Which "common" game took you a while to secure

[Steven]

and bothered you most? (in terms of finally getting it)

This past week I finally got my hands on a SNES copy of Battletoads and Double Dragon.

Ever since I got back in the SNES this past January, I looked to buy this game, but it was never in that $7-$8 range of mine. I know, if I was willing to pay 3, 4 extra bucks I could have had owned it a lot earlier, but where's the fun in that?

It all started in March with me losing an auction for four complete SNES games, with BT/DD being one of them. I was sniped. I was pissed off, lol, but that's eBay!

Then in May, a board member was selling his copy for $7 shipped, but I was too late in PMing him. He offered to look around his area for another copy.

This past week, I finally got lucky. I guess everyone was sleeping, because this game usually gets bidded on quite a lot.

Heck, I was watching this auction and look at the noobs bid it up:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=8291422823

Anyway, that's my story about a common game that took me a damn while to get, and bugged me the most.

[Niku-Sama]

it took me till last week to even find a 2600 console, but thats not a game...

cant think of any games at the moment

[Daria]

Final Fantasy 7

I put off buying the game for the longest time because I, well I don't really like it. Had the PC version when it came out and just wasn't all that thrilled with it. Compound my initial reaction which the insane amount of fanatism this title generates and I really was put off by buying it. Besides it's a common title and I saw it everywhere for $15.

Fast forward to what two months ago? And I'd managed to knock my PSOne want list down to Suikoden 2 and this damn game. Course Advent Children was just out and Final Fantasy 7 had sky rocketed on Ebay. Average price was something like $40. Well I didn't bite at $15 so I sure as hell wasn't ponying up $40.

Posted a few want threads on various forums, was laughed at by numerous traders on GameTZ. A friend contacted me over AIM and offered the game for $12 shipped. So little patience and I found a happy ending.

[exit]

It all started in March with me losing an auction for four complete SNES games, with BT/DD being one of them. I was sniped. I was pissed off, lol, but that's eBay!

That happened to me with D2, nobody touched it for days and at the last minute someone sniped me. I know it was going to happen too and I was quite angry about it. Well I quickly found it on half.com and it was cheaper than the final bid, so I was happy about that.

I'm glad to see you finally found the game.

I had a hard time finding Silent Hill in the wild, atleast one that was complete and ended up paying a hellish price for it. I also had a bitch of a time finding Skies of Arcadia and then found it at my now favoriate EB games location.

[Pantechnicon]

Atari 2600 Realsports Tennis - which was the last R1 I needed to have all the R1 carts. It took me four or five months or looking for it in the wild before eventually giving up on the thrifts and getting it off of Ebay. This, in my mind, constituted a majot failure of patience on my part.

[MarioMania]

Mega Man X3 - Some guy was selling the Game here..for like $30 + $4 shipping..I quicky PMed him about it, Ebay & Amazon has it for alot more

[scorch56]

I'm still looking for the one that bothers me the most.. War 3010 for the SNES. I want a complete copy and don't want to pay more than 10 bucks for it (I'm cheap). I'm always outbid.

[dreamcaster]

I was collecting for like, 3 years or something, before I picked up a copy of Super Mario World.

Also, I'd really like a complete PAL copy of Super Mario Kart, but don't want to spend more than $20.00AU

[Spartacus]

Those darn PlayStation Namco Museums! The DP guide says all five are common's I should find for $5 apiece. Easy enough for vol. 1 & 3, but the rest on Ebay are $50 crazy. I stumbled on a vol 5. in a pawn shop for $10 and was tickled pink to take it. I'm starting to doubt I'll ever have the complete set because I'm too cheap to cough up any more than that.

[DigitalSpace]

For me, it would have to be U.N. Squadron for the SNES. I was looking for it for a while and finally managed to get one at a GameCrazy a few months ago.

[Steven]

For me, it would have to be U.N. Squadron for the SNES. I was looking for it for a while and finally managed to get one at a GameCrazy a few months ago.

heh yep that's another one that took me a while to get.

Finally won one on eBay about 2 months ago for about $7.50, and wouldn't you know it the very NEXT day I saw it at Game Crazy for 4.99

[50TBRD]

Toe Jam and Earl for Genesis. Trade always turned down, always out bid on Ebay, lose interest but still don't have it.

Moto Racer:World Tour for Playstation. Loved the first two. Trades turned down?, when interested I can't find one complete on Ebay, bought only copy for Gamestop and it was scratched.

Guilty Gear and Diablo for Playstation. No sure what the rarity is on these but I can't ever find these in stores, people always want an arm and a leg for a trade, have watched dozens of auctions and seen them go for more than I would like to pay for or always miss the good prices.

Fatal Fury 2 and Final Fight 2 for Snes. Bought many lots and never goten it, so common nobody even lists them for trade, and never looked for them by themselves because i keep thing that I will get them in a lot or in a trade. I know that I'll get them and then I get them like crazy in lot auctions.

[Steven]

Fatal Fury 2 and Final Fight 2 for Snes. Bought many lots and never goten it, so common nobody even lists them for trade, and never looked for them by themselves because i keep thing that I will get them in a lot or in a trade. I know that I'll get them and then I get them like crazy in lot auctions.

FF2 (errr, Fatal Fury 2) is a great port on the SNES. I remember buying this for a measly $4 (about its going rate) from a DP member here... the guy with the cool Lego set up.

I like it better than FF Special.

[Nebagram]

Conker's Bad Fur Day on N64. Kept holding off for a lower and lower price, eventually went "screw it" and shelled out the £20. Worth it though.

[roleplayer]

final fantasy 3 and its still eluded me unfortunatly

[jezt]

Final Fantasy 7. It got stolen a long time ago, and I always meant to replace it, but I cannot find it for the life of me.

I am kicking myself in the teeth too, because two years ago, there were a shtiload of em for 20 bucks at one of the Grocery stores here in Anchorage.

I still havent found one.

[lurpak]

still trying to get the videopac+ style box of KCs munchkin for under $10

[Kid Ice]

Mario Brothers for VCS

[cyberfluxor]

I finally found Darkstone the other day. It's like a scarcity of 1 and hadn't seen it in a store for well over a year! Was interested from the first time I saw it but didn't want to pay the high price tag Gamestop put on it at the time. All in all, it was nice to finally get it and lives up to what I expect and am quite suprised it doesn't still go for that high price GS put it for because it is that great of a game.

[Nez]

Samba De Amigo been looking for more then a year, and no luck. Final US DC game I need and no freaking luck. Mostly becoue I refuse to paymore then $20 for it. Used to see it in stores for like $10 $12 bucks and figured since I would see it all the time I could hold off on buying it. WRONG!