Just recently I lost a box full of games while moving, it ends up somebody unpacked them and put them all over the place, most of them probably aren’t going to be found like so many before. My sister also lost her ds, which wouldn’t be so bad if I hadn’t traded a still sealed iPod easily worth twice as much as the ds new and bought a couple games to kick of my delve into another glorious handheld generation.
Lost games go to a special place with rolling green hills, blues skies and a bright yellow sun. The birds are chirping, the bees are buzzing, and the cows are mooing. Other lost games prance through endless fields of dandelions and rainbows appear without storms. It is a pleasant 75 degrees with a slight cool breeze. The air smells of sweet flowers. There is a small courtyard with a fountain surrounded by dancing vaporware, but nobody knows where it is, exactly.
That's where lost games go, friends. That's where they go.
Lost games go to a special place with rolling green hills, blues skies and a bright yellow sun. The birds are chirping, the bees are buzzing, and the cows are mooing. Other lost games prance through endless fields of dandelions and rainbows appear without storms. It is a pleasant 75 degrees with a slight cool breeze. The air smells of sweet flowers. There is a small courtyard with a fountain surrounded by dancing vaporware, but nobody knows where it is, exactly.
That's where lost games go, friends. That's where they go.
My Dreamcast (the entire system, purchased 9/9/99 no less) with two VMUs
Soul Calibur
Shenmue
At least a couple more DC games
Missing PSX items -
Metal Gear Solid
Final Fantasy VII
I'm really unhappy about this because I knew these items would all have nostalgic if not financial value someday and I tried very hard to keep track of them. And now they're all gone.
Argh, don't bring up VHS tapes. I donated a whole boxful of VHS tapes to my local Goodwill right before I moved a few years ago. It wasn't until after I'd finished moving and unpacking that I realized I'd included my tape of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 movie in with that box instead of my 'keep' box. Technically it wasn't 'lost' but I sure won't ever see that tape again.
At least it hopefully found a less inattentive new owner.
For 5 years, five whole years, I had lost a copy of Gran Turismo 2. I'd wanted to play it on my new PS2 for so long, and my dusty old PS1 just gathered dust. Then my PS2 died and I had some PS1 games I wanted to play, and hello there Gran Turismo 2, where you in the PS1 this whole time?
I was a lazy little bastard when I was a kid (I still am, but much less little of course), so losing my Gameboy in 3rd grade forced me to do other things. I even wrote an essay in school about how I lost it. Turns out it was under a rocking chair.
Probably the weirdest thing that ever happened to me, game-wise, was I bought a new, factory-sealed copy of Dead or Alive 3 at Blockbuster once. I got it home and opened it and inside was...disc two of the fullscreen edition of X2: X-Men United.
I bought a new Greatest Hits copy of Devil May Cry at GameStop several years ago. Took it home, opened it up. The disc inside was labeled Devil May Cry, Greatest Hits edition. When I popped it in the PS2, I found that actually...
it was a DVD of the Rankin/Bass stop-motion-animated Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Definitely the weirdest look I've ever gotten from a store clerk when I took it back.
Probably the weirdest thing that ever happened to me, game-wise, was I bought a new, factory-sealed copy of Dead or Alive 3 at Blockbuster once. I got it home and opened it and inside was...disc two of the fullscreen edition of X2: X-Men United.
I bought a new Greatest Hits copy of Devil May Cry at GameStop several years ago. Took it home, opened it up. The disc inside was labeled Devil May Cry, Greatest Hits edition. When I popped it in the PS2, I found that actually...
it was a DVD of the Rankin/Bass stop-motion-animated Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Definitely the weirdest look I've ever gotten from a store clerk when I took it back.
I bought a new Greatest Hits copy of Devil May Cry at GameStop several years ago. Took it home, opened it up. The disc inside was labeled Devil May Cry, Greatest Hits edition. When I popped it in the PS2, I found that actually...
it was a DVD of the Rankin/Bass stop-motion-animated Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Definitely the weirdest look I've ever gotten from a store clerk when I took it back.
How the heck? Was there a mix up at the dvd factory?
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Probably the weirdest thing that ever happened to me, game-wise, was I bought a new, factory-sealed copy of Dead or Alive 3 at Blockbuster once. I got it home and opened it and inside was...disc two of the fullscreen edition of X2: X-Men United.
I bought a new Greatest Hits copy of Devil May Cry at GameStop several years ago. Took it home, opened it up. The disc inside was labeled Devil May Cry, Greatest Hits edition. When I popped it in the PS2, I found that actually...
it was a DVD of the Rankin/Bass stop-motion-animated Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Definitely the weirdest look I've ever gotten from a store clerk when I took it back.
You took it back?
I would've kept it. "Hey, dude, wanna play some DMC?"
I once lent a friend a copy of Ratchet & Clank for PS2.
A few weeks later I asked him about it, he said I could have it back.
We go over to his place to grab it, and he hands me the case to the game, and says the disc is in there. I open it, and the disc inside is a PS1 Final Fantasy IX disc. He was as surprised as I was.
He's one of these people that, when he wants to change games, pulls out the case to the game he wants to play, then swaps the discs from the console and case; thus leaving the wrong game in the now-playing game's case.
So we go and look in the FFIX case. There's a System of a Down music CD. We check the System CD case, there's a Shrek movie DVD in it. We check the Shrek DVD case, and it's empty.
So after rummaging through hundreds of DVD cases and CD cases for an hour or so, we finally find my Ratchet and Clank game disc in one of those little sleeve cases inside the larger box of a season of Seinfeld DVDs.
The moral of the story is.. don't lend your game discs to disorganized friends.
As I was reading this thread, I was thinking I hadn't ever lost a game, but then I remembered one.
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.
Thanks a lot for reminding me that I'll never find my lost copy of Link's Awakening DX. I've also lost a Lego Chess CD, but I still have the manual and CD case lying around somewhere.
I don't understand the people who put discs in the wrong cases. I never do that and drives me crazy when I have to find stuff for people that does that.
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I have lost relatively few games despite having adhd, and therefore being prone to losing things. I lose all sorts of other shit (I bought a packet of 5 new biros two weeks ago, there are two left. I've lost my glasses something like three or four times, and I don't bother with watches anymore), but I guess games can hold my attention long enough to take care of their physical manifestation on this earth, because I've only lost two permanently that I cared about. Vice City on ps2, and the original discs for baldur's gate 1.
I have not only no idea where these two are, but have no idea when I lost them, since it was sometime after I finished playing them to death.
I've lost a few games through several moves until I finally found them buried in an ancient moving box left still packed from two moves ago or something, like homeworld 2, and broken a couple moving across the country because I packed them wrong (but I didn't give a shit about what broke, I think they were ten dollar bargain bin "experiments" because I've forgotten what they were).
My main gaming grief is for my ps1 memory stick though. All my repeated run throughs of MGS, with all the items and the extra save with the pimping suit, gone forever.
I bought it with the ps1, it was my first console game since the master system six or seven years previous.
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The only games I've lost are Tenchu 1 & 2 on the PS1. I never even finished either of them. I lost 2 about a year after I lost the first one, it's kinda weird.
The moral of the story is.. don't lend your game discs to anyone.
The more you like a game the greater the odds are it will be lost when lent.
That's true. And honestly, people don't usually ask to borrow my games because they know that I'm (admittedly) kind of anal about keeping them in place and in good condition, but I'll still lend them to really good friends. And the reason I would do that is because I trust that my friends would buy me a replacement copy if they ever should lose or break one of the games they borrow from me.
But it's definitely true! - the more you like a game, the greater odds it won't return to you when lent. :P
I bought Neverwinter Nights 2 a few months before I had a computer good enough to play it. Guess what had happened by the time I upgraded?
NWN2 was apparantly not great, though, so perhaps I didn't miss out on much.
I rather enjoyed it myself. The UI was rather clunky though.
So instead of losing a game, I borrowed the original mechwarrior from a friend when I was in 7th grade, then promptly moved from Iowa to Texas. Still have them too. It was unintentional, but still.:oops:
I lose GBA games a lot. When I was buying GBA games on a semi-regular basis it was about a 1 in 3 probability that it would end up lost whenever I decided to swap it out for another game. This is why I've taken to using the massive stack of empty DS cases I've acquired from work to store them in. At least that way they're slightly harder to lose.
My wife lost her blue DS and Animal Crossing that came together in a bundle that I got her as a gift our first Christmas while we were still dating. It's weird that they came into her life together, and they exited together as well. I like to think they're off having a picnic in some Silicon Paradise.
In reality they're in our house somewhere, but I'll be damned if we find it before we move out someday.
The only games I have lost are my copy of the pc earthworm jim, (which I lament since I now have a gamepad to play play it properly), Indiana Jones and TFOA, (which I luckily already copied the data files for Scummvm but would like the disc back), and Tie Fighter which is the only one that I'm truly and utterly pissed about
Once, I lost Black Ops 2. I just got Ghosts so I won't bother looking for it. All lost games go to a nook or cranny in your house. Just look where you'd never think to find a game.
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That's where lost games go, friends. That's where they go.
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I don't think I've ever lost a game. Now there are some VHS tapes on the other hand that I've lost that make me a sad panda.
Tell me about the Rabbids, George.
Video gaming items of mine that are missing:
My Dreamcast (the entire system, purchased 9/9/99 no less) with two VMUs
Soul Calibur
Shenmue
At least a couple more DC games
Missing PSX items -
Metal Gear Solid
Final Fantasy VII
I'm really unhappy about this because I knew these items would all have nostalgic if not financial value someday and I tried very hard to keep track of them. And now they're all gone.
You'd drink out of a gutter if you was thirsty.
At least it hopefully found a less inattentive new owner.
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I did replace all my lost GBA games, with the exception of Sonic Advance 2.
The only other ones I can think of that I lost were Diddy Kong Racing and Kirby's Dreamland 3.
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I go and pull out the box. Crap, only disc 2 is in there.
I go through every game, cd-sleeve, and even dvd box I can find, and it's just gone. I've never been more bummed about losing a game.
I bought a new Greatest Hits copy of Devil May Cry at GameStop several years ago. Took it home, opened it up. The disc inside was labeled Devil May Cry, Greatest Hits edition. When I popped it in the PS2, I found that actually...
it was a DVD of the Rankin/Bass stop-motion-animated Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Definitely the weirdest look I've ever gotten from a store clerk when I took it back.
That's insane.
How the heck? Was there a mix up at the dvd factory?
You took it back?
I would've kept it. "Hey, dude, wanna play some DMC?"
A few weeks later I asked him about it, he said I could have it back.
We go over to his place to grab it, and he hands me the case to the game, and says the disc is in there. I open it, and the disc inside is a PS1 Final Fantasy IX disc. He was as surprised as I was.
He's one of these people that, when he wants to change games, pulls out the case to the game he wants to play, then swaps the discs from the console and case; thus leaving the wrong game in the now-playing game's case.
So we go and look in the FFIX case. There's a System of a Down music CD. We check the System CD case, there's a Shrek movie DVD in it. We check the Shrek DVD case, and it's empty.
So after rummaging through hundreds of DVD cases and CD cases for an hour or so, we finally find my Ratchet and Clank game disc in one of those little sleeve cases inside the larger box of a season of Seinfeld DVDs.
The moral of the story is.. don't lend your game discs to disorganized friends.
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The more you like a game the greater the odds are it will be lost when lent.
I never asked for this!
Thanks a lot for reminding me that I'll never find my lost copy of Link's Awakening DX. I've also lost a Lego Chess CD, but I still have the manual and CD case lying around somewhere.
I don't understand the people who put discs in the wrong cases. I never do that and drives me crazy when I have to find stuff for people that does that.
NWN2 was apparantly not great, though, so perhaps I didn't miss out on much.
I have not only no idea where these two are, but have no idea when I lost them, since it was sometime after I finished playing them to death.
I've lost a few games through several moves until I finally found them buried in an ancient moving box left still packed from two moves ago or something, like homeworld 2, and broken a couple moving across the country because I packed them wrong (but I didn't give a shit about what broke, I think they were ten dollar bargain bin "experiments" because I've forgotten what they were).
My main gaming grief is for my ps1 memory stick though. All my repeated run throughs of MGS, with all the items and the extra save with the pimping suit, gone forever.
I bought it with the ps1, it was my first console game since the master system six or seven years previous.
That's true. And honestly, people don't usually ask to borrow my games because they know that I'm (admittedly) kind of anal about keeping them in place and in good condition, but I'll still lend them to really good friends. And the reason I would do that is because I trust that my friends would buy me a replacement copy if they ever should lose or break one of the games they borrow from me.
But it's definitely true! - the more you like a game, the greater odds it won't return to you when lent. :P
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What I've lost was the box of my copy of Mario Land 2. It was on my shelf one night and the next day it disappeared
- Persona
- Persona 2
- Gran Turismo 2
- Final Fantasy Tactics
I'm not sure how these wound up lost... but, after moving, I haven't seen them... so, I'm pretty much putting two and two together.
Hopefully, I'll go visit my sister and she'll be all "Hey, here's your Persona games and Final Fantasy Tactics back!"
I rather enjoyed it myself. The UI was rather clunky though.
So instead of losing a game, I borrowed the original mechwarrior from a friend when I was in 7th grade, then promptly moved from Iowa to Texas. Still have them too. It was unintentional, but still.:oops:
Blade Runner come back to me. All sins will be forgiven.
My wife lost her blue DS and Animal Crossing that came together in a bundle that I got her as a gift our first Christmas while we were still dating. It's weird that they came into her life together, and they exited together as well. I like to think they're off having a picnic in some Silicon Paradise.
In reality they're in our house somewhere, but I'll be damned if we find it before we move out someday.