Embarrassing videogame moments

[jeandeflorette]

Not knowing how to open doors in Goldeneye. After two months of being completely stuck on Dam, my brother's five year-old friend came over and showed me how. (To be fair, in the booklet it only says 'Activate' as B, which can be confusing).

And laughing uncontrollably to the entirety of this thread, because I know exactly what everyone means and I've been there too.

[suzakuseven]

I'm adding a new one. Just played Streetfighter 2 on a friends Xbox...can't do it. At all. Took me about 15 attempts to beat Guile....and I swore a lot. An awful lot. In fact, I think my last outburst before giving up was:

'F**k you Ken, F**k your stupid hair, F**k Capcom, hey F**k the whole Streetfighter series...'

I didn't mean it! Honest!

[DarhkFox]

hmm maybe playing DDR at home infront of my parents.. they thought i was quite mad.

[angel]

Playing Super Ghouls N Ghosts on the SNES with the sound up, my mothers friend walked past my old room and said 'What the hell kind of music is your son into' clearly thinking i was into synthesised weird opera kind of stuff.

Paying £110 for SF 2 Turbo for the SNES on the day it was released in Japan while everyone else in the 'shop' was getting it put onto 2 floppes for their Wildcards (which i also owned at the time). Felt like a total ponse.

Class thread btw. May it run and run.

[Gique]

Paying £110 for SF 2 Turbo for the SNES on the day it was released in Japan while everyone else in the 'shop' was getting it put onto 2 floppes for their Wildcards (which i also owned at the time). Felt like a total ponse.

almost as good as the kid that paid similar amount in the local import shop, then shrieking "DONTFUCKINGTOUCHTHATYOULLGETFINGERPRINTSONIT!" like a girl when I touched the instruction manual to take a look at it.

[emjay2kay]

almost as good as the kid that paid similar amount in the local import shop, then shrieking "DONTFUCKINGTOUCHTHATYOULLGETFINGERPRINTSONIT!" like a girl when I touched the instruction manual to take a look at it.

Heh, I was shitting bricks when I let my friends play Donkey Konga.

At first it was fine, then one friend started hitting the drums a little too hard for my liking, and I had to tell him to calm down.

I felt like such an anal twat, but I couldn't help it.

[Gique]

At first it was fine, then one friend started hitting the drums a little too hard for my liking, and I had to tell him to calm down.

youre only one step away from buying a game / peripheral and keeping it untouched on a shelf, still sealed... don't go there!

[Mrweh]

One day, my friend was playing Super Smash Brothers Melee for the GameCube with my Memory Card plugged in. He decided to take a look at the screenshots I had saved.

I can still see in my head, the look of surprise on his face when discovered that all the pictures were views looking up Peach's and Zelda's dresses.

And to this day, he still doesn't believe that I only took them as an "Experiment".

[emjay2kay]

youre only one step away from buying a game / peripheral and keeping it untouched on a shelf, still sealed... don't go there!

Shit, you're right.

I mean, I have spare RGB cables in my wardrobe. That can't be good.

Tomorrow I think I might throw out all the boxes for consoles and controllers I have stored away, as an effort to cure myself.

Maybe.

[Stilly]

Tomorrow I think I might throw out all the boxes for consoles and controllers I have stored away, as an effort to cure myself

Don't be a fool, man.

That reminds me of another embarrassing moment...paying £20 on ebay for a Neo Geo CD box. My missus couldn't believe it..."you've just spent £20 on a cardboard box..."

[hub2]

You spent £20 on a cardboard box!?

[Mercury]

Just thought of a couple more:

1. Being completely unable to do the very first level of Driver. My mate came round and did it first time.

2. Playing Euro Dance Staging Mix in my girlfriends lounge and then noticing a lot of people looking at us through the lounge window in disbelief.

[Stilly]

You spent £20 on a cardboard box!?

ummm...well..yeah

[angel]

Least it wasnt a spine card.

[Stilly]

Least it wasnt a spine card.

How expensive are these 'spine cards' ?

[mdn2]

ummm...well..yeah

You're not alone. After I bought my N64 with GE, I hated the fact it didn't have a box. So I bought a second hand copy, just for that.

Not an embarrasing moment. Just an incredibly anal one.

[Caleb Newcastle]

Phastie and I, drunk on the cheapest, nastiest free beer imaginable, working our way through Metal Gear Solid's VR missions.

"You can't run and shoot on Metal Gear Solid!"

"Yes you can."

"I'm telling you, you fucking can't."

"Ooh look at me I'm running. And Shooting. I'm running and shooting.

"Ah... You... Balls..."

Right up there with the time he fucked me up with Haohmaru on Capcom vs SNK 2. Then claimed he'd mastered him. Despite never playing the fucking game and me playing for fucking weeks practising with Rock Howard. And ending up dead in 30 seconds.

Not quite as bad as my friend Grant who while showboating in a roomful of people on Marvel vs Capcom 2 against got hit by Iron Man, War Machine and Cable's team Hyper Combo. 99 hits. Largest combo we've ever seen. All his opponent did was pull L & R at the same time. Everyone laughed their ass off. Guy almost wept with shame.

[Fry Crayola]

Being told by my mate that he had bought his younger brother Britney's Dance Beat for a christmas present, and the younger brother told him he didn't want it. Ha, embarrasing for him!

Giving it a go anyway, and then spending the rest of the night finishing the game because I liked it. In front of all my mates. Ha! Embarrassing for me!

[Badger]

Getting all excited because in SF2 there was a character called Dan, who had dark hair in a ponytail JUST LIKE ME.

Then playing as him and realising he was JUST LIKE ME

[Daley]

Whilst playing PGR2 on Live the other day with some chaps from this very forum and trying to help my brother put together a CV on my PC at the same time I accidently put the headphones volume down while forgetting to mute my microphone.

So all the other racers got an earful of me telling him to put "whatever the fuck he wanted to put on it" and how "my boss is a cunt but I still put him down as a reference" and various other CV related things.

It was only when I put the volume back up and they were laughing and asking "What was he talking about?" that I realised what I had done.

Whoops.

[mechamonkey]

Apart from the usual tourettes in from of your relatives lark

1. I once wrote a lovely intimate email to my fiance but accidentally mailed it to a yahoogroups gaming mailing list so about 40 people got a very rude and embarrasing mail in thier inbox. Could..have..died.

2. Playing Incredible Crisis with a room full of people and gettign to the ferris wheel 'love massage' section for the first time. soooooo embarrasing.

3. May times in in everquest speaking in guildsay (/gu) instead of groupsay (/g) and blatantly slagging off/ pisstaking someone to about 50 people that werent supposed to hear. Seen plenty people do the same thing while in 'cyber' with someone.