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Non-NEC Console Related Discussion => Console Chat => Topic started by: NeoFreak on September 14, 2006, 03:03:53 PM
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you ever make a sale/trade along time ago that you regret today? well, i never sell any of my games; but when I was younger [5th grade] I was short for cash and I posted an ad in my town's newspaper for some genesis games I wanted to sell so I could buy more games... alien storm, biohazzard battle, decap attack, and evander hollifield boxing.
I got a good amount of money for them, but I miss alien storm SO f*ckING BAD. I loved that game to death and I just dont know why I sold it. sure you say i can buy them again right? i guess, but my copy was so minty perfect and i have so many memories with that game, it sounds completely retarded but I wish i could get MY copy back, isnt that insane?
i'll be 25 years old in 2 months; and to this day, every now and again i'll hear a whisper in my ears "alien.........storm".
son of a bitch.
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yeah, I've made some lousy decisions involving selling some systems/games. there was a time a year ago or so where I was kicked out of my house and a lot of systems got sold. I traded in or sold to friends my GBA sp, psp, Nintendo 64, dreamcast, nomad and neo geo pocket color. A lot of random games for other systems too.
I wouldn't mind having all of that stuff back but being a sega fan I especially miss the dreamcast and nomad. Since then i've re-bought a gba but that's about it. I didn't really have a choice at the time but i'd live under a bridge before i sell any of my turbo stuff.
also your story makes me want to play some alien storm, you should pick up another copy, I got one for like $2.
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Let's see: I lost a copy of Dynastic Hero (US) that I bought for $10
Sold my original Macross CD/SCD shooter than I paid $230 - for $15.
I sold Dracula X for $20 and Ys IV for $15.
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Bonknuts already told me his terrible woes last night in a chat room :( .
The only time this has really ever happened to me was when I had a Genesis collection as a kid with over 30 games (most had boxes and manuals too) and got a used Saturn with NiGHTS out of it, which broke in a couple of months.
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Tradeing a TG16+TurboCD plus 15 games just so i could score some sega cd games :oops:
What can i say i didn't know better at the time. No super system 3.0 card, plus not having money for imports... i didn't see the reason to keep it back then.
Still i find it funny i... started over again with a, Duo-R and now i have more then i did then.
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I'm curious Bonknuts...how did you end up paying $230 for Macross 2036?
Anyway, I've sold a few things over the years that I regretted later. Beginning with my original NES and about a dozen games. I sold them to afford the Turbografx-16. Now I don't regret buying the Turbo, but I wish I could have done it in some other way than giving up my NES.
Around 1999 I sold off some Saturn games that later got rather valuable (Astra Superstars and Phantasy Star Collection are two that I can remember). I was able to buy them back a few years later, but not nearly in as nice condition as the ones I sold.
The biggest regret I have is selling off almost my entire Nintendo 64 collection a couple years ago when I went through one of those "oh, I'm too old for videogames, why do I waste time/space with all this crap" phases. I had a collection of about thirty games, all purchased new by me and absolutely pristine (I'm very, very picky about taking care of my stuff, and everything I've bought since the mid-80s has been kept in mint condition). But as I said I was going through one of those silly (in retrospect) "I need to grow up" phases, and I sold all of them except for Ogre Battle 64 and Paper Mario, which I kept because I had not finished them yet. Even though I abhor the N64 controller and the blurry N64 graphics haven't aged well, I miss some of those games terribly. I've scanned eBay occasionally with the idea of buying some of them back, but I know I'm unlikely to ever get them in the same condition as the ones I sold off. The chance to play games like F-Zero X and Starfox 64 again is about the only reason I'm slightly interested in the Wii (for the VC).
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I just regret the means I chose for this one: Traded a PSX and way too many games for a Sega Saturn system. A lot of fairly new RPGs at the time, too. Never did get Xenogears again yet... >.>
Love my Saturn, though. XD
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Keranu, your's is a commonly shared story :x
PC Gaijin:
This was back in '93 and I had been calling all the import stores from the mags looking for Macross 2036. Everyone kept telling me the game was no longer produced and they could not get any copies. One guy at Die Hard told me that the game was pretty rare and if I find a seal copy, not to open it. Well after months and months of searching - I found a mail order place in Canada that had one copy of the game - $199. I realize now the he probably meant $199 CDN and not US, but I sent $199+shipping to the mail order place. I was jonesing for this game. I was a teenager with a job and no bills, so money wasn't too big of deal. I got a letter weeks later by US Customs stating I had to pay $20 in import tax to get the game out of Customs. In the end the total was $230. When I recieve the game(sealed), I was not disappointed. I still love that game.
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yes definitely. I wish I had not given up Einhander. I traded it in along with another slew of games for Chrono Cross on its launch date.
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"Traded a PSX and way too many games for a Sega Saturn system. "
An excellent trade, IMHO. The only game for the original PS I miss is
Monster Rancher; whereas there are lots of games I would miss for the Saturn.
as for trades I regret, I remember selling a lot of my 2600 stuff back in the early 90s for next to nothing. I'd rather have those games back.
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I used to have nearly complete PC Engine and import Sega Saturn collections (over 600 games for each) and I've trimmed it down to about 150 for each system... for the most part I don't regret the stuff I sold, either games I collected and never played, or expensive games that weren't that good (such as Sylphia and Steam Hearts for the PCE). Out of everything I got rid of, the only games I really miss are Hyper Duel and Astra Super Stars for the Saturn. I sold them for a pretty big chuck of change a few years ago but they're both worth a lot more now and I'm wondering if I will ever get them back =(
But I still have The TV Show... yes I like that game :D
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Like the westexit I regret selling Astra Superstars. It came out very close to the time that MSHvsSF came out and I opted for the less popular title. Its not a very serious fighting game, but its very fun and has that sort of doujin feel to it. I bought it for ~$60, sold it for $40. Nothing special there.
Now I notice that its very hard to find. Its not actually on eBay very often, and when it is its always $100+. Crap....
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I gave up my Nomad to an Army buddy, back when I lived in the Infantry Barracks.
I also gave him my copy of Street Fighter II, and Ys III. I regret now. Although getting it again wouldnt be THAT expensive right?
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In 1999 I traded my Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, and a Gameboy with games to Funcoland. I recieved a $40 store credit and used it to buy Final Fantasy 8.
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In 1999 I traded my Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, and a Gameboy with games to Funcoland. I recieved a $40 store credit and used it to buy Final Fantasy 8.
That sucks, but who didn't do that - at least you didn't take the $20 check instead. How many people actually have their old systems? I rebought everything pre-N64 within the past 2-4 years!
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That sucks, but who didn't do that -
Me. I have never, ever 'traded in' a game to a store, and never will.
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guyjin, how old are you(if you don't mind me asking)? Back then, that was the only way for me to afford the newest system.
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Yeah seriously, unless you're rich you've traded stuff in at one time or another. Besides, you can actually make out like a bandit if you hit Gamestop during one of their deals like where they give an extra $10 per 3 games or something (did this last month and got about $50 for a bunch of shitty games).
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Ten years ago trading in stuff at Funco was not only worth it, but actually profitable at times. You could literally broker games for a few hundred dollars a month in your spare time if you were devoted enough.
Nowadays though, f*ck that. EB, Gamestop, whatever rarely give more than $10 for anything more than 6 months old. Many times the trade-ins are less than $2. I'd donate the game to the Salvation Army, or just burn the thing in the fireplace before I sold it to EB for $0.75 and watch them turn around and put a $14 price tag on it. WTF am I going to do with $0.75?
Its still possible to get good deals at pawn shops, and small-time game stores but the mall places are just an outright screwjob. I have a friend who is totally addicted to wasting hundreds of dollars at EB this way. I just do not get it at all.
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I'm 26, and not rich. When I did get rid of games, it was always at a garage sale or a sale/trade/gift to a friend (not throuh a store).
The reason I got away with this is, I haven't bought a 'new' system in a long time. my last 'new' system was the Dreamcast. my next will be the wii.
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Nowadays though, f*ck that.
true true...
The extra 10 bucks deal is still sweet though, I got 20 bucks for maximo, tekken 3? and maybe devil may cry 2? I can't remember, just know I would never play those games again. Yeah, and I put the 20 bucks towards Disgaea II, so you do the math!
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Nowadays though, f*ck that.
true true...
The extra 10 bucks deal is still sweet though, I got 20 bucks for maximo, tekken 3? and maybe devil may cry 2? I can't remember, just know I would never play those games again. Yeah, and I put the 20 bucks towards Disgaea II, so you do the math!
The math...OK, that's $6.66 per game. That...sucks...
Its going to suck even more when you want to trade in Disgaea 2 for something else in the future, but you'll need to trade in two other games that were once $50 to get that "good deal". $150 spent at EB becomes $20 in credit towards another $50 game, then set back out on the shelf for another $36 in sales as used software. EB totally owns you multiple times.
I think the deal with me is that I don't buy games I don't like, therefore getting rid if "games I'll never play again" doesn't happen with me. I would never buy Tekken since I hate it. Meanwhile my copies of CvS2, Rez, Ys 1&2, etc will be buried with me.
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$6.66 per game is a hell of a lot more than you'd get anywhere else for old ass stuff like Tekken 3, Devil May Cry 2 and Maximo. You'd be lucky to get $2 apiece for those on ebay.
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I never traded in games in the past, when I was a kid I hung onto everything for dear life. The first time I ever sold my own video games was with the Playstation, and I was in college by then...
I still wouldn't trade anything in now, but no one would take my trade in anyway since I only buy jpn releases (well, for the most part)
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Nowadays though, f*ck that.
true true...
The extra 10 bucks deal is still sweet though, I got 20 bucks for maximo, tekken 3? and maybe devil may cry 2? I can't remember, just know I would never play those games again. Yeah, and I put the 20 bucks towards Disgaea II, so you do the math!
The math...OK, that's $6.66 per game. That...sucks...
Its going to suck even more when you want to trade in Disgaea 2 for something else in the future, but you'll need to trade in two other games that were once $50 to get that "good deal".
Dude, I meant its a good deal when you've got games like tekken 3, I would definitely hold onto disgaea 2 for my collection, but if I was going to part with a gem like that, I'd put it up for sale on ebay or the forums.
Just mentioning that the extra 10 dollar deal is a good way of getting rid of ps2 games with no value.
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$6.66 per game is a hell of a lot more than you'd get anywhere else for old ass stuff like Tekken 3, Devil May Cry 2 and Maximo. You'd be lucky to get $2 apiece for those on ebay.
$2, or $6.66, or whatever...is a totally useless amount of money nowdays. You can't buy shit with it. You are basically throwing the game away. You might as well just give the game to EB. In that case, I'd rather give the game to some random relative, or one of my friend's kids, or Goodwill, or...anything realy, rather that to give it to EB.
Tekken dosen't mean much to us, but it could be some poor kids all time favorite game. It could be a huge deal to him, or it could be half the price of a meal at Taco Bell for you or me.
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Let's see... I can save $20-$30 off a $50 game by giving Gamestop some old worthless shit... or I can give my stuff away for free to some shit-eating kid and THEN go pay $50 for the game... I think I'll save the money, thank you.
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Let's see... I can save $20-$30 off a $50 game by giving Gamestop some old worthless shit... or I can give my stuff away for free to some shit-eating kid and THEN go pay $50 for the game... I think I'll save the money, thank you.
Aweswome. :P
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Let's see... I can save $20-$30 off a $50 game by giving Gamestop some old worthless shit... or I can give my stuff away for free to some shit-eating kid and THEN go pay $50 for the game... I think I'll save the money, thank you.
But you aren't saving shit. You're looking at the last page of a multi-page ledger. "Oh look, I got $20 in credit!" you may say, but its $20 in credit foir some stuff you paid $175 for. You paid something for those games you are trading in, right? Chances are you're taking a %80 loss on them, if not more.
Why do you have worthless shit in the first place? Why did you buy games you don't like and then basically give them to EB? Fiscally speaking, its pretty suicidal.
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Let's see... I can save $20-$30 off a $50 game by giving Gamestop some old worthless shit... or I can give my stuff away for free to some shit-eating kid and THEN go pay $50 for the game... I think I'll save the money, thank you.
But you aren't saving shit. You're looking at the last page of a multi-page ledger. "Oh look, I got $20 in credit!" you may say, but its $20 in credit foir some stuff you paid $175 for. You paid something for those games you are trading in, right? Chances are you're taking a %80 loss on them, if not more.
Why do you have worthless shit in the first place? Why did you buy games you don't like and then basically give them to EB? Fiscally speaking, its pretty suicidal.
Fiscally speaking, it's quite the pyramid scheme for EB. I think that it should be illegal for anyone underage to trade-in to any store. I also think that governments need to step in and either regulate these ridiculous extended warranty scams or again, make it illegal to sell them to minors.
Some games good or bad plummit in resell price pretty quick for various reasons. Depending on what/when you trade-in, you can do pretty good though.
If you can net $45 in a few weeks for 2 or 3 games by sellling them through eBay, but trade them in the same day for $30 towards what you plan on buying with your cash anyway, I don't blame people for doing trade-ins.
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The vast majority of games do not hold any sort of value, them's the facts. If Gamestop wants to offer a sweet deal where they pay you more than you could get on ebay for old ass games you don't play anymore, then I think you're f*cking insane to not do it.
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The vast majority of games do not hold any sort of value, them's the facts. If Gamestop wants to offer a sweet deal where they pay you more than you could get on ebay for old ass games you don't play anymore, then I think you're f*cking insane to not do it.
"Sweet deal"? Are you f*cking serious? Since when is $3 a sweat deal on anything?
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OMG - this thread is done!!
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OMG - this thread is done!!
This thread is only getting started. :wink:
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importing has always been expensive...>_<
And I started out long time ago with the pc engine.. I think at that time I had an Amiga 500 with expansion to 1meg and.. turning point then was comparison with the Amiga version of R-Type and the pc engine's...
1987: There were new mail order suppliers of importing pc engines popping up. One was called PC Engine Supplies (which I think was the first company set up to sell grey imports and stuff).. I didn't quite trust mail order then..
I got my very first pc engine on import with really bad PAL conversion from some shop called Shekkahna (pretty sure that shop was Arab run based in West End, London city) for about £200 (which is roughly about $400 USD) that was a lot of money to part with then especially since I was still at college and not working). Few years later I upgraded and got hold of CD-Rom with interface.
But when new stuff came out like Super Famicom ended up trading most of the pc engine stuff to get that new Nintendo machine). I wasn't too keen on the Megadrive then and hated it with contempt.
Then I was going back and fourth part-xchanging:
Duo-R --> UK SNES --> Supergrafx --> USA SNES -->Core-grafx II..
I had alot of jp pc engine magazines too especially the one with the big ape for its mascot, I just didn't like the pc engine fan mag but when upgrading to SNES stuff I threw most of my stuff away..
Sadly these all I have left from the pc engine mags..
(http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m113/secretsociety1/IMG_0426smaller.jpg)
Lots of new businesses set up with part xchange and stuff and I always did business with CEX (computer Exchange), back then they were known as Toby's for their adverts in magazines). They also imported (and they weren't cheap) I remember Street Fighter Hyper Fighting on the Superfamicom was hitting around £115 per copy (thats like $230 USD)throughout the UK!! CEX also they did great regional conversions on any machine too.
(http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m113/secretsociety1/toby.jpg)
1996 the 32bit era came out and got my first Sega Saturn and traded all 16bit stuff over to that..(that was pretty much hard to do too cause I sure loved my Square games then.. Secret of Mana, FF3, Chrono Trigger and lots of konami classics)
Also got playstation just for FF7 but soon after.. traded it for Saturn games..
1997 I was in Hong Kong just before hand over to china. picked up brand new N64, starfox and rumble pack and mario kart 64 pretty cheaply over there).
1998 traded every saturn/N64 item for Dreamcast games. (which was heart breaking)!! I remember being at work and all morning I was calling up this business called Skill Academy (which was some couple that ran their own import games company from their home)!! and it was around noon time they managed to get hold of a few imported Dreamcast machines.. and I faked my sickness to boss telling her that I didn't feel well.. could I take the rest of the day off and quickly headed off to buy my dreamcast spending £500 for brand new jp dreamcast with VF3)..
Dreamcast fever was big! and I remember CEX boasted that they had imported the very first Dreamcast machines into the UK and someone bought it for £2k just to have the privellidge to be the first person in the UK to own it.
Well 2003.. I decided to dig up the past and started collecting the Saturn again (thanks to ebay and some astonishing extortionate prices)
Thanks to eBay I was able to get hold of Taromaru (which wasn't a game I was particularly fond of so after a year I sold it off and made a profit thanks to ebay again)!!!
(http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m113/secretsociety1/DSC01818.jpg)
Had gamecube stuff too but because there wasn't many games to keep me interested sold it all (items in that photo) and the ps2 gone off to new owners now.. uptill the dreamcast most new technology just didn't do anything for me). I loved that ASCII keyboard!!
(http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m113/secretsociety1/DSC01993.jpg)
and in 2005 got the pc engine again (although just collecting Hucards for now)..
Right now I'm debating about whether to sell the Dreamcast stuff and make space for 360.. but I just love the music on Street Fighter III 3rd Impact , Jet Set Radio and Daytona USA 2001 plus I'm still fond of Soul Calibur.... *sigh what to do*
I was always spending money like water then.. not really that crazy now since i'm pretty much happy with what I've got..
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This thread is insane, I love it!
I agree with Zeta - why do you buy games that suck? I've never bought a game that I hate. I don't even have to test it to know that it will be good or not - I just get it, and like it.
I wonder how many times the word "shit" has been used in this thread. :roll:
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Sadly these all I have left from the pc engine mags..
(http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m113/secretsociety1/IMG_0426smaller.jpg)
I have that Burai flyer! But I'm not 100% on whether I have the exact same ones for II & ED. :P
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After the whole 911 thing I, like everyone I know, lost my job. I ended up working at Electronics Boutique for almost two years and in that time I saw people ditch so many systems basically for nothing...it still makes me sad/sick. That place is like a video game slaughterhouse.
People would trade in a DC with a shitload of great stuff and get $30-40 towards the price of an Xbox, which was $300 at the time, and all the (mostly crap) games were $50. Kids were trading in Soul Calibur, F355, Daytona, Shenmue, Jet Grind, etc just to get an Xbox and Star Wars: Obi Wan, and then the parents ask if there are any family oriented games for it...sorry mom, just gory, dark, fanboy crap. It was just nuts. The stupidest thing I ever saw was a guy that traded in a DC with 12 or so games to get a PS2. What was his first PS2 game? Crazy f*cking Taxi, a game he just traded in! That's just plain stupid.
If you are always ditching stuff to "upgrade", then it...sort of makes sense, but when you go back and forth it never adds up. Just keep the stuff. Especially when you are talking about trading classic eternal stuff like PCE Engine, and Saturn for flavor of the month, overpriced garbage like Xbox 360. All that shit is bargain bin-bound.
Digi.k, you've basically paid game shops thousands of £ for them to hold systems for you until you want them back. I have a friend that did this compulsively for a decade or so. He'd sometimes trade a game in after only a week taking a $15-25 loss on it. That's called renting, IMO, only actually renting the game only costs $3. I think the guy owned at least 3-5 of DC, Cube, PS2, PS1, and N64 with a couple of Saturns in there. He spent a few thousand dollars a year on games, far more than me, but he never actually owned more than 7 or 8 games at a time.
The sad thing is that he eventually snapped and now collects only pre-crash stuff. In a way that's perfect since he obviously enjoys spending money more than playing games, and nobody plays that f*cking shit no matter what they say. But at the same time I miss the friend who used to practice Street Fighter so we could play once a week.
The next time you want a new system that will cost you 500 quid, and you have 425, just wait a week and kick the extra £ instead of tossing out an entire collection you’re eventually just going to buy back again.
I traded in almost my entire SNES collection for an N64. I got the sort of trade-in that people only dream of nowadays ($40 for Megaman X2!) but it still hounds me at the greatest gaming-level f*ck-up of all time since the N64 was basically a piece of junk, and the game I lusted for so badly on the machine, Mario Kart 64, utterly sucked compared to version of Mario Kart I traded in for the machine to play the inferior version on. Then there is the fact that those SNES games are still worth money, and the N64 stuff is just taking up space in a trash can someplace.
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Emerald Dragon and Burai 2 are play guides that I've keped.. I wished I kepted the Snatcher and Parodius ones cause they had some amazing screenshots in them.. :(
Digi.k, you've basically paid game shops thousands of £ for them to hold systems for you until you want them back. I have a friend that did this compulsively for a decade or so. He'd sometimes trade a game in after only a week taking a $15-25 loss on it. That's called renting, IMO, only actually renting the game only costs $3. I think the guy owned at least 3-5 of DC, Cube, PS2, PS1, and N64 with a couple of Saturns in there. He spent a few thousand dollars a year on games, far more than me, but he never actually owned more than 7 or 8 games at a time.
Yup thats pretty true..
My neighbours too used to buy all their stuff but now using blockbusters they just rent a game for 1 month and take it back..
I guess the reason why a lot of the current gen systems don't interest me is that a lot of these current games they just come across as expendable fodder, just after a few weeks play you lose interest and you want to trade it in..
when I look at buying new games and systems I just keep thinking 'will I still be playing this in the next few weeks, months or even years'?...
But the retro stuff I'm just happy I got my pc engine and Saturn back and then some! I intend on keeping these now.. Although I did sell things recently that I wished I hadn't.... like my Magic Knight Rayearth stuff.....
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and kinda regret selling Coryoon.. I love the music but I hated the gameplay.. and unlike collectors that just buy stuff and not play their games I like to load mine up and fire away.. and since I didnt like the game it went on ebay.. but I miss the music..
(http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m113/secretsociety1/DSC02340.jpg)
Despite the amount of information available, when it comes to certain obscure games, that's when the information becomes scarce and you can only rely on word of mouth... and as for buying games that suck... well I guess as that saying goes.. one man's treasure is another man's junk....