Alright. Be honest, how many of you bought a game just to spite someones high score?

[Paco]

I remember back in early 2001, my friend had a huge high score on Crazy Taxi of around 60k and he laughed at my meager 15k at the time.

I beat his score and maxed out at 120k on Crazy taxi. The weird thing is, that after this high score was achieved. I no longer saw any reason to play it. So it sat on my shelf for almost four years, played only every once in a while.

[Shmitty]

oddly, spite has never been a reason i've had to buy a game. that and all of my friends have such short attention spans, by the time i'd actually beat their high score they'd either have 1) sold the game or 2) moved on to another one. it sucks the fun out of gloating if you're the only one that cares.

[lordxixor101]

Sadly, I almost have the opposite reaction when playing a game. If I keep getting smoked at it, I usually just put it down.

Sadly, that happened to me with Mario Kart 64. Back in the day, my buddy had it and put a beat down on me regularly. I finally threw in the towel. I just bought my first copy during the Classic Plastic Gamecrazy deal, and I was having fun, now another friend smoked me at it for awhile, and now it just sits on my shelf. I can't even enjoy it solo, just knowing if someone competent jumps on the other controller, I'm doomed.

[JEKKI]

ahahaha...

I can think of 2 game off the top of my head

dat I bought jus to shut some fools up:

Takken 5 & Mario Kart DS

[AlbinoNinja]

SOCOM 3

paid full price (I was saving that money for Soul Calibur 3); played it for a week, determined to get as good as my friends; forgot all about it;

[Dr Mario Kart]

I dont have to buy games to beat my friends in games that they own but I've never played.

I just go over to their place

[Moxio]

Never.

[zionoverfire]

Nope, I've borrowed or rented games in order to get better at the multiplayer but I've never actually bought a game simply to piss on a friend.

[Lieutenant Dan]

Don't even get me started on the original NBA Street and DefJam Vendetta. Street was for straight-up PRIDE. I and 7 of my friends had a double elimination tourney right before we graduated HS last year, I was in the losers' bracket early but came back to smash the world. My best friend, who was as good as me, faced me in the finals; he missed a gamebreaker with Tim Duncan right at the end and I hit a 2 to win the whole thing. We aren't as cool as we once were, and I'm positive this has a little something to do with it.

DefJam wasn't that competitive, but it was way more fun. We always did an everyone-for-yourself match, but alliances would form during the game... and then backstabbing would always occur. It was sooo dramatic, it was like a hip-hop soap opera. So much behind the back winking and whispering... "Dude, me and you, till the end on this one." Then BLAM, everything would fall apart and people would start going crazy.

[daphatty]

High scores mean something? Man, where have I been?