Games you wish you hadn't bought 😢

[Fantazia2]

Hot off the tails of the games you wished you hadnt sold and games you wish you had bought, I think a more interesting thread would be games you wish you hadnt bought.

Games you bought, setup and after 1 game regretted it.

Games you bought "fully working" that were far from accurate and were a pain to fix.

Luckily Ive not bought enough to have had that regret yet.

 

[steve brum]

Just two . Now when it comes to spooky it's twice bitten never again

Alice Cooper
Scooby Doo

 

[lukewells]

No regrets

If I don't like a game I can just sell it on again. It doesn't happen often

 

[Matt Vince]

I remember driving after work to Manchester and picking up Tommy, a game i was so excited to get. I arrived so late that i collect it all wrapped up and got home around 2am. Worked all the next day and rushed home to play it. I set it up and only then realised that the music wasn't by The Who!! It was already for sale before i finished the first game.

This was at the very begining of my pinball journey and before pinsound was available.

 

[Pop Bumper Pete]

My very first machine

Stupid hobby, I'd be a rich man if I had collected something else

 

[Spandangler]

Revenge from Mars. Had to wrestle it down a flight of stairs from an arcade in St Neots to get it home and realise its utter ****

 

[JAG555]

I am going to say Game of Throne LE.

I had wanted this game for a while and when I got it, it was just crap! I got to the wizard mode after about a week (which for a player of my level is unheard of).

Sold it after just a few weeks and was glad to see the back of it! I don’t think the crap ending to the show helped, as I loved the books!

 

[DRD]

Dialed in LE NIB.

Poor build quality, part baked software, ridiculous amount of airballs, took me hours and hours to set the damned thing up properly, rubbish subcomponents ...

 

[Replay]

X-Men LE ( Magneto NIB ).

Quite possibly worst early code ever.

It was shocking and took years to become a good game.

Sold mine for a big loss to someone in Majorca as no one wanted it in UK!

 

[robotgreg]

Freddy's Nightmares - loved t when it came out but one I bought did not play great and really didn't enjoy.

Judge Dredd - likewise, my example played poorly and couldn;t get rid of it quickly enough.

Big Buck Hunter - bit of a knee jerk reaction after having missed out on 7 machines in a row. Too shallow for me.

 

[Rasputin]

High roller casino and Sharkeys shootout. Dreadful pins.

 

[johnwhitfield]

Disliked T3 from the first ball

Munsters wasn't far behind.

Every game has some redeeming features fora couple of plays though.

 

[jonathan]

STTNG. The theme put me off but it was always highly rated on Pinside. Bought one off Andy Heighway and the guns never worked properly on it. Knew it was a turd on day one.

WMS IJ never gelled with me either for some reason. Just found it a total clunk fest

 

[Pick Holder]

Who Dunnit?
Cactus Canyon
IJ (williams)
IJ (Stern)
Nascar

 

[DanMoon]

Alien by Pinball Brothers
Venom LE

 

[ianw]

Turtles NIB

 

[andy]

Most disappointing game is Funhouse. I had one 20 years ago and didn’t really like it - I wanted to like it so I bought another one this year to give it a second chance….but no, still didn’t really like it.

I do realise that’s my fault not the fault of the highly rated game!

Worst game ever from first play onwards was Black Pyramid, no redeeming features for me on that one!

 

[Will2.0]

Alice cooper so terrible I almost knew after ball one it had to go total clunk fest.

 

[RetroHeed]

No regrets on the couple of machines I have bought so far. But with the current market the way it is I am very cautions on what I would like to own next.

 

[Pinoffski]

X men LE
traded a LOTR + cash his way
the new owner of my lotr flipped it for a 3k profit 2 weeks later

 

[J.C.Rox]

IJ4. Such a let down by stern, the epitome of a cash grab, great license to get sales, terrible unfinished code and not a fùck given to finish it...(other than by @myPinballs of course!)

 

[myPinballs]

IJ4. Such a let down by stern, the epitome of a cash grab, great license to get sales, terrible unfinished code and not a fùck given to finish it...(other than by @myPinballs of course!)

And more to come with Stern IJ in 2025

Worst games for me

Jokerz
Kings of Steel
Jaws
RBION

 

[JAG555]

And more to come with Stern IJ in 2025

Worst games for me

Jokerz
Kings of Steel
Jaws
RBION

What didn’t you like about Jaws?

 

[myPinballs]

What didn’t you like about Jaws?

I just don’t like elwin games and wanted to give it a chance because of the theme bring my fav film but it just sucks big time

Probably because I’m not a tournament player but I found the rules very frustrating and annoying!! I could hear elwin saying ‘well if you can’t do this 4 shot combination then your **** so suck it up..’

It had to go…

 

[JAG555]

I just don’t like elwin games and wanted to give it a chance because of the theme bring my fav film but it just sucks big time

Probably because I’m not a tournament player but I found the rules very frustrating and annoying!! I could hear elwin saying ‘well if you can’t do this 4 shot combination then your **** so suck it up..’

It had to go…

I have to be honest, I am also not a huge fan of his games (I hate Godzilla for example), but again, I am not a good player.

 

[myPinballs]

I have to be honest, I am also not a huge fan of his games (I hate Godzilla for example), but again, I am not a good player.

I think I am an ok player but maybe I’m just of the era where rules should be alittle less complex. I’m liking xmen rules so far for example

 

[Alpha1]

The only game I regret getting is Dracula. Total dog ****.

 

[myPinballs]

The only game I regret getting is Dracula. Total dog ****.

Please tell me you played one where myst multiball was working

Did you ever get the 3 mbs stacked together, as thats the goal and is along way from dog ****

 

[Alpha1]

Please tell me you played one where myst multiball was working

Did you ever get the 3 mbs stacked together, as thats the goal and is along way from dog ****

Yep working myst multiball, just a gimmick though.

I just can't stand the game. I tried, had three!!!

 

[johnwhitfield]

I really want to like Dracula but there’s something about it that I loathe. For a long while I thought it was the colour scheme I hated but it’s the whole thing. Like Dirty Harry but actually worse. Every now and again I’ll return to it to see what I’m missing but it never clicks.