Acts of Stupidity in The Art of Purchasing

[Cowdisease]

Back in the Genesis days, I purchased Slaughter Sport because its two-page ad had a big quote that read "Better than Street Fighter!" Boy, was that one of biggest lies I've ever read during my childhood.

The fighting system wasn't great and the character designs were horrible (a gargoyle who farts and a fat man with a face on his stomach were some of the notable fighters). What was really insulting about the game is that it tried to pass pallette-swapped fighters as new characters. The only interesting thing was this giant green monster would come up from the ground and eat your fighter if you lost the battle.

From then on, I learned to never EVER purchase a game based on its advertisement.

[burgundy]

I'd have to say my worst buy was spending 45 for Zelda- Majora's Mask and then the 20 or whatever for that damn Jumper Pack thing. The game sucked, and I never needed that pointless little addition ever again. And to make it worse, I bought a copy for a friend out of my own money, too. AND ANOTHER JUMPER PACK.

I RETRACT MY VOTE.

[Compass]

Now that a remember i won an auction in ebay for a panzer dragoon saga for a heavy amount of dinero and i never got the game.Its already been 3 years and til this day i still go to my mailbox hoping someday it would arrive.

aww, that's sad. what happened, didn't they have good feedback? i'd let you borrow mine if i knew ya; it just sits in a box.

[Roufuss]

Yep, Battle of Olympus was an awesome Zelda 2-ish adventure with its own roman style. I remember those boots that let you walk upside down were neat.

The awesome part of my day is that I went out to a local game store I happened to notice while I was out, and there was a copy of Battle of Olympus with box and manual for only 6.99. It was just weird after reading about it right before I left, magically finding it there.

Can't wait to try it out, looking at the back of the box reminded me how much I wanted to play it as a kid but never could. Plus this thread reminded me. Probably wouldnt have got it if it wasn't for the memory jolt.

[DirtySouth]

I bought WAY too many games in my life to remember anything bad I purchased long ago, but I have a recent one.... Unlimited SaGa.

I was a huge fan on the original SaGa Frontier. I'm part of a small group of people that liked that game (and still do). I even help write one of the FAQs for the game thats on GameFAQs (said FAQ was the reason I bought the game, even after seeing all the negative reviews). Anyway, once I've seen the screenshots of U.Saga, and the nice artwork, I decided to give it a chance. Once the reviews started to roll in, and everyone was bashing it because it was "different" and "odd", it increased my want for it as the first one was blasted for the same reasons. Boy, I should've paid better attention to those reviews, because as we all know, it had to be one of the worst games ever created since the history of the universe. I almost confused it for a CDI game a few times. Anyway, I played it a total of 3 times, and now it sits collecting dust.

[James]

You'll have a good time with Battle of Olympus, I really liked that one back in the day. With box & instructions for $7 is probable the best sub-$10 purchase you'll make this week.

You think owning Tao Feng is bad? Well I'm still going to buy Kakuto Chojin some day, simply for it's recall status. I really need a copy of the game just because of the stupid reason it got recalled.

Keep in mind I also want a copy of this- http://boingboing.net/Images/ladenvsusa.jpg

James

[salmonax]

Back in the olden days before the web, I blew $60+ on Secret of Evermore for the SNES. I mistook it for a sequel to Secret of Mana, but it was just some half-baked turd squeezed out by Square USA to cash in on Mana. When Square lost a boatload of money on the FF movie, I chalked it up to karma and laughed myself into a seizure.

[Joust Williams]

I paid 65 bucks USD for Quake 3 (without the tin box mind you) when it was 2 months old. But I do stupid things all the time. I've been known to buy games, get rid of them, and buy them again.

[Cheebs]

Dodonpachi and Doom for the saturn, both shittiest ports ever.

Oh come on now. The Saturn Dodonpachi has a perfectly good TATE mode and the only graphical difference I see from the original is the pixilated explosions. You're going to slap it with the title of "shittiest port ever" because of some scalled up explosion sprites?

Biggest dissapointment ever? Hmmm.... The first Madden Football on the SNES for one. I remember huge praise over the Genny version, and I was/am a huge Tecmobowl fan. Tecmo it was not...

[D_N_G]

i was also tricked by you bastards into buying stretch panic for 50 when it first came out, deep down inside i still hold tnl as a whole accountable

also, back during the MK1 craze, right when the console versions came out, I had to get it on release day no matter what. At the time, being a Nintendo fanboy, i was anticipating the lackluster snes version. So I called all over the place and no one had it in stock but the local wal-mart but it was 74.99 and I only had 50, I literally went door to door to all my friends houses trying to bum money with a 2 for 1 payback.

Finally I get the extra 30+ dollars, head over, pick up my copy and head home in delight. I ripped it open, popped it in, configured the controller, and started playing the first match. My jaw dropped open, and I literally was in disbelief.

I did not know at that point that Nintendo refused to include blood to keep it kid friendly. I looked for the option everywhere, when I couldnt find it I ran to the store and confirmed in their magazine section what at the time was my worst horror. I was already screwed because walmart wouldnt return open games, so I just swallowed the pain, picked up the controller once again and continued to play the SNES version for years thereafter.

If I learned any one thing that came from that experience, it's that I will never again borrow money with a 2 for 1 payback, that damn cart cost me over 100 bucks in the end.