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    Default Games u thought you lost or didnt realise u owned...

    well ive jsut been sorting out all my game boxes in the attic and came accross various things i had bought over the years which i had for got about...

    Such as a Complete Boxed ZX Specturm, CIB U-Force for NES, an Atari 65XE and Jungle Hunt Cart, a Amstrad GX4000, the Tetris Music Cd SIngle "Doctor Spin" and my Amiga Collection from when i was a kid!

    But this is what captured my attention most, and is now happily sitting on my shelf of favourites...



    Outrun is one of my favourite games of all time and i cant believe i forgot i owned this...

    has anyone else come across games they forgot they had or thought they lost while searching the house over?

    /me loads up his spectrum and pops in outrun!!!!

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    I found a sealed ghouls and ghost for GBC when i was cleaning my basement.
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    I found 5 game gears games when searching through stuff one day. Sucks that I sold my game gear at a garage sale when I was younger. One game worth mentioning out of the 5 was shining force.

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    i am always finding games i forgot that i owned. well, not so much anymore, as i now have a complete list of everything i own up on ign, but when i was starting the list, i ran into this alot. i actually found a copy of mortal kombat: mythologies for n64 a week or 2 back. granted, the game sucks and now i have 2 copies, but it was cool to actually find a game i didn't know i had

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    I used to own a sonic 2. Then I got another sonic2 and now I cant find my first one. Oh well who cares.
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    Quote Originally Posted by testament89
    I found a sealed ghouls and ghost for GBC when i was cleaning my basement.
    Ghosts 'n Goblins, rather .

    Anyhow, the only game I know I had forgotten at one time was a loose SMB/DH cart. I'd been saying that "I haven't bought any classic Mario games" but then I'd bought that cartridge. Lol.

    Also, I want to pick up some Spectrum games. Some good stuff came out for that machine. Not the best ever, but still darn good.

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    Not too long ago I was at a thrift store and ran across a Donkey Kong Jr. cart for the 2600. I got really excited because I've always wanted this game! When I got home and went to put this game on my shelf, I noticed that I already had it. I guess I just forgot. What's worse is, I did it AGAIN with the same game, I got fooled by the non-white case and the different label so I forgot I had it (again). So now I have three of them.

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    I keep forgetting I have a sealed Ascii Fighter Stick SG-6 for Genesis, tucked away in the back of my closet now and then
    These cartridges are dirty as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ed Oscuro
    Quote Originally Posted by testament89
    I found a sealed ghouls and ghost for GBC when i was cleaning my basement.
    Ghosts 'n Goblins, rather .

    x_x









    My mistake. Or rather capcom's for changing the series name for every other system.
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    I usually have the opposite problem, I think that I already own games that I don't own yet. I see something that catches my eye on ebay, check my archives, and freak out because I don't have it yet. Sometimes I luck out and get to breathe a sigh of relief because I do have it already, but more often than not I find myself wondering how I'm still missing so many games.
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    Gyromite, Actraiser, Strider..

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    Quote Originally Posted by testament89
    My mistake. Or rather capcom's for changing the series name for every other system.
    Yeah, there's a reason I like calling it Makaimura

    Certain ports of the games have apostrophes in different places - I believe one of the ZX Spectrum ports has 'n' with two apostrophes in the Ghosts 'n Goblins, while most versions have 'n, and I think one has n'

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    I picked up panzer dragoon saga on ebay for like $35 shipped. 2 years later I wanted to play it so bad I almost bought it in a lot for 2-3 times as much. Then, thinking it was a dream, I said "I could have SWORN I bought one of these rare saturn games once on a good deal...maybe it was this one after all? N'ahh, couldn't have been. Which one was it?"

    Went up stairs, dug around for a while, lo and behold. PDS complete and minty, just sitting there....
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    Forgot I had Defender 2000 for the Jaguar. It was on my inventory spreadsheet, but I couldn't recall ever having bought it. So I assumed that this entry was one I forgot to delete when I built my inventory on a copy from another board member. Turns out I had the game after all

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    I like to forget magazines. I exchange them at a second-hand bookshop and at home I realize I own at least half of them. I guess it's time to make an inventory list of mags, too. :/

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    I was planning on doing an "audit" of sorts of my 200+ Saturn games... I've gotten some more games recently... mostly sports games and dupes that I was going to change out with the ratty games with broken boxes (you know how those big Saturn cases get.) Games I swore I had are not on my list, so either I'm building up my collection more than I thought or I have some serious dupes. Either was, I'm not to far from the complete Saturn collection.



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    This happens alot with NES games for me.

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    I sold all my systems and games back in 1996 -- or at least I thought I did. But a few years ago, I realized that I had not sold Cool Spot (Genesis). So when I bought a used Genesis console this year, I had something to play right away...

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    I found Mario Kart 64 in my cabinet one day. I ended up trading it in, I've never owned an N64 and I've never bought N64 games..... Don't know anyone who keeps one anymore.

    Helped add to my DC Collection, muahaha.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sylentwulf
    I picked up panzer dragoon saga on ebay for like $35 shipped. 2 years later I wanted to play it so bad I almost bought it in a lot for 2-3 times as much. Then, thinking it was a dream, I said "I could have SWORN I bought one of these rare saturn games once on a good deal...maybe it was this one after all? N'ahh, couldn't have been. Which one was it?"

    Went up stairs, dug around for a while, lo and behold. PDS complete and minty, just sitting there....
    PDS must have some sort of hiding syndrome - every once in a while i page past it in my games binder but i never remember to play it.

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