Biggest Videogame Spending ERROR You've Ever Committed
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I'm looking at this topic "have you ever regretted not buying a game" and I'm thinking to myself it's more often the other way around for me - I plunk down money on a game only to find that it sucks hard. Or I get my hands on something "rare" only to have a case-load of them discovered a month later.
That kind of thing.
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I was exclusively an N64 owner back in it's early days and of course I was starving for something to play. So I bought Hexen. I paid $90 + tax which, in Ontario, came out to $103.50. Yup.
Of course the game sucks to boot so I eventually traded it in. I got so little for it I've blocked out the actual amount. Maybe $25. Maybe.
I haven't overpaid for a game since.
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I bought a Sega CD when it first came out for like $300 and I never bought a single game for it. I sold it along with all my other Genesis stuff in the early 90's for $85 or so.
y-bot
I spent 35$ for a used Beavis and Butt-head complete for Genesis and I thought it was the best deal ever :/
Well, I've never really regretted any Console purchase
Tho I do regret a few PC purchases...
Number one in my mind right now is D&D: Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor
A very hyped game, that not only did NOT live up to it's name was had terrible gameplay, terrible coding, bugs galore, and uninstalling COULD render your Windows OS unusable without a re-installation.
Plus I bought it when it first hit the shelves so it was about $85 CDN.
Alex Kidd
Regrets
regrets...I've had a few...but then again....too few to mention. DP you've hit upon a good one here. I recently got impulsed (i.e. suckered) into paying waaayy to much for a Sega Master System. It's compunded by the non-mint condition of the console (it does work) and the fact that I just found out that apparently the controller is missing a thumbcontrol? (the middle part). I'm not tellin the cost, cause I gotta trade/sell it to one of you suckas.
I bought Metal Gear Solid for PSX (Greatest Hits) for $20. Needless to say, i HATED the game. I saw it at funco a week later, for $10 and it was the original! YARGGHH
Somebody once told me to get a life.
I told them I sold it for money to buy video games.
it's just to horrible to mention...
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I spent $30 for n64-Superman!! *HANGS HEAD IN SHAME*
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Some of these sound pretty good, but most of them (N64 Superman? Beavis & Butthead? METAL GEAR SOLID?) I would hardly call MAJOR errors in purchasing. I have one that is going to blow the doors off of what I'm seeing here so far.
I'd rather not tell the story until the blow is cushioned by others. :/
1. Buying SNES Super Tennis for $50
2. Being so into SF2 and buying a fighting clone for the snes for $60.. I even forget the name. Lets just say it was such a BAAAD poorly put together street fighter clone hashed together in about a week. ugh! >
3. Freeway for the 2600.. My mom gave me a choice of Activision games to get. And I thought it would be like Frogger only to find it was a TIMED game and you could only move up and down! >
me too. Except I did buy games for it, which made it worse for the most part. Of the 15 or so CD games I bought, the only ones I got that were worth anything were Silpheed and Robo Aleste. Sold it all at a big loss in 94 and bought a PC.I bought a Sega CD when it first came out for like $300
(I have one again now. I think my SEGACD/Genny/32x combo, plus over 50 assorted games[so far] have set me back less than the price of Silpheed back in the day)
With console purchases, patience is a virtue. My working Sunnyvale sixer is a testament to the fact that the console is not going anywhere, and there will be lots of time to play the game(s) eventually.
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Not a game, but game related: I was among the first to get the Afterburner kit for the GBA, and I regreted it. Ended up messing up the light guide, considered it a waste of money. Screw that nonsense, I'm getting the SP.
Bought Megaman 5, NEW for about 50 dollars, but I beat it really soon and promptly decided to trade it in a week later for some crazy reason. Got 17 bucks worth of credit, spent it on some other used NES game that I traded in shortly after. And then there was the time I traded in my entire NES library (20 or so titles) back in 94', before I wised up.
My grandmother was an avid RPG fanatic, but when the PSX and Saturn hit the scene she no longer had an interest in the games anymore. Gave me the credits she had accumulated at a used game shop that totaled at about 100 bucks, but by the time I visited the store that happened to be out of town, they had gone out of business.
It would have to be the time I bumped heads with Marco on a boxed Malagai, Spent way more than I wanted 1k+ but since I really wanted it for my collection, and will probably never sell it I can kinda justify it, well maybe if I just need to keep telling myself that
Drew
Last year I bought a new game.com from ebay germany.
I forgot how much I paid for it, but it was a lot. Later I imported some extra games from the USA to go with it. I think I also overpaid those.
I'm sure I don't need to explain why this was a bad deal. >
Bought Street Fighter Alpha 2 for $10+ at Chinatown last month thinking it was a big rarity..wasn't.
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I'm like MR. Careful when it comes to buying games and stuff. I mean I walked by my copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga THREE times before I finally bought it because I wasn't sure I'd like it. Lucky for me it was still there the last time.
So, the closest I can come was buying a PS2 a few months after release. Not at a jacked up price or anything, but it was still $299 at the time. For many of you this might not be an error, but for me, it was. Aside from the fact that there wasn't anything other than Gradius 3 & 4 I wanted to play (and even that wasn't a must have) in the time since then I still haven't found much I wanted to play. I'm sure I could have waited until it gets down to $99, but I got caught up in the moment.
My biggest spending error wasn't so much a matter of what I bought as it was a case where I should have bought something else. After working for my grandparents and uncle for the summer of '93, I had about $120 saved up. It was just enough for a Genesis, but I decided to get Alien 3 and Mega Man 5 instead. Years passed before I bought a Genesis and realized what I had been missing.
Other that that, I don't have a major spending mistake to recall. Maybe I should make one just for the sake of my future nostalgia.
My biggest blunder was buying a copy of Ecco the Dolphin for the Genesis when I could have had an entire game system, the Turbografx-16, for the same price. Arrgh, what was I thinking? Ecco's so dull that oil riggers in Alaska still use it as a boring mechanism.
I did get a Turbografx-16 eventually, but a lot of my game systems are in Arizona and I haven't a clue what happened to them. I'm a little afraid of what happened to them, frankly.
JR
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Olympic hockey for N64.I couldn't believe that i bought a game that was the same like Wayne grentzky's bu only with different teams.Luckly i traded this stinker to get a better game that's worth the money, virtual tennis,for dreamcast.
I spent 60 bucks on nightmare creatures for the N64. that game SUCKED
Somebody once told me to get a life.
I told them I sold it for money to buy video games.
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