Any of you wanting an old game really badly, but you can just never seem to get it?

Recommended Videos

Aeriath

New member
Sep 10, 2009
357
0
0
The Disk Thrower said:
Aeriath said:
The Disk Thrower said:
Amazingly, No

because of this fantastic small shop
called "GamesMasters" up leith
pretty much all PC games = £2.50
all the PS1 games = £5 or lower

I love it <3
That wouldn't be Leith, Edinburgh, would it? I've been wanting to track down some of the old LucasArts point and clicks, a few PS1 games and some other PC games that slip my mind at the moment.
It would good sir, if you have access to a 16 bus, it'd be no trouble for you, as it stops literally right outside the shop xD
Awesome, thanks. I may have to pop in the next day I'm not working and pick up some stuff. It looks like I could probably walk from Princes Street, but dammit I paid for a buspass and I am going to milk it for all it's worth!
 

migo

New member
Jun 27, 2010
2,698
0
0
Unrulyhandbag said:
migo said:
I'm sure Square Enix would prefer someone buy Final Fantasy XIII now rather than Final Fantasy VII.
I'm pretty sure Sqeenix would LOVE people to buy FF7 for their PS3 or PSP off the Playstation network not just copy it from the inter-webs.
I didn't realise it was up there. In that case though, how is the OP having a hard time finding FF7?
 

Raziel_Likes_Souls

New member
Mar 6, 2008
1,805
0
0
Persona 3 and 4. And NMH 1. Seriously, WTF? Why are these games so damn hard to find? I thought NMH and Persona were relatively underrated games?
 

Yopaz

Sarcastic overlord
Jun 3, 2009
6,092
0
0
Megaman X for GC.
SystemShock 2
Fatal Frame. Just can't seem to find any of those.
There's probably more, but I can't remember.
 

omega 616

Elite Member
May 1, 2009
5,883
1
43
MGS 2 and 3 subsistence/limited edition/special edition ones, you know with the VR stuff.

I can get the original MGS on PSN but the other 2 seem to be really expensive.

£150 new and £54 used!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Metal-Gear-Solid-Subsistence-PS2/dp/B0009RWHZ0/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1284323601&sr=8-9
 

Thedayrecker

New member
Jun 23, 2010
1,541
0
0
I've had this problem a few times, and sometimes it's lead to piracy. Usually though Steam has the game so I don't have to worry.
 

D0WNT0WN

New member
Sep 28, 2008
808
0
0
I have been searching everywhere to find a good copy of Dino Crisis & Dino Crisis 2 for the PS1. Otherwise old games are quite easy to find; I have all of the mainstream Final Fantasys thanks to the Playstation Store.
 

Korolev

No Time Like the Present
Jul 4, 2008
1,853
0
0
With the internet, you can find many, many old games, as long as you are prepared to pay the price for them.

Aside from that, you could shop at the bargain bins and hope to get lucky.

There is a third option - as time goes on, it is becoming increasingly easier to emulate old games on the PC or buy them as a downloadable title. For example, you can buy FFVII on the PSN, in all it's 32-bit blocky "glory". As time goes by, I expect Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft, as well as "good-old games" ans steam to add more old games to their catalogues. Eventually, you'll be able to buy old PS2 games on PSN (count on it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but someday). So merely waiting for them to be re-released is a valid option.

But let's say you can't find it anywhere, and it doesn't seem likely that a title is popular enough to be re-released or emulated. You can probably find video-walkthroughs of the game in question. It's far from being able to play it yourself, but at least it allows you to experience the game to a limited degree.
 

HotFezz8

New member
Nov 1, 2009
1,139
0
0
oktalist said:
You people have strange ideas of what constitutes an old game.

I really want to find an old CGA platformer that I can barely remember from my childhood. Thing was weird as. Stranded on an alien world kinda thing.
lol seconded. this game is, what, two years old? max?
 

oktalist

New member
Feb 16, 2009
1,603
0
0
Unrulyhandbag said:
oktalist said:
I really want to find an old CGA platformer that I can barely remember from my childhood. Thing was weird as. Stranded on an alien world kinda thing.
Any chance it was exile? CGA platform adventure on Amiga and BBC where the player is stranded on an alien world and has to explore and solve puzzles to escape. It came out in 1988 and was a performace hog needing a whole 48K of RAM to display properly!
Alas no. The date is about right, but this was on the IBM PC and I remember the player character was not humanoid, but some kind of creature thing I think. All the sprites were square-ish and the same size. I think the colour scheme was CGA palette 0, cyan and magenta. The screen didn't scroll to follow you; the screens were fixed so when you went off the side/top/bottom of one, the screen changed and you reappeared on the other side of the next screen.
 

AfroTree

New member
Feb 21, 2010
757
0
0
EHKOS said:
The Disk Thrower said:
Amazingly, No

because of this fantastic small shop
called "GamesMasters" up leith
pretty much all PC games = £2.50
all the PS1 games = £5 or lower

I love it <3
Dang. The place I got to has like $3.00 PS2 games but the PS1 games are really expensive. At least the discs are in great condition.
So are ours =3

Aeriath said:
YEAH !!

Hope you find what you are looking for :p
 

rokkolpo

New member
Aug 29, 2009
5,375
0
0
GamesB2 said:
Dead Rising.

It's an 18 and I'm 17. So I can't buy it myself.

Whenever I happen to have my dad around I can't afford it though.

God damn it I want Dead Rising...
are you serious?
do you really have such a strict policy whereever you're from.

sounds like hell.

OT:yes i've been looking for killer 7 mainly because yathzee approved it and made me really curious for the bizarre experience.

no-one sells gamecube games anymore damnit.
ow well let's skim the interwebs.