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djbhammer

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My parents house got turned over one year while we were all away on a family holiday and my Sega Mastersystem which I played to bits got stolen. Strange thing was all the games and control pads were left behind, but I had nothing to play them on. Sniff, sniff.

I also sold my megadrive which was a chipped japanese version which played PAL, Japanese and Genesis games. Wish I still had it now - great console.

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zektbach

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Actually I have just been reminded about the time I decided to play Final Fantasy VIII for 10 straight hours without saving or doing anything because it was so fucking good and I couldn't be arsed taking the 15 seconds or so that was required for a save to be made at the time... and then my mum came into the room at about 2am and just flat out turned the PS off (without any reasoning) simply because she deemed it my "bedtime".

This was on a weekend btw, I was 14 at the time. How bloody ridiculous, so ridiculous that it is forever burned into my mind.

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Professor_k

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Had been playing Animal Crossing WW every day for just over a month and was loving dipping in religiously on every lunch break/bus journey, running my errands and keeping the town folk happy. Left the DS with AC:WW inserted at home one day so the GF's 8 year old neice could play New Super Mario Brothers (and repeatedly die on the second level over and over again). Anyhoos... got back from work with the intention of of cashing in some fish with Mr Nook and loaded up animal crossing. "That's odd" I thought as a little character i'd never seen before wandered accross the menu screen. "So you've come to play have you?." As I realised I was only being offered the new game option I was pretty gutted as I must have lost just shy of 80 hours gameplay but it's only a game innit B)

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Matteo

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my biggest mistake was to trade in a neo geo pocket with games and a dc stick and house of the dead 2 with gun in gamestation just to get the american version of doa2, and on top of that, 50 more quids to get my dc chipped, since at the time it was the only way.

luckyly i bought back everything, and in gamestation i got a dc stick for 3 quids..now i have got 3 of them...

it was a good lesson to learn though: never, ever, do not ever sell a neo geo pocket again.

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Lujin

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Last year I thought I'd make some space in the games rack by selling some of the poorer games that I owned. I got rid of Odama, TS2, Worms 3d and Donkey Konga 2. Didn't get much money for them but I wasn't too bothered until a few days later when I went to boot up Zelda TWW and get a few more of the figurines. Weirdly I couldn't find my memory card anywhere. Then I realized; said card had my Odama save on it (along with an AX tracks unlocked FzeroGX save , completed Mario Sunshine save, and many more) and must have been in the box that I handed over to Gamestation for tuppence.

So many gaming hours wasted.

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angel

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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...

I'v got a boxed disk copy of this in my loft still.

I don't really have many losses apart from i wish that i'd kept my Super Wild Card 32M, and that i lent out 2 issues of my complete Super Play set to someone to finish Shadowrun (they had the guide). He threw them out. I'd fucking kill him if i ever saw him again, and he acted as if he'd thrown out old newspapers.

Me and a mate both made a resolution 10 years ago that we were the only people we knew (and have ever known) that know how to treat games properly, and we've since only lent games to each other. All our other mates don't ever get a thing.

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Droo

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My Mum once gave away my NES with about 20 games because "you have a Game Boy now and wont need the NES anymore"

Replace Gameboy with megadrive and this exact same thing happened to me.

Then, a few years later, the same again, only with my megadrive when I got my ps1...

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El Stevo

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This thread is pretty gut-wrenching. It's a uniquely horrible feeling when a save gets wiped or anything gets lost or thrown away.

I lent Virtual Springfield and The Curse of Monkey Island to a friend. I got the boxes back about two years later, but no discs or manuals!

My N64 died recently. Over the years I'd 'customised' it with stickers from N64 magazine and a few others, so it's pretty much irreplaceable. I'm hoping most of the games will make their way to VC before too long.

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Me and my friends used to have the star wars game on the nes. I managed to finish it, but they could never get very far. One afternoon, a whole load of us were up at my friends house and someone mentioned a god mode cheat for star wars. So we all decided that we would play and finish the game, once and for all. As I was the only one who had completed it, i took control for most of the tough bits. Unfortunately, after a couple of hours of play, near the end of the death star there were deep pits with spikes at the bottom.

I fell down one.

Normally i'd be killed and just start again - but of course, we had god mode on. I COULDN'T DIE. And I couldn't get out of the pit.

Sigh.

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Fireproofradiator

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As a happy flip side to the 'theft by mofos' posts, I got home to my flat to discover I'd been burgled five months ago. My laptop had been nicked and there was a space where my 360 used to be. *Sigh * Wandered through to bathroom where they'd got in and low and behold the 360 is in the basin by the window they'd got in and out of! Hooray! God knows what had happened there but it was something of a let off... The End.

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Comrade

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A little bit after the N64 came out, I sold my original brick Game Boy, all my GB games (I had loads), and all my SNES games (not the SNES itself though) to fund N64 games. I had put an ad in Loot for them and they were bought by a woman who intended to slowly give them to her children for every birthday and christmas for a decade or something. I remember she came round and going through all of my games deleting the saves was a harrowing experience.

The worst thing was that this was entirely by my own volition. I only made enough to buy Mario Kart 64 in the end, which really wasn't worth the trade. Even my Mum thought I was mental, and I regretted it almost immediately.

Thank god for emulation is all I can say now.

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df0notfound

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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.

Look on the bright side, people like me got Millennium Falcons and massive crates of figures and more ships than I know the name of for £15-£25 in the early 90s at jumble sales. Thats probably much more painful than giving them away

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choddo

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I loaned my SNES and MarioKart to a girl at work eight years ago. I still know her now and she swears she gave me it back. Liar.

Oh I also dropped my gamecube and shattered a memory card. +1 big dent in the floor. -1 almost completed: Metroid Prime, Mario Sunshine, Pikmin, RE0.

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aidey6

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I had lent my sister my Atari Lynx together with all 28 games, some S.O.B. broke into her flat and robbed it together with loads of her other stuff.

I also loaned my Atari Jaguar along with the CD addon to my ex-g/f nephew about 10yrs ago...

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I lent my girlfriend my Sega Multimega and Theme Park and Sonic CD. She was at the shops with this carrier bay contaning these items and they were stolen from her within ten minutes of her being given these items by me. She sat down at a bench with the bag beside her and had a cigarrette. looked for the bag and it had been pinched.

This was after I had explained to her the value of these items, ten minutes before... :unsure:

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Angles Morts

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I have a traumatic <whichever one the F1 transformer was> story. I still have the two halves of it.

Mirage!

Same happened to me - left on the dining room table one night, when I came down the next day and picked it up half stayed on the table. It was the French students, bastards.

Gaming wise, I had a load of stuff nicked, but what I was most pissed off were Metroid Prime (about 75% complete) and Golden Sun (about 20 hours in).

Actually I was sort of relieved to be rid of Golden Sun, I had started to resent it by then, but I'm never going to go back through Metroid and finish it off.

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