She was originally going to get me an Asteroids machine, but I found out and put the kibosh on it (we don't have a place to put it), that and she couldn't find one at the time. She also got me that Fossil Asteroids watch, but I am really digressing now.

[The Shawn]

I remember I won a bloodrayne video game from tips n' tricks for the gamecube way before I ever owned the system. Some kind of caption this picture contest, it was a pic of bloodrayne sucking the life outta some zombie and I wrote something like "Get off me bitch your crushin' my smokes"

Anyway's I was still playing N64 at the time and had to look at that Bloodrayne game about a year before I actually got the cube for a X-mas present to play it on...

[Deadman]

Due to ebay "lots", this has happened to me quite a bit. I owned SNES games for over a year before I ever got a console to play them on. This has happened with the Game Gear, Jaguar, PSOne, 5200, and 7800 going back over the last 10 years or so.

[coreys429]

I have GTA 4 without a 360. ( a buddy let me borrow the system though )
I got some Atari Jaguar AV cable and controller long before I had a system.
Now I have some TG-16 stuff as in a controller, rf, power, and mulitap. All I need is a system and Bomberman.

[Kaboomer]

My memory of this is one of my fondest memories in all of my gaming. Back in the day before one of my birthdays, my mom let me pick out an Atari 2600 before getting the system on my birthday. I immediately picked out Kaboom (loved the box art) and couldn't wait to play it. So I talked her into letting me take it to friends house who had an Atari. We played it for hours on end day after day. I couldn't wait for my birthday to get the system so I could play it in my on house. It is obviously one of my favorite games to this day. And my favorite Atari game hands down.

[Sudo]

I bought Trauma Center: Second Opinion before the Wii launched. Gamestop was selling the game early, and I already had the system paid for in full, so I figured I may as well go ahead and pick it up ahead of time.

[Lemmi_Is_God]

i bought a vectrex multicart 2 years before i bought the system

[Nebagram]

I make a point of never buying games that I can't actually play- whether it's due to not having the console or having the wrong region console (my Shining series collection has a few annoying gaps as a result of this rule). That said, I did pick up a SNES import adaptor about 2 weeks before picking up the SNES... but that isn't a game, is it? ;)

[JSoup]

Oh, I've done this before.
I got Monster Rancher 2 two months before I got my PSX for Christmas.
I have a copy of Mario Clash and E.T. with no VB or Atari 2600 to back them up.

[cosmicpsycho]

I have quite a few Sega CD and Saturn games but no system for either. I don't do this with newer sytems though.

[kurtori]

I can still remember this clearly: back in 1991 when the SNES was a very new console in the US, I'd received two Genesis games as gifts. I knew that I would be getting the SNES for Christmas that year, and returned the two sealed Genesis games to the store to get an early start on my SNES collection. I chose Actraiser and Super R-Type. It was torture having to wait til Christmas to play them, but I sure had the instruction booklets memorized by the time I finally did!

[Steve W]

I picked up Call of Duty 3 for the Nintendo Wii yesterday at Sears marked down to $4.97, and yet I don't have the console to play it on.

[Damaramu]

Recently, I bought 3 PSP games at Target because they were on clearance despite not being a PSP owner at the time. Couldn't pass them up.

In my teens, I had an HUGE TG16 collection that I foolishly sold. I'd like to get a Duo...but current prices on the system alone are outrageous on Ebay. I've seen auctions go easily into the $300's. Fuck that.

I chose to simply emulate the HU-Card games on my laptop (via Magic Engine), and I am buying ACTUAL TG-16/PCEngine CD games off Ebay and elsewhere.

[megasdkirby]

I've had several of these.

One of the most memorable was when I received my 8th grade graduation gift... Super Mario All Stars for SNES. I was ecstatic yet sad, because I could not play the game. I only had other systems except that one. Every day after that, I would read the manual over and over again, memorizing nearly everything. I remember seeing a few commercials for it and REALLY *liking* a blond plumber girl I kept seeing. She was nice... :)

In any case, a few years after I managed to finally play the game. When I did, a rush of memories came about which brought in a deep, nostalgic feeling.

I will never forget those precious moments...

[glorfindel]

i purchased some terrible xbox game before i got my xbox. forget the name but i was out on vacation and saw it on sale. didnt kno if it was good or not but it was cheap. then when i got back i got my xbox!

[The 1 2 P]

I keep buying all these clearance 360 games and still no 360 to play them on. By the time I get one I'll have 30 plus games for it.

[namzep]

I think the only system that I currently have a game for that I don't own is Doom for the 32X. However, at various points I've had games for the 5200, XBox, Mac, CD-i, Saturn, and NGPC when I didn't own the system. I now own most of those systems and no longer have the games for the 5200 or Mac.

[megasdkirby]

I keep buying all these clearance 360 games and still no 360 to play them on. By the time I get one I'll have 30 plus games for it.

Same here. Since I work in hell...err...Sears, they sometimes liquidate games for $5 or less. I have purchased around 10 or so for that price.

And with the hope-to-be-soon reduction, I may consider picking up the system. ONLY if they manage to fix the RROD.

[murdoc rose]

happens all the time on stuff I'm not use to collecting at the moment.

[TheRealist50]

I do it with used games all the time, I do plan on buying the systems...eventually, whenever I can FIND one. I would love a 32X but the only place that has one in my city sells it for $36. There is no way I'm paying $36 plus tax for a 32x.

I've only done it once with a NEW game. I bought PGR for the xbox about a week before I got an xbox. Luckily my friend had a Xbox so I played it at his place till I got one.

[The 1 2 P]

I can now add Call of Duty 4 to my stack of 360 games. It was clearanced at Besy Buy today so I now have 9 Xbox 360 games, 1 wireless controller, an HDMI cable, several strategy guides and no 360 to play them on. But I'll get one...one day.

[Nightwing]

My choice is the Bally Videocade/Astrocade. A system that I have a fair amount of interest in,but can't seem to get one at a decent price. I have 4 games for it & even found some extra controllers once - but still no system.

For now...

[Zap!]

Around 1991, I bought a Vic-20 game because it was on clearence for about $1 at Toys R' Us. I still don't own the system.

[Astrosmash]

Within the past month or so I bought ToeJam & Earl III for Xbox, but don't actually own the system - I do have a 360, but this is one of the original Xbox games that's *not* backwards-compatible (and yes, I knew that when I bought it). I was just such a huge fan of the series, the first game in particular, that I couldn't pass it up. Eventually I'll get around to getting something to play it on.

[fastlane250]

I have two Genesis games that I bought at a thrift store, but nothing to play them on.

[lazyhoboguy]

When I was just getting into gaming at a young age, me and my brother split the cost of buying wcw/nwo revenge for n64, we had no n64. It was a hint for our parents what we wanted for Christmas haha. It worked

This summer I bought killer instinct on snes and do not have a snes yet. I liked killer instinct on gb, it was my first game ever, so had to pick this up when I saw it at a thrift store for like $1.50

[Kid Dracula]

I bought quite a few 2600 games before I got the system. I wasn't even planning to get an Atari at the time, they just seemed so collectible. Got Pitfall and Adventure complete in box for 2 $ each and a couple of xonox double enders for 1 $ each. Later found out out they were fairly rare. That catalysed my fondness for Atari and prompted me to get a system.

[SEGA_Queen]

Only once. Years ago I found a copy of Sonic Chaos at a garage sale. Of course, being a big Sonic fan, I had to have it. I managed to convince my mom to buy it for me, even though I didn't own a Game Gear. Eventually I did get the system for one of my birthdays.

[MrSparkle]

several times

had a virtual boy game for a few months before i just got my virtual boy (tonight actually :) :))

have a couple of pc-engine games which i got before i even got my turbografx and i still dont have a converter

i have yars revenge but no 2600 or 7800 to play it on lol

[darkslime]

I have around 10 NES games and no NES. >_<

[WhatsMyUsername]

I bought Dead Rising before I got my Xbox 360 because I heard rumors of it being pulled from the shelves.

[Gamebrain]

I actually bought Unreal Tournament and Midnight Club before I actually got my PS2 all the way back in 2000.

[nintendoeats]

Several times. I own severl intellivision, colecovision and atari 2600 games with no consoles to use them with. I also got a copy of super mario bros. 2 (oh sorry, I mean SMB Advance) when it came out for the GBA...which I promptly lost...before buying a GBA 2 months later... well, I got Golden sun with it and that was way better, so I gues I can forgive this occurence. maybe.

Oh yeah, and I have this Arcadia 2001 game, a lynx game and a few games where I don't even know what system they are for. Oh, my computer can USUALLY run Fallout 3 at 25 FPS, does that count?

[Draven]

I had a copy of Mortal Kombat for SNES about a year before I picked up a SNES. I also had about 100 games for NES that I couldn't play for about 6 months because my toaster died on me (but I guess that doesn't really count).

[super nes]

Iron Tank for the NES i never owned a NES, but whats bothering me about that is WHERE THE HELL THE GAME CAME FROM?!?

[grolt]

Bought a Virtua Fighter 32X when they were clearing out in Wal-Mart for $1.99 in 1996. Eleven years later I finally got a system. Good port, better than the Saturn version.

[SpaceHarrier]

Picked up Panzer Dragoon Orta, Doom 3 and I think DOA 3 a couple weeks before I bought an Xbox, about 1 1/2 years ago..

[SegaAges]

I got trickstyle on 9/9/99.

Since my birthday is 10/8, may parents actually got me a system from 9/9/99, but I didn't have it yet, so I did buy Trickstyle for DC before I had a DC

[MrSparkle]

Kind of the opposite here but when i first got my n64 i didnt have a game for it for awhile. I remember being so excited to have it anyway that i would just play with the controller imagining how much it would rock when i finally got a game for it lol.

[The 1 2 P]

Yes...

[Mayhem]

Gotta bunch of 5200 games (mostly homebrew) and still no console to play them on yet...

[Gamebrain]

I actually found a couple of 3do games a long time ago (i think around 1996 or so) before actually getting a 3DO off of ebay in 2004.

SF 2 Turbo (great port), Samurai showdown, and DOOM (yuck, worst console port hands down)

[allyourbase]

I recently bought Superman for the Nintendo 64. I heard it was friggin' SWEET! I can't wait to get a system so I can get some gaming on!


In other news, back in the day I got both Hex and Star Wars: Rogue Squadron for my birthday (Nov. 26th) from my grandfather in the mail... Turns out my mom had gotten my an N64 for Christmas that year. I flipped out so severely from excitement that she let me open it christmas eve night.

Rogue Squadron- one of my favorite titles back in the day
Hex- try every day to remember to forget this one

[VACRMH]

Adding PS3 to my list. I picked up Genji for $5 a few months ago.

Either I'll just get the damn system, or play it at a friends house.

[Porksta]

I traded for a few Dreamcast games before I actually owned a Dreamcast.