Our Biggest Gaming Regrets

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[TotallyNotCalledEvan]

I'm gonna miss this banter. I'm sure whoever they bring in will be brilliant, but it won't be quite the same without Jon

[SirOtterKnight]

My biggest regret is putting my collection into storage and someone breaking in to steal all of it. Many of my SNES and 64 carts had save data from my mom who passed away. So they basically stole alittle piece of her from me and it bums me out to this day. I’m building back up and sharing this with my daughter which is incredible

[MsKornkitty]

I left a horrible relationship, and decided to leave my Gamecube games with the ex for when my son visited him. My son ended up only visiting him a few times and I never got the games back. They're 'lost'. Windwaker with the bonus games, Melee, Double dash, Chibi Robo, Mario Sunshine, many more. It's so depressing seeing the value go up and not being able to find copies of some of them. I really want to play Chibi Robo again. But I'm still better out of that relationship. I did keep my Pokemon games, albeit without the boxes.

[ranchman]

Zion, your story about Cubivor touched my heart and made my day. People having the ability to play older games especially when they are so expensive and hard to find means alot to me. You have a big heart for doing what you did, it was a good thing and shouldn't be a regret. I had a massive retro game collection and when a collection gets so large, it gets to the point where you don't really get the time to play them all. So I sold my whole collection for extremely cheap to a game store with the thought that people who didn't know how to pirate them, or have access to them, could play them instead of me having them sit in the house and collect dust.
Btw it's okay I beat Cubivor and it's over rated 6/10 lol

[By-the_Way]

I'm really going to miss Jon in these fun little conversations but best of luck to him wherever he's going next and I hope he has time to come back again as a guest :)
My biggest gaming regret is probably buying the Dreamcast a week before they lowered the price by $100 (or 10, 000 yen in Japan). I absolutely loved the console, so it's fine but I've never been able to forget it (LOL).

[katanakhari]

I regret trading my Pokemon HeartGold, SoulSilver, Platinum, Black and Pearl to GameStop. I even threw away some of the boxes 😭

[Jack-tkub]

In primary school as a kid we had one day a year where we could bring in and play any toy with all our friends. I brought in my GBA and pokemon emerald with 100s of hours of play time. My biggest regret was lending it to another kid to try, who saved over my file, wiping all of my progress. As a child it was truly heartbreaking and I'm still bitter when I think back about it

[ianlotts]

I was at Best Buy in 1996 and remember seeing an entire endcap of Earthbound for $20. Must've been 10 of them there. Not grabbing at least one is one of my biggest gaming regrets.

[Linkfin]

I can’t believe that Ron and Bilbo were on the show!!

[jestersinsanity]

My biggest regret by far, is trading in Ghost Trick. I found I think at a pawn shop for super cheap as a child, but struggled to play it for whatever reason and ended up trading it in for a new game. Still kicking myself for that.

[coneg]

3 of my "regrets" are similar to some of yours, Alex and Zion.
1.) As a mix of Christmas and my birthday, we went to NYC to see the tree back in 2005. Nintendo World was still pretty new then so I convinced my parents to have that be a pit stop. They let me get whatever game I wanted and I picked Shadow the Hedgehog...
2.) I played through Pokemon Blue during the formative years (it helped me learn how to read!) and I have these mixed memories of having a Blastoise and a Charizard. Years later I let a sibling overwrite the save file because by that point there was no path forward for old Pokemon to Gen 3 onward, so I have no idea what my actual Hall of Fame team was. And I didn't trade with people so the best I can figure is starting with Squirtle, restarting shortly after getting Blastoise, and doing a good chunk of the game again with Charizard?
3.) I wish I was able to get an Earthbound cartridge as well. I actually "had" the chance back in college, $100 for a loose cart at a retro game store but being a poor college student that didn't even have a Super Nintendo scared me off it. Luckily the Wii U and SNES Classic exist to "own" the game legit but it does sting to see how much more the game is now when $100 was already a balking point for me.

Besides that, it's mainly not keeping track of my old games. Especially Gen 4 and 5 Pokemon games that are now going for insane prices on eBay. I don't know how much is just lost somewhere in my parents' house and how much was sold by siblings for quick cash since moving out, so whenever they find any old games from our childhood I just take them at this point.

[jamesw.]

My biggest regret is not keeping all of my consoles and games that I've ever owned

[AzureDragonZX]

My biggest regret is not realizing Nintendo actually made extended Wii U batteries. I definitely would have picked one up had I known!

[jashslingingslasher]

mine is also a gamecube story. When i started college i stopped playing games, so i gave my gamecube, a ton of games, my wavebird, etc. to the childrens ward of a hospital near by. They ended up just trashing it i found out a couple weeks later, and it has bothered me since.. If they werent going to use it, they should have just told me. I ended up getting back into gaming and redownloaded most of my games through emulation, but it would have been nice to hold onto them. Most of them are very expensive now as well. Its just one of those experiences where you try to do something nice and give people an opportunity to have the same joy you had as a kid, and they just threw it away.

[cooperwestfall]

I love these types of videos with you guys have gameplay in the background and you guys just talk.

[tomohawk]

I regret not playing Botw sooner, just ordered a copy and it’s arriving tomorrow. Also sad to see Jon go but it’s probably the best for him.

[BillySYT]

That intro was simultaneously regret-filled and iconic, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

[GRIMIREGCH]

“Losing your Chao is almost like losing your children.”
*waits to hear what Jon, a father, has to say*
“Depends on how much you love the Chao I guess.”

[FelixSR]

I think my biggest regret is that i played Breath of the wild. Because man, i really wish i could experience that game for the first time again 🙌

[Rawk__]

Hearing an American say the word “quid” is surreal, that might have been the funniest thing I’ve heard Zion say for such a stupid reason.

Anyway, my biggest gaming regret is honestly, not getting into collecting sooner. Game collecting is one of the most fun things I’ve ever done, and to have missed out on so many years of that fun is really upsetting to me.

~ Rawk