Collecting Horror stories. What are yours?

[goatlll]

I recently went and got some games out of my storage, and was reminded of a nasty thing that happened to me in regards to Alien Soldier. I wrote about it here but it's kind of long so if you want to skip it, I got a fake version of it. I would like to say that is the only time something like that happened, but it's not. So what are some of the bad things that have happened to you on the road to collecting.

[fedexin]

Just wanted to comment on the quality of your post on 1up. Tragic, but very humorous!

My horror story involves picking up a mint in box TG-16 for around $15 at a flea market 12 years ago, and tossing the packaging when I got home! Little did I know.... ugh.

[goatlll]

Just wanted to comment on the quality of your post on 1up. Tragic, but very humorous!

My horror story involves picking up a mint in box TG-16 for around $15 at a flea market 12 years ago, and tossing the packaging when I got home! Little did I know.... ugh.

Many don't even get me started on boxes.. I use to cut the front and back off of a game box, and stick them to my wall. Not to mention I threw away my Virtual Boy box cause I thought it looked ugly. O man to know then what I know now...

[final fight cd]

but about a year ago trading in an absolute mint CIB copy of castlevania to my local retro store for only a few dollars. by few dollars i mean 3 or 4. i don't care about boxed nes games, and at the time i wasn't a member of this forum, and i didn't want to deal with ebay. so i took my 3 dollars and ran.

not really a horror story, but i wish i wouldn't have let it go for 3 dollars.

[Beak]

Yeah. I think everyone's first horror story starts with chucking boxes and packaging for games or selling all your valuable Saturn/PS1/SNES games for the next big console. "Hur, hur. I won't need these!"

[winds]

I've probably got a few, but the one I regret on a regular basis is seeing quite a few new copies of Suikoden II at walmart (possibly zellers) in a bin for $20. At the time, and still is, it was my absolute favourite game. I still hadn't officially owned it so I told myself i'd come back in a week and buy it. 7 days later I went back and every single copy was gone.

[RokstaEnSweden]

The most horrific thing I ever did in my inexperience was selling my entire collection of NES and SNES games/systems/accessories. I was young and stupid, and figured now that I had the playstation and with my recent discovery of emulators, I would never need these dinosaurs of physical media again..

Boy, was I wrong. Fast forward 10 years and I've sunk quite a bit of time and money trying to get it all back. Naturally, having a lot more money in my old age, I've amassed more retro games then I ever dreamed of as a kid, but there are still some things I haven't been able to get back yet and it will haunt me until I do.

[DonSilvestre]

I'm STILL pissed to this day about the following story.

I frequented a select Wisconsin Goodwill store while I was in High School and College. Didn't usually hit any kind of jack pot there, but often found NES games for between 2 -4 dollars. 4 dollars is often too much to pay for trash NES games, but I scored Battletoads and some other good games there for that price. After awhile they started putting game cartridges in their glass case, but the price stayed the same.

One day I walk into said Goodwill store. I peer into the glass case and cannot believe my eyes.

There sat a copy of BUBBLE BOBBLE 2. I flipped out. I excitedly asked the employee to open the case so I could see the nes games. I pull the cart out of its sleeve to look at the price tag on the back:

$88.00!!!!!!

I practically threw the stupid thing across the store. It wasn't in great shape and didn't have instructions, and Goodwill had the nerve to charge $88.00 for it. Since then I've noticed more and more thrift stores looking up prices on games and stuff - and it's starting to really take some of the fun out of searching for games in the wild. I'm 99% sure I will never see Bubble Bobble 2 in the wild ever again - and I will forever hold a grudge against Goodwill stores for the emotional trauma of seeing that price tag. *sigh*

[Jrecee]

I was recently informed that Panzer Dragoon Saga is not a crap game and is worth a lot of money.

[fedexin]

Oh yea, another one; I missed a call from a buddy at another flea market, telling me he saw a Neo-Geo AES (no cables, no controller, but still...) for $10. Called him back an hour later, it was gone. The horror.... the horror.