Due to the ridiculous prices some used games fetch these days, what's the most you've shelled out for a single one?  For a console game I want to say I paid around $150-$200 for a complete Rendering Ranger, and have had a few around the $100 mark (Panzer Saga, Radiant Silvergun, Magical Chase JP, Earthbound, Valkyrie Profile).  And I paid about $700 for a New Espgaluda II PCB kit.

Bioshock Collector's Edition for 360. I paid $90 for it. It's still in decent shape. I'll probably never touch it.

I paid $80 for a mint copy of Suikoden II, by my estimation a good price considering I've seen it go for nearly triple that.

In my case, I think it's a tie: I believe I paid $70 for Mega Man X2 and Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie's Double Trouble on the SNES when they came out. Love the SNES but don't miss those prices. That's part of the reason I don't bother with new consoles - those prices are creeping up again due to development costs.

I still cringe at $70 for X2; I know that the Cx4 technology raised the price but it was a very standard sequel.

Finally got X3 last year however, the cart ran me $40 which wasn't bad.

Was definitely in the SNES days...$80 for FFIII. I remember I scrounged together $60 from loose coins, savings, etc, then my parents kicked in the difference. Probably because they saw the horrible withdrawal symptons (depression, hyperactivity, nonstop quoting of lines from the game, roleplaying as characters randomly in public, etc), after we took the rental copy back.

I did buy the Rock Band kit for $160 when it came out, but I don't count that. I barely used the (awful) guitar or the mike, so more like $60 for the game and $100 for the drums. If you want to count the additional RB DLC though...Yeah, figure $60 plus an extra $200-$300 or so (over a period of time). *shrug* Good songs is good songs. Might as well get 'em.

I didn't actually pay for FFIII (my parents bought it at Christmas) but I'm pretty sure I dug up $69.99 for FFII, way back in the day. It always depressed me when I rented that game, got halfway through, had to return it and when I finally rented it again, some sick bastard had saved over my data!

$150 plus tax for the Super Famicom version of Street Fighter II Turbo back in '93, followed by the Super Famicom Super Street Fighter II in '94 for $130.  My local import shop had me over a barrel. 

Needless to say, I was putting in a lot of extra hours at my summer jobs back then to pay for my Street Fighting addiction.  It was worth it.

Radiant Silvergun, $200 in my case - I'd had a pretty sizable nest egg at that point and decided I was tired of waiting for Treasure to port it to XBLA or something.

After that would probably be $100 for Snatcher, but I got it with the Sega CD and a host of other gameds, so it's not as dramatic as it would've been just for the game proper.

Besides those examples though, I try to keep my gaming costs as low as I can.

Lol, total opposite for me...FFII was a Christmas gift. And yeah, the bastards would always erase my data too. I actually beat FFII during a rental (before I got it), whereas FFIII was painful to let go of because I could not figure out how to get into Kefka's tower.

Angela, if you don't mind my asking...why did you buy the imports when you knew the US versions were coming along as fast as Capcom could get them out? lol, I'm surprised you didn't go for Super Turbo on the 3DO (it was the only home port until SF Collection) or even a cabinet.

Oh God, I remember that system. My cousin and I played a version of Samurai Shodown on it. I remember thinking it was a really weird console.

You kidding me?  Those were the fever-pitch days of Street Fighter II.  Even if it was just a couple of weeks to a month before the U.S. versions hit, getting to play the games that much sooner was a godsend.  And besides, you can't deny that the cover art was worlds better on the Japanese versions.  (Hey, this is a thread for "the most expensive game you've ever bought", not for "the most sensible purchase you've ever made.")

Ahh, I'm getting all nostalgic now.  What the hell, I've got the camera out anyway.  Surprised I still own 'em, actually:

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And while I'm at it, this one marks the last Super Famicom import I had ever bought.  Seemed like a bargain at $110:

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I can say that I don't regret most of the expensive gaming purchases I have made. I remember jumping through loops trying to obtain a PAL version of Terranigma in English and a proper PAR Cart to play it (easily costing me around $170 for everything involved) , but once I fired it up on my Snes for the first time it was priceless.

Did no one here have a Neo Geo?  Neither did I, but I figured that someone would have bought one of those and forked over $400+ on a single game...

My answer depends on how you classify "game".  For games on their own, I think the most I ever spent was $115 for a used copy of Dracula X for the TurboDuo.  However, I always get the super-duper premium release of every new IIDX home game, which includes the game and several other ancillary items (usually a bonus CD, a DVD, a poster, some kind of accessory, and a special box).  The most recent one, IIDX Empress, cost me $233.

I believe the most I've ever spent on one game has to go to Mushihimesama Futari 1.5. (around $150) or the european release of Terranigma, complete with the system to play it on ($140 and worth every cent). 

It's getting harder and harder to drop $60+ on a brand new release when I know that they're going to drop in a few months.

that's mostly for the kids who have already played every new release and are in jeopardy of not filling their 11-hour day gaming quota...

Fatal Fury Special for Neo Geo cost me about 300€ in todays currency, that's the most i've paid for a game to this day, but it was well worth it. the leap in graphics and fighting gameplay killed me and my wallet.

After seeing your SFC covers here Angie, you'll probably get a kick out of this mock cover shot.

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I think it was Street Fighter II on the SNES. Toys 'R Us wanted $75 for it, the highest I had ever seen a video game sell for back then, excluding those on the Neo Geo (I had no knowledge of import games at the time). Neo Geo games were just completely untouchable, totally relegated to the fantasy world of daydreams. And I dreamed about owning a Neo Geo, I can assure you.

I can not think of a video game that was more significant than Street Fighter II, in terms of the unanimous approval by the kids in my neighborhood. Burned in my mind is the image of my parent's living room completely filled with bodies staring at a little 19" set. Castlevania, Zelda, Super Mario All Stars, Super Metroid - those games - even they paled in comparison. While they were great if you're by yourself, the whole neighborhood isn't going to rush over to watch Link meandering through dungeons or Samus using power bombs. The console version of SF II was so significant because we didn't have to go the arcades or Cecil Whittaker's anymore. Playing a fighting game at home these days is mundane, but back then it was a brand new experience; truly liberating. That's why I actually rode my bike the 10+ miles to Toys 'R Us (difficult because few sidewalks) and paid the $75 (I think my little brother paid for part of it, but I'm not sure).

For me, it was Secret of Mana on the SNES. I was using a borrowed SNES and my one buddy had a multitap for the thing, so my buddies and I would go to my place after school to play the game. We'd be kicked out after an hour to go do "normal kid things" outside (according to my conservative mother), but to us, it was normal for us to be enthralled by this bold new RPG.

Street Fighter 2 was a significant game by most standards, but I never did like competitive gameplay, feeling that co-operative games like Mana were more conducive to the feeling one gets when huddled around a TV in a secluded room in the house with the volume turned down so your mother doesn't kick you outside to do something absolutely mundane, like kick a ball around, or dig holes in the mud with a stick or stare at a brick wall or some shit. -___-;

It's a toss up between Dragon Warrior II at $110 CAD or Final Fantasy III (SNES) at $110 CAD plus tax.  Things were really expensive here in Canada when they were originally released/

David

Nice.  Yu-na's totally rockin' that saber.  And in light of her circumstance, there's something oddly appropriate with Rochette sporting the angel wing.

Now that I think about it, it's probably a few FALCOM PC games that I paid the most for, just a few years ago.  Ys Origin was like 85 bucks, can't quite remember what I paid for Felghana and Zwei!! though.

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I'm convinced that Nintendo games are modern age comic books in terms of collecting.

Wait 50 years, and prices will approach this:

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crazy...

The most expensive game I ever purchased was Phantasy Star IV for about $90 back when it was originally released.

I miss going to Toys "R" Us.