Single Most Expensive Gaming Purchase You've EVER Made

In the interest of extremes, what's the priciest gaming thing you've ever bought? For the sake of being broad, anything game-related, be it a stereo system or a rare gaming action figure. However, it has to be a SINGLE purchase so not anything like buying a bunch of consoles and HDTV's in one swoop, but a single expensive item. It doesn't have to be something you shopped around for too; it can be something that was really expensive just because you didn't look around (i.e. it isn't really that expensive but you bought it overpriced).

Nothing to extravagant on my front, just a premium XBox 360. In all fairness, I did get it in a bundle for, like, 800 bucks was it? Yeah.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

For more mileage, you can discuss, in addition to most expensive, most expensive in individual categories. In relation with the Ace Combat flight stick, I picked up the Gran Turismo 3 official wheel. Wow, dumb move considering I didn't even like racing games. I just got caught up in the hype machine ("Look! So cool, good graphics, Lenny Kravitz!").

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Originally Posted by PiccoloNamek

$125 for a copy of the Japanese version of Sonic CD.

Is the Japanese one more rare than the American one? I remember seeing a friend play the American one and thinking nothing of it; now all I hear is that it's the best Sonic game of all.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by SketchTheArtist

That game made me cum more than once.

It's getting too sexual up here.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Wow, that really made a difference.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Is that Gitaroo Man pre- or post-reprint? Also, did you get your copy pre- or post-reprint?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Solis

Steel Battalion at $200 comes in a close second, though.

Steel Battalion for $200. What a steal. I would have gotten that if I had an XBox. That controller, didn't it even have controls for a fan inside the cockpit?

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Originally Posted by Solis

Hmm, no fan that I know of, but there was an oxygen switch. In the original game it was only used during startup and had no effect during the game, but in Line of Contact, turning off your oxygen would cause you to eventually black out and your pilot would die. There was also a button to turn on your windshield wipers.

The controls worked perfectly though, I don't think any game was built for a specific controller better than that (or maybe it was the other way around). You can also hook the controller up to a PC with an Xbox USB adaptor and 3rd party drivers to use in PC games. I hear it works really well for the Mech Warrior games, unsurprisingly enough.

The other thing that sounds dreadfully difficult in that game is the whole 'once you die, you're dead forever, start a new game' bit. I mean that's been done in, say, Way of the Samurai, but in a game like that with the apparently daunting controls, that seems really, hm, trying.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?