YOUR Biggest Blunder while Collecting?

[larryinc64]

Starting on the East Coast 

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)

[Beastman1975]

sometime in the mid 90s i traded in all my nes games  over 30 titles CIB  into eb games just as they started taking trades forget what i got for them but doesnt matter ill never have those boxes again

[Dr.Agon]

blunders or regrets, hmmm?

only one i have is not getting a Virtual Boy when they came out, at the time there was an import store near to where i lived, we got loads of stuff from there, SFC, Megadrive, PC Engine, etc. could have got a VB, but for whatever reason never did, cant get one now...

[TDIRunner]

blunders or regrets, hmmm?

only one i have is not getting a Virtual Boy when they came out, at the time there was an import store near to where i lived, we got loads of stuff from there, SFC, Megadrive, PC Engine, etc. could have got a VB, but for whatever reason never did, cant get one now...

You can't get one, or you can't get one for less than $100?  For me it isn't that difficult to find one, but I've never seen one for less than $100.  That is a little high considering the quality and quantity of games available....

[scarmullet]

-Trading in my Copy of Resident Evil Code: Veronica X on gamecube....and Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes

-Putting all my PS1 and Dreamcast games on a flimsy shelf

-ALMOST passing up a Gamecube with Component cables (literally almost missed out on a set..I now have Gamecube Component Cables)

-Trashing my Windows 98 games when I got XP and found the majority didn't work on XP.

-Getting into picture scalers rather than just keeping a CRT around

[kingjohn3]

-Trading in my Copy of Resident Evil Code: Veronica X on gamecube....and Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes

-Putting all my PS1 and Dreamcast games on a flimsy shelf

-ALMOST passing up a Gamecube with Component cables (literally almost missed out on a set..I now have Gamecube Component Cables)

-Trashing my Windows 98 games when I got XP and found the majority didn't work on XP.

-Getting into picture scalers rather than just keeping a CRT around

I have a set of Monster S-Video cables that I use for my SNES/N64/GC. Is there a really big noticeable difference between S-Video and Component?

[Megatron]

So this isn't my blunder, but my best friend and I mope about it to this day...

So my buddy is real big into RPGs and the Japanese style games.  Like, all of the obscure ones.  Anyway, as we were finishing college, Xbox 360 was on the horizon, so he boxed up a bunch of his old games/strategy guides to make room for the new stuff he would buy.  Well, in 2006 his dad found the box, realized Steve hadn't played them in, like, years, and threw them away  HE THREW THEM AWAY!  So what was in the box?  Suikoden 1 and 2, Brigandine, Shadow Hearts, Koudelka, Valkyrie Profile, MGS Twin Snakes, all the gamecube Zeldas, all the Shin Megami Tensei games, Tales of Destiny 1 and 2, etc. etc.  All in all, we figure there were between 40 and 50 games in that box, some worth more than others.  A few years ago we decided to torture ourselves and calculate what that box would be worth...the damage wasn't pretty.

[scarmullet]

-Trading in my Copy of Resident Evil Code: Veronica X on gamecube....and Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes

-Putting all my PS1 and Dreamcast games on a flimsy shelf

-ALMOST passing up a Gamecube with Component cables (literally almost missed out on a set..I now have Gamecube Component Cables)

-Trashing my Windows 98 games when I got XP and found the majority didn't work on XP.

-Getting into picture scalers rather than just keeping a CRT around

I have a set of Monster S-Video cables that I use for my SNES/N64/GC. Is there a really big noticeable difference between S-Video and Component?

Yes actually. While you can only use the component cables on the gamecube (they use the digital AV port), the difference is noticeable right away. The image is 480p for one, so it's sharper and clearer than S-video. Also, using RGB and trans coding it to component is a noticeable improvement on the SNES and N64.

[KalessinDB]

Though as always, depends on your TV and your eyes, as well as (to a lesser extent) the system.  I for one USUALLY see a difference from S-Video to Component (we're talking during actual gameplay, not still frames where people can be like "See this delineation between these two colors that you'd never even notice while you're actually playing?"), but I have never once seen a difference between RGB and YPbPr which certain people feel is also a massive difference.

That being said, if I could nab GC Component cables for under a hundred bucks, I'd be on that like white on rice.

[scarmullet]

Though as always, depends on your TV and your eyes, as well as (to a lesser extent) the system.  I for one USUALLY see a difference from S-Video to Component (we're talking during actual gameplay, not still frames where people can be like "See this delineation between these two colors that you'd never even notice while you're actually playing?"), but I have never once seen a difference between RGB and YPbPr which certain people feel is also a massive difference.

That being said, if I could nab GC Component cables for under a hundred bucks, I'd be on that like white on rice.

Well there is a difference between YPbPr and straight RGB. RGB is only capable of displaying in 240p and 480i. YPbPr can display in much higher resolutions.

[KalessinDB]

True.  I was referring more to the people who say for a 240p source (say... SNES), that they think RGB thru an SCART connection or a Sony PVM or whatever is a better picture than YPbPr over component on an equivalent quality TV.  I for one cannot see a difference, but more power to the ones that can I suppose.