Ever Get a Game Before the System to Play It?

[DKTheArcadeRat]

I kinda did the opposite of this? I have a bunch of TurboGrafx games, and a PC Engine game or two, but no system to play them on. I had one when I bought the games, but I got rid of the system. Have been waiting around on a deal on a modded TurboDuo or PC Engine Duo for a while now, so the games collect dust.

[TheGam3r]

I have alot of Genny Carts that are in my room and my genesis is at mailboxes etc in plattsburgh

[Rickstilwell1]

I asked for Sonic Mega Collection for GameCube as soon as it came out, even though I didn't have the system. I saw it in Nintendo Power and was overjoyed to see this all in one disc. My grandma bought it for me since she knew I always liked those games and she trusted that I would probably buy the system as it was a Nintendo product. I got the game on Christmas.

I couldn't hold back for long though, and bought my GameCube as soon as possible with my Christmas money that year. Being a fan of the old Sonic games I enjoyed hours just looking at all the extra content and replaying those classics.

Then my stepdad got me Oddworld: Munch's Odyssey for Xbox at one point because I liked the Playstation Oddworld games. Finding out that Oddworld was moved to the rival system, I just had to buy that $60 pawned Xbox to play it. Back then that was a good price for the system.

Another one was Super Mario Bros. Deluxe for Game Boy Color. I had fun looking at the instruction booklet before deciding to get a Game Boy Advance at the time instead of a Game Boy Color because the GBA could play GBC games anyway. I think at the time I had thought the Super Game Boy would have played GBC games though, which was wrong. It mainly appealed to me because I had SMB1 for NES, but never had a box or instructions.

When I got my first Atari 2600 lot for free from my stepdad, he had a loose Donkey Kong for Colecovision in there which I couldn't play. That one was just sold because when I was in 4th grade, I had no idea what a Colecovision was. I was probably lucky to get to experience that Atari because I grew up in the 16 bit era. But unlike some people my age I loved it.

The last example of having a game before a system is an import example. I imported Mr. Nutz for Sega Mega Drive because I liked the emulated rom, not knowing that PAL Mega Drive games don't work on NTSC systems. So I hunted down the US SNES version as well.

[psychopat]

I bought halo 3 (legendary edition) before getting my X360... I tought these will go off in the same day but I still see it in stores for half the price I paid.... I got screwed up!

I also have 3 a 3DO game and some 32X games but no systems!

[ToddofDoom]

Every once and a while I will buy a game for a system I don't have if I know it is rare or worth money or if I am going to want it later.

Examples:

I found Crazy Climber in a local used video game store before I had a 2600. I knew that it was a rare title and only set me back two bucks.

I don't have a PS3 yet, but went ahead and bought a copy of Disgaea 3 and a strategy guide. I know I will get around to getting a PS3 eventually and it might be hard to find later.

I found a cheap copy of Mutant League Football before I could find a cheap Genesis.

I bought Venture for the ColecoVision at a flea market for fifty cents. I don't have a ColecoVision, but it is one of my favorite old games to play on emulators and I will probably find one some day.

Occasionally I will buy a game that I can't play if it is part of a collection unrelated to video games. For example, I have a copy of the Famicom Transformers game even though I don't have a Famicom. I consider it more a part of my Transformers collection instead of part of my video game collection.

[The 1 2 P]

I have had 360 games for well over two years and I just got my 360 earlier this month. I also have several DS and Psp games but neither system.

[darkslime]

I have a bunch of PS3 games, but no system. D:

[Game Freak]

yeah, i bought twilight princess november 28th, 2006. Almost bizarrely, i got the Wii the next night. I also have a bunch of Sega CD games and two Game Gear games, although lacking the respective systems. I also have Pole Position on the 5200, and no power cord adapter thingy for it >_>

[SegaAges]

I got trickstyle before I got a dc

[fahlim003]

I got my first import PS1 game (incidently my first PS1 overall) before I had a system that could boot it although the time between the actions was quite small. Otherwise I had Jurassic Park Operation Genesis for Xbox before I had Xbox or Xbox 360 with BC although I sold the 360 and game before it ever could have been run. Most recently I got Mother 3 for GBA and I've yet to get a GBA. Not really a big issue either, I got the game more out of respect than to use it.

[Mason P.]

I have an Intellevision Pitfall game and no system. I also had Metal Gear 2 and Twisted Metal Black before I had a Playstation 2. I just got Final Fantasy for the PSP and I don't have the system.

[obesolete]

way way back i bought snes zelda with my babysitting money. many months later I actually got to play it when i had saved up enough for the snes itself!

[Sonicwolf]

I got a 3DO Game before I got a 3DO and I recently purchased some lame looking CD-I game and I have yet to get that abomination of a system.

[mnbren05]

I bought games for the DS before I ever had one. I called it Planned Parenting. lol

[Steve W]

I just bought a Neo-Geo CD game, Fatal Fury 3, on the million-to-one chance I might ever come across a console in the future. I thought that maybe I have a better chance of finding a CD based console rather than the cartridge based one. Hopefully the thrift store gods will eventually smile upon me and grant me a Neo-Geo of my very own. :)

[HurricaneAndrew]

I bought a Dreamcast game before I found a decent Dreamcast system.

I also have about 10 Atari 5200 games with no 5200 to play them on, an Intellivision game with no Intellivision, and 3 ColecoVision games that were in a box of Atari 2600 games that I bought, but I have no ColecoVision.

[sebastiankirchoff]

I have some Sega CD games I got for dirt cheap, but still don't have a system.

[TazVag]

My very first video game, Jurassic Park for the NES, I begged for and ended up getting before I even had the console. "Coincidentally" I got the NES to play it on that Christmas.

[Lady Jaye]

The only time it happened to me was for the 360, when I bought Guitar Hero World Tour complete band pack (on sale at $100)... This being said, the purchase of the 360 was already planned and actually happened less than a month later, so it's not like I had to hold out playing the game for long.

I gotta say that I'm tempted to get Demon's Souls on the PS3 now even though I don't have a PS3...

[Yukima]

I bought Pokemon Crystal and Pokemon Card GB 2 (Japanese) before I got a GBC! I also got my first Super Famicom game before I actually attempted to break out my SNES cartridge tabs. I eventually did it successfully (note: I was only 12) about 10 minutes before I started playing the game! ^^;

[Baloo]

I bought Sega CD games at a local thrift store before I got the system actually, and I got Knuckles Chaotix before I got my 32x System.

The Sega CD games were too cheap to pass up ($3 each CIB and good titles: Silpheed, Sonic CD, Sewer Shark (traded this one away), and Ecco the Dolphin). It prompted me to get a Sega CD.

The 32x was being bought here on DigitPress when I got Knuckles Chaotix.

[vivaeljason]

I got Metal Gear Solid before purchasing a PS1. It's worth noting that I still don't have (or ever had) a PS1, and I've never actually played it.

[VanHelzen]

I had 3 'Alien vs. Predator' cartridges and 'Attack of the Mutants pinguins' for about 2 years until I actually bought an Atari Jaguar.

Looking back on that, I was being quite silly not to buy a Jaguar for such a long time.

[Flashback2012]

I have several XB360 and Wii games as well as a PS3 game that I have no system for. ^^;

When the original Game Boy came out, I picked up Super Mario Land and Baseball before actually owning the system. My dad thought I was nuts for buying the games and no system to play them on. :ass:

[PentiumMMX]

To update on my previous entry, I'll mention quite a few games I've bought before I've gotten the system for:

- Final Fantasy VII (PlayStation. Early-to-mid 2004)
Desperate to play it and not wanting to pay $50+ for the PC version, I settled with getting the PlayStation version and using a crappy demo version of Bleem to play it, until I was able to afford the system a month later.

- Luigi's Mansion (Gamecube. December 2005)
Only a day after winning an auction for a Gamecube on eBay, I searched all across town before I found a copy of Luigi's Mansion at a pawn shop for next-to-nothing. Even though I beat it withing a few days of my system arriving, I still enjoyed it; occasionally playing through it again just for the fun of it.

- Sonic Blast (Game Gear. A few hours ago as of writing this)
I had a Game Gear at one point, bue due to severe techincal problems (The A button was messed up), I had to return it. I wasn't planning on buying another one...until I found Sonic Blast buried in a bucket full of Game Gear games at Game-X-Change. Now, I once again have games for it...but still need to buy the system for it again (And this time, get one that works)

[DDCecil]

For systems I finally acquired, Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (DS) and Gradius III/IV (PS2).

I own the following but have yet to own a system:

Downland and Slay the Nereis for the Tandy CoCo
A few VIC-20 games
Ys III for the PC-9801
Parodius and Quarth for the X68000
I, Cyborg for the Vectrex

[vrikkgwj]

Yup. For the longest time in my childhood I never had a PSX. I had a SNES, N64, and Genesis, but no Playstation. However, for some reason that I don't remember now I really really had to have Final Fantasy VIII. Being on a small weekly allowance, I had no way to buy a video game system and barely had enough from saving for a couple months to buy the game. Therefore, I had to use my sister's Playstation.

She was furious, but I got to own my first disk-based game. About a year later I owned my own console, and it was marvelous. It's probably my favorite system ever... maybe with the SNES battling very closely.

[gamedude45]

yea i'm notorious for doing this.

I got Sonic CD and two sport games years before I got a Sega CD.

I had Bomberman and Polarium a month before I got a ds.

I had Ratchet & Clank and Soul Calibur IV a year before I got my PS3

I had 3 PSP games half a year before I got one.

I had Road Rash long before I got my 3DO.

I have two 360 games lying around here somewhere but still no system.

I have 2 n-gage games but no n-gage.

and finally I have 32 Turbografx 16 games and 6 Turbografx CD games and i've never seen a Turbografx 16 in person!:shameful:

[Yukima]

I bought Pokemon Crystal before I got a GBC, and a handful of Japanese PS1 games before I got a Japanese PS1. I'm even still getting US PS1 games and I no longer have a US PS1! ^^;

[Swamperon]

Yep, it's the compulsive collector/player within me. Currently I have:

Shining Force CD
Sonic CD

Knuckles Chaotix

Sonic Pocket Adventure (recently passed up on a NGPC for £20)

In the past I owned multiple gamegear games before finally getting one, and I bought Pokemon Pearl before getting a DS. Played it on my sister's DS, which means a 10yr old girl owned one before I, an avid gamer, did. I blame university.

[The 1 2 P]

I have two PS3 games but I don't intend on buying the system until it gets atleast one more price drop, if not two. In the meantime, I will continue buying games for it.

[Mikhal]

I got a few PC engine titles before i finally was able to make a deal for a PC Engine Duo. I hated seeing the games sit in my collection for as long as they did before i finally got the system. I had to different deals for a Duo fall through last year but was finally able to get a Duo R from a good friend in Japan.

[Therealqtip]

I did that with some psp games I think /shrug

[ganondorf]

I saw some turbografx and saturn games at goodwill so I bought them, but I don't have either system.

[Steve W]

I now have three TRS-80 Color Computer 3 cartridges, and still I don't have a console to run them on. I've got a Model 1 and 2 (and a Teletext) but not the last iteration of the CoCo.

[kandied91z]

Breakthru for the NES

some rescue/helicopter/fireman game for intellivision

[Phones]

I owned Armored Core 2 before I owned a PS2. I have around 20 DS games and I still don't own a DS. And when Kingdom Hearts 3 comes out, I will probably own that before I own a PS3. :)

[Richter Belmount]

Sure when I got my neo geo aes last year , 1st got last resort before I got the actual system. Aes carts are interesting for some reason on their own heh.

[DOAsaturn]

I think I've had this happen only once...when I bought some Xbox 360 games on the day before launch (they hit stores 2-3 days early and Gamestop was selling them).

[CapnCrunch53]

We got Zelda: Twilight Princess before our Wii, simply because the Wiis were out of stock everywhere.

More recently, the 5 SNES games I got on Ebay all arrived like a week before the SNES itself did. Every day, Zelda:ALTTP and Super Mario Kart taunted me!

[BiggerBoo]

I did this with Jet Set Radio Future because I was such a huge fan of Jet Set Radio on Dreamcast, but didn't get around to buying an Xbox until like last year, having long ago traded JSRF in for something else. :(!

[Ro-J]

I ordered the first Professor Layton game off of Ebay weeks before I ever bothered to go out and buy a DS. At the time I thought I found this super mega cheap deal out of Hong Kong that I just couldn't pass up.....oh well, I may never be able to sell the game, but at least I had a blast playing it.

[Hilltopper]

I bought Football for the Atari 5200 with some money from my birthday in November. For Christmas, I got the console. With the $30 rebate (and a little extra) that came with it, my mom bought me Mario Bros.

[Zama]

I currently have 3 Nintendo DS games in my collection but I have yet to buy a Nintendo DS. xD I'll get one eventually but until then, those games sit in brand-new condition. :popcorn:

[Ro-J]

I currently have 3 Nintendo DS games in my collection but I have yet to buy a Nintendo DS. xD I'll get one eventually but until then, those games sit in brand-new condition. :popcorn:

Just curious. What are those 3 games?

[TheShireGamer]

This has happened twice to me now, the first time was purchasing Chrono Trigger on the DS before buying myself a DSi. he other one was when I purchased Oot 3D before the 3DS and, I still dont own a 3DS :P

[DylanOZ]

this has happened to me a couple of times, i bought super metroid for snes before actually having a snes to play it on, and with my gamecube i had melee and mario sunshine before the console.

[The Adventurer]

Yes actually, I preordered Zelda: Wind Waker before I owned a Game Cube.


Also, I got a copy of Escape from Monkey Island before I had a PC that could run it.


Also, just this sunday I bought a copy of Flashback: The Quest for Identity for SNES without actually owning one (having sold mine last summer for a few bucks. Idiot)

[Froboz]

When Legend of Zelda came out, my friend got it first. He already had an NES. I didn't (couldn't afford one) but I'd already asked for one for Christmas. Still, Christmas was a long way away. Anyway, I used to go over my friend's house and help him play Zelda. Actually, he'd mostly play while I drew a map for him. But I loved the game so much I bought it a couple of weeks later even though I didn't have the system yet. But Zelda had become so popular by then that I was afraid there would be none left by the time I got the NES (which I did end up getting for Christmas that year), which is why I did that. And I knew I'd get the system eventually. That's the only time I've ever done that though.

[Schiggidyd]

Yes! Several times. I had a few Saturn games without a saturn, and still have a few GameGear games without a game gear.

[Tokimemofan]

Cosmic Fantasy 2, got it when Working Designs died, got a Turbo CD just a few months ago.

[Bubble_Man]

Yup, I bought Super Mario World from a kid at school before I even had a SNES.

[real_18aka]

i found and bought nba hangtime for the n64 at a pawn shop loose for 5 bucks 2 months b4 i got the console to actually play it.

[bigbacon]

Final Fantasy X
Owned the game and didn't own a PS2. Borrowed by roomates.

[sloan]

I spotted 3 CD-i games at a Goodwill a few months ago and couldn't resist. Still have to get my hands on a CD-i console though.

[recorderdude]

Star Wars Arcade 32x. Came in a bundle with a copy of super hang-on and a genesis game genie for $2.50 total. Also a saturn madden game for 25 cents.

Also saw a CIB space harrier 32x for $8 but didnt get it due to not having one. If I see it there again next time, I'll nab it.

[Polygon]

Yep.

I have 2600, 7800, Master System, Sega CD, and Saturn games and I don't have the systems yet. I know I'm going to get them so if I see a good deal on a games for them, I'm going to grab them. No sense in waiting to get the system before getting the games.

[BlastProcessing402]

Bought an import GBA game off ebay, didn't think I'd win the auction, but did, then had to go out and try to find a GBA (was still hard to find one without having to buy a bundle of extra crap with it at the time, well, other than pink ones, which were all over).

Bought PS2 Resident Evil Code Veronica X because there was some preorder bonus with it I wanted, but didn't wind up getting a PS2 for like another 6 months.

Had a lot of magazine coverdiscs before I had the systems as well, if those count. For instance, I had an Xbox and so would always buy OXBM, but didn't stop buying it when they went to 360 coverage, even though it was something like 2 years before I'd get a 360. Oddest one was probably this one OPSM issue that came with UMD with a demo on it. At the time I had zero interest in PSP. I did eventually get one (after it had been hacked and I use it mostly for stuff other than PSP games anyway) but a really freakin long time after getting that demo disc.

[Collector_Gaming]

I have frogger for intellivision, a Sega Master System game (forgot off the top of my head and too lazy to look it up right now), a dream cast game, and i don't even own any of the those consoles.