high voltage Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 (edited) Made a mistake buying an Intellivision cart (Beauty and the Beast) for my VCS. (I'm glad I wasn't the only one here). Lucky the shop exchanged it Biggest mistake selling my original Atari VCS collection (~250 games, mostly cib), included games like Hangman grey box, Wing War cib, Boing! cib and Condor Attack cib and some other rare goodies. Edited October 8, 2015 by high voltage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutsy Doodleheimer Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 My mistake is overpaying a little for the items that I really want. I am the type tjat when I see the item that I must have in my collection. I really want it and before somebody gets it before me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ave1 Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 Let's see- I had Tooth Protectors and traded it off for a shrink-wrapped 7800 Super Skateboardin' back around '94... I guess it wasn't that bad of a trade, but to this day I've regretted doing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 My mistake is overpaying a little for the items that I really want. I am the type tjat when I see the item that I must have in my collection. I really want it and before somebody gets it before me. Can't say I've never made that mistake before. I hope we've never chased the same item. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+KaeruYojimbo Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 When I first started collecting, I traded a copy of Demolition Herby for Tutankham, Burgertime and something else equally not very rare that I can't remember anymore. They were games that I really wanted at the time, but have probably seen in the wild for a dollar or two many times since. Meanwhile, Demolition Herby was the only Telesys game I didn't have in my collection for years until I finally caved and bought a copy on ebay a few months ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaximRecoil Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 (edited) I don't have much of a collector mindset. I only buy games that I actually want to play (and there really aren't very many that interest me; just a handful of games for a handful of systems), and I don't care about boxes and manuals, which makes things a lot cheaper. I don't have much of a completist mindset either. Most of the consoles and many of the games I currently own fell into my lap, for free, years ago, which includes 2 Sega Genesis Model 1s, a Sony Playstation 2 (which I used exactly once, to test functionality, when I got it over 10 years ago), 4 NESes (3 front-loaders, 1 top-loader), 1 NEC TG-16 (no controller or games), 2 SNES Model 1s, an original Sony PlayStation, and an Atari 7800. I also have another original Sony PlayStation, 2 Sega Dreamcasts, and 6 Atari 2600s (1 heavy sixer, 3 light sixers, and 2 4-switch woodgrain), but I bought all of those (I only had 1 2600, a light sixer, until the other day when I got a good deal on a lot of 5). My main regret with regard to collecting (which is more hoarding than collecting) is that I didn't keep the consoles and games I had as a kid. I guess I didn't have much of a hoarding mindset as a kid, because I got rid of every last console and game I had back then, some of which I simply threw away, because I didn't want to be bothered with them during one of the times I moved. It was 1994, I was 19, and those old Ataris seemed outdated and worthless at the time. If I could go back in time I'd have a few choice words to say to my younger self. I now have all the types of consoles and most of the games I had as a kid, but for the sake of nostalgia (and I have a strong sense of nostalgia now), it would be nice to still have the actual ones I had as a kid. I had an Atari 2600 "Vader", an Atari 7800, and an SNES Model 1, all of which I bought brand new (currently the only console I own that I bought brand new is one of my 2 original PlayStations). Furthermore, I had an NES front-loader which I bought used from a friend, but it was like new (it hadn't even started blinking yet), and I bought an NES Advantage controller for it, brand new. Edited October 12, 2015 by MaximRecoil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-type Posted October 12, 2015 Author Share Posted October 12, 2015 My main regret with regard to collecting (which is more hoarding than collecting) is that I didn't keep the consoles and games I had as a kid. I guess I didn't have much of a hoarding mindset as a kid Yea, I have this regret too... I don't even remember getting rid of my 2600 and games, but they're nowhere to be found, so it must have happened at some point. I was never OVERLY attached to them, as they were all donated to me by my cousin, and I only really played them for a relatively brief window of time. I feel the same way about a few select toys from my childhood that I wish I had to pass down to my kids. Another lost item that really bums me out is my family got rid of our TI-99/4a+all the games and accessories... that one was the heart and sole of my childhood videogame memories, and I really hope to reacquire a set some day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIO2 Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 I sold my original 1040STf with color monitor, a golden image external drive, a printer and a bunch of original software with boxes and manuals in the mid 90s for very little because my wife at the time thought my stuff was taking up too much space. After I realized it was the wife taking up too much space, I got another 1040STf and a more considerate wife. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spawnshop Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 Yes, just like everyone else.....I get caught up in "Collecting" and forget to enjoy what I'm really collecting. I just buy and buy, and then store it away somewhere. I'm starting to unload some of my Steelbook Bluray collection and some of my Star Wars Mini busts. Like every collector, i go through waves. Cherry pick what to sell, make a little profit, sink it back into collecting, loose money on the common stuff, and so on. Although, I enjoy collecting. It's a fun hobby, no matter what I'm collecting. I've collected normal stuff like Star Wars figures and movies, then got bored and moved into rare in package figures, then into prototypes, then got bored. I still have a lot because the market crashed for that stuff, so now I'm stuck with it, and regret what I paid for some of it. But again, I enjoyed it at the time. Now I'm into 2600, NES and Sega Genesis games and systems. I enjoy collecting what I had as a kid, but I'm sure that will grow past that and I'll do the same thing.Luckily the hoarding aspect really bothers me, so I always downsize every few months and only keep what I really like, whether it's worth anything or now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Innit Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 I bought these two together just for Mr.Do. They were listed as Colecovision games and it was only after the auction finished I realised from the colour of the boxes that they were for the 2600. I don't think Blue Print even got a Colecovision release. On the plus side I didn't have them for the 2600 so I was pleased to add them to that collection. Note to self, don't bid on anything while you're half asleep 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 Well they're both good games, and the Mr. Do! box is the rarer one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister-VCS Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 Well they're both good games, and the Mr. Do! box is the rarer one. Was CBS/Coleco the only company who changed the box-artwork for the same games during the production-years? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Innit Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 (edited) Well they're both good games, and the Mr. Do! box is the rarer one.Having just looked at the artwork of the other box online I think I got the better one. Was CBS/Coleco the only company who changed the box-artwork for the same games during the production-years?Atari changed the box-art for Maze Craze, that I do know. Edited October 17, 2015 by Lord Innit 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister-VCS Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Having just looked at the artwork of the other box online I think I got the better one. Atari changed the box-art for Maze Craze, that I do know. I see - the second one is more family-friendly... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaximRecoil Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Having just looked at the artwork of the other box online I think I got the better one. Atari changed the box-art for Maze Craze, that I do know. How did it go from 256 video games to 16 video games? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister-VCS Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 How did it go from 256 video games to 16 video games? cost reducing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 My biggest mistake was one that I'm sure many people out there have made, and I made it long before I was a retro game collector. Back in the year 2000 I was a teenager and desperately wanted one of the newly released PlayStation 2 systems, so in an effort to gather enough money to buy one I took all of the old video games and systems that I used to play as a kid but didn't care about anymore (at the time) to a local game store and sold them off for store credit. Little did I know that the perfectly functioning and complete R.O.B. the Robot that I got $7 or $8 for would be worth so much one day, nor did I know that the complete boxed copies of Kid Dracula, Stop That Roach, and Mega Man IV for the Game Boy would ever be worth more than the $2 or $3 that I sold them for back then. Now those three CIB games go for around $800, $200, and $500 respectively. I try not to beat myself up over it though, since it's totally normal for a teenager to want the latest and greatest technology and at the time I had no idea that some 15 years later I would come to consider the Game Boy one of my favorite systems and find myself collecting for it. You live, you learn. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangia-Boy Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 I started collecting 10 years too late. Nowadays you don't have great finds on ebay. But the biggest mistake I never made, I for myself decided only to collect cartridges without manuals and wrappings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spawnshop Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 My biggest mistake was one that I'm sure many people out there have made, and I made it long before I was a retro game collector. Back in the year 2000 I was a teenager and desperately wanted one of the newly released PlayStation 2 systems, so in an effort to gather enough money to buy one I took all of the old video games and systems that I used to play as a kid but didn't care about anymore (at the time) to a local game store and sold them off for store credit. Little did I know that the perfectly functioning and complete R.O.B. the Robot that I got $7 or $8 for would be worth so much one day, nor did I know that the complete boxed copies of Kid Dracula, Stop That Roach, and Mega Man IV for the Game Boy would ever be worth more than the $2 or $3 that I sold them for back then. Now those three CIB games go for around $800, $200, and $500 respectively. I try not to beat myself up over it though, since it's totally normal for a teenager to want the latest and greatest technology and at the time I had no idea that some 15 years later I would come to consider the Game Boy one of my favorite systems and find myself collecting for it. You live, you learn. This is what it is to be a collector - and what I think is the fun part about it. I did the same exact thing, although, i think it was to buy some Spiderman comics or something. I also did the same thing with all of my 1977 Star Wars figures......sold them all for $.50 a piece in a garage sale when I was 13 - because I was "told old for these toys" and I think i used the cash to buy Nintendo games....which i later sold too.....LOL 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philflound Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 The thing is that you enjoyed them. If you get any money out of them, consider it a bonus. I just feel bad for the people who either had mom throw things away, give them away, or items get destroyed in fire or flooded basements. Phil 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StopDrop&Retro Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 For Atari 2600 I haven't really made many mistakes. I bought a lot of the games I wanted a few years ago before prices kicked up. But one thing I do regret is not buying a heavy sixer at the time that I started. Prices on those are going up. Instead I focused on getting a 7800 because it's backwards compatible and later a Sears Arcade II because I love the look of it. It seems that a lot of these responses here are about regretful sales/trades. I never sell or trade my stuff so no regrets there. I regret not buying more SNES games a few years ago when prices were high, but not stratospheric as they are today. One purchase I really regret is when I was a big fan of Metal Jesus Rock's channel I bought one of those red Nintendo Wii's back when they were only sold to specific markets and he recommended they could be worth something in the future. I got a good deal on a Canadian one, but a few months later Nintendo announced they were bringing it over here which suddenly made my investment a paperweight. Never again, MJR, never again. My last regret is from earlier this year. One day I thought I should get a back lit custom modded GameBoy. I found a cheap one on eBay but I must have been suffering from temporary insanity that day because the one I bought looked like this: LOOK AT THIS FUCKIN THING!!!! Who did I buy this from?? RuPaul?!??!? Yeah, I had to work out a deal with the seller, there was no way I was going through with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Dangerous Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 I regret selling systems because there are at least a few games worth owning every system for. I sold my original xbox collection and Saturn collection and have since found myself re-buying them. I also regret not saving my NES boxes as a kid...lol..but who doesn't? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikey.shake Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 (edited) Bid on a five-dollar "Telegames Storage Center", noticing it came with an untested 4-switcher. Didn't notice the almost-$30 shipping charge until after I'd bid. *facepalm* Ended up winning it, and was still happy. Especially when the woody turned out to be a Sunnyvale model. But "not paying close attention to shipping charges" is a mistake I won't make again. EDIT: Wait... that's not it. It was when my wife asked if we could get rid of our Genesis (a rarely-played Model 2 and a few Sonic games) in a desperate, short-term, toss-everything-we-can apartment move (long story). I said sure. But I didn't check the box. Apparently it wasn't just Genesis, but also all of my adolescent SNES games, about 12-15 of them. Which means I just handed them (just HANDED THEM) over to someone behind a Goodwill one day and didnt even know what I was doing. I've bought most of them back since, and every damn time have I pay to replace one, it stings a little bit. And not just because of the outrageous bubble right now. Edited October 19, 2015 by mikey.shake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zonie Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Throwing away my original 2600 boxes when I moved cross country, because, hey, none of them come with the boxes anymore... At the very least, I should have flattened them and put them in a notebook. On a positive note, I did keep my gatefold Combat and Outer Space boxes. If they kept making them gatefold, I would still probably have them all. One thing I noticed is that Intellivision and Odyssey2 carts usually come boxed, as if the parents valued them more with the better box or just valued the system more because of price... (not just a game console). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanOliver Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Throwing out 10,000 new copies of Rescue Terra I. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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