So...what is the most expensive game you have ever bought?

[corn619]

My strategy is to buy games I think will have a low print run cheaply and just watch them gain or maintain value.

This is the same method that I've adopted.

Has this strategy really worked? What games have you gotten on the cheap that are worth more now?

Samurai Shodown Anthology, Yakuza series, Shin Megami Tensei series, Fatal Frame series, a bunch of SRPGs I bought cheap, MGS3 LE, Silent Hill series, Rez, Shadow Hearts, Fire Fighter F.D 18, Ico, Mister Mosquito, ZOE 2 all for PS2 have gone up in value and I found most of them for $20 or less. My Xbox collection hasn't aside from Steel Battalion. Also, just about all of my Gamecube collection has gone up. Its all about timing, patience and research.

[RCBH928]

Back in '98 or so , I had a modded psx. And for once I wanted an original game, and I really really loved Casper the movie(it was amazing for its time)+I was like 13 maybe. I bought Casper for psx for a WHOPPING price of $120 retail!! I still got the CD, amazingly it survived although I never cared to store it, and I WILL PLAY IT!
I never passed 2nd level.

I want to add that my country is tax free, so all that money is because the businessmen are greedy bastards.
(Honestly, a lot of the stuff here is ordered from outside and they just 2x the price)

[JC48573]

i also buy cheap games that go up in value and most of them happen to be japanese games.

[lisalover1]

I once bought Magic Knight Rayearth [Saturn] for $100, new and sealed. Totally worth it.

[nate]

MGS 3, the limited edition with the cinematics on an additional disk
Panzer Dragoon Saga (it's expensive but I got it cheap )

[Jrecee]

$65 for Gex 64 when it first came out. I remember N64 games being really expensive at first too. $79 for shadows of the empire at toys r us.

Since then I think the most I've spent has been $60 for new 360 games. Used/Old games I don't think I've spent more than $50 which was on burning rangers.

[hashiriya1]

$180.00 for Shinrei Jusatsushi Taromaro.

[Breetai]

Oh... I just thought of one!

Hot Shots Golf 4 (JP version). It was about $600 in 2007, but it came with a 60GB PS3 (or did it the PS3 come with the game?)

[Hateshinai]

Never more than about US$50 for a game. That was for GTA 4 and GTA:SA for the PC.
Having said that I did pay more to be able to play one particular game as God intended; namely Samurai Shodown 2. I bought an MVS board, a Supergun, a NeoGeo stick and the SS2 cart. Then the MVS board died so I had to buy a replacement. In all, including postage I paid probably somewhere in the region of US$400.

And I still suck at Samurai Shodown...

[fastbilly1]

$250 for Marvel vs Capcom competition cabinet. Turned around and sold it a few days later for $400, but that is another story.