Your Top NES Purchase Blunders [Archive] - Page 2

MachineGex

12-11-2008, 11:12 AM

I paid full retail for Legend of Kage, Deadly Towers, & Hydlide(I think Hydlide was only $29 at release). All are turds imo. One game I paid full price for that has not been mentioned is NARC. I hated that game. I ended up trading it for Baseball Stars so it turned out to be a good purchase.

Also, I see a lot of people who made the mistake of buying the Ghostbusters. You guys owe it to yourselves to buy a copy of "The New Ghostbusters II". It is a PAL game, but plays perfect on a NTSC system. I love this game. It is one of those titles you can plug in for only 20-30 minutes and still have fun. It is a must own.

AllP0werToSlaves

12-11-2008, 01:15 PM

Man, there are some REALLY horrible NES games lol. I love how your chances of getting a good game back in the day without knowing about it were very slim. I remember walking through a toy store with my dad (must of been 1990ish) and seeing the massive NES displays and being mesmerized by the box art.

Ah, memories :)

jedimind7

12-11-2008, 01:46 PM

I remember my mom taking me to the store to buy a game. I was torn between two games. One was Megaman 2 and the other was...Knight Rider. I think we know which one I ended up with:(

The Old School Gamer

12-11-2008, 01:49 PM

The worst choice I ever made was Total Recall for the NES (which just edges out Bart vs the Space Mutants which I got for my birthday only 1 month prior). It was around Christmas, and the Home Shopping Network started saleing this game. It was kind of unusual for them to sell Nintendo games so needless to say I had to watch. They made Total Recall look like the end-all be-all of Nintendo games. I fell for it, and when my Aunt asked me what game I wanted for Christmas I stupidly said Total Recall and have regreated it every day of my life since.

Tempest

12-11-2008, 02:31 PM

I remember my mom taking me to the store to buy a game. I was torn between two games. One was Megaman 2 and the other was...Knight Rider. I think we know which one I ended up with:(
Yeah Megaman 2 was a pretty bad game. Shame you didn't go with Knight Rider.

I think the only bad game I can remember buying for the NES was X-Men. Lord was that a piece of crap! Thankfully it sold back to Funcoland for a decent price back then.

Tempest

DigitalSpace

12-11-2008, 04:14 PM

A couple I've picked up over the past year:

-Dirty Harry. It's so poor that it's impossible to beat the game with an invincibility cheat. I kid you not (http://www.digitpress.com/reviews/dirtyhar.htm).

-Target: Renegade. I'd rather play Double Dragon 3.

Orion Pimpdaddy

12-11-2008, 04:29 PM

About two months ago, I wanted to buy Abadox. I took it off the shelf at the used video game store and purchased it.

When I got home, I realized it was Astanax.

kupomogli

12-11-2008, 06:11 PM

About two months ago, I wanted to buy Abadox. I took it off the shelf at the used video game store and purchased it.

When I got home, I realized it was Astanax.

Astyanax is badass. That's not an NES purchase blunder at all, unless of course you already owned the game.

*edit*

Some I've seen on here I actually have and actually didn't even think of them until I saw them.

Hydlide, Deadly Towers, and Ghostbusters 2 are also ones I own. Very bad games.

Real Savage Like

12-11-2008, 07:27 PM

Duds I purchased: Hydlide, Platoon, and Friday the 13th.

Greg2600

12-11-2008, 10:52 PM

#1 Airwolf. I bought it simply because I loved the show, and the display of the back of the box had cool pictures. Worst NES game I've ever played.

#2 Baseball Stars II. A good game, but they completely blew the concept of the first game, the ability to make your own players and teams. I literally bought it brand new when it came out at Toys R Us, and traded it into Funcoland the next day!

#3 City Connection. My best friend kept raving about it. Horrible game. Yet he still loved it? Stupid 10 year old gullibility!

#4 Playaction Football. I had the Four Score, and my cousin figured it would be cool to get it one day we went to Funcoland. Stupidly, I went along with him. Luckily the used price wasn't too much.

#5 Rygar. Loved the music, got the game 20 years ago, still have it, have played it maybe twice in the last 19 years. One of the most aggravating games on the system.

RASK1904

12-12-2008, 04:50 PM

Just last week I was a the svapmeet and I was loking through a box of games. My girlfriend was like look they have a box of games for 15$ each. I said yeah just probably a bunch of Mario's and Castlevanias. So this guy shows up and starts digging in that box and pulls out Snow Brothers!!!! FFFF.
I was sooooooo pist. For like 2 hours. I did get some cool games for cheaper Splatter House 2 and 3 and some other stuff but still. I talked to the guy and we communicate now and then. We are going to start trading after school ends next week. Kinda suck though.
Thanx RASK1904:rockets:

Tempest

12-12-2008, 04:57 PM

Duds I purchased: Friday the 13th.
Why does everyone hate Friday the 13th so much? I bought it new when it first came out and I liked it (never did beat it though). It wasn't the best game ever, but I thought it was pretty fun at the time. Unfortunately it became one of only two NES games I owned that died on me.

Tempest

madman77

12-12-2008, 05:01 PM

#5 Rygar. Loved the music, got the game 20 years ago, still have it, have played it maybe twice in the last 19 years. One of the most aggravating games on the system.
I really liked this game. I remember renting it and spending hours playing it and finally beat it on the 2nd night. I haven't played it in a very long time, but I have good memories of it.

Zoe F

12-12-2008, 06:36 PM

I was maybe three years old, and I went with my mom to a friend of hers house. Her son had The Legend of Zelda. I played it for a while and completely fell in love with it, I thought this was a game I absolutely had to have.

Now being three, you can guess that I had a pretty much nonexistent ability to maintain any decision for more than a couple of days. The end result was that when I went to the store to get a new game, I stared longingly at Zelda then ended up buying Castlevania II: Simon's Quest.

While I've played, beaten, and loved most every Castlevania game ever released, I really don't like Simon's Quest. There's something about that game that just makes me want to start screaming and throwing things. To this day it's a game that I haven't ever been able to convince myself to beat.

To add insult to injury, I never actually owned a cart of Zelda until 2002.

There were two other games that should have been bad purchases, but weren't. Around the same time period, I received Dragon Warrior and Ultima: Exodus. RPG's aren't typically appropriate for three year olds, but I ended up learning to read and read well in large part due to these games.

ReaXan

06-30-2009, 04:07 PM

I like to get new opinions every so often to see if they have changed as well as new member thoughts.Hence the bump

GOLDEN KEYS

06-30-2009, 05:03 PM

my grandfather was all about new technology and would always get me and my brother awesome gifts for christmas and birthdays. so of course when the nes was the hot item in the 80's, he picked one up for us for christmas. my mom HATED it. she didn't want us to have it... and the following year when we got gameboys for christmas, she immediately confiscated them when we left my grandfathers house and told us she was giving them to goodwill.

so anyway, the rules were that we couldn't play any violent games and absolutely NO video games at all on sundays. my small library of nes games as a child consisted mainly of disney games (thank goodness for ducktales and chip n dale rescue rangers) and mario games. however, since my dad was such a big marvel fan, we were aloud to purchase games based off marvel characters.

as a result, i made a couple very poor choices at toys r us. i had to save up my allowance for a very long time to afford the $40-$50 games. after buying "silver surfer" and "x-men" i couldn't motivate myself to save my allowance for anymore disappointment. if you've played these or have seen the AVGN's reviews of the games, i'm sure you'll understand why. it was fun playing as my favorite marvel characters but after that novelty wore off the games were just too hard and not interesting enough.

i still have those games in my collection, too...

The 1 2 P

06-30-2009, 06:25 PM

One time I bought a Flinton's Nes cart thinking it was the rare one that goes for $100+. But instead it was the more common one worth less than $5. Luckily I only payed $4 for it.

toma

06-30-2009, 09:20 PM

Why does everyone hate Friday the 13th so much? I bought it new when it first came out and I liked it (never did beat it though). It wasn't the best game ever, but I thought it was pretty fun at the time. Unfortunately it became one of only two NES games I owned that died on me.

Tempest

i blame the avgn for this one. i always thought it was a classic myself.

Ed Oscuro

07-01-2009, 02:02 AM

Gash Dalaxy in the Alien Asylum

Bought that here. Actually played it on my NES some. There's much worse out there, and given the condition it was probably a decent purchase (as things go) but I'd rather steer clear of games like this.

IronBuddha

07-01-2009, 02:09 AM

I was doomed from the start, the very first game my parents got me for the nes was Rambo!

Compute

07-01-2009, 08:24 AM

Ugh, my life is crappy games. Growing up we were 'poor' so I had to beg my mother for the cheapest titles around. Let's see, there was a used copy of Wall Street Kid, which isn't the worst game ever but just try writing down one of those passwords!

Shortly before I became employed I begged and begged for a copy of Kileak: The DNA Imperative for PSX because it was $10. I later received it for christmas and was the only PSX game I owned while owning a working system.

Too many other stories, most involve the game being dirt-cheap though so it's not a huge loss no matter how you cut it.

Auzlander

07-01-2009, 08:57 AM

I loved the Movie The Karate Kid when it came out, so I bought the game...........

enough said

*SOB*

Clownzilla

07-01-2009, 11:02 AM

T & C Surf Designs is AWESOME, wth?

Yeah, I have to agree with you. That's one of the games I SHOULD of bought in place of the junk games I purchased...........such as Pinbot and Golf.

Xexyz

07-01-2009, 01:13 PM

The one terrible NES game I bought as a kid was Days of Thunder. I don't even remember the reason behind purchasing this game, because I never (and still haven't) watched the movie it was based on. The pit stops... oh my did they suck.

Mason P.

07-01-2009, 02:47 PM

ShinobiMan

07-01-2009, 03:57 PM

One year, I might have been 10 or 11, my birthday fell on a vacation to my uncle's cabin in the woods of Hinton, WV. No friends, no party, no presents. My dad did take me to the store to pick out a NES game. I remember trying to choose between TMNT and some game I'd never seen before. That game was....

http://www.theoldcomputer.com/Libarary%27s/Pictures/NESGameCovers/Caveman%20Games.jpg

For some reason, I thought that looked awesome. Not only that, I didn't have my NES with me, so I had to wait a week to get home to play it, and then it didn't take long to make that the worst birthday ever.

Oh God I hated that game. It was definitely one of my childhood purchase blunders. But does anyone remember:

http://www.theoldcomputer.com/Libarary%27s/Pictures/NESGameCovers/Conan.jpg

My 5 year old self was so hopeful. I wanted this to be the best action game ever, as love the Conan movies. What a piece of trash... laughable even. I'm surprised the AVGN hasn't gotten his hands on that game yet.

I was so disappointed, but back then you had to grin and bear it... even the worst of games.

GOLDEN KEYS

07-01-2009, 04:51 PM

I went to Toys R Us with my uncle to buy me a birthday gift. I talked him up to $30 so I could get a game. All I did was look at the back of the boxes. I grabbed the paper insert and took it up to the counter. The went in the back and brought out the game of my choice....Bad Street Brawler. What a bad game. Looking back, I wish I had chosen a different game.

haha, YES! i totally remember having to bring those little paper inserts in the plastic container up to the front. did they ever get a new system? i don't have a lot of reasons to go to toys r us these days.

also, during my last year of high school (02-03) a couple of my friends went to toys r us and when they were at the back of the store they saw a stocking cart near an aisle and there was a couple stacks of brand new nes games sitting on it. one of my friends grabbed a few of them and hid them in his jacket so he could get them out of the store. i can't remember all of the ones he grabbed but we pulled out an old nes and were playing bubble bobble and contra for a month or so after that.

unethical, yes... but if someones playing a fresh copy of contra i want in.

Crazycarl

07-02-2009, 12:57 PM

Haha! I remember too many, it was the fun of old game buying, bit days of thunder is up there with castlevania: simon's quest.

ReaXan

03-14-2011, 08:04 AM

I like to get new opinions every so often to see if they have changed as well as new member thoughts.Hence the bump

Casati

03-15-2011, 01:27 AM

These NES games I regretted getting this past year: Battle Chess (like watching paint dry), Caesar's Palace (mainly don't like the point and click controls on this one), Bomberman (paid too much for a CIB copy, would rather have Bomberman II loose), Track & Field II (not much fun with annoying controls, disqualifications), Bill Elliott's NASCAR (consists mainly of keeping a knotch at the top of the steering wheel, really bad at this), Tennis (same as Battle Chess), Volleyball (I'm really bad at this game), Bucky O'Hare (just too difficult for me), Rush 'n' Attack, John Elway, NFL (LJN). Almost forgot, but maybe the biggest regret: NES Dragon's Lair.