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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2012 21:23:51 GMT -5
The local video store where I grew up had Earthbound when it came out. It was great, they even let me take home the huge box so I could use the strategy guide (I basically lived in that store as a kid). I beat the game and took it back, only for some asshole to rent it out and never return it / steal it.
I'm kicking myself to this day for not thinking of doing it first.
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Post by seethoven on Jan 14, 2012 12:33:39 GMT -5
Am I the only person who bought the game new? You're the only person who comes here to brag about it.
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Post by Ike on Jan 15, 2012 17:29:44 GMT -5
Am I the only person who bought the game new? You're the only person who comes here to brag about it. edit: hurrr
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2012 17:34:50 GMT -5
Kurt got the deal of the century on his copy, so that's something we can all be jealous of.
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Post by Ike on Jan 15, 2012 18:04:16 GMT -5
My intent wasn't to brag, it was an honest question. The game's not really rare or even uncommon, it's just in such high demand that it surprises me that so few people owned a copy when it was new. Most of the people I know who bought it new are non-gamers who got it from the bargain bin as a gift or something and subsequently lost it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2012 18:16:32 GMT -5
Earthbound was the definition of a niche title. A JRPG that cost something like $90 brand new, due to the included strategy guide and oversized box. The market back then was all about Doom clones, Street Fighter knock offs and mascot platformers. It would be another two years before RPGs really hit it big in America, so yeah. I doubt that many people bought Earthbound at Toys R Us or whatever when it launched.
I've very fortunate to have several of the old, classic SNES and Genesis RPGs with their boxes and instructions, but that's only because of the aforementioned video store. Most kids in the 90s probably weren't on a first-name basis with the people running their local rental place, let alone to the point where they'd let them buy new games through them while paying them off weekly with their allowance money. The average kid had to wait until Christmas or their birthday or whatever, and pray their relatives got them what they were asking for.
Still, it's cool that you were able to get it right at the beginning. Not many people can say that they had that chance.
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Post by Ike on Jan 15, 2012 18:30:11 GMT -5
I actually rented the game first and loaded up a preexisting save. I had no idea that it was an RPG, although I was pretty stoked that it was considering I had just run through FF2 and 3 pretty recently. The save I loaded was in Threed, and as a kid I was scared to death of zombies, which Threed was full of. To this day I get a weird nervous pang about travelling outside of that inner city block where the tent is because I'm afraid of getting curbstomped by the enemies, since Threed is where the difficulty begins to ramp up what with the possessions and all that.
Then as I'm wandering around someone mentions a mysterious tent that's appeared on the south side of town. I go to inspect and the tent seems to be sealed off with nothing particularly out of the ordinary. As I round the corner nervously on the lookout for zombie dogs (probably the most dangerous enemy in Threed) I very, very nearly piss myself when a giant fanged face appears on the front of the tent and I'm launched into a boss fight.
I went out and bought the game the following weekend from Best Buy using some money I had gotten from selling my copy of Kirby's Avalanche to my grandma. Thanks, grandma!
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Post by [UNPERSON] on Jan 15, 2012 18:45:04 GMT -5
I had it back in the day, but sold it some odd years later. I deeply regret doing so. Moral of the story: don't sell games just because you are temporarily burned out on them, especially when loose copies of said games might cost more several years later than it did back in the day.
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Post by KeeperBvK on Jan 17, 2012 12:15:07 GMT -5
using some money I had gotten from selling my copy of Kirby's Avalanche to my grandma. Thanks, grandma! Wait. Your grandma bought an SNES game from you for herself to play? What a great lady!
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Post by annoyedgrunt on Jan 17, 2012 16:15:36 GMT -5
I had it back in the day, but sold it some odd years later. I deeply regret doing so. Moral of the story: don't sell games just because you are temporarily burned out on them, especially when loose copies of said games might cost more several years later than it did back in the day. Too true. I can think of a ton of SNES games I traded away that I wish I kept. I don't know why I got rid of Secret of Mana and its strategy guide.
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Post by jjmcjj on May 13, 2012 2:07:02 GMT -5
Saw a cartridge-only Earthbound in a used game store in Seattle a couple years back, label worn, for $100. Then again they had a lot of ridiculous prices for older games like that, the more popular ones anyway (they also had SNES Gradius III and UN Squadron in their bargain bin which I nabbed for a more reasonable price).
Ah well I've got an emulated GBA version of Mother 1+2 with the fan translations so I'm good.
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Post by Ike on May 13, 2012 4:20:51 GMT -5
When I was at the store we very regularly had customers that would throw down $100 for a worn copy of Earthbound in a heartbeat. We only ever had a single copy in the 3 years I worked there, and it sold within 6 hours for 80 bucks.
Gradius 3 and UN Squadron aren't worth much. I think we sold them for $3 and $5 respectively.
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