What's the Most You've Ever Paid for a Single Game?

[MattG/Snyper2099]

Dropped $300 on a flawless Quadrun a few years back.
Paid $200 for a complete 2600 Stronghold this past year.
Paid $200 for a 2600 Color Bar Generator w/instructions (that was a steal!).
Spent $188 on a 2600 River Patrol very recently (another bargain).
Other than that, all I can think of are a bunch of MVS neo geo kits/games I spent anywhere between $100 and $200 each on.
Bought a 2600 Tapper prototype for $150 IIRC. That was the most expensive proto I ever bought.

I've surpassed this with the purchase of gauntlet for the 2600 as well as an unreleased prototype. Let's just say it was more than $1000 for both.

[funksoulfather]

$110 Cad for Super Metroid the day it came out. No regrets whatsoever.

[BrokenFlight]

£45 for Tomb Raider 3 back when it was new. I never got past the first level then traded it in a few years later for £3.

[GiantPooka]

Only two games really spring to mind:

£120 for a copy of Radiant Silvergun- box, manual, spine card, etc.

£100 for a boxed MVS copy of Metal Slug 3- the cardboard box, instruction sheet, sticker, poster, etc.

[dj_spryte]

I dished out $510 for a factory sealed and minty fresh Chrono Trigger. I've never seen a copy so crisp. I laminated it so that the condition is maintained for a hundred more years.

[RegSNES]

$80 for a new copy of Killer Instinct Gold back in '96. I know the game gets hated on a lot but I really enjoyed it. Still have it to this day.

While not as much, I did fork over $40 for Mega Man 7 and Mega Man X3 (SNES ver.) Man, many of you have me beat.

[Psycho Penguin]

FF11 w/hard drive for PS2- 99.99 plus tax

Enjoyed the game, though, so it was worth it.

[WhiteHenDecapitator]

I paid $45 for a loose Tengen Tetris for NES, well worth it!

I guess it helped too with $2000 cash in my pocket, but that is beside the point!

Thanks.

[MarioMania]

$38 for Mega Man X2 Cart only on Amazon

[Jumpman Jr.]

My answer has changed considerably since I've last posted.
To name a few:

$725 for a sealed Hot Slots
$700 for a loose Myriad 6-in-1
$550 for a complete Bubble Bath Babes
$550 for a compelte Peek A Boo Poker
$200 for a loose Cheetahmen II

And that's all been in the past 5 months

[§ Gideon §]

Honestly, the most I've paid for a single game is the current generation, new-release price of $50. Even then, it's an exception: The current market is very favorable for the patient consumer, and I usually wait.

[JT80]

$79.99 for Chrono Trigger.

My local game store put it out on the shelves a week early.

[POrkcOw]

it's not the most expensive, but it should have been. i paid $20 bucks for a complete copy of panzer dragoon saga. i got it with a bunch of other games from this guy i used to know.

[sirhansirhan]

Mere minutes ago, I paid $95.75 for a complete copy of the U.S. version of Keio Flying Squadron on Sega CD. It hasn't come yet (I just won the auction less than an hour ago), but I'd been wanting that game forever and it has been more typically going for $130-140 on eBay lately, so woohoo.

Well, in the past two weeks I've bought a complete, mint as hell Panzer Dragoon Saga for $141, an also complete, also mint as hell Dragon Force for $94, and a complete, not very mint Guardian Heroes for $75. Stupid Saturn, costing me a lot of money.

I've yet to pop in PDS, but I'm absolutely obsessed with Dragon Force--that game rules. Guardian Heroes is awesome, too, but it's more of a two player game, and I don't usually have a second player around.

Speaking of which, since I quoted my old record (now the second-most I've ever paid for a single game) at the top of this thread, and we just passed the one year anniversary of me making that purchase, I'm so glad I bought that Keio Flying Squadron when I did. It's such an awesome game, and I almost never see them for sale at all.

[Greg2600]

In my hometown of Belleville, NJ, there was a video game store/rental in the Grand Union shopping plaza on Main St., called Video Game Dynasty. Everything they sold was ridiculously overpriced. I bought some Atari stuff there, but rarely NES. My aunt, though, didn't know any better, and bought Metroid there for over 70 dollars (in 1988).

[Widar]

~$100 USD for Giana Sisters C64 tape.

[dj_spryte]

$600 US for a factory sealed Chrono Trigger. Nothing I regret about that.

[Kamisama]

I dont want to spend too much on a single item. I however have bought several items ~50 euros. Like Ikaruga and a few others

[theshizzle3000]

Old School:
fifty bucks for Earthbound and I do not regret it

New School:

70 bucks for Guitar Hero 2 with Controller

[The Great Dane]

The most for me would be $95 for a complete Suikoden 2 on ebay. I originally bought the game when it was first released, but it was stolen. So, since the Suikoden series is my favorite series of all time, I figured I had better find another copy and fast.