Worst videogame moment

[Flea]

I was just about to go play tactics ogre for PS1, and I dropped the disk, and it cracked :(

It WAS mint complete :(

[Scorch]

That sucks. My Rhino has two disc only copies, but they're a bit scratched.

I was near the end of some X-Men game on Sega, took me forrrevvvvvveerrrrrr.. and my friend's little sister walked in and pushed reset. She was like 3.

[evilmax17]

She was like 3.
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[6669]

The Halo 2 "ending". It was just so upseting.

[SpottedNigel]

When my main PSO save was deleted, and the next day my GF stepped on the disc and it broke in half. I still miss that game... (I actually now own it in various formats and whatnot...but its just not the same)

[GuilewasNK]

Sorry OP. That is rough.

Mine is when I had 95% of Castlevania: Circle of the Moon complete. I was right at the final battle. Came back and my saved games was gone. Yes it was a LEGIT copy. No bootlegs for me.

[the3rdkey]

When my main PSO save was deleted, and the next day my GF stepped on the disc and it broke in half. I still miss that game... (I actually now own it in various formats and whatnot...but its just not the same)


Do you play the BLUE BURST ON THE PC?! DAmn you must!

[Gothic Walrus]

That sucks. My Rhino has two disc only copies, but they're a bit scratched.

I was near the end of some X-Men game on Sega, took me forrrevvvvvveerrrrrr.. and my friend's little sister walked in and pushed reset. She was like 3.
You know, you actually DID need to push reset at a certain point in the first Genesis X-Men to beat the game.

I'm guessing that's not where you were. ;)

The biggest disaster I've had is having my Game Boy's batteries die right after I beat Pokemon Red for the first time. I'm lucky, I guess.

And to preempt Scorch, we've talked about this on the site before, but not for months and months. This topic won't hurt anything.

[Apossum]

I was about to get to the last stage in Bionic Commando. I was rubbing it in my brothers face cause he was teasing me and said there was no end to the game. i was 7 at the time, he was 12. i decided to go to the bathroom before the last stage... while i was there, he hit the reset button. I was sooooooo pissed. I through a big fit and tried to kick him in the nuts :lol:

[craven_fiend]

That sucks. My Rhino has two disc only copies, but they're a bit scratched.

I was near the end of some X-Men game on Sega, took me forrrevvvvvveerrrrrr.. and my friend's little sister walked in and pushed reset. She was like 3.

I have 2 that come to my immediate memory.

1st - My brother and I are watching my uncle tear it up on Rygar on the NES(I think it was Rygar;whatever it was he could save and come back to it). As he nears the end of the game, one of my cousins come bumbling down the stairs, come in the living room and trip over the NES cord and unplugs the system. Everyone was like OMG WTF. Needless to say, my uncle never played Rygar again.

2nd - My uncle and I just get back from Toys R Us with the newest Sega Genesis Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game and decide to play it. Well about 2 hours into the game we end up beating it in one sitting. My uncle and I were both like is that all there is, right about then the credits started rolling, we were both furious.

So nothing as bad as busting a disc, but still horrible moments.

[Scorch]

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:rofl:

I should've added "(at the time)" after that 3.

[repetske]

I was just about to go play tactics ogre for PS1, and I dropped the disk, and it cracked :(

It WAS mint complete :(

How mint can a disc be that cracks when you drop it? Also, just to imagine in slow-motion the horror of the disc falling, how far did it fall from?

[alfonsosoriano]

How the hell does a disc crack unless you slam it or drop it off a building? What the hell were you doing?

[The Truth]

Mine is vicarious. My friends and I live in a tight-knit community and we have played SOCOM almost religiously for years. One day a few months back my buddy calls me up and says while trying to hold on to 2 40s of some nasty malt liquor, he dropped his PS2 with the HDD and SOCOM II inside and it shattered in his alley into pieces. He just bought a new one with a settlement check, but our clan turned to crap a couple weeks after he quit playing and it hasn't been the same.

EDIT: In trying to save the PS2, he dropped the 40s as well :(

[SDC]

I suppose this isn't my WORST videogame moment, but it is certainly the most aggrivating thing in recent memory. After finishing Chapter 4 in FFX-2 (Those godawful comsphere segments, oh my Jesus), I'm on my way to getting Episode Completes and the Mascot dressphere. And I go to the Mihen Highroad to complete it, and apparently I didn't watch enough stupid crap to finish the sidequest.
I can't even finish the game now. I'm debating wether to beat it and playthrough again, restart (even though, I know, this game was made for newgame+), or let it sit even longer.

Also, I suppose, I restarted Megaman Legends on Hard, got up to the Lake segment where you have to battle all the boats with missles and torpedos, and I can't beat it. I got close, I ALMOST was able to save before fighting the boss, but I died right before I was asked if I wanted to leave. Argh!

[greydemise]

worst game moment...when i sold rhapsody mint / PRISTINE!! to funcoland for like $12 in credit, and beating the 3 sisters in SMT: N..clotho, atropos, and the other one..and then getting a sudden death by some random fight right b4 i hit a save

[smellhasreturned]

whenever you forget 2 save

[Genocidal]

The ending in Grandia II. I loved everything about the game up until that point, and when I watched the ending it was a huge disappointment.

[Dead of Knight]

1. When I was really little, about 7, I was near the end of SMRPG and was having trouble with the platforming elements in the castle. I thought that if I copied over my save that was in the frog place it would automatically teleport me there so I could get out of there. No, you dumbass little kid, it fucking copied over the whole save! Boy was I stupid. I was crying.

2. Much more recently, FFX-2 and Atelier Iris froze DURING THE ENDING. In the case of FFX-2, I tried again and it froze at the same point, so I returned it for another copy and that one worked fine. In the case of Atelier Iris, a lot of people have been having this problem, and they suggested to shut off the voices, so I did, and it worked fine. You could even skip the credits!!! Woohoo!

[thegamer4787]

I wanted a genesis badly when it was released, and still had an NES at the time. Anyway, I recieved a genesis for Christmas, and then my parents explained to me that I had to give away my NES to my cousin who didn't have any video game systems at the time. I remember trying to explain to my parents that I still liked and wanted the NES, but to no avail.

Besides this event, 2 other bad video game times occured. One was when I was playing Gamecube and briefly left the room. When I returned, I saw the system on the floor (controller ports down) and realized that 3 of the controller ports were broken. Pretty darn sure one of my cousins tripped over one of the controller wires.

Last (but certainly not least), I decided to keep my sega/sega cd at my grandma's house for my cousins to play while they were over there. Bad move. So one day, I go over there and realized that the sega and sega cd are gone. Well, turns out that "they no longer worked" (whatever the heck that was supposed to mean) and that they were thrown away. What really angered me however, was that the games were tossed with it! :bomb: And I loved Sonic CD!

Interestingly enough, each event involves some sort of cousin

[BustaUppa]

Repeatedly losing my Zelda 3 saves... I would play the game for a few hours, come back later and find the save file gone. Try again, play the game, save, it's fine, play and save for a few days, then just randomly the save would be gone again! Every time I turned my SNES back on I would be filled with dread, wondering if my save would still be there or not. My sister still remembers hearing the horrifying screams from upstairs. Finally what I did was copy the file to all three save slots. EVERY time I played, before shutting the SNES off I would make sure I had three identical copies of the save file. Sure enough, I often would lose one or two of the saves, but never all three. If I ever lost one I would just re-copy a good one, so I always had three. It's ridiculous that I had to go to these extremes, but I did finally complete the game using this method. Friggin' buggy-ass pre-owned SNES cartridges... my brother had a similar problem with Donkey Kong Country 3. I don't think he ever finished the game until he was able to emulate it on his PC, years later.

[alankhns]

whenever you forget 2 save

A friend of mine had just gotten Final Fantasy II and we played the game for an entire day. We got to the part where you first meet Yang and fight the bombs. We died but thought "hey no problem we saved on this mountain." Then the cut scene from the begining of the game when Cecil flies back to Baron started. We had not saved all day becuase we were used to the system in the original FF where you just had to use a tent to save. :(

[mrnomis27]

1) Roomate takes my Playstation 1 memory card and erases the following files:
- Castlevania -- on the Dracula battle (2nd castle). I haven't played it since.
- SoulBlade - Completed all the challenges, earned all the weapons, art, etc...GONE

The worst part was that he erased the card to make room for a playbook to use on NCAA Gamebreaker 2002. I am still angry about it. Freaking Gamebreaker!

2) Recently playing through Mario RPG (SNES), SNES falls off due to trip up of the cords and needless to say, all save data is erased. I will never even look at this game again.

[mtxbass1]

Right when timesplitters came out, I got a decent deal on it at the time. I was going to take the game out of the case and the disc snapped in half. Half the disc is still stuck on the spindle to this very day.

[ragepower]

Ugh!!! I still get pissed off when thinking about mine.

Around 3 years ago my now ex girlfriend and I went through a pretty brutal break up. Basically I told her to get the Shaq-fu out of my house. I gave her 2 weeks to find a place and move her crap out. Well on the day she was moving out I went to work, came home that night and she had stolen a crapload of my stuff. Mainly stuff I didnt care about, but she took my Gamecube, 6 Games, 2 controllers, and 2 memory cards. Gamecube was fairly new at this point (resident Evil remake had just come out). Honestly if I didnt hate her so much I would have pressed charges etc.. its a long story, but thats definately my most hated videogame moment.

[alongx]

When Sony sent me their virus demo disk and I lost 30 games' worth of save files last fall.

Also, I took my GBA and FF:CC to a friends house one day. Had Advance Wars 2 in the GBA, which took me forever to find, and I beat it and was halfway through the hard mode campaign after like 3 solid weeks of play. I take out the cart to play FF:CC and, when we turn off the game, we see his dog sitting behind us, eating my Advance Wars. I haven't been able to find it in stores to even replace it yet.

[greydemise]

ah ha! just remembered...
when i was 16, my ex was chinese, and according to the stereotype, all asians are awesome at counter-strike...this when i was really into it, during games, she wud single me out..and blow the shit out of me..*hmmm...*
i get kinda jealous, and well..this really got me pissed, i remember after like..oh say 20+ games of having scores around
me - 1-3
her - 25-60
....i disconnected, broke the disc, kicked my bed (almost breaking my toe, but shattering the nail)
and dumped her like 2 weeks later (well..dumping was for other reasons which were really bad :\ , this was like 5% of it)

[buffdrew84]

the fucking last boss of sudeki that i played 4379054730592805207 million times. If you have played against him you know that it takes forever to hurt him and after kicking his ass for 20 min he kills you in 2 hits when you are using a health potion. I never beat him because i was so furious i traded the game in the next day.

[Mex25]

have a corrupt save data on my memory card where i saved all my progress in gta 3 (completed), gta vice city (completed), final fantasy X (with all aeons and almost all powers for everyone), victorious boxers (all completed) and a couple of other games that took forever. To this day I still don't trust sony made memory cards and only go for third party stuff even though I'm taking a bigger risk with third party stuff I'm still not goin for sony

[Slipknot9762]

when I beat well over 50% of a game all at one time and the xbox freezes on me with no save.

[SDC]

when I beat well over 50% of a game all at one time and the xbox freezes on me with no save.
Yowza! Is Xbox freezing a common problem? That's horrible.

[Numsay]

Diablo 2 LOD. Blizzard deleting my 100% legit found by me .08 items including my beloved Demon Machine Xbow during rust storm.

[shipwreck]

My worst moment was trudging my way through 75% of Shenmue just trying to like the game. Then when saving one day, Shenmue freezes up and corrupts my entire DC memory card which contained all the saves for all the other games that I actually enjoyed playing. I put an end to it by snapping each Shenmue disc in half. To this day, I am afraid to play Shenmue 2 on my Xbox because I just know it's going to erase all my saves to avenge its younger brother.

[Quackzilla]

When I bought FFX.

[MaxBiaggi2]

When I bought FFX.

You have led a charmed life indeed. :D

[Dingleberry]

I was playing Pokemon red on my old GB back when it came out and i was using a battery pack that plugged int he side. Well, my sister thought it would be funny to pull it out. I hadn't saved my game in over 4 hours...i felt like it was the end of the world.

[SuprTnr2]

I had just gotten my PSX a few days after launch as a gift, and low and behold as I set it up and enjoy playing, my dog comes into the room. She tries to get onto her little dog bed thing and trips over my controller cables, pulling the psx off of a table and breaking the laser. (Thank god for CompUSA's warranty policy :))

[guessed]

It wasn't really a big deal, but the first thing that comes to mind is that I recently bought a used Pac-Pix that had everything unlocked. I started playing through it on my own, but after a few sessions (I was on chapter 10), I turned it on one time, and all the data had been erased. I just hope it doesn't happen again.

Oh, worse than that was when all my current gen game systems (Xbox, PS2, and GC) got stolen a couple of years ago. I was near the end of FFX, but, of course, the memory card was in the system. I haven't started playing FFX again, and I probably won't. Also, I was pretty far along in Super Mario Sunshine. I just recently popped that back in and started playing again from the beginning (I am one of the seemingly few people who actually think it is a fun game).

[jousley]

Two come to mind.

#1 when FFX first came out I had just gotten a new job and had a day off so decided to lay on the floor all day and play it. 6 hours later, I stand up and my back was really hurting but I didnt think anything about it. The next day, my back was REALLY hurting. Going to the doctor and getting an MRI it turned out I had 2 herniated disks in my back and they were pinching off my spinal column causing me being unable to stand up or sit up for 2 months. Since I had just started that job, they let me go cause I was still on probation (They rehired me about 4 months after I healed up and I still work there today). It might not have been FFXs fault..but I still blame it!

#2 Having some asshole hacking my DC Phantasy Star Online Character (lv 80) the day after I had traded a BUNCH of rare stuff to her from my main character. In place of my lv 80, i was given a character named Nal (lv 5)...I felt SOOO bad I actually threw up from it.

[hinkbert]

Playing the First US released Fire Emblem game for weeks and getting stuck at the 2nd to last battle. My characters are too low leveled to beat it no matter what I do.

Losing my save file to Castlevania 64. When I bought the 64 I got a crappy memory card and rumble pack and back then I didn't know the difference between 3rd party and 1st. This memory card wasn't even made by a typical 3rd party company, I had never heard of them before or since. Anyway I was over half-way thru the game, past the annoying "magical nitro" part and I think I had just beaten that annoying bull-boss thing, and the save was lost. I have never played that game again.

[wubb]

Mines pretty weak compared to some of the true horror stories on here. Probably 1/2 to 2/3rd through Brute Force when a bug in the game caused it to trap me after I defeated the boss at the end of one of chapters. Basically I was trapped in the room with the boss and couldn't get out to teleport off to the main chapter. (Or it was something like that.)

I could have restarted the chapter, but the game was barely good enough to hold my interest as it was so I sold it. Depending on your opinion of Brute Force I suppose this could almost be considered an example of video game grace :)

A friend of mine had just gotten Final Fantasy II and we played the game for an entire day. We got to the part where you first meet Yang and fight the bombs. We died but thought "hey no problem we saved on this mountain." Then the cut scene from the begining of the game when Cecil flies back to Baron started. We had not saved all day becuase we were used to the system in the original FF where you just had to use a tent to save. :(

Not terribly similar, but in Fable (Xbox) you have to go a fairly long time right at the beginning before you can save. I had been playing for 30 minutes or so and needed to do something in IRL (and I don't put off people/appts/etc for video games) so I did this secondary save option they have in the game which I didn't think would work, but was my only option. My suspicion was correct and I had to pretty much start over. (Not as bad as losing 12 hours though!) IIRC I had another buggy save situation force me to replay a quest later in the game. The save system should have been overhauled on that sucker, poor execution.

I wanted a genesis badly when it was released, and still had an NES at the time. Anyway, I recieved a genesis for Christmas, and then my parents explained to me that I had to give away my NES to my cousin who didn't have any video game systems at the time. I remember trying to explain to my parents that I still liked and wanted the NES, but to no avail.

...other family related woes...

Damn, you've had some bad luck with family and video games. Doesn't sound like they did, but your parents really should have told you up front that a condition of getting the Genny would be donating your NES to the cousin. I can just imagine something like this happening to me. A euphoric jump for joy at finally getting the Genny is cut short by my parents coldly telling me that the old NES now has to go.

[jlkeeton]

I fell asleep in my dorm room while some friends were still playing FFIII on the SNES. When I woke up, they were gone but my door was open. I was missing FFIII, Mortal Kombat II, and Chrono Trigger. I was beyond upset although my friends felt even worse for that happening (and reimbursed me costs).

For an in-game tragedy, I got to a point in Dark Wizard on the Sega CD where you needed a certain spirit to defeat an area. However, the game was so unorganized that I had gotten past the point where I could've gotten the spirit and it was no longer there when I went back. I had spent 25 hours on the game to find out I had to START OVER. I never played the game again.

[megashock5]

Not too bad, but after repeated attempts to get 1st in the sixth track of WipeoutXL to unlock the extra two tracks, I finally get the screen that says "congratulations, you've unlocked..." or whatever it says. But it just stays on the tv, the thing froze on the congrats screen and I didn't get to save.

Got it the next night though. :)

[DuelLadyS]

1: I had a hard time playing final fantasy 7 back when I first got it- it was the first serious RPG I had. After about 20 hours of play, I finally got out of Midgar, and was stoked about discovering this huge world map I'd be running around on. Then, my brother wants to play, so I save and let him start a game. He copied over my file at the first save point. I cried.

2: Lent a friend my copy of Lunar 2, one disc at a time. While she had disc 2, she moved her PS2 from her place to grandparents- with my disc still in the system! End result was a massive stratch running the full length of the disc, preventing it from loading at all. Then, she got upset with me for being mad and demanding a replacement! I haven't lent her anything since. (I was luckily on disc 3 at the time, so I was able to finsih the game. seem to remember her being over when I finished the 'true' ending. You shoulda see the look I gave her when it prompted me to put in disc 2 to run the outtakes...)

[paradoxikus]

When my Sega Saturn's internal battery kicked the bucket. I lost 25+ hours of Panzer Dragoon Saga, 15+ hours of Shining Force 3, all my progress on Nights, Burning Rangers, PD1, PD2, Magic Carpet, Tempest 2000, and tons of games that I've forgotten since. The worst part was that I lost ALL my net-link settings (remember that?)...and couldn't access the internet for weeks.

[godhatesjustyou]

When I bought FFX.
When I bought FFX-2.

[onikage]

I haven't had too many bad moments, but recently during the 3 for $15 sale @ GC I thought I had found Panzer Dragoon Saga. I opened the case to find only a single disc.

Also, while sorting/cleaning my PS1 games recently I discovered that there is a crack in my copy of Persona. I'm not sure if the crack goes far enough into the disc to effect the game, I haven't played it in a while.

[DOMINATOR912]

For those of you who remember it, the WWF No Mercy glitch (N64). It was basically a glitch that randomly returned the game to factory settings, thus erasing all your unlocked characters and created characters. I had to return the game maybe 7 times and finally gave in and shipped it off to the manufacturer. The game came out in October (I think), yet I didn't get a normal copy until around April. At least I got it, though.

[SDC]

I haven't had too many bad moments, but recently during the 3 for $15 sale @ GC I thought I had found Panzer Dragoon Saga. I opened the case to find only a single disc.

Oh man, I almost fell over when I read that. That is freaking horrible. I would have been dying.
I also remember another one, folks. A few days ago I opened FFVIII to finish up my 3rd playtrhough (I like the junction system, what can I say?) and where my third disc should have been was Legend of Legaia.
I have no freaking clue where my third disc could be.

[erehwon]

At GS a few years ago, I passed up on a chance to get the Star Ocean: The Second Story guide for $2. It's now going for alot more on ebay.

Did anyone here ever expereience this worst gaming moment: paying full price for ET or Superman64?

[jesta2817]

Paying full price for the Bouncer and beating it in about a couple of hours

[BustaUppa]

I had driven down to Pennsylvania so my friend and I could meet up and attend the Royal Rumble '04. Afterwards we were just chilling at his apartment and playing Smackdown: Here Comes the Pain, which was still pretty new. Anyway, his roomate walks across the room and trips over the control cord. The PS2 was set up high, I mean like unnaturally high on the little entertainment center they had, so when the roomate tripped, the PS2 got yanked off and took a LONG fall before it hit the floor. The PS2 was pretty much FUBAR at that point. Very unfortunate, but at the time I was more concered about the fact that my copy of HCTP was stuck in there! We tried digging it out with a fork, but to no avail.

After getting really pissed, I calmly placed a blank CD case on that roommate's desk with a note, basically saying you can mail me the disc later or pay me $50. I guess it was kind of petty in light of the fact that a whole PS2 had just been destroyed, but hey... I wanted my rasslin'.

Oh and the PS2 actually belonged to a different roommate who was away at the time. Man that must have sucked for him when he returned (since I was just visiting, I was long gone by then... musta been some FIREWORKS).

[trytej]

I opened my ps2 to clean it, and then i reached across to get something, but I hit the ps2 and it flipped over and the silver electrical cord fell off. Luckily my friend fixed it though.

[BLarR]

My worst moment has to be when all my RL friends and I quit Everquest. Every now and then we'd try and go back, but no one had enough money at the same time so the idea just died. Those were the days.

[sabin23]

This is not an actual gaming moment persay... but in 1996 when Square announced they were leaving Nintendo (N64) for Sony (PSX). This led to my boycott of Squaresoft.

That self-imposed boycott didn't last long. As soon as I saw FFVII in gaming mags and finally played the demo at Japantown, I was back on the bandwagon.

Life has amazingly gone on since.

[Graystone]

When I was little I went though about 10 NES systems. My parents would buy My sister and I one at Christmas, birthday etc. And if our grades dropped below a C for more then 2 quarters they would sell it off. However when we got a new one back (mainly thanks to my sister and her honor roll) it would be better then the last one we had. They would buy a used lot type the very last NES we had we got 8 controllers, 3 guns, and 80 games. :) That I regret selling to this day. We traded it all in for a SNES. The last NES we had was awesome we had all of the good games for the NES on it. It just wasn't 80 suck ass games it was the best or top 80 on the NES.

[dastly75]

1: I had a hard time playing final fantasy 7 back when I first got it- it was the first serious RPG I had. After about 20 hours of play, I finally got out of Midgar, and was stoked about discovering this huge world map I'd be running around on. Then, my brother wants to play, so I save and let him start a game. He copied over my file at the first save point. I cried.


Wow I woulda had to hold myself from beating the crap out of him.

[PR Mega X]

I went through all of the Mega Man Anniversary Collection for GC. I had every game beaten except 8. I was on Wily's Castle, and having a bitch of a time, stuck on it for days (that damn snowboarding....). So, Saturday morning, I wake up, and first thing I decide to do is take another crack at it. My Gamecube, however, had other plans, and informed me that my Mega Man file was corrupted and all of my data lost. My roommates heard my screams of rage at that.

Less than a week later, on my PS2, I was playing Transformers. Not quite as far into the game, but far enough and with enough Minicons and Datacons for it to be a slap in the face, a similar message: the memory card save is corrupted and cannot be used. Once more, I saw red.

My misfortune apparently prompted a belief in a higher power in one of my roommates. "You know...I'm starting to believe in God, and I think he hates you." ~ Ryan

[io]

1: I had a hard time playing final fantasy 7 back when I first got it- it was the first serious RPG I had. After about 20 hours of play, I finally got out of Midgar, and was stoked about discovering this huge world map I'd be running around on. Then, my brother wants to play, so I save and let him start a game. He copied over my file at the first save point. I cried.



I had a similar thing happen with my Star Wars Rogue Squadron II on Gamecube a year ago or so. It has an asinine menu that pops up WAY TOO easily asking if you want to delete your save when you select it - and the default answer is YES - I want to go smack the developer who did that (it shouldn't let you delete ANY, especially that easily, until they are all full - and we have several empty games still there). I had spent alot of time playing through it getting all silvers and a few golds and thus unlocking almost everything. I went out of town and my wife let my then 4-year old son play it. He knows enough to select the game save I had used so he can get all the missions/ships. But he is a little fidgety and moves the analog stick around a bit much when selecting menus. My wife didn't stop him and he deleted the save (by selecting all the default options - WHY is 'yes' the default for delete on this game but just about NO others!?).

Then he did the same thing on Rogue Squadron III a few weeks later (after I had gotten silvers on those horrible ground missions that I never want to play again!). I learned my lesson at that point and bought a second memory card to back things up on. But I have yet to play through both to get all the upgrades and medals. I will someday as it is still my favorite game of this gen (minus the Dagobah and Jabba missions in III).

Oh, and after playing through and completing Pac-Man World 2 the same damn thing happened with that, but because of an even worse design choice than Rogue Squadron. When you start up, it DEFAULTS to a NEW game instead of load - so he apparently selected that, and THEN, as he thought he should, selected the complete save, which of course overwrote it with the new game. Once again my wife was nowhere to be found to help him (grrr...). I couldn't get too mad about that though because it is an incredibly bad interface design. That was one of the first games I completed on my GC, and there's no way I'll ever play through it again :D. I want to do WORSE things than just smack that developer :D. I lost all the unlocked Pac-Man console and arcade games, which was the only reason to play it again.

[jlkeeton]

At GS a few years ago, I passed up on a chance to get the Star Ocean: The Second Story guide for $2. It's now going for alot more on ebay.

Did anyone here ever expereience this worst gaming moment: paying full price for ET or Superman64?

I paid for Raiders of the Lost Ark for the 2600 way back when... That game was so infuriating (although not as bad as ET). My brother ended up shooting a BB through it (and it still worked, hehe). I wish I had kept all my old 2600 stuff as I didn't start keeping my games until the NES days.

[dafunkk12]

1.) Let's start with something not so bad. My friend who is ADD prone wanted to play some Rogue Leader. Apparently navigating through a few menus was too boring, so in the process of randomly tapping buttons and wiggling around the joystick, he erased my save at the last level. I also hear he managed to erase one of our other friend's ultra-high-level RPG save games.

2.) So here's my big worst moment: Anyone remember Midway's arcade game The Grid? It was a third person arena shooter with a joystick and trackball that could be networked with several cabinets. (It was supposed to be ported to the Dreamcast with 'net play, but we all know how long that system remained viable.) I was stuck on this one level for a year or so. Right next to me was broken cabinet. Right as I finally conquered the level, totally out of breath, the wind was further knocked out of me as the arcade attendant reboot the entire setup because some crazy kid lost their token trying to play the broken cab. If only he'd waited five more seconds for the game to save my progress!!! I know I managed to progress further, but I don't remember whether or not I swore off the game right after that incident or if I went ahead and beat it, fueled by rage.

3.) One really annoying moment that stands out is from Syberia on Xbox. There's a part of the game where you're on a train and you can put or remove stuff from a shelf. But the game won't let you leave the room with/without yadda-yadda item. So I was stuck in the room. I didn't want to have to restart the whole damned adventure. Fortunately someone figured out that if you try really hard (I'm not kidding), you can run out of the room to freedom.

4.) Here's one that's actually an ironic gaming moment, perhaps "good" in my eyes. I'm one of those people who detests Halo. I only really bought Halo 2 because of the "Limited" Edition (bah!); what can I say, I'm a sucker for bonus goodies. It had been sitting in that stupid stacker case for three months; the last time it was played was at the big Halo 2 tourney my club held. I decided to go back and give it a play again only to find one hell of a scratch ring on the bottom of the disc. A devil's "halo," if you will. My guess is it came from rubbing against the label of the bonus disc. I'm not sure how all that abrasion could have appeared if it sat on a shelf for forever, but that's the only reasonable explanation. Not even several run-throughs in a DiscDr have been able to let it play without constant stuttering and long loads. I took it as a sign that I was right in not wanting to play that game.

[Kayden]

I know a lot of games have pissed me off... but nothing I really remember....

Oh... I decended to paint my DC black. It didn't turn on when I hit the power button. That made me mad, but it was my own fault.

[io]

1.) Let's start with something not so bad. My friend who is ADD prone wanted to play some Rogue Leader. Apparently navigating through a few menus was too boring, so in the process of randomly tapping buttons and wiggling around the joystick, he erased my save at the last level. I also hear he managed to erase one of our other friend's ultra-high-level RPG save games.



See, this backs up my claims that this is at least partly due to bad interface design. Sure, an adult (or someone who can read anyway) should be able to stop themselves from deleting the files, but it is still a bad design. Hopefully, after he dies, the coder responsible for that will spend at least some time in bad user interface design purgatory where he will be subjected to the following question each time he moves his arms - "Do you want a 1000 lb weight dropped on your head? <*YES*> <no>?" and if he so much as twitches the wrong way the default "YES" is activated. Then, after his body is rebuilt, he'll have to recode the entire Rogue Leader game from scratch and get asked the question again...

As for the designer of the Pac-Man World 2 opening menu - he just needs to be shot NOW.

[urzishra14]

i've had 3 broken PS1s because the dogs i own tripped over the controllers.. grr.. hate it when people trip over cords.

[Vampire Hunter D]

Well wanna know what i spent 30 precious dollars on that i will never see again?..............................Mortal Kombat Advance. I played it for about 5 seconds quickly got my ass beat by scorpion then just was bummed for a while. I couldnt return it cause we lived far away from the mall.

[supermariomelee]

Booted up my SNES copy of LOZ: A link to the Past only to find out that the battery died. I had a completed game with every item collected saved on there. I know spent at least 50 hours getting everything and finishing it.

[-Never4ever-]

This ddin't happen to me, but did happen tomy cousin (starmask). Back when FFVll first came out him and his brothers were playing while their mom was sleeping and for some stupid reason (there a buch of dumbasses) they were messing with trying to get her awake, finally one of them dumps water on her fcae, she immediantly gets up grbas the PSOne with disc on FFVll in and hurls it at the wall. Not only was the system destroyed, but the disc was cracked.

For me, the worst thats happend was when I stepped on my copy of MMX for SNES when I was a kid.

[nickmad]

when i got done playing halo 2...

[SneakyPenguin]

Beating Halo. I still can't believe I sat through that entire piece of garbage.

[whoknows]

Beating Halo. I still can't believe I sat through that entire piece of garbage.

Same here. I bought an Xbox for that game because all the hype surrounding it (and I wanted Ninja Gaiden and Kotor).
I rented Halo, beat it and was highly dissapointed.

But a bad time was when I was playing Driver 2, that game is so damn hard. I was on a mission where you have to destroy 4 cars in 6 minutes (if I remember correctly) and after 183829384723947239437239487 tries I get to the last car, its almost gone and I have enough health in my car to destroy it...out of excitement I accidently crash on something, cant catch up to the car and time runs out.

I threw the controller across the room not really thinking it was still attached to the Playstation. The game broke, the Playstation broke, and one of the analog sticks on the controller broke :bomb:

[VanillaGorilla]

Playing Tail of the Sun for the PSOne and watching my character literally fall alseep while running....

[vietgurl]

I haven't found an apartment yet so I keep having to move in and out of different dorms and my stuff keeps getting moved in and out of storage. Usually my dad comes down from Seattle to help me move my things...he hates the fact that I play games because he thinks I'm never going to make it to med school if I keep up the habit (I think he's just pissed because he was the one who bought me my first games, hehe). He's not very careful with the storage boxes that contain my games at all; I leave everything but my PS/PS2/XBOX/GC games at home. He throws the boxes around every single time and whenever I open up the boxes and check my games, there's always at least one game that falls loose inside the case and gets all scratched up floating around inside. My mint, practically perfect Grandia discs were the last ones to get all scratched up (I haven't even had a chance to play it yet.) Before that was Gitaroo Man. He also accidentally threw away my 512 GB memory stick pro duo (it fell out of the bag I keep all my PSP things in and apparently he thought it was "garbage"). There, my three worst videogame moments...

Well, then again, there was the time in middle school when my friend's house got robbed and my copy of Goldeneye 007 (N64) disappeared. After months of playing almost obsessively, I had managed to unlock 007 mode and all the cheats (without using the gameshark), not to mention that it took a long time to save up for a full price N64 game on a tiny allowance...

I've probably had worst moments but I've managed to successfully erase those from my memory. Thank God.

[Mr.Answer]

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[Rei no Otaku]

In Lunar 1 you can't trade Alex's flute to another character. Now before the game came out, WD released a demo. I got the demo, and found out that you could save your progress so you could pick right up when the game came out. In the demo though you could trade the flute. So I gave it to Nall to have room. When I got to the very end of the game after beating the last boss, you need the flute. Game wouldn't let me trade it back. I was quite furious. Had to start the whole game over.

[obiwayne]

1- Playing the entire original Space Quest and having to start over because the Alien at the beginning of the game had kissed me and at the end of the game the offspring tore throughmy chest.

2- Indiana Jones for N64...got all the way to the end and could not float up in the light things. Restarted and played again up to that point and got stuck again.

3- Playing the original PITFALL on my Intellivision and finally raching the hgh score where you could take a picture of the screen and mail it to Activision for a free T-Shirt
Took picture and promptly forgot to mail it for 5 years.

4- Spider for Playstation

[Kayden]

1- Playing the entire original Space Quest and having to start over because the Alien at the beginning of the game had kissed me and at the end of the game the offspring tore throughmy chest.


:rofl:

You got hosed old school! :lol:

[wubb]

See, this backs up my claims that this is at least partly due to bad interface design.

On the flip side, I'm playing Obscure (Xbox) at the moment and when you hit a button to skip a cut scene it pops up a menu letting you hit B to quit the scene or A to continue with the scene. A feature I wish more games would implement. If I want to skip a scene I can, but it also prevents me from accidentally hitting the button and skipping a scene I want to check out.

I remember being annoyed that Tiger Woods (I think all of the current versions) only let you store 3 profiles on the Xbox HDD. Don't ask me why EA is trying to stoke memory card sales? Do they even make a memory card?

[Ecofreak]

I was playing Diablo on the computer, and you can save while in a dungeon and while in the middle of battle. Near death one time, I saved my game and died soon after. Only problem is, the save had occured about 3/4 of a second before some giant rhino-thing charged into me. I didn't have any positions on my belt, couldn't kill it in time, couldn't run away, and couldn't access character menu.

So after every load, I kept hearing a painful groan as my character crumpled to the floor. Haven't touched Diablo since.

[encendido5]

I don't know about you guys, but I like playing through 1-player games on my own and having the satisfaction that I completed it by myself. I had been playing Super Mario Sunshine for a good 5 hours and had gotten pretty far. I came home one night and found my roommate sitting in front of the TV playing Mario Sunshine. He thought it would be cool if he cleared some of the levels to help me out. I ended up starting the game over to play the levels I hadn't cleared.

[crazytalkx]

I traded Grandia I for the PS in for $7 at gamecrazy........but no bad videogame moments except getting cheated on in Halo 2 (standby, mods, super jumps).

[chosen1s]

I have three worst moments - one I was reminded of by the Space Quest comment.

I once played King's Quest 5 and got stuck for HOURS trying to figure out what to do next. Finally had to start over and realized that towards the beginning of the game there is a rat that runs by you with a cat chasing it (I think). You get one shot to save him and if you miss it you're screwed. Interesting side-note - I REALLY liked the typed commands of the old versions and was disappointed when they went to point-and-click commands. These two events together are why I stopped at KQ5.

Also, played Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on NES and was on the verge of killing Shredder when it froze. Huge deal for me because I spent MONTHS trying to beat that game. I did eventually beat it after taking about a month off after that...

Finally, there was the Metal Warriors FACTORY SEALED debacle. I got it and a "Complete, Mint" copy of Secret of Mana (both SNES) from a guy on Ebay. They both arrive, and the Metal Warriors box is dented. I check out the Secret of Mana game, and it isn't even close to being "mint". The map even had a huge tear in it (4 inches!). So naturally I was pretty skeptical about this "Factory Sealed" Metal Warriors game. When I couldn't stand it any longer, I pulled out the video camera and taped...myself...opening what turned out to truly be...a new, factory sealed Metal Warriors! Doh!

[smalien1]

Wasn't their a save glitch on Pokemon: TCG?

I accidentaly deleted a Banjo-Kazooie save game.

[schultzed]

Usually I tell the story of how I sold 2 NIB Earthbounds for $6 each at Funcoland (bought for $5 each BB clearance) but I bet CAGers know that one.

I had this good, good, old friend from childhood named John . . . I usually sucked all of my friends into at least one videogame. With John it was Mario Bros. . . . the original 2 player single screen arcade game (1983-ish). After high school we parted ways but kept in touch . . . years later he moved to the city I was in (Milwaukee) and became my roommate.

I also had a great college job as a "security" staff member at the Student Union. Paid $6 something an hour in the 1980s (like $10 today) and mostly you wandered around with a big walkie talkie and keys. It was fun and I became a "lead" and quickly had some senority.

It just so happened that the rec room in the Union had Mario Bros. John and I played a few times (now about 1987).

During a holiday weekend when the Union was completely closed, I took John in (with my pass key) and we played Mario Bros. in the eerie empty Union. This was cool . . . an old buddy . . . and a great game.

A pair of my fellow security guys came through and "caught" us . . . would have been no problem because I was close with everyone except this newer guy and he was on. I think we scared the shit out of him but he completely overreacted and wrote me up.

First off, it was a complete buzz kill for the game we were playing.

Secondly, I got in such hot water that I almost didn't recover.

I would guess that was the last time John and I played a videogame together.

[RiCeBo1]

When I got my D2 account deleted for botting.

When I found a Windforce from botting but somehow can't find it a week later.

[DuelLadyS]

In Lunar 1 you can't trade Alex's flute to another character. Now before the game came out, WD released a demo. I got the demo, and found out that you could save your progress so you could pick right up when the game came out. In the demo though you could trade the flute. So I gave it to Nall to have room. When I got to the very end of the game after beating the last boss, you need the flute. Game wouldn't let me trade it back. I was quite furious. Had to start the whole game over.

Not to rub salt in the wound... but... if you got in touch with Working Designs, they had a way around that glitch so you could finish the game.

Well, then again, there was the time in middle school when my friend's house got robbed and my copy of Goldeneye 007 (N64) disappeared. After months of playing almost obsessively, I had managed to unlock 007 mode and all the cheats (without using the gameshark), not to mention that it took a long time to save up for a full price N64 game on a tiny allowance...

This reminds me... way back when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade, someone broke into our house and stole one of our Nintendo games (and oddly, nothing else.) We called the cops, they did their thing, and we assumed we'd not hear from them again.

A good 3 or 4 months later, I come home... and my mom informs me the game was returned! Apparently it was stolen by some neighborhood kid, who gave it to a friend as a birthday present, then got scared he'd get caught and gave it to another kid as a Valentine's present. I still don't know how they caught him... perhaps I'll ask my mom about it later and see if she knows/remembers. (it was also only after the theft and return that we beat stage 1 and found out the ship turned into a robot. That was cool.)

[sabin23]

(it was also only after the theft and return that we beat stage 1 and found out the ship turned into a robot. That was cool.)

which NES game are you talking about?

[hutno]

I was playing through zelda: links awakening on got stuck on the second level for around a year (thing was that you needed to sprinkle magic powder on the torches). THis was before the internet was a normal thing and I was in third grade. I ended up having to write a letter to nintendo power to get this figured out.

[Kayden]

When I got my D2 account deleted for botting.

When I found a Windforce from botting but somehow can't find it a week later.

Good. For admitting to being such a douche I hope you get pulled in to the street kicking ans screaming and be torn limb from limb. Honestly, your worst gaming moment is being caught cheating? People like you really need to die.

[red flare graf]

Mine would probably be when my Xbox hard drive died. All my saves went goodbye. Other than that, nothing has ever really happened..

[Ledhed]

I accidentaly deleted a Banjo-Kazooie save game.

IT WAS YOU!!!

In all seriousness, this happened to me. I was probably 13, and had gotten a good 32 hours into the game. My sister was playing with her friend (they were both around 9), and I got up to go to the bathroom. They're wrestling on the floor, and the game is set to the profile selection screen. Somehow, whilst rolling around on the floor, my sister's friend deleted my gamesave. Sonofabitch.

Only took me about 16 hours to get back to where I had been, but damn was I mad.

[StingX]

Heres a few...

I accidently deleted my megaman legends 2 save thinking it was my legends 1 save, I was so far in legends 2 ;_;.

After playing batman and robin for snes I took it out and set it down....and the thing fell apart @_@

Castlevania:CotM, I was at the last boss and poof the save battery erases my game

Similiar story, Super Metroid was about to face Mother Brain and poof bye bye saved game.

[RiCeBo1]

Good. For admitting to being such a douche I hope you get pulled in to the street kicking ans screaming and be torn limb from limb. Honestly, your worst gaming moment is being caught cheating? People like you really need to die.

:rofl: I was just kidding that did happen to a friend of mine. He almost broke down in tears. Worst video game moment? Probably the first couple of times I played the mission Supply Lines in GTA:SA...

[greydemise]

my cousin used 2 cover my eyes when i was playing video games, and i remember getting really pissed ( i was 8-9) and struggling, my foot hit the cord, and knocked the snes off the shelf and it broke..she went home laughing...my dad came over and put it together (i dno how he fixes this stuff) and it worked like new..crazy...but boy was i pissed

[sircheatsalot]

i was at the end of vice city(just a few side missions left) and i acidentaly deleted the file

[Kayden]

How do you accidentally boot the ps2 with the tray open, select the memory card and then the save file and then delete it?

[evo t rex]

This didn't happen to me, but it's still funny.

My room mate was playing Castlevania Chronicles, and upon reaching the final boss he reached up to turn the volume up on the TV. For some unexplained reason he flinched, and his hand smacked the power button on the Playstation.

Of course he saved but in that game you can only save three levels before the boss, which means reaching the boss all over again.

[evo t rex]

which NES game are you talking about?


It sounds like The Guardian Legend.

[sircheatsalot]

How do you accidentally boot the ps2 with the tray open, select the memory card and then the save file and then delete it?

i was deleting files from games i didnt play and acidentaly did that one

[darisma]

This is like yearsssssssss ago. When I still played FF II, the real FF II jap version. I had an NES system but had an adapter so I could play famicom catridges, japanese version on NES. Anyway, it was not so easy to get famicom catridge to work on NES. I needed to push and pull so many times just to get it to work. I pumped most of the weapons and magic to level 16 by doing AAB method. Then, one day my brother took FF II out of the NES system and played something else. I got so pissed and knew what was going to happen!!! By the time I got the FF II to boot again from the push and pull then all the saves were gone :bomb:

[smalien1]

ALLL this time no one's mentioned it...
This is in the wrong forum!

[Zmonkay]

I suppose this isn't my WORST videogame moment, but it is certainly the most aggrivating thing in recent memory. After finishing Chapter 4 in FFX-2 (Those godawful comsphere segments, oh my Jesus), I'm on my way to getting Episode Completes and the Mascot dressphere. And I go to the Mihen Highroad to complete it, and apparently I didn't watch enough stupid crap to finish the sidequest.
I can't even finish the game now. I'm debating wether to beat it and playthrough again, restart (even though, I know, this game was made for newgame+), or let it sit even longer.

HAHAHA, similar thing happened to me, but I couldn't get episode complete in the calm lands. It wasn't that great of a game, so I just said screw it and put it on the shelf, probably never to be played again.

Probably one of the worst things to happen to me was in Chronicles of Riddick on Xbox, I was aaallmost done with it, and was just passing through an auto-save part when my power went out. Because it was saving when the power went out, my save got corrupted. Still haven't replayed it to beat it.

[DuelLadyS]

which NES game are you talking about?

It sounds like The Guardian Legend.

That's the one. I can't believe I forgot to say that...

[alongx]

[In all seriousness, this happened to me. I was probably 13, and had gotten a good 32 hours into the game. My sister was playing with her friend (they were both around 9), and I got up to go to the bathroom. They're wrestling on the floor, and the game is set to the profile selection screen. Somehow, whilst rolling around on the floor, my sister's friend deleted my gamesave. Sonofabitch.

Only took me about 16 hours to get back to where I had been, but damn was I mad.

I had that happen when I was first playing Shinobi for PS2. Took me forever to get to the last boss, then a friend wanted to see it so he started a game on the first level. I didn't remember, though, that the game autosaved and only allowed for one save game. So, I got fucked.

[secretvampire]

Somebody just had their worst gaming moment a day or two ago and doesn't know it yet. I went to Gamecrazy today and found a minty fresh, perfect SNES for $25. Decent price and I needed a backup (my other one is okay, but a bit flaky sometimes). The guy told me that a lady had come in and traded in the SNES, a lime green N64, some Game Boys, etc. and some games. Apparently her son had gone off to college and it was in his room. He's going to have one hell of an "OH SHIT" moment when he comes back home, I hope he's not a CAG!!!

[sabin23]

Somebody just had their worst gaming moment a day or two ago and doesn't know it yet. I went to Gamecrazy today and found a minty fresh, perfect SNES for $25. Decent price and I needed a backup (my other one is okay, but a bit flaky sometimes). The guy told me that a lady had come in and traded in the SNES, a lime green N64, some Game Boys, etc. and some games. Apparently her son had gone off to college and it was in his room. He's going to have one hell of an "OH SHIT" moment when he comes back home, I hope he's not a CAG!!!

Why?

Why don't parents ever respect their kid's belongings... this type of situation seems to happen all too often.

[FriskyTanuki]

This was in 2002. My PS2 memory card just stopped being read in my PS2 after transferring files over and filling it up with many saves (rentals of games I now own). I lost many save files, had to have been 20-30+ files in various stages of completion. Ratchet and Clank was on the very last level just before the final boss. I quickly set it in my car, for some future trip to EB/GS to trade it in, and it's been there ever since.

[puregroundchuck]

1. When I moved back to my hometown when I was 21 I asked my parents if they still had my old NES. They had sold it at a yard sale a while back along with Mario 1,2 and 3 (god i loved mario 3), TMNT 1, Legendary Wings and a bunch of other stuff.

2. I loved the X-men 4 player arcade game and had heard there was an X-men game for NES. Back in the day pretty much all you had to go on was the back of the box, no internet, no good gaming magazines. I got suckered into that dungeon crawler piece of crap they cranked out.

3. About 5 minutes after setting up my new Playstation, my fiancee's daughter asks if she can play it. I hadn't really gotten furniture set up yet to where the cord didn't have to run all the way across the room and to get more comfortable she yanks the cord and the Playstation takes about a 4 foot drop while it's loading up Twisted Metal. It survived but I nearly had a heart attack.

4. Calling Playstation and explaining that my system was overheating and acting up. They asked me if I was using all Sony products and without thinking I said I was using ("insert random 3rd party here") controller. They basically explained that I was screwed and hung up.

[magius360]

I suppose this isn't my WORST videogame moment, but it is certainly the most aggrivating thing in recent memory. After finishing Chapter 4 in FFX-2 (Those godawful comsphere segments, oh my Jesus), I'm on my way to getting Episode Completes and the Mascot dressphere. And I go to the Mihen Highroad to complete it, and apparently I didn't watch enough stupid crap to finish the sidequest.
I can't even finish the game now. I'm debating wether to beat it and playthrough again, restart (even though, I know, this game was made for newgame+), or let it sit even longer.

You do know you can press L1, L2, R1, R2, Select, and Start all at once to go back to the title screen and it will have newgame plus all over again, no matter where in the game you saved it last?

My worst gaming moment - I was playing the final boss of Legend of Legaia (Cort), and I had been fighting him for nearly 10 minutes, and I was pretty sure he was just about finished off. I leave it on my turn to select combos and such and go get a drink. After I get my drink and I come back, I find my little brother sitting there and using "Spirit" for all my characters (which is basically guard, it allows for longer combos). I got to sit and watch the final boss literally destroy my characters with one of his better attacks. I was sure I could have finished him off that turn, I wanted a drink to be able to enjoy his defeat better and what do I get? Game over.

I still beat the game later on though.

[NesHavok]

i got this weird game where you fight 2 player or vs comp but the characters were bubble figures and all had the same moves and looked very much alike aside from their color, forgot what system or title it is but man it sucked ass

[NesHavok]

I think it was called Ballz forthe snes...

[zewone]

Me and my cousin had been playing Seperation Anexity and we could never beat it. One day we somehow glitched the game on accident and we had infinte lives. We were finally about to beat it (we were on the last level) and my cousin's brother walks in and pulls the power cord from the Genesis and says" Thats enough videogames. Go play outside." What a douche. Needless to say I never played SA again after being so heart broken.

[zionoverfire]

2 of them:

The first time I watch the ending to Super Mario Brothers 2

when my mega memory card died and I lost 30+ hours of progress in The Legend of Legaia, to this day I still have not caught back up to that point.

[Parathod]

When my Action Replay 4 in 1 on Saturn decided to erase all my files. I don't know if it's because I hadn't used it in a couple years or what. It works fine now.

[Epic Wolf]

watching Halo 2's ending...

[Rodimus]

When I was younger I played games in my room with my feet recliend, pressing on my TV. I hate spiders so when I played Resident Evil the first time it came out for the PS1 I enter the DORM section of the game with the large spiders. One of the spider drpped on the character's head and I pushed my feet on the TV and the TV went into the wall. Thanks alot Capcom, that came out of my allowance.

[Ecofreak]

When I was younger I played games in my room with my feet recliend, pressing on my TV. I hate spiders so when I played Resident Evil the first time it came out for the PS1 I enter the DORM section of the game with the large spiders. One of the spider drpped on the character's head and I pushed my feet on the TV and the TV went into the wall. Thanks alot Capcom, that came out of my allowance.

:rofl:

But that sucks, man.

[Rodimus]

:rofl:

But that sucks, man.

Thanks for you sysmpathy, but you can laugh at it. I do.

[boyboy1080]

my worst gaming momment has to be when my sister came to visit my family. she lives in san diego and i live far up north in cali. it was her last day and they were about to leave. her kids and herself. i had to leave early for work and when i came back from work my slim ps2 that i recently bought was gone and so was my controllers and 2 games. called up my sister and found out that she took em.

[Death2Sanity]

When I first tried playing 'A Boy and his Blob' for the Game Boy.

That was the day I learned not all video games were worth the value of the cardboard carton they came in.

[Pancake Rabbit]

I was about 10 at the time.

All I can remember is hearing

"this game sucks"

then I watched as the ps1's lid was opened by my friend.

Just before I passed out I remember seeing the light reflect off of my freshly rented copy of Rayman as it flew through the air like a glorious frisbee...and then shattered into about 12 pieces when it hit the concrete basment wall.

The video rental store charged us for the game, I went two months with no allowance.

[Metal Boss]

i think i've got one to make just about any of you caggers cringe


my brother and I had been serious gamers ever since we played an NES console, basically we came from an upper middle class family who really provided us with just about any video game system we could ever desire, we had a 3do, virtual boy, sega genesis (with a 32x, segacd and a few strange european addons), sega nomad, SNES, NES console, turbografx 16, several game boys, not to mention the TONS and TONS and TOOOONS of games, all put in storage after our family had a falling out and I moved with my mother away from my dad, it stayed in storage for a good 7 or 8 years before my mom finally decides, LETS TAKE A ROAD TRIP to go pick up some of the stuff, she comes back with a whole truckload of old forgotten clothes and junk, where are my video games?


... :cry: I'll never know, she hasn't given me an answer...

[neudog]

I had put about 10 hours into Beyond Good & Evil w/o saving and of course the game froze. I haven't played it since. I might throw it back in the ole PS2 during fall break. Great game just remember to always save.

[kjauburn]

My story is a running theme in this forum. I was playing (insert game here) forgot to save losing everything and never played again. I think everyone one of us has a few of those stories.

Now if we were going for stupidest moment I would say selling my sega genesis, cd, 32x, and 40 games back in 2000. Don't get me wrong I made some good money off them, but some the games I had for the core system I will never be able to replace...

[2Fast]

Not being able to save or use level passwords in Maximum Carnage. That has to be the hardest game...

[punqsux]

gather round my friends, for i have a tale of a bad video game moment...

its was the fall of 1997; bill clintion was settling in to his lame duck period, the simpsons was starting their (i believe) 7th season, and a little squaresoft rpg called final fantasy vii was released.

now, this was exciting for me, having only recently gotten into role playing games (i think prior to this the only ones ive played were final fantasy 3, chrono trigger, suikoden, and wild arms) thrilled as a fourteen year old boy can be, i was looking forward to this game all summer, per-ordered it the first day you could (got a shirt and a demo) and even bought the guide for $15, i mean, the whole nine yards, you know?

so sept rolls around, and i pick up the game (first day, obviously) i actully had to pre-order it at a store pretty far from my house to get the pre-order bonuses (the ones close to me hadnt received the bonuses yet) which my mom was thrilled about im sure...

soo i begin the epic adventure...

im progressing nicely and at some point (either late sept, or early oct) i go to a friends house for the weekend, this particular friend was also a gamer, so i get to his house, and we prolly just talked about ffvii and played the parappa demo all weekend.

once home i realize something. something is missing. a memory card is gone, a memory card with..
MY TWENTY-FIVE HOUR FINALLY OFF THE FIRST DISC OF THE LONGEST GAME IVE EVER PLAYED IN MY LIFE UP TO THIS POINT ARIES IS DEAD AND IM ABOUT TO UNLEASH SOME FOURTEEN YEAR OLD VENGENCE SAVE FILE!!

i called him, and he looked all over for it, but it was no where to be found =o(

i started over though, you guys are a bunch of quitters ^^

[Rig]

In Lunar 1 you can't trade Alex's flute to another character. Now before the game came out, WD released a demo. I got the demo, and found out that you could save your progress so you could pick right up when the game came out. In the demo though you could trade the flute. So I gave it to Nall to have room. When I got to the very end of the game after beating the last boss, you need the flute. Game wouldn't let me trade it back. I was quite furious. Had to start the whole game over.

Ocarina.

Relating to Lunar, the first time I played through it, I had given the bromides to different characters, to make space for other things. Well, I didn't know Jess, Kyle, Nash, and Mia would leave the party right at the end of the game...I was unable to get the bromides back from them! :(

I rented SMRPG from the local videogame store. Our town had a population of 550, so the games were pretty much all for me! My parents would let me get it on the weekends, and I had nearly finished the game when it was time to take it back. They closed down the next day, without warning.... :bomb: (I later found a copy of the game and was able to play through it!)

I'm sure I have a lot more...but nothing too frustrating comes to mind...

[encendido5]

My story is a running theme in this forum. I was playing (insert game here) forgot to save losing everything and never played again. I think everyone one of us has a few of those stories.


It's even worse when it's work related. Slightly off topic, one morning last week I was working on this project in AutoCad for about 4 hours, not saving once. A friend of mine sent me a video, which I of course opened and crashed my computer. I had to spend the afternoon working on the same crap to recover what I had lost.

[uzumaki_star]

Paying full price for DOA: Beach Volleyball and playing it a few times then trading it in.

[ITDEFX]

what???? Are you drunk or something? The ending was beautiful ;_ )

better than that ff crap people play to death because Square shoves it in our face.

The ending in Grandia II. I loved everything about the game up until that point, and when I watched the ending it was a huge disappointment.

[CYRiX]

When my brother broke a neighbors light bulb (gardening light or something) with our neighbor, I was watching. So then the neighbor kid goes and TELLS on us and then we are like "WTF HE DID IT TOO!!! (In a more 8/10 year old way)" but our parents didn't believe us. So they sold our NES and we had to pay for the bulbs AND apologize. I later *accidently* pulled up my genesis controller and it knocked the whole system of and the tv's outlet was broken. God was my neighbor a bitch. The worst part about the NES thing was we had like 100 games and they gave it away to one of my cousins who lost it all, how do you lose 100 cartidges and a nes TOASTER!!!?!

Being banned from Steam because I used a program that disabled a setting in Counter-Strike Source, and apparently to do it it had to hack into the server (the setting was r_3dsky, which I didnt want cuz it slowed my fps).

My ps2 cards getting erased because of my brother (Had GTA3, Vice City, at %100, San Andreas at %93 and the DBZ: Budokai games with everything unlocked, which is painfully hard). I punched him in the face...





...with verbal abuse!

[mr ryles]

my worst gaming moment would be buying syphon filter omega strain thinking it could live up to the PS1 syphon filters. Boy was I wrong

[Stick821]

My brother was dating this girl about 7 years ago, she lived kind of far away so he took our snes over there to have something to do all of the time. I didn't care at the time because I was playing playstation. He took all of our games, Chrono Trigger being one of them. Needless to say they ended up breaking up and that bitch pawned off the system and the games for some crack money. That still pisses me off today.

The same thing happened with my sister, but it was my NES and my ex brother in law. I still haven't been able to replace either of those collections.

[Ledhed]

He took all of our games, Chrono Trigger being one of them. I still haven't been able to replace either of those collections.

Currently Playing: Chrono Trigger

It appears you have to some degree. ;)

[Kain Vincent]

Not being able to save or use level passwords in Maximum Carnage. That has to be the hardest game...

Tell me about it, I sometimes think I'm the only one who beat that game without cheating (at least in my city).

[Kain Vincent]

Not being able to save or use level passwords in Maximum Carnage. That has to be the hardest game...

Tell me about it, I sometimes think I'm the only one who beat that game without cheating (at least in my city). Carange was so cheap! :bomb:

[javeryh]

This is about as bad as it gets:

http://img.engadget.com/common/images/8142716626194583.JPG?0.16784783930694558

[Stick821]

It appears you have to some degree. ;)

Actually I'm playing it on PS. I still haven't found it for SNES again.

[psiufoxx2]

I was around 5 or 6 years old and was on the final boss in Mega Man 3, after playing for hours with friends watching, and my mother pulled the NES power cable out of the wall without knowing it connected to the Nintendo - to do what? To vacuum!

Argh!

[jshendel]

Final Fantasy 8
I'm rushing through the game to beat it before my friend does.
I get to the Lunatic Pandora, fight my way through, and get to the boss, Adel. He keeps kicking my ass with Meteor. So, I thought I would try to level up a bit. For those who don't know, the random battles in the Lunatic Pandora are level 1, so you get next to nothing for experience. Here's the kicker, there is no way to get out of that damn place!!! So, either fight battles for days, or start over. I chose the latter, 40 hours, down the drain.

I started over, maxed out my characters, completed all side quests, went to the Lunatic Pandora, and dropped the bomb on Adel. Bastard.

[Odenat]

having to buy a ps2 three diffirent times, first one got stolen, second one just stop working, third I had to get a slim one :) . I also had a friend who gets really excited when he beats me in any videogame, So he decided to spike my ps2 controller into the floor after winning a match of tekken tag v.s me (56-1 was the count at the time)

[doodle777_98]

I have quite a few.
i had about 40 hours of baten kaitos, got corrupted.
Lufia for the snes, lost saved after lil bro tripped over the cords.
My mother gave away my original nes collection.
Sold chrono trigger for 14 bucks.
Got ripped off by Darksaiyan here on CAG.
oh and had a tons of games saved over by friends just wanting to play. RDR save all gone.

um, but i think all the awesome deals and trades here on cag has made up for it.

[Ecofreak]

Final Fantasy 8
I'm rushing through the game to beat it before my friend does.
I get to the Lunatic Pandora, fight my way through, and get to the boss, Adel. He keeps kicking my ass with Meteor. So, I thought I would try to level up a bit. For those who don't know, the random battles in the Lunatic Pandora are level 1, so you get next to nothing for experience. Here's the kicker, there is no way to get out of that damn place!!! So, either fight battles for days, or start over. I chose the latter, 40 hours, down the drain.

I started over, maxed out my characters, completed all side quests, went to the Lunatic Pandora, and dropped the bomb on Adel. Bastard.

Man - I remember how hard that fight was.

[2poor]

when my pso save with my lvl 115 character got corrupted. i tried to get back into it, but i just quit when i level a couple times.

[Apossum]

the 70 fiend challenge with the cat bitches in Ninja Gaiden Black is really pissing me off. I'm trying to beat it without using a talisman or great spirit elixir.

[Rocko]

I've been pretty lucky.

I was playing Star Tropics on NES. I lamost beat it, and when the dude showed up and started saving my game, my firend decided to romp in, accidentally kick my NES, it turns off, data is corrupted. AAAAGH!

Oh, and whenever I do some serious pokemon leveling up and forget to save. -_-

[Logain8955]

I have a couple.

1. When I fell asleep on an airplane after changing a CD on my walkman, put my CD case in the chair bag thingy. My sister also fell asleep and some jackhole steals it, with my entire PSX game collection in it. FF7, FFT, RE 1:DC, RE2, Parappa1, Castlevania, all non GH. Gone.

2. Using a gameshark to compress saves on my PSX. Corrupts my entire memory card, including my save on my rebought FFT.

3. Having that FFT stolen out of my locker at school.

4. Rebuying FFT, only to have it stolen yet a fucking gain from the local game store I hung out at. Also had my Time Crisis stolen. But they LEFT THE BLOODY GUN.

5. Playing Kartia, spill milk in my PSX. PSX somehow does not catch fire, but completely locks up and is destroyed.


God damn, that playstation was the worst console I ever had.

[uzumaki_star]

I would have to say the worst moment for me would have to be:

When my cousin got so mad that I kept beating him in different fighting games he broke my PS2 controller in frustration. (Tekken Tag Team, DOA 2: Hardcore, Tekken 3)

[sonderiaom]

It's only after joining these forums and seeing how valuble a game is that I realize just how stupid I was.

It was a couple years ago, I was a stupid idiot and had just gotten a game for christmas. Had the guide and everything, right off the store shelves. I plugged it into my playstation and played it, didn't really like it, so I put it back on the shelf and forgot about it. Anyway, skip ahead a week or two when I was moving stuff about and I dropped that certain game, and a rather heavy textbook which dropped directly on the game; cracking the front and the first disc. Thinking it was a waste, I trashed the rest of the game, eventually trading off the guide at GS a while back. The game? Valkyrie Profile.

[kristianator]

a few:

- having my 72 hr chrono trigger file saved over (the longest i had ever spent on an rpg at the time)
- letting a friend borrow said chrono trigger game, only to hear that he moved during the summer and didn't give my game back

one i witnessed:

- final round of an sf3: third strike tourney, my friend is playing ken, other guy is playing chun... my friend seemingly hits a shippu jinrai kyaku for the win, and turns away from the cabinet all celebrating, only to find out chun had a pixel of life left... and here comes houyokou sen up the ass

[wubb]

I had put about 10 hours into Beyond Good & Evil w/o saving and of course the game froze. I haven't played it since. I might throw it back in the ole PS2 during fall break. Great game just remember to always save.

How do you put 10 hours into BG+E and not have the game finished? ;)

[Scrubking]

I just had a worst videogame moment.

I just got DDRMax 2 and started learning to play. Well I finished the lessons and I went into game mode and put it on beginner (the easiest level), and the arrows came at me like bullets from a machine gun. Needless to say It was gameover in like 2 seconds. I got angry and turned it off. I'll get back to it later.

[punqsux]

yeah the lessons are WAY too easy. but just keep trying and youll be playing on light mode before you know it. one of the reasons i think ddr is not as popular as it could be is its a very intimidating game to start playing.

[sblymnlcrymnl]

yeah the lessons are WAY too easy. but just keep trying and youll be playing on light mode before you know it. one of the reasons i think ddr is not as popular as it could be is its a very intimidating game to start playing.

Also many people just don't like looking like a jackass in public. :lol:

[Ilovephysics]

I just had a worst videogame moment.

I just got DDRMax 2 and started learning to play. Well I finished the lessons and I went into game mode and put it on beginner (the easiest level), and the arrows came at me like bullets from a machine gun. Needless to say It was gameover in like 2 seconds. I got angry and turned it off. I'll get back to it later.

reminds me of the mission in GTA:SA with the toy planes that many seem to get stuck on.. I was just like 'screw this' and stopped playing for a few days...

[Scrubking]

I got another one.

I played DDRMAX2 for a couple hours yesterday and unlocked a bunch of stuff. Well today I turn it on and for some reason nothing is unlocked. I check the options and autosave is turned OFF!

[Wlogan31]

Wasn't their a save glitch on Pokemon: TCG?

I accidentaly deleted a Banjo-Kazooie save game.

Mine is definately when I deleted Banjo-Kazooie after being 80% done, which I had done after accidentally deleting it after being 60% in, which honestly occurred AFTER I deleted it on accident after being 20% in...I was always in a hurry and I hated myself for hitting the wrong buttons....

Still can't believe I actually sat down and beat it (101%) AFTER all that...
Let's just say I might possibly be the best Banjo-Kazooie player ever :D

[Wlogan31]

How do you put 10 hours into BG+E and not have the game finished? ;)

:applause:
This confuses me as well :lol:

[godhatesjustyou]

I have a couple.

1. When I fell asleep on an airplane after changing a CD on my walkman, put my CD case in the chair bag thingy. My sister also fell asleep and some jackhole steals it, with my entire PSX game collection in it. FF7, FFT, RE 1:DC, RE2, Parappa1, Castlevania, all non GH. Gone.

2. Using a gameshark to compress saves on my PSX. Corrupts my entire memory card, including my save on my rebought FFT.

3. Having that FFT stolen out of my locker at school.

4. Rebuying FFT, only to have it stolen yet a fucking gain from the local game store I hung out at. Also had my Time Crisis stolen. But they LEFT THE BLOODY GUN.

5. Playing Kartia, spill milk in my PSX. PSX somehow does not catch fire, but completely locks up and is destroyed.


God damn, that playstation was the worst console I ever had.

you must REALLY enjoy Final Fantasy Tactics.

[Kapwanil]

Some of the Worst:

1) Falling asleep while playing Disgaea while in the middle of a gigantic Item World foray only to wake up 45 minutes later and realize that I was looking at the title screen. That wouldn't be a problem if I didn't lose several items I wanted and 70 levels of progress across three hours. Painful.

2) Having my Sony PS2 Card with all of my major saves pretty much die on me as I was transfering files. All I know is that my PS2 can sort of read the card and at least tell me how much space is used on the card but, due to corrupted data, I can't access anything on it. I wouldn't be upset if it wasn't for the 140 hour Suikoden 3 save, the 30 hour Suikoden 4 save, the 330 hour Disgaea save, and a slew of other ones. I particularly miss my 90 hours on Dark Cloud 2.

Oh, and damn you Sony for not giving me anything more than a form letter response whenever I ask about possible methods of restoring the data. At this point I'll give them $20 plus S&H both ways if I can just get a few files back and working (if possible).


3) Playing the original Mega Man on the NES just for fun. I started off, fought all of the bosses completely out of order, gained four lives, made it halfway through Wily's castle, and I still hadn't lost a life. I was doing so well...until an acquaintance walked by, tripped, fell forward and reset the NES. My best MM spree, ruined, which was sad because I could have gone all the way on that one. Damnable nuisance.



And one of the best, just for contrast...

1) Falling asleep while playing Disgaea in Item World (once again) only to wake up three hours later, fingers moving and controller still locked in my hands, to discover that I advanced 12 floors since last I remembered. Normally I would assume that someone was screwing with me but it's pretty hard to do when your windows and doors are locked and your roommate is around 450 miles away in another state.

If only I could play more games like that, then I'd save time at night.

[Scorch]

1) Falling asleep while playing Disgaea while in the middle of a gigantic Item World foray only to wake up 45 minutes later and realize that I was looking at the title screen. That wouldn't be a problem if I didn't lose several items I wanted and 70 levels of progress across three hours. Painful.

And one of the best, just for contrast...

1) Falling asleep while playing Disgaea in Item World (once again) only to wake up three hours later, fingers moving and controller still locked in my hands, to discover that I advanced 12 floors since last I remembered. Normally I would assume that someone was screwing with me but it's pretty hard to do when your windows and doors are locked and your roommate is around 450 miles away in another state.

You'd think you'd learn to save the game and turn off the system before falling asleep.

[PittsburghAfterDark]

I think my worst video game moment came when I purchased an Atari Jaguar and actually played Cybermorph and Trevor McFur In the Crescent Galaxy. I was making less than $20,000 a year at that point and $300 was a ton of cash to me. As much as I desperately wanted the Jaguar to succeed and do well the only games on it that gave me any enjoyment were Wolfenstein, AVP (Truly well ahead of its time.), Tempest 2000 (You can still find this as Tempest X for the PSone.) and Iron Soldier.

I have more in game related moments that pissed me off than I can count but nothing comes close to having dropped full launch price on those two games and a Jaguar. Hell, the Sega CD launch of Night Trap and Cobra Command was a brilliant purchase in comparison.

[jshendel]

I think my worst video game moment came when I purchased an Atari Jaguar
:)

[Zing]

I have an Everquest related moment. I know just the mention of Everquest can put people to sleep, but keep reading anyway.

In EQ money and items had weight, so players routinely had to destroy copper (which was near worthless and weighed as much as platinum) and junk items to keep from being encumbered. EQ had a prompt when you tried to destroy items that asked if you really wanted to destroy the item. Well, I think you can see where this is going. I disabled the prompt because I got tired of having to click yes every time I dumped something. One time I was moving items around in my inventory and accidentally clicked destroy when I had my Evil Eye bag (uber at the time) full of misc quest items and my Mage's quested focus items selected. Hours, no, days of my life gone in the blink of an eye. If it had happened now, I would ask a GM to restore my items, but this was back close to release and things were more hardcore.

[Kapwanil]

You'd think you'd learn to save the game and turn off the system before falling asleep.

I felt that losing two or three hours overall from accidentally falling asleep was far better than farming Mr. Gency Exits for twenty hours just for ease of use. That and with around five hours of available gaming a week at the time it was better to preserve whatever time I could.

That and it doesn't help when you tend to fall asleep practically mid-sentence or in the middle of doing anything else without any onset of exhaustion. Then again, I wish my undergrad years didn't involve around 18 hours of work every day...that and sacrificing sleep for socializing.

...nah, it was worth it.

[wildnuts02]

I have a couple.

1. When I fell asleep on an airplane after changing a CD on my walkman, put my CD case in the chair bag thingy. My sister also fell asleep and some jackhole steals it, with my entire PSX game collection in it. FF7, FFT, RE 1:DC, RE2, Parappa1, Castlevania, all non GH. Gone.

2. Using a gameshark to compress saves on my PSX. Corrupts my entire memory card, including my save on my rebought FFT.

3. Having that FFT stolen out of my locker at school.

4. Rebuying FFT, only to have it stolen yet a fucking gain from the local game store I hung out at. Also had my Time Crisis stolen. But they LEFT THE BLOODY GUN.

5. Playing Kartia, spill milk in my PSX. PSX somehow does not catch fire, but completely locks up and is destroyed.


God damn, that playstation was the worst console I ever had.


Dude, WHERE DO YOU LIVE?? Sounds like the most crime infested place ever...

[vanlandw]

http://www.palmerforpresident.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2005/09/09#09092005

is one of my terrible moments...it's a blog post by a friend of mine explaining what happened...also having 98% of my NES collection stolen out of my home. Also all the COUNTLESS game crashes I've been having recently replaying the MGS series. Also having my 40+ hour xenogears save game deleted by a roomie.

[Purple Flames]

I've got a few

-when my now ex g/f saved over my FFX slot after I had made it to the end of the game with everyone's ultimate weapons and gone on the sidequests to get the items to customize everyone's weapons with beak HP Limit and whatnot.

-Near the end of last semester some fucker somehow broke into my room and stole the following games: Guilty Gear XX, Tekken 5, Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution, Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles, GTA: San Andreas, Phantasy Star Online Episode I&II, and Super Smash Bros. Melee. I managed to replace all the games, but I never did find out who sttole them.

-My Gamecube 251 memory Card was also stolen with a shitload of saves on it.

-Just getting an N64 for Christmas, and then being grounded a week later for bad grades and not being able to play it for a month. That was true hell.

[gweenpea]

I am sure someone out there knows, but with the new systems coming out (almost all with internet built into the machine). Are there any companies out there that will store backups of game saves on their server? It seems like an easy fix for more than 50 % of these "worst ever" video game crap.

If no one is doing this, anyone want to start a start up with me?

J Dawg

[msdmoney]

I am sure someone out there knows, but with the new systems coming out (almost all with internet built into the machine). Are there any companies out there that will store backups of game saves on their server? It seems like an easy fix for more than 50 % of these "worst ever" video game crap.

If no one is doing this, anyone want to start a start up with me?

J Dawg
Gameshark already has gamesaves for many game on their website, but it's not like an online storage server for your games. You can upload your gamesave if you want.

Unfortunately they don't have the one game I really want a gamesave for, Sphinx and the cursed mummy for the cube. Was on the very last guy and the game froze...no big deal just reset and start from my last save. Unfortunately I was very tired and the game defaults to start new game at the menu screen. I just kept hitting "A" to hurry things up and before I realized what was going on it replaced my old game save with a new game.

[camoor]

Gameshark already has gamesaves for many game on their website, but it's not like an online storage server for your games. You can upload your gamesave if you want.

Unfortunately they don't have the one game I really want a gamesave for, Sphinx and the cursed mummy for the cube. Was on the very last guy and the game froze...no big deal just reset and start from my last save. Unfortunately I was very tired and the game defaults to start new game at the menu screen. I just kept hitting "A" to hurry things up and before I realized what was going on it replaced my old game save with a new game.

The ending is seriously unimpressive. If you want, I can tell you what happens but it isn't worth playing the entire game again.

[praystation]

How mint can a disc be that cracks when you drop it? Also, just to imagine in slow-motion the horror of the disc falling, how far did it fall from?

That is BS. i tested throwing my strider2 from 8 stories hospital and it didnt do a thing to the disc. Cracked? I doubt throwing a thin disc like a cd would do anything to it even if you were to throw it from the petronas twin tower in Malaysia..

[wageslave]

Not really my worst but most memorable. Playing through Mega Man III with by bud when the first Mega Man II boss shows up. My famous words were. "It's Metal Man!!! Is Metal Man gonna help us"? Of course Metal Man proceeds to kick my ass.

I guess the worse was trying to play Dragon Warrior IV on an NES that had a case of the blinks.

[RELmajor03]

-when my now ex g/f saved over my FFX slot after I had made it to the end of the game with everyone's ultimate weapons and gone on the sidequests to get the items to customize everyone's weapons with beak HP Limit and whatnot.
So is that why she's "ex" now?

[boyboy1080]

my worst video gaming moment was when my sister broke my guitar hero game and controller

[redgopher]

The only one that comes to mind right now is when I was still playing Final Fantasy XI, I tried to solo a decent challenge goblin at level 20. I lost, de-levelled and couldn't ride my chocobo anymore.

Fuck that game.

[Kendal]

A few come to mind. Buying a 32X and having jack shit come out for it. Well besides Virtua Fighter. beating Metal Gear Solid and someone tripping over the powercord and funkingup my PSX and having to beat the game again. Granted I did beat the game again that night, but I was still pissed. FFVII saves going corrupt. :( Buying Madden, only to have to buy Madden 2 after only one year to have current rosters. :P

[msdmoney]

Wow old thread resurrection. I am still bitter about losing my Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy gamesave. If anyone has a save on the last boss and has one of the gamesave units I would be willing to trade a game for the save.

[gamefreak117]

Mine was when I broke my SNES (my first console) by using the wrong voltage on the replacement universal AC adapter. It remained as one of my most dissapointing childhood memories.

[Roufuss]

Here's one -

Ghosts and Goblins for the NES. You finally beat the entire game, which to do that takes the will of heaven and a miracle, since the game was crafted by Satan himself. So, you finally beat the game, only to see "TO SEE THE TRUE ENDING, YOU MUST WIN WITH THE TRUE WEAPON" or some BS, and you have to replay the whole game and beat it with the crappy Shield weapon.

After playing for years to beat the game, I think I was 12 or so, I just put the controller down and turned the game off, as soon as I saw that message.

Somewhere, someone in Capcom laughed.

[crazytalkx]

Don't have a real traumatic one but I got the Xbox 360 Final Fantasy XI demo a month ago, took 3 hours installing it and setting up my account, and bam, killed by the first dog I came across. Not exactly an avid player of MMORPGS but annoying nonetheless. That and losing my memory card chock full of Final Fantasy VII collectible goodness (materia, weapons, limit breaks).

[kristianator]

i was in the philippines and all i brought with me was clothes and my trusty neo-geo pocket color (which was still in production at the time)

i let my little cousin play with it but all of the other little cousins wanted to play it and started playing tug of war with it. i almost shit my pants when it went off flying into a shallow puddle of muddy water. i ran over, picked it up, wiped it off, and it was still alive.

i proceeded to put it in my pants pocket (screen side facing away from my leg) and accidentally bump my leg into a wooden chair while walking away. i take the ngpc out of my pocket and the screen looked more cracked out than rick james in his prime at an afterparty.

[crazytalkx]

OH! Speaking of portable trauma, I took my (at the time) gold shiny japanese Game Boy Pocket Light to Mexico. I let one of my cousins borrow it, he put in his pocket........and went swimming. Thankfully Game Boys are built like tanks, I left it in front of a fan for about 3 days and viola, it worked.

[lordwow]

Back in the day: Star Trek: A Final Unity for PC. There was a bug in the original version of the game that wouldn't let you get past this one puzzle on a planet, and offered a save game file to get past it... unfortunately I had upgraded to XP by then and it doesn't work on anything but 98. Sucky.

[doraemonkerpal]

-when my now ex g/f saved over my FFX slot after I had made it to the end of the game with everyone's ultimate weapons and gone on the sidequests to get the items to customize everyone's weapons with beak HP Limit and whatnot.

:bomb: X 1,000,000!

[Xevious]

The worst moment was when I got to the end of the text adventure "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" only to see a TO BE CONTINUED sign in the middle of the screen.

Damn you Infocom!!!

[HumanSnatcher]

That is BS. i tested throwing my strider2 from 8 stories hospital and it didnt do a thing to the disc. Cracked? I doubt throwing a thin disc like a cd would do anything to it even if you were to throw it from the petronas twin tower in Malaysia..

Thats probably the best use for the actual Strider 2 disc. I was pissed when it took me 30 mins to beat the game the first time I played. If it hadn't had the first one on the second disc, it wouldn't have been worth the jewel case it was in.

Probably the worst for me was when I was 7 or 8, I lent my copy of the original Zelda to a friend who was about 4 years older than me. I had everything and was only one piece away from completing the triforce and the game. When I got it back a week later, he erased EVERYTHING! At that age, that was a huge accomplishment for me. And what did I borrow from him in return for Zelda??? That retarded ass Friday the 13th game. Hell, I have a hard time with it now on an emulator without busting out some game genie codes (sad, I know).