Biggest Videogame Spending ERROR You've Ever Committed

[suppafly]

My biggest spending error and waste of time is when I bought the AFTERBURNER lightning kit for gba..it was a waste of 40 dollars, time and effort. What a piece of crap

I also regret paying 50 dollars (each game) back in 1993 for: John madden 93 (im not a football fan), ecco and flashback (i dont care how many people say its a good game...it really bored me!)

[riffraff]

Not sure if this counts, but I bought rob the robot, stack em and gyro-whatever it was called from toys r us.. quickly got bored of the robot and returned everything the next day. That stuff is worth something these days?

Bought the O^2 chess unit (doesn't even work on NTSC o^2) for some stupid amount.. like $150-$200.

[GuyinGA]

$14 on WWF Royal Rumble for the Dreamcast. The EB/Electronic Boutique employees actually questioned my judgment.

At the time I really knew nothing about the Dreamcast, so I would have purchased OTHER games for it now.

[Muscelli]

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[bangtango]

$14 on WWF Royal Rumble for the Dreamcast. The EB/Electronic Boutique employees actually questioned my judgment.

At the time I really knew nothing about the Dreamcast, so I would have purchased OTHER games for it now.

I'd have said to them, "If the game is that bad, then how about lowering the price a little?"

I have three errors that come to mind. This was back during the 16-bit era when I still bought a lot of brand new games, most of the games I get today are used.

1. Paid nearly full price for Cool World on the Super NES, back when the game was new, because I was one of the few people who liked the movie.

2. Bought Beethoven for the Super NES, fortunately that game was on clearance by then and I got it for around $20 new.

3. I also paid full price for one of the Tony LaRussa Baseball games on Sega Genesis, right around the same time it was released. I'm not sure if it was the first or second one, though. Before purchasing it, and actually PLAYING it, I was excited as hell to get it home. Big mistake. I laughed as hard as I have in awhile when I logged onto www.videogamecritic.net to read some Genesis reviews and found out that the guy who runs the page also bought the same game when it was brand new. Apparently, he was as disappointed as I was. Boy, did that game suck. I picked it up because I was a Tony LaRussa/Oakland A's fan at the time.

[Steve W]

Worst decision? The Gameboy Advance SP. Piece of crap. I bought the SP because I couldn't live without a backlight. But the light was too dim to really use, and even in pitch darkness, the ultrashiny screen still somehow had glare on it. The dozen or so games I've picked up were all lousy and too hard to play on that thing. I eventually picked up the GameCube GBA player just so I could try to get some enjoyment out of the retro Gameboy games on the market. Even on a TV screen, the games somehow suck. Total mistake to buy anything Gameboy related. The Atari Lynx spoiled me for pretty much every other handheld for years.

[DefaultGen]

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[SamirP]

Test Drive 2 for PC... it´s sooooo boring!!!

[kaedesdisciple]

Just to name a few:

Bought an untested ColecoVision...nuff said

Actually paid full price for Resident Evil: Survivor. I believe I sold it that same day. What a turd.

Perfect Weapon for the PSX. Another piece of crap.

I'm sure there are more that I've long since tried to forget.

[Nebagram]

$30 to bring Sonic Genesis over from the US to the UK. That was pretty depressing. :(

[Ace Comics]

I think most of my buying decisions were bad ones...

When I was young I had a Paper route, each Christmas a lot of the subscribers would throw an extra few bucks my way as a "bonus" of sorts. I wound up with nearly $300 for that week (which, at 10-11 years old, I may as well have been a millionaire). Instead of buying some new games, or saving it for games I may want later... I plunked most of it down on a Game Gear. I still remember the batteries dying out ON THE WAY HOME from the store...

Unfortunately, bad spending wasn't a habit I kicked... I paid $50 each for State of Emergency AND Batman Vengeance for the PS2.

Most recently is probably my PSP purchase (which I finagled for like $125 thru discounts and what-not)... but, still... I hardly use the thing... it's just a really high-tech paperweight.

Fun thread... don't feel so alone, haha
-Chris

[xtremegamer]

1993 - Bulls Vs. Blazers for the SNES. It was a former rental in a Rhino Video Games. I spent all my christmas money on it, $49.99. My dad talked me into this one since he told me it was more relistic than NBA Jam. Crazy pop! At least I got some money back from it, I think I got $8 credit at a local game store 5 or 6 years later.

[Hounder]

Paid $150 for Mr. Gimmick for the NES about 2 years ago. At the time it was a bad price since they were selling at a high of like $80-$85. But it's a good game so it all evens out :)

[Gabriel]

I think my worst mistake ever was buying a N64. I mean, I've had systems with just a tiny few good games, like the 3DO, Jaguar, 32X, and Dreamcast, but only the N64 has managed to not have a damn thing made for the system worth playing. Crappy system, crappy controllers, crappy games.

Other than that, I guess the next worst purchase I ever made were the Capcom Fighter Sticks for the SNES. They were these big plasticy things with loose sticks and really crummy buttons. The whole thing was just cheaply put together. You know those knock off LCD games that are made in China? These sticks made those things feel well put together. They were cheap in every way but price. In that department, they were $80 EACH, and I was a dumbass and bought two of them.

[kataboom]

I think my worst mistake ever was buying a N64. I mean, I've had systems with just a tiny few good games, like the 3DO, Jaguar, 32X, and Dreamcast, but only the N64 has managed to not have a damn thing made for the system worth playing. Crappy system, crappy controllers, crappy games.

you gotta be kiding me! the N64 has some of the all time best games ever made including mario 64, zelda ocarina, zelda mask, mario kart, goldeneye, perfect dark, smash bros, paper mario & im forgetting some more im sure!

my worst purchasing decisions was me buying a used nes deadly towers a month after it came out from my cousin for $50. i didnt even think about the reasons he was selling it. duh

[-_-Nintendo-_-]

Buying a PSP for $320
A loose Super Metroid cart for 35 bucks
An untested Sega CD unit for umm $120 or something... ugh.

[otaku]

I've had a few regrets of sorts. First one was buying a PSone instead of dreamcast (which I remedied by borrowing my friends since he didn't have a psone)

Next mistake was PSP I don't know what I was thinking buying a 250 dollar portable which to this day I've played maybe 7 games on!

360 also somewhat of a bad decision-pretty pricey and it broke (under warranty thankfully)

Recently almost went broke trying to acquire a neo geo aes modded

The n64 to me is great cause it was my first system and I can't think of a single game I bought/played I didn't like. The only thing I regret is the prices I paid for some of them N64 carts could easily hit 100 bucks at times.

[FlufflePuff]

I remember being 16 and I was stoked about my first "real" paycheck. I'd worked jobs before, but my checks never cleared past $50. So, there I am in the videogame store and I spy two PC games that I'd really wanted. Ultima: collection and Starcraft. Sadly, I chose Ultima: Collection, got really bored in like three days, and regretted the day ever since.

[ASSEMblerEX]

Import DC, release day. $500. No games for months after it came out,
and you can only play blue stinger so much.

[grolt]

One word: Activator.

[Griking]

I remember being 16 and I was stoked about my first "real" paycheck. I'd worked jobs before, but my checks never cleared past $50. So, there I am in the videogame store and I spy two PC games that I'd really wanted. Ultima: collection and Starcraft. Sadly, I chose Ultima: Collection, got really bored in like three days, and regretted the day ever since.

Actually I'd say you made the right decision. The Ultima games rock!

I remember when i was a kind (probably 8-10 years old) I was mowing lawns to make money to buy an Atari game. I then ran to my local Bradlees and when they didn't have anything new that caught my eye I spent my money on Air & Sea Battle *_*

[Pilotwings]

I think my worst mistake ever was buying a N64. I mean, I've had systems with just a tiny few good games, like the 3DO, Jaguar, 32X, and Dreamcast, but only the N64 has managed to not have a damn thing made for the system worth playing. Crappy system, crappy controllers, crappy games.
.Who?.

[mnbren05]

Buying a Jaguar with Cybermorph and Iron Soldier for $80 and I did not like either game at all. Only lasted me 2 months before I sold it.

[ScourDX]

Bought Dragon Warrior Monster II: Cobi bootleg version for $25 at EB. I never realize it was bootleg until 6 months later.

[Smashed Brother]

I have two 'what was he thinking' moments in my videogame purchasing history.

When I was a dumb kid, I traded in my CIB Genesis, 2 controllers and about 8 or 9 good games to some mom and pop game store in IA. Now, this is the Genesis that I had begged and pleaded my mom to buy for me and I would be the best kid ever and never ask for anything anymore. She bought it for me that Xmas. So, what artifact of gaming did I absolutely need to live that would necessitate me trading in all of this equipment that I had received only 1 year and a couple months prior? Starfox for the SNES... *hangs head in shame*

When Tekken 2 first came out for the JP PSX, a buddy of mine had his brother burn him a copy. I absolutely went apeshit over anything Tekken back in the day, so I borrowed it from him for about 2 months, unlocking everything along the way. After giving it back, I decided that I wanted my own disc, so I imported one through some company that I can't even remember. The price? A measly $80 shipped. I even gave the UPS guy 2 bucks in pennies because I came up slightly short. Not even two months later, the game was released in the USA. Walmart (my place of employment then) was selling the game for the low low price of $33 dollars...:(

An even sadder postscript to this pathetic tale: I had the 1st generation PS1 that had the overheating problems. I would get so pissed at the PS1 when it would randomly not play a game that I occasionally beat the shit out of it. It didn't want to play my Tekken 2 once, so I slammed the CD lid really hard. The force of this manuever knocked the game off of the spindle and cracked it right down the middle. Goodbye, $80 bucks...

[Nes]

You traded all that in for StarFox? Wow. I don't feel so bad for buying the utterly worthless Quest 64. I bought it only because I was desperate to get an RPG for N64 and was willing to buy whatever garbage qualified.

[bb_hood]

I think my worst mistake ever was buying a N64. I mean, I've had systems with just a tiny few good games, like the 3DO, Jaguar, 32X, and Dreamcast, but only the N64 has managed to not have a damn thing made for the system worth playing. Crappy system, crappy controllers, crappy games.

Amen brother, I second this..

[Nes]

Amen brother, I second this..

Mario 64
Paper Mario
Goldeneye
TOoT
Majora's Mask
Wave Race
Excitebike
Sin and Punishment
Banjo Kazooie
Conker's Bad Fur Day
Ogre Battle 64
Perfect Dark
Resident Evil 2
ISS '98
F-Zero
Donkey Kong 64
Space Station Silicon Valley
Shadow Man

[DKTheArcadeRat]

Mario 64
TOoT
Wave Race
Excitebike
Sin and Punishment
Conker's Bad Fur Day
Resident Evil 2
F-Zero
Shadow Man

Correct me if i'm wrong, aren't all of these playable in some form on different systems thus rendering the N64 to play them obsolete?

I have a N64, and I hate it, I literally have 1 game for it, and I don't even play that one, good thing I got it for free. I'm glad I didn't pay for it, I mean, there are games I want to try out but I can wait however long. I'm so glad I got a PS1 over N64.

[Rob2600]

Correct me if i'm wrong, aren't all of these playable in some form on different systems thus rendering the N64 to play them obsolete? ... I'm so glad I got a PS1 over N64.

By that logic, aren't PlayStation games playable on other consoles, thus rendering it obsolete as well?

[DKTheArcadeRat]

Isn't the PlayStation obsolete now anyway? What with PS2(and some PS3's) having backwards compatibility?

[PapaStu]

Isn't the PlayStation obsolete now anyway? What with PS2(and some PS3's) having backwards compatibility?


Well the PS2's have pretty great PS Emulation though some games have issues in cut scenes and the list of about 15 titles that won't work at all.

PS3 emulates the PS just fine so you can play pretty much any PS game on the PS3. PS3's have issues with PS2 games not PS games.

[DreamTR]

I bought KOF 98 for Neo Geo at Game Dude instead of the two Neo Turf Masters for AES staring right at me. Must have been 2002 or so...

[digitalpress]

Isn't the PlayStation obsolete now anyway? What with PS2(and some PS3's) having backwards compatibility?

Actually ALL PS3's do PS1 emulation. They kinda have to with all the PS1 downloadable stuff they offer on their online store.

[Harkunan]

X_x600 dollars for a N64 I never got along with Cruising USA:rockets:

I should have just waited till Christmas.

Even so the N64 along with the Pokemon craze.

Buying Mew for Five dollars. I feel like James in Team Rocket buying magic-Karp.

bidding 3330,000,000,00 on a Saturn game by accident when my computer was running slow. It came out to 33.00 dollars. Bubble-Bobble of course.:eek 2:

Asking for Pokemon Pickachu N64 talk thingy for Christmas. I mean why oh god the money all that honey from the first NES could have been in a bank account for me accumilating but no the child gotta have toys to play with to create stimulus.:?

Buying a game for this guy ( that Capcom beat-em up ) who never returned two of my other gamesX_x

Buying the Gameboy Link cable for $10 only to get it stolen buy the people watching our stuff most likely. Then rebuying it but not the nice regular one the ugly clear one for $20:bad-words:

Giving into my Cousin to buy Street Fighter for like 20-40 dollars at the time ( I forget it was new ) and then again Turbo ( which is the same god auwful game ) but he was like ohh look you can play as the bad characters and tubo mode..
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I mean WTF you can go turbo with a code modifier and Turbo was originally a hack. I mean what the heck I even sold that recently ( not Turbo the original
game )

renting Mario's Missing then somethign cool like MMX.

Buying Mega Man X for twenty dollars.

Donkey Kong N64...............NEW:eek:

Gamecube over nothing at all. I mean I barely even touch that thing or even the PSX.



Correct me if i'm wrong, aren't all of these playable in some form on different systems thus rendering the N64 to play them obsolete?

No the N64 is a wonderfull machine ( crying while saying this ) no really it has a place in our home ( as a window holder ) . No really the N64 is a wonderfull machine with mayn wonderfull titles the problem is most titles that get here is watered down or never reach here at all.

The truth is the PSX is a SNES but with 3d built in and a cd drive. Nintendo and SONY never left the SNES era...



I have a N64, and I hate it, I literally have 1 game for it, and I don't even play that one, good thing I got it for free. I'm glad I didn't pay for it, I mean, there are games I want to try out but I can wait however long. I'm so glad I got a PS1 over N64.

The N64 gave us all these fancy effects the newer systems used ( crying while I say this ).



Isn't the PlayStation obsolete now anyway

No the PSX is a brilliant and it's revisions is just upgrades to keep people buying. It is just a SNES in truth. The SNES with the right ajustments could
run PS4 games.

The SNES and Saturn is two that will forever more stand tall. ( those are tears of pride and joy not me watching you buying another PS3 game for 40 dollars )



Gamecube over nothing at all. I mean I barely even touch that thing or even the PSX.

Oh wait I was playing PSX games on emulators on my PC at the time.

[AllSchoolGamer]

my closest to this topic is forsaken on the n64...i got so overzelous with my collecting that i bought the ONLY game i have ever played that gave me extreme motion sickness. lol oh well would have bought it eventually anyway i guess

[Smashed Brother]

Back in about 2002, I got my hands on an SNES after not having one for about 6 years and I was really wanting to play Super Metroid again. Well, there were no stores that carried old titles in my town and I didn't have a car to travel outside of my area. My buddy worked at EB during this time and he informed me that his store manager had quite a retro collection, which piqued my interest greatly.

I met this guy and inquired about Super Metroid, as well as Super Castlevania and Yoshi's Island, since I had the fever for those also. He told me that not only did he have those titles, but that he really didn't care for the SNES, so he was more than willing to sell them to me... for a price. The price of $25 per game, cartridge only! Now that's alot of money, especially in 2002, when the retrocraze hadn't really caught on yet. But, I was so desperate for these games that I immediately whipped out my checkbook and wrote a check for $75 :(

[unwinddesign]

If it makes you feel any better, Smashed, those games are worth about $15 a piece...so you weren't out too much.

I bought Rocket: Robot on Wheels for $50 or $60. That game sucked. Otherwise, I'd say purchasing a crystal Xbox from the PAL region ($300 at the time -- it was new), swapping out the innards with new parts (another $150), trying to install a mod chip ($60), blowing out the new 1.6 board I had just bought, ruining the chip, and then having to purchase another 1.6 board ($100). And then selling the PAL 1.6 board for a grand total of $2 plus $40 shipping...which ended up costing me more to ship over to the fellow in England.

...so I ended up with an NTSC Crystal Xbox for a whopping $600. And then they released the crystal Xbox in Canada with two games for around $199 (or $249) about eight months later.

2nd most retarded thing ever was purchasing a blue crystal Xbox from Canada for $300, then deciding to open the shrinkwrap and use it, because the box was a bit beat up. Mind you, I already had the aforementioned Crystal Xbox, which cost me $600, and was hooked up in HD to a nice sized projector in the basement...but I decided I needed an Xbox in my room, as well. I bought another copy of Halo 2 so that I could play in both rooms whenever I felt it. God, how retarded. I think I sold the blue one for like $150 a year later, along with the crystal for around $100.

3rd was probably buying four boxed Sega Genesis systems (about 2 weeks apart), for a grand total of $250 or so. When my parents saw the CC statement, they were like what the fuck is wrong with you? I played Genesis maybe twice...I even bought that fucking piece of shit Menacer gun for like $20, new. I bundled up all this fucking Genesis shit, including a 32x, and sold it for like $59. I thought the Genesis was going to be sooooo awesome...and it sucked. So badly.

4th, perhaps, was purchasing the Halo 3 legendary edition...for $100 at launch. And then deciding to "sit on it" until Christmas...when my $10 - $15 profit suddenly turned into a massive $45 loss. WTF.

5th was I bought one of those shitty, horrible PS3 20GB bundles from EBGames and was super excited...and then proceeded to lose $400 on it, because the PS3 market dropped out about 48 hours after launch, and no one was going to pay full price for NBA 07 and shit like that.

I only buy stock, non limited edition shit now that is easily available on Amazon.com for an uninflated price. Works much better.

[super nes]

1) Going to the flee market when i was young and stupid and paying $50 per SNES game which were loose and sometimes damaged and the guy that used to sell me those games sells them for the same price to this day!

2) Paying $300 or something like that for an Xbox when it came out. Then it stopped reading disks like two months later. So my cousin tells me he knows a guy at the flee market who can fix it. So we go in and guess who it was! the same guy that sells SNES games for $50. So im thinking to myself hes gonna charge me a shit load to get my Xbox fixed i ask how much he says $100 plus he will mod it for me for another $100. I said forget it but my cousin says thats the cheapest hes seen so i finally agree to let the overpriced asshole fix it. Note that i said 'FIX'. so two hours later i come back to pick up my xbox i hand him $100 he says "$200". I tell him "but you said it would cost me $100 to fix!" He then tells me that he modded it even though i told him to fix it I never even said the word 'mod' to him that day. So then he tells me that im not gonna get my xbox back until i pay $200. Then we started yelling, arguing and swearing (which im surprised i did since i was a really shy person back then) it made a big scene i then did what any twelve year old would do i pushed him grabbed my xbox and ran im surprised no one tried to stop me... He did keep the $100 though but after that day i never went to the flee market for two years when i did eventually go back the guy didn't seem to notice me. Anyways it was a mistake because some place called 'Rogers Computers' were fixing it for $50.

[Xian042]

I just regret when I bought two PS2's at launch, and I wanted to keep one and Ebay the other. I wasnt too familiar with EBay at the time and I waited too long to post it, didnt make any money.

[TheRealist50]

Hmm...well mine aren't really spending too much for a game, its mainly selling it for too little or something else...examples:

I had Misadventures of tron bonne, I loved that game...then the xbox and PS2 come out and blockbuster had a sale where I trade in 3 games of any system and get my choice of one of the 2 games they had...they were Splinter Cell and Spiderman. WELL...I for some dumb reason traded in misadventures of tron bonne and a couple more games for spiderman which i ended up trading back to blockbuster for next to nothing.

My friend sold me Silent Hill (black label) for 10 bucks...few years later I traded it back to him for something really stupid...THEN a year later I bought it back from him for 20 bucks but the manual is totally mangled and beat up badly.

I bought Rival Schools for 15 bucks when some store was trying to get rid of all the PS games to make room for the new systems...Then for some reason...I don't know why, maybe I needed the room or something, but I cracked it out of its original case and put it into a singular case (Rival schools had a FF type case...the doubles) and I threw out the front art work. It bothers the hell outta me that my rarest game (R5) is not even complete anymore cause i was a stupid kid.

I never really spent too much for a game or anything (even new systems I was always a year or 2 behind so I got it cheaper) but I made dumb choices with the games I had.

its nothing compared to others, but It really bothers me.

[Arcade_Ness]

I think I paid 60-80 bucks for a copy of Rez PS2 at Ebgames, awhile back. I thought it was rare at the time, so I scooped it up. Later after playing it I didn't like it. I would sell it back, and then find a copy of it at another location >.<

Also I paid 80+ for the american port of Magic Knight Rayearth for the Saturn. It was in the case with near mint instructions and sticker pack. Great game and all just it was a lot of money for one game.

[SpaceHarrier]

I ebayed a broadband adaptor for the Dreamcast at the height of my Phantasy Star Online addiction.

$200... (though the 600 something hours I put on it made it somewhat worth it)


Paid over $100 for an import copy of DDR 2nd Mix/Sealed (JP Dreamcast) just to play Butterfly. Ebay again. This is why I don't go there anymore. Can't trust myself. By the way, DDR Party Collection came out a year or so later, with my faves Butterfly AND Dam Dariram in 60 FPS (2nd Mix was only 30 FPS)...thus rendering 2nd Mix nearly worthless to me.

Last story. It's the worst. Ok. I have a penchant for SEALED GAMES. I don't keep them sealed, I just like to be the one to open them. Odd, I know. Anyway, at a certain point, Final Fantasy Tactics was really becoming rare. I decided I had to have it, before I couldn't get a good SEALED copy or a copy at all that hadn't been chewed on by a bunch of kids. I bid up a copy of FFT above $150 and WON. And I was HAPPY ABOUT THIS. Opened my sealed copy and was content.

A month later the GREATEST HITS version was released. *sigh*

ebay sucker, I am.

[FrakAttack]

$72 for a loose SNES Civilization cart.

*drops trou, bends over, hands seller the lube*

[Evilhead]

Damn, guys. I'm laughing my ass off here. :'D
Thanks, SpaceHarrier for that vivid description of your little fetish with sealed games.

My worst mistake has to be when I bought 20 sealed Sega Saturn games for a low price of 200 euros (that's about 300 of your dollars). Yeah, it'd be cool if those games would've been Panzer Dragoon Sagas or some shit like that, but noooo...
There were 10 copies of Fifa '07 and 10 copies of same years edition of NHL game.

I can explain: I heard from a friend of mine, that a local tattooist (or is it a "tattoo artist"?) had told him that he has a bunch of new Saturn games from the days of his videogame store still stacked somewhere. Sooo, I called the guy and as he told that some other dude had asked about those games as well, I panicked and wired him the money right away if he just promised to bring the games to me that same night, and so he did. I vaguely remember thinking that I should be fine, as long as there's not any sports games among those games.

Well, you live and you lea... wait, no you dont.

[The 1 2 P]

Last story. It's the worst. Ok. I have a penchant for SEALED GAMES. I don't keep them sealed, I just like to be the one to open them. Odd, I know. Anyway, at a certain point, Final Fantasy Tactics was really becoming rare. I decided I had to have it, before I couldn't get a good SEALED copy or a copy at all that hadn't been chewed on by a bunch of kids. I bid up a copy of FFT above $150 and WON. And I was HAPPY ABOUT THIS. Opened my sealed copy and was content.

A month later the GREATEST HITS version was released. *sigh*

ebay sucker, I am.

I don't suppose you've won a sealed copy of Chrono Trigger on ebay for $1,200 just to open and play it?

Anyway, my spending error was on that Toys R Us Xbox exclusive game with the mouse. I don't remember the title and honestly I never even opened it to play it, but what ever rarity it had seemed to decipate after I won it. So I just resold it right back on ebay. Also, I heard it sucked.

[SpaceHarrier]

I don't suppose you've won a sealed copy of Chrono Trigger on ebay for $1,200 just to open and play it?



I pretty much learned my lesson after Tactics. LOL It was that time; I had a job all of a sudden and could spend my money how I wanted, and was desperately trying to catch up on what I couldn't acquire while an unemployed teen. Add to this my Type-A everything-must-be-flawless attitude and you have a recipe for well...me.

I pre-order or immediately purchse any new game I think could become a must-have in the future. If not, I have learned to let it slide..

[Arcade_Ness]

I imported a PSP before the U.S. launch, because I couldn't wait to get my hands on it. I must of spent 300+ on it and games too. I sure played the heck out of Darkstalkers Chronicles and Wipeout Pure. I would eventually sell it all to a second hand store, because of a lack of interest in the system's game lineup.

[Famidrive-16]

Sonic and the Secret Rings for the Wii. Geez.

[Xander]

A few..

I too felt victim of the Nintendo 64. Importing the system near christmas time for 400$ (standalone, no game) because there was a huge shortage in a 500km radius. I Ended up buying Mario 64 and.. waverace 64 with it. All of this because I was a fan of Nintendo and thought that the 64 would be the new SNES. I didn't even like Zelda: Ocarina of Time or Goldeneye =/. The N64 had some not-too-terribad games, but I should have just waited until the price dropped and buy a Playstation instead.

Very embarassing moment.. I bought what I thought was a loose copy of Dragon Warrior IV (or maybe it was II?) from a local collector for the sum of 35$. We met up a couple of weeks later at a bi-annual meeting for collector to finish our deal. When we met up, he gave me an enveloppe and asked for the cash.
Apparently I misreaded his auction, he was selling some kind of letter that was coming with the game, and not the game itself. Probably noticing my expression of pure confusion and shame, he started babbling about it being a high priced collector item.
I was so embarassed that I paid up anyway and took the damn enveloppe. To this day I still don't have the game, but I have a pretty enveloppe.

Not a lot of money but I remember going on a weekend trip in my hometown, and just before going back to the city, I went by this flea market and I saw a copy of Super Smash Bros. for 20 bucks. I happily bought it and didn't even look at the cartridge that was handed to me. When I finally arrived home 6h of car later, I plugged my 64 and went to play some Smash Bros only to realize that the cartridge I bought was EFFIN' MARIO GOLF. To this day I still don't understand what happened.

Oh.. and I bought Mario Paint with the mouse when it cames out, for like 90$. I played 20 min of it and realized how completely boring it was. I ended up playing the bug killing game furiously trying to convince myself I didn't blow 6 months of allowance on a game I had absolutely no interest in. I blame the mouse, it looked so neat. I ended up trading the whole thing for Super PunchOut!!! a few months later, I don't regret that.

[Fuyukaze]

I've bought a number of games I regreted but none were ever realy so expensive as to cause much anger. It's hard to be upset when that $2-$10 game you just bought turned out to be a lemmon. I guess if I'd spent $50 or more, the case would be different. I'm more bothered with the games I've either let slip thru my fingers or the ones I've had to sell off to pay bills. Past couple years, I've had to let go a couple I'll never get back again for any reasonable amount.

[BHvrd]

I guess I should say the Philips CD-i system I bought for $900 back in the day for unit with digital video cartridge, but I actually liked the system and at the time I had a shit load of fun with it and it was justified imo, still love it to this day actually. Can't really count that I guess, but it's worth mention.

What I regret the most is probably the Atari Jaguar system I bought from a local flea market vendor for $200 about 5 years ago. Sure it came with the Alien/Predator game but christs sake man, I took it home and wished I hadn't payed $20, that Cybermorph game made me want to kill myself.

[fastlane250]

$29.95 for SMB3 about a few months ago. That was before I heard about Digital Press. :P

[Spittin' Jack Sanchez]

I was exclusively an N64 owner back in it's early days and of course I was starving for something to play. So I bought Hexen. I paid $90 + tax which, in Ontario, came out to $103.50. Yup.

Of course the game sucks to boot so I eventually traded it in. I got so little for it I've blocked out the actual amount. Maybe $25. Maybe.

I haven't overpaid for a game since.

How can you not like hexen? I STILL TO THIS DAY Play hexen.

[ANONPLOX]

I dnt know if this would count for many ppl but for others this maybe over priced.

I had bought a NEO GEO AES and NEO CD system with controllers and about 3 games for the AES and about 6-7 games for CD all together i think i spent almost $1200 if not more on both systems and games but from my perspective it was well worth the purchase because i now have 2 consoles iv always wanted. On the other hand money wise it may not have been the best idea that the times of purchase (literally a month apart).

[Kid Dracula]

Haven't made many video game spending errors as I've found much of my stuff locally for cheap. But this was en Ebay purchase in a desperate attempt to complete a series. Bought Lolo 3 for the NES after I had recently found the first for 3 $ and Lolo 2 for free (literally found it). I searched ebay for the cheapest buy it now and it was 29.99. I figured I would find a Lolo 3 much cheaper in the wild but how long would it take? I caved and paid for it plus 6.00 shipping plus conversion rate (since I'm in Canada). It worked out to be about 40$ and when I finally got the game it was quite beat up. The top label was ripped, it had big scratches on it and was slightly discoloured. Recently I found a loose mint Lolo 3 for 5$ so I wish I had just held out. Great series though!

[Volcanon]

You can neg him and force-refund if he said it was mint/nearmint.

[SegaBoy]

Back in the late 90s, my friend and I were really into Virtua Cop, Virtura Fighter, and Fighting Vipers, so this one Christmas, we asked our parents for Sega Saturns. Keep in mind at the time, we had no idea that the Saturn was on it's death bed in the US, and we were oblivious to the greatness that would be the PS1 Anyway, we got our Saturns and had fun with them. About this same time, DragonBall Z started airing on Cartoon Network/Toonami and was all the rage at school. Anyway, across the street from the local mall was an anime store that sold Saturn and PS1 imports. Since I had a lot of Christmas money, I bought an ST-Key and all the DBZ games they had. I came home, started playing the games for a couple of days, and quickly realized they suck. Unfortunately, the anime store would let me return the games, only exchange, so I was stuck getting some anime on VHS. I then went home, got my Saturn and games, went up to Funcoland, and traded everything for a N64 and Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

Another Christmas, I asked for a Tiger Game.com with Resident Evil, Jurassic Park and Batman (based on one of the movies). What a mistake that was.....

[sidnotcrazy]

I hate to say it because I love the system but..buying a Neo Geo AES system, and games. Spending around $450 in total. 4 years ago.

Why? Because I bought Snk Greatest Hits for my Wii, and got all the games, plus more for $20...

I still love my Neo Geo, but man if I had only waited a couple years...

[TheGam3r]

9.99 For peter pan return to neverland Sealed at videotron.That game sucks.Glad i sold it yesterday

[hellfire]

When my pc Was lagging I offered over 30 thousand dollars by accident on a pirated pokemon game on ebay, Im glad it ended at 30 dollars

[koshichka]

Kinda pissed at myself for dropping 20 bucks last week on Super Buster Bros for SNES, not that it's a BAD rendition or anything, it's just....how the FORK can it not have a 2-player mode?! >< ARRRG


Haven't made many video game spending errors as I've found much of my stuff locally for cheap. But this was en Ebay purchase in a desperate attempt to complete a series. Bought Lolo 3 for the NES after I had recently found the first for 3 $ and Lolo 2 for free (literally found it). I searched ebay for the cheapest buy it now and it was 29.99. I figured I would find a Lolo 3 much cheaper in the wild but how long would it take? I caved and paid for it plus 6.00 shipping plus conversion rate (since I'm in Canada). It worked out to be about 40$ and when I finally got the game it was quite beat up. The top label was ripped, it had big scratches on it and was slightly discoloured. Recently I found a loose mint Lolo 3 for 5$ so I wish I had just held out. Great series though!
I just bought 2 and 3 recently and yeah, paid 30ish for 3 on ebay, but no regrets, cus it's awesome...

[BetaWolf47]

I have no real regrets, other than buying a Genesis game on Wii Virtual Console when I had bought an actual Genesis a few months earlier. In reality not that big of an issue.

[The 1 2 P]

I bet it's going to be Speed Racer for the PS2. I haven't played it yet and it was only $5 but if it's anything like the movie it's going to super suck. As for stuff I've played, the Incredible Hulk and The Crow(both on PS1) were some of the most horrible gaming experiences I've ever experienced. Don't even ask me why I have two copies of the Crow(US and Japan). I guess I was a glutton for punishment back then.

[hellfire]

I bet it's going to be Speed Racer for the PS2. I haven't played it yet and it was only $5 but if it's anything like the movie it's going to super suck. As for stuff I've played, the Incredible Hulk and The Crow(both on PS1) were some of the most horrible gaming experiences I've ever experienced. Don't even ask me why I have two copies of the Crow(US and Japan). I guess I was a glutton for punishment back then.

from what I have heard speed racer is kind of like f zero

[Baloo]

Probably the only reget I really have is paying $13 for Mario Early Years: Fun with Numbers, thinking it was a good game just to find out it was some crappy educational game.

[Sonicwolf]

PlayStation 3. Less than an hour of game time since I bought it last September. I just use it for watching DVD's and BD's.

[Game Freak]

I was offered the choice by my grandmother to either get $60 or have her buy me a Game Boy Player. I went with the game boy player (it was 50 bucks at the time) and when I got it, i ended up losing the disc in less than a month. By the time i found the disc, the thing was only 15 dollars at GameStop.

ughm, that 45 bucks could have been spent elsewhere....

[retrocollectorguy]

I paid $120 for a NES system when I first got back into collecting. It arrived dirty and did not even work. Everyone knows you can get one with new 72-pins for under $50.
Paid $750 for PS3 on release week. Since have used it maybe 4 hours tops. Just sits in my closet now. At least its the 60 gig version!

[Chainsaw_Charlie]

About 2 yrs ago I purchased a wii and havent played anything for it

[BetaWolf47]

About 2 yrs ago I purchased a wii and havent played anything for it

I play mine, but I'm wishing I'd have waited to buy it. Being more conservative with game collecting is a good thing. It's impossible to keep up with the current gen and keep collecting retro games.

[PentiumMMX]

My 2nd worst was buying Donkey Kong Country on the Game Boy Color back in 2002. I had been saving up all my birthday money that year to get Super Mario Bros. Deluxe, but at the last minute, I chose Donkey Kong Country because I had fun playing the Super NES version a few months prior. However, it was a big waste of $30; the controlls where terrible as where the graphics (Some enemies blended in with the background, making it hard to see them). Unfortunately, I couldn't return it, so I shoved it into a drawer, only to be dug out when I sold it on eBay for $4 (When I could have traded it in to Gamestop and gotten more for).

My worst still was Cubix: Race 'N Robots. Back in late 2001, I was saving up the money I had gotten that Christmas for Pokémon Crystal (It was to be the first Game Boy Color game I bought), but I was still $15 short. Instead of doing the smart thing and saving my money, I blew it all on Cubix: Race 'N Robots, because I loved the show at the time. I went home and started playing it, only to finish it completely about 2 hours later. This was one of the first games I traded in at my local Gamestop when they opened up in 2004, and it literally sat on their shelves until last year, when they somehow managed to get rid of it.

One mistake I'm glad I didn't make was back in 1998; almost a year after I had gotten my N64. I absolutely loved Rugrats, and when I heard a game based on it was in the works, I could barely contain my excitement. It was 2 of my favorite things coming together; Rugrats and video games. It was simply too awesome for my 7-year-old self to comprehend, and I eagerly awaited the release. Then a month before release, I learn that the game was PlayStation exclusive, and seeing as I only had an N64 at the time, I desperately begged and pleaded my parents to sell it (Along with my copies of Mario Kart 64 and Diddy Kong Racing) and buy a PlayStation and a copy of Rugrats: Search for Reptar. Thankfully, they refused because they figured that I'd get tired of the game and beg them to sell the PlayStation and buy another N64 in a few months. Thus, I still have my N64 and my original copy of Diddy Kong Racing (The same can't be said for Mario Kart 64, though...)

[aingevt]

I really wanted Mega Man X3 back around 2002ish. I was in college and didn't have a ton of money. I found what I thought to be a boxed copy on ebay and wound up winning it for $50. Great I thought. When it arrived, it was just the box. I was going to post some serious negative feedback, but I looked back at the auction and it said "Mega Man X3 box" In my haste I thought there was a "with" in there somewhere. I was so angry that I bought the very next cartridge of X3 that was sold. It cost me $100. So in the end, I was left with a boxed copy of Mega Man X3 for only $150... At least it worked.

[Mac Tonight]

The one that sticks out in my mind is the time that I traded nearly my entire collection of NES games (cart only) back in the 90s to whatever the game store at the time was called for roughly $50 bucks in store credit.

The store credit immediately went for MK2 on the Genesis. It was the week that it was released. I still regret that decision.

[Enigmus]

My biggest error? Spending $60 on a 1st model PS2, only to have it break 5 hours later. I open it up, and guess what? Dust bunnies. 12 of them. 5 on a heat dissipitator. And there was no ability AT ALL for it to play PS1 or DVDs and CDs. That, and I bought Guitar Hero III with no guitar controller. God, I'm dumb. :frustrated: