Your most regretful purchase

If I reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally have to choose one of the games I technically "regretted" buying, it would have to be the Omega Race I had. And even so I don't really regret having bought it, I only regret that I couldn't bring her back to life.
 
At the auction I bought my D&D Shadow of Mystara, I didn't bit on a Toobin' and Assault. I could have had both for the price of the D&D, but I went with D&D because my wife said she'd play it.

She did, but maybe 5 times total, so I should have just got the Assault and Toobin' instead.
 
I regret not asking more detailed questions before agreeing to buy games sight unseen. I can't tell you how many times that games look great in the pics and when you get there there is water damage, chunks missing from the cab, dented control panel, etc........:(
 
groffdaddy said:
I regret not asking more detailed questions before agreeing to buy games sight unseen. I can't tell you how many times that games look great in the pics and when you get there there is water damage, chunks missing from the cab, dented control panel, etc........:(
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Tell me about it lol. People never take detailed photos, much less the quality is low so most of the imperfections are unoticeable on craigslist ads. Bought a $25 Final fight, not a bad price, but he didn't tell me the bottom pedestal was water damaged......
 
Recycle Place

I bought total of 7 or 8 vids at electronic recycle place in south sac along with Big Top Pin. with about 30 pcbs. mostly not working and untested due to unique pinout for good $450 dollars

I though it s nice deal but in the end. I got sick for good 3 weeks due to dust and all cabinets really fk up.. had to dump total of 4 cabinets due to water damages. (WAS NOOB at moment) .. though i could flip em out and fix it up!..

It was stupid things to do. Well. Yes i got my money back and SICK for 3 weeks and worth of 3 hours of labor of transportation. Plus cleaning and taking aparts by trying to save them.

Only good cabinet i got out of all is pole position with nonworking board and bougth board alone 80 and sold for 150 . It was fk up stragetic but good experience and lesson learned!

Now hobby can be dangerous cuz it could drown you in! =)

as for big top pin. I cant even sell for 25 bucks. i decide to give away for free!. atleast i got my money back and taking time and virus as loss! =(
 
I went to an estate sale advertising an arcade game since it was close. They had a Hard Driv'in Cockpit in the BASEMENT, I didn't want to move it so I left a low-ball offer. Later that day my phone rings and it's the seller asking me to come get it. Luckily the basement was a walkout but unluckily they'd just re-sodded the yard and there was a hill about 45° through a narrow gate.

We ended up buying sheets of plywood to use as a temporary path, tearing the hell out of the lawn and burying a 2 wheeler until it disappeared in the mud. WORST GAME MOVE EVAR!

To top it all off, I accidentally tore the floor moving the game so I made a return trip to fix that and the seller started opening up about her family falling apart, etc and crying while I worked on the floor- heartbreaking and awkward.

I finally sold the game later on for less than I paid for it, but not until I sunk a bunch of time in more parts and repairs. I wish I'd never gone to that sale!
 
Mike Doyle said:
I went to an estate sale advertising an arcade game since it was close. They had a Hard Driv'in Cockpit in the BASEMENT, I didn't want to move it so I left a low-ball offer. Later that day my phone rings and it's the seller asking me to come get it. Luckily the basement was a walkout but unluckily they'd just re-sodded the yard and there was a hill about 45° through a narrow gate.

We ended up buying sheets of plywood to use as a temporary path, tearing the hell out of the lawn and burying a 2 wheeler until it disappeared in the mud. WORST GAME MOVE EVAR!

To top it all off, I accidentally tore the floor moving the game so I made a return trip to fix that and the seller started opening up about her family falling apart, etc and crying while I worked on the floor- heartbreaking and awkward.

I finally sold the game later on for less than I paid for it, but not until I sunk a bunch of time in more parts and repairs. I wish I'd never gone to that sale!
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Damn man, sounds hard to top that one. Sounds like a miserable experience all around.

I myself don't really regret any arcade purchases, though I do regret selling a few things for dirt cheap that I probably should have held onto...
 
tron man, effing tron. resurrected the cabinet, new paint, new art,uilt power supply, then swapped with new power supply reworked controls and the basterd was always broken. replaced mcr cables, etc etc would give me a few happy weeks sometimes mabye a month or two, and then die again, finally i just had enough.
 
My first game.. Magic sword!

Bought for 225, had it shipped back in 98 for 125.00

New cpo, New buttons and sticks, new bezel, leg levelers.. all NOS of course..

Capped the monitor, played well.

Found out it was a converted Robotron, it needed to go.

Could only get 200 for it, due to that it was a magic sword conversion.. nobody wanted it no matter how good it looked..
 
i Was at an auction in Columbus, OH probably 8 years ago or so (USAMUSEMENTS) and there was this guy that I had seen at the last 4 or 5 auctions that was selling MAME's. This is when they were relatively new to the scene and the thought of having over 3000 games in one cabinet definitely interested me. I finally pulled the plug and bought one for a meer $775.00 bucks. it worked for about 2 weeks then the hard drive crashed and I (nor could about 5 other nerds) could not retrieve the info out of it. He used a cheap school computer that he probably got from a surplus auction. I was out almost $800.00 bucks. I was able to sell the j-pac pcb for $75 bucks and used the 25" monitor in something else (can't remember) I think he put it all in a midway cabinet or something. I finally took my lumps and trashed the rest of it. No more IMPULSE buying since then. I have learned to do my homework and so many people here have helped a ton.
 
Considering 7 out of my 14 games are having issues right now.... I would say ALL of my arcade purchases. I hate this hobby (right now).
 
Pac-man for the Atari 2600, the week it came out, with my own money - i was 10, and it was 1982, and i think i paid 39.95 + tax for it. Serious waste of money.
 
cdjump said:
Pac-man for the Atari 2600, the week it came out, with my own money - i was 10, and it was 1982, and i think i paid 39.95 + tax for it. Serious waste of money.
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Well if yer gonna go console..

Contra for the NES, Played it for 10 minutes before a friend showed me the infamous contra code.. Beat it within 30 minutes. 50.00 game destroyed..
 
My worst purchase was Q-Bert. Was wanting one and had a friend bid on one for me at an auction. I assumed it was working when I told him to bid on it. It cost like 250 originally.......By the time it was done, I had about 900 in fully working, mediocre condition Q-bert. And I am pretty much disgusted everytime I see it in the game room. My only consolation is that my family will never have to buy a coffin when I die. Just open up the back door and toss me in. I plan on riding that sumbitch to back hell from which it spawned. :)
 
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