systems you sold/passed up and regret

[xDragonWarrior]

I was at a flea market and a lady had these 2 systems and i looked at it and it said odyssey(for some reason i thought i was a odyssey computer) and she said it was 10$ and i was gonna get it but she said she didn't know if it worked or not so i passed(what was i thinking,everything system i get from a thrift store or anywhere there's no certainty that it works.instead i got 9 Atari 2600 games for $9 Asteroid,Super Breakout,Q-bert,Video pinball,Krull,Jungle Hunt,Star Raiders,Starmaster and Realsport's football.

 

I regret selling my Red Gameboy(Play it loud version) to someone a t school some years back because he wanted it.I felt that i didn't need it because i had a Gameboy Advance SP which played those games so what did i need it for.My cousin game it to me with all her games and i gave he Donkey Kong Land 3 and The Legend Of Zelda(which I've been itching to play)

[jaybird3rd]

About ten years ago, I was walking through the electronics section of a local Wal-Mart, and in a long-forgotten spot at the top of a clearance shelf, I spied two SNES systems, still new in their original boxes. I passed them by at the time because I wasn't a fan of the SNES—to this day, I can count on one hand the SNES games that I like to play—but I wish in retrospect that I had picked them up, especially since they were still marked for $20 each. I also remember when the Sega Genesis 3 was on clearance, back around 1999 or 2000. I picked up three new systems for $9 each, from a huge pallet on the sales floor of a local Ames store. Looking back, I should have filled my car with them!

 

As for systems I sold ... my only real regret is selling my first computer, a TI 99/4A which I got when I was about six years old, in order to pay for my first Atari 800 (which I still have). I've bought several other 99/4A systems since, but it would be nice to have my original one back.

[BassGuitari]

CD-i: I passed one up at a church rummage sale about 12 or 13 years ago. The $40 they wanted felt steep for an obsolete machine I'd heard nothing but terrible things about.

 

Virtual Boy: I was as the mall with a friend from school and we saw KayBee liquidating VBs for $10. We both kinda just laughed at it and went back to his house and played Playstation and Odyssey 2.

 

Aquarius: I once passed up some Aquarius software at a Goodwill, since I didn't have one and I didn't really know what it was. No system, though, and I don't THINK Burgertime was in there.

 

Sega Pico: See 'Aquarius." Only this was an actual system. Somehow, though, I don't regret passing on this.

 

Atari 5200: a whole pile of games -probably 30 titles- that I could have had for a dollar. Not each, for the whole shebang. Didn't have a system, and was young, dumb, and stupid. Knowing what I know now, I recall them being pretty common, the "rarest" probably being a couple of CBS titles. But still.

 

I think I've only ever really gotten rid of one system -ever- that I didn't have a duplicate of or some compatible system was an old 286 PC (or some clone, probably...I really don't remember, they were all the same to me at the time) running DOS. That thing, I miss. I found the thing at a rummage sale when I was 10 or 11. We (my dad and I) had a hard time getting it running; the monitor appeared to be shot, and the drives seemed to be unresponsive (maybe just needed boot software, which would probably mean it didn't have a hard drive...yet). My dad sourced a "new" Magnavox amber monitor, and had a 3.5" drive, a "new" 5.25" drive, and a hard drive installed (all used). I loved that thing. I even used it to write scripts for comic books I was working on (that was my thing at the time, don't laugh). But it eventually fell into disuse, and I guess my parents didn't want it just taking up space. They sold it at a rummage sale (from whence it came...) for something like $200, which, after what my parents paid for and put into it, would probably have been breaking even at best.

 

On a related note to the above PC system, I had a games disk for it that, based on my recollections, seemed to be some mishmash of the different Friendlyware games disks. It had a menu just like Friendlyware's (I remember a Texas address displayed on it, too, like FW), but with more games. It had a great ASCII Pac-Man game that, based on my memory, looked more like Al Jimenez's Pac-Gal/Pac-Girl/Poke-Man than FW's own Pac-Man game (bigger maze, ghosts represented by card suits), but it had a high score table and you could select the number of ghosts; it ran really slowly with all 4, so I usually went with 1. I also remember the Battleship game; this game is the Friendlyware version, but apparently Battleship and Pac-Man (FW's version) were never on the same FW disk. There was also a Frogger game on it that I never actually played because my machine was too slow or something; it wouldn't run. To this day, over 15 years later, I have yet to learn what that games disk actually was, who made it, or what exactly that Pac-Man game was. FWIW, the disk was actually a copy (which I then copied again onto a 3.5" disk) and it originally came from a church in the central WI area. If anyone has any information, please let me know!

[jetset]

Passed on a working Vectrex at a flea market a while back. The guy wasn't sure what it was or what it was worth, and said I could have it for $25 bucks. I said lemme walk around some more, the thought of another mouth to feed so to speak mulling around in my head. Walked around for maybe ten minutes...turned around...went back...it was gone. I was kind of pissed but glad at the same time. I've always wanted a Vec, but the idea of another system to have to buy games for...Ah well!

[Rex Dart]

I remember considering a Nuon when they were $50. Now I'm doing the same with the Nomad since they're about $50. But arrrgh I've already got four genesis models.

[Seob]

Passed on a 32x, that the seller wanted to sell complete with a megadrive. Didn't need a other megadrive so i passed on it. A few weeks later i wanted to buy it, but when i came at his stand, a other guy was thinking about buying the 32x or a a2600. Didn't say anything, eventually the guy bought the 32x.

It wasn't to bad, since instead of swapping my darth vader 2600 to the 32x i swapped it with a colecovision, with expansion module 1 and 2.

 

Sold a lot of my rare computers, like my laser 2001, comx35, philips :yes and my videopac prototypes. But thinking about it , i don't really regret it, since the systems where only collecting dust. Bought some nice retro stuff and new consoles for it instead, and having a good time with them.

[xDragonWarrior]

Passed on a Nes with about 20 or so games with the Zapper at a Value Village and they wanted $60.99 for it. the only game i saw was Super Mario bros. but i didn't have 60 for it and if i had i wouldn't have gotten it(i already have one).

[sqoon]

Once in a while I come across an early model PSX, the kind with the RCA ports on the back. I just about kick myself if I pass on those because they are fairly rare. There is one in a thrift store south of me and I will probably go to pick it up this week.

 

I have only seen a Sega CD model 1 system once in the wild over the past few years, at a used game store, and always wish I would have bought that day.

[shadow460]

There are two things: The first is actually a graphics card that died on me. It's a Voodoo 5 5500, which is probably the last great video card that supported Glide natively. Thankfully I do have a second one that's in use, but there are more days behind that there are ahead for it.

 

Second is getting rid of my Supervision. I have never in my life seen one of those things or the games in the wild since then. Ever. It's like Watara just dropped off the planet. I mean, there's not a whole heck of a lot to miss, save for the novelty, but it's aggravating knowing that I have just one less device to suck down AA batteries playing some inane game that's, ironically, madly addicting..

[Seob]

Second is getting rid of my Supervision. I have never in my life seen one of those things or the games in the wild since then. Ever. It's like Watara just dropped off the planet. I mean, there's not a whole heck of a lot to miss, save for the novelty, but it's aggravating knowing that I have just one less device to suck down AA batteries playing some inane game that's, ironically, madly addicting..

those things are pretty common in europe. I have 3 different models. not a bad system itself, but the games are pretty bad and don't show of what the system could do.

[zylon]

Selling my Goldstar 3do and not replacing my $1 Jaguar when it died.

[SlowCoder]

Not strictly a game console, but my clone XT computer. It was the PC I'd connected to BBSs on, and had built up a huge collection of DOS games on it. It was reliable and ran from 1986 to 1994 daily without problems. Though I loved it, I chucked it a few years ago because I needed space.

 

Stupid.

[+Gemintronic]

I think I already mentioned passing up a Vectrex as a teen. I regret selling off all my NES games and then immediately afterwards collecting them BACK again for years. I regret having absolutely NO IDEA where my Timex Sinclair went. Also, I had one of those bare 2600 carts with a ZIF socket for burned ROMz. Lost to the ages..

[BydoEmpire]

I don't really regret selling my systems for the most part, with the exception of my TG-16. I sold it in college for some reason, don't remember why. I didn't have that many games for it.

 

Some electronics catalog (Datamark or something) was clearing out Jaguar systems w/ 3 games for about $50. 3 game packs were about $20. Wish I had picked one up then.