It took me 5 years to find a copy of Killer 7 for the Gamecube. Passed up on the PS2 version twice and patience luckily payed off.
"I Finally Found It!" Games You Wanted, Looked For A Long Time After...And Finally Found
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I remember the day my friend told me War of the Monsters was on PSN. I think I nearly cried. About seven years without playing that game and I finally could play it again in all its wonder. I had a blast beating up all my favorite monsters and I finally could beat the first boss. It was a great feeling.
I remembered a while ago there was a game I'd played as a kid. It was a top down RPG with choices and stuff based on WW2 where you were a resistance soldier. I remembered a part (quite vividly) where you're captured and thrown into a cell with nothing but your clothes and a barrel of potatoes. In the barrel was a rusty potato knife with which you could carve the faces of various leaders into potatoes with, then make a daring escape by stabbing the guard in the eye with the juice encrusted knife. It was called Another War when I'd done some digging and found it relatively cheap on Ebay.
Another game I loved and is a ***** to find is an Australian made game called Enemy Infestation. One of the hardest games I've played.
Another game I loved and is a ***** to find is an Australian made game called Enemy Infestation. One of the hardest games I've played.
When I was a kid, I played a game called "Bad Mojo", about the protagonist getting his spirit flung into a cockroach in the world's worst apartment. It was so gross and "out there" that I was pretty much convinced I dreamed it, because surely no one would come up with this madness.
...and then gog.com suddenly released it out of the blue. Day one purchase, nearly keeled over when I realized I hadn't dreamed it.
...and then gog.com suddenly released it out of the blue. Day one purchase, nearly keeled over when I realized I hadn't dreamed it.
It took me about...10 years I think, to refind a copy of Theme Hospital.
Now, thanks to EA and their on the house thingy, I now own it, for free!
Now, thanks to EA and their on the house thingy, I now own it, for free!
Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age (both gba games).
I played the hell out of both of those games on emulator.
Wanted to but the actual games. Could only find them both preowned.
I found GS:TLA 4 years after the initial thought that I should have physical copies.
Golden Sun however took me another 2 years to find....
Absolutely worth it though!
I played the hell out of both of those games on emulator.
Wanted to but the actual games. Could only find them both preowned.
I found GS:TLA 4 years after the initial thought that I should have physical copies.
Golden Sun however took me another 2 years to find....
Absolutely worth it though!
Tail Concerto. I played it on a PS Underground demo disc when I was a wee lad and loved every aspect of it. A few years ago I found it in my favorite second hand store for $45. Called my mom on the spot and asked her to transfer the $20 I was missing to my bank account. Waited with it in my hand, treating everyone like I was Gollum holding the One Ring, until the transfer went through. As a side effect I had to wait two months because it became a birthday present by my moms reasoning, which was fine. I never got very far, but it's survived the Great Purge of rare PS1 titles for extra cash time.
Does lazily thinking, "That might be fun" for a few years and then noticing them on sale in a used bookstore count? If so than both Black and Red Dead Revolver were fun. I sometimes search the web in the hope of reading that they are releasing an English subtitled copy of Samurai Warriors 3 Empires. Alas I suspect it shall never be.
Starshatter: The Gathering Storm. By the time I discovered it, it was impossible to buy, so I had to wait until it went open source to play it.
It's kind of a space sim, except instead of the usual open world you play as a military pilot moving up from the ranks, from a pilot to a wing commander, to capital ships (which was the big attraction for me - the world needs more games where you can fly a capital ship), until eventually you're commanding a whole fleet from the bridge of a carrier, carefully husbanding your resources against the dread spectre of permadeath in a procedurally generated campaign.
It's kind of a space sim, except instead of the usual open world you play as a military pilot moving up from the ranks, from a pilot to a wing commander, to capital ships (which was the big attraction for me - the world needs more games where you can fly a capital ship), until eventually you're commanding a whole fleet from the bridge of a carrier, carefully husbanding your resources against the dread spectre of permadeath in a procedurally generated campaign.
Pokémon Red.
I know, I know, you wouldn't think it would be hard to find, but there's a reason I say it as the game I was looking for.
Back when it came out, it was given to me for my birthday, or Christmas, I don't remember which. I played the hell out of hit. Hundreds of hours, yeah, we've all been there.
I had caught all but three pokémon. I traded with my sister to get ones I couldn't find.
Aaaaand then it was stolen from me. Someone stole my copy of Pokémon Red. I have a good idea who it was, too. I was a bit pissed.
But, in the off chance it wasn't stolen, I kept looking around for it at home. And then at my next house, just in case I had somehow brought it along with me.
Well, I didn't. It was stolen.
So then, last year, I went and found a copy online and bought it. So after years of searching for my one, I found another and started again.
I know, I know, you wouldn't think it would be hard to find, but there's a reason I say it as the game I was looking for.
Back when it came out, it was given to me for my birthday, or Christmas, I don't remember which. I played the hell out of hit. Hundreds of hours, yeah, we've all been there.
I had caught all but three pokémon. I traded with my sister to get ones I couldn't find.
Aaaaand then it was stolen from me. Someone stole my copy of Pokémon Red. I have a good idea who it was, too. I was a bit pissed.
But, in the off chance it wasn't stolen, I kept looking around for it at home. And then at my next house, just in case I had somehow brought it along with me.
Well, I didn't. It was stolen.
So then, last year, I went and found a copy online and bought it. So after years of searching for my one, I found another and started again.
Yeah, those games are absolutely worth it. You should look into getting Golden Sun: Dark Dawn if you don't have it. Not quite as good as 1 or 2, I'd say, and short in comparison, but still a good game. Has some nice characters, too.rvbnut said:Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age (both gba games).
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Absolutely worth it though!
I remember this game coming out...then I remember Nintendo quietly discontinuing it. I don't understand why this game is so hard to get even though it came out after Skyward Sword and DK:Country Returns which are both available freaking everywhere. Hell, it's easier to find Epic Yarn and that's hardly even a game (meaning there's no failure state). I had an easier time finding new copies of The Last Story and Xenoblade Chronicles...New!Dead Century said:
There's an independently owned game store nearby to where I live (Wizards) and they get all kinds of things in every so often. A few months ago for example, they got in Hagane on the SNES.
So, how rare is this game? I don't know if they sold it yet but last time I checked it was on their eBay site for somewhere between $200 - $250. This is a cartridge only kind of thing too whereas it's not uncommon to find something like cartridge-only Earthbound (the rarest SNES game everybody has heard of) for $70 - $100. I didn't BUY Hagane but I did play it in-store. I made it to the second level boss before being killed...it's a really freaking awesome game, I really hope it comes onto the Virtual Console. Finally, since I mentioned the VC, Earthbound and Metroid Prime Trilogy...if not for the Virtual Console, I would have never played any of those.
Here are some of the games I have found at Wizards though;
.HACK//Infection (PS2)
Banjo-Kazooie/Tooie (N64)
Batman Returns (NES & SNES...and yes, they're different games)
Battletoads (NES)
Breath of Fire (SNES)
Clash at Demonhead (complete NES)
Final Fantasy Legends II (complete GB)
Final Fantasy (complete NES)
Illusion of Gaia (SNES)
Mystical Ninja starring Goemon (N64)
Paper Mario (N64)
Pokemon Leaf Green (GBA)
Rocket Knight Adventure (complete Genesis)
Shaq-Fu (SNES)
Star Fox Assault (GC)
Starcraft 64 (N64)
Star Tropics 1& 2 (complete, NES. Star Tropics 2 is actually still sealed!)
Super Castlevania IV (SNES)
Vampire Hunter D (PSX)
The Virtual Boy and a half-dozen games, most notably Teleroboxer and, Wario Land
Wario World (GC)
Many years ago I was trying to track down a copy of Final Fantasy IX and could not for the life of me find it and then the impossable happened. I met a CEX (a used games, dvds, electronics chain in the UK) employee who broke some rules to help me. For reasons I do not understand at that point in time apparently they were not allowed to order stock from other stores by request. They could do it themselves but not if a customer asked them to.
However when I asked this guy if the store had a copy of FF IX he said no but a store 200 miles away did. He then explained about the policy. But all was not lost. He said that as he was a FF fan as well he would ring up a friend of his who worked at the store and get him to sneak it onto a delivery they were expecting next week and that I should come back next week and talk to him.
I go back the next week, go upto the guy and he pulls out a copy of FF IX from under counter. To this day he remians the friendliest, most helpfull retail worker I have ever met.
And the cherry on top. He said the game would be £10 but he would knock it down to £7 as it was missing the manual. I was so excited to finaly have the game I did not bother to count my change. When I got home I realised that he had charged me the £3 he knocked off and given me the £7 as change.
I paied £3 for one of my all time favorite games and got a good story out of it at the same time.
However when I asked this guy if the store had a copy of FF IX he said no but a store 200 miles away did. He then explained about the policy. But all was not lost. He said that as he was a FF fan as well he would ring up a friend of his who worked at the store and get him to sneak it onto a delivery they were expecting next week and that I should come back next week and talk to him.
I go back the next week, go upto the guy and he pulls out a copy of FF IX from under counter. To this day he remians the friendliest, most helpfull retail worker I have ever met.
And the cherry on top. He said the game would be £10 but he would knock it down to £7 as it was missing the manual. I was so excited to finaly have the game I did not bother to count my change. When I got home I realised that he had charged me the £3 he knocked off and given me the £7 as change.
I paied £3 for one of my all time favorite games and got a good story out of it at the same time.
Back when I was on the PS2, I'd rented the 2005 Ultimate Spider Man game for a few days and loved it, but the store soon went down and I couldn't play it again. A few years later, during a trip on the other side of the country, I pop into a Game (This was back when they were in Ireland), and find it. Happy days.
More recently, I'd also loved NFS Carbon, and after years of looking, I found it in a CEX last year.
More recently, I'd also loved NFS Carbon, and after years of looking, I found it in a CEX last year.
I did. I even pre-ordered Dark Dawn.Katherine Kerensky said:
It's like you say. It wasn't as good as the first two games, and very short in comparison. I was able to get all the djinn, summons, level everyone to 100 and complete the main story all within 24 hours. But it's still a Golden Sun game and I did love the little emote mechanic.
Suikoden I and II are both now on the PSN for £3.99 each (I think). Unless of course you're talking about owning the physical copy as some kind of collection, in which case yeah, Suikoden II is far too expensive, never seen it used for less than £80.CandideWolf said:
OT:for me it was Ocarina of Time. Back in the late 90's in England the best N64 games were either really expensive (£50 is a lot when you're 11) or really expensive and very hard to find. I couldn't find a copy of Ocarina anywhere. I would go down to my local shopping centre almost every week with my mum and look round all the old independent game stores (miss those), alas to no avail. I did find it though, brand new - £50, and I'd just spent £25 of the £50 I'd saved up from christmas and birthday on some shitty toy I never played with after the first week. I was gutted.
But my tale has a happy ending. After looking for it again for months I'd finally given up, however, when my mum asked me to come shopping with her I reluctantly went along with all the money I had left (£25) and went round our boring shopping centre for hours watching my mum shop. After that hell I asked if we could go to the only game shop left to have one last look. You have no idea of the joy on my little face as I walked in the tiny shop and there, on the top shelf, was a boxed Ocarina of Time, second hand with a manual for £25. I savored every moment spent with that game, it was like finding the Holy Grail for me - except better.
I remember hearing about "I have no mouth and I must scream" way back in the day but had no interest in it. I read the short story in college and then remembered there was a game. The problem was that by that point the ONLY place you could get it was from some website and the price was incredibly high. So I eventually decided I wasn't gonna pay $100 for a copy of a buggy game.
So I completely forgot about it until it showed up on GOG.com and immediatly picked it up. I liked it but was glad I didn't spend $100 because it still has bugs.
So I completely forgot about it until it showed up on GOG.com and immediatly picked it up. I liked it but was glad I didn't spend $100 because it still has bugs.
As a child in the 90s, I had slowly gathered enough money to buy Earthbound, and when I finally had enough and went to the store, the last box that had been there for months was gone...
About 5 years ago as I was browsing a local video game store, what do I see? A used copy of Earthbound, best 40$ spent ever!
About 5 years ago as I was browsing a local video game store, what do I see? A used copy of Earthbound, best 40$ spent ever!
