Gaming decisions you really regret and gaming decisions you dont

[JSR]

Sour grapes

-Selling my Dreamcast and games for barely enough money to buy myself a 64MB Creative Muvo MP3 player. Managed to cram two ripped cd's onto the thing. Didn't even have a display. Dumb little plastic crap.
-Buying a PSP Go at launch day.
-Buying a 3DS at launch day.
-Trading my 3DS in for a PS Vita at launch day.
-Not giving Ocarina of Time the attention it deserved. Didn't have a Nintendo 64 at the time (was a PlayStation kid), so only played bits and pieces of the game when with friends. When I finally got the game, I knew too much of it already, so the game didn't have the impact on me that it could and probably should.
-My habit of buying more games than I have time to appreciate. When I was very young, we only had a few games for ou SNES, and only got a couple new games a year. So the few games we had, got played to death. Learned all the little secrets in them, challenged myself to beat stages/bosses faster or on harder difficulties, got a very intimate relationship with them. Unlike today; when I'm finished with a game I simply pick the next one from the pile and don't give it much more thought.
-Never having properly gotten into PC gaming in the "classic" period.
-Not playing nearly as much same-room multiplayer with friends as I'd liked to.
-Never having gotten into Saturn.



Cool beans

-Taking up a "loan" from my parents by not getting allowances for several months, so that me and my sister could buy a SNES. I consequently moaned every week about wanting money, so they caved and started giving me allowances again by the time I had paid for about half of it.
-Cycling like a maniac in stormy weather for 40 minutes to reach a nearby toy store that was about to close, so that I could buy my first ever GBC game (Harvest Moon) for the Game Boy Color I had bought earlier that day (someplace they didn't have any games I wanted, but the console in the colour I wanted - green).
-Playing almost as much on my 32 inch CRT, as my 63 inch plasma.



Sadly, that's all I can think of right now.

[Grapple Convoy]

- not buying a Sega Saturn when they became really cheap, 1997-ish. The Saturn was a joke at the time, considered a 'loser' system not soon after launch, but it's finest games are indeed quite special and unique.
- soldiering on with an original model GBA until I got a DS Phat. Should've Afterburned it or upgraded to a GBA SP.
- selling all three of the GBA Castlevanias.
- not buying a cheap Vectrex and games in 2005 when I had the chance.

+ my g.f. getting a launch day 3DS. GBA Ambassador games for the win!
+ never buying a Dreamcast. White elephant from Day 1.
+ breaking my strange initial phobia of the genre and forcing myself to buy Link's Awakening for the Game Boy. Wonderful game! Link to the Past was bought immediately after completion.

[dataDave]

Skiving off College for the day to go down to Electronics Boutique Oxford Street (as it was back then!) to purchase OoT & F-Zero X on their days of release and then return home to play them for the day!

My favourite era of gaming to this day. I was also constantly playing Banjo and 1080 at the time, an amazing winter that was.

I didn't skive college though, I just booked those days off work.

[dataDave]

- Selling my humble Saturn collection in Jan'07 to fund my March N64 launch party, only to lose patience with having not one console around and re-buying a PSX instead!!
- Moving out of my perfect gaming apartment and selling my entire collection to move abroad.

+ Spending all that time on MMOs.
+ Never giving up my hobby, no matter the costs.
+ Using the Wii Homebrew Channel to recover most of my collection.

[parkinho]

- Selling my SNES stuff in order to fund my N64 purchase back in March '97
- Selling most of my more valuable N64, Dreamcast and Jaguar games back at uni, only to piss it all up the wall
- Buying a 3DS on launch despite the fact I had no interest in any of the launch games
- Not getting into PSO during its heyday

+ Selling my SNES stuff in order to fund my N64 purchase back in March '97 N64 is the best console I have ever owned and those gaming years hold some very fond memories
+ Taking a punt on a game unknown to me at the time called 'Tempest 2000' when Doom was out of stock back at Xmas '95. Turns out to be my favourite videogame ever
+ Getting into import gaming with the Dreamcast

[Neon Ignition]

It should be a regret but I did like my N-Gage

[MiG]

- Trading in a Turbo Duo for ?250 credit at CEX retro with the intent to buy more retro games. Two weeks later they chucked all the import/retro stuff and I was stuck with credit I didn't want to use for PAL crap.
- Lending my SFC games to a mate, he moved house and when I asked him about them a year later he said they'd been chucked out..

+ Swapped with a school mate my Atari Lynx for a GameGear which I eventually swapped for a Saturn
+ My Aunt was going on a fashion shoot to Hong Kong and asked me what I wanted for christmas, I said a Mega Drive game and she brought me back a HK Famicom and 10 games
+ My Dads boss asked me to babysit, didn't fancy it but I agreed too, I mentioned I collected games and he dissapeared into a cupboard and brought out a box with SFC console and 20 or so games he'd bought whillst living in singapore!! My head nearly exploded when he said I could have them.

[Hartley Hare]

The good

Import Saturn with VF1 & Sony with Ridge, yes it cost me ?1200 at the time from VGI but what a xmas that was.

Import N64 with Mario & Pilotwings, not since has anything come close to jaw on the floor/.

The bad

Spending thousands on NEO GEO Carts and it become apparent rather quickly it was about collecting and not playing, sold up and never looked back. ( What a waste of cash)

Now I feel things have never been so good.

[gIzzE]

I remember getting a call from Ray at Skill Academy the day the Jap PS launched to say that his import machines were in at Heathrow, he was collecting them that night and could get one off to me the next morning and be with me on the Monday.
**** that! I will meet you at Heathrow in 2 hours!!

Jumped in the car, got to Heathrow in just over an hour from Leicester and was back playing Ridge Racer that evening.
?700 well spent!!



Similar thing with the N64, a got a call from the import shop in Leicester saying that he had 2 N64's with Mario and Pilot Wings sitting in his shop, this was a day after the Jap release. I had sworn I would not buy one at launch, but I was back home within the hour with it on.
That was ?600 which I actually thought was great value considering the prices every where else.

[noobish hat]

- Selling my humble Saturn collection in Jan'07 to fund my March N64 launch party, only to lose patience with having not one console around and re-buying a PSX instead!!

Late to the party much?

[SUMIRE]

Buying a Kinect ..only one good game on the damn thing haha!

Oh, and selling my vast Konami MSX cartridge collection a long long time ago.

[Goemon]

Regrets

Opting for a Gameboy instead of a Super Famicom as my Christmas present
Spending all my money on a Super Wild Card instead of a PSX
Never buying a Saturn or PC Engine, so I have no concept of the consoles ups and downs (new releases, big games etc.)
Buying Rise of the Robots

[shaffy_oppa]

I know I've had a lot of these especially when I'm poor and I go out of my way to get something but currently can't think of anything... guess I suppress them from my memory well.

Ah the 3 Atelier games I got the other day from CEX total ?90 and I haven't really touched em yet and suddenly Rorona is ?20 or below everywhere and local CEXs have 4+

[monel]

**** that! I will meet you at Heathrow in 2 hours!!

That was brilliant, thanks for posting it, made my day. I haven't gone to that extreme for gaming, although I've come close in a weird way, but it sums up my thought process in the past for a lot of things.

[dataDave]

Late to the party much?

Fortunately I worked part-time with a guy that did mobile video game rentals, so I got one off him on the tick a week after launch anyway.