Stupid or Terrible Purchases From When You Were Younger

[Guest]

I bought the Nokia N-Gage

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[Arn Anderson's Darb]

I was certain that getting a pager would be a life changing day for me when I was about 13. I mean the bloke in Menace To Society made it look really cool. I think I paid about £50 for it, handed out the little cards that came with it with my number on and got about 5 beeps from my mum telling me when to come home and the football scores which cost a fortune and then it went in a cupboard forever.

 

Also, loads and loads of South Park merch when it first came out and was really expensive. Utter shite like keyrings and stuffed toys.

[PunkStep]

I bought meat. Lots of meat.

You've grossly misunderstood the nature of this thread, as this is neither a stupid nor a terrible purchase. You should ask yourself, "did I buy ENOUGH meat?"

 

And you'll find the answer will be no. As you never can.

[Cod Eye]

When I was a teenager, mobile phones with my "thing".

 

I was addicted to the things. I had a market stall and was making bloody good money(especially for my age), and would buy a new phone more or less every month(and sometimes more frequently), and as they were all sim free were extortionate. 

 

It all started with a Nokia 3210, and from there went through dozens of phones per year, often giving the "old" ones away. Looking back now, I was just my way of showing my mates how well I was doing, and feel a total tosser now...

 

Also had a thing for Videos and later DVD's. Had thousands of the things. I felt physically sick when we took my VHS collection to Blockbusters to sell(as it was the last week they would buy them)and most of them rung up at between 10p and 50p. I work as a copywriter in the film industry now so usually get all my films for free or at least very cheap and has saved me fortunes!

[Nick Soapdish]

 

I bought meat. Lots of meat.

You've grossly misunderstood the nature of this thread, as this is neither a stupid nor a terrible purchase. You should ask yourself, "did I buy ENOUGH meat?"

 

And you'll find the answer will be no. As you never can.

 

 

I think for me the stupidest things I bought were loads of action figures during the McFarlane Toys boom of the late 90's. Not just his, but at the time Jakks started doing Real Scan technology and it seemed every property was being turned into toys. I even have a Jay and Silent Bob set of talking figures (bob has a silent chip). Once you get to pay proper bills I just think if only I had saved my money instead of wasting it on that shit :-(

[Callum1993]

For me growing up I went through spells of collecting a number of different stickers/cards whether they be football, wrestling or Pokemon. Same thing with wrestling figures. I must have had like 3 or 4 different figures of The Rock, about 5 of Steve Austin, 3 of Kane etc. Such a waste of money now looking back

[Jazzy G]

We used to buy whole boxes of packs of Magic: The Gathering cards. I was terrible at it (apart from during the Mirrodin set when I had some good ideas for decks right before half the cards involved got banned and scuppered me) but would still buy the cards religiously. I'd just get into the routine of buying something when I could and it'd bugger me right up. It also earned me the nickname "Prince Of Porn" in Uni because of all the bongo publications I'd purchase. That would have been an eye-opener for the recycling guys if they'd been around back then. It was weird enough when I moved out of my old flat and disposed of my old issues of Zoo & Nuts.

[Chest Rockwell]

I fondly remember a stoned decision to purchase the entire tray of Kinder eggs from the local Londis with my mates one time. I don't regret it at all, but I'd be hard pressed to argue that it wasn't a stupid purchase.

[quote the raven]

I didn't used to mind AVP on the Jag. I finished it as all three characters. The Xenomorph's campaign was the trickiest though. A mate lent me one for a while when we were in school.

 

 

Im so glad i didnt by its cd add on

[RIDDUM_N_STYLE]

Magazines were a bit vice for me, I'd easily spend £20-25 a month on the likes of Power Slam, FSM, FHM, Loaded, Gamesmaster, Total Film, Empire, FourFourTwo and the official Everton magazine, read them once then let them pile up in my room until my dad would take the film and lads mags into work with the rest going in the recycling

 

Now I've stopped buying magazines altogether as I've got back into comics (only sticking to one or two series), only occasionally buying Starburst magazine if the cover is appealing, the last being a Universal Monsters retrospective a couple of months back

[Guest]

I've mentioned on here before about the odd selection of wrestling figures in my collection. Some of them boggle my mind as to why I would bother paying money for that. The Bashams? Johnny Stamboli? Brutus Beefcake? Hardcore pissing Holly? La Resistance and their fucking arms don't even bend? If it was in Asda/Woolworths it was coming home with me

 

TNA figures must have been pretty widely sold for a bit as I've got some of those too

AJ & Daniels? Sweet.

Jarrett and Abyss? Fair enough.

Elix Skipper? Hmmmm... I definitely just bought that to do a tightrope hurricanrana off the washing line

[PunkStep]

I've got back into comics

Ah, the very epitome of this thread title.

[Cod Eye]

My eldest is 13, and he goes ape shit over these monthly mystery subscription boxes like Lootcrate and the like.

 

It stated as I get the horror block from nerdblock free nearly every month to review, and he liked them so much he persuaded his grandparents to put their bank details in and subscribed to about 9 different one per month(under the pretence of "ill give you the money for them".

 

5 months later and he still hasn't had anything half decent but is still addicted to them and his Grandparents are still happy for thim to spunk their savings away on them... 

[westlondonmist]

Ladies and gents i give you

 

The Atari Jaguar. Straight from the pages of CVG magazine was the promise of the worlds first 64 bit console. The sheer mind blowing scope of so many "bits" must mean real life like graphics compared to the quite frankly outdated under powered 16 bits of the SNES and mega drive.

 

This was a slam dunk of a console if ever there was one. To round it all off it had Alien vs Predator as a release game. Promising that you could be one of the 3 in totally different games as you battle though space.

 

So come 1994 i was one excited boy. Dreams of blasting xenomorph with my 3 dot blaster while i camouflaged up hiding waiting for my time to strike filled my head as i went to local games shop to pick up this wonder of creation.

 

I think i handed over £300 quid. Got home and opened the box to find this.

 

That my friends is what passes as a controller in the minds of Atari, this huge thing with what appears to be a phone attached to the bottom of it was the single worst thing to ever happen to the game industry. However like the "more bits" i guess they looked at it and thought "more buttons" means better.

 

As you can guess the extra buttons had little or no purpose at all. Indeed with every game you where given a plastic plate that would slip over the bottom of the control to show what each button did. (most of the time nothing). Still fuck you SNES i had 64bits! Soo as i put this game in its going to be ok isnt it!

 

Well no its not going to be ok...not ok at all. Confronted by dim slow moving AI the game was a mess of polygons and same looking corridors. The alien was almost totally unplayable.

 

I tried to convince myself that it was ok but really it wasnt, Not long after the PlayStation released and everything i had dreamed my console would do came true on another format. In truth the thing was shaped like a bog seat and was indeed full of crap.

 

It stayed on the cupboard for years before being thrown out. Its final Kick in the balls to me is its probably worth £200 now.

 

Fuck you Atari

About 150-200. I really wanted one but they were extorsionate. If I had money to spunk away I'd probably buy one.

I had the Atari lynx. Cost £20 with 4 games In a cash converters. Didn't get any extra games as the 2nd hand ones cost more than I played for the console.

[Jazzy G]

Lynx games are hard to find/expensive because the few people that kept hold of their Lynx and games know how in demand they can be nowadays so charge through the nose for them. I'm surprised Nintendo didn't approach them for some kind of virtual console deal, or somebody's not stuck one of those handheld emulators chock full of ROMs out yet.