What was your first gaming disappointment?

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

This. Going to every store and seeing the Dreamcast stuff on clearance was both awesome and depressing.

I'm thankful for the fact that I got largely spared from learning this due to me not having internet at the time and the DC still being reviewed on my favorite TV shows, so I thought it was doing great.

 

[iamthemilkman]

I'm thankful for the fact that I got largely spared from learning this due to me not having internet at the time and the DC still being reviewed on my favorite TV shows, so I thought it was doing great.

I remember Electronics Boutique selling Dreamcast games on a clearance endcap with old PC games. I was the only person ever looking at this endcap when I was there. Every Dreamcast game was like $0.99-$4.99. While I loved getting cheap games, it was sad knowing that it was the end.

 

[Neb Lleb]

He doesn't even have a jump attack, and there's constantly enemies above you. I would actually pay money to see anyone legitimately clear the first stage, I don't think it's even possible.

I played another less-than-stellar X-Men game, Ravages of Apocalypse, and to be honest, though it was utterly boring and frustrating (especially given its nature as a Quake mod), it was nowhere near as bad as Adamantium Rage.

No joke, even watching the old review from Linkara the Lightbringer wasn't very flattering, and that was of the mega drive version!

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

I used to buy lot's of dirt cheap NES, SNES, and Genesis/MD games at Funcoland as a kid based purely on how the cover art looked, so I got burned plenty of times.

I think one of my first major disappointments as a kid though was the PC port of Street Fighter 2 World Warrior. It looks damn near arcade perfect in screenshots, but boy is it rough in motion with it's choppy frames, moon-jumps, and horribly unresponsive inputs and gameplay.

I've mentioned it before, but my disappointment in it was so huge that it played a big hand in me getting into emulation in the first place, as I was determined to get a good version of SF2 on my PC

 

[Zerpina]

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In the before times, in the long long ago, this was the focus of my childish desires. There was nothing that could possibly be cooler than the Power Glove. After weeks of fawning over it, a friend from school let me borrow one for a night. It was so far below what I thought it was that, I remember being mad about it. It was infuriating to use.

Heart broken.

End of summer, first weekend after school started back.

I was 15, had been working most of the summer part-time, and saving up for a car the following year.
On and off all summer, though, when not busting my ass or, well, frankly, wasting time with my friend Jez, we would play Chrono Trigger.

We spent months on it, leveling up, goofing around, and playing it. So again, the first weekend after school started back, I didn’t have to work and I wanted to finish the game. It was just before you get to Lavos, and the fucking CR2032 had died. I don’t remember now how many hours Jez and I had put into that cartridge, but poof, gone. I was devastated, well, as much as a 15-year-old can be when a game is erased, more or less.

 

[Guinea]

I can't recall my first disappointment, it was either Zelda II being a sidescroller or Final Fantasy II having a levelling system based on weapon usage.

But I remember when Animal Crossing New Horizons came out, I walked IN THE RAIN to get a copy, made it home, popped it in with a big grin on my face and... experienced the hell of Bunny Day and all those damn eggs buried everywhere. It's a wonderful game, but Bunny Day is not a good first experience.

 

[PhaseJump]

Don't push button.

Don't.

For God's sake, just don't.

 

[Zerpina]

Don't push button.

Don't.

For God's sake, just don't.

 

[χKai]

Gotta be either Clayfighter (didn't realize by the box art that it was another 1v1 2D fighter, and had to pick a game in a hurry), or Dragon Power (found out about it when I was 10 or 11 and knew it was based on Dragonball. Did not know a licensed game off a huge IP could be that bad.) or The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (Same as the last reason).

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Don't push button.

Don't.

For God's sake, just don't.

But now I HAVE to, man XD