Worst game I bought for the stupidest reason - Hydlide. The name is reminiscent of Hyrule and the boxart is similar to Dragon Warrior, two of my favorite games at the time. Long story short, there went one of the 2 games per annum (at most) I received as a kid.
Ha, oh man, I had that game. I was so young that I thought the fact that it was so terrible was my fault. I'd actually be interested in trying it again to see how my 20-years-older self handles it.
Here's a couple of mine:
-I bought Xenoblade off the shelf at a Gamestop in Bed-Stuy in Brooklyn, and the dude at the counter was like "that's our only copy. Nobody here pre-ordered it." I got about 10 hours in before my launch Wii's disc drive died. I intended to hold on to it until I got a WiiU so I could pick it back up, but I hit a money crunch and sold it back for like $15 cash. BIG FUCKING MISTAKE.
-I bought a used 360 in the first year of release because I wanted to play Perfect Dark Zero, which was terrible. While playing this terrible game, my 360 RRODed. Once I received it back, there wasn't much else out, but I hung on for Dead Rising because Dawn of the Dead was one of my favorite movies. I bought DR at full price, and played it for about four hours before quitting, because (A.) It was awful and (B.) I had an SD TV at the time, and the on-screen text, of which there was a lot, was unreadable.
-The original Harvest Moon is one of my most cherished video game memories, and I was never able to get a hold of Harvest Moon 64. When A Wonderful Life came out on GC I bought it at full price upon release. Played it for four hours, and it was terrible, traded it back at a huge loss.
-I left my SNES, 64, and GC game collection at home when I went to college. My goddamned little brother sold them all to Game Crazy, including my gold Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask carts and my Master's Quest disc.