Biggest regrets in your video game history?

[Tanegashima]

To be honest, I don't have any major regrets. I have bought all that I wanted, at fair if not great prices, and never sold any game I regretted giving up.

My biggest regret was my bro throwing out his EGM collection in the late '90s, but I have since procured every issue he threw away, in as good condition as his issues were, too.

I guess I wish in general, I were 5 years younger, so I could have more time to enjoy all the video games I have yet to play.

I forgot to mention that there are four buttons (as you can see, they are positioned around the joystick) but only TWO of the buttons have functions mapped to them. So there are four buttons, but only TWO buttons work, WTF?!

Here are two other CDi controllers:

[esb09]

Ok, the SNES-like one isn't that bad. It looks uncomfortable to hold and cheap, but at least you know how to hold/operate it. So, pretty bad but better than the first one and probably better than the Jaguar.

Seriously, why didn't they just make their controller like a Genesis six-button one and add shoulder buttons? That would be the perfect 2-D controller.

[MrMatthews]

I wonder what Ninteno's biggest regret is: the virtual boy? Cartridges for the N64? Or choosing Philips over Sony for their disc-drive component?

[esb09]

Wow, that's a tough list to chose from. I'd go with carts instead of CDs for the N64. Wouldn't they have had FFVII if they had done that?

Atari's biggest mistake is easy. Not distributing the NES in North America as an Atari system. If they had done that we might be all playing Atari Wiis right now.

[MrMatthews]

Wow, that's a tough list to chose from. I'd go with carts instead of CDs for the N64. Wouldn't they have had FFVII if they had done that?

Atari's biggest mistake is easy. Not distributing the NES in North America as an Atari system. If they had done that we might be all playing Atari Wii's right now.

Well, choosing carts over CD's definitely cost them a lot of third-party titles, but i'd have to say that choosing the CD-i over Sony's "Play Station" was Nintendo's biggest oversight. Nintendo first created their biggest competitor and then handed them pretty much all of their third-party developers (except EA, who will produce games for anything).

Ah, I love Nintendo. But I love that story more.

[esb09]

But who says Sony would have done better than Phillips?

I think the PlayStation succeeded where others failed because they were able to learn from the mistakes of previous CD-based consoles (3D0, CD-I, and yes, even our beloved Sega CD).

[bohokii]

that phillips controller is neat it looks like a direct recolor mold of the gravis gamepad that got me through many adventures of "commander keen"

my biggest mistake was paying $79.99 when strider first came out i bought it from "the good guys"

then about a month later i bought the atari lynx delux pack from them for $149 it came with california games,an ac adapter and i paid $39 for road blasters

i just hooked up my atari 5200 again i round a schematic to convert a pc joy and i had the perfect one to use



its so fun now so many games didn't need analog and play so good with absolute directions

like joust,montezumas revenge,kangaroo,heck even poleposition and galaxian work great

of course it is useless with missile command,superbreakout,kaboom

but arg just like avgn says what the hell is the deal with no end labels

[esb09]

(except EA, who will produce games for anything).

Except the Dreamcast.

[old man]

I sold my first Genesis and three games for $90 so I could buy Secret of Mana for SNES. I'm so ashamed. Later in life I would go on to buy a Genesis 3 from wal-mart for $30, and recently I found a high def graphics model 1, sega CD 2 combo on ebay for $70.

[MrMatthews]

Except the Dreamcast.

Ah, good call. But that was sega's own fault.

[MrMatthews]

But who says Sony would have done better than Phillips?

I think the PlayStation succeeded where others failed because they were able to learn from the mistakes of previous CD-based consoles (3D0, CD-I, and yes, even our beloved Sega CD).

Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think even the CD-i would have been successful if the deal had gone down the way Nintendo had originally planned.

The way I understand it, either philips or Sony would have made an attachment to the SNES, so Nintendo ultimately would have taken all the glory. we probably would have ended up with a bunch of existing SNES games with fmv cutscenes.

I think the CD-i was only released after Nintendo just said "fuck it" to the whole concept, and tossed philips the Mario and zelda licenses for their trouble.

[esb09]

My God, the way they over-used Mode 7 and reverb to the point of self-parody, I shudder to think what SNES developers would have done with FMV! *shudders*

[MrMatthews]

Pure speculation of course, but I bet what would have happened is that Nintendo would have given us ONE shining example of a CD game done right (starfox 2, anyone?) followed by a run of embarrassing FMV games and lazy ports before the entire peripheral was unceremoniously retired.

I think Nintendo was wise to pull the plug on the whole project (but not in their decision to scrap the entire concept of disc-based games for an entire generation)

[Mr. Ksoft]

More regrets:
I begged my parents for really useless accessories when I was younger, which is why I own the nearly useless GBA e-Reader and also the Game Boy Player for the Gamecube which I have only used about 10 times. I could have gotten some better games if I'd not asked for them... which is why I've spent the last few years (now that I have spendable money) playing catch-up and getting all the good games for both systems.

[Rusty Venture]

I remember getting flack from members of the Nintendo Army for pointing out how pointless (and waste of money) the E-reader was. I said that the e-reader would have limited support and be dropped like every other Nintendo gimmick add-on they had before it.

And then there was the SMB3 PORT that you had to own the e-reader to unlock master levels. Except to do that you had to borrow or *buy* another GBA just to get the swiped card info into the game.