Ever regret selling your games?

[rob black]

I know it’s probably been asked before but have you ever regretted selling your old games?


I used to have a decent amount of Sega Saturn games when I was 17 (now am 23) I had Panzer Dragoon Saga, Metal Slug and a bunch of rare games and being an idiot that I am I sold them. It’s a bitch trying to recollect the games

Any one else have similar experiences
:(

[Xantan the Foul]

I used to regret selling my NES games when I was much younger, but now I have all the games I used to and so much more.

Needless to say, I'm over it. :D

[Videogamerdaryll]

Yea,sometimes..

Games I didn't get a chance to fully play...

Games I should of kept for my collection..but sold because I am or was into other things at the time..

Games that I could of added to my collection that I sold cheap../way too cheap..

[fishsandwich]

I sorta regret selling some PSX games in college but I can get them back cheap if I try.

I DO regret letting a friend of mine borrow my old 5200 and a mess of games way back in the early 90's... I never saw them again.

Years later, I realized the system and games were gone for good so I threw away all the BOXES and INSTRUCTIONS for all those games. I REALLY regret that. What the hell was I thinking?!? :angry:

[NES_Rules]

I regret selling a few N64 games, but they were nothing to special, so its not too bad.

[Jumpman Jr.]

I don't remember selling any of my old games from when I was a kid, but I definitely remember giving a lot of them away to my friends.
Back then I thought to myself "Pfft... when am I going to need this boxed N64 game in the future?"
5 years later I'm going for a complete N64 collection and still don't have all the games that I once had.

[PingvinBlueJeans]

Fortunately, I've kept almost everything over the years and never really sold anything (except a few SNES games). Although, I have "lost" quite a few boxes and manuals over the years (especially the early stuff), and this I do regret. :/

[NE146]

I've never sold a single game in my life.. I don't think if I'd even really know how to!

Actually on that thought I've never sold a single THING.. ever. If I get rid of something usually I either toss it or just give it away. :hmm:

[c0ldb33r]

I used to sell off everything. I've owned pretty much everything mainstream (and not so mainstream) over the years, but sold it all off just to get a few bucks to get the latest and greatest.

I really regret that.

Luckily I'm managing to rebuild my collection one system (and game) at a time. :)

The only thing I've always held onto was my SNES Crono Trigger :D Save files still work on it too :D

[PentiumMMX]

Never have, but nearly did a few times

I almost sold my copy of Diddy Kong Racing to get Zelda: OOT (I still have my old DKR and now I have Zelda: OOT too!)

Also, I almost sold my Nintendo 64 to get a Gamecube (Thankfuly, I didn't. Gamecube sucks compared to N64 and SNES)

[VintageVGMR]

Right after they walk out the door. LOL

The most recent one that hurt was the Gamecube Zelda Compelation disk.

I got it in a trade and it was only the disk. The disk was really scratched up. I was suprised it even played.

Sold it for $15 then saw the complete game for $45 on Ebay. i might have been able to get more. Not sure though.

Before that I sold a Sega Genesis system. I had a bunch of games. But, they only wanted to pay for 5 of them.

So, now i have 52 Sega Genesis games that are just collecting dust.

[Neil Koch]

I sort of regret selling off my DC collection, which was pretty sizable. I was working the electronics dept. at Target when it was being discontinued, so I picked up a TON of stuff.

I say "sort of" because I had to sell the stuff off to pay for food/rent when I was out of work for a few months, so it was lkind of necessary for life and all. Still, I miss my DC, and if I would have waited, I would have gotten MUCH more money.

[Kitsune Sniper]

I had a ton of good Sierra compilations which I sold to do something a few years back. Something I now regret.

Ah well. :(

[Steven]

I'm very select with what I sell if it's the only copy I own. Only if I truly know I won't miss it, will I sell it.

Doubles are gone w/o second thought.

But yeah, the key is to be rational, and if you don't have to sell it, don't.

[cityside75]

I regret selling my mint in the box Virtual Boy and 7 mint in the box games. I picked it up at Electronics Boutique when they were blowing them out for $20 or whatever it was.

I made a fair amount on it, but now I wish I still had it.

I didn't sell it, but for some reason, I took scissors to all of my good condition intellivision boxes as a kid. I cut the names out and stuck them to these cartridge-binder things :roll:

[smokehouse]

I came to a crossroad in my collecting. Do or do not sell the completely unused systems. I finally decided to sell of the unused items. There are a few things that I wish I still had but, I never used them

-Complete in box Jaguar (bought new by me and was the definition of mint and complete). Including a complete boxed Alien-vs-Predator, complete in box Tempest 2000, sealed Jaguar S-video cable.

-Complete in box Dreamcast “Sonic pack” (again, bought new by me and was also complete and mint). Other games like Marvel-vs-Capcom 2 were also sold.

-Laseractive with Sega pack, Japanese Mega Drive pack and two complete mint LD games.

All were really great things but I NEVER used them. They were sold to fund a consolozed Neo Geo MVS and some games like Metal Slug 1,X,3, Samurai Shodown I-IV, Garou MotW, Blazing Star, Super Dodge Ball and many others.

Although I miss those items, the Neo Geo is king of my gaming castle

[Insaneclown]

Usually once I sell it...that's the last time I'll see that game. I dont care to much nowadays.

[gum_drops]

I have trouble selling any classic games. I bought a group of snes games once to resell and once they showed up, I wasnt able to and ended up keeping them.

Since then i have forced myself to sell half of them off. I mean do i really need a copy of pagemaster for the genesis AND snes?

It most healthy mentally to probably break off any attachments to posessions (including games) you don't need or use. Fortunately I am not mentally healthy and can therefore hoard all the games I want :-P

[lordnikon]

About 2 years ago I traded in 3 games for the first time in 10 years, for 1 game. I wasn't thinking straight. Since then I re-couped the original games I traded in.

I don't trade in games anymore. Not sure what I was thinking the one time that I did.

[Xizer]

Not at all! In fact, I just sold Final Fantasy VII for $75 on eBay. That game was boring as hell.

Using the money from that, I bought 6 new PS2 games. Among them: Shadow of the Colossus, Katamari Damacy, Ratchet and Clank, and God of War.

FF7 = most overrated game of all time.

[Soviet Conscript]

as i said in anouther post YES!

that quick fix for a new game cost me alot of great psx rpg's in my college days.

lunars, tactics ogre, tales of destiny and so on.

now that i'm collectining i have to get all these damn games back at a 50+ level when i remember i once had picked them up for $10 and traded them off for mostly less

[.Goomba24]

I remember selling Clayfighter 63 1/2 for the N64 COMPLETE to a local game retailer. I also sold a Nascar game for the PSX a while back when I was younger. I REALLY regret selling Clayfighter..

[Niku-Sama]

i havent ever traded in or sold any old games (yet) how ever i did get rid of spy hunter and bulletproof 50cent for PS2...

would any one ever regret getting rid of those?
i think not!

[christhegamer]

I once traded-in a huge box of atari/playstation 2/mcdonalds handheld/NES/gameboy/PC stuff when I was about twelve-or-so; boy, what I would'nt give to get all that back.

on the plus side, however, that was also the day that I got my first R5 and Japanese game ;)

[7th lutz]

no. I only got a rid of silent service for the nes 14 years ago because I felt the game sucked and my brother felt the same.

[biggzy]

When Wind Waker came out, I traded my mint boxed N64 copy of Ocarina of Time since they were giving me the very same game ported to Gamecube as a preorder incentive. Granted, it's not that rare, but I still regret that one.

Plus, I sold Marvel vs. Capcom 2 back when it was as common as dirt. Six months later the price skyrocketed. Oh well.

[johno590]

I regret selling my SNES when I was a kid, and maybe two years ago I sold my Saturn with like 14 games. Although I didn't play it that much it still would be nice to keep around.

[onyx]

I remember taking 12 complete and mint snes games into a games store and trading them for street fighter 2 before it was released! i really regret that but i was just a kid at the time

[bangtango]

I was out of work for a few months (laid off) in 2003 and sold a perfectly good Sega Saturn, complete with a half-decent library and hard carrying case. I got all of $30 for it. I needed the money at the time but I wish I had a few of those games back and the carrying case. Granted, all the games were under $10 but that is not the point. The point is now trying to get them back one at a time. I am still 4-5 games away and I'll probably never get another Saturn carrying case.