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A price too far

Like many out there I’ve been intrigued by the forthcoming Rock Band game, and the thought of not only being able to emulate just our guitar heroes but also sing along with and accompany them on the drums too makes the idea all the sweeter. But this week it has been announced that the U.K. price of Rock Band peripherals will be somewhere around the £130 mark (on top of the price of the main game itself) and that has grated against some hard core fans out there. Don’t even think about looking at the U.S. price comparison…it’s scary, if not just down right depressing.

But then it got me thinking…what was the most expensive game I’ve ever bought? And it hit me straight away – Street Fighter II on the SNES. I just had to have that game…no matter what. So I trekked into London and visited an old haunt on Tottenham Court Road and got the Japanese import cartridge. If memory serves me right I think it was around the £100 mark, probably a bit more. But when I got it home and plugged the cartridge into the console the sheer fun and time I got out of it made the trek into London and the cost all worth it.

Sometimes the temptation is too great to resist…we’ve got to have that game, no matter what. Whether it’s a special edition or just plain vanilla – we has to have it…our precioussss!!!!

And that brings me to my question: what’s the most you’ve ever spent on a game, or at least what was the title of it. Just how much did we really want to get our grubby little mitts on it. Come on – tell us. You know you want to.

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10 responses to “A price too far”

  1. Tony avatar
    Tony

    I would happily drown a sackful of kittens if that was the price I had to pay to get hold of GTA IV.

    However, I have decided that, for what it is, Rock Band is just too much, so I won’t be bothering.

    Not technically a game, but I bought ‘3D Construction Kit’ (a tool that let you build simple 3D games) for PC many years ago for £70 and at the time that was a vast amount of money to me!

  2. Martin avatar
    Martin

    The most would have to be £75 for guitar hero 3, but I traded in so it was about £20. I have a friend who paid £60 for robocop 3 on the SNES and it was garbage. If it’s more than £40 a trade in is a must.

  3. Gavin avatar
    Gavin

    I once bought a new PC (price: ~£1,000) just so I could play Homeworld 2 (I totally loved the original). I think I have spent a total of 5 hours playing that game since. But the new machine was powerful enough to play Battlefield 2142 and Dawn of War, so it wasn’t a complete loss.

  4. James avatar
    James

    The most ive gone out for on any given videogame is a measly £40. I just dont have the money that I can use for videogames 🙁

    Thank god for second-hand games and ebay (£2 for the LOST game? bargin!)

  5. Jake avatar
    Jake

    That bloomin’ stupid controller for Steel Battalion – it’s currently living, fully constructed, in my mum’s wardrobe at home as I “cunningly” forgot it when I moved out! That set me back a fair bit, I seem to remember!

  6. Dan avatar
    Dan

    I paid well over the odds for a ‘day after launch’ import of Street Fighter Zero 3 on the Playstation. £80 or £90 I think. Well worth it!

  7. Kirsten avatar
    Kirsten

    I haven’t paid over the odds for a game but I’ve bought an Eternal Sonata faceplate off ebay. I bid… a lot for a Japanese one too but it got to steep for me.

  8. Michael avatar
    Michael

    I don’t think I’ve EVER paid more than 40-50 quid for a game – unless you consider the odd bundle… then I’ve paid a fair bit!

    No bloody way am I going to buy Rock Band! How would I play the game with an arm and a leg missing?

  9. James avatar
    James

    I saw that in your nice column Ms Kirsten 🙂 I just played the demo and now am seriously contemplating buying it… :/ If only I had money to spend 🙁

  10. Estella Carson avatar
    Estella Carson

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