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Which video game did you unfortunately waste your parents' money on?
- Thread starter hwarang
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Urban Champion...
tbh I don't know how I ended up owning it. I'm assuming I saw the cover and for some reason asked my parents to buy it for me
tbh I don't know how I ended up owning it. I'm assuming I saw the cover and for some reason asked my parents to buy it for me
Somehow, we ended up with Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends on the SNES.
I don't really know how my parents got it, but the "game" and its music haunt my memories.
I don't really know how my parents got it, but the "game" and its music haunt my memories.
I don't think I've ever asked for a game that I later regretted
They did buy me Sonic 06 of their own accord, though
They did buy me Sonic 06 of their own accord, though
I wished for Dark Castle for the Mega Drive for Christmas/birthday. Went to the video game store and begged them to take it back in spite of me opening it. Possibly the worst game I have played but the cover art looked good and there was no internet to warn me. They did take it back at least and I got some Mortal Kombat game instead. Rad.
Club Penguin Elite Penguin Force for DS
Like, I only played the online game because a friend begged me to because he had nobody to play with, and I thought it was OK but when I heard about the DS game I went ballistic and begged my grandma to let me buy it with her money because the trailer made it look super epic and advertised linking to your real account (which was handy)
little did i know that the game's so damn short you can beat it on the guest settings the first time you boot it up lmao. I loved it but it was over so darn quickly that I feel bad in retrospect
Honorable mention goes to Phineas and Ferb Ride Again as I was a huge fan of the TV show at the time and it was actually a fun well-made platformer, but it was also stupidly short and Disney's dumb social media DGamer network never ever worked, and neither did those DSI minigames. I enjoyed the game itself, but the main reason I regret having grandma spend money on it is because on the way home from the store a driver came at us the wrong-way and just barely hit our car. We had to drive onto a curb to avoid her and then she apologized non-stop for a few minutes before we saw that she was a teenage driver, and thus didn't take her seriously so we left as there was no accident and we didn't want to wait for one to happen
I still worry about how bad it could have been if we did get hit and I would have felt super guilty if something happened because I wanted to get freaking Phineas and Ferb for DS
Like, I only played the online game because a friend begged me to because he had nobody to play with, and I thought it was OK but when I heard about the DS game I went ballistic and begged my grandma to let me buy it with her money because the trailer made it look super epic and advertised linking to your real account (which was handy)
little did i know that the game's so damn short you can beat it on the guest settings the first time you boot it up lmao. I loved it but it was over so darn quickly that I feel bad in retrospect
Honorable mention goes to Phineas and Ferb Ride Again as I was a huge fan of the TV show at the time and it was actually a fun well-made platformer, but it was also stupidly short and Disney's dumb social media DGamer network never ever worked, and neither did those DSI minigames. I enjoyed the game itself, but the main reason I regret having grandma spend money on it is because on the way home from the store a driver came at us the wrong-way and just barely hit our car. We had to drive onto a curb to avoid her and then she apologized non-stop for a few minutes before we saw that she was a teenage driver, and thus didn't take her seriously so we left as there was no accident and we didn't want to wait for one to happen
I still worry about how bad it could have been if we did get hit and I would have felt super guilty if something happened because I wanted to get freaking Phineas and Ferb for DS
... I liked Quest 64 you monster.
Worst for me was probably Kirby's Dream Course.
Honestly this is the only one that comes to mind, but I may have bought this with birthday money. Reading the shit out of Nintendo Power as a kid and knowing that I basically had two chances to get a game each year (Christmas and birthday) made me really picky when it came to what I asked for. Plus there was a mom and pop game rental place that would give you free rentals for "A's" on report cards, so I rented a lot of games as a little kid.
My dad would buy super random trash games on clearance though. I remember Super Chase HQ and Super Alfred Chicken on the the SNES didn't see much play time. Sometimes he struck gold, though, like when Best Buy was clearancing out Earthbound and he bought a copy for like $20
I loved that game. Rented it like 3 times to beat it in co op. Hard as fuck it was...
It was a long month.
I'll always remember this, but it was Advance Wars. This was when we lived overseas. The base exchanges were notoriously slow getting anything new. So, my mom bought it from Amazon. This was the early 2000s, so it still took weeks for something from Amazon to get delivered overseas. So I'm waiting and it finally comes to the exchange. I can't wait any longer, I convince my mom to buy it for me and that it wasn't the same game that she already ordered. I'm happy and I've been playing it for a few weeks and the copy from Amazon arrives. She is furious because she knows she has seen this from somewhere before. I somehow convince her that I don't have it yet. So, I end up giving the copy to my friend then we could have play against each other. I never did something like that again. lol
Also, I remember I asked her for OoT. She brought home Quest 64...lol
Also, I remember I asked her for OoT. She brought home Quest 64...lol
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None, because I had excellent taste even as a child.
In my defense, it was my first video game. The worst part is I didn't even beat or really play the thing and traded it in one week later because me and my dad didn't fully understand Gamestop's trade in service.
In my defense, it was my first video game. The worst part is I didn't even beat or really play the thing and traded it in one week later because me and my dad didn't fully understand Gamestop's trade in service.
Lilo & Stitch on PS1...sad times...
WTF? This game slaps!!!!!
It was a long month.
WTF? This game slaps!!!!!
Christmas 2004, my parents managed to get me two copies of GTA: San Andreas but forgot the PS2 to play them on. Despite hating each other's guts, my parents actually went shopping for my gift together, but Mom straight up didn't recognize that the game they bought was already gift-wrapped under the tree.
Fester's Quest, what a terrible game. Bonus question: what ACCESSORY did you waste your parent's money on. Mine was this monstrosity:
Pokémon Black; it was a combination of being at that edgy teenager phase and really not liking any of the starter Pokémon/elemental monkey designs. It's the only generation I've never beaten, and at this point I've got too big a backlog to consider playing through it, though I acknowledge that a lot of folks really enjoy it.
I was so convinced Aidyn Chronicles the first mage was going to be gods gift to N64 games. I convinced my poor stepmom to buy it for me and forced myself to enjoy it cause I knew she would be so pissed if I didn't like it.
I wasn't allowed to buy many games cause my mom hated them. Most stuff I picked out was great (Wario Land, Pokemon, FFVII, .hack(s)...) but I can think of 2 mistakes:
Bart vs the Space Mutants. I had no idea how to even clear the first level due to the block. Some of the painted items were hard to reach, so I had no idea I needed to get ALL of them before I could even clear lv 1... Yeahhhh
The Sims... whatever the magic expansion was. Friend installed the original game on my PC, and I enjoyed it enough to get almost all of the expansions (except the party one). But every expansion made my PC run slower... back when I didn't have much PC knowledge. When the magic expansion came out, it took foreverrr to even load the game. I got fed up after playing it only twice. I think my PC crashed too trying to load it. Such a wadte since I barely touched it :/ I ended up selling all my expansions in a garage sale soon after (don't think any had codes). Sims Online I was stupid and didn't get the idea of online subs at the time :/ Was fortunately able to get that returned though...
Bart vs the Space Mutants. I had no idea how to even clear the first level due to the block. Some of the painted items were hard to reach, so I had no idea I needed to get ALL of them before I could even clear lv 1... Yeahhhh
The Sims... whatever the magic expansion was. Friend installed the original game on my PC, and I enjoyed it enough to get almost all of the expansions (except the party one). But every expansion made my PC run slower... back when I didn't have much PC knowledge. When the magic expansion came out, it took foreverrr to even load the game. I got fed up after playing it only twice. I think my PC crashed too trying to load it. Such a wadte since I barely touched it :/ I ended up selling all my expansions in a garage sale soon after (don't think any had codes). Sims Online I was stupid and didn't get the idea of online subs at the time :/ Was fortunately able to get that returned though...
I had my parents buy me Pokemon Jade on GBC. Back then I was like, okay this is a different direction for pokemon. Turns out it was a bootleg of Keitai Denjuu Telefang. I did enjoy it for what it was. The translation was a mess and I think there is a progress blocking bug which I was able to workaround sometimes.
Overall, my Mom was godlike when buying me games on PS1. She bought me Suikoden 2 randomly. She has no idea about modern games and what she was buying but she hit the jackpot for that one.
Overall, my Mom was godlike when buying me games on PS1. She bought me Suikoden 2 randomly. She has no idea about modern games and what she was buying but she hit the jackpot for that one.
Well it didnt help that I never had a memory card....
Thankfully it was redeemed.....15 years later when I finally finished it thanks to Emulation lol.
Kirby's Dream Course on the other hand, I enjoyed it but it was a rental for me.....though I would have traded the $50+ I had my parents give to Quest 64 for Kirby lol.
Shit, a lot. Almost any video game that was based on a movie or tv show. Mostly NES and Sega Genesis era.
