Ever Physically Lost a Game?
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Well I've got some games that I believe were stolen and some games I believe were lost. Stolen first.
Well back before B.Net I had bought the Collectors Editions for Vanilla, The Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King for World of Warcraft, I had just gotten a huge payload but my account was already upgraded to Wrath of the Lich King so the codes still worked and were valid, but I wanted them for the Artbooks. Part of that collection is also the BioShock Limited Edition (with the Big Daddy statue, I loved it so I never took it out the box), BioShock 2 Collectors Edition, and the Batman Arkham Asylum Collectors Edition, I was just a sucker for the Art Books, nothing else really mattered. One day I had a party and all my collectors editions were bundled in the corner of my room instead of on display, went to sleep woke up and all of them were gone. I've tried to rebuild and so far all I've got is the Cataclysm Collectors Edition... it just sits on my shelf mocking me and I bought an Prototype Big Daddy figure (Omega) but... it's just not the same. Since then the amount of friends I have has been cut down by about 80%.
Time for lost, I lost every single Pokemon game I ever owned. I made a huge collection, Fire Red, Leaf Green, Emerald, Ruby, Sapphire, Platinum, Diamond, Pearl, on my Platinum one I had nearly every single Pokemon, from Mew to Deoxys then one day I put them away in a box, when I opened that box again they were all gone.
Well back before B.Net I had bought the Collectors Editions for Vanilla, The Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King for World of Warcraft, I had just gotten a huge payload but my account was already upgraded to Wrath of the Lich King so the codes still worked and were valid, but I wanted them for the Artbooks. Part of that collection is also the BioShock Limited Edition (with the Big Daddy statue, I loved it so I never took it out the box), BioShock 2 Collectors Edition, and the Batman Arkham Asylum Collectors Edition, I was just a sucker for the Art Books, nothing else really mattered. One day I had a party and all my collectors editions were bundled in the corner of my room instead of on display, went to sleep woke up and all of them were gone. I've tried to rebuild and so far all I've got is the Cataclysm Collectors Edition... it just sits on my shelf mocking me and I bought an Prototype Big Daddy figure (Omega) but... it's just not the same. Since then the amount of friends I have has been cut down by about 80%.
Time for lost, I lost every single Pokemon game I ever owned. I made a huge collection, Fire Red, Leaf Green, Emerald, Ruby, Sapphire, Platinum, Diamond, Pearl, on my Platinum one I had nearly every single Pokemon, from Mew to Deoxys then one day I put them away in a box, when I opened that box again they were all gone.
I lost plenty of games in moves from one place to another
All my games that were on 3 1/2" floppies are long gone
All my games that were on 3 1/2" floppies are long gone
Nope
N64 games or playstation disks randomly thrown all over the room without casings were a common sight in my youth and even than it gave me the shivers. Because even back than I knew they were easily broken. And, taking my tiny allowance into account, they may as wel have cost one million each.
Once, I thought I lost a gameboy game at summer camp and it traumatized me so bad I have nightmares about it to this day. Nevermind the fact I since found it and it works fine to this day.
I did once loan a DVD to a friend and he never returned it. In retrospect that wasn't really surprising considering how fucked up his life was back than.
A few years ago we met again for the first time in a decade and the first thing I said to him was "you know you still owe me a DVD of triple x right?" lol
N64 games or playstation disks randomly thrown all over the room without casings were a common sight in my youth and even than it gave me the shivers. Because even back than I knew they were easily broken. And, taking my tiny allowance into account, they may as wel have cost one million each.
Once, I thought I lost a gameboy game at summer camp and it traumatized me so bad I have nightmares about it to this day. Nevermind the fact I since found it and it works fine to this day.
I did once loan a DVD to a friend and he never returned it. In retrospect that wasn't really surprising considering how fucked up his life was back than.
A few years ago we met again for the first time in a decade and the first thing I said to him was "you know you still owe me a DVD of triple x right?" lol
Never permanently lost any discs afaik.
My Half Life: Opposing Force disc has gone walkies twice. Once my brother lent it to a friend, gave me the disc box back... could tell it was empty from the weight. Fortunately his friend returned it when he asked.
Second time I was vaguely aware it wasn't around - didn't massively hunt for it, but kind of knew it wasn't where it should be (most of my games are either in a file or on a spindle - I chuck the plastic and file the rest).
At uni, my PC died, and my parents offered to lend me a PC until I could get a new one. I go to place a disc in the drive... and lo... there in the drive was my Opposing Force disc. Twas in there for at least a year, possibly two.
Ah well, that disc likes to find its way back to me, not that I really need it now I have steam.
Edit: I was once responsible for making someone's music CD go walkies. My now-husband lent me a Megadeth CD, and I accidentally gave him an empty box back. He didn't notice it was missing until I gave the CD back a few days later after finding it in my portable CD player... oops.
My Half Life: Opposing Force disc has gone walkies twice. Once my brother lent it to a friend, gave me the disc box back... could tell it was empty from the weight. Fortunately his friend returned it when he asked.
Second time I was vaguely aware it wasn't around - didn't massively hunt for it, but kind of knew it wasn't where it should be (most of my games are either in a file or on a spindle - I chuck the plastic and file the rest).
At uni, my PC died, and my parents offered to lend me a PC until I could get a new one. I go to place a disc in the drive... and lo... there in the drive was my Opposing Force disc. Twas in there for at least a year, possibly two.
Ah well, that disc likes to find its way back to me, not that I really need it now I have steam.
Edit: I was once responsible for making someone's music CD go walkies. My now-husband lent me a Megadeth CD, and I accidentally gave him an empty box back. He didn't notice it was missing until I gave the CD back a few days later after finding it in my portable CD player... oops.
My copy of Conker's Bad Fur day dissapeared once, it was a pain because i get urges to play that every now and then, turns out my mum had nicked it 
I lost Mega Man X3, and Secret of Mana for the SNES. Haven't the foggiest what happened to them.
this, i remember i was so fucking mad after having a bunch of people over one time i went to fire up the ps2 and my kingdom hearts disc was gone, i went into a fucking rage and searched for it for literally HOURS and didn't come up with anything, and i know for a fact someone stole it because it was the last game i played and the case was sitting right there with the other games but empty...Flailing Escapist said:
fuck people sometimes..
I lost my copy of "Command & Conquer: The First Decade" after visiting a friend.
I had bought that copy after my old copy stopped working.
I've bought that bloody game three times now.
Oh, and I lost my manual for Sim City 4, which contained the CD-key. That is another game that I've bought three times now, but for a different reason.
I had bought that copy after my old copy stopped working.
I've bought that bloody game three times now.
Oh, and I lost my manual for Sim City 4, which contained the CD-key. That is another game that I've bought three times now, but for a different reason.
You know, I swear that happened to a copy of Mega Man 3 I had back when I was a kid, but no one ever seemed to have it and there wasn't any DIRECT proof... buuuuuut, the game was never found so there could only be one conclusion. So basically, sort of.Flailing Escapist said:
I lost my PS2 and all the games I have for it. God only knows what happened to it. One minute it was in my bedroom under my TV and the next it was gone. Nobody had been in my room between it being there and not being there...
Lost countless games. Probably forgotten i even owned them! Probably put in the bin or sold at car boot by parents ... curse them D:
Baldur's Gate & Neverwinter Nights, Guildwars, all the old monkey islands, handful of win95/8 flight sims, portable consoles + games ... uuggh too many.
Baldur's Gate & Neverwinter Nights, Guildwars, all the old monkey islands, handful of win95/8 flight sims, portable consoles + games ... uuggh too many.
the two games i know i have lost to date just out of miss placing them or them being sucked into the lost property dimension are Transformers: WFC for xbox 360 (went to trade it in the other day and haven't been able to find the disc anywhere) and Yoshi's Story for the N64(i must have been 12 when i lost it and it has always kind of stuck in my mind.)
I've "lost" Pokémon Blue and The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time. More recently (as in 5 years ago) I lost my copy of The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess with my GameCube memory card inside the box but I eventually found it. Then when I moved from home into my own apartment I misplaced the cartridge for Pokémon Pearl but still had the box.
I have quite recently lost my original copy of Company of Heroes.
How I lost it and where I went, I don't know. The best thing I can imagine is that I borrowed it to someone and I forgot all about it.
How I lost it and where I went, I don't know. The best thing I can imagine is that I borrowed it to someone and I forgot all about it.
I can't seem to find my copy of Pokemon Crystal.
I mostly lose manuals, though (since I keep them seperate to read them as I like). Luckily, most of the manuals I've lost are for Guld Wars games, which gives you all of your campaigns as long as you re-install one of them.
I mostly lose manuals, though (since I keep them seperate to read them as I like). Luckily, most of the manuals I've lost are for Guld Wars games, which gives you all of your campaigns as long as you re-install one of them.