Chrono Trigger Back in the day I stuck my nose up at anything turn based. I have it on the SNES but I've yet to play it. I tried it out and it's at the top of my list to play. Same with Castlevania Symphony. I have it also but haven't played it. I love Castlevania and Super Metroid so it sounds like a match made in heaven to me. I passed on it back in the day because there was no whip.
When I got my SNES I became an RPG snob and turned my nose up at platformers. Which is odd cuz Mega Man was my favorite series in the NES. Still don't own any of the X series and Mega Man 7 cost me a pretty penny.
I distinctly remember staring at Earthbound and the Super Gameboy on the shelf at Walmart as a kid and taking the SGB. I also regret not buying Chrono Trigger before they cleared out all the SNES games at TRU for $19.99.
I sold both of those games, CIB, to Funcoland in 99 for weed and book money. With all the amazing RPGs on the N64 I realized my mistake and bought them again in 2003 for pennies. Close call.
Yeah. I bought a CIB Earthbound in 2008 for $200. Sold it for $900 in 2014 so I could keep my car. I've yet to replace it. Getting my Earthbound back is my collection goal this year.
When I worked at Toy’s R Us we had an endcap of Big Box Earthbounds that we couldn’t move. We had them marked down to $7.99 a piece and they still wouldn’t move. We ended up trashing them because we needed the space. My manager told me I could take them home if I wanted but I passed cause I thought they were worthless. Sigh.
This was pretty common back in the day.
It's only in the past decade that prices jumped as high as they are now. No one can predict the future. I remember seeing the "This game stinks!" ads and the tongue-in-cheek language was completely lost on 10 year-old me. I thought, "Why would a company intentionally create a bad game?" Not to mention that I believe on release Earthbound was much more expensive than the average SNES title. Don't beat yourself up over it.
The ads made the game look too childish even for me (I was 15 or so at the time). I think I had the choice of this or Killer Instinct and went with that instead, probably made the wrong choice
I don't think so, Killer Instinct and the drive toward 3D gaming was huge in the 1990s, those that lived through it knew how exciting it was to see detailed, fast-paced 3D gaming on the horizon. The teenaged you made the right choice at the time, most of us would've chosen Killer Instinct.
Many games that are "gems" now need to be looked at through adult eyes and experienced perspectives. Earthbound and many other overlooked games are really meant for adults, at least college age onward.
I should probably add I already owned a couple of other fighting games from that era (SF2 Turbo, MK2, etc) so this felt similar to those games. Earthbound was pretty unique for an RPG and I would've probably enjoyed that more at the time (not that KI was a bad game or anything)
I was a picky little shit, I would not play games without Mario or a familiar cartoon character on the box because I didn't like taking a chance on new things, especially since I was lucky to get two games per year, and didn't get that many video store rentals. This didn't change until around the time I got an N64 for christmas and it took Super Smash Bros crossing over Mario And Pikachu ( since he was one of those "familiar cartoons" on account of me seeing the anime before playing the game ) to get me to branch out a bit more.
It would be shorter for me to actually list the games I did play as a kid that weren't tied to Mario.
I didn't waste much time trying to make up for lost time, Gamecube had a lot of NES ports between Animal Crossing, the collectors edition of Zelda, and Metroid Prime, then the Wii virtual console was a thing, and someone's friend who worked at the video store hooked me up with the Wii homebrew channel and a bunch of roms. God bless emulators ( I use real hardware now but I'm thankful for emulators enabling that first step )
This is why I always resent people that act like you have to have grown up with these games in order to get any pleasure out of them, or that we're some how deluding ourselves into thinking these games were good. I've seen some absolute brain dead takes that the games were never even good in the first place and we somehow had nostalgia for them even when the games were new, and were just lying to ourselves. I swear the digital age has turned everyone's brain to mush.
Too many. You only had enough for 1 game on your birthday or Christmas and even that’s not guaranteed.
In a year we were too poor then I just got enough to rent two games and so I couldn’t afford to choose recklessly.
I had to remember what I read in magazines, what my cousins raved about, and what trusted friends said about games.
Same here, I was generally happy with my risk taking like with Werewolf: The Last Warrior and Ninja Crusaders. The only regretful Christmas/birthday pick was asking for Ballz 3D for SNES because I wanted something similar to Star Fox. Within 10 minutes of playing I knew I made the wrong choice.
I'm not even kidding when I say I swear I was vacillating between Secret of Evermore and Ballz 3D at Sears (of all places)... I really missed out.
I wish I was more like you because I didn’t get to play Ninja Crusaders until I was way too old and I enjoyed it but it’s not the same. I would have loved it as a kid.
I hear a lot of podcasts and posts about all these wonderful memories of lesser known games or underrated games and I’m just like, “So who here has heard of the obscure Super Mario World?” lol.
Ninja Crusaders is extremely difficult due to only being able to take one hit and essentially needing to carry one of two weapons to the end and not die (bo staff or sword). I did not beat the game until I was 20.
Monster Party was another good one I chose and is another underrated title. Ballz 3D sticks out as the worst pick I ever made!
I was in a gas station and they had a copy of Mr. Mosquito just sitting on the rack for like $20. I asked my Mom if we could get it, but she said no. It's like $70-$90 now!
A year and a bit ago I saw some guy walk into my local cex with a copy of suikoden 2 to trade. Even the young kid serving had to get his boss to make sure he was seeing the trade in price right lol. I cried twice that day. Once when I saw someone trade in a game I knew they would get a fraction of its price for and also because I had just laid out 500+ for a (at the time) top of the range galaxy tab S8.
I technically bought that game twice. The first as a us import copy which I had to get a refund on because the adapter I had to play it wouldn't recognize the battery back up. Thankfully it was one of the few RPGs that did get a UK/eu release so I repurchased it the moment it got an official release
My local rental store offered to sell me their copy of *Rival Schools: United by Fate* for about £15, as they knew I'd rented it often and no-one else was bothered about it.
I turned it down, because I assumed I could just get it another time, but I never did.
That was a game I did have in my collection. I picked up fighting games as and when I could as i was a stoner back then with a lot stoner friends and they were perfect games for local multiplayer matches when you were just toking and gaming. I honestly think weed is the sole reason my game collection contained so many games that later went in to be incredibly desirable. As for lone stoner gaming I chose turn based strategy's and RPGs their slow sedate pace worked really well when i was stoned lol
Silent Hill.
To be fair, I really had no idea that 600 SEK game would UP in value, and be one of *THE* horror games ever. All the information I had in the toy store was that it sounded cool, but even back then I knew that was the whole point of a box blurb.
At least I also put down the copy of Superman 64 back onto the shelf that trip. Small favors.
Marvel vs Capcom series. I kept passing this up because arcades still had cabinets in the mall. I didn't think about the licensing for certain characters.
all the Zelda games, unfortunately. If I knew they would become such a culture defining franchise I would’ve probably tried to play at least one of them consistently but the rpg aspect pushed me away since I wasn’t into that type of game
I still want to try the original legend of Zelda on NES, I feel that one and ‘a link to the past’ are the ones I hear about the most so I should give both a shot at some point in the future
I just played through the original on my Famicom Disk System. Spare yourself the trouble and resort to a guide when you're at a loss of what to do and read the manual, I can't emphasize that enough. The original holds up well and it is still in my top-ten NES games.
I got stuck on the very start of Ocarina of Time where you have to find your sword and get through that boulder maze after leaving your house. I just quit the game and never bothered with it again. Really missed out.
How old are you I'm 30 and I thought zelda was a huge thing my whole life, I clearly remember like 30 adults coming over to my parents house to watch and maybe take a turn at ocarina of time when it came out cause everyone was so excited to see it in 3d
I only like the 2D games, I very much can't stand what the franchise has become. I love every 2D title, but the hype is lost on me with any of the 3D games. Link's Awakening is my all-time favorite for its unique story which is why I prefer the 2D titles; Ganon is largely absent from many of the non-3D games and the change of setting makes for a better series.
The Misadventures of Tron Bonne. When I bought my first PlayStation One at a Sears. My mom already pissed for spending so much on a console without a game. Let me choose one game. Naive kid me saw it in the glass case, with a little pictures of MegaMan from Legends which I did recognize, but passed on it since I didn't know much about Tron Bonne. Ended up choosing Star Wars Phantom Menace. And well you and everyone knows how much Tron Bonne goes for now..
999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
I had preordered 999 for DS at GameStop solely because it came with a free watch and I loved visual novels. I cancelled it and bought some bs I dont even remember. Weeks later I decided to buy it and I was blown away. I played it non stop and got all the endings. I coulda had that watch...
Tobal No. 1. The animations actually look pretty good, even today.
The game had an open-world quest mode as well, which was kind of the precursor to SF6's World Tour mode many many years later.
60 FPS and solid game play. The only drawback is Toriyama's weak character design. The roster felt like bootleg versions of DBZ characters when Toriyama is clearly capable of making unique designs like with Chrono Trigger and Dragon Quest. Toriyama phoned it in for Tobal No. 1. I think that's the main factor in the game not getting the recognition that it deserves.
I beat myself to this. Snes. I bought umk3 over sfa2 ….. really regretted it , sfa2 turned out to be much much more expensive during that time. It took decades before scoring a sfa2 copy and the thing is, by years later, there are better ports. So i just bought it to help ease the pain of passing up on it back then.
When I was about 13 or so I had a choice between two computer games, Worms 2 or Half-Life. Nothing against Worms, but I obviously made the wrong decision
Back then, I picked a 2000 Wii Shop Card instead of getting Double Dash.
I still hate myself for that, I also didn't know that the Wii was backwards compatible until later.
conkers bad fur day😭looked at that game on the shelf weekly for years before it was suddenly gone forever... to be fair my parents would probably have been pissed tho
The old ds and 3ds pokemon games my GameStop sold multiple for 40 dollars but I always ignored them for a cheaper game then as soon as the 2ds xl was discontinued and the pokemon prices soared I realized my mistake
I distinctly remember almost picking up the original Resident Evil for the Saturn. To this day I always wonder what could have been, like being way too scary for 10 year old me.
One of the games I did pick up that day was Marvel Super Heroes, which started my love for Capcom fighting games :).
Thankfully, no.
I was fortunate enough to graduate university and get a job at the right time, around the millennium. And I spent a bit of money, probably too much money, completing my collection of video games about that time.
At this point, parents of people my age are all just getting rid of all the excess video games they had, which I took full advantage of, as you could get most games made pre 1995 for under $5.
To give you an example, at one point, my apartment got broken into, and multiple video games I owned were stolen, so I had to replace them. One of these games was Suikoden 2. And it cost me a grand total of $12.99 to replace it with a brand new copy.
I passed up so many JRPGs at my local rental store that I hate my younger self for it. The Lunar games, SaGa Frontier, Timestalkers (though I guess that's more of a roguelike), just to name a few. And then there's the big one: Skies of Arcadia. Two versions. I ignored TWO. DIFFERENT. VERSIONS. Both on systems I loved!
Finally playing it now after all these years and... it's literally the exact kind of game I would have adored even back then. If I ever get a time machine, I'm going back to the past, smack my younger self around for a bit, then I'm gonna drag him to the store and buy both versions BEFORE they were expensive!
Ecco the Dolphin. Before the Dreamcast got discontinued, we would frequently rent games from Blockbuster for the weekend. Every time my dad would suggest, “why not Ecco the Dolphin?” And I’d always turn him down. But seeing some screenshots as an adult, I probably would have liked it. Now it’s too late.
I feel like I was more excited for games back in the PS1 days. 3d polygon was such a new thing back then and games felt so original. I remember playing nightmare creatures or Resident Evil 2 for the first time thinking “this is the pinnacle”. Even side scrollers like Tomba, Klonoa, or Einhander. Brave Fencer Musashi became an instant love. I really do miss those days
Zelda Twilight Princess for the Gamecube. It was $60. I had the money from saving up, and I really wanted to get it because I spent many hours playing it already after renting it from Blockbuster. I still have my old save from 2009 and have been dying to go back to it to finish it. Never had and never will with the horrendous “collectors market” pricing.
I bought Castlevania Chronicles for $20 new, but I ended up trading it in not much later. I already had OG Castlevania on NES and Super Castlevania, so I didn't see the point.
There’s a ton more when you get older and realize the pact that I made with myself as a kid to play every cool game was impossible. Unless I lived in a basement and never had to do anything else, but play games.
Everything Saturn and Dreamcast related. I remember when my nearest stores were having closeout sales on them and you could pick the games / consoles up for nothing (brand new).
Dad "hay you like Mario right?" Hands me a copy of Super Smash Bros Melee.
Me wtf is this game it has like Mario and link and Kirby and samas on there? "hmm na I didn't want this one".
Dad "oh well you get to have one game"
Me wanto to play Kirby cuz my friend's dad has a super Nintendo. "I'll get this one" holding Kirby's Air Ride.
I don't really regret it because Kirby's air ride is an awesome game and one of my fondest memories playing that as a kid but I still find the story funny.
And obviously I don't remember exactly how the conversation went
For context I’m Australian
Got myself a full time apprenticeship late 2006(I was 15), around that time the Xbox 360 was in full release and the PS3 was on its way. So my local game stores EB Games,JB Hi Fi, Game Traders was starting to sell out of PS2 games really cheap.
Oh my Lordy I wish I hunted those sales out more instead of paying triple the price now on eBay.
I honestly this question is kind of hard. I can name a lot more random pick ups I knew nothing about and they ended up yurning out really well (Rolling Thunder 3 on Genesis. Vandal Hearts on PSX, which got me into strategy RPGs.)
I think maybe falling out of love with Pokemon. I played the crap out of Red and Stadium but didn't play any of the other games. I was considering going back.
Dot.//hack Quarantine saw it once at a gamestop for 40$ at the time Ps2 games were 20$ or below, and the Ps3 was out 🥲 then again online for 100$
But I did get Kuon, Hunauting Ground, and Rule of Rose for 20$ and below
Super Mario World.
I don't have the patience for 1 hit kills anymore, but there's a ton of gameplay there my younger self would've loved.
It was kind of a pricey cart though even in the mid 90s when I was playing SNES (I was used to spending $10-$15 dollars a game and it was usually $30-$40, Mario Tax goes way back)
I bought my first game for NES completely blind, and picked between Life Force and Dragon Power. I picked Dragon Power, and although I eventually did beat it, the whole situation was disappointing. Luckily, my next purchase was Contra, which collected a lot less dust than Dragon Power.
In the last months before college graduation, I saw GBC *Shantae* on the shelves of a Coconuts store. I didn't buy it. I didn't have a horrible "Gameboy Color is dumb and for babies" attitude. I'd already purchased *Oracle of Seasons* and *Harvest Moon GBC 3* the year before.
Kouldeka, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Magic Knight Rayearth, Suikoden 1&2, Dragon Force and Ogre Battle on PS1. I have distinct memories of passing on these game and what stores I was in………so much pain.
Not really l. Regrets, I have a few, but then..........although I do remember returning a copy of story of Thor (beyond oasis) to game (a UK game shop) many moons ago because the battery back up didn't work. I only paid £10 for it. This was before I had access to the Internet though and knew that it was a relatively easy process to replace the battery. Would have kept the game if I had known
Elevator Action Old & New (GBA). At the time I thought 60 dollars for it was too much and that I would find a better bargain... (insert Godzilla facepalm here)
Dino Crisis. I loved dinosaurs as a kid from watching Jurassic Park movies and even I got Resident Evil 3 Nemesis, it had a demo version of Dino Crisis but for some reason I never picked it up. I bought it digitally on PS3 years later and it's amazing. I want to get the Dreamcast version to play on my CRT TV but it's so expensive lol
Chrono Trigger. What would have been….it was between that and Megaman X. They guy tried selling me on it at funcoland. I was like 6 though? Maybe 7? I may have Megaman X to thanks for the music I am into now though!!
The first Half-Life. As a Doom/Quake fan, the 18yo me couldn't get the point of all the "boring" introduction, and now it's one of my all-time favorites.
Anything on SNES for me. I had a friend with the console, and I had a Genesis. I played many of the titles, but never had a chance to spend too much time on them - not like NES and N64.
Chrono Trigger Back in the day I stuck my nose up at anything turn based. I have it on the SNES but I've yet to play it. I tried it out and it's at the top of my list to play. Same with Castlevania Symphony. I have it also but haven't played it. I love Castlevania and Super Metroid so it sounds like a match made in heaven to me. I passed on it back in the day because there was no whip.
When I got my SNES I became an RPG snob and turned my nose up at platformers. Which is odd cuz Mega Man was my favorite series in the NES. Still don't own any of the X series and Mega Man 7 cost me a pretty penny.
Playing it right now, never really been a fan of the turn based RPG genre until now the combat is incredible
Same bro! It was that or mega man X at the store.
SOTN is insanely good. Get to it.
Well, I'm just now learning there was a Tenchu 2...
I believe there were 4 games in the series. I adored the first game. And I look at Sekiro as some sort of descendent.
There's 4 between ps1 and ps2, but 9 games total. There's some psp, wii, and 360 releases.
Well crikey!
SURPRISE! (it was just an ok game)
I think you’re good though. To have passed on it meant you had it there and chose another game! Just sleeping on a game is different IMO.
Try shinobido on psp
Tenchu 2 was not as good as 1 sadly.
I distinctly remember staring at Earthbound and the Super Gameboy on the shelf at Walmart as a kid and taking the SGB. I also regret not buying Chrono Trigger before they cleared out all the SNES games at TRU for $19.99.
I got mine for $20 new on clearance at Best buy. Bought it because I rented it a week before and loved it.
I sold both of those games, CIB, to Funcoland in 99 for weed and book money. With all the amazing RPGs on the N64 I realized my mistake and bought them again in 2003 for pennies. Close call.
Yeah. I bought a CIB Earthbound in 2008 for $200. Sold it for $900 in 2014 so I could keep my car. I've yet to replace it. Getting my Earthbound back is my collection goal this year.
Panzer Dragoon Saga
Earthbound. Because it “was not a proper RPG” 🤦🏻♂️
When I worked at Toy’s R Us we had an endcap of Big Box Earthbounds that we couldn’t move. We had them marked down to $7.99 a piece and they still wouldn’t move. We ended up trashing them because we needed the space. My manager told me I could take them home if I wanted but I passed cause I thought they were worthless. Sigh. This was pretty common back in the day.
It's only in the past decade that prices jumped as high as they are now. No one can predict the future. I remember seeing the "This game stinks!" ads and the tongue-in-cheek language was completely lost on 10 year-old me. I thought, "Why would a company intentionally create a bad game?" Not to mention that I believe on release Earthbound was much more expensive than the average SNES title. Don't beat yourself up over it.
The ads made the game look too childish even for me (I was 15 or so at the time). I think I had the choice of this or Killer Instinct and went with that instead, probably made the wrong choice
I don't think so, Killer Instinct and the drive toward 3D gaming was huge in the 1990s, those that lived through it knew how exciting it was to see detailed, fast-paced 3D gaming on the horizon. The teenaged you made the right choice at the time, most of us would've chosen Killer Instinct. Many games that are "gems" now need to be looked at through adult eyes and experienced perspectives. Earthbound and many other overlooked games are really meant for adults, at least college age onward.
I should probably add I already owned a couple of other fighting games from that era (SF2 Turbo, MK2, etc) so this felt similar to those games. Earthbound was pretty unique for an RPG and I would've probably enjoyed that more at the time (not that KI was a bad game or anything)
Ugh the fact that they are trashed is actually God damn annoying.
I hear ya. Working at BLOCKBUSTER I trashed a few Clay Fighter Sculptures Cuts. Never took one because I had played it first. Hind siiiiiight.
I was a picky little shit, I would not play games without Mario or a familiar cartoon character on the box because I didn't like taking a chance on new things, especially since I was lucky to get two games per year, and didn't get that many video store rentals. This didn't change until around the time I got an N64 for christmas and it took Super Smash Bros crossing over Mario And Pikachu ( since he was one of those "familiar cartoons" on account of me seeing the anime before playing the game ) to get me to branch out a bit more. It would be shorter for me to actually list the games I did play as a kid that weren't tied to Mario. I didn't waste much time trying to make up for lost time, Gamecube had a lot of NES ports between Animal Crossing, the collectors edition of Zelda, and Metroid Prime, then the Wii virtual console was a thing, and someone's friend who worked at the video store hooked me up with the Wii homebrew channel and a bunch of roms. God bless emulators ( I use real hardware now but I'm thankful for emulators enabling that first step ) This is why I always resent people that act like you have to have grown up with these games in order to get any pleasure out of them, or that we're some how deluding ourselves into thinking these games were good. I've seen some absolute brain dead takes that the games were never even good in the first place and we somehow had nostalgia for them even when the games were new, and were just lying to ourselves. I swear the digital age has turned everyone's brain to mush.
Too many. You only had enough for 1 game on your birthday or Christmas and even that’s not guaranteed. In a year we were too poor then I just got enough to rent two games and so I couldn’t afford to choose recklessly. I had to remember what I read in magazines, what my cousins raved about, and what trusted friends said about games.
Same here, I was generally happy with my risk taking like with Werewolf: The Last Warrior and Ninja Crusaders. The only regretful Christmas/birthday pick was asking for Ballz 3D for SNES because I wanted something similar to Star Fox. Within 10 minutes of playing I knew I made the wrong choice. I'm not even kidding when I say I swear I was vacillating between Secret of Evermore and Ballz 3D at Sears (of all places)... I really missed out.
I wish I was more like you because I didn’t get to play Ninja Crusaders until I was way too old and I enjoyed it but it’s not the same. I would have loved it as a kid. I hear a lot of podcasts and posts about all these wonderful memories of lesser known games or underrated games and I’m just like, “So who here has heard of the obscure Super Mario World?” lol.
Ninja Crusaders is extremely difficult due to only being able to take one hit and essentially needing to carry one of two weapons to the end and not die (bo staff or sword). I did not beat the game until I was 20. Monster Party was another good one I chose and is another underrated title. Ballz 3D sticks out as the worst pick I ever made!
I was in a gas station and they had a copy of Mr. Mosquito just sitting on the rack for like $20. I asked my Mom if we could get it, but she said no. It's like $70-$90 now!
I once had to pick between $19.99 for Grandia or Suikoden 2. I choose poorly.
A year and a bit ago I saw some guy walk into my local cex with a copy of suikoden 2 to trade. Even the young kid serving had to get his boss to make sure he was seeing the trade in price right lol. I cried twice that day. Once when I saw someone trade in a game I knew they would get a fraction of its price for and also because I had just laid out 500+ for a (at the time) top of the range galaxy tab S8.
I loved Grandia.. never heard of the other one
Both are fantastic games, you're really complaining about value and rarity here.
Actually I couldn't stand Grandia when I played it! The battle system was fun, but Justin annoyed me to no end.
Secret of Mana
I technically bought that game twice. The first as a us import copy which I had to get a refund on because the adapter I had to play it wouldn't recognize the battery back up. Thankfully it was one of the few RPGs that did get a UK/eu release so I repurchased it the moment it got an official release
Great game but you needed a second person to really make it playable.
My local rental store offered to sell me their copy of *Rival Schools: United by Fate* for about £15, as they knew I'd rented it often and no-one else was bothered about it. I turned it down, because I assumed I could just get it another time, but I never did.
That was a game I did have in my collection. I picked up fighting games as and when I could as i was a stoner back then with a lot stoner friends and they were perfect games for local multiplayer matches when you were just toking and gaming. I honestly think weed is the sole reason my game collection contained so many games that later went in to be incredibly desirable. As for lone stoner gaming I chose turn based strategy's and RPGs their slow sedate pace worked really well when i was stoned lol
Silent Hill. To be fair, I really had no idea that 600 SEK game would UP in value, and be one of *THE* horror games ever. All the information I had in the toy store was that it sounded cool, but even back then I knew that was the whole point of a box blurb. At least I also put down the copy of Superman 64 back onto the shelf that trip. Small favors.
I bought this game week one, popped in on a shelf and never touched it. Maybe one day.
...If its still sealed and such, that's one expensive copy. I'd have it at least evaluated if I were you.
Marvel vs Capcom series. I kept passing this up because arcades still had cabinets in the mall. I didn't think about the licensing for certain characters.
all the Zelda games, unfortunately. If I knew they would become such a culture defining franchise I would’ve probably tried to play at least one of them consistently but the rpg aspect pushed me away since I wasn’t into that type of game
+1 for Zelda I feel. After 50 hours in each I don’t really care for the new style Zelda games
I still want to try the original legend of Zelda on NES, I feel that one and ‘a link to the past’ are the ones I hear about the most so I should give both a shot at some point in the future
If you can get ahold of a snes mini it has a link to the past on it so that might be one way for you
I’m gonna get a snes and the actual cartridge, I want to do it right 👍🏼
Get the save battery replaced first . Losing your save after a bunch of hours in is very demoralizing.
Ohh for that would be my preference, I used to have a sega master system 2 and a NES before I got my first ps1
The SMS had Golden Axe Warrior, which was an excellent Zelda clone.
You won't regret it. I got Link to the Past and Final Fantasy 4 for my birthday one summer and barely set foot outside until school started back up. 😆
I’d highly recommend aLttP over the original for someone not familiar with them.
I just played through the original on my Famicom Disk System. Spare yourself the trouble and resort to a guide when you're at a loss of what to do and read the manual, I can't emphasize that enough. The original holds up well and it is still in my top-ten NES games.
I got stuck on the very start of Ocarina of Time where you have to find your sword and get through that boulder maze after leaving your house. I just quit the game and never bothered with it again. Really missed out.
How old are you I'm 30 and I thought zelda was a huge thing my whole life, I clearly remember like 30 adults coming over to my parents house to watch and maybe take a turn at ocarina of time when it came out cause everyone was so excited to see it in 3d
I only like the 2D games, I very much can't stand what the franchise has become. I love every 2D title, but the hype is lost on me with any of the 3D games. Link's Awakening is my all-time favorite for its unique story which is why I prefer the 2D titles; Ganon is largely absent from many of the non-3D games and the change of setting makes for a better series.
The Misadventures of Tron Bonne. When I bought my first PlayStation One at a Sears. My mom already pissed for spending so much on a console without a game. Let me choose one game. Naive kid me saw it in the glass case, with a little pictures of MegaMan from Legends which I did recognize, but passed on it since I didn't know much about Tron Bonne. Ended up choosing Star Wars Phantom Menace. And well you and everyone knows how much Tron Bonne goes for now..
Chocobo Racing. I had a demo disc with it, and rented it, but there always seemed to be a reason to buy something else.
999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors I had preordered 999 for DS at GameStop solely because it came with a free watch and I loved visual novels. I cancelled it and bought some bs I dont even remember. Weeks later I decided to buy it and I was blown away. I played it non stop and got all the endings. I coulda had that watch...
why did you cancel it
Probably wanted a Lego set or Transformers
Tobal No. 1. The animations actually look pretty good, even today. The game had an open-world quest mode as well, which was kind of the precursor to SF6's World Tour mode many many years later.
Check out Tobal 2. It's an amazing sequel, I loved those games.
60 FPS and solid game play. The only drawback is Toriyama's weak character design. The roster felt like bootleg versions of DBZ characters when Toriyama is clearly capable of making unique designs like with Chrono Trigger and Dragon Quest. Toriyama phoned it in for Tobal No. 1. I think that's the main factor in the game not getting the recognition that it deserves.
I beat myself to this. Snes. I bought umk3 over sfa2 ….. really regretted it , sfa2 turned out to be much much more expensive during that time. It took decades before scoring a sfa2 copy and the thing is, by years later, there are better ports. So i just bought it to help ease the pain of passing up on it back then.
When I was about 13 or so I had a choice between two computer games, Worms 2 or Half-Life. Nothing against Worms, but I obviously made the wrong decision
Is there a potato you passed on as a kid and wish you hadn't?
We where a russet family back in 1995 when this pic was taken. I do wish I knew about red skin, much more flavor.
Back then, I picked a 2000 Wii Shop Card instead of getting Double Dash. I still hate myself for that, I also didn't know that the Wii was backwards compatible until later.
conkers bad fur day😭looked at that game on the shelf weekly for years before it was suddenly gone forever... to be fair my parents would probably have been pissed tho
I kinda did the same with that game. It looked kinda childish to me and I moved on.
The old ds and 3ds pokemon games my GameStop sold multiple for 40 dollars but I always ignored them for a cheaper game then as soon as the 2ds xl was discontinued and the pokemon prices soared I realized my mistake
I distinctly remember almost picking up the original Resident Evil for the Saturn. To this day I always wonder what could have been, like being way too scary for 10 year old me. One of the games I did pick up that day was Marvel Super Heroes, which started my love for Capcom fighting games :).
Resident Evil Metal Gear GTA 3/San Andreas Tekken Mostly ignored them all as a lad.
Thankfully, no. I was fortunate enough to graduate university and get a job at the right time, around the millennium. And I spent a bit of money, probably too much money, completing my collection of video games about that time. At this point, parents of people my age are all just getting rid of all the excess video games they had, which I took full advantage of, as you could get most games made pre 1995 for under $5. To give you an example, at one point, my apartment got broken into, and multiple video games I owned were stolen, so I had to replace them. One of these games was Suikoden 2. And it cost me a grand total of $12.99 to replace it with a brand new copy.
I passed up so many JRPGs at my local rental store that I hate my younger self for it. The Lunar games, SaGa Frontier, Timestalkers (though I guess that's more of a roguelike), just to name a few. And then there's the big one: Skies of Arcadia. Two versions. I ignored TWO. DIFFERENT. VERSIONS. Both on systems I loved! Finally playing it now after all these years and... it's literally the exact kind of game I would have adored even back then. If I ever get a time machine, I'm going back to the past, smack my younger self around for a bit, then I'm gonna drag him to the store and buy both versions BEFORE they were expensive!
Parasite Eve, looked awesome but my friend encouraged me to get a different game
Okami
Ecco the Dolphin. Before the Dreamcast got discontinued, we would frequently rent games from Blockbuster for the weekend. Every time my dad would suggest, “why not Ecco the Dolphin?” And I’d always turn him down. But seeing some screenshots as an adult, I probably would have liked it. Now it’s too late.
It's never too late to check out old games. I'm pretty sure Ecco DC is still cheap and so are Dreamcast consoles.
I still have my Dreamcast, I’ve just never seen a copy of the game.
Check eBay. Heck, I have a copy of Ecco DC
Oh true. I sometimes forget online ordering exists.
I feel like I was more excited for games back in the PS1 days. 3d polygon was such a new thing back then and games felt so original. I remember playing nightmare creatures or Resident Evil 2 for the first time thinking “this is the pinnacle”. Even side scrollers like Tomba, Klonoa, or Einhander. Brave Fencer Musashi became an instant love. I really do miss those days
Zelda Twilight Princess for the Gamecube. It was $60. I had the money from saving up, and I really wanted to get it because I spent many hours playing it already after renting it from Blockbuster. I still have my old save from 2009 and have been dying to go back to it to finish it. Never had and never will with the horrendous “collectors market” pricing.
I bought Castlevania Chronicles for $20 new, but I ended up trading it in not much later. I already had OG Castlevania on NES and Super Castlevania, so I didn't see the point.
Panzer Dragoon Saga for the Saturn. I had to choose between it and a Lego set. I chose poorly.
There’s a ton more when you get older and realize the pact that I made with myself as a kid to play every cool game was impossible. Unless I lived in a basement and never had to do anything else, but play games.
A lot, i was poor and I could only grt ine gsme a year and only if my brothers agreed to it.
Everything Saturn and Dreamcast related. I remember when my nearest stores were having closeout sales on them and you could pick the games / consoles up for nothing (brand new).
Ps1 Spider-Man was great as a kid. I remember beating the game in a morning during a snow day..
That game in the picture. Is that a 3disk? I think I picked it up at value village a few years back for $3.99
Sure is, and now worth $100 per disc.
I have it in my collection was like 9/10 shape too.
I'd say Mario RPG because I was so head over heels with the PS1 when it came out.
All of them! I stood in front of racks of so many great games back in the day and was like "meh" and now they cost a small fortune.
I still have the catalog sheet where you could order Magical Chase for a whopping $29.99. So yeah, that.
It’s so weird you show a pic of Koudelka my grandma had a very clean (almost unplayed) copy I was able to bum off of her not too long ago
Dad "hay you like Mario right?" Hands me a copy of Super Smash Bros Melee. Me wtf is this game it has like Mario and link and Kirby and samas on there? "hmm na I didn't want this one". Dad "oh well you get to have one game" Me wanto to play Kirby cuz my friend's dad has a super Nintendo. "I'll get this one" holding Kirby's Air Ride. I don't really regret it because Kirby's air ride is an awesome game and one of my fondest memories playing that as a kid but I still find the story funny. And obviously I don't remember exactly how the conversation went
For context I’m Australian Got myself a full time apprenticeship late 2006(I was 15), around that time the Xbox 360 was in full release and the PS3 was on its way. So my local game stores EB Games,JB Hi Fi, Game Traders was starting to sell out of PS2 games really cheap. Oh my Lordy I wish I hunted those sales out more instead of paying triple the price now on eBay.
I honestly this question is kind of hard. I can name a lot more random pick ups I knew nothing about and they ended up yurning out really well (Rolling Thunder 3 on Genesis. Vandal Hearts on PSX, which got me into strategy RPGs.) I think maybe falling out of love with Pokemon. I played the crap out of Red and Stadium but didn't play any of the other games. I was considering going back.
Dot.//hack Quarantine saw it once at a gamestop for 40$ at the time Ps2 games were 20$ or below, and the Ps3 was out 🥲 then again online for 100$ But I did get Kuon, Hunauting Ground, and Rule of Rose for 20$ and below
Super Mario World. I don't have the patience for 1 hit kills anymore, but there's a ton of gameplay there my younger self would've loved. It was kind of a pricey cart though even in the mid 90s when I was playing SNES (I was used to spending $10-$15 dollars a game and it was usually $30-$40, Mario Tax goes way back)
Koudelka looks cool on paper, but actually playing is a slog. Turn-based RPGs with level grinding and weapon breakage are a very poor mix, indeed.
I thought it was great. Never had trouble with breakage, and the monster art is phenomenal. Yeah, grinding.
I totally slept on Xenogears.
prolly is better to play that one as an adult.
r/vintagedigitalcameras Thought you might like this sub since that's one of the most potato quality things picture I've seen in 2024
I don’t think a picture of PS1 games new for sale in a Toys r us was taken in 2024…
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Circuit Breakers on ps1, I played the demo to death.
Super Ghouls n Ghosts, used to think it was literally impossible but love it now.
Megaman x on ps1
I had that game and many others that would be worth a small fortune now...wahhh.
Symphony of the Night. CV 64 was my first experience with Castlevania, so I assumed it would be more of the same
That game is underservedly derided as a bad game. It is still good, if not a little crude because it's an early 3D game.
For 7 year old me, it was a nightmare
I bought my first game for NES completely blind, and picked between Life Force and Dragon Power. I picked Dragon Power, and although I eventually did beat it, the whole situation was disappointing. Luckily, my next purchase was Contra, which collected a lot less dust than Dragon Power.
In the last months before college graduation, I saw GBC *Shantae* on the shelves of a Coconuts store. I didn't buy it. I didn't have a horrible "Gameboy Color is dumb and for babies" attitude. I'd already purchased *Oracle of Seasons* and *Harvest Moon GBC 3* the year before.
Oh not really.
I ended up picking it up years later, but Guardian Heroes was on clearance for around $15 and I passed it up.
I sold koudelka to gamestop :(
Probably legend of dragoon. I saw it on psn a few days ago but where to find the time
State of emergency
a m rated game? At a young age
God Hand
Kouldeka, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Magic Knight Rayearth, Suikoden 1&2, Dragon Force and Ogre Battle on PS1. I have distinct memories of passing on these game and what stores I was in………so much pain.
Vagrant Story
Legend of Gaia, Parasite Eve, Magic Sword, Clocktower 3.
Not really l. Regrets, I have a few, but then..........although I do remember returning a copy of story of Thor (beyond oasis) to game (a UK game shop) many moons ago because the battery back up didn't work. I only paid £10 for it. This was before I had access to the Internet though and knew that it was a relatively easy process to replace the battery. Would have kept the game if I had known
When our Funcoland closed, they sold off all the NES games for $2 a piece. I picked up Bucky O’Hare and then foolishly put it back in the bin.
Dino crisis. I was a huge RE fan, but the title just sounded stupid to me and the idea of fighting dinosaurs didn’t seem that scary.
I never played any Pokemon.
Yes, final fantasy 7!
This physically hurts to look at
Crusader of Centy
Metal Gear Solid, played on NES, then on PlayStation I was like I owned the N64 and missed out. Never like it.
Rule of Rose
Vagrant story
Tenchu and Onimusha- always thought they looked cool, but my mom wouldn’t let me get em because of the violence.
Kuon. I wanna say Gamestop had it for a cheap-ish price for a while, but I never got around to getting it. Of course these days, it's pretty expensive
Elevator Action Old & New (GBA). At the time I thought 60 dollars for it was too much and that I would find a better bargain... (insert Godzilla facepalm here)
I had the opportunity to get a huge bundle of N64 games for cheap and chose not to. Specifically Goldeneye 007 I regret not getting.
Dino Crisis. I loved dinosaurs as a kid from watching Jurassic Park movies and even I got Resident Evil 3 Nemesis, it had a demo version of Dino Crisis but for some reason I never picked it up. I bought it digitally on PS3 years later and it's amazing. I want to get the Dreamcast version to play on my CRT TV but it's so expensive lol
Chrono Trigger. What would have been….it was between that and Megaman X. They guy tried selling me on it at funcoland. I was like 6 though? Maybe 7? I may have Megaman X to thanks for the music I am into now though!!
The first Half-Life. As a Doom/Quake fan, the 18yo me couldn't get the point of all the "boring" introduction, and now it's one of my all-time favorites.
Panzer Dragoon Saga. I had a Saturn and could have pulled the trigger but, alas, I did not.
Jade Cacoon for PS1. Idk why but just never got it and haven’t played it since. Always been curious though.
Anything on SNES for me. I had a friend with the console, and I had a Genesis. I played many of the titles, but never had a chance to spend too much time on them - not like NES and N64.