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Where do lost games go?
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By birthright,a stupendous badass.Registered User regular
By birthright,a stupendous badass.Registered User regular
I suspect lost games end up the same place that lost socks and pens go. Maybe some kind of parallel dimension where these everyday objects gain sentience and go about their own lives. Wherever.
Today I'm sad because I seem to have lost my Guitar Hero 3 disc. It's not in the TV room, I cleaned it good and didn't find it. It's not in the living room, or my bedroom, or any other place I've looked. I can't afford to replace it either, so that's a double bummer.
Now I'm kind of listlessly staring at my HDTV thinking Now what am I supposed to play? My brain is like a skipping vinyl record going "Guitar hero is fun, lets play that!" over and over.
Past lost games I really regret losing include Deus Ex, Batman (NES), Donkey Kong Country, and Final Fantasy Legend 2.
Today I'm sad because I seem to have lost my Guitar Hero 3 disc. It's not in the TV room, I cleaned it good and didn't find it. It's not in the living room, or my bedroom, or any other place I've looked. I can't afford to replace it either, so that's a double bummer.
Now I'm kind of listlessly staring at my HDTV thinking Now what am I supposed to play? My brain is like a skipping vinyl record going "Guitar hero is fun, lets play that!" over and over.
Past lost games I really regret losing include Deus Ex, Batman (NES), Donkey Kong Country, and Final Fantasy Legend 2.
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But i've lost D2 and starcraft discs alot. thank god they're cheap.
When I checked the hiding spot later it had somehow vanished on me. Never found it. In retrospect I wouldn't be surprised if that fucker found it and stole it.
http://www.audioentropy.com/
I don't remember ever actually losing game. Like, ever. I've had a few stolen, lent a few and didn't get them back, and damaged a few beyond playability...but can't think of any I've actually just "lost."
I also lost Mario Paint ages ago, but we've found it a year ago. It fell no in the crack of the sofa, but thru some hole in the tissue INTO the sofa.
Look there, and you might find one of your lost gems.
Years ago, I got a Gameboy Color for my birthday. I only ever had two games for it: Link's Awakening and Pokemon Blue.
I don't know where I usually stashed the games, but they'd turn up when I wanted them. But a few years later I found myself unable to find my Pokemon cartridge and it still hasn't turned up.
The world may never know.
We actually did, before tossing the couch. Found our old cordless phone handset. We had long since replaced it, obviously.
Where Madness and the Fantasical Come to Play
Also, my Xenogears disc disappeared in my old house and we never found it while we were moving. Now it's gone forever. I'd also like to know where all my god damned manuals keep going, because it's cost me a couple of "Full Package" goozex deals. grumble grumble grumble
Away
Into nothingness, that is, everything.
A while ago I bought some random DS game and a used copy of Final Fantasy Tactics: Advance (the kind they have in the case where it is just the cartridge and no packaging) from the mall Gamestop. It was late in the afternoon and I hadn't eaten, so I stopped by the foodcourt to get something to eat. Of course, since I was sitting down anyways I fired up the DS and started playing whatever DS game I had bought. After I finished I threw away the Gamestop bag without even thinking about it, not realizing that my copy of FFT:A was inside until I got home.
But yeah, back in primary school when I was friends with some guy who later I found to be a douchebag, my copy of Pokemon Red "mysteriously" vanished. Of course HE didn't steal it, cos HIS Pokemon Red had a STICKER on it and mine didn't.
Can they find their way home
Into the open tray of the console waiting there?
I lost my Grand Theft Auto IV disc. Like, I took my Scrubs DVD out of the PS3 and went to the GTAIV case and it wasn't in there. So I looked in the Scrubs case, 'cause sometimes I'll just switch out discs. Not in there either. Look for about fifteen minutes, get really discouraged.
So I look through my entire DVD shelf. By the time I get to the M's, I find it in the case for Maria Full of Grace. Right on top of the DVD already in there, too, so it was barely on the spindle.
No one comes into my room, and I haven't watched that movie in about two years. I don't know how the fuck it happened. But weirder things have definitely happened to me in terms of games in cases.
The two discs were trying to mate.
What would the bastard spawn of that unholy union look like??!?!
Well... a DVD, I suppose.
I brought it back to Blockbuster and they gave me weird looks, but let me change it out.
Or maybe they slip into Silicone Heaven due to a clerical error.
If only it were that simple
I spent about an hour and a half digging through all the old pc game discs I have to no avail. It really sucks, because I wanted to play as a dark jedi this time
I also can't find my call of duty discs.
Heh, I can't find the first disc for Kotor 1 :P
e: Which is actually pretty weird since there's 3 discs in the box and an empty cover slip on the other side of the box...
Also, my copy of Kirby's Dream Land 2 vanished a few years ago while I was out with my dad a few years ago. I keep meaning to search his truck for it, but I'm afraid that it ended up like that copy of Mortal Kombat. Lost in a parking lot somewhere, possibly picked up by a random stranger.
One day, I'll battle him, and we will be evenly matched. It will be epic.
Hahaha.
Yeah, have any of you guys actually found game stuff that didn't belong to you?
I lived in this apartment complex for a few years, and I was like the only kid in there. So I was surprised one day when I took out the trash to the dumpster to find a PS1 memory card lying on the ground right next to it.
Curious, I picked it up and took it inside. Whoever it was had save files from pretty much every Squaresoft PS1 game, including several files for Front Mission 3 that each had over a hundred hours logged in.
I can't throw away memory cards, it feels like I'm throwing away a dedicated log of my life.
Once my Game Boy Advance SP disappeared for a few weeks...
Eventually it was found in the mud in a pit near the entrance of the condo. Apparently a younger brother had brought it outside to play, lost it and forgot about it. So it sat in the mud during cold nights and severe storms.
It was still in working condition, a game cartridge was in the slot and it was folded up to protect most of the vital openings from mud. The buttons weren't as sensitive, but we were able to play with it, the cartridge was perfectly fine as well. Unfortunately the recharger plug was ruined in the mud and because it has those weird batteries it eventually died out permamently.
Another time I lost my Super Mario World GBA cartridge for who knows how long, it must've fallen out of the Game Boy. Later our car was totalled in an accident where it was hit from the side and rolled over three times into a ditch (only my dad was in it and wasn't hurt). We found the cartridge in perfect condition when going through the wreckage the next day.
Oh man, you just opened up another story. I was biking around some backroads one day for exercise when I came across a Game Boy Advance lying around on the dirt road. The screen was shattered and it had a Stuart Little GBC cartridge in it, which stuck out slightly bent. It didn't have any batteries so of course I brought it home with me.
The cartridge didn't really look that bad, but apparently it was bent enough to only get as far as a glitched "Game Boy Color" logo screen. As for the Game Boy Advance itself, it worked fine except for the screen being completely dead. But I was able to boot up Super Mario World with it and beat the first level by ear (pretty much have the game memorized).
Don't ever feel like throwing video game systems out, so now I have two busted Game Boys lying around.
Found it under the couch months later.
That always happened to me.
I've never purposefully taken any video games, but whenever I've moved out of the dorm room, I usually end up with 1-2 new games that I didn't own before. I picked up God of War and San Andreas this year.
But the thing is, I usually end up losing the same amount of stuff, which I just assume my room mate had also taken. I'm missing disc 1 and 2 from Arrested Development season 1. I think I came out of the deal way worse honestly.
I think it may have fallen behind my dresser, but its one of the heaviest pieces of furniture I own and I can't move it. So until I move the truth might never be known.