/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8540238
Sounds like you need a good dose of "Just emulate, bitch."

>>8540341
fpbp

>>8540238
>$250 on a 18 year old GPU.

>>8540341
>poster #2342345234324 still thinks people on this board dont already know emulation is a thing and feels the primal need to spout off about it

>>8540459
But he's clearly poster #8540341

>>8540341
bu if i emulate how can i feel better than you poors? i love the smug feel of playing on OG hardware

In 2008 I sold about 20 gba games for something like $1 each to go buy some groceries

>>8540238
>gave away most of my GB/GBC/GBA carts to friends in highschool around '17 (graduating year)
>never got into Gamecube bc most of the party games I wanted to play my friends had
>now that most of them moved away I'd like to have them just for nostalgia (and to occasionally play with the GF)
>passed up way too many cheap PS1 games because I wasn't into the system at the time
>had the opprotunity to get a substantial collection of SNES games at a yard sale once but didn't pull the trigger because they had a tape deck I wanted (really nice 3 head Kenwood deck with auto bias so that I don't feel as bad about)

I got in on N64 collecting right before that got expensive around '14 so at least I didn't miss the boat on that.

>>8540238
>getting into collecting too late
>collecting
to anybody who collects for the sake of building a collection, please kill yourself

>>8540341
>Sounds like you need a good dose of "Just emulate, bitch."

>>8540238
I saw Panzer Dragoon Saga at an EB Games for $70 new a long time ago. I didn’t buy it. I thought that was too expensive at the time.

Only real regret is donating a nice CRT graphics monitor thinking I could just get another one since i had randomly happened upon this one too, so surely there are more out there. Then while I was gone it seems the wheels of the world kept turning and I wasn't on the bus, and so I've never seen another one again.

Similar regret but modern, I bought a gsync monitor back when they were new and it was cash. Got the upgraded replacement only to learn they took out the 3D support. Still angry because I'm one of the rare few who likes 3D TV and games.

I've gotten rid of stuff here and there that was not sold for high price or that would be worth way more now, but why obsess over it? Shit's in the past, gotta focus on the future.

This socom glitch i encountered.
I turned into an orb and warped .
So werid.

https://streamable.com/g9mc0q

I sold almost all of my Gamecube games before the market became utterly fucked
I'm just glad Wii USB loading and Dolphin are as reliable as they are because god what a sting

I regret buying a small screen pvm.
Its only worth it if you have one with a bigger screen.
I always hated small screens and mine is like 9 inches
Its not worth it just to see le epic image quality.

>>8540341
Emulation is soulless and is for fedora-tippers like yourself. I'd rather play on actual hardware.

>>8540786
>soulless
Why do retards spout this subjective bullshit like it means anything at all. Literal NPC level thinking.

>>8540667
i kinda started really liking small CRTs if I have them set up properly, like at a small desk and using them for 2D stuff like Famicom or microcomputers.

Regrets:
-letting my dad throw out my original NES when it started getting the blinking light
-not going ass-deep into Saturn collecting when I got one off of someone I knew who was selling it to buy a Dreamcast. Got some nice games with it, but didnt buy any of the cool jap shit I knew existed at the time.
-tripping on a shitty sidewalk while trying to get to somewhere fast and chipping my GBA Micro's faceplate, dropping a flashlight on my Intellivision and denting it, my GameGear falling out of my dads van when I got out onto some rocks, just various fuck ups cosmetically damaging my stuff.
-Got a Vectrex without a controller for free. had a chance to get a complete system for 100$ at my local game shop and passed on it when I could have gotten a controller that way and had a back-up system.
-Putting back the copy of Chibi-Robo I was going to buy and getting Unlimited SaGa instead.
-really, really wanted a 64 Disk Drive back in the early 2000s and kept looking at them on ebay, but just never decided to buy one.
-Not buying the Hori GameBoy Player controller for 12$ when at the New York Nintendo World Store.
-dicking around and not preordering the RPGs that Super Fighter Team released before they cut off the preorder date.
-buying Segagaga when if i had waited a week later I could have gotten the special edition box set version for like 10$ more.
-not getting the CDi Nintendo games back in the 90s when I was aware of them. (have them now, but still missing Faces of Evil)
-not tracking down more Game&Watch games in the late 90s when I started getting nostalgic for LCD games

Basically most of my regrets were caused due to my mindset of "il just find it someday for cheap at a thrift store or yard sale" and not utilizing the internet to buy stuff in the late 90s/early 2000s except for random things.

>find Earthbound at thrift store for $5.99
>give it away to friend for free, because I already own a copy and he loves JRPGs
>he lends it to someone in college
>said person moves out of state that weekend
>my friend was in his late 20s at the time

How can he be so fucking stupid? If I knew he was going to be a retard like that, I wouldn't have even bought the fucking game.

>>8540818
Hori gameboy player controller would be so cool to have. No one wants to pay the price for it now.

>sold most of my collection on eBay between 2013 and 2018
mostly games, some handheld systems but my logic was that I could play it all via emulation or backups. I made a couple grand but these days it would've be worth $10k or more.
>donating CRT TVs/monitors that I didn't have space for
when moving between a bunch of tiny rentals. Should've stored them at a family members place or something, oh well.

Luckily all this barely matters, I have nice consumer TVs, a functional CRT PC monitor and ways to play backups on all my consoles now, all I'm losing out on is a nice shelf of rare games to brag about. and the nostalgia of having the carts I played as a child.

>>8540471
I don't think 0.1% of earth's population has once posted on /vr/. There are likely multiple anons with 20,000+ posts here

>>8540238
My parents gave away all of my childhood games & systems. Tons of N64, GBA, NDS, and PS1 games, many of which are pretty rare & expensive nowadays (like Pokémon Emerald)

>>8540595
>had the opprotunity to get a substantial collection of SNES games at a yard sale once but didn't pull the trigger because they had a tape deck I wanted (really nice 3 head Kenwood deck with auto bias so that I don't feel as bad about)
going to be honest, the tape deck is way more valuable than SNES games in terms of practical value, especially as time goes on. Don't feel too bad about that one.

>have GB with bunch of games
>have subscription to NP starting with issue 16
>have friend from church who's also big into videogames
>he even has some 200-in-1 multicart(back in the early 90's, they weren't as well known back then)
>he gets SNES on launch, I'm still on the NES until about 95
>gets FF2 and gets stuck somewhere(IIRC, he was stuck on the mirror fight, didn't realize you aren't supposed to kill yourself)
>I let him borrow issue #29 or #30, the one that had FF2 info
>in exchange, I ask for his copy of Metroid 2 on GB
>he moves away and doesn't bring my magazine back
>forever have a hole in my collection, but I got Metroid 2 out of it so not an entire loss
>5-6 years later, lose my entire collection of NP magazines in a move, have no idea where they went
Had the first 12 issues, 16 to the missing issue, and from there all the way to 114 or so before I cancelled my subscription since I went PSX and no longer had any use for a Nintendo focused mag. Makes me glad they are all on the internet now, I figured I would never see them again.

Brother lost a couple of my GBA carts from back in the day, namely Metroid Fusion, Aria of Sorrow, and Yoshi's Island. Ended up rebuying Aria and Fusion back in the mid 2010s. And thank god I did, because I paid around 10-20 for each when they now go for over 100

>>8540845
They would be cool, but I don't see the point nowadays whe you can just get an inexpensive adapter for a SNES pad and you're good to go

>>8541413
>omg $100!!!!

poor

>8541429
bait

>>8540238
I miss being able to buy games for $1~$5. If I had known there would be a boom in retro shit, I would have kept the games and saved up money instead of trading in the ones I thought I was done with. Same thing with vinyl record collecting, cause old people would die in the neighborhood and their rock music collection would wither away in the rain on the street or kids would use them like frisbees. One time an Atari 2600 with a shit ton of games was thrown away and I considered it old people shit so I walked away from it. Some kids set the box on fire and smashed anything that did not melt. I wanna bet a lot of us think back to those days and physically shrivel up like a raisin thinking about all the shit we could have kept and made money on in today's market.

>>8540950
No kidding, I paid 50$ for mine. That was high for a tape deck 5 years ago, but I knew what I was looking for. A big pro to having a high end deck is when you get your hands on a really rare tape that's moldy, shedding or worn out you can re-record it to a decent blank and swap the tape.

>>8541450
Yup, I was buying a bunch of Tascam/Yamaha 4 track recorders around 2016 and I'm glad I still have them. It's crazy how much of a resurgence tape has had, I wish I had a 3 head deck like that for exactly what you're saying, maybe someday.

>>8540238
not taking care of my ttyd disc (or any of my gamecube games). i was so retarded i actually physically bit one once out of sheer frustration :'D

>>8541450
You pretty much have to buy old, a lot of modern tape decks record in mono and also don't have Dolby features.

>>8541470
Competition is fierce these days. I've found decent 2 head decks with Dolby C and bias fine tuning on the front at thrift stores. Seems most of the 3 head decks get snatched up quick. Internally bias it to TDK D's and then fuck with the fine tune for any other tapes. It is a pain in the ass to bias a tape on a 2 head deck with all the test tones, rewinding, fast forwarding, etc but you can do it. Best of luck anon.

>>8541419
Didnt know that existed. Thanks.

>>8540527
If you really want to lord it over the poors, you have to get into Pinball.

>>8540621
I threw out a commodore 1084 monitor because it stopped working, probably an easy fix. I used to play a heap of tate saturn games on it so wonder if that caused it.

I threw out 2 barely used crt's that I had brought brand new, I just assumed these things would always be easy to get and they had what I would now consider pretty minor problems. Its worse knowing that the ones you can get now are pretty worn.

>>8540238
Missed out buying terranigma on snes for $10 when I was a kid because I lent my parents my money for smokes.

>>8540942
My parents threw a heap of my computer stuff away when I moved out, 486 mostly. They didn't need the room, they were just nosey.

I still have my childhood games in good condition, I think kids that destroyed their games were spoiled.

I might as well have been on house arrest for all of 2020 because I don't have my own car and I my mom stopped letting me borrow hers during the initial covid histeria. I live out in rural country too and taxi's aren't a option for picking me up at home.

Took me a while to realize I had to stop checking local ads for game stuff because I just couldn't go out and pick anything up due to that. There was a real fucking bad one where I found a listing by some old boomer that was obviously cleaning out their kids bedroom or something and was trying to unload a fucking goldmine of gamecube stuff for only 200$.
It was like the console, 3 controllers, 2 memcards, a GB player+disc, Wind Waker, The Zelda Collector's disc, Twilight Princess, Mario Sunshine, TTYD, Animal Crossing, both Metroid Primes, Pokemon XD, Melee and a couple other 3rd party games.
But I just could not convince my old woman to lend me her car keys no matter what I did so I had to let it go. After that I realized I just needed to stop checking things.

Made me really think about just getting my own car but I wouldn't use it enough to be worth it since I just walk everywhere I need to be. Thankfully now my mom's jaded and redpilled about the pandemic so I'm back to using her car when I need it even though things are way worse now than they were back when she was hysterical over it.

>>8540341
Holy fucking based emuchad.

>>8542172
>emuchad

>>8542178
Yep, a post that makes pussies twist after 12 hours couldn't be anymore chaddesque.

>>8540818
Ok the Vectrex part hurt my fucking soul.

Had a chance to get a nice condition Vectrex and like 10 or some games CIB for around 400$ at a pawn shop as soon as the 1st pandemic check went out. Should've just grabbed it.

I have bad luck with Vectrex shit actually. Necked the crt of one not long ago. That alone is about $100+ in today's market.

>>8540238
>Let friend borrow original copy of ff7
>She trades it to someone for a bag of weed
>Didn't smoke any with me either.
>Around same time another friend borrowed my gamecube with games
>Moves to new place
>Gets rando dude to help him
>Gives rando my gamecube and games for payment

The real piss off about these was more the fact that the rest of my friends saw nothing wrong with these two trading away my shit and that they owe me nothing when I asked for them to get my shit back or pay me for it.

>had every Pokemon game for Game Boy Color along with my Pokemon branded Game Boy Color itself
>have my entire collection in a game case
>leave it on a bus once
>no longer own any way to play video games whatsoever and just lost my collection of Pokemon games and my precious files
you know... that happens... but it really hurt

>>8542867
I had a friend rip a page out of my majoras mask players guide i loaned him so he could use it for an art project, said i was over reacting when i got mad and didnt apologize, so i stole one of his mario party games.

>>8542867
Shit like this makes me fucking furious. If I were you, there would be two dead retards and I would be serving a life sentence

>rented Paper Mario from Blockbuster while visiting my dad
>leave and nobody remembers to bring back the game
>come back months later and my dad tells me about how those assholes at Blockbuster are lying about him owing some shit he doesn't owe them
>find Paper Mario cartridge and decide that I own it now and Blockbuster was the sacrifice that needed to be made
>deface cartridge to remove all Blockbuster insignia so my dad won't find out
>that Blockbuster closes down like a year later
>lose game like a retard at some point and have to buy another copy

>>8542913
pain peko

>lose copy of hey you pikachu
>become so upset that my dad drives down to funcoland and buys a second copy for $40
>find my first copy the next day
>still have both

>>8542867
>trades it to someone for a bag of weed
>Gives rando my gamecube and games for payment
>friends saw nothing wrong with these two
That's either some rich kid shit or some hood shit. Probably hood shit, they knew your weak ass wouldn't do anything. Friends knew it was wrong but they saw your dumb ass as being more wrong for not being smarter.
>they owe me nothing when I asked
Yeah, hood shit. Should have publicly whooped their asses or jacked some shit from their houses. I'm not saying that's the morally correct thing to do, but it is the correct shit to do for hoodrats.
>sauce
Grew up in the hood.

Or maybe you were just a little bitch.

>Mom's best friend had two kids, both older than me
>Kinda a poorer family
>Stay the night with them, bring my N64 and all my games, rent smash bros, have a good night.
>Straight from there I go to stay the night at another friend's house.
>Decide to leave all my games at Mom's friend's house because my friend has mostly the same games I do.

>The next day when I come back, all of my games were missing.
>Everyone tells me I took them to my friend's house
>Even my mom doesn't seem too concerned about my N64 collection going missing.

For a long time after that, all I had was Bomberman Hero because I had lent that to another friend and he returned it.

Another regret:
>Gave my GBC collection to my grandmother's friend's grandkid because I had a GBA by then and she asked me to, because he didn't have any games for himself.

>>8540826
Pipe down

>>8540238
Selling shit just for it to quadruple or more in value over the course of 5 years. Selling my PlayStation 2 collection back in 2016 was the worst thing I could have done.

My dad leaving my model 1 Sega Genesis with the model 2 CD when we moved in the old place still really pisses me off. It was my first console too. I just hope it didn't end up in a landfill and that it got well taken care of.

>>8540238
When me and my younger brother got our PSone, the only two games we had for a while were Gran Turismo and TOCA1. And one gamepad.
And I would convince him to let me drive so that he could act as the co-pilot calling turns. I really feel bad to this day about that for some fucking reason even though its dumb kid shit.

>>8540238
> the year is 1997
> i am 7 years old
> playing on my first Famiclone console
> currently have only Mario Bros, Karnov and TMNT Fighters
> mom says she will buy me a new cartridge
> we go to the store
> seller demonstrates Captain America and Avengers on tv
> i am watching intro cutscene
> thinking it's a gameplay
> not sure how to play it
> seller shows Super Mario Bros 3
> shows a world map screen
> I am not even realizing it's Mario
> thinking world map is somehow a main gameplay
> not sure how to play it
> not picking any new game at all, leaving's the store
> mom's angry at me
> I just missed one of the most important NES games, and a rare famiclone cart without knowing it
> I have yet to realize I'm a complete fucking moron

>>8543498
ah the sweet memories of 90s famiclones and having to pester your neighbor to constantly resolder your controllers

fun times

>>8543498
>Mario Bros.
This pic or Super Mario Bros?

>>8543510
Yeah, this one

>>8543550
What country did you live in 1997?

>>8543483

That could be fun though. Did he have fun?

The parents in these threads generally seem to deserve death by poisoning

>>8543409
Damn I can imagine that sting.

Not that it helps any but bomberman hero is a pretty decent game with a killer soundtrack

Ive gotten over it, I'm not some fucking coomlector. Had good and bad trades

Traded Sonic & Knuckles for Marsupilami on GEN (yea)
Traded MK Gameboy for Pokemon Silver (hell yea)
Let someone borrow my copy of Beyblade PS1 (it got stolen)
Borrowed a friend's MK Trilogy (I literally sat on it and broke the disc lmao)

20 years ago I sold misadventures of tron bonne at a garage sale in a lot of other rare games for less than 40 dollars.

I wish my parents would have told me to not do it. I will never get over it and I only try to forget.

>>8540786
we focus on the soul, the eternal rom, you focus on the yellowing plastic corpse

Anyone had based friends that would give you their old games?

I miss those times...

>>8540595
Do you miss out on everything in your life? Talk about bad calls

My regret
>selling all my N64 games 7 years ago
>not getting more games 7 years ago
Held on to most my stuff. I have a huge NES collection, so I’m happy with that

>>8544504
I have it worse
>Get the 1st print Tron ni Kobun with the demo straight from Japan on release
>Literally am such a baka Gaijin can't have fun my jap is so poor when I was a teen
>Sell it on ebay for $30, bought it for $70
>It now sells for 1 gorillion.

>>8545593
Dumbass

>>8544650
That yellow plastic is gonna outlive your hard drive.

>>8540786
Based.

>>8540667
I could see the 9" ones being somewhat worthwhile back when they went for like 30 bucks total even on ebay, but yeah, they're just too small. 13-14" is my lower limit, those are good for desktop setups. But if you have any kind of couch setup 20" or greater is really necessary. I'm lucky to have found my models years back when they were more common and at cheap prices rather than dealing with pvmeme scalper jews

>>8545568
>Do you miss out on everything in your life?
/vr/ related, yes other than N64, a handful of PS1 games, PS2 and Xbox.

Other turbo autist hobbies, I made out like a fucking bandit. See>>8541450

>>8545593
Ok bud ill bite, wtf is this? I looked on ebay and don't see the grorillion dollar version you mentioned but am genuinely curious what game/version you are talking about

>>8545318
a neighbor of mine i became close with for a summer gave me a bunch of their old wrestling games for n64, most of them were shit but one of them was wcw vs nwo world tour, a very based game indeed. they also gave me their copy of super smash bros since it didn't save anymore. used to spend hours unlocking every character and resetting the game and doing it again
good shit neighborbro

>>8540238
I skipped on buying several neo geo aes games because they were expensive
Suprise suprise
Also missed out on buying a sealed gamecube mario kart pack for $60

There was a listing in my area a couple years back for an "Xbox TV", it looked kino but I think I was hesitant to pay like $50 for it and drive over an hour to retrieve it so I let it go. Now I wish I had that thing I bet it was fucking kino

>>8547678
Based indeed. Friend gave me road rash for n64, didn't play it till like a year later. The black cartridge and fire with chains on the label made me think it was a wrestling game.

Imagine my surprise when it turned out to be a fucking motorcycle melee game

>>8547724
How were aes games distributed back then? Catalogs? Tell your story if there is one

>>8547728
I love how there still hardware out there that I never knew existed. Thanks senpai

>>8540238
Definitely getting into it too late. I dont necessarily collect but I want to play the actual game on the actual console and doing that with games like Symphony of the Night is a nightmare.

>>8542048
Kill yourself

>>8548140
i just played symphony of the night on PS4,cost me 6 bucks and also came with rondo of blood if i remember correctly.
sucks that i cant play it on a crt but still better than paying 2 hundred bucks.

>>8540786
>>8544650
Holy fuck why does this board keep beating this dead horse? Some of you neckbeards emulate, some of you neckbeards collect rotting plastic. Who gives a shit?

>>8540238
Every time I let my cousin borrow one of my n64 games it came back not working or fucked up. So I would "borrow" his games and keep them. He got mad about it and I just played stupid.

>>8549480
Neutral good

>>8540238
I started collecting big box PC games just this year, I wish I still had the ones I owned as a kid, I really wish I had Majesty and Dungeon Keeper the most still.
My biggest problem is I live in New Sealand and because of that I can basically tell that some old games have probably never come to my country, like I know I'm not going to ever find a copy of Warwind or it's sequel, and importing a copy is like $50 just for shipping, it's ridiculous.

>>8549476
plastic doesn't rot, it's kind of a problem

>>8545593
the Japanese version is very affordable currently

>>8540238
>Retro video game shit you can't get over.

People paying $50 just to wait 12 months for 12 n64 games

>>8550874
>paying money to wait for Nintendo games
now that’s an experience that never goes out of fashion

>>8540238
>5th grade, we’re having an epic Pokemon tournament (Red/Blue Era), I’m in the semi finals
>Have this decked out Aerodactyl I got from the glitch of swimming up and down the shore, I somehow glitched out his health to be at 250 HP (the health bar literally went across the screen)
>Before the game I try to send some Pokemon to a friend using the 1 side trade trick (turning off your GBC before leaving the trade, so your buddy gets the Pokemon but you retain it yourself)
>Turn my GBC back on and my entire game is completely erased forever)

R.I.P. GODZILLA, you were my greatest creation

>>8551389
You got what you fucking deserved.

>>8551389
Interesting. I suppose this does pertain to the topic.

I'll contribute with a related story. I was very young, bored in the car. Thought it was a good idea to fold up a gum wrapped (foil one one side, wax like paper on the other, JuicyFruit?) And stick it into my pokemon blue cartridge. Then proceeded to put in in my gba and turn it on. It erased all of my data and I just remembered being so upset I just sat the and looked at that new game text for minutes in silence

>>8540375
>those fans
What the fuck?

My entire collection was thrown into a dumpster

>>8552263
Ok but tell us more nigga

>>8540238
>getting into collecting too late
That's the biggest one. I could've had a pretty sizeable collection, even with my minimum wage pay if I started when I was 18; which was 13 years ago. The second thing is letting my grandma convince me that I should cut the fronts and backs off of all my n64 and genesis boxes to save space on the entertainment center, since the game's all that really matters. We probably cut up like forty something boxes. I still have them in a ziplock bag somewhere.

>>8540238
A bought Rescue Rangers for the NES from a friend for like $5 allowance money. Apparently he wasn't supposed to sell it because he later told his mom that I had stolen it, and my mom gave it back to them.

I beat the shit out of him

>>8540238
Repair/refurbished market is fucked.

I want to buy some cheap broken shot and fix it.

Ohbsorry it costs $100 for broken shit, and $100 for tested working good suit.

What the fuck

>>8540238
-Letting friends from high school borrow games and then falling out of touch and never getting them back. I've lost FF2, Ehrgeiz and Super Mario RPG to this. Not expensive games but it pisses me off.
-I bought a X1900XT when it was first released around 2005/2006 for something like $650 CAD to play Oblivion and I paired it with a CPU that bottlenecked it because I'm a dumbass. I still have the card but it's now a paperweight and it's the reason I almost never buy anything new.
-I threw away some N64 controllers with loose sticks back when I was too stupid to realize I can fix my electronics myself
-My parents gave away my Sega Genesis. It had video problems so they took it to someone to look at. He said it was busted. I later on got another Sega Genesis from someone else and tried the original A/V cables on it, and it was the cables that were fucked and I'm pretty sure the console worked fine.
-I left a complete collection of Nintendo Power and player's guides for a shitload of games, including Earthbound, at my old bedroom at my mom's house. Out of spite she threw them all in the garbage. This one actually hurts with worst and makes me rage when I think about it, because of the nostalgia and also they were worth a lot of money.

Aunt cleaned my house and tossed my Earthbound box out

I still have the game but that cardboard is really expensive now >:|

>>8540649
>mfw sold most if not all my old vidya
>Yet still kept the consoles
Somewhat a blessing, a curse and extreme luck.

my fucking crackhead uncle breaking into the fucking basement and stealing all the PS2 games I had since I was grounded for a day and that's where my dad put them

>>8553359
Dude did you have a fat neighbor kid that always came over just to play your ps2?

>>8553126
when my dad moved while i was away he just threw away my fzero x box like what the fuck
he also dumped his vast collection of vhs tapes which has haunted me ever since

>>8554237
>vhs tapes

And nothing was lost

>>8553359
a few days ago i think i read something about anon's dad came to his school and told that his uncle stole some stuff from their home.
among the stolen stuff were anon's console and his game collection.

>>8540238
That asshole still has my DK 64 cart. I should really just ask for it back. I wish I never let that dumbass borrow my game. I would kick his ass too because he is a total short guy.

>>8554314
yeah, except the contents of the tapes? this is like saying "oh you just lost all those hard drives, who cares"

>>8554471
You didn't exactly specify what was on the tapes. When anyone here hears VHS you best believe they're thinking shitty old movies.

Vhs generally came with something on them while hdds/ssds so not. Bad comparison but I feel you pain now that you kinda explained.

>parents lost the cases for all my DS/3DS games while moving
>was out of town at the time so I couldn't keep an eye on my stuff
I'm lucky I kept all the carts in the travel case with my DS, would've most it if all my games just disappeared like that
The one that hurts the most is the box for my copy of Soulsilver, it has some sentimental value since that's the first game I bought online and I kept the box & inserts in immaculate condition. Not like I'm gonna sell it but I'm still pissed

>>8540923
Anon, you are fucking shit at math.

>>8540238
Could've bought Terranigma when I was younger. Remember seeing it on the shelves alongside Super Ghouls 'n' Ghosts. It looked so fucking sick, but I knew GnG had a good reputation. My dad would only let me choose one and I decided to go with Super GnG. I love it and remember spending all month trying to beat it, however it would have been better if I picked up Terranigma, as it is so rare and acclaimed by SNES fans. I also would've played it without the hype of knowing what I was getting into, which would've lead to me enjoying my experience so much more.

>>8556672
even if you only lost movies you still lose shit kek.
>When anyone here hears VHS you best believe they're thinking shitty old movies.
yeah if you're an actual child

In 2004 I traded my copy of Crash Bandicoot 2 for a friend's copy of Pokemon Crystal.
So that was a pretty good trade.

>>8558204
Maybe he thew out your vhs tapes cuz you're retarded. Vhs doesn't = blank media by default anon.

Did you ever go into blockbuster and rent vhs or dvds? You must have been pissed as fuck when you got home and discovered there were movies on them.

>>8540238
If we are also listing good deals:
>be me as kid, got an N64 for christmas
>friend had it a year before me, already had Banjo and Gex 3
>my friend was selling some games, my grandma gave me money to buy some from him, could get 2 of them
>bought his copy of Banjo and Gex 3, both came in hard plastic cases, may have been like 25$ at the time in total, good deal since they were still fairly new games.
>some time later, buy a used copy of Glover
>same friend sees me playing Glover and for some reason is super interested in it, i tell him il trade it to him for Mario Kart 64. He takes the deal.
>sometime later still, he is at my house and sees the hard plastic cases I got from him when I bought his 2 games. Thinks they are really cool.
>tell him il trade him one in exchange for the Glover I traded him. He takes the deal.

Same friend:
>he had Link's Awakening on game boy
>I had Kid Icaurs on game boy
>traded him Icarus for Zelda
>few months later I bought Icarus back from him for a dollar.

Many, many years later with same friend
>gets Fire Emblem for Gamecube as a random christmas gift
>he hates turn based tactical games
>trade him a duplicate copy of Mario 64 I had that I got for 5$ at a thrift for it.

Even he admitted years later he was pretty retarded with games. His dad convinced him to throw out all the cases for his PS1 games to "save space" and put them in a binder and cut the cables off all his lightguns to use as props.

Having a friend who's dad "lives in japan' and when he "visits over the weekend' he gets to "play all the games that aren't out in america yet" and when I asked him to bring some back so I can see he always conveniently forgets to do it. Even if it's something as small as a gameboy game. Fuck you eric you lying bitch, you didn't know SHIT about Pokemon gold and silver! Where was the flying cat with boxing gloves Eric? Where was it!?

Friend begged me for a blowie when I wasn't in the mood. To get me to agree he bribed me with his copy of pikmin 2. I was a poorfag so I succumbed. The disk stopped reading several hours into the game and I couldn't get it to work again.

I waited a day on a free trinitron listing on craigslist to ask a friend to help me move it and exactly one person beat me to it during that day.

>>8558225
>Did you ever go into blockbuster and rent vhs or dvds? You must have been pissed as fuck when you got home and discovered there were movies on them.
holy shit what is wrong with your brain? how damaged are you dude? you honestly must be really autistic, i don't understand how your mind works. everything's some bizarre all or nothing, either i only know of the existence of blanks or only know of the existence of movies
honestly seek help, you seem unhinged

>>8540238
I 'borrowed' my friend perfect dark cartridge for 16 years. From 2004 to 2020. I probably have 1000 hours in that game with various profiles. It pained me when he asked for it back because he never actually played his own game. I still can't get over it.

>>8560218
>wall of text
>but I'm autistic and unhinged

Yeah this is why daddy trashed the tapes for sure, now get some sleep, you got a big day at school ahead of you.

>lent C&C Renegade, never got it back

>lent Chrome (that one from Techland), got it back years later when my classmate found it
>disc was damaged and installed glitchy assets

>placed Diablo 2 play disc on the trey wrong while swapping and it blew up inside the PC

on a lesser note, I've got a dozen or so childhood PC games I wish I could remember the name

>>8561978
>>wall of text
>>but I'm autistic and unhinged
yes
>now get some sleep, you got a big day at school ahead of you.
do people still going to school care about vhs tapes?

I sold an Atari Star Wars color vector arcade game for a couple 100 bux back in the 2000's that would be worth a few thousand now because I needed the space. Just the color vector monitor in it is worth a fortune.

On the plus side, I did get an Asteroids for $100 just a few years ago at an auction.