Cleaning horror stories

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I guess you could call this a reverse bragging thread. Turns out I don't take very good care of my things, I was cleaning my hideously messy room and this happened:

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Has anyone else had a video game tragedy such as this?
 
goddamn. what a $100 shame.

i once traded Dino Crisis 2 as disc only to Goozex. I like to be fair and get a good feedback, so I decided to clean it and take the Blockbuster disc sticker thats on the disc. those things never gave me a problem before. but i guess after many years they are really stuck on the surface. i accidentally broke the disc in half while taking it off.. i also threw a few disc while cleaning one time, not knowing i still have the other disc (ie xfiles, fear effect).
 
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My copy of Ogre Battle 64 had a rental sticker on the back, while peeling that off I messed up the nintendo sticker on the back.
 
For some reason I thought this was a "holy crap, you will not guess what I found behind my furniture" thread.

My sibs don't take care of anything, including games, so some of my favorite (some rare) games I've found UNDER the entertainment center, behind the tv with an inch of caked on dust, CDs scratched so bad the data layer was exposed and flaking off, cartridges BLACK inside from the dirt gathered on the gold connectors, and the coup de grace: my baby brother emulating me blowing dust out of my NES carts, but with little 3 year old lips, spitting into my tournament Pokemon Red cartridge. The game itself was completely destroyed; it just went completely blank.

I don't let them borrow shit anymore.
 
[quote name='VioletArrows']For some reason I thought this was a "holy crap, you will not guess what I found behind my furniture" thread.
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That would have been awesome.

I don't have any stories to add... either because I don't clean or I'm careful... I don't know which.

I have lent some games to my cousin and he end up losing them, if that counts for anything.
 
The worst thing I've ever done was rub some of the paint of a Star Ocean 2nd Story guide. Whenever I get a guide, I use rubbing alcohol on a paper towel and give the guide a wide down on the outside- it's amazing how dirty some guides are.

Well, the SO2 guide had this spot that seemed like would come off but didn't. I kept on rubbing and rubbing and then noticed the paper towel was covered in different colors. I then realize I took the paint off the guide itself. Luckily, the color only looked faded so I was able to sell it without much trouble.

Sad to see what happened to your Tactics Ogre. I think I still have my extra copy somewhere.
 
Once when I was like nine or something I puked on the manual for Phantasy Star 3.

I still have it as well as the manual.

Another time I was sitting in a rocking chair and broke off the corner of the case for my copy of MUSHA.
Both of those happened before I was a teenager.

Once during a party a jackass friend of mine knocked over his beer and completely soaked my PS2 copy of Beyond Good and Evil. This jackass friend of mine may or may not have also been responsible for the death of my PS2 s-video cable. My DVD of Spaceman also got soaked due to that same beer. Both the game and the DVD now permanently smell of AXE body spray.
 
I was cleaning my old copy of Zelda (gold cart) and I dropped it and then the case cracked. :( It still works though.

Then just recently, I was cleaning my Tales OF Symphonia manual and it scrubbed off a piece of the cover.
 
I was cleaning games and I spilled a whole bunch of windex on a remote control for my tv. I think it still worked after it dried out though. I was upset because it was a clear color remote that I had to go to canada and buy cause I wanted that color remote.
 
This isn't so much a cleaning story as a horror story about my one buddies luck with his families dog and his original grey Playstation.

When he wasn't playing it, he would keep it unplugged and tucked away in a bag in the corner of his families living room. Well, the one night while we're watching tv there, his families dog comes in and proceeds to piss right IN the bag with the Playstation in it.

He repeated that like 2-3 more times before my buddy finally moved the damn thing to a safer spot. Funniest thing is that after he dumped out the excess pee and let it dry out for a week, it still worked.

Speaking of my buddy, I wonder if his nieces/nephews destroyed my dvd copy of Beyond The Mat yet. I left it there, knowing full well that they don't take care of their own shit, but the one niece and nephew are huge wrestling fans so I figured I'd do something nice for them.

As for my cleaning horror story, I've only ever taken a bit of the ink off of the cover of a guide before while trying to remove sticker residue. As soon as I saw that happening, I stopped trying to clean the gunk off there.
 
Almost horror story like these.

I was at my friend's house a couple weeks ago, playing rock band on the wii. He keeps the wii on the top of the entertainment center. The drumset kept sliding forward while he was playing it on the wood floor, so he moved it backwards onto the rug. The cord was as far as it could go, stretched tightly.

After a few minutes, his giant poodle thing came rushing into the room into the cord and knocked the wii off the entertainment center and the RB drumset over. Luckily, the wii worked.

And there's my stupid cousin, who's broken my PS2 disc drive by putting yogurt in it, and scratched the shit out of the screen of my LE zelda DS, and his parents are on welfare, so he can't afford to replace them. >_>
 
I have some copies of now realized good games that I totally scratched up because I owned it when I was 7. For example: X-men vs. Street Fighter =(
 
I remember a while back I recieved a disk in the mail. The seller decided to tape down the disk to the jewel case. I decided to play it safe and just cut it out. Well, my friend decides to pull the tape off the disk and rips off the "data." -_-
 
You should change the topic to game horror stories, many other accidents have happened in other situations

I had a sealed Bioshock Big Daddy Sculpture which to put it on top of my home theater system (I have no idea why I did this) and one day my little brother runs in to the room and slams into my home theater and sends the sculpture tumbling down. I pick it up and see that the drill is now broken so I cry myself to sleep that night
 
[quote name='darkslime']Almost horror story like these.

I was at my friend's house a couple weeks ago, playing rock band on the wii. He keeps the wii on the top of the entertainment center. The drumset kept sliding forward while he was playing it on the wood floor, so he moved it backwards onto the rug. The cord was as far as it could go, stretched tightly.

After a few minutes, his giant poodle thing came rushing into the room into the cord and knocked the wii off the entertainment center and the RB drumset over. Luckily, the wii worked.

And there's my stupid cousin, who's broken my PS2 disc drive by putting yogurt in it, and scratched the shit out of the screen of my LE zelda DS, and his parents are on welfare, so he can't afford to replace them. >_>[/QUOTE]

Had something similar happen to me. I was playing some dreamcast game with my brother once upon a time and my dog was sitting in the nest of controller cables blissfully not giving a damn. Then the mailman showed up and the dog switched into kill mode. When my dog went from 0-60 in less then a second his chest ran right through a dreamcast controller cable. The plug for it shot out of the dreamcast leaving some of it behind. The cool thing about this was that the controller did at least a 720 as it flew through the air. Crazy glue fixed it though.

That dog also gnawed on a genesis controller cable when he was a puppy.

Despite the near death and one death of a videogame controller I hold no ill will towards that dog. When that dog destroyed something nine times out of ten it tended to be magnificient to watch.
 
Thankfully, I've yet to really damage anything in the process of cleaning- like many, I'm pulled off bits of cart labels trying to get price stickers off, but nothing major.

Unfortunately, I have had a few gems go missing on me ( I suspect my formely sticky-fingered brother, but have no proof :cry:) Currently, my copies of Super Puzzle Fighter (GBA), Zelda: Link to the Past (SNES), and Super Mario RPG are MIA. I've also had to replace missing copies of Brave Fencer Musashi and Final Fantasy 7 (those are a friend's fault, though.) Thankfully, that was all well before Advent Children released, so I had an easy time getting another black label FF7.
 
I had a Lunar for the Sega CD that was complete and the disc was scratched up, but worked. I decided to use one of those disc doctors on it. It left swirl marks all over the disc and then the game wouldnt boot up. I got so pissed. To this day I cant even find the disc anymore. Guess I let it get tossed. Who knows, but avoid the damn disc doctor crap!
 
[quote name='phear3d']i once traded Dino Crisis 2 as disc only to Goozex. I like to be fair and get a good feedback, so I decided to clean it and take the Blockbuster disc sticker thats on the disc. those things never gave me a problem before. but i guess after many years they are really stuck on the surface. i accidentally broke the disc in half while taking it off.. i also threw a few disc while cleaning one time, not knowing i still have the other disc (ie xfiles, fear effect).[/quote]

Yeah, that's also the worst I've done. Although I went through a former Blockbuster copies of Dino Crisis & Resident Evil 3 to finally realize it's not worth the risk. I now leave those rental stickers on, just so I don't have to risk it becoming damaged & look for another copy.

But I got a feeling people were complaining about this and that's why Hollywood Video & Blockbuster stopped doing the stickers.
 
Things like this are why I support "piracy," as it were. I don't pirate games per se, but I damn well make a backup of ANYTHING before I loan it to anyone. For the kids, I always try to find a way to harddrive it (Xbox/PS2). Really, really looking forward to that shitty looking dash update in the fall for the 360, if for no other reason than I will now be able to put a $60 game on the harddrive and not have to worry about a game getting ruined.

Like others though, tragedy strikes: when I was younger, the 5 year old loved to BITE ON THE GAMES. I still have a few of the discs with her bite marks in them. I guess I'm just too lazy to replace them. Heh.

Have any of you seen those professional grade resurfacers? The ones that do two discs at a time (GameCrazy/FYE/etc now sport them). When I worked at GameCrazy, we were the first ones in the state to get our hands on one, and I had a tough time explaining to more than one customer that we ruined their GameCube disc when we resurfaced it (we were still learning, and the Cube discs have that stupid ring of data..). That's worse than just wrecking it; having to tell someone you wrecked it and can't fnid another copy to replace it is infinitely worse. Yike.
 
[quote name='Scorch']You still have to have the disc in the drive.[/QUOTE]
Just to verify that it's the right game. Most scratched games start up fine but freeze later on so as long as the disc can be read for the start up it will be alright since the disc drive isn't spinning and the game is being entirely read through the harddrive. It will not work for insanely scratched games but will work in most cases.
 
[quote name='mguiddy']I have lent some games to my cousin and he end up losing them, if that counts for anything.[/quote]

I still regret the day that I lent my Sega Nomad w/ NHL 94 to my cousin. He told me that he "lost" it. Later, it turned out that he had a drug problem. Damn the bad side of my extended family. fuckers!

That sucks OP. I will cherish my mint/complete copy of Tactics Ogre even more now. ;)
 
[quote name='emg28']I still regret the day that I lent my Sega Nomad w/ NHL 94 to my cousin. He told me that he "lost" it. Later, it turned out that he had a drug problem. Damn the bad side of my extended family. fuckers!

That sucks OP. I will cherish my mint/complete copy of Tactics Ogre even more now. ;)[/quote]
I hope my cousin didn't have a drug problem... he was 12ish at the time.:lol:
 
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