Posted by Mental on November 20, 2015 at 13:25:38 EST.
What gaming related item did you sell, and now regret?
Mine would be my Famicom GBA micro. I needed the money! Id like Neo Poke Kun back, too.
Follow Ups:
I have never sold a video game related item and thus have literally no regrets at all, about anything. THIS IS THE SECRET TO HAPPINESS. (n/t) (PopaSmear) (13:28:59 11/20/15 EST)
I have one major regret but it was a purchase, not a sale. It was buying an Atari Lynx instead of a fucking Game Boy back in 1991. (n/t) (Esco) (15:15:26 11/20/15 EST)
Oh man. What was your reasoning back then? Color screen? ...Chips Challenge? (n/t) (Mental) (21:06:44 11/20/15 EST)
I wanted a color handheld and really bought into the system specs like the brilliant 11 year old I was. I have a soft spot for the Lynx, it had a couple good games (Zarlor Mercenary, Blue Lightning, Pinball Jam) and some solid arcade ports (Klax, Rampart, Xybots). Most of the widely available games were garbage (Batman Returns, Ninja Gaiden, Pit Fighter). Biggest problem was it didn't have a lot of support and the games I really wanted (Battlewheels, STUN Runner, Warbirds) never showed up in my local Toys R Us or Electronics Boutique. It was always shit like Awesome Golf, Basketbrawl and World Class Soccer. I only discovered some of the better games much later via emulation. And of course nobody I knew had a fucking Lynx, I might've played Rampage all of one time with a link cable and that novelty wore off quick. (n/t) (Esco) (22:48:32 11/20/15 EST)
I bought a turbo grafx, a jaguar, a saturn, a genesis, a game gear, instead of an NES, a SNES, and a PlayStation. Then I bought all those other ones later. I do not regret! I just bought whatever console was the cheapest because nobody wanted it, well after it came out - that tactic has served me well over the years. I found my perfectly functional 2nd gen snes in someone's trash can btw. (n/t) (exodus) (19:00:19 11/21/15 EST)
What were your favorite Jaguar games? I loved the shit out of Tempest 2000 but that was the only one I really got the chance to play (n/t) (Esco) (00:06:08 11/22/15 EST)
I liked T2K, alien vs predator, power drive rally, Super Burnout, and val d'isere skiing and snowboarding the most. But I also had really interesting/weird times with hover strike CD, Club Drive, and Highlander. They were all just so bizarre, so almost-finished. I saw a lot more games like that later in life, that had this sort of "emptiness" to them, and if I'd ever played an amiga game it would've all felt very familiar, but at the time it was unique, for me. (n/t) (exodus) (20:45:15 11/23/15 EST)
Back in the 90s I sold a bunch of GameBoy games because I needed the money. I really wouldn't mind getting Parodius back. Loved that game. (n/t) (Rockman Pocket) (16:48:41 11/20/15 EST)
Back in the day I collected all the Mega Man GB games from 1-5. They were awesome. A few years later Capcom announced there was going to be a GBA compilation and in anticipation I pawned most of them to EB Games to pre-order. Later Capcom stated they'd lost the original code for those games and the compilation was cancelled. That's a piece of my childhood I'll never get back. =( (Darius) (18:32:52 11/20/15 EST)
Um, I sold my light-modified NGPC. (Mike Chicago) (19:36:14 11/20/15 EST)
My Japanese Saturn and games. Man, that was stupid. (n/t) (supergiantninja) (07:52:38 11/21/15 EST)
owned!!!! (n/t) (exodus) (18:54:06 11/21/15 EST)
I've basically sold nothing that I regret. I mostly sold sports and shooter games I got for free in the 360/ps3 era. My only "regret" is my friend lent me all his Saturn games long-term, including Radiant Silvergun and Guardian Heroes and stuff, and at one point I decided he should have them back because they were worth money. He said I could just keep them but I felt bad about it because they were worth money that I couldn't afford to pay him. So I gave them back and he sold them and now I don't have Radiant Silvergun. But that's not much of a regret really, since it was never mine to begin with. I've kept almost everything, and what I sell is usually to friends for the cost at which I bought them. I didn't even buy all the Assault Suit Leynoss games I saw in Korea for $4 each because I thought someone might want to find them and get excited like I did, though some white dude probably bought them all up and sold them for $30 each. But I can always dream that someone who really wanted that game showed up and was like "$4!!! What a deal!" and just bought one. To conclude, my collection is worth a lot of money now but it is not going anywhere unless I get robbed or my house burns down. (n/t) (exodus) (18:58:28 11/21/15 EST)
I used to say it was Astra Super Stars (SS) but I eventually found a replacement copy for almost exactly what I paid for it new so that's sort of not a problem anymore. I used to regret trading in my SNES collection for the N64 at US launch, but I eventually accumulated a much better collection later which I lost in a break up so that's overshadowing the loss of the original collection. This is why I don't have fuck all for SNES shit, btw, guys. I've been burned before. (SignOfZeta) (19:25:21 11/21/15 EST)
For a while I regretted selling my Dungeons and Dragons Saturn Collection. Now I don't regret it much because I own it on PS3 and Wii U completely translated with tons of options and no slowdown. I regret selling my copy of Keiyo's Flying Squadron on Sega CD. So expensive now. (n/t) (NeoGutsman) (00:02:52 11/22/15 EST)
Thats an interesting thing, how new releases make old games obsolete. My copy of Twilight Princess has always been holy. Now the Wii U rerelease will change that. Its sad, in a way. (n/t) (Mental) (14:01:09 11/22/15 EST)
I couldn't get into that game at the time. Maybe I'll try it again on the Wii U. (n/t) (NeoGutsman) (22:15:00 11/24/15 EST)
With older games though, there is really nothing like the original. Well, D&D was a port, but in the case of stuff like Yoshi's Island, Ganbare Neo Poke-kun, or, for me, personally, almost anything on Neo Geo, the originals are always special. Ports and stuff are really convenient, but there's only one "real" version of Rez. Twilight Princess is probably too new to see much of this effect though. (n/t) (SignOfZeta) (02:37:36 11/25/15 EST)
I regret selling my OG Gameboy, because it was in PERFECT condition. I'd kill to have it back in the same condition. I regret throwing away my promo copy of Rule of Rose, because despite thinking the game was sucky, I at least owned a copy of a game that's basically impossible to get. And I regret not buying a NNGPC when they were contemporary (likely because I didn't have the cash, admittedly) because getting one in nice condition seems like an impossible dream (n/t) (aerisdead) (11:58:55 11/22/15 EST)
I sold a bunch of RPGs like Thousand Arms and Skies of Arcadia (Dreamcast version--I kept the GameCube version) back when I was an expectant father and thought I'd never have time for long video games again. Now that my son is getting old enough to play these types of games on his own, it would've been cool to still have them for him to explore. But... eh, I kept most of the cool stuff, I guess. (n/t) (Jeurja) (11:20:02 11/23/15 EST)
Oh! And not "selling," but I totally regret loaning my orignial Game Boy and some cool games like Tetris and Revenge of the Gator to a girl I liked a lot when I was fresh out of college and hadn't yet met my wife. I never got them back. :( (n/t) (Jeurja) (11:21:18 11/23/15 EST)
My entire Turbo Graf-X, Turbo CD, Turbo Duo collection... I had to pay for a bunch of cavities... Now they are worth a little over triple what I sold them for... (n/t) (WebOfHair) (13:34:32 11/24/15 EST)
I sold a lot of stuff when I moved from Buffalo to San Diego. I regretted some of it for a long time and then slowly the regret went away. My Genesis collection now rests on an Everdrive. My wife brought her Dreamcast into our home so I don't regret losing that. My NES collection is finally down to the 25 games I'll never part with and another everdrive takes care of the rest. I regret selling certain handheld titles but I'm getting them back slowly. The only thing I really regret selling isn't video game related but it was an AKAI reel to reel tape recorder/player. It was brand new and given to me by an elderly boss when I helped him move 15 years ago. It was fun to mess with and I let it go for next to nothing because at the time shipping it to San Diego would have been too pricey. (n/t) (twelvest) (15:39:56 11/24/15 EST)
I bought all the late US Saturn releases but sold Burning Rangers, House of the Dead and Shining Force III within a few weeks. That happened a lot with me in the late 90's I think because I was old enough to have some financial means but not enough to get everything I wanted. And I was particularly hyped considering there were probably 100+ games coming out each year that were good enough to own. The only thing I actually regret though is selling my Coleco, 2600, and NES w/ 18 games in preparation for getting a SNES just prior to release. I was so excited about 16 bit it never really occurred to me that I might want to replay Smurf or Megaman 2 someday. The 2600 has not been missed though. (n/t) (substance J) (17:42:12 11/25/15 EST)
