My 5 Biggest Gaming Regrets

GameXplain: "However, even with all that good fortune, I feel like I missed out on some of the things that have defined the game industry. I have since gone back and enjoyed many of these, but there will always be the regret that I missed it the first time around when I could’ve felt the true impact they had."

[Eternalb]

Ouch. Missing out on the SNES is harsh!

[flankhim]

Mine are buying a sega master system, atari lynx, sega cd and turbo graphix 16.

[specialguest]

I got the Atari 7800(instead of the NES), TG16, then upgraded to the Turbo Duo. Later when the NEC quit on the TG16/Turbo Duo, i finally got an SNES though.

[miyamoto]

i would love to have all of those!

give me Vectrex!

I have no video game regrets!

I have owned and played hours upon hours on
NES, Family Computer Disk System, Master System, Mega Drive, Sega Genesis, SNES, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, Sega Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox 360, DS, PS3, PSP, Android

and a PC.

[bumnut]

^^^^^ Me too, though I must be older than you because I also had the Atari 2600 and Spectrum, My first PC was a 286 with 1 MB Ram!

[wishingW3L]

do you regret buying those consoles? Why? The Turbografx-16 was epic! Once in a while I pick up an emulator to play some of its games like: Valis and Ys III because I never owned one. In fact, I didn't even know the console existed until like 2004! It has many hidden gems that people ignored because of the Nintendo blind hype in America but in Japan the Turbografx-16 was bigger than Nintendo because of its multiple JRPG's that never made it out to the West.

Valis: http://hardcoregaming101.ne...

[darthv72]

It was selling my AES and collection of 7 games for $300. Especially considering how much an AES goes for now. Not to mention that AES carts are so much more $$ than MVS ones.

You live and learn. On a side note, I have never regretted buying a system because when you are a fan of gaming you give everything a chance. That's the beauty of this hobby. You take the good with the bad but there is more good than bad if you know where to look.

I'm so thankful to still have all the other systems in my collection.

[Whitefox789]

Hey I like my Sega Master System!

My only regret is not having a Neo Geo.

[dedicatedtogamers]

I have no gaming regrets, at least not any that linger with me now. I still have my cartridge/CD collection of all the old games I used to play, and there are enough new games to keep me preoccupied.

If anything, I regret that modern gaming hasn't been as interesting as gaming used to be in the past (for me, just my opinion).

[darthv72]

has its place in that it really has opened the doors to more competitive play in larger areas.

I do miss the good old days of huddling around an arcade cab with my quarter at the top waiting to be the next player. there was a vibe, an energy that you could feel coming from the tense bouts between players of games like Mortal kombat or street fighter.

That kind of energy just doesnt translate well to the home market but even though the majority of arcades are gone....the nostalgia of playing one of those games when you do see one in the wild is still quite high.

[PopRocks359]

I'd say my biggest gaming regret is trading and selling much of my video games and consoles prior to my Wii and PS3. Many, MANY regrets for not having a GCN, 64 and so on.

[EddieNX]

Agreed I do collect so to speak but sell like 70% of my games that I've owned. I regret it so much when i want to replay a certain game and I sold it to buy Subway......

So many regrets...

[PopRocks359]

That's why I make a point of NEVER selling any game or console I have any real attachment for. For example, I will never sell my copy of Brutal Legend. Or my Wii U. I might sell my Wii and replace it with a Gamecube though (since my Wii is now technically inside my Wii U).

[Murad]

The only thing I ever regretted is selling my game to Gamestop, and then missing it. Good thing I only sold a total of 3 games in my whole life :D.

[prototypeknuckles]

my biggest gaming regret would be buying venetica for $12.74, without doing any research on it, that game was terrible.

[EddieNX]

I bought Bayonetta on Ps3 instead of 360 thinking ''japanese game probably works better on ps3'' then discovered it was significantly worse than my buddy's 360 version...

[ElectricKaibutsu]

Ouch

[TongkatAli]

Yeah, the colors looked so saturated and bad. 360 version looks so much better. Sega did a bad job porting it to the PS3.

[Ilovetheps5]

My biggest regret is selling my Gamecube. I never sell video games or consoles, but when I got the Wii I figured there was no point in having a Gamecube anymore. But, it just feels wrong not having one of my systems anymore.

[TongkatAli]

Gamecube is in my top three systems of all time. That system did not DESERVE to sell only 25 Million units, wtf ?

[TooTall19]

The first party titles on Gamecube are some of my favorites (Windwaker, Metroid Prime, Pikmin, Luigi's Mansion, SM Sunshine, MK: Double Dash).

[vickers500]

Sorry. I almost made that mistake too, in fact, I did sell some games I really wish I had right now. The only reason I still have my gamecube was because I took off that little piece of plastic and lost it, so gamestop wouldn't accept my console. Really glad I lost that piece.

But I traded in Super Mario Sunshine, Sonic Adventure 2 Battle and Spiderman (and maybe one other game I can't remember), and I really wish I still had those games today.

[ElectricKaibutsu]

I do have one regret, but it's recent. I wish I kept up with upgrading my PC so I could play Skyrim. I played Oblivion for over 150 hours and swore I would only play Elder Scrolls games on PC because of the awesome mods. Well my PC can't handle it now and I've been mostly a console/handheld gamer recently so I doubt I'll be doing any upgrading. This is why SteamBox piques my curiosity.

[Bathyj]

Mine is putting up the the tape deck on the Commodore 64 for so long and not going straight to the floppy disk drive(when disks were actually floppy).

[Games4M - Rob]

But then you would have missed out on all of that epic loading music - last ninja 2, Armalyte, Parallax. Some of that stuff I still listen to today.

[XXXL]

Definitely trading in my snes and genesis with a ton of games. Never playing earthbound when I had my snes. (I played it later at a friends, amazing game). Selling my ps2 at the time for what turned out to be beer money. And last would be never finishing Ocarina of Time.

[thebudgetgamer]

Never owned a Neo-Geo AES.

[darthv72]

to be fair, the games can be played on almost anything now. but there is just something about having the real thing to behold.

They are so pricey now that many have opted to consolize the MVS units instead. Games are easier to find and cheaper. Or many opt for the CD variant which isnt as expensive but is terribly slow to load.

That is what i have now for my neogeo fix aside from the newly released neogeo X.

[ZeekQuattro]

My regret is buying new games without beating all my old ones. I love The Last Story but I've bought so many games since then and have yet to complete it. Its maddening. lol That's only one example of course.

[herbs]

I let my girlfriend borrow my Snes and N64 with a bunch of great games because her little sister was into gaming (being a nice guy)... Then she cheated on me soon after and I never saw her again which was fine except I also never got my beloved systems and games back ;.( Ended up buying them again years later on the Virtual console though :)

[Trekster_Gamer]

I regret not picking more games up for the Vectrex for dirt cheap during the video game crash in the early 80's....

[Tokyo_reject]

how could you list Dreamcast....and not list Shenmue?!?!?!!?! lol!!!!
I miss dreamcast

[optimus]

Shenmue was one of the most boring games i've ever played....

Moving on; i never bought a ps2, but i don't regret it...what i do regret was not getting a game gamecube, solely because i missed out on metroid prime.

[Marceles]

Shenmue when it first came out wasn't boring because the graphics were so good that walking around was already the greatest thing I've ever seen lol.

And then once the story and city opens up, and you start fighting and doing everything else...that game was so ahead of its time it's not even funny.

Slow start, but the game rewards you big for your patience

[optimus]

Marceles.... I never said i didn't finish the game. I know it picked up pace once you got into it deeper but it wasn't enough for me...talking to almost everyone you meet for sometimes minutes at a time got repetitive and slowed the game down. So overall the game was just boring to me... "have you seen any sailors around?" ... "I said NO DAMN IT!" :p

[Tokyo_reject]

there is probably 2% of people who would ever say Shenmue was boring.....i was about 13 years old when i played it....i needed fast paced games....i didnt care about story all that much, i just wanted to fight/shoot shight up....this game changed everything for me. Shenmue will ALWAYS be up on my list of greatest games ever....EVER!!!!

[MrKingofVideoGames]

c'mon gang... the forklift driving was a bit tedious to say the least.

[skipper]

Mine would be, when I was a kid letting my parents making me get an Odyssy Game system after we we went through 2 Atari's in 2 months. Odyssy was really cool at the time, it even had games that you could design your own levels, that was VERY advanced back then. It was better than Atari too,It even had a touch keyboard BUT all my friends had Atari and we could not trade games. By the way Not sure about Atari, but the Odyssy 2 ran at a BLAZING 1.79 Mhz and cartridges held between 2KB-8KB, Also the games back then were not cheap try $50 bucks a pop...LOL

[Unztayble]

I wish I would've gone with a PS1 instead of an N64. I still had lots of fun but everyone I knew had a PS1. Also, I sold my entire gaming collection. I wish I would've kept it.

[Double_O_Revan]

1) Selling much of my SNES/NES game collection, including my SNES around when the original Xbox came out, only to rebuy most of it.

2) I regret not playing games like Metroid & Legend of Zelda when I was younger (NES/SNES days). At the time I wasn't into those kinds of games. But I played through all of them a few years ago and even though I enjoyed the hell out of them. I still feel I cheated myself.

3) Selling my original copy of Pokemon Blue, and forgetting that I had freaking Mew on there that I got from a contest and not from a cheating gameshark!!

4) For blindly believing for so long that Xbox was better then Playstation. What the hell was I thinking.

5) Buying a Wii. Other then No More Heroes, there was no game on the system I felt I HAD to play or thoroughly enjoyed. (Even though I played Twilight Princess on Wii, it was on GC, so I don't count that)

[Neonridr]

wow, so many great games on the Wii aside from Twilight Princess. Skyward Sword, Metroid Prime Trilogy, Xenoblade Chronicles, Red Steel 2, Resident Evil 4 Wii edition (the motion controls make it the best version), Mario Galaxy 1 & 2 just to name a few...

but to each their own.

[black911]

Paying for Xbox Live(only 1 year for $40). Not differnt than PSN.

[DivineAssault]

i loved all my systems.. I hated sony when sega was around but like the author mentions, the jrps are what drew me in.. I still supported sega to the very end.. Now sony is essentially my modern day sega..

[catch]

I bought a 32X. I mowed so many lawns.. It still haunts me.

[Picnic]

The only thing that I regret gaming wise is not finding and dusting down my Commodore Amiga more often.

My most pleasing retro purchase was to get an end of the line brand new N64 for the first time in about 2002.
To see how good Banjo Kazooie and Conker's Bad Fur Day were whilst I waited for some more Cube games to be released.

I did get a Dreamcast a few years ago. It's a pretty, trend setting, machine. But unless you want to play loads of arcade games, you may find that what Sega distributed to the other consoles since mostly serves you.

[Marceles]

I've had a pretty good gaming life. I think my only small regret was blowing off Majora's Mask. I'm not sure if the game is a love/hate kind of game for its difficulty or what...but it seems like the more the years go by, the more classic and hailed that it's one of the best Zelda games ever. I totally missed out on it.

I guess another regret would be missing out on some of more popular N64 games. I've never played Perfect Dark, Conker, or Banjo Kazooie.

I've never played any Sega add on (Sega CD, 32X, 32X CD), never played Sega Saturn, Atari Jaguar, 3D0, Virtual Boy, Turbo Grafx 16.

Saying that, I don't think Sega could've done any better than how they launched the Dreamcast. It was perfect, good launch games, a good flow of games after launch. It just didn't have much of a third party by the time PS2 came around which was unfortunate. Mostly PS1 ports with AA added.

[darthv72]

and go try some of those missed opportunities. They may be old but they are still fun to play.

The ones you list are still available on the collectors market and you would be quite surprised how polished some of the games were for their time.

[Marceles]

Yeah I want to one day, the only bad thing is my back log has been horrible for years lol. Buying the old classic games will just make it worse than ever

[CanadianTurtle]

I regret bringing my Nintendo DS lite to school because someone stole it and I never got it back.

I regret selling my gameboy advance just for 20 dollars of store credit at the local video game shop just to buy 4 packs of Pokemon cards. I die a little on the inside whenever I think about it. I try not to.

I regret wasting my time with Final Fantasy 13 because it is honestly one of the worst games I've played this generation.

[InMyOpinion]

Selling my Amiga 500 with around 400 games.

[Kos-Mos]

Mine is when I bought a xbox 360. I fell for it, I admit it. I felt after a month lied to by ms and sold it. They promised more than they could deliver for my gaming needs. No this is not trolling, it`s an opinion.

[Playstation4LyFe]

This guys just complaining about his poor purchases, and bad decision making... dude if i want something I go for it, thank god my grandfather owned a Video Store...

[Playstation4LyFe]

Honestly though I regret selling all 350 of my NES games on ebay, and all 25 of my SNES games... also regret throwing out my n64 because ?????? and regret smashing my imported psp because i bricked it, later to find otu that it was possible to unbrick it a few months later.

[molsen81]

I asked my parents for a Super Nintendo because I didn't like the way the SEga Genesis looked with it's weird shape and bulk controllers. Best decision I ever made (back then). I thought the TurboGrafx-16 was a unique system and I liked the fact that the same game card can be used for the portable version for which I forgot the name.

[darthv72]

and it is still to this day one of the best portable units ever made.

I play military madness as well as street fighter II on it from time to time.

You cant really use the tv tuner for it anymore as (in the US) it is all digital over the air broadcast and the tv tuner was analog (same with the game gear tv tuner) but it is a nice collectors piece.

[sprinterboy]

Wish I had never thrown away my commador 64, amiga 500 and CDTV. Would love to play some supercars now, newzealand story etc.

[darthv72]

was my amiga of choice. I still have the zappo 2x cd-rom drive for it as well as all the games but sold the main unit some time ago. I kept the 1084s monitor because i made my own RGB cables for genesis and snes and even the jaguar.

RGB....that was the best way to play before VGA/component/HDMI.

[shaun mcwayne]

I loved supercars.

[Kidmyst]

I remember firing up my NES and SNES for the first times. Still like to hook up my ond consoles and relive them. Making the jump from the Atari 2600 to the NES was an epic start of the art (at the time) move. We thought then, how could this get any better. So glad to still be a gamer.

[Phoenix76]

My biggest regret was in not being old enough to have been able to play ELITE on a BBC Acorn lol :D finally got round to it (ELITE-Plus)on my uncle's Amiga 500 lmao

[VTKC]

buying a Game Gear and gave the game gear to my cousin and then buying ANOTHER. (you would of thought I learnt not to buy another.)

[Munnkyman]

Man I loved my Saturn. Still have all my games for it from panzar dragoon saga to burning rangers

[StrawHatPatriot]

Buying Madden NFL 13

[phatfreddy1978]

I am glad I got to play and still own my systems great for nostalgia gaming moments.Emulators are okay but actually owning them is whats nice.I do however wish I had the turbo duo many great side-scrollers there to be played there.

[jlafount]

My regret is I never picked up the TurboExpress with the TurboVision TV Tuner.

[rataranian]

Biggest regret...well coming in at a close 2nd, I bought a sega cd. It was $250. I can overlook that when I think about where I really went wrong. When N64 came out I sold Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Secret of Evermore, Super Metroid, Zelda 3, Earthbound,....=(..there was so much more. But I can't talk about it anymore. *hangs head in shame*

[Picnic]

One of my biggest regrets is that I have never played Night Trap or Sewer Shark on the Mega CD - and later The 11th hour / The 7th Guest on PC.

That reveals a greater regret about the industry and buyer expectations in general - that the early days of full motion video (FMV) - or 'interactive movies', including arcade light gun games like like Mad Dog McCree- are now just a small footnote in history and were not fully given their due.

Of what I've seen of some of these games, partly enhanced to me by their early 90s sensibilities, they drew you in to the action and created a genuine sense of urgency more than any CGI model of a real person (including those where a real person's actions are filmed and then a wire model is put over them) would. If you die and get told off by a clearly real live person in the flesh you feel much more shameful! What can create more of a real life atmosphere than real life?

I think that there are comnplicated reason for FMV's disappearance but mostly I think that it boils down to a decline in point and click adventure types of games, the costliness, complication and time of creating the kinds of sets that can be drawn instead, incorporating all possible required outcomes and insufficient console memory.

But I'd like to see fun, arcade type, FMV games make a comeback in some form.

[MadMen]

Mine was buying the Atari Jaguar. Then I tried to return it and get a 3DO and "Walden Books" at the time wouldn't let me return it.

Now looking back both were bad buys although I think the 3DO was a neat system.

[ShaunCameron]

I guess missing out on the PS2, EA Sports games aside. Man it had all kinds of games under the sun.

[NewVegasTroop]

biggest gaming regret is buying my FAT PS3 1 week before the release of the PS3 slim and the price drop, payed 350 on a pawn shop for it USED and the worst part is that it wasn't a backwards compatible FAT!!!

If only i had internet at that time i wouldn't have had to deal with the annoying jet engine noise produced by the FAT PS3, dammit :(

[StreetsofRage]

My Samsung Galaxy Note 2 with Mame4droid, Genesis and SNES emulators equals the perfect portable device.

I owned most consoles and still have them in the garage. I also have a stack of the old Sega Visions magazines and original Nintendo Power magazines.

[dboyman]

Missed out a few things with gaming over the years. My recent one is including getting a copy of Xenoblade Chronicles ( I dont want to pay the high ebay prices for the game)...