okay okay so this isn’t supposed to be “I"D BUY ALL AES GAMES AND PAY OFF MY HOUSE” wish-fest so much as what stuff did you get into later, or just sleep on and then saw it blow up on you?
for me, a few saturn/turbografx titles naturally got away, but looking back, both scenes saw small US runs and had many of their greats never make it over, so that was a perfect formula for some of the stupid high prices we see now - though i’m still weirded out by how much c-tier titles like three dirty dwarves now commands.
i’m really getting into Ys now and wishing i’dve grabbed some of those before, particularly book I & II. it’s got me grateful i grabbed acquire type way of the samurai/samurai western stuff on the cheap when i did.
SHMUPs almost as a whole are largely gone for my budget, horror started jumping up that way too - i was already too late for haunting ground, but illbleed, echo night and others i’d enjoyed years back, i now kick myself for not grabbing when they were dirt cheap for ages.
post your white whales, or just stuff you dug/checked out later but can’t catch for a decent price in our modern hellscape.