Games I lend to the same person and get broken every fucking time and I never learn:
-Warcraft II for PC
-Monster Rancher for PSX (wasn't that good anyways)
-Final Fantasy 3 for SNES
I mean, seriously. Every game I ever lent this family (there were 4 brothers all close in age) got broken. They were a rowdy group of brothers and wrestled and fought each other all the time. Someone got body slammed or something on Monster Rancher. Warcraft II got thrown from the computer desk during one of their brawls and later turned into a frisby. I have no idea what the fuck happened to FFIII.
Games I have borrowed and just never given back due to forgetting or other reasons:
-Red Dead Revolver (It's my brother so he ain't getting it back!)
-Devil May Cry (This falls under the brother/family clause again)
-Medieval II for PSX (Belonged to my sister's, ex-boyfriend's, son. Yeah, not getting it back. Traded it in years ago anyways. :P )
-Xenogears for PSX (I haven't a clue where I got that game. Turned up in my house one day and claimed it.)
Anyone else ever come across games in your collection where you wonder how the fuck you became the owner of it?
The guy was a douche, and I went to chicago with him about 6 months after and had to pay the entire way for both of us. After that, someone else I know talked to him on AIM and then showed me the conversation, where he told her I was the broke one and it was him who valiantly carried us through the trip.
After that I tried for a few months to get the game back from him, but eventually just stopped talking to him because he's a douche.
My friend had this stupid thing where he kept his PS1 games in a binder separately from the cases. One day he had a hankering for FF tactics... The binder was no where to be found. Either he or someone else had accidentally thrown that fucker away. These games included 3 or so final fantasies and a bunch of other games hes not likely to replace anytime soon. He still has the cases for them all.
He's away doing his Army AIT training right now. If I wrote him about that he would kill himself.
I lent another friend my copy of mechassault and he moved with it, I have his FF9 though.
I loaned my cousin my pre-ordered, first print edition of Ocarina of Time about 2 years after I got it. They now 'don't even remember borrowing it'. We've since learned our lesson about loaning our games to that particular branch of the family tree, they've since lost my brother's less than one month old DS Lite and Lost in Blue 2 as well.
My roommate had my Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando disk for almost 3 years, never having played it in the time it had been borrowed, before I got it back.
On the other hand, as a result of a copy of Dynasty Warriors 4 that my brother borrowed from one of his friends getting mixed in with all of my ps2 games, then me moving out of my parents' house, I can now kick some medieval Chinese ass at my leisure. Not that I'm a huge fan of the games, but they're good fun when I'm in the mood for some brainless mass slaughter.
I haven't lent games out in quite a while, except to very close friends. Let's see if I can remember....
Lost R.B.I. Baseball (NES) sometime during elementary school. I don't remember lending it to anyone, as it was the only game dad liked to play. Never found it.
Lent my copy of Chrono Trigger to an internet girlfriend in my early college days. You can imagine how that turned out. I did get her FF6 and Breath of Fire out of the exchange, though. I almost lost Secret of Mana to her as well, but she at least sent that one back.
Lent Chrono Cross to a good friend of mine about 7 years ago (huh, I'm noticing a trend), but after a while I decided he could just keep it.
A friend from high school borrowed my copy of Rebel Assault 2, I think it was. Never got it back, but I didn't really care that much.
On the flip side, I ended up with a friend's Super Game Boy, the add-on for the SNES. Never asked for it back, I forgot about it, and he moved away. Probably still have it in a box somewhere.
I remember actually scheming to get a friend's game when I was a kid. They were moving away, and one of my other friends had her Crystal Castles for the Atari. Man I loved that game...so I lied to her that my friend didn't have it. Unfortunately, I hadn't thought my cunning plan all the way through (since I did not actually possess said game), and never saw the game again anyway.
I've probably lost or gained others over the past 25 years, but those are the ones I can think of.
So I was borrowing my friend's 360 for a while because he was going to be out of town or away for a whlie or something. Consequently, this was also about the time Dead Rising was coming out. So I decided to buy Dead Rising cause it looked badass and I eventually want to get a 360.
So I play it until my friend gets back from wherever he was and wants his system back. He asks if he can borrow Dead Rising too and I say go ahead since he let me borrow his 360.
Fast forward a week and a half later. Apparently his wife's brother just got out of jail and owed money to some people, and said brother had been staying at their house untli he could get back on his feet. Some guys in ski masks broke in and held my friend and his wife at gunpoint while they robbed the house, taking the 360 and Dead Rising with them.
I can't blame my friend for getting robbed, but I miss having Dead Rising.
No, no, stop the thread. I have the ultimate story.
I was at my friend's house, and so was another kid who was a friend of his. This was back when Pokemon was insanely popular.
Kid A: "Hey, can I borrow your Pokemon for the Elite Four?"
Kid B: "Yeah, sure."
Kids A and B link up, Kid A gives his Pokemon to Kid B.
Kid B: "YOU FELL FOR MY TRAP!"
Kid B runs out the door, jumps in a waiting van, and moves to Arkansas.
This is impossibly awesome.
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My best friend of 8th grade borrowed my copy of X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter. He then got expelled and moved away somewhere. All I have now is the fucking multiplayer disc. Argh.
I also found a GBC with SMB3: Warioland at my brother's school that same year. So I guess that was cool.
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I lost my copy of xenosaga to a friend who never seemed to have the time once I lent the game to him. Every time I called him to get it back or visited his place, he'd be busy or about to leave. Eventually he moved and I never heard from him again.
Some time later, I lent another game to a "friend". He started pulling the same stunt, so I surprised him. I snuck up on him as he was coming out of his place with a trash bag and wearing sweats. He couldn't give me my game back because he had a job interview at Kmart in fifteen minutes.
Talking, yelling, tackling him when he tried to slip past me, threatening to beat him up, dragging him by the scruff of his neck into his own house, yelling at the top of my lungs, threatening to beat him up again, even holding him down and cocking a fist to ram into his face didn't help. He was dead set on going to that job interview at Kmart.
Finally, with my thumb shoved as deep as I could get it in that sensitive spot behind and under his ear, and after at least a minute and a half of girlish screaming, I finally got my game back.
After almost thirteen years, you know what I'm pissed about? That I dont know why he needed the game so bad that he couldn't give it back the first time I asked for it. The game was Assault Rigs.
I left it in my back porch, which was very easy to get into and was where I played Genesis, and one day it completely dissappeared. That was the only thing too. Also Metroid 2 for Game Boy. GRARAR. I do not like lending games to people.
I am either a horrible person, or a horribly lucky person. '
This might be kinda long, so I'll tag it.
~I had a friend a few years back, and we lived on the same street. There were alot of younger kids on the street, so fads were pretty big then. (We even had a Diablo phase:P)
I was always the game-y one, and this only-child spoiled kid by the name of Alex takes up skateboarding.
So, I am at his house, and I ask if he stills plays games or what. (he had all three consoles, and I had just received my PS2 from my sister that preceding xmas) He said not really, because he was getting pretty good at skateboarding. Fast forward and he sees me playing Castlevania:LoI. He seems very interested, and I let him borrow the game for a few days for the hell of it. A week later he says he beat it probably 3 times. THREE.
I say to him, hey you're pretty good. "Really? that's cool, coming from you." he says. "Oh hey, my mom and I found this at a used bookstore for like 3 dollars, yesterday. It doesn't look very good, though. It's not even in 3d."
It was Symphony of the Night.
I immediately gasp with delight, and I plead for him to let me borrow it. He lets me. :P
Fast forward a few days, and he asks me if the game is any good. I lie to him with "No, you wouldn't like it, it's really easy, I've almost finished it! The graphics are bad, too." "Well, you still have that old skateboard of yours, right? If I can borrow your board, you can have the game for another week, if you want." I agree.
Yet another week, and I see him up the street, at his usual boarding-spot. Alex has a :P face on and I just . My board is lying on the road in three pieces.
Let's just say the fucker never got SotN back.
~Also, there was one time not a year back in that same town where I spotted something amazing in a pawn shop dollar bin.
NINTENDO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP.
Yes, that one.
I remembered this fact a few months ago, after I had been moved out of that town for about 2 months.
I return, and the store is GONE.
~Oh yeah, and I was borrowing DQ:VIII from another friend on that same street when I moved away. That one I simply forgot about.
So yeah, those are the tales of how I accidentally got a free copy of DQ:8, and how I got a free copy of Symphony of the fucking Night(minus an old skateboard)
I lost my copy of xenosaga to a friend who never seemed to have the time once I lent the game to him. Every time I called him to get it back or visited his place, he'd be busy or about to leave. Eventually he moved and I never heard from him again.
Dude, no worries. That game is selling at the toy aisle of the local pharmacy, next to a Robocop action figure from 1992, for 1.99
A friend of mine swiped my F-Zero one time, and I realized about 2 or 3 hrs later. He only lived 3 blocks away, and they left their front door open, and I could see my F-Zero sitting right there in the machine. So, I quietly swiped it back and trotted home.
Also of note, for a situation like this, always mark your games with something distinctive ahead of time as a preventative measure.
I still have a friend's KOTOR, and have tried to return it multiple times, but I either end up forgetting it in my car after a long night of drinking or whatever.
I lent a (no longer) friend of mine my copy of FF8. A few weeks later, I got it back.
Only the discs were so fucked up that I literally couldn't start a new game, as it would always freeze when playing the intro movie.
Fucker.
O_O
Same here.
Except mine had white paint (God I hope it was paint) and what looked like chisel marks all over the first and second disks.
Although to make up for it, I did borrow OoT and Majora's Mask off him at a later date.
I still have them somewhere.
Fucker.
I lost my copy of xenosaga to a friend who never seemed to have the time once I lent the game to him. Every time I called him to get it back or visited his place, he'd be busy or about to leave. Eventually he moved and I never heard from him again.
Dude, no worries. That game is selling at the toy aisle of the local pharmacy, next to a Robocop action figure from 1992, for 1.99
It was my token cheap ass shady friend, and I knew it wouldn't end well, but I wanted to share the joy that was Excitebike. A few months went by and after asking half a dozen times I started to feel like a loanshark, so I just gave up .
It was my token cheap ass shady friend, and I knew it wouldn't end well, but I wanted to share the joy that was Excitebike. A few months went by and after asking half a dozen times I started to feel like a loanshark, so I just gave up .
Nothing good comes of "wanting to spread the joy".
That's how STD's get passed around >.>
I don't loan out anything anymore. Not just games, I don't loan out books either. I got one back all yellowy and smelly (smokers, bah). I had my fiance's aunt recently ask me if she could borrow one of my Discworld books and I refused. I like the woman and she obviously has good taste in books but no, I'm not risking another one of my books to yellowing and unidentified substances spilled on the pages.
I just remembered a game I did get back, but it came back damaged. Of course, you would all say it was for the best because it was Zelda: Wand of Gamelon for the CD-I :P (it still plays, but half the cutscenes will cause the game to freeze. You could almost say the game has given up the will). Also, my brother lost his copy of Heretic 2 to a friend... I quite liked that game, one of the first fps-like games I enjoyed.
The most depressing part of lost games is when you still have all the stuff that goes with it. The box maybe or the manual, the registration sheets, the cheap little booklet outlining the company's new releases. And it sits there, taunting you. (I've since rebought Fallout 2 and now I atleast have it with the good old manual, which they don't put in the budget rereleases).
So I let this kid in high school borrow a few PS1 games. Nothing spectacular. ReBoot, Twisted Metal 1 and 2, Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid. I didn't ask for anything in return, because people are usually good about returning shit to me. So he comes back to class a few weeks later with my games, sans FFVII, which he says he's still working on. He gives me back ReBoot, Twisted Metal 1 and 2, Metal Gear Solid, and...Vigilante 8. I tell him "This game isn't mine, man." He's all like "Really? It isn't mine, and I'm not too into it, so you can have it. I don't know where it came from." So I go home, play Vigilante 8. It's entertaining for a short while. After about a week or so, though, I sell it for credit at a local game store. So the very next day at school the kid comes back and asks if he can get Vigilante 8 back, as he found out that it was his cousin's, and his cousin had been using his PS1 while he was at school. I tell him he gave it to me and I had sold it, and I never get my FFVII back.
So I let this kid in high school borrow a few PS1 games. Nothing spectacular. ReBoot, Twisted Metal 1 and 2, Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid. I didn't ask for anything in return, because people are usually good about returning shit to me. So he comes back to class a few weeks later with my games, sans FFVII, which he says he's still working on. He gives me back ReBoot, Twisted Metal 1 and 2, Metal Gear Solid, and...Vigilante 8. I tell him "This game isn't mine, man." He's all like "Really? It isn't mine, and I'm not too into it, so you can have it. I don't know where it came from." So I go home, play Vigilante 8. It's entertaining for a short while. After about a week or so, though, I sell it for credit at a local game store. So the very next day at school the kid comes back and asks if he can get Vigilante 8 back, as he found out that it was his cousin's, and his cousin had been using his PS1 while he was at school. I tell him he gave it to me and I had sold it, and I never get my FFVII back.
Back in High School I loaned a friend my PC version of Final Fantasy VII. Never saw it again, though I don't really care because it was garbage anyway.
And a couple of years back I lent another friend Rayman 2 for PC, and Megaman Legends 1 & 2 for the PSX. Never got those back either. Though, honestly I could easily stop by and pick them up because he doesn't live very far away, but I just simply don't really care.
I lent one of my PS1 controllers and Gran Turismo 2 to one of my friends. About a year and a bit later he sold his PS1 with my controller and game, he did give me $30 though.
I lent one of my PS1 controllers and Gran Turismo 2 to one of my friends. About a year and a bit later he sold his PS1 with my controller and game, he did give me $30 though.
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-Warcraft II for PC
-Monster Rancher for PSX (wasn't that good anyways)
-Final Fantasy 3 for SNES
I mean, seriously. Every game I ever lent this family (there were 4 brothers all close in age) got broken. They were a rowdy group of brothers and wrestled and fought each other all the time. Someone got body slammed or something on Monster Rancher. Warcraft II got thrown from the computer desk during one of their brawls and later turned into a frisby. I have no idea what the fuck happened to FFIII.
Games I have borrowed and just never given back due to forgetting or other reasons:
-Red Dead Revolver (It's my brother so he ain't getting it back!)
-Devil May Cry (This falls under the brother/family clause again)
-Medieval II for PSX (Belonged to my sister's, ex-boyfriend's, son. Yeah, not getting it back. Traded it in years ago anyways. :P )
-Xenogears for PSX (I haven't a clue where I got that game. Turned up in my house one day and claimed it.)
Anyone else ever come across games in your collection where you wonder how the fuck you became the owner of it?
I'm such an ass.
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The guy was a douche, and I went to chicago with him about 6 months after and had to pay the entire way for both of us. After that, someone else I know talked to him on AIM and then showed me the conversation, where he told her I was the broke one and it was him who valiantly carried us through the trip.
After that I tried for a few months to get the game back from him, but eventually just stopped talking to him because he's a douche.
No joke, These games are completely impossible to hold on to.
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My friend had this stupid thing where he kept his PS1 games in a binder separately from the cases. One day he had a hankering for FF tactics... The binder was no where to be found. Either he or someone else had accidentally thrown that fucker away. These games included 3 or so final fantasies and a bunch of other games hes not likely to replace anytime soon. He still has the cases for them all.
He's away doing his Army AIT training right now. If I wrote him about that he would kill himself.
I lent another friend my copy of mechassault and he moved with it, I have his FF9 though.
I hate FF9...
My roommate had my Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando disk for almost 3 years, never having played it in the time it had been borrowed, before I got it back.
On the other hand, as a result of a copy of Dynasty Warriors 4 that my brother borrowed from one of his friends getting mixed in with all of my ps2 games, then me moving out of my parents' house, I can now kick some medieval Chinese ass at my leisure. Not that I'm a huge fan of the games, but they're good fun when I'm in the mood for some brainless mass slaughter.
I got his GT4 though, fucker.
Every now and then I'll get urges to play.
Lost R.B.I. Baseball (NES) sometime during elementary school. I don't remember lending it to anyone, as it was the only game dad liked to play. Never found it.
Lent my copy of Chrono Trigger to an internet girlfriend in my early college days. You can imagine how that turned out. I did get her FF6 and Breath of Fire out of the exchange, though. I almost lost Secret of Mana to her as well, but she at least sent that one back.
Lent Chrono Cross to a good friend of mine about 7 years ago (huh, I'm noticing a trend), but after a while I decided he could just keep it.
A friend from high school borrowed my copy of Rebel Assault 2, I think it was. Never got it back, but I didn't really care that much.
On the flip side, I ended up with a friend's Super Game Boy, the add-on for the SNES. Never asked for it back, I forgot about it, and he moved away. Probably still have it in a box somewhere.
I remember actually scheming to get a friend's game when I was a kid. They were moving away, and one of my other friends had her Crystal Castles for the Atari. Man I loved that game...so I lied to her that my friend didn't have it. Unfortunately, I hadn't thought my cunning plan all the way through (since I did not actually possess said game), and never saw the game again anyway.
I've probably lost or gained others over the past 25 years, but those are the ones I can think of.
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I have nothing to play it on.
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So I play it until my friend gets back from wherever he was and wants his system back. He asks if he can borrow Dead Rising too and I say go ahead since he let me borrow his 360.
Fast forward a week and a half later. Apparently his wife's brother just got out of jail and owed money to some people, and said brother had been staying at their house untli he could get back on his feet. Some guys in ski masks broke in and held my friend and his wife at gunpoint while they robbed the house, taking the 360 and Dead Rising with them.
I can't blame my friend for getting robbed, but I miss having Dead Rising.
I was at my friend's house, and so was another kid who was a friend of his. This was back when Pokemon was insanely popular.
Kid A: "Hey, can I borrow your Pokemon for the Elite Four?"
Kid B: "Yeah, sure."
Kids A and B link up, Kid A gives his Pokemon to Kid B.
Kid B: "YOU FELL FOR MY TRAP!"
Kid B runs out the door, jumps in a waiting van, and moves to Arkansas.
Hahaha, no way.
I also have a blog!
This is impossibly awesome.
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My best friend of 8th grade borrowed my copy of X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter. He then got expelled and moved away somewhere. All I have now is the fucking multiplayer disc. Argh.
I also found a GBC with SMB3: Warioland at my brother's school that same year. So I guess that was cool.
Some time later, I lent another game to a "friend". He started pulling the same stunt, so I surprised him. I snuck up on him as he was coming out of his place with a trash bag and wearing sweats. He couldn't give me my game back because he had a job interview at Kmart in fifteen minutes.
Talking, yelling, tackling him when he tried to slip past me, threatening to beat him up, dragging him by the scruff of his neck into his own house, yelling at the top of my lungs, threatening to beat him up again, even holding him down and cocking a fist to ram into his face didn't help. He was dead set on going to that job interview at Kmart.
Finally, with my thumb shoved as deep as I could get it in that sensitive spot behind and under his ear, and after at least a minute and a half of girlish screaming, I finally got my game back.
After almost thirteen years, you know what I'm pissed about? That I dont know why he needed the game so bad that he couldn't give it back the first time I asked for it. The game was Assault Rigs.
I left it in my back porch, which was very easy to get into and was where I played Genesis, and one day it completely dissappeared. That was the only thing too. Also Metroid 2 for Game Boy. GRARAR. I do not like lending games to people.
This might be kinda long, so I'll tag it.
I was always the game-y one, and this only-child spoiled kid by the name of Alex takes up skateboarding.
So, I am at his house, and I ask if he stills plays games or what. (he had all three consoles, and I had just received my PS2 from my sister that preceding xmas) He said not really, because he was getting pretty good at skateboarding. Fast forward and he sees me playing Castlevania:LoI. He seems very interested, and I let him borrow the game for a few days for the hell of it. A week later he says he beat it probably 3 times. THREE.
I say to him, hey you're pretty good. "Really? that's cool, coming from you." he says. "Oh hey, my mom and I found this at a used bookstore for like 3 dollars, yesterday. It doesn't look very good, though. It's not even in 3d."
It was Symphony of the Night.
I immediately gasp with delight, and I plead for him to let me borrow it. He lets me. :P
Fast forward a few days, and he asks me if the game is any good. I lie to him with "No, you wouldn't like it, it's really easy, I've almost finished it! The graphics are bad, too."
Yet another week, and I see him up the street, at his usual boarding-spot. Alex has a :P face on and I just
Let's just say the fucker never got SotN back.
~Also, there was one time not a year back in that same town where I spotted something amazing in a pawn shop dollar bin.
NINTENDO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP.
Yes, that one.
I remembered this fact a few months ago, after I had been moved out of that town for about 2 months.
I return, and the store is GONE.
~Oh yeah, and I was borrowing DQ:VIII from another friend on that same street when I moved away. That one I simply forgot about.
So yeah, those are the tales of how I accidentally got a free copy of DQ:8, and how I got a free copy of Symphony of the fucking Night(minus an old skateboard)
Dude, no worries. That game is selling at the toy aisle of the local pharmacy, next to a Robocop action figure from 1992, for 1.99
On return, my copy of Turok: Dinosaur Hunter was curiously absent. It was my favourite game at the time. I still wish I had taken his copy of FF VII.
Also of note, for a situation like this, always mark your games with something distinctive ahead of time as a preventative measure.
I still have a friend's KOTOR, and have tried to return it multiple times, but I either end up forgetting it in my car after a long night of drinking or whatever.
I got hosed on that deal when the fucker quit going to my school.
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I have like, FIVE copies of "Freedom Force" for the PC.
O_O
Same here.
Except mine had white paint (God I hope it was paint) and what looked like chisel marks all over the first and second disks.
Although to make up for it, I did borrow OoT and Majora's Mask off him at a later date.
I still have them somewhere.
Fucker.
I can't even remember who it was, I lent a bunch of people PC games, that's the only one I didn't get back...
Sorry. It was Xenogears.
It was my token cheap ass shady friend, and I knew it wouldn't end well, but I wanted to share the joy that was Excitebike. A few months went by and after asking half a dozen times I started to feel like a loanshark, so I just gave up
Nothing good comes of "wanting to spread the joy".
That's how STD's get passed around >.>
You would think I'd have learned the first couple times. But no, not me! Now I never, ever, ever, EVER loan any of my games out.
Why.. Why did you let someone willingly take your Earthbound?
O_o
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I just remembered a game I did get back, but it came back damaged. Of course, you would all say it was for the best because it was Zelda: Wand of Gamelon for the CD-I :P (it still plays, but half the cutscenes will cause the game to freeze. You could almost say the game has given up the will). Also, my brother lost his copy of Heretic 2 to a friend... I quite liked that game, one of the first fps-like games I enjoyed.
The most depressing part of lost games is when you still have all the stuff that goes with it. The box maybe or the manual, the registration sheets, the cheap little booklet outlining the company's new releases. And it sits there, taunting you. (I've since rebought Fallout 2 and now I atleast have it with the good old manual, which they don't put in the budget rereleases).
Fucker.
No big loss there, it was just FFVII.
And a couple of years back I lent another friend Rayman 2 for PC, and Megaman Legends 1 & 2 for the PSX. Never got those back either. Though, honestly I could easily stop by and pick them up because he doesn't live very far away, but I just simply don't really care.
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Well at least he was considerate. Kinda.