I already posted about one missed opportunity in this thread, but of course I have many more and no doubt others do too. Let's hear about them.
I guess I lucked out by getting a single copy for myself at all, but I'm still haunted by the memory of the giant bin of pristine, shrink-wrapped copies of Drill Dozer for the GBA going for FIVE (5) dollars each at a Target in 2007 or 2008. Indeed I grabbed one for myself, fun game, good game, but I should have bought EVERY SINGLE ONE in there, there were at least a dozen copies arghhhhhhsjkngksldfnglkf.
I too shared a couple of my regrets in the
previous thread, but luckily I've picked up
most of the games I've wanted shortly after they've come out. And since I've been collecting steadily since the '80s, I don't deal with trying to track down a rarity very often. It happens, of course, but not very often overall since I've usually bought what I've wanted when it was readily available. Plus I buy to play, not for collectibility or future value so I'm frequently surprised by some of the current collector prices of games in my collection. Once I own it, I don't follow prices much, you know? I had no idea Drill Dozer was going for that much!
But another regret I have isn't actually my own regret, technically. You've heard of the US video game crash? As a youngster during the time I had no concept of a crash. I still played our ColecoVision all the time and constantly wished we had new games to play. One day my parents come home from a shopping trip with a brand new one. It was a Cabbage Patch Kid cartridge for the Colecovision and was meant mostly for my little sister. Ok, that's fine. She deserves games just for her too. But they described how they got it from the mall. "They had a big bin filled with brand new games for only a dollar each!" they exclaimed.
"And this was the only one you bought?!" I cried back! Moments like buying brand new video games for $1 are nearly once in a lifetime, and they didn't think to get as many as they could!
Even if the other titles were lackluster, and who knows what other games they had, I really regret that they didn't buy more of them.