Your worst gaming loss

[ScouserInExile]

How about a near miss?

When I was on honeymoon, I was chatting to one of the other couples in the hotel bar and the subject of my job came up (I was working in games at the time). During the course of the conversation, it emerged that their son had left a Megadrive with around 100 games in their house when he had moved in with his girlfriend. They'd asked him what he wanted to do with it all, his response was "bin it", which they intended to do whn they got back. I kindly offered to take them off their hands and even said I would pay postage. They seemed quite happy with this untill my wife said "you could sell any games you've already got on eBay, couldn't you? they go for a fortune on there!" For some reason, this couple then decided to not give the stuff away...

[Darren]

Not gaming related, but this thread has reminded me of when I was about 7 and one of my "friends" threw my Bionic Man down the stairs, breaking him to pieces. (The same "friend" also tied a knot in my slinky. ) Anyway I was inconsolable until my mum told me she would send all the pieces to "Oscar" who would "rebuild him" for me*.

A week or two later he came back, in hindsight looking suspiciously like a brand new boxed Bionic Man.

I love my mum!

*Apologies to the under-30s who wonder what I'm on about.

[Lothar Hex]

To be honest I can't think of any massive loss. My biggest was probably trading in Front Mission 3 on the PSOne. Such a brilliant game, and I never did do the second of the two possible stories.

[Fletch]

Loads of stuff I've traded in over the years I get the odd pang of regret, stuff like:

Vagrant Story

Tombi

Neo Geo Pocket Color and games

Donkey Conga and Bongos

Point Blank boxed set with Gcon

But then I think ah well plenty of new stuff to play, and forget about it.

[zektbach]

Used to live in Cyprus and one Christmas I got an Atari STe with about 250 various discs with games and applications.

Whenever I left Cyprus, the entire package was left in a box sitting in my living room floor. I blame my parents for this directly as I was 8 at the time and therefore did not possess the strength to carry the huge box.

[moosegrinder]

In college I lent me Panzer Saga and boxed Links Awakening to a 'friend'. I never saw said 'friend' after college and probably never will again. However, if I do see him again, I'm going to break his fucking legs.

[Sgt Chaos]

Sold my SNES and 75 mint games back in '95 for about 85£ seemed a good idea at the time as I was skint, but what a fool I was!

This weekend, decided to have some OOT love, and found my 100% save had gone! F!@! hell!

[Opinionated Ham Scarecrow]

I went halves on a PS2 back in 2001 a few months after launch with a close friend and flatmate. All was fine until one day whilst we were both away we were burgled and the console, all games and a few other token things were taken. Was a sad day.

A few years later I found out from various sources that it was indeed my flatmate who had staged the theft and sold the PS2 to buy coke. Twat.

[Big Swifty]

Nothing major.

Broke a C64 by trying to reset it with a piece of wire to enter a poke, took ages to get it back from Boots.

But that doesn't haunt me like the Super Mario 3 manual which someone I lent it the game to lost. So now I have a perfect copy of the box and game on my shelf but every time I look at it it reminds me that it has no manual

[Mitchell]

Losing my level 70-odd PSO character, Logaan. Stupid DC reset when saving, leading to a corrupt card. I nearly, nearly cried.

Luckily (in a sad way), it happened just around the time where the game was being spoilt by duping and player killing, etc. But it still hurt.

[McFly]

My Amiga 1200, every SNES i've ever had, my saturn. I miss pretty much every console at somepoint.

[Geo]

Leant my copy of Little Big Adventure to a friend after it wouldn't work on my new computer. A few weeks later I discovered the ace 'LBAwin' program that made it work but you needed the cd! I never saw said friend for about a year after (his parent's divorced and he moved away) and i never did get the game back.

To top it all off my LBA2 disk got scratched to an unplayable state.

Also, my brother has broken more of my games than I care to think about. Bastard siblings.

[Thumperer]

I tripped over the power cord of my Atari Lynx, wrecking the power... hole thing and turning the adapter into a fizzy fire hazard. I kept the Lynx for years, thinking I could fix it Battery power worked fine, but, well... it was a Lynx, you know?

And - stolen at boarding school :

A Boy and His Blob GB

Prince of Persia GB

Mortal Kombat 2

Streetfighter 2

The Addams Family

Contra 3

Super Tennis

Alien 3

Stunt Race FX

And! Lent to thieving rascal ex-friend :

Perfect Dark & Expansion Pak

Oh, and not buying the Majora's Mask action figures when I saw them in FP. They're now ridiculously rare.

Plus a bunch of NES games, R.O.B. and a collection of much-loved Your Sinclairs when I moved house in 1989. The scars will never heal, or, er, something

[lancashirebambaata]

When I was about 10-11 I got a Vectex from somewhere, can't for the life of me remember where it came from and I can't remember what the hell happened to it.

Around the same time we also had a JAMMA arcade cabinet in our bedroom at the same time, i remember it had some shit wild west shooting game on it, then it stopped working. We didn't have any idea that we could buy more roms for it or anything ( nor did we have any cash). It sat in our room for a good few years before we binned it. Gutted

[noob]

2 things really...

got burgled about 3 years ago and had my cube stolen with all my games...

was only really bothered about the fact i was os far in metroid prime and i had to buy everything again (damn you, no insurance!) and start from scratch.

b'stard.

glad to know now that the bloke who did it was caught asnd is now doing 5 years. he managed to nick £15,000 worth of stuff in a weekends robbing spree.

secondly, i somewhat stupidly gave away my entire star wars collection of figures and toys (and i had them all) when i was seven becasue i was moving to belfast and thought i was 'too old' for them.

stupid me.

i still cringe when i think of them.

[Jim Miles]

I lent Panzer Dragoon Saga to a friend and haven't seen him for about 3 years. I'm sure if I do see him again he'd give it back though. If he still has it.

[Steven]

Bought R-Type for the Super Famicom in Tottenham Court Road (had travelled to London from Eastbourne)

So about 110 quid in all. I'd put it in my pocket and was heading back - noticed at one point it wasn't there - turned round - bag was 10 feet behind me. Empty. So happy.

Had my new digital camera nicked when I went to cover the GC conference in Tokyo. Saw Shigsy unveil Sunshine and Wind Waker and couldn't get any shots. Pleased as Punch.

Most recently got around thirty five hours into Twighlight Princess and erased my file while talking to the missus - my finished game file actually reads twenty one hours after my catch-up attempt.

[JoeK]

Probably my Japanese Megadrive with loads of games...Unbeknownst to me, it was 'given' to one of my mother's friends little nippers.

I don't even think I ot anything out of this either.

All my lovely imported titles with their wizzy box art and stuff vanishing like that.

Boo.

[The Mighty Ash]

My freshly arrived PS3 is dead.

How I laughed.

[mechamonkey]

My freshly arrived PS3 is dead.

How I laughed.

sorry , thats quite bad but I did a little real life LOL

[Mogget]

Probably when I swapped my 48k ZX Spectrum for a Commodore 64 back in 1984. I had a game called Scuba Diver on the Spectrum that I loved very much Unfortunately, the C64 version was shit

[Nick R]

Fortunately, I've only ever suffered one burglary - in Spring 1993, when I was 7 and had just been given a Commodore 64 the Christmas before. It was taken, along with the great (well, at the time) game "Gumshoe" which I'd borrowed from a friend and had been left in the cassette deck.

Never lost or got rid of any consoles, and only ever traded in a couple of games. However, one of those was Bangai-O for the Dreamcast - it was only £5 from GameStation, but I'd only had it a day before I decided I couldn't get into it (that, and the loading screens made the drive emit unhealthy sounding noises) and returned it. Considering its reputation now, I regret not giving it more of a chance.

[Qazimod]

I would say selling my GBA games, but that's not really a "loss" as I allowed it to happen.

From a gameplay (ie, not a monetary) point of view it would have to be Ghouls 'n' Ghosts for the C64; I can't understand why so many of the crap/average 15+ year old tapes I have still work, but good games like G 'n' G just cock up on every load attempt...

[sir stiff_one]

Sold my SNES and 75 mint games back in '95 for about 85£ seemed a good idea at the time as I was skint, but what a fool I was!

I caught a fish, it was THIS big *stretches arms really wide*

[verbs]

The only girl I ever went out with who was anywhere near as geeky as me 'borrowed' a couple of N64 games from me. Namely, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Banjo-Tooie, Majora's Mask and Paper Mario. Then we broke up and she moved far far away. Gutted. About the games, obviously.

[donkeyk]

My N64 finally died about a year ago. It had been dropped, hit and generally maltreated since 1998, so I can't complain. Even though I bought a new one, I haven't binned it: I would feel dirty throwing out my favourite console ever. I'm not wierd, honest.

[NonShinyGoose]

I was playing PSO on Dreamcast late one night. I had just clocked 40 hours of play, when to save but stupidly turned the DC off mid-save so I lost my character.

Also lent somebody Final Fantasy VII on PC but never got it back. I still have the box I think though.

That reminds me, I lent someone "24 : The game" about 4 months ago and not heard anything about it since.

Never mind - you'll get over it.

[Broker]

Once, when I was younger, I was in town and I saw a copy of metal slug AES in an indie. I'd played it in the arcades on holiday and remember him letting me hold it and look at the beck of the box. I also remember thinking that £150 was stupidly expensive for a game.

[Number 28]

I had a really nice Super Mario Bros. 3 tshirt that I got in 1991 when it was released... My dad used it for an oil change.

[Corranga]

Nothing major for me, probably buying and selling Suikoden 2 psx twice, I vowed never to play it until I bought the first one...

Back in the SNES days I bought a minty Kirby puzzle game that I now regret selling.

Other than that, i'm lucky enough to have more or less all of my original games, plus some nice finds since.