I agree, I brought one of those Panasonic 3DO machines when they first came out. A 32-bit cdrom based console that predated the original Playstation and was less powerful. It cost me £360
think yourself lucky i paid £699 for it !!!
also paid £575 for jap psx with ridge racer , £545 for a saturn and daytona, £600 for a n64 jap with mario and pilot wings, and remeber paying £350 for a super famicom with marioworld.
looking back would still pay that for the n64 and the famicom, because i think mario 64 was one of those few games that is worth a few hundred quid to experience. same with the snes , mario, pilot wings, zelda , mana, chrono trigger, mario kart etc.
with the price of machines these days, lets face it it is 2 decent nights down the pub for the cost of a console, there is no reason not to own all of them.
Well have to say that I got rid of my Xbox, I had 60 games and not one of them , tell a lie halo, did i sit and play. Just doesnt do anything for me Graphically great , sonically great, but the games just dont compare with mario etc.
I know a couple of mates that will not buy the cube even though it and mario can be picked up for £150 odd, instead they would rather buy 3 crappy games for the xbox that they play for a couple of nights then leave sitting there collecting dust, at a cost of about £135 !!!