Ever Get a Game Before the System to Play It?

[ubersaurus]

I had a bunch of 5200 games for years before finally getting the console to play em on. I'm aamazed they work, my grandma found em out to the road.

Also had some C64 games before I got the computer (again).

[Pheidippides]

I got Rouge Leader 2 weeks before the cube came out. Ive also bought a few NES games since my last couple of NES' went kapoot. In hopes that ill remember to get a new one.

[Britboy]

*reads* Oh great, now I'm going to have to preorder and buy Zelda, and I don't have a gamecube

[qaotik]

Well I just ordered Impossible Mission for the master system even though i dont own the sms. Got it only because some site featuring all versions of it said that this one was the best one. Damn that game owns. I would gladly buy Ikaruga also if I saw one cheap though ive already got the rom of it, the whole 17mb of it..

[Nature Boy]

Only once.

Back before the PS2 launch I purchased SSX at EB three days before the system came out.

My preorder was at TRU and, although I was guaranteed to get two games from them, I didn't know what they'd actually have and I wanted to be sure I got SSX (which I had read *great* things about online). Good thing too - my TRU had no EA games on launch day.

[fcw3]

Just did that. Last week.

I found a used copy of Steel Battalion and picked it up.

Several days later, I bought an XBox.

Received much grief from friends and family :P

"What kind of idiot spends that much on a game for a system he doesn't have yet ?!?!?"

<sheepishly raises hand>

I also picked up a copy of the XBox Xmas Golf at Blockbuster before Christmas.

Years ago, my wife had also picked up some TI carts cheap at Goodwill before I had a TI machine. I also have a couple of Coco carts waiting for a machine someday. I also traded for a couple of Zelda CDi games hoping to get a machine someday. It never happened and I sold the games. I still have a couple of Laser Active games that I don't have a machine for.

Hey, wait a second. This is starting to appear to be a problem...

FRED

[bargora]

I bought Vib Ribbon, Gradius Gaiden, and Nichibutsu Crazy Climber, all before I got one of them "JP-compatible" PSone consoles.

Also, I bought Steel Battalion a month before receiving an Xbox for Christmas (I was hoping I'd get one), but I hid it in the attic to avoid ridicule and reproach.

[stonecutter]

I bought 3 Gamecube games a week before release. I also have a couple of Intellivision games but no system for it.

[scmsx]

While collecting games, did you ever get a game before you got the game system that you needed to play it on?.

It frequently occurs to me...
I had a bunch of Game Gear games before getting the console.
I also have some TG16 carts but I don't have the console -- only a PC Engine CoreGrafx. And I'm also getting Colecovision carts before getting the console. Soon or later I hope to get one.

Sergio

[ManekiNeko]

Absolutely. I bought NightWarriors for the Saturn a month before I actually HAD a Saturn, because I was that dedicated to the game. It almost singlehandedly changed my opinion of the system, too... I didn't even like the Saturn until I played NightWarriors at a friend's house.

JR

[Vroomfunkel]

Bought Panzer Dragoon Saga because I had heard so many great things about it, and was intrigued. I paid about £75 for it, and got a Saturn a few days later for £15

Since I was broke, I later sold PDS for £90 and felt very pleased with the whole deal. Now I've got some money again, I'd quite like PDS again . . . but it is just going for insane amounts at the moment! I saw it go for £150 ($230) a couple of weeks ago. I really hope the bubble bursts soon. If I could get it for £75 again I'd snap it up!

Vroomfunkel

[tom]

yes, big time,
I got CD-i titles long before i managed to pick up a CD-i cheap enough.

I have an Atari Laserdisc (Firefox) but no hardware to play it on.

On my recent trip to London I picked up DrumMania for PS2 for $250; because it looks a neat piece of kit (and I am an ex-drummer). Haven't got a PS2 yet.

I have lots of software for the Atari ST. And years ago, I bought an Atari Laser printer (SLM804), just because I had to have it. I only got a 1040 ST and Mega ST recently (last year)

I got loads of MAC and Apple II software, but no hardware. I got loads of CBM Pet tapes, but no Pet computer. I got two Supervision games, but no handheld to play them on.

On the other hand, I got a Coleco and Adam, but no software for either.

[IntvGene]

Happens all the time. I have 7800 games and no system... same with the 3DO.

But, even worse, when I went to Japan I actually bought a Dreamcast before I had a TV. I had to just look at the DC sitting in my apartment before the TV came. Those were long nights.

[Jestr]

I can finally convince my wife that I am not the only person that bought Steel Battalion before he had an X-Box.
I went to my brothers house 5 hours away to play it!

[dreamcaster]

I got Cruis'n USA for N64 for my birthday in 1997. I then got the N64 system a few days later.

And yes, I did try shoving the cartridge into my SNES - with no luck of course...

[gamergary]

I got a coleco game in a trade by accident and i don't think i'm going to get a coleco anytime soon so its going to the nava meeting.

[EnemyZero]

Hm yeah I remember when I was much younger and 3DO was released, at the time i didnt think much of it but some while later some kid said his dad wanted to sell his 3DO games for .50 cents each, and they would work in a home stereo system ( a panasonic of course) so being young and naive i grabbed johnny bazookatone, alone in the dark and burning soldier, for a 1.50 i couldnt go wrong, also when i was younger it was kick ass to have a 1.50 so yeah. Either way turned out he got me good, and his dad, lol his dad was pissed but was nice enough to let me keep the games and even though i had no use i held on to them and im glad i did because i came across a brand new 3DO at someones garage sale about 2 years ago.

[Retsudo]

Yep Tekken for PS1

[Don Rogers]

The first time I bought a game before I had the system was Pac-Man for the Atari 800. Technically my dad had already purchased the system through a mail-order house but I had the game before it arrived.

More recently, I own several Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance games but I don't have the system yet. That will change when the GBA SP is released next month though.

-Don

[Arqueologia_Digital]

A lot of NES games before the machine...