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General and Gaming => General => Topic started by: gf78 on October 28, 2015, 11:57:14 am
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I'm sure most if not all of us have at one point or another sold, traded or gave away some item or items of video gaming goodness that we regret horribly now. Some of my regrets...
My N64 and games collection. I owned a pristine condition, original N64 with two extra controllers (grey) as well as over 24 complete, boxed, mint condition games. Even though I was never a fan of the N64, it was a very nice collection. Zelda Ocarina & Majora's Mask. Super Mario 64, Super Smash Bros., Rayman 2, Banjo Kazooie & Tooie, Starfox with the rumble pak, GoldenEye 007, Perfect Dark...a lot of highly sought-after titles. Traded it all in on an original Xbox and six games. I enjoyed the Xbox, but in hindsight I would have been better off keeping the N64.
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Well I have a couple of bad decisions but the worst two are the following:
* I sold my SNES Jr. with the Super Mario World, Street Fighter Alpha 2 and Samurai Shodown because wanted to have a Playstation and be able to play the Resident Evil 3, Street Fighter Alpha 3 and Silent Hill
* The second one was when I sold to EB Games my copy of X-Men vs. Street Fighter and Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter both from the PS1 just to purchase the Marvel vs Capcom for the same console and now those two game are kinda rare and expensive.
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I had an EON ticket e-reader card that I auctioned on ebay a few years ago. It's considered one of the rarest cards and it has a pretty cool function when linked to pokemon ruby/sapphire. It sold for 35 dollars, which is pretty damn good for a piece of cardstock.
The last thing I regret is throwing away whole bunch of GB(A) and N64 boxes I saved. I had about a dozen or so that I kept up until just a few years ago when I decided to just throw them away. Super Smash Bros, Mario Kart 64, Pokemon Red.... At the time I wasn't into collecting and didn't realize their value.
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I'm already regretting selling my Master System collection. Had 17 games with a Power Base Converter (the original) for the Sega Genesis. But sold it recently to get an Xbox One. I am having a BLAST with the Xbox One, though. So it's not like a total loss. I'm just short on the dispensable income having a new daughter and recently buying a house. So I had to make a tough choice.
Also sold the N64 collection, but I'm really not missing that.
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Mine isn't necessarily selling/trading/giving away but when I was younger I really didn't a darn about my games and whenever I got frustrated in a game would kick/stomp/throw my game cartridges slam down my controllers. When I first got a disc based game system (ps2) I would leave the discs lying around all over the floor (on hard concrete/wood) letting them get all scratched up and would throw away the cases. Memorable things I destroyed are my original super Mario bro's (snes), Yoshi's island(snes), Aladdin(snes), Lion king(snes), some Goofy related game I cant remember the name of(snes), Scooby doo night of 100 frights(ps2), .hack infection/mutation including bonus discs(ps2) and many more, most of which I cant remember until I see the game in the wild. along with that I broke 3-4 snes controllers, my original snes ejection port, about half a dozen ps2 controllers and an old box tv.
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Shadow Hearts (PS2) at Gamestop. It hurts everytime I think about it. I think i got less than $1.
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I wish I hadn't gotten rid of Shining Tears on the PS2 when I was younger. Outside of that I honestly can't think of any big ticket games I haven't bought again in one way or another... I might be a bit net-negative in purchasing things I got rid of but hey whatever.
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I've got a pretty clean record. I never did this stuff. My only trade away, was a couple of PS2 sports games that I got a few dollars for at the local record store. Tbh, I do kinda feel a little guilty about a couple of them, even though I don't care about sports games, mostly because they were gifts (that I wanted) and I got them during the PS2s prime. They were in great shape, but mostly I just don't ever feel right giving away something that was a gift to me. I tend to hold on to gifts, just for sentimental reasons. :-\
Most everything else I've ever had, I still own, or my brother has it.
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I don't have too much I regret, but I wish I had kept some games I sold awhile back. Like 10 years ago I went to a pawn shop and found dang good condition copies of Final Fantasy 3, Super Metroid, and Mega Man X in their boxes. I must've got them for no more than 10 to 20 bucks a piece, amazing deal. I decided at the time to sell them on Ebay, all of which went for like 75 bucks and up to 120 bucks I think, which I believe was pretty good for the time, but now I wish I had just kept them cause they were in real nice condition and I would've loved to still own at least Mega Man X.
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I've been pretty lucky with a lot of my stuff. The only one I somewhat regret is Conker Live and Reloaded. Kind of wish I didn't trade that one, however, it was a platinum hits version. I got super-lucky though at the time I traded that I also traded a bunch of sports games and got about $10 each at the time so, it all worked out pretty well
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I've only ever sold/traded two games. Re-Loaded on the PS1 to get a few pounds towards Super Mario Sunshine, and Hercules on the PS1 because I completed it day after I got it. I don't hugely regret them because they aren't anything amazing or rare/expensive, but I would like to have kept them now. I have a copy of Re-Loaded that I got a few months ago, and will get Hercules some time.
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Selling my entire SNES collection (and console) back in the day I had about 30-40 games most loose but some complete. I regret selling the following CIB bought at/around launch sold years ago;
- Mega Man 7
- Kirby Super Star
- Street Fighter III: Third Strike
- Legend of Mana
- Dragon Ball GT (Bandai ver.)
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At this point I've gotten most back that I've sold. Unfortunately the stuff I have left are on the GBA and they tend to be the most counterfeited and they're not exactly the cheapest. Minish Cap, and Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Leaf Green.
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Everything I had while growing up. While I was able to rebut all of it years later, I still wish I had my original games still.
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I never really sold or traded anything. There's only one thing I can think of that comes close. Many years ago, I bought a boxed Coleco Telstar Color at a yard sale. I spent $1.00 on it, but when I got it home, I couldn't figure out how to make it work. I figured it was broken, so I just tossed it. Fast forward about 15-20 years and when I started repairing systems and had some more knowledge, I realized it was never broken, I just was hooking it up wrong.
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Hmm. Off the top of my head, the only thing I regret selling or trading in was the original Grandia for the PlayStation. I got three dollars from F*ckyouLand....er.....FuncoLand. I eventually got a complete copy years later and enjoyed it.
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I spent some time trying to think about this. I don't think there were ever any games I traded or sold that I regretted.
I've had games that I regretted going halfsies on with a friend or a sibling. You grow up, you move on, who gets the game? That type of situation.
Alternatively, I've regretted letting people borrow games. I try not to let people borrow games I wouldn't be able to replace easily. I don't always lend people games, but when I do, I never get them back.
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You long-timers have already heard this story, but my biggest regret is actually my brother selling my stuff.
He went to GameStop and sold our MAGNIFICENT NES collection. We had so many games, in those plastic NES storage cases with the slots for games. And all the good ones, too: The entire Castlevania, entire Dragon Warrior, entire Mega Man, entire Lolo, entire Double Dragon, entire Zelda, entire Mario series, and others like Final Fantasy, DuckTales 1 & 2, Ninja Gaiden 1 & 2, and others. We had the Game Genie, the Turbo-Joystick, the turbo-controller wrap arounds, the cleaning kid, a bunch of Nintendo Powers that corresponded with strategies to games I owned. It was AMAZING!!!
And my brother went with my mom, and sold it all to GameStop (right after they bought out FuncoLand, so they were still taking retro-stuff). You know what he got with it? A freaking Game Boy Color, a handful of games, and stupid little plastic carrying case for the games. Still makes me a little steamed thinking about the greatness we lost.
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And my brother went with my mom, and sold it all to GameStop (right after they bought out FuncoLand, so they were still taking retro-stuff). You know what he got with it? A freaking Game Boy Color, a handful of games, and stupid little plastic carrying case for the games. Still makes me a little steamed thinking about the greatness we lost.
I'm getting second-hand mad just by hearing that story, that sucks man.
I never sold any of my games that I had when I was a kid, but that was something my brother did all the time. I did lose all of my Game Boy Color games however, I still have the actual system somehow. It would have also been nice to hold on to the boxes/manuals for all my childhood GBA games.
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I've only lost a few Gamecube games in the past for trade ins because I had no spending money for food and other things. Thankfully, I've managed to get them all back for a lower price than I originally spent on them.
The most recent thing I regreted was trading my Kirby Super Star Ultra cart for a Zelda Ocarina of Time 3DS cart to a friend a few years ago since I have had great memories with Ultra and those True Arena speedruns.
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Atari 2600 and games many years ago.
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I was too little to care but we had a boxed copy of Gunstar Heroes for Sega Genesis that my mom sold for two bucks at a garage sale before we moved, what I'd give to have that now… I also remember when I was about three or four me and my younger brother were playing with two NES zappers and our mom told us to go put them back into the box. We put them in a big box which (according to my dad) contained two NES systems with boxes and boxed complete copies of The Legend of Zelda, Wizards and Warriors, Tecmo Super Bowl, Bases Loaded, Mega Man, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!!, Super Mario Bros. 3, Tetris, Ice Hockey, Tennis and Golf. There were also two copies of Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt. I still remember my dad coming home from work and asking what my mom did with the video games, she donated them because my older brothers grades were slipping in school. This was probably 1998 or 1999 so once again I was too little to notice or care. Looking back, I wished I had stopped her though.
My Grandma also gave away her giant SNES collection which had tons of games in it, the likes of which would cost me probably five hundred dollars to buy nowadays. While I do have some of the games from that collection, it still bothers me that I didn't call her when she was moving and maybe ask for a few of them, but that was well before I was into collecting.
Personally, I've given away Luigi's Mansion, Super Smash Bros. Melee and the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time to my older bros. who had them stolen by their POS druggie roommate at the time. Thankfully he didn't take Melee which they gave back to me.
I've lost a few games over time like Sonic Advance, Mario Kart DS, New Super Mario Bros. DS, Donkey Kong Country for GBC (which was actually taken from my desk by my teacher when I wasn't at school and never given back), Super Mario Bros. DX and Dr. Mario for Game Boy. Thankfully most of those games are cheap and already have replacements for. Overall though, not really any regrets on my end. I can remember a time where we went to EB games to try and sell our ten game GameCube collection in order to afford Mario Kart Double Dash but the guy only offered like 42 bucks for all of it which wasn't even enough to buy the game. I remember me and my little bro going home upset that we couldn't get it and we had to wait a while before our dad got us the game. I am so thankful we kept our games, and from that day on, I never let someone try to rip me off again.
Interesting topic, it's good to see that so many of us kept our games and/or never got ripped off.
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When saving for the original Playstation, I sold several gems at the "Yard sale of fail" including Splatterhouse2, Splatterhouse 3,Streets of Rage, Atomic robo-Kid (Genesis), Uninvited, Rad Racer 2, Super Dodgeball, Megaman 3, and several others I cant recall at the moment.(Nes). Stoooopid