I totally wish I hadn't bought Ranma 1/2 [the side scroller] for the PC-Engine CD. Also, I paid $90 for the Mega Drive release of Strider because there was NO WAY that would come to America.
Having a compulsion to continue collecting coupled with FOMO has really sapped my mental state. It just became depressing after a while once I realized I probably won't get the chance to play through what I have now, let alone whatever I'll acquire in the future. So what's really the point? The stuff looks amazing on a shelf, but I'm feeling a stronger and stronger pull toward a minimalist lifestyle, ironically, BECAUSE I became a collector. If you find your happiness is hinged on anything outside of your rational mind (i.e. stuff, relationships, etc), you should re-evaluate your perspective.
I had imported nintendogs the week it came out in Japan. It was 60 plus shipping. EVERYONE was crowding me anywhere I played... I couldn't mov e... "OMG are those dogs? ?? Let me see! " grown ass women we freaking out. Sold it to get the English one .
Ian never misses a chance to undermine Pat's NES collecting efforts, and the amount of money he's spent on it. "Oh I definitely regret collecting NES games. Particular games I spent $80 or $90 on". Could you be any more passive aggressive Ian? You are all class Pat.
The only thing that truly pisses me off are assholes who ruin the fun by buying things simply because they're rare and never intend to use them. Prices skyrocket, games sit in captivity for decades, and the hobby suffers, simply because some shithead with deep pockets wanted to turn a profit at an alarmingly slow rate. Go make your money on something actually worth investing in.
Well that was more, or less a port of the Amiga 500 version correct? Sadly a lot of Amiga CD32 games were nothing but piss poor ports that failed to use the controller correctly.
Commodorefan64 The thing that sucks is that I didn't grow up with a amiga computer. Just the cd32 so I missed out on alot of great amiga games. I did have the floppy drive to hock into the cd32 so I was able to play some classic amiga floppy games (amiga 500 version of north and south is my favorite. No other port comes close to that one imo). I'm happy to say that one of the first things I got when I moved into an apartment is a amiga 1200 computer. I still have my cd32, but it doesn't gets much use anymore. One cd32 game I don't regreat buying is the cd32 version of the Chaos Engine. Dam the music in that game is awesome. And the extra colors used for that version.
Bosco63and1/3 In some ways, the Gameboy port (Battletoads in Ragnarok’s World) fixes the issues of the more precise stages in the NES version; the Turbo Tunnel and Clinger Winger. I wish it had all the stages, as aside from the zoomed in graphics, the presentation and music are solid overall. I’m probably also one of the few players who enjoy the Terra Tubes and the Rat Race stages.
I bought Mountain bike rally at a very inflated price a few years back, that's my only regret really. I knew I was paying too much for it at the time, but I wanted it for my collection.
About how much did you pay(if you dont mind me asking)? you're talking about the game with the Speed Racer combo also? The price has likely increased even more since then, so if you still own it, that's probably a good thing :)
Current... I bought no man's sky on release date.... Little older: state of emergency....regret most: action 52 (I payed full price for it on release day over buying an snes.) luckily the store owner I bought it at was a pretty cool dude and let me returned it and exchange it for an snes.
Well, the game was already on PSN for like $10 so its your own fault for paying $30+ because they have made you believe its rare when everybody in the world could download it tomorrow for a hell of a lot less, and keep downloading it for the rest of forever because it will never run out.
me too usually, but you can't complain about 'there aren't enough copies to instantly send it' when the whole modus operandi of the scummy company you're buying from is artificial scarcity so they cam overcharge for a small indie game that is only worth $5-10 at most
I mostly just use flash carts these days. I never paid more than $100 for any video game in my life before that, though, and that $100 game was a one-time indulgence. I've also never bought a game I wasn't interested in playing, so I feel pretty good about all my past purchases, thankfully. I learned when I was collecting Magic: The Gathering cards like crazy decades ago how out-of-control that sort of thing can get and try to regret-proof other ongoing hobby endeavors as much as possible.
How do you not regret something you buy and never use? I know someone who is exactly like this. He owns almost every US released PS1 game, and has only played like 35 of them. The rest, he says, he just likes looking at on a shelf and bragging about.
I feel the same way. Despite how cool I think my collection is, I kinda want out. What doesn't help is most of my game library is made up of games I hung onto as a kid, so I have quite an attachment to those games.
Poor guy...the PS1 had so many shovel ware games that aren’t worth the time or money. Maybe the guy bought most of them on the cheap and it spiraled out of control.
Dude I noticed you're holding a copy of Magic Knight Rayearth!!! I love that game, it reminds me of Sailor Moon. I loved it so much i bought all 3 disc variants. Of course it was going for $70-100 back then. So I seriously bought three copies for under the price of one now. I miss 2010-2011. I also bought Popful Mail cib for $75 and space adventure for $100. I'm surprised you're not holding that one either! Awesome games!!
The only regret I have is not buying a copy of bubble bobble 2 when I saw it for $3 at a pawn shop back in 2012. I didn't know at the time that it was so rare. I actually remember buying batman and tetris that day. I kick myself every time I think about it.
As odd as this sounds, I bought a Xbox 360 when the Xbone had just come out, and with trying to build my Nintendo library as well, I held on to the 360 for about 4 years not having bought many games or even using it much. Only good thing to come out of it was trading it in to gamestop with the games I had to buy my Nintendo Switch and MK8D
If you regret buying an expensive/rare game, there is an easy solution... sell it. I hate when people brag about buying rare games when they were cheap, then say they aren't worth the current price, yet aren't selling their copy. If you truly believe that, then you would sell it. You can't say something is less than it's value and still hold on to it, that makes no sense. A more accurate statement is "I bought this game when I could afford it, and now I wouldn't be able to afford the current price." The only legitimate reason to continue holding on to a game if you think it isn't worth the value is because you are hoping to sell it for more later (investment).
CIB harvest moon for the snes spent 300$ on it, love that game and it holds a lot of nostalgia for me but that did not feel right adterwards when I had spent that kind of money.
With WonderSwan, I have no regrets. Only got about 10 games but with Makaimura and Klonoa among them, I can feel satisfied. I remember someone listing a number of sealed copies of the former (which I opened and scanned for the collection) and had to snipe for the latter but I don't think I paid much.
I've owned the original wonder swan since 2012 and I still have one damn game for it, Gunpey. I think I can live with that. I've practically forgotten it takes other cartridges.
No Mega Man. I tried the B&W Rockman and Forte on emulator first and wasn't too interested. I didn't get Rockman.EXE because I wrongly assumed it was the same game as Battle Network on GBA. I think my collection is otherwise a puzzle game called Mingle Magnet, an action-RPG called Star Hearts, and the Square games. (Mingle Magnet was by a company called HAL Corporation which, from archive.org might in fact be related to the famous HAL company, their comparatively small PC division that exists/existed).
One of my favorite runs in the mlb the show 08 was when i had finally managed to get an ace pitcher once most of his pitching skills were upgraded i started throwing points into hitting and with his weird pitchers swing he ended up being a homerun hitting perfect gaming throwing machine!! and it was so much fun hitting as a pitcher lol it really was....
This is a good question. Ian's on point here. I'm in that weird zone with Vita games. I'm still buying CIB that I will likely never play. Not sure if picking some of these games up now will pay off later or not. Really want to see what happens after Gamestop stops selling Vita games. It's already getting difficult to find some CIB Vita games in the wild.
Phantasy Star for the Master System, it was the most expensive game I bought. I liked it but I underestimated how grindy and labirintine a game like that could be towards the end and it cost me about 60 Euros, it doesn't help that I got a corrupted save at a certain point and had to restart the game from scratch. After that I only bought the cheaper Golvellius and Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon's Trap (this one is awesome) for the MS and Soleil for the Mega Drive (another one I really enjoyed, usually very expensive but I got lucky for once) and then got an Everdrive because at that point it was either that or spend 100+ Euros for games like Castlevania Bloodlines/New Generation/Vampire Killer (dear Konami, settle on a title dammit!), Phantasy Star IV (best in the series) or Streets of Rage 3 and I couldn't possibly afford those prices. In hindsight I think I should have skipped Phantasy Star and gone directly to the remaining cheap ones I was interested in, reserving it for the everdrive like the other expensive titles.
Yeah I remember when I was young like 4 or 5 yo, my older cousin used to draw out the maps in phantasy star on grid paper when entering any kind of dungeon
The only game I regret buying was Battlefront II...I loved the first, and spent about $50 on both. I still play the first Battlefront, but sold off the sequel for $10.
I don’t regret buying anything, but I do regret selling my original gamecube with the component cables for $80. Let that sink in. This was before I knew how expensive the cables were, otherwise I would’ve e kept it.
Most money I've ever put into a single game is Smash Bros for the Wii U. I put 100 dollars into the collectors edition but it came with a Smash 4 gamecube controller (which I knew could be resold for a portion of what I bought the game for) and the gamecube adapter. Also the fact that I knew I would put 100s of hours into it. Unless it's a game I know I will get my money's worth on it mostly dosent surpass 20 dollars.
Honestly I've been very luck with my game purchases over the years. So as for now don't have any games expensive in my collection that I regret buying . Still If had to pick a game for it would be fallout 4, I only payed $16.00 & I still feel ripped off =/ Side-note: I have few of the game's shown in the thumbnail "popful mail, magical knight rayearth, vay etc." I didn't pay over $50.00 for each but seeing how much they are now is crazy.
I wouldn't say REGRET, but I was a little dissapointed by MUSHA Aleste if only for the ridiculous amount of hype over it. thankfully only payed $60 for it, CIB gameplay wise, I just kinda like Thunder Force III/IV, Raiden Trad, Gley Lancer etc. much better. The First boss in Musha is just hilariously boring in its last phase too
It is more a matter of taste I guess. I really like Musha Aleste and I have my reasons for that but doesn't mean everyone have to love it too. the best thing you can do is always emulate or at least watch some videos before buying, that helped me a lot and that's why my collection is mostly filled with games I like and want to play.
Like exactly, it is an absolutely impressive game, but it's not a MUST HAVE to me, like there are a lot of genesis/MD shooters that are better for the same huge amount of money, if not far less. $60 was worth it, $400 is not.
I haven't been able to bite the bullet and get a really expensive game. I paid $100 CAD for Chrono Trigger loose and that's the big purchase. Haven't exceeded $80 for a game otherwise. I have stuff that's worth a fair bit but I bought it years ago. My biggest regrets are games that I had heard good things about but totally hated once I played them. Some of those I paid very little for. I paid like $2 for NBA Hangtime on the SNES and I thought it was a terrible conversion and I get upset thinking about it. The game cost nothing but I hate having its presence stink up the rest of my collection. I'm not going for complete collections, I get games that I think are good and bad games mess that up. There is no price tag that is worth it for something you don't even want to have.
Regret buying every version of Skyrim. Would always play as an archer dark elf and would pick the storm cloak every time. I feel like I should of maybe tired something different instead
Mega Man V for gb. Got it for 100. Because the cart was a bit rough. Looked fine in the pic but one pin is real rough, it's super touchy to get to work.
I barely buy games these days. But back in the day i remember buying guitar hero world tour....such a let down from its competitor rockband 2 but the even BIGGER let down was rockband 3
I sold my copy of Magic Knight Rayearth for almost $400. I had no idea it was worth that much and got an offer from a collector. I literally felt like a criminal leaving a drug deal after that.
Yea, I lucked out and got it brand new for $40 along with a ton of other saturn titles for $5-10 when EB Games was liquidating their Saturn stuff. Albert Odyssey, Shining Wisdom, Sonic Jam was all 10 a pop. The only really expensive saturn game I regret not getting was Panzer Dragoon Saga.
Ooohh where do I begin £1000 mega drive custom designed for Xenocrisis. Sold for way less, alien solider and the punisher on the mega drive, most expensive carts I have ever bought, sold it all off. Currently got a Analogue NT Mini Noir but I may sell down the line.
Nope, never regretted buying a rare expensive game; I always do the research or play the game before I buy it, to know it's something I'd like to play. The only ''expensive'' game I can think of regret buying is the digital version of Magician Lord on the Nintendo Switch. The original game for the Neo Geo AES goes for $100+; for the Switch $8. So I saved myself a lot of money by not getting the AES version, but that's why I always buy the digital version 1st, before buying the real deal AES games. Magician Lord would be a good game if it weren't for it's troll difficulty.
I don't pay more than $40 for NES stuff. Even in the last few years I've managed to get pretty rare stuff for extremely cheap. I bought Maxi 15 at a swap meet for $20 a few years ago. I'll probably never own anything super big ticket. I dont care much about it either.
Buying bins of random Famicom games when I lived in Japan. Now I have tons of crappy Famicom games. :( Also regret NOT buying certain games, I will always remember that day in Akihabara when I saw Lickle (Little Samson) CIB for $10. I passed out on it because I wanted to check what the game was first. It was gone when I went back. =(
I have story about regretting a trade I made years ago. It was the year 2002, my local game traders had a preowned copy of street fighter alpha 3 for dreamcast that I just had to have. It cost 50 bucks and I was trying to reign in my spending a bit so I enquired about trading in my spare Super Nintendo console for it. They said they could do that trade if I threw in a couple of games. I didn't have any shit games to trade but I had bought a super wildcard which came with hundreds of games ripped to floppy disc. And with emulation also making the quality games that I had hunted seemingly obsolete I made the unwise decision to trade in my axelay and castlevania IV cart along with the console. To make matters worse the game disc didn't even work and I was too busy with studying and work to hold them to account (something I still regret) years later tho when I looked at what castlevania IV goes for on eBay I was crushed knowing that I had foolishly agreed to had denied me a quality game that had gone up in value quite a lot. Even a Super Nintendo console went up in value, at the time you could get one for around 20 bucks at a pawn shop but now they go for 4-5 times that amount which is just crazy. At the time it seemed like false economy to try and find bad games for 10 bucks to throw in but I wish I had not bothered because a few years later alpha anthology released on PlayStation 2 and that was my go today of playing SFA3 at home.
It's was fun back in day, riding around with a couple friends, hitting pawn shops and flea markets. Actually, I think the social aspect and the hunt was more fun than playing the games. The sad fact of game collecting is you're eventually going to sell it all off for one reason or another. Unless you're rich, sooner or later, you'll need the money back. If it's not for money, you'll look at all of that crap sitting on shelves, in boxes, think about how much you spent, the amount of space it consumes and how much you actually play the stuff. Once you ponder that, the sell off begins.... I kept the best of my Saturn, PS1/2 stuff and got rid of everything else. Then there is all of the indirect crap like keeping CRT TVs around or buying an expensive niche scaler, hunting retro repair services etc... Barring all that mess, ultimately you can't take it with you. If it doesn't bring you enjoyment, get rid of it. Its not worth it.
@@drunkensailor112 let me know your COA when you come down with a rabid case of butt rott and the treatment is financially out of reach. Shall it be Little Sampson or your left cheek prosthetic? You want to be able to sit upright or prop against a wall when you're out club'n, right? While I stand by my statement, I think you read it with the wrong voice in your head and maybe took it a bit too grim. By all means, keep it if you enjoy it. I still buy and play games. I just prefer quality over quantity now, that's all. If it has no nostalgic value or its just a bad game, it's gone.
Two Worlds for 360, wasn't super rare but also wasn't that easy to find in Ireland, I think it cost me 70 euro. I would pay 70 euro to erase the memory of ever playing it.
The only system and games i kinda regret buying is Sega Saturn. I love the system and games i bought i simply havent used the system for a year and a half so it's high time i pull that baby out and play it.
I regret the "rare and expensive" games I found for cheap before they were expensive because it almost makes me give a crap about this collecting thing.
Regret $90 for Power Blade 2... why? I would regret spending $90 on Call of Duty Black Ops V Collectors Edition, but Power Blade 2 is both awesome, worth $90 just for entertainment value IMO, and, as an investment, would net you a 400 percent profit. That would be like regretting buying a share in Apple 30 years ago from Steve Jobs himself and then having him take you out to lunch right afterwards.
I regret buying phantasy star 2 and the walkthrough guide even tho I hate rpgs but had it as a kid and was a complete nostalgia buy traded it in a month later.
Nothing rare or expensive, but I honestly don't touch most of what I have on the PlayStation/PS2 or XBox or any handheld that isn't a Nintendo one. I don't play a decent amount of my NES games either, but I play pretty much everything I have for SNES or N64 but I have like 12 games each for those
One big regret I had was buying Chicken Run for PC way, way back then. I wasn't entirely into it (neither I was into the movie, I didn't dislike it but didn't catch my interest), but I was kinda forced to get it because my sister wanted it. The fucking thing was released in a poor state and had a bug where you would constantly jump, making it unplayable. Nice Christmas. Another one was New Super Mario Bros. which I bought when I got a NDS. It let me down haaaard. While I don't think it's a bad game at all (although the home console NSMB are more fun to me), getting into a new interesting system through a simple retro-inspired 2D platformer wasn't the smartest idea. Ironically I ended up changing it for Super Mario 64 DS, which I enjoyed sooo much more, and while not a new experience, at least was a full 3D platformer on a handheld system with new stuff. Oh, I also regret living in Europe while liking gaming in the past. *Fuck you, 50hz. what a colossal waste of money.*
I have bit the bullet and purchased a few rare and expensive games. Only game I have regretted buying is samurai western for the ps2. Its just not a good game
I feel ya. Waayy back I bought Magic knight rayearth and was pleasantly surprised that the value rose. However I know i would probably like playing any other working designs game more. Nothing against magic knight, but shining wisdom or something i wouldve played more.
Castlevania 3 Dracula's Curse I searched everywhere for it high and low bent over ass backwards to find it and when I finally did bought it without even thinking don't remember how much I spent on it but no matter what the price was it wasn't worth it cause the cartridge didn't even work and after all the work I spent trying to get it my spirit broke if I ever come across it great but I'm not putting myself through that kind of ordeal again for any game let alone that one
I never got too enjoy Bubble Bobble part 2 never played it either. I missed out on buying it when it came out i didn't know it even existed at that time. And i can't buy it used on eBay who can afford $800 dollars for one NES game. I wish NINTENDO would re- release rare nintendo games. It's not like i can travel back in time to get what i want : (
No. It absolutely cannot compete with being a motorsports addict..one machine and running it will cost more than 20 years of gaming..a few grands compare to money pits, accidents, breakdowns, hospitals... Games are cheap
Come on Pat, Magic Knight Rayearth, snatcher, Popful Mail are great games!!! Now games like Fox Hunt, Plumbers don't wear ties, action 52, Zelda CDi games, Night Trap, cheetah men, should be a regret. Especially if you pay big bucks for them. I can tell you're not much for Sega!!
Are there any rare/expensive games that you may regret buying or spent too much on in retrospect?
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I totally wish I hadn't bought Ranma 1/2 [the side scroller] for the PC-Engine CD.
Also, I paid $90 for the Mega Drive release of Strider because there was NO WAY that would come to America.
I regret nothing. I spent 88 dollars on a Super Back to the Future 2 snes cart.
Will we ever see a Pat the NES Punk video again? 8(
Back Into Games Completely Unecesscary
I try not to buy rare bad games. *shutters*
Having a compulsion to continue collecting coupled with FOMO has really sapped my mental state. It just became depressing after a while once I realized I probably won't get the chance to play through what I have now, let alone whatever I'll acquire in the future. So what's really the point? The stuff looks amazing on a shelf, but I'm feeling a stronger and stronger pull toward a minimalist lifestyle, ironically, BECAUSE I became a collector. If you find your happiness is hinged on anything outside of your rational mind (i.e. stuff, relationships, etc), you should re-evaluate your perspective.
If anyone regrets buying Snatcher they have a problem.
Buying EA's Battlefront II at launch, expecting a good game.
i bought ys 8 for switch.... holy crap is it bad
SkulShurtugalTCG That was your first mistake, why would you expect Battlefront 2 to be good? “EA, it’s in the game”
Anyone with common sense knew they were going to screw it up big time though.
Do you like other ys games?
Ea fucks up everything at launch, why would you buy it?
I had imported nintendogs the week it came out in Japan. It was 60 plus shipping. EVERYONE was crowding me anywhere I played... I couldn't mov e... "OMG are those dogs? ?? Let me see! " grown ass women we freaking out. Sold it to get the English one .
Luigi's reflection is looking in to me
Ian never misses a chance to undermine Pat's NES collecting efforts, and the amount of money he's spent on it. "Oh I definitely regret collecting NES games. Particular games I spent $80 or $90 on". Could you be any more passive aggressive Ian? You are all class Pat.
Peter Piper you also have to consider he was collecting back when games were a hell of a lot cheaper.
The only thing that truly pisses me off are assholes who ruin the fun by buying things simply because they're rare and never intend to use them. Prices skyrocket, games sit in captivity for decades, and the hobby suffers, simply because some shithead with deep pockets wanted to turn a profit at an alarmingly slow rate.
Go make your money on something actually worth investing in.
Battle Toads for the Amiga CD32. I thought it would fix the flaws of the nes version and also have better music and graphics. Boy was I wrong LOL
Well that was more, or less a port of the Amiga 500 version correct? Sadly a lot of Amiga CD32 games were nothing but piss poor ports that failed to use the controller correctly.
Commodorefan64 The thing that sucks is that I didn't grow up with a amiga computer. Just the cd32 so I missed out on alot of great amiga games. I did have the floppy drive to hock into the cd32 so I was able to play some classic amiga floppy games (amiga 500 version of north and south is my favorite. No other port comes close to that one imo). I'm happy to say that one of the first things I got when I moved into an apartment is a amiga 1200 computer. I still have my cd32, but it doesn't gets much use anymore. One cd32 game I don't regreat buying is the cd32 version of the Chaos Engine. Dam the music in that game is awesome. And the extra colors used for that version.
Battletoads came out for that thing too? Lol
Bosco63and1/3 In some ways, the Gameboy port (Battletoads in Ragnarok’s World) fixes the issues of the more precise stages in the NES version; the Turbo Tunnel and Clinger Winger.
I wish it had all the stages, as aside from the zoomed in graphics, the presentation and music are solid overall. I’m probably also one of the few players who enjoy the Terra Tubes and the Rat Race stages.
I bought Mountain bike rally at a very inflated price a few years back, that's my only regret really. I knew I was paying too much for it at the time, but I wanted it for my collection.
About how much did you pay(if you dont mind me asking)? you're talking about the game with the Speed Racer combo also? The price has likely increased even more since then, so if you still own it, that's probably a good thing :)
I regret buying an Analogue NT. Haven't used it once since getting my RetroUSB AVS.
If you still regret your Analogue NT you can probably get a decent return selling it since Analogue isn't producing it any longer
I don't know about buying but I regret giving away all my Tengen NES games for free..
Current... I bought no man's sky on release date.... Little older: state of emergency....regret most: action 52 (I payed full price for it on release day over buying an snes.) luckily the store owner I bought it at was a pretty cool dude and let me returned it and exchange it for an snes.
Plumbers don't wear ties for the 3DO. 😲
That's a great 3DO longplay...the unreleased Duelin' Firemen is a wild watch, too.
Hahaha!!!
TAKE YOUR DAMN CLOTHES OFF!
Carla Acosta is that really an expensive game?
Worth every penny.
Tbh my collector bug is starting to die. Like looking at my shelves just makes me depressed nowadays
God I'm the same way. I bought so much shit and I feel like if I don't display it it was all for nothing.
Dominik Makówka:
I guess this applies to Toy Collectors too.......
@detroit retro gamer drg313 It's not even I felt the games were dated. Just your priorities change. It's a sad fact of life.
Same here too a point, looking at my shelves, and also my lack of space to get new stuff unless it's something I really really want.
Please everyone quit collecting so I can get them. Also, if you want to sell full collection please contact me
i regret buying this $30 game from limited run because they take so long to get to me it's pissing me off......
Who do they think they are, Supreme?
Well, the game was already on PSN for like $10 so its your own fault for paying $30+ because they have made you believe its rare when everybody in the world could download it tomorrow for a hell of a lot less, and keep downloading it for the rest of forever because it will never run out.
me too usually, but you can't complain about 'there aren't enough copies to instantly send it' when the whole modus operandi of the scummy company you're buying from is artificial scarcity so they cam overcharge for a small indie game that is only worth $5-10 at most
To me it's not the wait, but i've been buying games i don't want from them, just to get them limited rare games.
yeah same I got something that was suppsoed to come out in July. wtf
I mostly just use flash carts these days. I never paid more than $100 for any video game in my life before that, though, and that $100 game was a one-time indulgence. I've also never bought a game I wasn't interested in playing, so I feel pretty good about all my past purchases, thankfully. I learned when I was collecting Magic: The Gathering cards like crazy decades ago how out-of-control that sort of thing can get and try to regret-proof other ongoing hobby endeavors as much as possible.
How do you not regret something you buy and never use? I know someone who is exactly like this. He owns almost every US released PS1 game, and has only played like 35 of them. The rest, he says, he just likes looking at on a shelf and bragging about.
I feel the same way. Despite how cool I think my collection is, I kinda want out. What doesn't help is most of my game library is made up of games I hung onto as a kid, so I have quite an attachment to those games.
Poor guy...the PS1 had so many shovel ware games that aren’t worth the time or money. Maybe the guy bought most of them on the cheap and it spiraled out of control.
Ted Logan ps2 and wii make the ps1s shovelware seem non existent.
I bought every single game and accesory for the wii u LMAO
That person sounds like a real champ...
Snatcher is one of the few games I'd be willing to pay a pretty penny for. I adore the hell out of that game.
Dude I noticed you're holding a copy of Magic Knight Rayearth!!! I love that game, it reminds me of Sailor Moon. I loved it so much i bought all 3 disc variants. Of course it was going for $70-100 back then. So I seriously bought three copies for under the price of one now. I miss 2010-2011. I also bought Popful Mail cib for $75 and space adventure for $100. I'm surprised you're not holding that one either! Awesome games!!
Pat " damn Ian hurry up, i gotta talk too."
I regret buying a ticket for The Last Jedi
I regret watching it on Netflix
Now The LAST Jedi is the best out out of the 3
Does backing Mighty no.9 count? I never got the game from them
Action 52, The duck tales gold cart and most of the rare colecovision games as I was just trying to complete the collection.
The only regret I have is not buying a copy of bubble bobble 2 when I saw it for $3 at a pawn shop back in 2012. I didn't know at the time that it was so rare. I actually remember buying batman and tetris that day. I kick myself every time I think about it.
As odd as this sounds, I bought a Xbox 360 when the Xbone had just come out, and with trying to build my Nintendo library as well, I held on to the 360 for about 4 years not having bought many games or even using it much. Only good thing to come out of it was trading it in to gamestop with the games I had to buy my Nintendo Switch and MK8D
If you regret buying an expensive/rare game, there is an easy solution... sell it. I hate when people brag about buying rare games when they were cheap, then say they aren't worth the current price, yet aren't selling their copy. If you truly believe that, then you would sell it. You can't say something is less than it's value and still hold on to it, that makes no sense. A more accurate statement is "I bought this game when I could afford it, and now I wouldn't be able to afford the current price." The only legitimate reason to continue holding on to a game if you think it isn't worth the value is because you are hoping to sell it for more later (investment).
That makes no sense.
I found a hidden Luigi. Is it year of Luigi again already?
CIB harvest moon for the snes spent 300$ on it, love that game and it holds a lot of nostalgia for me but that did not feel right adterwards when I had spent that kind of money.
I bought the 3DS on launch for 222€, sort of regretted that after the price came down very soon after.
JB Harold has an English option in the settings menu of the JP version.
Wait i got popful mail and both lunars are they worth money?
With WonderSwan, I have no regrets. Only got about 10 games but with Makaimura and Klonoa among them, I can feel satisfied. I remember someone listing a number of sealed copies of the former (which I opened and scanned for the collection) and had to snipe for the latter but I don't think I paid much.
I've owned the original wonder swan since 2012 and I still have one damn game for it, Gunpey. I think I can live with that. I've practically forgotten it takes other cartridges.
No Mega Man. I tried the B&W Rockman and Forte on emulator first and wasn't too interested. I didn't get Rockman.EXE because I wrongly assumed it was the same game as Battle Network on GBA. I think my collection is otherwise a puzzle game called Mingle Magnet, an action-RPG called Star Hearts, and the Square games. (Mingle Magnet was by a company called HAL Corporation which, from archive.org might in fact be related to the famous HAL company, their comparatively small PC division that exists/existed).
One of my favorite runs in the mlb the show 08 was when i had finally managed to get an ace pitcher once most of his pitching skills were upgraded i started throwing points into hitting and with his weird pitchers swing he ended up being a homerun hitting perfect gaming throwing machine!! and it was so much fun hitting as a pitcher lol it really was....
#CALTRONGATE2008 NEVER FORGET THE MANUAL
This is a good question. Ian's on point here. I'm in that weird zone with Vita games. I'm still buying CIB that I will likely never play. Not sure if picking some of these games up now will pay off later or not. Really want to see what happens after Gamestop stops selling Vita games. It's already getting difficult to find some CIB Vita games in the wild.
Phantasy Star for the Master System, it was the most expensive game I bought. I liked it but I underestimated how grindy and labirintine a game like that could be towards the end and it cost me about 60 Euros, it doesn't help that I got a corrupted save at a certain point and had to restart the game from scratch. After that I only bought the cheaper Golvellius and Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon's Trap (this one is awesome) for the MS and Soleil for the Mega Drive (another one I really enjoyed, usually very expensive but I got lucky for once) and then got an Everdrive because at that point it was either that or spend 100+ Euros for games like Castlevania Bloodlines/New Generation/Vampire Killer (dear Konami, settle on a title dammit!), Phantasy Star IV (best in the series) or Streets of Rage 3 and I couldn't possibly afford those prices. In hindsight I think I should have skipped Phantasy Star and gone directly to the remaining cheap ones I was interested in, reserving it for the everdrive like the other expensive titles.
Yeah I remember when I was young like 4 or 5 yo, my older cousin used to draw out the maps in phantasy star on grid paper when entering any kind of dungeon
The only game I regret buying was Battlefront II...I loved the first, and spent about $50 on both. I still play the first Battlefront, but sold off the sequel for $10.
Ian has a Sapphire that wasnt a purchase?
Now theres something I'm interested to hear about.
_Superman_ _64_
altron60 You, sir... are wrong.
Regret not getting dot hack quarantine at GameStop for 30$ and really regret getting destiny 1 collector's edition
I don’t regret buying anything, but I do regret selling my original gamecube with the component cables for $80. Let that sink in.
This was before I knew how expensive the cables were, otherwise I would’ve e kept it.
I only regret buying new games at full price and never getting around to playing them and by the time I do, they're going for $20 or less.
I don't regret buying my CIB EarthBound, especially with how expensive a CIB copy is now...
Most money I've ever put into a single game is Smash Bros for the Wii U. I put 100 dollars into the collectors edition but it came with a Smash 4 gamecube controller (which I knew could be resold for a portion of what I bought the game for) and the gamecube adapter. Also the fact that I knew I would put 100s of hours into it. Unless it's a game I know I will get my money's worth on it mostly dosent surpass 20 dollars.
Honestly I've been very luck with my game purchases over the years. So as for now don't have any games expensive in my collection that I regret buying . Still If had to pick a game for it would be fallout 4, I only payed $16.00 & I still feel ripped off =/
Side-note: I have few of the game's shown in the thumbnail "popful mail, magical knight rayearth, vay etc." I didn't pay over $50.00 for each but seeing how much they are now is crazy.
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I wouldn't say REGRET, but I was a little dissapointed by MUSHA Aleste if only for the ridiculous amount of hype over it. thankfully only payed $60 for it, CIB
gameplay wise, I just kinda like Thunder Force III/IV, Raiden Trad, Gley Lancer etc. much better.
The First boss in Musha is just hilariously boring in its last phase too
Before buying it, emulate it
It is more a matter of taste I guess. I really like Musha Aleste and I have my reasons for that but doesn't mean everyone have to love it too. the best thing you can do is always emulate or at least watch some videos before buying, that helped me a lot and that's why my collection is mostly filled with games I like and want to play.
Like exactly, it is an absolutely impressive game, but it's not a MUST HAVE to me, like there are a lot of genesis/MD shooters that are better for the same huge amount of money, if not far less. $60 was worth it, $400 is not.
I haven't been able to bite the bullet and get a really expensive game. I paid $100 CAD for Chrono Trigger loose and that's the big purchase. Haven't exceeded $80 for a game otherwise. I have stuff that's worth a fair bit but I bought it years ago. My biggest regrets are games that I had heard good things about but totally hated once I played them. Some of those I paid very little for. I paid like $2 for NBA Hangtime on the SNES and I thought it was a terrible conversion and I get upset thinking about it. The game cost nothing but I hate having its presence stink up the rest of my collection. I'm not going for complete collections, I get games that I think are good and bad games mess that up. There is no price tag that is worth it for something you don't even want to have.
Regret buying every version of Skyrim. Would always play as an archer dark elf and would pick the storm cloak every time. I feel like I should of maybe tired something different instead
Mega Man V for gb. Got it for 100. Because the cart was a bit rough. Looked fine in the pic but one pin is real rough, it's super touchy to get to work.
I barely buy games these days.
But back in the day i remember buying guitar hero world tour....such a let down from its competitor rockband 2 but the even BIGGER let down was rockband 3
I sold my copy of Magic Knight Rayearth for almost $400. I had no idea it was worth that much and got an offer from a collector.
I literally felt like a criminal leaving a drug deal after that.
Haha! Funny story. :P
I once bought used copies of the Digital Devil Saga games for 200 dollars. WHAT AN INVESTMENT
Ni-No Kuni II Collector's Edition, wish I waited for it to drop in price. Thought it was going to be rare like the first one but it wasn't.
What CEs are even rare these days? Not many.
And the game is lame.
@@eandjproductions2 witcher 3
I remember not buying Magic Knight Rayearth when it was a $50 game. Oh well, like $20 for the Japanese version plus a guide it shall be.
I want this game because im actually a fan of the manga and Clamp but sheesh that price
Yea, I lucked out and got it brand new for $40 along with a ton of other saturn titles for $5-10 when EB Games was liquidating their Saturn stuff. Albert Odyssey, Shining Wisdom, Sonic Jam was all 10 a pop. The only really expensive saturn game I regret not getting was Panzer Dragoon Saga.
Ooohh where do I begin £1000 mega drive custom designed for Xenocrisis. Sold for way less, alien solider and the punisher on the mega drive, most expensive carts I have ever bought, sold it all off. Currently got a Analogue NT Mini Noir but I may sell down the line.
Nope, never regretted buying a rare expensive game; I always do the research or play the game before I buy it, to know it's something I'd like to play.
The only ''expensive'' game I can think of regret buying is the digital version of Magician Lord on the Nintendo Switch. The original game for the Neo Geo AES goes for $100+; for the Switch $8. So I saved myself a lot of money by not getting the AES version, but that's why I always buy the digital version 1st, before buying the real deal AES games. Magician Lord would be a good game if it weren't for it's troll difficulty.
Same.
If I'm gonna be dropping big cash on a game I'm making sure it's something I'll like beforehand.
Also Magician Lord is awesome. I have it for my AES and its great. Insanely difficult though.
+XB3 Gaming
The troll difficulty is what kills it for me.
I kinda dig it in a dark souls sort of way. It can get extremely irritating a's thing though. I think I'm stuck in level 4 last I played.
It is a statistical truth that if it's price is over 100, it's value is under 5.
I don't pay more than $40 for NES stuff. Even in the last few years I've managed to get pretty rare stuff for extremely cheap. I bought Maxi 15 at a swap meet for $20 a few years ago. I'll probably never own anything super big ticket. I dont care much about it either.
JB Harrold Murder Club has an english language option on the japanese release...and it even includes full english voice dubbing.
Amusingly enough I got that Final Fantasy II collector's set 6 or 7 years ago for a great deal, to this day it's the only Wonderswan Color thing I own
I imported Thousand Arms for 150€. It wasn't exactly bad, but definitely not worth so much money.
Buying bins of random Famicom games when I lived in Japan. Now I have tons of crappy Famicom games. :(
Also regret NOT buying certain games, I will always remember that day in Akihabara when I saw Lickle (Little Samson) CIB for $10. I passed out on it because I wanted to check what the game was first. It was gone when I went back. =(
I have story about regretting a trade I made years ago.
It was the year 2002, my local game traders had a preowned copy of street fighter alpha 3 for dreamcast that I just had to have. It cost 50 bucks and I was trying to reign in my spending a bit so I enquired about trading in my spare Super Nintendo console for it. They said they could do that trade if I threw in a couple of games. I didn't have any shit games to trade but I had bought a super wildcard which came with hundreds of games ripped to floppy disc. And with emulation also making the quality games that I had hunted seemingly obsolete I made the unwise decision to trade in my axelay and castlevania IV cart along with the console. To make matters worse the game disc didn't even work and I was too busy with studying and work to hold them to account (something I still regret) years later tho when I looked at what castlevania IV goes for on eBay I was crushed knowing that I had foolishly agreed to had denied me a quality game that had gone up in value quite a lot. Even a Super Nintendo console went up in value, at the time you could get one for around 20 bucks at a pawn shop but now they go for 4-5 times that amount which is just crazy. At the time it seemed like false economy to try and find bad games for 10 bucks to throw in but I wish I had not bothered because a few years later alpha anthology released on PlayStation 2 and that was my go today of playing SFA3 at home.
wait what's the story behind Ian having to "work for it"?
It's was fun back in day, riding around with a couple friends, hitting pawn shops and flea markets. Actually, I think the social aspect and the hunt was more fun than playing the games.
The sad fact of game collecting is you're eventually going to sell it all off for one reason or another. Unless you're rich, sooner or later, you'll need the money back.
If it's not for money, you'll look at all of that crap sitting on shelves, in boxes, think about how much you spent, the amount of space it consumes and how much you actually play the stuff. Once you ponder that, the sell off begins....
I kept the best of my Saturn, PS1/2 stuff and got rid of everything else.
Then there is all of the indirect crap like keeping CRT TVs around or buying an expensive niche scaler, hunting retro repair services etc...
Barring all that mess, ultimately you can't take it with you. If it doesn't bring you enjoyment, get rid of it. Its not worth it.
You are a typical glass is half empty person.
@@drunkensailor112 Aye, perhaps but that doesn't make it any less true.
... And there is only half a glass.
@@vram1974 it's your truth. Not the truth of optmists like me and 80% of the rest of the global population.
@@drunkensailor112 let me know your COA when you come down with a rabid case of butt rott and the treatment is financially out of reach. Shall it be Little Sampson or your left cheek prosthetic? You want to be able to sit upright or prop against a wall when you're out club'n, right?
While I stand by my statement, I think you read it with the wrong voice in your head and maybe took it a bit too grim.
By all means, keep it if you enjoy it. I still buy and play games. I just prefer quality over quantity now, that's all. If it has no nostalgic value or its just a bad game, it's gone.
@@vram1974 I also take quality over quantity. But there are thousands of quality retro games imo.
Two Worlds for 360, wasn't super rare but also wasn't that easy to find in Ireland, I think it cost me 70 euro. I would pay 70 euro to erase the memory of ever playing it.
The only system and games i kinda regret buying is Sega Saturn. I love the system and games i bought i simply havent used the system for a year and a half so it's high time i pull that baby out and play it.
I read on wikipedia that the Australian Caltron was one of the rarest for that region. Any truth in that guys?
150 bucks for Kilrathi Saga on pc, back in the early 2000s.
Bought a SNES and Super Mario World from Nintendo Dan at his place in IB a few years ago lol...He had a solid game room.
i regret bying anything related to nintendo
do u happen to have tron the hand held game for sale
I regret the "rare and expensive" games I found for cheap before they were expensive because it almost makes me give a crap about this collecting thing.
I regret not getting Pokémon Plantum.
I worked 1 summer as a kid to buy a Game Gear.
Regret $90 for Power Blade 2... why? I would regret spending $90 on Call of Duty Black Ops V Collectors Edition, but Power Blade 2 is both awesome, worth $90 just for entertainment value IMO, and, as an investment, would net you a 400 percent profit. That would be like regretting buying a share in Apple 30 years ago from Steve Jobs himself and then having him take you out to lunch right afterwards.
Never regretted buying a rare expensive game. I always do research or play the game before I buy it, to know it's something I'd like to play.
I regret buying Wild Guns for 5$ at a pawn store 14 yrs ago,...... oh nevermind I don't.
I regret buying phantasy star 2 and the walkthrough guide even tho I hate rpgs but had it as a kid and was a complete nostalgia buy traded it in a month later.
Nothing rare or expensive, but I honestly don't touch most of what I have on the PlayStation/PS2 or XBox or any handheld that isn't a Nintendo one. I don't play a decent amount of my NES games either, but I play pretty much everything I have for SNES or N64 but I have like 12 games each for those
One big regret I had was buying Chicken Run for PC way, way back then. I wasn't entirely into it (neither I was into the movie, I didn't dislike it but didn't catch my interest), but I was kinda forced to get it because my sister wanted it. The fucking thing was released in a poor state and had a bug where you would constantly jump, making it unplayable. Nice Christmas.
Another one was New Super Mario Bros. which I bought when I got a NDS. It let me down haaaard. While I don't think it's a bad game at all (although the home console NSMB are more fun to me), getting into a new interesting system through a simple retro-inspired 2D platformer wasn't the smartest idea. Ironically I ended up changing it for Super Mario 64 DS, which I enjoyed sooo much more, and while not a new experience, at least was a full 3D platformer on a handheld system with new stuff.
Oh, I also regret living in Europe while liking gaming in the past. *Fuck you, 50hz. what a colossal waste of money.*
I regret nothing. :3
...that's what she said
I regret everything!
I have bit the bullet and purchased a few rare and expensive games. Only game I have regretted buying is samurai western for the ps2. Its just not a good game
I bought Shining force 3 for the Saturn, I tried to like it, I really did. Still keeping it though.
I feel ya. Waayy back I bought Magic knight rayearth and was pleasantly surprised that the value rose. However I know i would probably like playing any other working designs game more. Nothing against magic knight, but shining wisdom or something i wouldve played more.
One of my favorite games of all time. Scenario 3 is the best.
My favorite game of all time
Castlevania 3 Dracula's Curse I searched everywhere for it high and low bent over ass backwards to find it and when I finally did bought it without even thinking don't remember how much I spent on it but no matter what the price was it wasn't worth it cause the cartridge didn't even work and after all the work I spent trying to get it my spirit broke if I ever come across it great but I'm not putting myself through that kind of ordeal again for any game let alone that one
Do you have one of those bootleg Nintendos? Because it will not run on one of those. It has a certain chip that those cannot accommodate.
I regret buying Last Rebellion for the PS3 day one. I even preordered the damn thing. What a waste that was.
"It's not my fault that the world fucked you in the face"
- Ian Ferguson.
Why are you holding Snatcher? That game is a 200 on a scale of 1-10
digital press is 5 minutes from me
Love that store. Love the F.Y.E. over there as well..
I regret the WiiU. I will never support a console that has a strong launch ever again.
I never got too enjoy Bubble Bobble part 2 never played it either.
I missed out on buying it when it came out i didn't know it even existed at that time.
And i can't buy it used on eBay who can afford $800 dollars for one NES game.
I wish NINTENDO would re- release rare nintendo games.
It's not like i can travel back in time to get what i want : (
holding just sega games in thumbnail lol COME ONNN
PUBG feels bad. I wish that game wasn’t still in alpha.
I regret paying $120 for Enemy Zero on Sega Saturn. It’s a ok game but not worth the price I paid.
What is Sapphire?
One of the better PC Engine/CD games and it is a shooter. It was only released in Japan, it was also released in a PSP compilation.
Those Caltrons are still expensive ($400-$500 or more) in 2019.
I was happy when I found a Waverace for 5.00
No. It absolutely cannot compete with being a motorsports addict..one machine and running it will cost more than 20 years of gaming..a few grands compare to money pits, accidents, breakdowns, hospitals... Games are cheap
Come on Pat, Magic Knight Rayearth, snatcher, Popful Mail are great games!!! Now games like Fox Hunt, Plumbers don't wear ties, action 52, Zelda CDi games, Night Trap, cheetah men, should be a regret. Especially if you pay big bucks for them. I can tell you're not much for Sega!!