Your Biggest Gaming Mistake(s)

[Spatial]

Paying the stupid sum of ?100 for Syphon Filter on the PS (which although I enjoyed it, certainly wasn't worth that much cash).

I should have just saved the money to hire a Solicitor to sue the arse off Blockbuster for billing me for a game I returned, but someone managed to nick from their faulty drop slot

[Concept]

Another one.

Not playing Grim Fandango on release. To this day I still haven't played it. Shame on me.

[Mad Gear]

Swopping my entire Jap MD collection in 92/93 for a Neo AES with 3 games.

Selling my Saturn Collection including Nights, Saga (and not even finishing the first disc!), Guardian Heroes et al for some Bazooka Joe comics and a pack of Hubba Bubba (maybe).

Trading in my mint Castlevania SOTN for about ?15 in Game which equated to half a DC game.

[HaHaUK]

Selling off/trading in most games I had.

Accidentely deleting my San Andreas save, TWICE! First time it happened, I stopped playing games for a few months cos I was so pissed.

Accidentely deleting both GTA3 (around 70% in) and Vice City (86%). Still havent got round to playing them again, leaves a sour taste when you realise how much stuff you did, and its all gone

And as said by others, not getting into importing earlier (only started late last year!)

Edit: Just remembered, not a mistake, but an 8mb Cube card filled with loads of game saves (Mario, Luigis Mansion, F-Zero, etc) stopped working and kept telling me to format it. ft:

[the_dude]

Biggest gaming mistake/s was selling my Snes with 20 top games for a PS. I should've saved up a bit more, kept my Snes and just bought the PS. Other recent mistakes would be getting a Nintendo DS, gimcrack if you ask me.

[icarus0]

Like others have already said, not getting into importing properly until fairly recently.

The first game I bought on import was Final Fantasy 3 (US SNES) way back in 1995. Apart from getting Chrono Trigger and Yoshi's Island for Christmas 1995, I then didn't buy anything else on import until I bought my GC with Pikmin and Super Monkey Ball in Oct/Nov 2001 when I first came across this site.

Apart from that, selling off a load of SNES games for about 4 or 5 quid each around 8 years. They were all in absolutely mint condition and included some real classics such as Zombies, Super Mario All-Stars and Legend of The Mystical Ninja. I didn't really need the money either, it was just an attempt to clear some space in my house.

Never again...

[Wools]

Buying every console on launch day to the detriment of my others... I sell them.

Which is what im planning to do now. All I want in my collection is a lovely DC and N64 in the loft and a Xbox 360 and a GBA Micro as my main gaming platform.

So I'll be selling my modded Xbox, Gamecube, PS2, PSP, DS and Neo geo Pocket. I know I'll regret in in a years time

[icarus0]

Just thought of another one which is far more serious than my two above - never having played ICO until two days ago.

How I put off playing such a thing of beauty until now I will never know.

[Akira]

Just thought of another one which is far more serious than my two above - never having played ICO until two days ago.

How I put off playing such a thing of beauty until now I will never know.

Sooooo true.But i've only got a promotional demo which i went back to the other day and WOW the atmosphere,the visuals,the brilliant sound effects.Just wow! now i'm searching ebay for a copy 8)

[icarus0]

Its well worth the money. Paid ?35 for my copy last week and its worth every penny, and far more besides.

[Concept]

Accidentely deleting my San Andreas save, TWICE! First time it happened, I stopped playing games for a few months cos I was so pissed.

Ouch. If I did that with my save file after the effort I've put into it I'd go temporarily insane. I've been thinking of getting a second memory card for back-up (I still only have the one).

[Concept]

Just thought of another one which is far more serious than my two above - never having played ICO until two days ago.

How I put off playing such a thing of beauty until now I will never know.

I did the same thing with the Panzer Dragoon series until about a little over two years ago. I can't believe I almost let Zwei and Saga slip me by.

It was only after reading of the anticipation for Orta on these forums that got me into the series.

[HaHaUK]

Ouch. If I did that with my save file after the effort I've put into it I'd go temporarily insane. I've been thinking of getting a second memory card for back-up (I still only have the one).

you should get a secondary card, or that device to put it on your pc. its well worth it just in case.

[Miguel007]

#. Accidentally deleting my Banjo-Kazooie Save - Nearly complete as well.

#. Getting stuck in the Forest Temple on Ocarina of Time in the room where you have to melt the ice around the eye. I thought I needed the Fire spell from one of the fairy's when your a child. When you go back to the Temple Of Time, Sheik is blocking you so you can't change back to a young lad again, so I thought I was completley stuck. Restarted the whole game got the Spell did the level. Many years later I realised I could have shot through a lantern on fire with my bow and arrow to make it melt thus not needing the spell. I could have spit blood!!

#. Buying a PSP, it was an impulse buy, I've got four games and it's been sitting gathering dust for nearly a month now. The DS has and will be keeping my attention for the foreseeable future.

#. Writing on and chucking away some of my SNES boxes, seemed a good idea at the time. Now at a time when I like keeping Minty-mint games I wish I hadn't.

[Ginger Tosser]

Probably selling my spectrum bits in the 90s as i wouldn't use them again. Also selling many snes games when buying my house.

Most recent one was Xbox live, considering i only had the Xbox for a few months subscribing to live was a mistake.