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Saban

I'm sure we've all made that mistake.

*How long after did you regret it?

*Did you buy another one after letting the other go?

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@Zuljaras EVER?!

So you have your Games from childhood?

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edhe

A regret I have in selling some Gamecube games a few years back was that I didn't ask more for them.

I might have been a bit naive because I ended up getting rid of Tales of Symphonia, Metal Gear Solid, Pikmin, Paper Mario and Skies of Arcadia for well below their true value. My excuse was that I wasn't going to play them again, so I might as sell them on.

However, I did want to play some of them again - particularly Paper Mario and Metal Gear Solid, but they're far too expensive - Skies of Arcadia cost me over £100 to rebuy, although I could see myself selling it back to recoup the cost. I've since beaten it, again, but I don't know how long it would take me to want to play it through a third time.

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blindsquirrel

I don’t regret selling any, but I do regret trading super paper Mario for smash bros brawl. I had to rebuy it and never play smash bros anymore.

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GX_64

There are a lot of games that I have sold that I miss occasionally, but then I remember that I didn't enjoy playing them very much. The two games I have thought about the most are New Super Mario Bros Wii, and ...

The DS version of Happy Feet.
I sometimes regret selling NSMBW because it supposed to be very good, and a lot of my friends like it. I regret selling Happy Feet not because it is an excellent game, but it is a game I really enjoyed playing when I was younger. I would have been about 6 when I got it, and I thought it was great! It is probably one of the first non educational games I ever played. I feel like I should have kept it just to play occasionally, since I didn't even get much money for it.

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skywake

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@Zuljaras EVER?!
So you have your Games from childhood?

I'm in the same position and yes, of course. And to be honest as a kid it never really entered my mind that I would sell them. Of course I had friends who would do the whole "sell their old games for a new console" bit but I never brought into that. And it wasn't because we were well off either. I was a SNES kid post N64 launch and half of my collection were ex-rentals. I was the kid everyone was selling their old games to, not the other way around.

So yeah, my first game I ever got that was properly mine was Mario & Yoshi for the Gameboy. I still have it and every game I got since. With the exception of a few of the early Pokemon games I lent my sister. Basically the same as it is with pretty much every form of media. I still own everything I've got with the exception of one or two things here or there I lent to people who never returned them

I think my only regret would probably be more which games I didn't buy. Specifically I remember early in the Wii era and even slightly before seeing Gamecube games/hardware on clearance. I could've picked up a bunch of games there especially given the Wii was BC. Similarly I kinda regret not grabbing a New 3DS in the dying days of the 3DS

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Balta666

@Saban I also never sold any of my childhood games but to be fair they aren't that many as I only had a mega drive with 6 or so games (Sonic, mega pack I, Asterix, tazmania, NBA live 95, Mickey mania and Sonic & Knuckles) as after that I played almost exclusively on PC until switch launch when I got kind of crazy with collecting and now i have almost 200 physical copies across more than 10 systems

gcunit

My mantra, having lurked around gaming forums for the past 15 years or so, is 'never sell your games'.

From memory, I have only sold 3 Switch games - Binding of Isaac, Sonic Forces, and Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap . All were early on in the Switch's life, and all were games I tried and decided I felt confident enough that they weren't for me to sell them.

I sold them and made a slight profit. But even so, I still have some regret about selling them, about not having them on hand to give them another chance (I never really give up on a game completely, I always retain some attachment, it seems).

I am not short on games to play, quite the opposite, but as my Switch experience has turned more into a passion/addiction and my collection has swollen, the money recouped at the time was pretty insignificant compared to what I've spent on Switch games since, and despite the small profit made, two of the games will likely cost more to buy now than I sold them for.

So I don't intend to have them as anything other than the lowest of priority purchases, but they still linger faintly in my mind. One day, maybe.

I've never sold any games from any previous generation, other than maybe a duplicate or two.

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edhe

Also, I almost regretted selling Fire Emblem Three Houses, Xenoblade Chronicles X & Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (special editions). I banked on being able to rebuy them as their standard editions, but didn't anticipate how difficult they are to get hold of these days.
I had sold My Limited Edition of Fire Emblem Fates too, but I intend to repurchase that on the eShop - before the store is closed, of course.

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Magician

Garou: Mark of the Wolves - NA AES
Last Blade 2 - NA AES
Metal Slug 3 - NA AES
Panzer Dragoon Saga - NA
Radiant Silvergun

I sold them back in 2005 for around $900.

Today they have a combined asking price of over $10,000

Although I have lesser regrets over Radiant Silvergun now that it's available on Switch.

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Greatluigi

I remember one time getting bowsers inside story but I was too afraid to play it because I thought the title screen would be too scary (I was a stupid kid back then) and I traded it in for Mario and Sonic Winter Olympics for DS. It’s was only after I watch a LP of the game and saw the title screen that I ended up buying it again and actually played the darn thing. And I loved it and I still question sometimes why I was so afraid of what the title screen would be. 😑

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gcunit

@Greatluigi Any other charming stories about fear of a title screen? Surely there must have been others, if Bowser was getting to you...

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Buizel

Honestly, I don't think there are any games that I regret selling at the moment.

I've posted once or twice on here about game overload, and how much relief I've felt from cutting down my games collection to focus on the games I truly enjoy. I'm now quite out of the retro collection scene and I'm happy that (i) it helps me focus a lot more on the newer games, which largely grabbed my attention anyway, (ii) when I go back to older titles they are the ones I enjoy most.

For the past two generations I've basically been digital only, so my regret is moreso buying games that I am unable to sell on...

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StarPoint

I sold my Wii U and all of my Wii/U games after I bought my Switch. My thinking then was "Well I have the Switch, what's the point in me keeping this older console?"

I wish I would have kept the stuff. I have a Wii once again and some of my favorite games for it, but I do miss my old collection.

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Teksetter

My short answer to which ones I regret selling would be: all of them!

As a young college student I sold back virtually my entire collection of NES, Genesis, and SNES games for enough store credit to buy an N64 and a couple of launch games (Mario64 and Pilotwings). Games that I scrimped and saved to buy, games that were gifted to me, basically games of sentimental value often played with neighborhood friends, some of whom are no longer among the living at this point.

Yes, I regret bringing those bags full of (mostly boxed, with manuals) games to Toys R' Us very, very much in retrospect. I had the beginnings of regret only a few years after that, in the Gamecube era when I was living in Japan, and have retained almost all of my game purchases since.

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jowy_sw

Recently? Probably ARMS and the Doom 2016 on Switch. At the time I was at university and I didn't have the most money so I sold them. Hopefully I find them at a similar price. I think it's not the worse situation possible. For now at least.

Oh and I sold Xenoblade X. In the late Wii U era, right before the Switch was unveiled, I sold most of the games I thought would get ports. Xenoblade X was the only one I was wrong (except Smash and Mario Maker getting new entries instead of ports... although I didn't care much). I ended up buying it again for like 10 euros more than what I sold it. Could have been worse but I'm expecting a port to be announced right after I decide to play it again.

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Tounushi

I agreed to let my mother sell Super Mario Bros. 3 when I was a kid. THAT I regret. Got SNES and Super Mario All Stars a few years later, though.
I traded Castlevania (64) for South Park. I didn't regret that and I actually still don't.
I sold off some games from the second hand Wii U console and games bundle I bought last year from a flea market. Wasn't gonna play those anyway. Some Barbie game, a song game, Lego Avengers, etc.

Other than that, I've not given up any of the games I've bought. At worst, they've been abandoned by the onward march of technology or they've simply gone missing.
Ocarina of Time for N64 and Tales of Phantasia for GBA have vanished from my collection. THAT I am absolutely incensed by.

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