What's the most you've paid for a game?

[broken harbour]

Just wondering if I'm insane or stupid, or both.
I just paid $147 for Harmful Park, and $139 for Gaia Seed, because rare, and in the case of Harmful Park, apparently good.
Last week I bought a Gamecube Component Cable for $159, just because I wanted my GC to look it's best.

I'm thinking of trying to track down a good copy of Guardian Heroes and Radiant Silvergun.... which are easily both over $100 online, and even though they are available on Xbox live... I just want the real thing.

Anyhow, I was wondering... what's the most you've ever paid for a game? Shmup or not....

[Marc]

£300 for a Wake Waku 7 cart back when I had a Neo. The only collection I miss, those chunky carts and big snap lock cases were beautiful. Not the best fighting game ever but it struck a chord with me and I had my money's worth.

[trap15]

$400 for Thunder Dragon 2.

[jonny5]

Around $1300ish

[moh]

Around $1300ish

was that for the full kit btw?

most I've ever paid was $300ish for batsugun (before shipping). worth every cent in my opinion. probably my favourite shmup.

[jonny5]

Nope. I have no need for cardboard sitting in my closet.

But that was also about the same as I paid for a Futari 1.5 kit in like 2009

[CIT]

My top 3:

Arcade games:
€800 Ketsui
€400 Cannon Dancer
€320 Guwange

Console games:
€220 Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire
€200 Shinrei Jusatsushi Taromaru
€180 Alien Soldier (<– This dropped about 50% in price in the meantime, d'oh! )

[moh]

Nope. I have no need for cardboard sitting in my closet.

I'm surprised you found a bare board. But yeah, I'm not one for collecting full kits either.

[jonny5]

Nope. I have no need for cardboard sitting in my closet.

I'm surprised you found a bare board. But yeah, I'm not one for collecting full kits either.

So was I, 'tis why I bought it post-haste!

[Skykid]

Just wondering if I'm insane or stupid, or both.
I just paid $147 for Harmful Park, and $139 for Gaia Seed, because rare, and in the case of Harmful Park, apparently good.

I paid around that for Gaia Seed, played it for 3 days, promptly sold it.

Game's horrible.

Harmful Park be great though.

[jpj]

regarding silvergun, i own the saturn version and the arcade version, and i've owned the saturn version for over 10 years now, clocked up maybe 300+ hours on it, and still have no desire to sell it (and actually wanna see if i can break my old score soon )

at the end of the day a game is only worth what a person is willing to pay for it. but a great game that you'll treasure for years is almost priceless. as long as you're buying stuff for the correct reasons and you're confident you'll get a decent amount of enjoyment/entertainment from it (and also that you can afford it!), i say go for it

however, i think $159 for a cable is a bit ridiculous, i think gamecube through rgb at 60Hz on a good CRT looks amazing anyway. and i'm also surprised about guardian heroes being $100+ the PAL copy sells for about £10 here, and my japanese copy cost me £20 (but again this is about 10 years ago )

[charlie chong]

most i've spent was £600 twice but i sold them when i cleared them.
this sounds like noob collecteur syndrome to me. don't be one of them douches
unless i know your history with shmups and games i couldn't advise you on your purchase.
i just find these people who suddenly surface in 2013 and start buying up whole collections of stuff very weird.
but yeah gaia seed sucks unless you like games of euroshmup quality and harmful park while a good game is a bit overated and over expensive.silvergun unless you are skilled and willing to put in hours and hours then it is just a pointless purchase.

[BIL]

Console games:
€220 Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire
€200 Shinrei Jusatsushi Taromaru
€180 Alien Soldier (<– This dropped about 50% in price in the meantime, d'oh! )

Interesting, I got both Alien Soldier and Taromaru last year... and AS was indeed ~€90, but I ended up paying almost exactly that entire amount extra on Taromaru. (edit: and a bit more, now that I think about it...) Went for a new copy since I wanted it badly and couldn't find it used+complete from any of my favourite sellers.

[system11]

2000 euros for the Mushi Matsuri kit.

[MadSteelDarkness]

I guess the most i've ever spent was $140-ish for Hyper Duel.

The 6 bucks i spent on Gaia Seed (PSN) seemed about fair.

[Casey120]

60.000 yen just to experience the DFK 1.5 meh .

[RaidenViper]

NGdev's MVS games. Around 400 euros each. for the rest of my MVS games, I paid almost nothing in comparison

For a console game, around 150-200$ for Hyper Duel on the Saturn.

[TransatlanticFoe]

£80 on Power Strike II

[Bananamatic]

$160 for pokemon stadium 2

[KAI]

$250 for Ocarina of Time.

[broken harbour]

$250 for Ocarina of Time.

Sealed I assume?

What exactly makes people Hate on Gaia Seed so much anyways?

[KAI]

I bought it when it came out, and yep, it was sealed.

[Ghegs]

What exactly makes people Hate on Gaia Seed so much anyways?

It doesn't deserve hate, those people are silly. It's a fun enough game with some lovely graphics, but it's extremely easy, you'll probably 1CC it on your first go. The PS1 original is not worth the price for that alone, the PSN release is much more reasonably priced considering the playtime you get out of it.

As for the topic itself, I've bought all the NG:Dev MVS releases and a CIB Summer Carnival '92: Recca. Those were all costly.

[NAVVARR]

I paid about £100 for Gaia Seed- got it for my 40th birthday- agree its very easy, but an enjoyable game none the less.

I bought a component cable for my Gamecube ages ago- for about £20 - are they really worth $159 ? - have to say I'd not likely pay that.

I tend to hang about and try to pay as little as I can for a game- got so many, I can afford to play the waiting game.

Managed to snap up Ibara for £50 a year or so back.

Mind you, I gave away a copy of Radiant Silvergun by mistake when I sold a broken Sega Saturn a few years ago on ebay for about £10- ouch!

[broken harbour]

I bought a component cable for my Gamecube ages ago- for about £20 - are they really worth $159 ? - have to say I'd not likely pay that.

Mind you, I gave away a copy of Radiant Silvergun by mistake when I sold a broken Sega Saturn a few years ago on ebay for about £10- ouch!

$159 is by far the cheapest I've found it out there for.

I hear you on the Silvergun thing, I gave away my Saturn and Copy of Guardian Heroes 13-ish years ago to a buddy, who then pawned it a few years later.

Never forgave myself for that....

[Vexorg]

Arcade: I think I paid about $250 for my Dodonpachi board.

Console: Probably $85 for a copy of Battle Garegga for Saturn. Granted, I also sold a copy of Border Down (which I bought new) for $120 at one point.

[mortified_penguin]

$1,000 for Steel Battalion (3x)

What can I say, I love mechs...

[dcharlieJP]

Harmful Park be great though.

I'm going to disagree on this one - i like the art style and the fact that it exists, but it's way WAY WAY too easy. To the extent that once you've played through it a few times i didn't feel the need to ever see it again.

It's still GOOD, but i'm not sure it warrants some of the plaudits it gets. It's at least better than some of the stuff that goes for high prices so it does have that in it's favour too.


Most paid : i stupidly paid $800 or so for an extremely good condition -original with documents- etc Phoenix.... an arcade board i later picked up -three- of , over the internet via Ebay, for $5... a batch of three working Phoenixs for $5 albeit they needed a good clean up vs $800 for a precleaned + docs one in Japan. There's an arbitrage business in there if i could be bothered : Final Fight - $5 vs 24,000 yen, Shinobi $5 vs 18,000 yen etc -

[null1024]

$49.99.
Never bought a game at more than full price as far as I remember. Even when I got Keio Yugekitai on the Saturn, that only cost me $38.

If I had caved in and gotten a bare disc copy of Radiant Silvergun [back when my Saturn was working, I really should go get another one...], I'd be saying $100. But I didn't, so I'm not.

[Casey120]

Playing harmful park on anything but the hardest setting is useless, I really do like the game .