Embarrassing videogame moments

[eves pudding]

Today I attempted to trade in a game, only to be told "there's no game in here"

I had left it in my X-Box

[zuum]

There was a bit in Shenmue 2 when you had to fight and beat a few people in succession. Despite knowing most of the moves I couldn't do it and my wife had to help me out (although I noted that she had employed the button-bashing technique).

[AndyB]

Whilst playing Ikaruga round my mom's haouse on Christmas day I shouted, after being killed for the millionth time, 'You total bag of fucking cock ends' at the telly.

The pin could hear the pin drop.

[suzakuseven]

I could never beat the first (Yes first) boss on 'Brave Fencer Musashi'. I had to get my little brother to do it for me....

[zuum]

Actually, reminds me of when I was playing two player Point Blank with a stranger in the old Namco World at Picadilly, London. Usually when I'm playing with my friends and we get to the bit with the falling leaf or alien spaceship (where you only get only bullet and only one target for the two of you) a bit of argy bargy goes on. I forgot I was playing with a stranger (a very thin Japanese bloke) and gave him a very hard dig in the ribs with my elbow. He was too polite to raise a fuss but I expect he thought I was some kind of loon.

[Uncle Nasty]

The look on my girlfriend's face when she first saw me using the Live headset ranks pretty fucking highly. That and catching sight of my own reflection when using a light gun. I felt like stabbing myself.

[Jim Miles]

I was playing Virtua Fighter 2 with a friend at a swimming pool. Since I owned the original on 32X I completely annihalated him the first round. The next round I pressed nothing at all and let him kill me, explaining that I didn't think it would be fair for him to have paid 30p just to die, so he could have one round without me playing. Then in the third round he won. My friends completely (completely) ripped the piss. To this day in fact.

[suzakuseven]

Oh! There's my amazing ability to lose in fighting games I own to complete newcomers! Literaly everything except the Bloody Roar series. Each fight usualy followed by the mandatory "I thought you owned this/were good at this" statement.

[Thread Astaire]

Getting beaten by my 7 year old nephew on Mario Party 5.

I'm a 31 year old man(that's debatable)......the shame......

[Uncle Nasty]

Oh! There's my amazing ability to lose in fighting games I own to complete newcomers! Literaly everything except the Bloody Roar series. Each fight usualy followed by the mandatory "I thought you owned this/were good at this" statement.

This has happened to me and I think it says a lot about fighting games. I've played DOA, SC, and VF against my girlfriend and it's pretty random who wins. Obviously some people are highly skilled at them but I bet most of you would loose 50% of the games against a total novice.

[suzakuseven]

Getting beaten by my 7 year old nephew on Mario Party 5.

Hacks. Just blame it on hacks. Did he do anything odd with his pad before starting the game? Any cheats being inputted? It must have been that...

[Stilly]

There's a nasty picture of me + mate playing on my Spectrum from the eighties taken shortly after I'd just started shaving (probably just a bit of fluff in front of the ears and a dodgy tash back then) however it is clear that I couldn't level off the sideburns as the pic clearly shows a very high shaved point above and in front of my ears...and I thought I was cool...it's the only record of me having Spectrum-related fun, so it is kinda games related.

[angel]

A mate who had just got a GBA SP and The Wind Waker was telling me about its connectivity..the conversation then veered towards a girl he had visiting his home for the 1st time. I suggested he hid his Gamecube with SP next to it as she might think less of him. He said 'Nah il show her it'. I said so basically you'l show her your little green pixie running around the screen looking for treasure, while a little games machine tells you where to dig and a little man called Mr. Tingle gives you hints. He took the point.

I used a Sky Digital box for 2 yrs with an aerial socked before realising it came with an RGB scart lead and i could put it thro my stereo. Ffs.

[Links]

1992. Florida. Me and my holiday buddies would round off the days in the apartment arcade pumping quarters into Streetfighter 2. 8 or 9 of us would play winner stays on for hours until one evening my 8 year old sister wandered in and asked if she could have a go. So we humoured her, and she roundly destroyed every single one of us. Including the mouthiest American kid I'd ever known (who I swear to this day had tears in his eyes from the humiliation).

My sister still occasionally reminds me of it. The cow.

[Ebisumaru]

My cousin having to show me, in great detail, how to pick locks in Splinter Cell has to rank quite highly. "Look, you just turn the stick you twat..."

[Harmunt]

After years of trying to convince my dad that games are not just for kids, imagine my luck when my he came round my place to find his 31 year old son playing Sonic Heroes complete with all those fucking purile voices jabbering on in the background. Amazingly they seemed to talk forever whilst he was there watching me in utter astonishment.

Needles to say, I died on my ass.

[Harmunt]

...catching sight of my own reflection when using a light gun. I felt like stabbing myself.

Can't speak for everyone else but I look fucking great whilst using a light gun. I put on my full length leather jacket and naturally use the gun at an angle.

Not surprisingly, I always make sure that the house is guaranteed to be empty for a couple of hours.

[acidforblood]

I play all games with my tongue hanging out, my tongue is the size of an Alsatian's

Years ago after being roundly slaughtered by my 6 year old Dragon Punching Nephew on SF2Turbo for hours on end, i spat the word 'cunt' at him with real venom......he promptly told his mum

[Pete]

There was a bit in Shenmue 2 when you had to fight and beat a few people in succession. Despite knowing most of the moves I couldn't do it and my wife had to help me out (although I noted that she had employed the button-bashing technique).

funny you should say that cause i was doing this today, trying to be clever but i found button mashing much better. ah well.

[Yewone]

Picture the scene:

Three guys in their mid-twenty`s /early thirty`s, sitting in a cramped terraced house front room.

One playing a crappy plastic guitar (ala Guitar Freaks), another on a crappy plastic drum kit (ala Drum-mania) and the other on a crappy plastic keyboard (ala Keyboard-mania)

Just a good job one of them wasnt me.....

[Noopacity]

Playing Gotham 2 and swearing to high heaven with that level of obscenity achieveable only with games. An hour later, my flat mate goes to the shops and sees our upstairs neighbours close to tears, huddled together at their window going "why are they swearing.....? Are they fighting......? what's wrong with them?"

I wouldn't want my worse enemy hearing the things I say after losing a 15 combo on Gotham...

[Fnerk]

I'm shite at strategy games. I like them but im crap. Anything more involving than Command & Conquer brings me out in hives just thinking about it.

[Dimahoo]

Puking up in Afterburners 360 device (at the Troc) after a rather heavy beer sesh.

[Barnard]

Windwaker. The sail. arghhhh!

I was playing away, wandering around the island looking for the sail, the Red dragon boat said it was there and wouldnt let me leave.

I wandered around for 4 hours or so, looking in every nook and cranny. Went up to the Eskimo, he pushed me away and said i wasn't allowed down that way. Went to one of the bits round the front and he said he didn;t want me there either. Crawled around tunnels for ages, climbed around the back of the bomb shop, tried to beat up the kids but all to no avail.

My Sister told me the music was getting on her nerves, as it was mine, so i turned the box off and went back a bit later.

Went up to the Eskimo again, to the bit of the counter i hadn't been to and voila a sail. grrrrr and

[Systemshock]

Playing KOTOR (early on) and having to dance with the girl trying to become a professional dancer. Bad enough on its own (I was embarrassed for myself) but then on dance two, my wife walked in and watched me dance with the girl for the second and third times! My wife didn't say a word but she now has a permanent derisory look on her face, especially when I play games. Its like she now knows just how pathetic I am and lets me know she knows.

Bioware should not have put that task in the game! I may never buy another Bioware game just in case there's another dance really crappily with a virtual NPC moment in the game.

[Tom_B]

Playing Pro Evolution with a small monetary wager. I was so close to winning - 90th minute, 1-1, me versus the keeper running towards me - a beautiful lob left him helpless as the ball trickled towards the line. Wanting to make sure it went in, I got my player (who was still running towards the goal, past the keeper) to give it a good slam into the back of the net. Unfortunately, for some reason I never quite worked out, my player chose to do a desperate goal-line clearance, literally clearing it from the line, and hoofed it back across the field - which then landed right in front of Owen, who ran with it and tapped it straight past my own keeper.

It wouldn't have been so embarassing if there wasn't an audience of about 20 watching. And laughing.

[Unofficial Who]

Whilst playing Ikaruga round my mom's haouse on Christmas day I shouted, after being killed for the millionth time, 'You total bag of fucking cock ends' at the telly.

The pin could hear the pin drop.

My wife swears like a sailor when playing games.

Should hear her when she plays Monkey Target.

"Yes. Yes. No. NO! You little sh**!"

[Nimmel]

It took me 5 years to work out that the notch on the back of the DC's controllers were for the wire to fit into.

[M.M.S]

Doing totally shite on Monkey ball whenever anyone is watching me (despite being actually pretty good at it)...infact doing shite at any 1 player game while people are watching, though i am a demon in mulitplayer luckily.

Oh and buying Super Star Wars Return of the Jedi for £50 for my SNES and not geting past the 2nd level.

[Bushby]

Having beaten my mate at Top Spin quite convincingly, I made the mistake of lending him the game for the weekend. He came back on the Monday (with a memory card with his World Number 1 player on it) and kicked my ass 6-0, in front of about 10 people in the common room. I've been playing Top Spin a lot this half-term, I'll get my revenge.