Your most regretful purchase

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I see a most regretful sale, Do you guys have any games that regret purchasing or putting time and effort into?

My most regretful gaming purchase was my first arcade game I bought on ebay. $150 for a Ninja Gaiden in a trashed Wizard of Wor cabinet. Showed up and the cab looked nothing like the auction, and the controls were shot.

This was 2003 maybe? Man I was let down, had already paid via paypal, and the seller was a real weirdo, lived out in the middle of nowhere, came out at 6pm in fruity jammy pants, no shirt, and had braided hair. I just wanted to load the cab up and get the hell out of there.
 
First game ever. Mortal Kombat in a converted Centipede cabinet. Got it on eBay around 2000 for $86, but paid $200 to have it shipped and then spent a ton of money making it look really good. Ended up selling the cab alone to a guy with a multi-board for $350 a couple of years ago, but I still lost money. On the bright side, if I hadn't done that, I don't know where or if I would be in the hobby now.
 
So far they have all been positive, but I've had a lot of headaches and heart breaks with my ms pac, so I'd have to say that one is the must regrettable.
 
Gorgar great pin but the seller kinda fucked me over on price and on parts that were described as working 100%. A year later and couple hundred dollars in and its almost 100%

Should have waited and got a T2
 
Only purchase I regret is buying a broken gamebox, that thing was broken! I also regret NOT using the BIN on a multi PCB I saw on ebay.
 
My most regretful purchase was the Satans Hollow converted to a Commando. I was originally not sure if I should make it a multi or convert it back to a SH and it was one thing after another going bad. Fate finally intervened when the bottom of it ripped off when I was unloading it from my truck and I made it a donation to break the curse.
 
L.A. machine guns, bought it a couple months ago and already got rid of it. It was a friday night drunk buy, that thing was a BEAST and I dont know how to work on rear projection monitors which is what happen the monitor started acting up so I got rid of it taking a bath on it in the process.
 
Regret buying a Flash Gordon pin project. Seemed like a good idea at the time but lost interest in it real fast. I did get my money back though when I sold it, so I guess it worked out.
 
When I was stationed in Japan. I had a good friend of mine that was into Marvel vs. Capcom. I had it for the dreamcast but I didn't care for it because of the small and selected cast.

Anyhow, not too long after I got my arcade cabinet. He tells me that I really should get MvsC and a few other friends agreed. Since I had lots of gatherings at my house (we were all single at the time except the main one who suggested the game) I though why not?

I go down to Akihabara and found the game about bought it for like $100 + $10 for the CPSII harness. So later on I suggested we should all hang out at my house and play some MVC. All agreed and they came over. We NEVER played that night. In fact we NEVER EVER got around to playing that game. We would end up going out the whole night or getting side tracked somehow.

One by one my firends ended up getting stationed else where. (pitts of the military is loosing friends) and hang out time was getting fewer and here I was stuck with this f-n game. Finally sold it about two months ago to some guy in Australia. Thank god because I didn't think I would ever get rid of it.

But it's not the only one. I'm stuck with Double Dragon 3, (2) Working MK1 w/soundboards
and a damn Wrestlefest. ............Ohhhhhhh!

This leads me to game regret #2.

I was on jammaboards looking for some parts I needed. When I was browsing the PCB section I ran across WWF wrestlefest. Since it was one of my favorites as a kid. I bought some parts I needed and splurged for the game. (Buyers impulse that lead to buyers remorse!!!) The game was like $40-50 plus S&H. Came with no manual, no marquee, NOTHING but the antistatic bag it came in. I get the game and the nostalgia wore out before I pinned the 3rd guy! A week later I went to Akihabara and found the Japanese version with all the artwork etc. For $10!!!!
The worst part is? The game for some reason no longer works. I got a dead WWF wrestlefest board. FM
 
I bought a asteroids in Oregon. Went there to get some other games so it wanst a total wasted trip.

The seller told me the machine was working then stopped one day. Bullshit!! There was not one good part in that machine, down to the non working start buttons in the control panel.
 
Some dude in Florida screwed me over on a non-working Dreamcast Jamma adapter kit. I sent it back to him and he managed to convince PayPal to let him keep the money. I also have a baby star 4Xx in 1 vertical that doesn't work. Before it stopped working, it only displayed the video UPSIDE down on all of my vertical cabinets and there was NO option to flip it. So, it was NEVER once played...
 
The first JAMMA cab I bought bought a Pit fighter cab

Just after I bought it I regretted it, as the monitor way a lemon, and it was big and ugly.
But now I realise how much I learned from gutting that cab etc

I regret more, not getting a few cabs offered to me :D
 
Got a 2 play TMNT in a Defender cabinet wasn't in the greatest shape. But the guy had the game running when we got there and sound issues on the board didn't present themselves until later as well as monitor problems. Also got a Ninja gaiden and that had power supply issues and monitor issues. The guy just through all his trash monitors and power supplies in the games and hoped they would hold out long enough to get them out the door.

But on the bright side I know how to fix switching power supplies and monitors now.
 
Double Dragon is mine only because I overpaid.

I paid $350 delivered, but ended up had these issues that needed to be resolved:

- No top marquee bracket (Made one)
- Wrong joysticks (Acquired Wicos)
- No cabinet feet (Need to install)
- PCB with oxidation and sound issues (Bought replacement)
- Monitor needing cap kit, flyback and rejuv (Rebuilt)
- Hacked up JAMMA wiring (Rewired)

All is good now though for the most part and I'm happy with it. So I guess I don't regret getting it, but regret overpaying. :)
 
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My only regret is that I started out looking for a couple of games for the kids to enjoy. 60 + games and having to build an addition on to the house just to feed my addiction.

Maybe I should start a program like AA or something.

At what point do you stop?
 
My most regretful purchase is probably a DK I got from a guy on CL for $150. The guy said it was in good shape,but when I got there it was extremely beat to hell. He had been storing it in a dilapidated shed that looked like it was about to collapse. I should have either offered him $50 or just walked. Ended up giving it away.
 
1) Nearly bare Atari 720 cab; traded various spare parts, household goods, etc.. totaling $35 to $70 depending) It was a freaking beast, and it was in such dinged (but solid) shape, I just couldn't devote myself and money to making it into a 2 player co-operative cab (like Bubble Bobble) with larger control panel. Got it since it could hold a 25" monitor. Realized a MK type cab would work better. Luckily resold it 1 year later for $50 with only some light cleaning and some bondo work done to it.


2) Donkey Kong cocktail, mostly gutted. Paid about $70 for it, dismantled it, sanded all the rusty metal down, put over $20 of primer and final coat spray paint into it (nearly killing myself from the fumes --before I got a good breathing charcoal filter mask). Sold it 2 years later for about what I paid, having done nothing more to it. Missing control panels, monitor, board. Had power and coin and top but water damage to all paper under glass.


3) Nintendo Space Fever (High Splitter) cocktail. Paid about $80 for it, complete except for missing picture tube and blown chunk of Sharp 13" monitor chassis under a large capacitor (something arc'd and burned it through). Board worked intermittently. Everything else there including glass. Cant even remember if I repainted this or not (probably did). Sold for about $10 less than I paid for it about 2 years later.
 
I have to say it was my mini outrun. It wasn't what I really wanted since it didn't have the shaker motor. The reason I bought it is because I couldn't find anything at the time. Plus the gears were busted as usual. The artwork is beat. I still have it but I'm wondering if I should part it. I did spend bucks getting the steering all fixed up.
 
Paying $490 for a 50 inch rear projection SNK megalo cabinet with no game or mvs system in it, and I knew that already. The monitor is fine, and I otherwise have everything else ready but a a game cart for my MV-4F, but those dam control panels are made of metal.....and I scrapped one up just trying to get the thing off.......bolt was stripped...Plus the work space has diminished as I feel sorry my friend's garage has turned into a storage space instead of his man cave we've been going on about. Plus I just get side tracked by all my other projects and games I hardly have time to just focus on the one's I can keep in my 650 sq foot 1 bedroom apartment lol.
 
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