My biggest regret is the financial situations that put me into a position I had to sell off my collection to survive, but.... I’m thankful for the money I was able to recoup to keep me going financially
Luckily games have some value. If you were collecting certain other things, you would've had your hands tied. Glad you got out of that situation and here's to not letting it happen again! :)
Biggest Mistake: Being stubborn about price range. When stuff just trends upward, it can very possibly never return to the range you may be looking to pay. I’ve missed out on many games for this reason that now sell for 4-8 times the price I was initially looking to pay. If I had just been willing to raise my target price by about 10-15% I wouldn’t be excluded from owning them today.
my biggest regrets are mostly not buying games for genesis over $10 in 2011 that are now $100+ - that Complete Aero The Acrobat 2 for $20 sitting in the local shop still haunts my dreams!
Agreed. I made the decision to start doing that recently. My only regret is holding on to games that I didn’t like later than when I reached that decision.
I started collecting in the early 2000's and it was glorious. I also knew some incredible flea market sellers back in the day. Sorry I don't have much in life to brag about just give me this one.
Not telling my mom that the 100+ video game boxes in the basement were important... I think there were games in some, too. To the trash they were taken. RIP.
My first Nintendo game was Ghostbusters. I lost it for about five years and then found it at the bottom of the freezer. I used to pop my games in the freezer for 20 minutes to get them to work. (It worked like a charm). Anyway it still works fine after 35 years of abuse.
I swear that NES products were made out of Eternium. Why, I bet that the future generations will still be able to play some Mario Bros when their PS-Infinity systems expire from a pre-determined date for the servers to shut down at. Why, we still have battery backed cartridges that are retaining their original save files. At least, some of them are.
My biggest regret is always seeing a retro game listed at a reasonable price but just not being convinced enough that I'd actually enjoy it and then seeing that game skyrocket in price or not being available anywhere anymore
I'm definitely currently going through wanting to rebuy games with better labels, At first, when I started collecting, I just wanted to buy the games regardless of their condition.
Let my friend borrow all of my gba games while she was in the hospital, life happens and 10 years later we’d lost touch so I donated the boxes to a local retro game store. Then she immediately gets back in touch and returned my games. Sigh. Glad she’s ok though.
Wait, you all didn’t talk for 10 years then out of the blue she hits you up and says “oh boy the way, I still have those games you leant me. You probably like those back”. That is the most unusual story I’ve ever heard regarding loaning stuff to someone and actually getting it returned.
i definitely regret trading in games for newer games. i've since been able to re-buy most so it's not a huge deal but i do miss my original copies that hold sentimental value. anyways, i just discovered this channel thanks to the algorithm. i enjoy the content and it is recorded and shot really well. instant sub from me! ☺️
Collecting mistake 101. Playing through a game at least halfway and then selling it and then later re-buying it because I realized I liked it more than I expected I did in hindsight. I’m notorious for trading in and re-buying it’s kind of what I do. I’ve kind of accepted that.
My biggest regret was being about 11 or 12 years old, selling my Genesis and Sega CD with about 30-40 games between for $50, and then promptly using the newly acquired funds to buy a CB antenna and a bunch of Pop Tarts.... :(
2:10 THANK YOU! I keep hearing people say how going to swap meets/garage sales early will get you any item you can imagine, but nope, you get out there and you find baby clothes and holiday decorations.
Nice work man, another on point. I think everyone regrets not starting earlier or missing that deal. I regret not getting into the gaming-con scene earlier, not only for the deals and finds but meeting other people into gaming and etc.
I’d actually say trying to replicate my collection exactly as it was in my youth is a mistake. Around 2000 my dad made me sell our SNES and PS1 in order to upgrade to new consoles (gamecube and PS2) luckily after that point we realized the mistake and started saving our games. Still the sting from that inadvertently makes me want to replicate the collection and now I’m overwhelmed with almost too many games!
This happened to a friend of mine, except his brother was the one who stole his games for drug money. They haven't had the same relationship ever since.
This happened to me with my record collection. I loaned my 2 crates of vinyl to a friend who wanted to pursue DJing but instead became a drug addict and sold them all for a quick hit lol.
@@RetroBirdGaming I think it's just more to do with the history of that store & the game itself. Some games I own still have the original receipt from the original buyer.
My biggest mistake was selling my childhood games to GameStop out of some moronic idea that they were out of date. I basically had to rebuy everything again which sucked. Some of my good ideas are haunting a used game store around where I live and buying things below eBay prices there (because they generally sell them a bit cheaper). It's a grab bag because I always buy something to support the shop since it's a local independent business. Best deal I got there was a copy of Splatterhouse for TG16 with its case and manual for $35 a couple years ago. Not the best deal I ever got though. That was Zelda Minish Cap for ¢25 at a garage sale.
The biggest collecting mistake is buying games you "might" want to play. Buy what you do want to play. It will save you money, and heck, if you do want to play a game that becomes rare and expensive, the money you saved not buying everything in sight will be there to go towards what you truly want.
Yeah my regret is not buying stuff earlier, but I kept it all until about 2010. I was out of the country and all my stuff got destroyed in a disaster back at home. The loss of my collection was super depressing, and I put off rebuying anything until recently and everything is ridiculous now. The only saving grace is I live in Japan now, so collecting again is much cheaper. It's not as nostalgic, but it's been fun. It's like a mix of nostalgia and discovering new things about the stuff I loved and lost (different art, etc). Nothing beats taking my son to the store and grabbing a bunch of 100 yen ($1) gameboy games. I guess if I did rebuy my stuff when it was lost, I wouldn't be making those new memories with my son now. So, in other words, maybe no regret.
I have been collecting my whole life, The trick is to never sell your games and you will surprised of how many you have. well also go and check second hand stores for super low price games and such. hell, even the games i like i have multipl copies of.
The cool holographic Adventures of Batman and Robin sticker on the box for snes shriveling up cracking and falling off right next to the price sticker I wanted to remove with a hair drier. Price sticker still took significant effort 😅
I just recently started getting into retro game collecting, and one of the biggest mistakes I hear is buying the retro consoles before focusing on the games. Console collecting can be super expensive, so just focus on building a substantial game library first. I, for example, bought a retron 5 so it would give me incentive to buy a bunch of retro games that I want. Once I build myself a nice collection, I'll slowly start buying the consoles; when I can actually afford them. Thats some advice for new collectors.
The other big piece of advice that I'd give is to make sure you spend some playing the games before you get too carried away trying to accumulate a lot. It will help you learn what you're into and give you a better sense of what to go after.
I definitely liked what you had to say in this one. I also definitely would like to go back and have a chat with my 1992 self about keeping my games. Awesome video!
My biggest collecting mistake is bot checking games for authenticity better. Ran into a couple of fakes and been really upset about that. I have game bits I bring with me now.
@@kabirthepunjabi Just a particular fitted screw head to open carts. I carry 3 with me. The one for Genesis Carts, the One for Nes/Snes, and a star bit one as well. Some 32X Acclaim games use that one. Anyway those 3 are good to have around.
What I’ve been doing is not rebuying the old games I sold but I’m buying all of the games I wanted to play as a kid but never had a chance to try. So I recently got myself an analogue Super Nintendo and a Sega Saturn, and I’m buying every game I would have freaked out over as a kid. It’s a good mindset to move forward and not look back at the past mistakes.
I have a copy of Yoshi on the Game boy. It's one of my only original copies left, and I absolutely loved that game. It's worth more than the rest of my collection combined haha. And it's not even that fantastic of a game in the grand scheme of things, but I got good at it and had a blast playing it. My initials are still scrolled on the back of it in wonky 6-year-old bold letters lol
Me too. My sisters and I got an NES in 1990 and until I got my first job in 1999 and got a PS1, that was the only game system I had so you'd better believe I took care of it. At least half of my childhood games are CIB and most of the ones that aren't still have the manuals.
Me too. I have N64 cartridges and my N64 console and controller, and I have my GameCube with a few discs and 4 controllers. unfortunately my brother and I lost all of our PS2 and original Xbox games. :(
"Some of us might be happy if we just didnt lose our games," damn you hit me where it hurts. Every time I get the chance I tell people not to sell their consoles and old games - and I don't think I've ever reached anybody.
Thank you for making this video. I like your style of how you film your video game footage. I do understand why there are no boxes for Nintendo games but why would someone throw away the boxes for the genesis? Gamestop threw those boxes away.
@@RetroBirdGaming I like your footage like this than through the capture card because this way gives you a better sense how the games look like on real life rather than the picture perfect image through a capture card.
Great topic, my biggest regrets are not keeping my childhood treasures including a Sega CD and games. Moreover, I would immediately tear packaging and throw it in the trash can. Even ps1 jewel cases and manuals ended up in the trash while the game disc went in a black leather Case Logic folder. SMH.
I ended up building a video game collection before I even knew that I would be a game collector. I almost quit video games in the PS2 era if not for Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic on Xbox. But, because I had never sold anything and had only lost a few games due to neighborhood trades with the other kids, I already had a bunch of games and consoles by the time I decided to make that my hobby. I've been collecting for the last 15 years or so but I had been building my collection for my whole life.
Honestly I wish I had never sold my original games. But I needed that cash for the next system!!! 😭 Back when the PS2 was right around the corner...those 18 N64 games and controllers and memory cards, etc etc I had worked hard for and collected dutifully became extremely expendable.
My biggest regret is selling the copy of Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow I got at a garage sale for $3 to the local game store for $7 in store credit because I got stuck on the grim reaper boss. Only to rebuy it at $75 later on.
@@RetroBirdGaming The sad part is the game is good enough to be absolutely worth it, lol. Thankfully I managed to avoid most other regrets, at least on a small scale. I’m glad I was smart with what I collected and kept. And I’m especially happy I got most of the Gamecube stuff I wanted back in 2013-2015 when it was cheap. The insane prices of Mario Party 4, 5 and 6 are the only things stopping me from having my full dream Gamecube set. If you do happen to wonder about a Gamecube game that could get expensive in the future, it’s Killer7. It’s a phenomenal game with possibly the best graphics on the console, is incredibly unique in every aspect, and unfortunately with its uniqueness sold like DIRT. It sold less than 100,000 copies globally, and did so badly that both a comic book line and figurine line got cancelled at the last moment. It was directed by Suda51, the guy that did “No More Heroes” and it has a lot of his signature high-octane attitude. It’s also already up to $80 on eBay right now, despite the obscurity. I guarantee if 1 semi-popular TH-camr makes a video on it, letting the public even be aware of its existence (there are no high viewcount in-depth reviews on this entire website for it) the value could easily double.
My regret was not buying more 32X/Sega CD & Saturn games when I picked up my Sega 32X, CD, and Saturn over a decade ago. I had a handful of games, and recently started picking up more games for these consoles, but now I am definitely paying for it. As far as childhood stuff, I do regret selling more Collector's Edition Ocarina of Time when I was a kid, but it was for the same reason as you mentioned in the video: I want to buy more games/ride the hype train and money is tight.
I have plenty of regrets, but on the flip side of this: I've seen some of the prices for stuff I was looking for just, absolutely, TANK. That is a wonderful feeling.
About losing games! 2005 during my parents divorce my mom throughout my whole NES collection ( original NES deluxe set and a Toploader with about 35 games) while I was away at school without telling me. Thanks Mom!
I acquired them when they were cheaper and just released. I kept them and because I was poor I treated them like treasures. I now have many pristine games because I was poor and I worked when for them.
It's easy to have regrets with hindsight. I was very luck to start when I did. I got loads of games back in 2007-2014, all in great condition so I can't really complain. I do regret not buying some games, but if I had I wouldn't have bought others.
Easily my biggest regret is not keeping stuff as a kid. I know why I didn't, sold to get money for the new stuff. But man would be nice to have it all back now. Course also wish started earlier. I just started in June 2021. Done really well so far though so that's not big issue. I've gotten very lucky on couple big deals.
I'm so guilty of this letting go all of my classic sought-after rare games back then 😔 now I'm slowly collecting them again which is hard today. Collecting retro games these days is not easy. Kudos to folks who been Collecting since childhood 👏🏾
At one point in my life I was lucky to have bought an nes and a ton of games at Funcoland around 2001 and games were so cheap! However, I ended up selling them off. I got back into gaming when the Switch and mini consoles came around. I wish I would have at least saved the NES with a few games. At least I still have my original N64 and game collection. Thanks for the great video!
Biggest mistakes: being selective in times when the stuff was cheap. Like: "Oh, I have Sparkster already for the MD" or "Do I need another MD platformer?". Another time I could have gotten a complete Zelda collection for cheap. I could still kick my ass, but back then I wasn´t into Zelda as much as now. But I must say I did more right than wrong: I often got good deals on whole collections including the systems.
I kept most my games as a kid. Happy I did that. My biggest regret is when I first got serious money I dropped big money on a lot of expensive nes, snes and genesis games. I had the itch and was the only way to scratch it. I wanted to beef up my retro game collection for years but between high school social life with no job, college, and time after college to find a good job it just wasn't in the cards until prices were already pretty high about 7 years ago.
One of my biggest mistake was not buying Final Fight 3 for the Snes at my small my local videogame shop back in the mid 90’s. It was sitting on the shelf all new and complete. At the time I had already moved on to the Playstation and thought that I wouldn’t be playing the Snes any longer. Now the game cost a leg and an arm. Keep up the good work with the channel Retro Bird!
There was a time when I was collecting game consoles more so than the games (nowadays that's reversed) and the biggest mistake I made, which I learned from, was buying a Sega CD unit that was listed as "untested but it worked the last time I played it years ago". Not only did it not work, but the issue it had, a dead motor, was beyond my capacity to fix. I would have simply bought another one but this was right as collectors were starting to notice that system and prices shot up out of my price range. From then on, I've assumed that "untested, as is" is code for "does not work". I eventually got a Mega Everdrive Pro and I've been able to play Sega CD games that way so all's well that ends well, I guess.
That's too bad to hear. Yeah, it's safe to assume that "untested" is going to mean it's broken. I actually have ran across some listings where it was just people who didn't have the means to properly test it. I purchased the items and they were fine.
A big mistake i made once was trying to ripoff that tag sometimes stores put right in the middle of the labels. This one was in the front, top right corner of my conker's bad fur day copy. It now has a white corner. Well, at least it was only 15 bucks back in 2004. Also when I was 12, I decided to use transparent duct tape to hold tightly together the two halves of my starfox 64 cartridge that was missing the two bottom clips.
I didn’t become a Nintendo collector (let alone Nintendo fan) until the Switch in 2017, and I couldn’t have accidentally picked a better console to start at. While the Switch library isn’t necessarily rare or unique, I love how many games are in it. Plus the beautiful, hopefully soon-to-be-rare Pokémon Switch Lite.
I’ve recently discovered your channel and appreciate your perspective. It’s honestly helping me to do some level setting about my own collection. I was young when the Atari 2600 launched. My parents couldn’t afford it so bought me the Magnavox Odyssey 2. My biggest regret as an adult collector is acquiring that generation of consoles. I never play them. At least I’ve taken my “back in the day” pants off Lol
My big one is buying something, putting it on the shelf and then, when I finally get around to playing it, there's an HD rerelease or something that looks way better. Did this with Final Fantasy X.
I passed on a near mint copy of Chrono Trigger at flea market when it was only $30 around 2008. I also sold Koudelka for a measly $15 back around the same time. I’ve been collecting since around 2002 and during that time went through 3 career changes, so money has been very tight up until a few years ago. I’m a JRPG guys, so prices tend to be higher for many of the games I want. Prices have become stupid over the years, so I regret not buy a lot of Pre-Dreamcast era games when they were cheaper or some games released between 2012 and 2017 when they were new (Look at the price of some 3DS RPGs now!). Love the content dude! This is quickly becoming one of my favorite gaming channels!
Glad you're enjoying it and those are some rough missed opportunities. I passed up a CIB Chrono Trigger at a flea market as well. I've never collected Super Nintendo boxes so I let that one go :(
Way back in the day when I used to go the the mall a lot, I passed by this brand new copy of Rule of Rose on the clearance rack at f.y.e. for, like, $10 or something like that. I didn't really know what it was, but the cover always caught my eye for some reason. I probably walked by that thing hundreds of times over the course of about a year. Years later, I get on this kick where I was trying to collect every survival horror game for the 5th and 6th gen consoles. Rule of Rose is one of the rarest on PS2, and was inordinately and prohibitively expensive by then. To this day, I've still never gotten it or played it. So, I'm still kicking myself over that, and am always wondering whatever happened to that copy. Did anyone ever buy it, or did it end up back in a warehouse or a trash bin somewhere?
My biggest collecting mistake was selling most of my systems & games as a kid in order to buy more/new systems & games. My second biggest mistake was buying them all back and then some once I was older...right before emulation really came into the picture lol. I definitely enjoy and respect having the actual physical copy or hardware, but just in terms of saving money (e.g. Suikoden 2), time and space, I would have most likely just opted to relive my nostalgic memories via emulation. Though, I do enjoy examining them all now and then, and emulation does of course pale in comparison to the actual thing.
Biggest Mistake: Not knowing what I wanted to collect. This was an early mistake as when I got into fully retro collecting, I was buying systems which I never owned and I would aim for games which were expensive and rare (In my case, it was the Sega CD, 32X, Famicom, Saturn and Dreamcast). I am not able to support several libraries of games and I wasn't collecting because I cared about the system nor the games. I didn't realize that I didn't care for the Sega CD nor any of the Sega consoles until I started to play the games and realized what I wanted to actually collect (Which for me, are for the Nintendo Consoles I grew up with) I think it's important to know what you want to collect and why you want to rather than randomly buying things like what I did.
I have a Black and Red Z Bag from Nintendo it is so cool from my childhood… but probably selling my PS2! Back in the day, and buying a Slim in 2020, and buying a couple of games back.
Yup. I waited too long I never got rid of a single game from when I was a kid though so I got a lot of the good stuff for those consoles and only had to replace a few games I lent to my brother that were lost.
I was lucky enough to hold onto my Mega Drive and games from 1993 onwards (aside from those I’d had to trade in for new ones). I’ve have managed to reacquire them all except one. My regret, though, is giving away my small Master System collection. Not too difficult to find them again but it included a master System converter for the model 2 Mega Drive! Those go for silly money nowadays!
Well, one of my mistakes was letting irresponsible friends or family borrow my games that would be returned in worse condition than I originally lent it out as. I took the utmost care with my game collection and to have a game ruined by someone else was just frustrating. After a couple times of this happening, I just ultimately never let other people borrow my games as they were really valuable to me as a kid. Like one time I let a "friend" of mine borrow a game complete in box with manual for a weekend. When I got it back, the box/booklet were missing and the game cartridge had some scratches on it that weren't originally there.
My biggest mistake was letting a friend borrow Ninja remix on cartridge for the C64 with the box and manual in mint condition only for him to ridge around with it in his bag for the next six months. He couldn't understand why I was so pissed because the game still worked and the rest was just packaging, never again!!
With that ship stuck in the Suez Canal your hoarding bread bag clips might come in handy. I'd contact Pepperidge farms an see what they're willing to pay.
My biggest mistake so far was collecting versions of games that are inferior just because they're available. Basically I would buy games for the PS2 when there were better versions for the Xbox. Or PS1 games when there were better Dreamcast versions etc. I like to always play the best-looking/running, most complete version of games that I can, so I ended up selling off about 150 games, just because I wanted a copy on a different console or the GOTY version and so on. A lot of this came down to not knowing enough about what I was getting. Big tip is to give the wikipedia page a skim or Google any questions you have. Don't just say, "Oh hey, there's King Kong for PS2, I want that game." No ya dummy, it's on 360.
I almost always buy my games "complete". Sometimes I buy a game incomplete cheaply, but then I buy the rest of the materials (game case, cover art, manual.) online on a site like ebay to complete my incomplete game that I bought.
Purchasing any retro games beyond what is sentimental if I can otherwise download it. I don't regret it though as it has made me realise I'm not into game collecting. Crts on the other hand...
I do wish I didn't do certain trade-ins when I was younger, but that would also mean I didn't get to play other games. So can really regret it too much.
It would have to be trading off my original Nintendo DS along with all the games I had for it - all in the name of building up my retro game collection. I hadn't played it in years at that point and figured I wasn't going back, so I got a little too zealous for wanting to put them towards getting other games when I should have waited.
I do miss my grandma that I didn't visit enough at the end of her life. I do regret the love of my life not being with me now and I wish I hadn't ever let go of my childhood games.
My friends and I were into gameboys a few years ago. GBA games were so cheap back in 2017. For my friend's birthday I bought him pokemon emerald for $20. He ended up being a bad person and I've since moved.
I regret not taking care of my manuals when I was a kid. I didn't intentionally throw them away or anything, but I didn't keep them organized in any way and a lot of them either got lost or are missing covers or worse because they got shoved into random drawers and such.
Dude my local flee market has a guy who’s shop ONLY sells retro games, they are a little bit over priced but there all tested and work and you get to see what your buying, PLUS the guy is so nice.
It’s funny your talking about getting rid of our child hood games while playing batman. Which is the one child hood game I realized I never beat and is what got me to get back into NES and bam there’s my origin story.
My biggest mistake was returning an eBay auction win. Some years back I purchased a complete in box Jaguar CD. The box was pristine as were the games and CD unit itself. My total cost was $91. After testing it with my Atari Jaguar system, I noticed that it was making a lot of clicking noises. Believing this to be evidence of a malfunction, I returned the CD unit for a refund. Unbeknownst to me at the time was the fact that the clicking noises were part of it's normal operation. I looked again on eBay a short time later only to find that the Jag CD was $300 in a ratty box. That mistake has haunted me for over a decade now. No matter how many good deals I find, I will always remember that colossal blunder. By the way, I still have my original Atari 2600 games from my childhood. I never was one to sell games when the newest system came out. Instead my collection would just get larger.
I'm not sure I'd count mine as "blunders" When it was the mid 90s, playstation and n64 were all the rage, I gave my NES and Gameboy games to a less fortunate friend. No regrets. I still miss the games now though. I got most of the NES games back, but not a lot of the game boy. I did have the wisdom to keep my Final Fantasy, and Empire Strikes Back games though, just because I loved Star Wars, and RPGs.
I remember like 15 years ago going to one of those comic cons type conventions. And a booth were selling Nintendo NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis games. Each system an entire rom set on a disc and an emulator. This was the first I heard of emulators. But the guy said you could play it on your computer and had a demo setup with a TV. It was so awesome getting to play so many games I never could play back in the day. Though I did regret not getting the Sega Genesis disc. I got both the NES and SNES. As I never had a Genesis back in the day and so never got to play Sonic much. Though luckily later on you could get the original Sonic games on the Wii and the 3DS systems.
Well for me, my parents sold all my game stuff. I asked for a new game, and half the time some other games disappeared. And I just saw that as normal. I miss all my games :(
I'm sure we all regret selling one system to be able to buy another, now, but not so much at the time. It was also the only solution, those things are expensive and money is thight. Imagine not selling them, you wouldn't have been able to get the newer system and miss out on all those memories!
The problem I have is parents sold my stuff, people steal my stuff, and systems break(I no longer buy CD systems). I collect games I will play or have nastalga for.
My mistake in video game history is buying just the video game online without knowing the seller. They come in broken with no cushion what so ever! I once got a game in an envelope! That game had no chance! Stuff like that makes me wonder, did the game even work to begin with? Also I was around when Video Stores Crashed & was like: Why would I want old used beaten up games for cheap? Fast Forward to now & I'm buying old used beaten up games online & boy are they not cheap! Ha-Ha! Just got to laugh at yourself sometimes!
My biggest regret is the financial situations that put me into a position I had to sell off my collection to survive, but.... I’m thankful for the money I was able to recoup to keep me going financially
Luckily games have some value. If you were collecting certain other things, you would've had your hands tied. Glad you got out of that situation and here's to not letting it happen again! :)
@@RetroBirdGaming Good thing he was collecting games and not bread clips.
Covid politics sucked...
Biggest Mistake: Being stubborn about price range. When stuff just trends upward, it can very possibly never return to the range you may be looking to pay. I’ve missed out on many games for this reason that now sell for 4-8 times the price I was initially looking to pay. If I had just been willing to raise my target price by about 10-15% I wouldn’t be excluded from owning them today.
That's happened to me for some games where now they're completely out of reach.
my biggest regrets are mostly not buying games for genesis over $10 in 2011 that are now $100+ - that Complete Aero The Acrobat 2 for $20 sitting in the local shop still haunts my dreams!
Quite a scary thought. Hopefully after everything goes back to normal games should go down just a tad
I remember when Toys R Us was selling Earthbound on clearance because nobody wanted/liked the game.
buying Gunstar heroes and Streets of rage 3 complete for 1 euro a pop in a garage sale, because internet wasnt really as big as it was now
Good times.
Had MUSHA as a kid. Regret ever getting rid of it.
@@WhoniverseReview lol i found one under a display fixture when i worked at toys r us in 2001.
I only collect games that I like so I don't have any regrets
That's a good way to do it!
Agreed. I made the decision to start doing that recently. My only regret is holding on to games that I didn’t like later than when I reached that decision.
Me too. Except I like a lot of games.
Me too but I have a healthy appreciation to all games and love all retro bird's equally
Same! I’m building a snes collection of games I like/love :D
I started collecting in the early 2000's and it was glorious. I also knew some incredible flea market sellers back in the day. Sorry I don't have much in life to brag about just give me this one.
Not telling my mom that the 100+ video game boxes in the basement were important... I think there were games in some, too. To the trash they were taken. RIP.
Ahhh that is brutal.
Oh no! :(
This hurts so fucking much
My first Nintendo game was Ghostbusters. I lost it for about five years and then found it at the bottom of the freezer. I used to pop my games in the freezer for 20 minutes to get them to work. (It worked like a charm). Anyway it still works fine after 35 years of abuse.
I swear that NES products were made out of Eternium. Why, I bet that the future generations will still be able to play some Mario Bros when their PS-Infinity systems expire from a pre-determined date for the servers to shut down at. Why, we still have battery backed cartridges that are retaining their original save files. At least, some of them are.
My biggest regret is always seeing a retro game listed at a reasonable price but just not being convinced enough that I'd actually enjoy it and then seeing that game skyrocket in price or not being available anywhere anymore
Well, maybe it's not so bad if you potentially would have ended up not enjoying the game :)
This guy is what Scott the Woz will be in 10 years. The fact that he doesn't mention or beg for subs and likes makes me like him more.
Who is Scott the Wiz?
@@MajestrosScott the Woz is another retro game TH-cam who is really comical
I'm definitely currently going through wanting to rebuy games with better labels, At first, when I started collecting, I just wanted to buy the games regardless of their condition.
Yeah, that's a tough thing to have to do. I did that at one point as well.
Everytime I put my slightly melted Excitebike cartridge into my NES I miss my poor cat Skittles. He did not find his way out.
No! They always find their way out!
Let my friend borrow all of my gba games while she was in the hospital, life happens and 10 years later we’d lost touch so I donated the boxes to a local retro game store. Then she immediately gets back in touch and returned my games. Sigh. Glad she’s ok though.
Ahhh dang unfortunate timing. It was probably worth it to help her out though.
Wait, you all didn’t talk for 10 years then out of the blue she hits you up and says “oh boy the way, I still have those games you leant me. You probably like those back”. That is the most unusual story I’ve ever heard regarding loaning stuff to someone and actually getting it returned.
i definitely regret trading in games for newer games. i've since been able to re-buy most so it's not a huge deal but i do miss my original copies that hold sentimental value.
anyways, i just discovered this channel thanks to the algorithm. i enjoy the content and it is recorded and shot really well. instant sub from me! ☺️
Couple Sega CD games I wish I bought when they were still expensive, but not used car expensive.
hahah
I definitely wish I started sooner. I've only been collecting for 4 years but I'm glad I at least started.
Collecting mistake 101. Playing through a game at least halfway and then selling it and then later re-buying it because I realized I liked it more than I expected I did in hindsight. I’m notorious for trading in and re-buying it’s kind of what I do. I’ve kind of accepted that.
My biggest regret was being about 11 or 12 years old, selling my Genesis and Sega CD with about 30-40 games between for $50, and then promptly using the newly acquired funds to buy a CB antenna and a bunch of Pop Tarts.... :(
WOW that is the worst purchases ever lol. Brutal.
2:10 THANK YOU! I keep hearing people say how going to swap meets/garage sales early will get you any item you can imagine, but nope, you get out there and you find baby clothes and holiday decorations.
Nice work man, another on point. I think everyone regrets not starting earlier or missing that deal. I regret not getting into the gaming-con scene earlier, not only for the deals and finds but meeting other people into gaming and etc.
I’d actually say trying to replicate my collection exactly as it was in my youth is a mistake. Around 2000 my dad made me sell our SNES and PS1 in order to upgrade to new consoles (gamecube and PS2) luckily after that point we realized the mistake and started saving our games. Still the sting from that inadvertently makes me want to replicate the collection and now I’m overwhelmed with almost too many games!
The worst is when your supposed friend steals them all and sells them for his drug habbit😭
Unfortunately, this is more common than we'd all like it to be.
This happened to a friend of mine, except his brother was the one who stole his games for drug money. They haven't had the same relationship ever since.
This happened to me with my record collection. I loaned my 2 crates of vinyl to a friend who wanted to pursue DJing but instead became a drug addict and sold them all for a quick hit lol.
My friend broke her leg when we were 15. I lent her my gameboy and n64 with a ton of games. They were gone the next day.
@@jonyoungmusic Drum and Bass vinyl?
I think the biggest regret in my collection is removing used game stickers on my cases from the retro stores that are no longer around in my area.
Wanting to hang onto those memories, eh? I get it.
@@RetroBirdGaming I think it's just more to do with the history of that store & the game itself. Some games I own still have the original receipt from the original buyer.
My biggest mistake was selling my childhood games to GameStop out of some moronic idea that they were out of date. I basically had to rebuy everything again which sucked. Some of my good ideas are haunting a used game store around where I live and buying things below eBay prices there (because they generally sell them a bit cheaper). It's a grab bag because I always buy something to support the shop since it's a local independent business. Best deal I got there was a copy of Splatterhouse for TG16 with its case and manual for $35 a couple years ago. Not the best deal I ever got though. That was Zelda Minish Cap for ¢25 at a garage sale.
Sweet deal for Minish Cap!
The biggest collecting mistake is buying games you "might" want to play. Buy what you do want to play. It will save you money, and heck, if you do want to play a game that becomes rare and expensive, the money you saved not buying everything in sight will be there to go towards what you truly want.
Yeah, I feel like money saved by not buying things is underrated.
Yeah my regret is not buying stuff earlier, but I kept it all until about 2010. I was out of the country and all my stuff got destroyed in a disaster back at home. The loss of my collection was super depressing, and I put off rebuying anything until recently and everything is ridiculous now. The only saving grace is I live in Japan now, so collecting again is much cheaper. It's not as nostalgic, but it's been fun. It's like a mix of nostalgia and discovering new things about the stuff I loved and lost (different art, etc). Nothing beats taking my son to the store and grabbing a bunch of 100 yen ($1) gameboy games. I guess if I did rebuy my stuff when it was lost, I wouldn't be making those new memories with my son now. So, in other words, maybe no regret.
I can see how having everything destroyed would kind of take the wind out of your sails for a while. That's rough.
I have been collecting my whole life, The trick is to never sell your games and you will surprised of how many you have. well also go and check second hand stores for super low price games and such. hell, even the games i like i have multipl copies of.
The cool holographic Adventures of Batman and Robin sticker on the box for snes shriveling up cracking and falling off right next to the price sticker I wanted to remove with a hair drier. Price sticker still took significant effort 😅
Hahah
I just recently started getting into retro game collecting, and one of the biggest mistakes I hear is buying the retro consoles before focusing on the games. Console collecting can be super expensive, so just focus on building a substantial game library first. I, for example, bought a retron 5 so it would give me incentive to buy a bunch of retro games that I want. Once I build myself a nice collection, I'll slowly start buying the consoles; when I can actually afford them. Thats some advice for new collectors.
The other big piece of advice that I'd give is to make sure you spend some playing the games before you get too carried away trying to accumulate a lot. It will help you learn what you're into and give you a better sense of what to go after.
@@RetroBirdGaming your response is much appreciated; I'll take all the advice I can get. 😊
I definitely liked what you had to say in this one. I also definitely would like to go back and have a chat with my 1992 self about keeping my games. Awesome video!
My biggest collecting mistake is bot checking games for authenticity better. Ran into a couple of fakes and been really upset about that. I have game bits I bring with me now.
That's the way to do it. Bring your game bits with you.
What's a game bit?
@@kabirthepunjabi Just a particular fitted screw head to open carts. I carry 3 with me. The one for Genesis Carts, the One for Nes/Snes, and a star bit one as well. Some 32X Acclaim games use that one. Anyway those 3 are good to have around.
What I’ve been doing is not rebuying the old games I sold but I’m buying all of the games I wanted to play as a kid but never had a chance to try. So I recently got myself an analogue Super Nintendo and a Sega Saturn, and I’m buying every game I would have freaked out over as a kid. It’s a good mindset to move forward and not look back at the past mistakes.
I have a copy of Yoshi on the Game boy. It's one of my only original copies left, and I absolutely loved that game.
It's worth more than the rest of my collection combined haha.
And it's not even that fantastic of a game in the grand scheme of things, but I got good at it and had a blast playing it. My initials are still scrolled on the back of it in wonky 6-year-old bold letters lol
Nice! I love hearing these kinds of stories.
Glad that I took care of all my stuff and still have it. 😎
Me too. My sisters and I got an NES in 1990 and until I got my first job in 1999 and got a PS1, that was the only game system I had so you'd better believe I took care of it. At least half of my childhood games are CIB and most of the ones that aren't still have the manuals.
That's amazing. I love hearing about people who did this.
Me too. I have N64 cartridges and my N64 console and controller, and I have my GameCube with a few discs and 4 controllers. unfortunately my brother and I lost all of our PS2 and original Xbox games. :(
"Some of us might be happy if we just didnt lose our games," damn you hit me where it hurts. Every time I get the chance I tell people not to sell their consoles and old games - and I don't think I've ever reached anybody.
Thank you for making this video. I like your style of how you film your video game footage. I do understand why there are no boxes for Nintendo games but why would someone throw away the boxes for the genesis? Gamestop threw those boxes away.
Those monsters! And thank you for the compliments!
@@RetroBirdGaming I like your footage like this than through the capture card because this way gives you a better sense how the games look like on real life rather than the picture perfect image through a capture card.
Dude I just wanna say the lighting in your videos is awesome!
Thank you!
Great topic, my biggest regrets are not keeping my childhood treasures including a Sega CD and games. Moreover, I would immediately tear packaging and throw it in the trash can. Even ps1 jewel cases and manuals ended up in the trash while the game disc went in a black leather Case Logic folder. SMH.
Ahh yes, we were brutal with that packaging.
I ended up building a video game collection before I even knew that I would be a game collector. I almost quit video games in the PS2 era if not for Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic on Xbox. But, because I had never sold anything and had only lost a few games due to neighborhood trades with the other kids, I already had a bunch of games and consoles by the time I decided to make that my hobby. I've been collecting for the last 15 years or so but I had been building my collection for my whole life.
That grand mammy part hit a little to close to home 🙁🙁🤣🤣
Ohh, I'm sorry to hear that. It's something most of us think about at some point.
Me too :(
Honestly I wish I had never sold my original games.
But I needed that cash for the next system!!! 😭
Back when the PS2 was right around the corner...those 18 N64 games and controllers and memory cards, etc etc I had worked hard for and collected dutifully became extremely expendable.
My biggest regret is selling the copy of Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow I got at a garage sale for $3 to the local game store for $7 in store credit because I got stuck on the grim reaper boss. Only to rebuy it at $75 later on.
Yeah, it's gotten so expensive!
@@RetroBirdGaming The sad part is the game is good enough to be absolutely worth it, lol. Thankfully I managed to avoid most other regrets, at least on a small scale. I’m glad I was smart with what I collected and kept. And I’m especially happy I got most of the Gamecube stuff I wanted back in 2013-2015 when it was cheap. The insane prices of Mario Party 4, 5 and 6 are the only things stopping me from having my full dream Gamecube set. If you do happen to wonder about a Gamecube game that could get expensive in the future, it’s Killer7. It’s a phenomenal game with possibly the best graphics on the console, is incredibly unique in every aspect, and unfortunately with its uniqueness sold like DIRT. It sold less than 100,000 copies globally, and did so badly that both a comic book line and figurine line got cancelled at the last moment. It was directed by Suda51, the guy that did “No More Heroes” and it has a lot of his signature high-octane attitude. It’s also already up to $80 on eBay right now, despite the obscurity. I guarantee if 1 semi-popular TH-camr makes a video on it, letting the public even be aware of its existence (there are no high viewcount in-depth reviews on this entire website for it) the value could easily double.
My regret was not buying more 32X/Sega CD & Saturn games when I picked up my Sega 32X, CD, and Saturn over a decade ago. I had a handful of games, and recently started picking up more games for these consoles, but now I am definitely paying for it.
As far as childhood stuff, I do regret selling more Collector's Edition Ocarina of Time when I was a kid, but it was for the same reason as you mentioned in the video: I want to buy more games/ride the hype train and money is tight.
I have plenty of regrets, but on the flip side of this:
I've seen some of the prices for stuff I was looking for just, absolutely, TANK. That is a wonderful feeling.
Glad to see the return of the bread bag clips. 😂
May not be the last of them either.
About losing games! 2005 during my parents divorce my mom throughout my whole NES collection ( original NES deluxe set and a Toploader with about 35 games) while I was away at school without telling me. Thanks Mom!
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While at school? Deep burn there.
I acquired them when they were cheaper and just released. I kept them and because I was poor I treated them like treasures. I now have many pristine games because I was poor and I worked when for them.
My biggest gaming mistake was not scooping up SMS games when they were liquidating them.
It's easy to have regrets with hindsight.
I was very luck to start when I did. I got loads of games back in 2007-2014, all in great condition so I can't really complain.
I do regret not buying some games, but if I had I wouldn't have bought others.
Biggest game collecting mistake I ever made was mixing my collection with an exes. Yeah that didn't work out too well. I'm on collection 2
Bruh I had a ex take my whole collection after we split now I'm on collection #2 also
Easily my biggest regret is not keeping stuff as a kid. I know why I didn't, sold to get money for the new stuff. But man would be nice to have it all back now.
Course also wish started earlier. I just started in June 2021. Done really well so far though so that's not big issue. I've gotten very lucky on couple big deals.
I'm so guilty of this letting go all of my classic sought-after rare games back then 😔 now I'm slowly collecting them again which is hard today. Collecting retro games these days is not easy. Kudos to folks who been Collecting since childhood 👏🏾
At one point in my life I was lucky to have bought an nes and a ton of games at Funcoland around 2001 and games were so cheap! However, I ended up selling them off. I got back into gaming when the Switch and mini consoles came around. I wish I would have at least saved the NES with a few games. At least I still have my original N64 and game collection. Thanks for the great video!
Thanks for watching as always! Glad that you at least still have your N64 stuff.
The Ranger X cartridge I have is the same one I bought from a Blockbuster in 1996.
Nice!
Biggest mistakes: being selective in times when the stuff was cheap. Like: "Oh, I have Sparkster already for the MD" or "Do I need another MD platformer?". Another time I could have gotten a complete Zelda collection for cheap. I could still kick my ass, but back then I wasn´t into Zelda as much as now. But I must say I did more right than wrong: I often got good deals on whole collections including the systems.
2:58 or losing or have stolen the amount of stuff that walked out of the house is amazing.
I kept most my games as a kid. Happy I did that. My biggest regret is when I first got serious money I dropped big money on a lot of expensive nes, snes and genesis games. I had the itch and was the only way to scratch it. I wanted to beef up my retro game collection for years but between high school social life with no job, college, and time after college to find a good job it just wasn't in the cards until prices were already pretty high about 7 years ago.
One of my biggest mistake was not buying Final Fight 3 for the Snes at my small my local videogame shop back in the mid 90’s. It was sitting on the shelf all new and complete. At the time I had already moved on to the Playstation and thought that I wouldn’t be playing the Snes any longer. Now the game cost a leg and an arm. Keep up the good work with the channel Retro Bird!
There was a time when I was collecting game consoles more so than the games (nowadays that's reversed) and the biggest mistake I made, which I learned from, was buying a Sega CD unit that was listed as "untested but it worked the last time I played it years ago". Not only did it not work, but the issue it had, a dead motor, was beyond my capacity to fix. I would have simply bought another one but this was right as collectors were starting to notice that system and prices shot up out of my price range. From then on, I've assumed that "untested, as is" is code for "does not work". I eventually got a Mega Everdrive Pro and I've been able to play Sega CD games that way so all's well that ends well, I guess.
That's too bad to hear. Yeah, it's safe to assume that "untested" is going to mean it's broken. I actually have ran across some listings where it was just people who didn't have the means to properly test it. I purchased the items and they were fine.
A big mistake i made once was trying to ripoff that tag sometimes stores put right in the middle of the labels. This one was in the front, top right corner of my conker's bad fur day copy. It now has a white corner. Well, at least it was only 15 bucks back in 2004. Also when I was 12, I decided to use transparent duct tape to hold tightly together the two halves of my starfox 64 cartridge that was missing the two bottom clips.
I didn’t become a Nintendo collector (let alone Nintendo fan) until the Switch in 2017, and I couldn’t have accidentally picked a better console to start at. While the Switch library isn’t necessarily rare or unique, I love how many games are in it. Plus the beautiful, hopefully soon-to-be-rare Pokémon Switch Lite.
Biggest Retro Collecting Mistake: Putting value in collecting over playing. Get some Everdrives, DONE. Nothing left to do but PLAY. :) :) :)
The answer is Yes. Yes, I do need both copies of Mega Man Soccer.... lol. Great video!
Hahah glad to hear it!
I’ve recently discovered your channel and appreciate your perspective. It’s honestly helping me to do some level setting about my own collection. I was young when the Atari 2600 launched. My parents couldn’t afford it so bought me the Magnavox Odyssey 2. My biggest regret as an adult collector is acquiring that generation of consoles. I never play them. At least I’ve taken my “back in the day” pants off Lol
Haha glad you found the channel :)
My big one is buying something, putting it on the shelf and then, when I finally get around to playing it, there's an HD rerelease or something that looks way better. Did this with Final Fantasy X.
Hahah this has happened to me with the Mass Effect Trilogy.
I passed on a near mint copy of Chrono Trigger at flea market when it was only $30 around 2008. I also sold Koudelka for a measly $15 back around the same time. I’ve been collecting since around 2002 and during that time went through 3 career changes, so money has been very tight up until a few years ago. I’m a JRPG guys, so prices tend to be higher for many of the games I want. Prices have become stupid over the years, so I regret not buy a lot of Pre-Dreamcast era games when they were cheaper or some games released between 2012 and 2017 when they were new (Look at the price of some 3DS RPGs now!). Love the content dude! This is quickly becoming one of my favorite gaming channels!
Glad you're enjoying it and those are some rough missed opportunities. I passed up a CIB Chrono Trigger at a flea market as well. I've never collected Super Nintendo boxes so I let that one go :(
Way back in the day when I used to go the the mall a lot, I passed by this brand new copy of Rule of Rose on the clearance rack at f.y.e. for, like, $10 or something like that. I didn't really know what it was, but the cover always caught my eye for some reason. I probably walked by that thing hundreds of times over the course of about a year.
Years later, I get on this kick where I was trying to collect every survival horror game for the 5th and 6th gen consoles. Rule of Rose is one of the rarest on PS2, and was inordinately and prohibitively expensive by then. To this day, I've still never gotten it or played it. So, I'm still kicking myself over that, and am always wondering whatever happened to that copy. Did anyone ever buy it, or did it end up back in a warehouse or a trash bin somewhere?
My biggest collecting mistake was selling most of my systems & games as a kid in order to buy more/new systems & games. My second biggest mistake was buying them all back and then some once I was older...right before emulation really came into the picture lol. I definitely enjoy and respect having the actual physical copy or hardware, but just in terms of saving money (e.g. Suikoden 2), time and space, I would have most likely just opted to relive my nostalgic memories via emulation. Though, I do enjoy examining them all now and then, and emulation does of course pale in comparison to the actual thing.
Biggest Mistake: Not knowing what I wanted to collect. This was an early mistake as when I got into fully retro collecting, I was buying systems which I never owned and I would aim for games which were expensive and rare (In my case, it was the Sega CD, 32X, Famicom, Saturn and Dreamcast). I am not able to support several libraries of games and I wasn't collecting because I cared about the system nor the games. I didn't realize that I didn't care for the Sega CD nor any of the Sega consoles until I started to play the games and realized what I wanted to actually collect (Which for me, are for the Nintendo Consoles I grew up with) I think it's important to know what you want to collect and why you want to rather than randomly buying things like what I did.
It’s the Retro Bird, and he is growing, growing into a large Internet Name!
Hahah I always appreciate the creativity on your part.
@@RetroBirdGaming thank you!
@@videoarchive3166 and he hopes that you liked what he had to say!
@@RetroBirdGaming I bought a new yugioh game and kept my old yugioh ds game but now I sold the game for $100 in other words keep your old games
I have a Black and Red Z Bag from Nintendo it is so cool from my childhood… but probably selling my PS2! Back in the day, and buying a Slim in 2020, and buying a couple of games back.
Yup. I waited too long
I never got rid of a single game from when I was a kid though so I got a lot of the good stuff for those consoles and only had to replace a few games I lent to my brother that were lost.
Somehow dude reminds me of a younger version of the late, great Rene Auberjonois.. an awesome actor.
Haha. Ya know, a handful of people started saying this recently.
I was lucky enough to hold onto my Mega Drive and games from 1993 onwards (aside from those I’d had to trade in for new ones). I’ve have managed to reacquire them all except one. My regret, though, is giving away my small Master System collection. Not too difficult to find them again but it included a master System converter for the model 2 Mega Drive! Those go for silly money nowadays!
Well, one of my mistakes was letting irresponsible friends or family borrow my games that would be returned in worse condition than I originally lent it out as. I took the utmost care with my game collection and to have a game ruined by someone else was just frustrating. After a couple times of this happening, I just ultimately never let other people borrow my games as they were really valuable to me as a kid.
Like one time I let a "friend" of mine borrow a game complete in box with manual for a weekend. When I got it back, the box/booklet were missing and the game cartridge had some scratches on it that weren't originally there.
Been waiting all day for this video to post!
Hope that it was able to deliver for you :)
My biggest mistake was letting a friend borrow Ninja remix on cartridge for the C64 with the box and manual in mint condition only for him to ridge around with it in his bag for the next six months. He couldn't understand why I was so pissed because the game still worked and the rest was just packaging, never again!!
With that ship stuck in the Suez Canal your hoarding bread bag clips might come in handy. I'd contact Pepperidge farms an see what they're willing to pay.
Haha I'll give that a try!
My biggest mistake so far was collecting versions of games that are inferior just because they're available. Basically I would buy games for the PS2 when there were better versions for the Xbox. Or PS1 games when there were better Dreamcast versions etc. I like to always play the best-looking/running, most complete version of games that I can, so I ended up selling off about 150 games, just because I wanted a copy on a different console or the GOTY version and so on. A lot of this came down to not knowing enough about what I was getting. Big tip is to give the wikipedia page a skim or Google any questions you have. Don't just say, "Oh hey, there's King Kong for PS2, I want that game." No ya dummy, it's on 360.
I almost always buy my games "complete". Sometimes I buy a game incomplete cheaply, but then I buy the rest of the materials (game case, cover art, manual.) online on a site like ebay to complete my incomplete game that I bought.
Purchasing any retro games beyond what is sentimental if I can otherwise download it. I don't regret it though as it has made me realise I'm not into game collecting. Crts on the other hand...
I do wish I didn't do certain trade-ins when I was younger, but that would also mean I didn't get to play other games. So can really regret it too much.
It would have to be trading off my original Nintendo DS along with all the games I had for it - all in the name of building up my retro game collection. I hadn't played it in years at that point and figured I wasn't going back, so I got a little too zealous for wanting to put them towards getting other games when I should have waited.
“Easy to get carried away” Yes lol
hahah
Well now I gotta invest in Bread Bag Clips.
I do miss my grandma that I didn't visit enough at the end of her life. I do regret the love of my life not being with me now and I wish I hadn't ever let go of my childhood games.
My friends and I were into gameboys a few years ago. GBA games were so cheap back in 2017. For my friend's birthday I bought him pokemon emerald for $20. He ended up being a bad person and I've since moved.
There's still a handful of GBA games that are pretty reasonably priced these days.
I regret not taking care of my manuals when I was a kid. I didn't intentionally throw them away or anything, but I didn't keep them organized in any way and a lot of them either got lost or are missing covers or worse because they got shoved into random drawers and such.
Dude my local flee market has a guy who’s shop ONLY sells retro games, they are a little bit over priced but there all tested and work and you get to see what your buying, PLUS the guy is so nice.
It’s funny your talking about getting rid of our child hood games while playing batman. Which is the one child hood game I realized I never beat and is what got me to get back into NES and bam there’s my origin story.
Batman on NES actually reminds me of you every time I play it now!
@@RetroBirdGaming amazing! 🙌
My biggest mistake was returning an eBay auction win. Some years back I purchased a complete in box Jaguar CD. The box was pristine as were the games and CD unit itself. My total cost was $91. After testing it with my Atari Jaguar system, I noticed that it was making a lot of clicking noises. Believing this to be evidence of a malfunction, I returned the CD unit for a refund. Unbeknownst to me at the time was the fact that the clicking noises were part of it's normal operation. I looked again on eBay a short time later only to find that the Jag CD was $300 in a ratty box. That mistake has haunted me for over a decade now. No matter how many good deals I find, I will always remember that colossal blunder. By the way, I still have my original Atari 2600 games from my childhood. I never was one to sell games when the newest system came out. Instead my collection would just get larger.
This is one of the best and funniest videos I've seen about collecting mistakes. Thank you!
Thank you. Glad you liked it!
I'm not sure I'd count mine as "blunders" When it was the mid 90s, playstation and n64 were all the rage, I gave my NES and Gameboy games to a less fortunate friend. No regrets. I still miss the games now though. I got most of the NES games back, but not a lot of the game boy. I did have the wisdom to keep my Final Fantasy, and Empire Strikes Back games though, just because I loved Star Wars, and RPGs.
I remember like 15 years ago going to one of those comic cons type conventions. And a booth were selling Nintendo NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis games. Each system an entire rom set on a disc and an emulator. This was the first I heard of emulators. But the guy said you could play it on your computer and had a demo setup with a TV. It was so awesome getting to play so many games I never could play back in the day. Though I did regret not getting the Sega Genesis disc. I got both the NES and SNES. As I never had a Genesis back in the day and so never got to play Sonic much. Though luckily later on you could get the original Sonic games on the Wii and the 3DS systems.
Look at all these damn comments holy shit. retro bird out here with his finger on the pulse. He is the people's champ, the people's bird!
hahah
Well for me, my parents sold all my game stuff. I asked for a new game, and half the time some other games disappeared. And I just saw that as normal. I miss all my games :(
I'm sure we all regret selling one system to be able to buy another, now, but not so much at the time. It was also the only solution, those things are expensive and money is thight. Imagine not selling them, you wouldn't have been able to get the newer system and miss out on all those memories!
I thought I was the only one who kept countless amount of bread bag clips.
You've made yourself a friend :)
@@RetroBirdGaming haha. Awe. Thanks. :)
@@RetroBirdGaming I’ll gladly be your friend. :)
Lmfao, me & my brother do the same thing & even though I do it I feel it's completely pointless. I don't plan on re-saling bread.
@@punkydudester3 I just keep them as spares, just in case I lose a clip or someone throws it away I will have a spare one to use.
Sold a complete neo geo pocket collection for 1300 dollars. Every game boxed complete like new. Plus a console, carry case etc.
The problem I have is parents sold my stuff, people steal my stuff, and systems break(I no longer buy CD systems). I collect games I will play or have nastalga for.
My mistake in video game history is buying just the video game online without knowing the seller. They come in broken with no cushion what so ever! I once got a game in an envelope! That game had no chance! Stuff like that makes me wonder, did the game even work to begin with? Also I was around when Video Stores Crashed & was like: Why would I want old used beaten up games for cheap? Fast Forward to now & I'm buying old used beaten up games online & boy are they not cheap! Ha-Ha! Just got to laugh at yourself sometimes!
Had to Pause the video when the Saturn Bomberman shot happened. That was just hilarious.
Fun fact: I actually had to do like 20 takes of that shot. The camera kept doing weird stuff while I was trying to film it.