Topic: Games you always wanted as a kid, but somehow never got

Mario Paint- I always rented this at a local video store, but somehow never got it. I recently acquired it, and it's just as fun as I remembered. The game is a whole lot of fun, both the paint program and the composer. Wish I had a coffee table, though.

Rescue Rangers- another game I rented often, but somehow never got. I was fortunate to find it at a used video game store. It's still as fun as it was back then. I've gotten all the way to the third boss, I think (the level with the faucets).

Street Fighter II- an absolute classic, but I somehow never had a copy until I got the Wii.

Same here with Mario Paint i never had a chance to tried it nor did i ever saw it in Game Stores as for other games mostly Console Games i ever wanted couldn't get is slowly becoming less concern since Virtual Console has them.

Killer Instinct i keep hearing how great the fighting game sadly do that Rare have been bought by Microsoft now, i doubt i'll ever tried the SNES Original

The Game Watch Gallery Series, several Wario Land Games and Donkey Kong Land series and Shantae since i bought a game boy late in it's era i missed out on several great game boy games and after Game Boy Advance came out i ignore it ever since till the whole Retro Revival of Wii Virtual Console.

I've been tempted to get Game & Watch Gallery 4 for quite awhile now, as it has the most games of the series compilations.

None as far as I remember.

Pokemon Puzzle Challenge (GBC)- Only rented it.
Mario Tennis (GBC)- Only rented it.
CTR: Crash Team Racing (PS1)
Mega Man 8 (PS1)
Rayman (GBC)
Pokemon Stadium 1 & 2 (N64)- Never had an N64.

That's all I can think of ATM.

Super Mario World

I played and beat SMW many, many times with one of my friends, at his house.
But I never had it for my own SNES for some reason.
Same with Super Mario Kart and NBA Jam, actually.

Me too with Mario Paint. Never got it as a gift, and then I never thought about getting it later on when I actually could buy it myself.

Another one is Vectorman for the Genesis. Played it a few times rented, or at a buddy's house. Loved it. But never got it. Now it's on the Virtual Console but for whatever reason i've never gotten it there either.

@ NotEnoughGolds

I'm on the same boat with you on SMW and NBA Jam, but then I got the "Super Mario All Stars" much later that had SMW.

Ultimate Parodius, Ranma ½: Everything Goes Martial Arts, both for Super Famicom. Got teased about them in swedish Nintendo mag Super Power. I own them both now, and especially Ultimate Parodius is great.

So many - and practically everything on the Amiga that I only ever saw at a friend's house. There's a lot of Mega CD games I used to want but never got (usually due to being unable to find them in shops back then).

I think the Amiga thing is funny because I've since emulated all the ones I can remember and find them as dull as hell now. I've also tracked down a lot that I missed now via ebay or through compilations/VC releases. It's so much easier to get hold of anything these days.

I remember flipping through the pages of a magazine when I encountered pics of the new Atari Jaguar along with screenshots for Alien Vs. Predator. I'd still like to get my hands on a Jaguar if only to play Alien Vs. Predator.

For some reason, I never picked up Super Metroid. Everyone hails it as this wonderful, awesome game, and I haven't played a single second of it. Perhaps some day...

I finally bought it on VC and played through it for the first time a mere 5 months ago or so.
And it was a wonderful, awesome game.

SecondLife

Wowzer! Waaaaaay too many to list for me ...Eveything from Wild Gunman on the NES to ActRaiser on the SNES (and about a hundred others in between!).

Spyro: Year of the Dragon , Dragon Warrior Monsters 2, Dragon Warrior 1 & 2, and Killer 7 are all that I can think of right now. Before there was also Majora's Mask, Mega Man 64, Hotel Dusk, Super Mario Sunshine, Starfox Adventures, and I guess F-Zero X and Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, along with others that I can't remember off-hand.

About 10 NES and SNES games.

Oh, and Mischief Makers

All great Genesis games, especially the Sonic games. I asked for a Genesis for years, never got it ; by the time I got the money to get a console, I got an N64 instead.

And I think either Bomberman 64, or one of the Gamecube Bomberman games.