Posted by Esco on November 20, 2015 at 15:15:26 EST in reply to What gaming related item did you sell, and now regret? from Mental.
I have one major regret but it was a purchase, not a sale. It was buying an Atari Lynx instead of a fucking Game Boy back in 1991.
n/t
Follow Ups:
Oh man. What was your reasoning back then? Color screen? ...Chips Challenge? (n/t) (Mental) (21:06:44 11/20/15 EST)
I wanted a color handheld and really bought into the system specs like the brilliant 11 year old I was. I have a soft spot for the Lynx, it had a couple good games (Zarlor Mercenary, Blue Lightning, Pinball Jam) and some solid arcade ports (Klax, Rampart, Xybots). Most of the widely available games were garbage (Batman Returns, Ninja Gaiden, Pit Fighter). Biggest problem was it didn't have a lot of support and the games I really wanted (Battlewheels, STUN Runner, Warbirds) never showed up in my local Toys R Us or Electronics Boutique. It was always shit like Awesome Golf, Basketbrawl and World Class Soccer. I only discovered some of the better games much later via emulation. And of course nobody I knew had a fucking Lynx, I might've played Rampage all of one time with a link cable and that novelty wore off quick. (n/t) (Esco) (22:48:32 11/20/15 EST)
I bought a turbo grafx, a jaguar, a saturn, a genesis, a game gear, instead of an NES, a SNES, and a PlayStation. Then I bought all those other ones later. I do not regret! I just bought whatever console was the cheapest because nobody wanted it, well after it came out - that tactic has served me well over the years. I found my perfectly functional 2nd gen snes in someone's trash can btw. (n/t) (exodus) (19:00:19 11/21/15 EST)
What were your favorite Jaguar games? I loved the shit out of Tempest 2000 but that was the only one I really got the chance to play (n/t) (Esco) (00:06:08 11/22/15 EST)
I liked T2K, alien vs predator, power drive rally, Super Burnout, and val d'isere skiing and snowboarding the most. But I also had really interesting/weird times with hover strike CD, Club Drive, and Highlander. They were all just so bizarre, so almost-finished. I saw a lot more games like that later in life, that had this sort of "emptiness" to them, and if I'd ever played an amiga game it would've all felt very familiar, but at the time it was unique, for me. (n/t) (exodus) (20:45:15 11/23/15 EST)
