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Tales of Retro Regret! (Thx Super_Sonic!)
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04-08-2016 5:01pm#1Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,653 CMod ✭✭✭✭Join Date:Posts: 33876
So, Nicholas Plump Falconer posted this just there in the General Chat threadNicholas Plump Falconer wrote: »I really regret selling my copy of Megaman X back in the day.
It was the only game related thing I have sold outside of a PS1 with Wipeout 2097 and Allied General (Had played 2097 to death, Allied General cost me about £1-2 secondhand and was using the backwards compatibility on PS2 for the rest of the PS1 games. Game had some trade-in deal at the time - PS1 with any 2 games for some PS2 games).
And it put me in mind of the near countless regrets I've had over the years.
The missed chances.
The games sold when I really really should have hung onto them.
The games we loaned to a "friend" only to never see them again.
The games or consoles we nearly bought on auctions sites/marketplaces actual and virtual, but took just that little bit too long...
So, what sort of tales of sadness have we got out there?2
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Falling asleep with my laptop in front of me before a PAL Fatal Fury 2 ended on ebay and it sold for €30.
Passing a huge Snes lot in a charity shop in Dun Laoghaire about 15 years ago and not picking it up
Selling my bloody Sega Aero!! :eek:
Edit - lending Sonic 1 to a kid up the road who I didn't particularly like, he gave it back with no booklet. I now cannot figure out which of my many copies of Sonic is my original as none of them have booklets.
Further edit; (I can really keep going here! :pac:)
Picking up my lovely new AGS101 arseways one day and it fell, smashing the hinges on the floor. It has now been superglued back together.
My Pony has fallen off a trolley, ****ING TWICE! still haven't had a chance to power it on again since the last fall so for all I know it's broken
Oh yeah, my arcade stools were also recently crushed by an industrial lift.0 -
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Falling asleep with my laptop in front of me before a PAL Fatal Fury 2 ended on ebay and it sold for €30.
Passing a huge Snes lot in a charity shop in Dun Laoghaire about 15 years ago and not picking it up
Selling my bloody Sega Aero!! :eek:
Edit - lending Sonic 1 to a kid up the road who I didn't particularly like, he gave it back with no booklet. I now cannot figure out which of my many copies of Sonic is my original as none of them have booklets.
Further edit; (I can really keep going here! :pac:)
Picking up my lovely new AGS101 arseways one day and it fell, smashing the hinges on the floor. It has now been superglued back together.
My Pony has fallen off a trolley, ****ING TWICE! still haven't had a chance to power it on again since the last fall so for all I know it's broken
Oh yeah, my arcade stools were also recently crushed by an industrial lift.
That's a lot of lousy karma you've built up there,
You must have been this guy in a previous life
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Passing up lots of games I should have bought at the time. Stuff like Border Down I was waiting on the price to drop. Big mistake.
My entire PS1 and N64 collections. Once you go NTSC 60Hz you can't go back and while I have a great collection for both machines it's all mostly useless PAL junk.
Lent my favourite megadrive game ever, Gunstar Heroes, to a kid in the estate for his copy of Decap attack. He moved house down the country the next day. And Decap Attack is a heap of ****e.
Starting do late collecting NES and SNES games. I just didn't have the money at the time but it's killing me now seeing the prices they go at now.
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I got an offer of a ticket to the Atlanta E3 in 1997, courtesy of the lads who owned Gamesworld.
I would have had to pay for my own flights, room and board, but what a trip... a trip I never took 0 -
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I got an offer of a ticket to the Atlanta E3 in 1997, courtesy of the lads who owned Gamesworld.
I would have had to pay for my own flights, room and board, but what a trip... a trip I never took
Ah 1997, the year the PS1 became unstoppable and a struggling Sega was pumping out some crazy games. It would have been an amazing year to go.
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Wandering down to Dunnes Stores with my birthday money when I was younger looking for a SNES game to buy. Nothing really stood out but wanted to get one anyway, this quirky, fun cover looked interesting........Pocky & Rocky. Sold it about a year later for pittens.
In NY a few years ago I stayed with a few friends id made there. Was getting rid of his SNES and said I could take a few games when I was going home. Ended up taking so long packing that I forgot them, when I say them I mean boxed copies of R-Type III and ISS 0 -
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The Last Bandit wrote: »I threw you an old Iomega Zip drive a few years ago doing a cull of old ****e... and now I'm on ebay looking for one again to hook up to my Archimedes...
NEVER throw anything out (unless its a CDi)....
A CDi related Retro Regret would be hanging onto one!
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My copy of Kid Dracula for the Game Boy. It disappeared into the ether along with the rest of my Game Boy collection (bar Tetris?!) and many of the better N64 games. Although these I'm quite sure were looted by school "friends" back in the day.
Found the manual for Kid Dracula the other day from 23 years ago with my name and class scribbled on the cover though!
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About 10-12 years ago I popped into Game (it might have been another shop, was almost at the top of Henry street on the left if you are looking at the spire) and they had a whole load of new Jaguar accessories and consoles for sale. All new and sealed and cheap as chips, basically for nothing as they were obviously clearing out "rubbish". I decided against buying for some reason, I don't know why and it still haunts me. Its not the best console, but all those RGB scarts and consoles and multitaps and whatnot are pricey as hell now
A tale of almost regret. I was so so close to selling off some rare Apple gear a few years ago. Auction organised, device appraised, all that stuff. But I chickened out at the (almost) last minute. Every year I almost sell the same stuff, but chicken out, but never as close as that time (I even met the person who actually created and designed the hardware, had dinner with him and his missus and got him to sign it)
I know I'll sell that stuff on sometime and that will be a massive regret, so I guess it's a future regret I'm posting about
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I've been wrecking my head for others.
I remember a few years back finding my SNES in my parent's attic. It was cared for well during it's time but the controllers were knackered, the rubbesr inside them were worn down from so much use. Buttons and D pad needed to be pressed with huge force in order to make contact. Luckily I bought some re-productions from Play Asia for cheap, almost identical. I regret not taking the rubbers from these and putting them in the originals. Originals got binned. Still the re-pros are good they just miss the logos.
The bigger one probably happened during the SNES days. Dunnes used to be a good place for games back in the 90's, slightly older releases could be picked up for £20 that way. I got great games like the aforementioned Megaman X, Cybernator and The Lost Vikings (hugely under-rated game) that way. Unfortunately I also got Rise of the Robots. Yes it is as bad as they say.
EDIT - Fun fact about The Lost Vikings that some of you may know. It was developed by Silicon & Synapse who eventually became Blizzard.
Was so easy back then to pick up some sh*te, no internet and not enough money to be buying magazines (I used to mainly thumb through them in the local shop).0 -
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I wanted for the longest time Steel Battalion for the Xbox.
Bought it.
Wouldn't work....
Found out it was due to the mod chip, sneaky sneaky Capcom
Kerbdog installed a switch to turn it off when required, Hooray!!!
Played Steel Battalion about 6 times.
Died a lot.
Sat there for another couple of years....
Sold it on.
Immediately felt guilty and foolish
Retro Regret factor 9.5
Bought another last year, for feck all money!
Retro Regret dissipated!
Still sitting there, gathering dust, but it is a thing of beauty!!
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A tale of almost regret. I was so so close to selling off some rare Apple gear a few years ago. Auction organised, device appraised, all that stuff. But I chickened out at the (almost) last minute. Every year I almost sell the same stuff, but chicken out, but never as close as that time (I even met the person who actually created and designed the hardware, had dinner with him and his missus and got him to sign it)
I know I'll sell that stuff on sometime and that will be a massive regret, so I guess it's a future regret I'm posting about
It's very hard to time selling an item like that but in retrospect do you regret not selling it back then since Apple was at its peak and possibly the max value could have been reached then?0 -
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80s Synth Pop wrote: »It's very hard to time selling an item like that but in retrospect do you regret not selling it back then since Apple was at its peak and possibly the max value could have been reached then?
Well the value of what I have hasnt gone down really(especially as I got it signed and photographed with the designer etc). But it's always a risk holding onto something with a value based on the last one to sell at auction.
Still, i don't look at these things purely on what they are worth financially, so if the price drops I wont be heartbroken 0 -
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alpahaeagle wrote: »Selling sum of my retro gear last year......
But at least some of you guys are having fun..........you B******s
I Joke...
I will get you back again.......
Don't worry, your old Amiga is getting well looked after 0 -
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Similar story to many I'd imagine... when the PS1 came out I clung onto my SNES collection as I loved it but after a couple of years I really wanted a particular game and, it not being my birthday or Christmas, I decided to trade in my SNES games to get it. I had 8 nice boxed games that I was really reluctant to part with but eventually took the plunge and picked up this absolute classic...
Needless to say I later regretted that decision, so much so that I'm pretty sure this one act is responsible for me becoming the game hoarder I am today :-)
The game has remained on my shelves since as a reminder of how silly a move that was. I've always considered it my "Mary Worth Telephone"...
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