When Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire first came out I bought Pokemon Ruby from a little shop. At first I didn't realised it was a pirate cartidge expecially since they sold it at the price of an original game. I should suspect it from the little washed-out colors of the package. Years later when I decided to resume playing it the save was lost. I played it again from the beginning but days laters the new save have been lost as well. When that happened and talked about it on a forum I realised it was a pirate cartidge. Unfortunately this shop has been closed. If it was still opened I would sue them at the greek agency of Nintendo. After this event I felt like a huge, idiot, fucking noob. :banghead: And I wasn't even a little kid (I was in college back then). Fortunately I haven't made any other stupit mistake like that.
How so? Linux is pretty sweet. The only time I find it gives me problems is when hardware isn't supported. But these days it works it almost just about anything out of box.
I know a place that has it for 400, in box. It's the same place I get most of my NES games and GI Joes. ...well, got my Joes, till the lady had me sell them off.
Most games I buy for my iPhone. I rarely ride the train now, so never play them. I even bought Tron Legacy for $0.99 the other day just to see what it was like. I'll probably never play it again.
Boktai for the GBA when there is no sunlight... Its rather annoying. Plus its winter.. There is no sun.
Then this game must be selling failure in UK. So next time you visit Greece for vacations bring this game with you (no, I'm not promoting vacations in Greece).
Black light+LED flashlight. Problem solved. Seriously, not a real problem since we have the artificial light thing down just fine. Let me know when you buy a game that requires you to go faster than the speed of light.
got into a bidwar on yahoo over an arcade kit and paid $1000 for a $200 game so.. umm yeah.. got it sitting on my shelf collecting dust too, had it for about 2 years and never bothered to even play it. more money than sense i guess :shrug:
Worst buying mistake: PS3 60GB European launch.... Don't know what i had in mind when i gave 700€ to Sony. I bought it with Def Jam hip hop game. Unfortunetely, it had nothing in common with previous releases of the game. I liked very much the fighting style of the previous games of the serie, not very complicated but very fun. Very fun wasn't a good word to describe the PS3 version of the serie. Played it for like 2-3 hours max, downloaded a few demos from PSN and left my PS3 turnt off for like 1 or 2 months afterwards. I did get a few games for the PS3 after: Burnout (total crap), Everybody Golf Jap (doesn't work as well as on PSP), Unreal tournament (only game i really played with wipeout), GTAIV (kind of fun at the begining, was quickly boring tought) and Wipeout. So for like 4 years of PS3 own, i only turned it on for like 1 month.... Why did i purchased the PS3? Because of those wonderfull consoles that were PS1 and PS2. And the best for the end: i bought NFS: Hot Pursuit like 2 weeks ago. Played it like 3 hours MAX and my PS3 now can't play disc anymore: the laser seems to be dead like on most early PS3 models. Kind of ironic. If the thing didn't play BluRay, i would have sold it after repair very quickly. To my surprise, i was completly against Wii concept at launch and found out that this is the console i play the most for this gen after buying it from Ebay at a very low price lately. I will never ever spend any more money on Sony from now on.
lol what? Now I really wanna know what game you are talking about. It's not Change Air Blade, is it? I watched that one when it was up.
Being talked into buying Grand Theft Auto IV when I knew it wasn't my type of game. All of the hype and pressure from friends got me to pick it up on launch day. I think I've played a half-hour of it.
Bomberman 64 (jap import) - We all loved SNES Bomberman with the battle mode. Unfortunately, and to everyone's surprise, Hudson totally fucked up the N64 version, attempting to take the game in a new direction (basically the game was now an isometric 3D 'adventure game' - and the battle mode looked like a poorly written afterthought.) I probably paid around 50 or 60 GBP at the time and felt pretty gutted... but then I took the machine to uni and, quite literally, for months I was locked into the 1 player adventure game. It had me puzzled... I could only get 'so far' into the game on each level, then I would hit a brick wall. About two or three years later (by chance) I found out that if I had bothered to 'keep tapping' the 'A' button I could make bigger bombs and get past obstacles, doors, enemies, etc. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry! I really should go back and finish it one day. It's still my best/worst gaming purchase.
this game was boring as hell. My worst buying mistake? Bought handful of rare dreamcast games from local auction site. Seller described discs as 'mint condition' - after I received my games I wanted to beat down this fu:dammit:head - every disc was scratched to death..
Tony Hawks: Shred only had it a few days but already i am beginning to not like it. I mean the idea is great but the game seems boring and uninteresting along with the fact that using the board to do more than a few basic tricks is a bit of a challenge.
I guess this could count as a 'buying' mistake. Way way back my local HMV was selling about 100 copies of Chu Chu Rocket for the DC at 10p each. In hindsight I should have bought them all just for the cases.
GTA The lost and Dammed on xbox live market. Sure the game might be good and all but i didn't realise that only the Episode's from liberty city collection on disc don't require GTA IV and that the downloads from the Xbox live market require it. If only i had know then i would have just spent the £19.99 on the original GTA IV rather than buying points for a game i cannot play at the moment.
