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YOUR Biggest Blunder while Collecting?
larryinc64:
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The East Coast has been alright for me. Not the best but ok.
Also 2 more:
Losing Mario 3 for GBA and tossing the Mario World GBA box. I remember a huge pile of cheep GameCube games at a tag sale I passed on as well.
pringlesman:
When the Wii came out I sold my entire collection thinking I could just rebuy it all on the Virtual Console. I had a decent amount of SNES, NES, gameboy, and N64 games at the time. But I don't think I had anything too rare. For some reason my copy of Earthbound was with all my comic books. So when I restarted collecting I had one expensive game. I've since rebought most of the things I had.
But I really wish I still had my childhood copies of DK3 and Yoshi Cookies on the nes. (the first two video games I bought my self.) And I really wish I had my original copies of pokemon red and blue and my atomic purple gameboy pocket with the stickers from the Pokemon Player Guide on the back.
Nacho3:
Once I got a new console I gave the old one (NES, SNES, N64) and all games away because I had no interest in them any more and didn't know I could get money to trade them in. I didn't really have a lot of games or any real valuable ones but I have re-bought most so I wish I still had them.
Just before the Xbox 360 came out I traded in my Gamecube w/ about 40 games, Xbox w/ about 20 games, and PSP w/ only 2 or 3 games and a couple UMD movies for about $500. I was perfectly fine with that since I had enough to get a 360 but have paid well over that buying that stuff back.
The one I regret the most though is trading in my Dreamcast with 20 games at Gamestop. They gave me $18 total (other than Power Stone the rest were pretty common). I'm not as upset with the amount I received as I am with what I spent the trade on, I had just gotten an Xbox and loved Rare so i picked up a new copy of Grabbed By The Ghoulies for $20 so I had to pay some out of pocket. What a piece of shit that game was, I played it for about 3 minutes and it never came out of it's case again.
Jeff:
The only bad experiences I've had were when I was too young to do anything about it, and it was my brother's fault anyway. He lent our copy of Kirby's Adventure to a friend and never got it back. And he threw away the box for Pokemon Blue when it was new. We still have the manual anyway.
When I was real little I loved having complete games. Throwing the boxes away never crossed my mind.
Actually, I almost screwed up once. Our nes had bent pins by the time my siblings finally let me play it, so I gave our copy of Duck Tales and Double Dare to my aunt and a family friend. I changed my mind afterwards for some reason and got Duck Tales back, but not Double Dare. Not a huge loss.
garrett:
agreed with the other guy....just started collecting... but collecting in Nova Scotia (east coast)