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whats the stupidest game-related thing u have done?

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well 7 years ago (when i didnt know the value of certian games) i went into gamestop and traded in mint and complete copies of Intelligent Cube, Suikoden II, and all the Pokemon gamboy games (they had the box and everything! :hot: )...i walked out with $60 of credit happy, but now i deeply regret it badly...:cry:
 
probably like 10+ years ago i traded in like 20 nes games and still had to pay freaking 15$ for a new copy of blitz on n64
 
I remember once I traded in a ton of good games at EBgames but got like $2 a piece for them and got like $150 credit ( I was like 14/15) and felt rich as a king. Too bed the net profit for EB was probably like $600.
 
Lent my Lunar 2 out to a friend I knew took less-than-stellar care of discs. Up till then, everything had coem back OK, so I assumed she was more careful with mine... apparently not. She left disc 2 in her PS2, then moved the system to another house. The disc was sratched so badly it wouldn't load anymore. She then decided that she didn't have to replace it, becuase "I got mad at her" when so told me about it. (No fucking shit, Sherlock! Not only was it rare, it was a birthday present! :cry: )

Needless to say, I never lent her anything ever again. A few years later, she screwed up her copy of Valkyrie Profile similarly. Me and the BF forced her to buy a scratch repair kit, fixed it, then took it away from her to fix our discs messed by her. The games plays now, but I still get a gut-ache when I see that scratch...

Oh yeah- she lost the VP a couple months after we fixed it. :roll:
 
[quote name='DuelLadyS']Lent my Lunar 2 out to a friend I knew took less-than-stellar care of discs. Up till then, everything had coem back OK, so I assumed she was more careful with mine... apparently not. She left disc 2 in her PS2, then moved the system to another house. The disc was sratched so badly it wouldn't load anymore. She then decided that she didn't have to replace it, becuase "I got mad at her" when so told me about it. (No fucking shit, Sherlock! Not only was it rare, it was a birthday present! :cry: )

Needless to say, I never lent her anything ever again. A few years later, she screwed up her copy of Valkyrie Profile similarly. Me and the BF forced her to buy a scratch repair kit, fixed it, then took it away from her to fix our discs messed by her. The games plays now, but I still get a gut-ache when I see that scratch...

Oh yeah- she lost the VP a couple months after we fixed it. :roll:[/QUOTE]

wow damn that sux
 
Traded Super Mario RPG for 2 WWF Video Tapes. My friend still holds that over my head. But it still has the Shawn Michels and Razor Ramon Ladder match on it. I hate wrestling now, but still love watchign that.
 
Playing a Playstation Underground demo disc and then learning that the demo disc had a glitch where it would erase your data on your memory cards that were plugged in the PS2. Lost all my preciouse data :bomb:
 
Was that the Viewtiful Joe thing?

[quote name='ZerotypeX']Playing a Playstation Underground demo disc and then learning that the demo disc had a glitch where it would erase your data on your memory cards that were plugged in the PS2. Lost all my preciouse data :bomb:[/quote]
 
[quote name='ZerotypeX']Playing a Playstation Underground demo disc and then learning that the demo disc had a glitch where it would erase your data on your memory cards that were plugged in the PS2. Lost all my preciouse data :bomb:[/QUOTE]

hey did u return the demo to sony and get ur free game? i got ATV Offroad Fury 3
 
A few years ago when I was trying to cut down on my backlog of unopened games a lady at work told me about her son-in-law and his used game shop in Cottage Grove. I brought in a ton of great stuff for X-box, PS2, Gamecube, and Dreamcast. He totally lowballed me and because I knew his mom I felt I coudn't tell him to "Piss off". Got $125 for stuff I could have ebayed for about $600 . Now I am perfectly happy with my unopened backlog.
 
traded my xbox and a bunch of great xbox games to preorder perfect dark for the 360 only to find that not all games were backwards compatible and that perfect dark for 360 sucked balls
 
Five different times I had a complete copies of Panzer Dragoon Saga...and every time I sold them on Ebay...wish I would have kept one :/
 
I guess my biggest gaming mistake is whatever the heck I did with my Saturn and Sega CD games. I don't know where they are. Most likely they are in storage boxes somewhere but I have yet to find them, except for Panzer Dragoon Saga. I'm an RPGer above all so I've got all the rare RPGs for those systems if I can just remember where they are. I don't even want to sell them, I just want to be able to play Popful Mail again darnit! Some of the others would be fun too. I never did really get into Panzer Dragoon Saga all that much though. I never made it past disc 1 before I lost interest so of course that was the only one I have been able to dig up thus far.
 
Traded in my N64 for $8 Store credit at Electronic Boutique about a year after the PS2 came out. :/ Looking back on it, I don't even see the point of trading it in. Now I'm pretty devoted to looking for/finding a used one at a garage sale or something.
 
I have Three....

1) Traded in two original gameboys with like 9 games and paid $17 bucks for $RUSH for N64 at Funcoland when they were selling N64 games for $90 and there were only like 7 copies of each in the state.

2) Traded in my SNES and like 8 games and SuperScope (AHHHH) as well, for DOOM 64, but I played the shit out it, so at the time it was cool.

3) Updated all of the teams, logos, everything, in Hardball III, a non-liscensed Genesis game, and stuck the fucker in backwards once, deleted all of my shit!
 
Recently I just threw away about 3-4 original gameboys that had problems, I like to fix systems so I really should have pillaged them for parts before I tossed them because now I need the plastic screen for a new GB that just came in and I don't have one!!! Nintendo store doesn't sell these parts either, ugh. I am sure I will find more original gb's for like 1$ at yard sales though!

Back when pokemon sapphire was released I thought you had to leave the game on all the time in order for the berries to grow, I didn't realize that they grew without having the game on so for about a week I was leaving my gameboy advance plugged into the AC adapter I bought for it so I could grow berries, duh!
 
When I first moved out of my parents house I ran into mola issues and decided to dig into my older collection and see what they would give in credit at ebgames...

Need less to say I took in some SNES RPG's mint with boxes manuals and any extra stuff that came with it..

The guy said they wouldnt give any credit for the games anymore and that he would buy them with cash from his pocket..
He did not hesitate one second to empty his wallet and gave me $72 in cash which I was wondering why he didnt try to haggle but thought screw it I have money lol..

Well about 2 weeks later my friend called me and asked me if I still had those SNES RPG's that were still complete, I said no I sold them to some EB employee for $72 and he laughed and called me an idiot and to look on ebay..

:hot: :hot: :hot: :hot: :hot:

Well the games were:

Chrono Trigger
Earthbound
FF III
Secret of Evermore
Secret of Mana
Mario RPG
BOF I & II


Needless to say I think that bonehead act will top anything you people have so far and I still kick myself for that one.. Im sure that EB employee made a killing on Ebay with those..

Ah well lol you learn the hard way sometimes ;)
 
I donated my PSX to Goodwill and forgot to take out my memory cards.
Also, when I was 10 or 11, I traded a copy of Castlevania: SOTN to a friend for Super Mario Land for the GB.
 
Anything I've traded in to GameStop/EBGames at one point in time or another, I regret each one and they where all stupid.
 
[quote name='georox']Anything I've traded in to GameStop/EBGames at one point in time or another, I regret each one and they where all stupid.[/quote]

i hear that but i liked how they gave me 5 bones for the defective wii stand from the storage and protection kit
 
[quote name='FunkyDoRight']Was that the Viewtiful Joe thing?[/quote]

yea it was

[quote name='refusedchaos']hey did u return the demo to sony and get ur free game? i got ATV Offroad Fury 3[/quote]

No, didn't know they did that. Do you think they would still do that?
 
I bought a Dreamcast from EB for $20 two years ago or so and never bothered to power it on until two months ago...it doesn't work. :bomb:
 
Two come to mind:

1) Selling Xenogears (and the guide) to some game shop (probably EB/Gamestop). Luckily I bought a copy off of Amazon last summer. It may be a greatest hits copy, but it's better than nothing.

2) Letting my girlfriend of the time borrow the pendant that came with Lunar 2. We broke up, I never got it back. Let this be a lesson to everyone else: never lend your significant other things you would want back if you break up.
 
I had a Secret of Mana file in which I had all but one of the weapons at the secret ultimate level. It must've taken me about two years to get that done.

At my old church, we used to play Super Nintendo after service using the church's bigscreen TV. We were playing Secret of Mana and this little kid wanted to borrow the game. I didn't exactly want to lend it to him but my brother had just borrowed Super Metroid from him so I couldn't really refuse. Plus his mom was there when he asked so I didn't want to sound like a jerk.

I told him very carefully not to save over file 3, and even made sure his mom understood why. Well, lo and behold, a few weeks later the kid returns it to me sullen-faced and his mom apologizes for him saving over all of my files. :bomb:
 
One of the stupidest things my friend ever did was sell off his Saturn to the local game shop along with Panzer Dragoon Saga, Radiant Silvergun, Burning Rangers, Snatcher, and Nights for $80. And he thought he got a good deal! It's easy to see how stupid that was now, but I doubt that was a good deal even back then...

And the worst part is that he didn't even tell me he was planning to sell this stuff off until after he did it.
 
The stupidest thing I've ever done was blab about how expensive some of my games were to my brother who was, unbeknowst to me at the time, addicted to cocaine. In the course of six months there were a total of like 35 games stolen out from under my nose, few of which fetch less than $20 on ebay. Notables were Valkyrie Profile and Suikoden II. I ended up having to buy a footlocker with a padlock to keep all my games in, so no one but myself could have access to my games.
 
I sold my Sega CD system, with Lunar 2, Snatcher, Shining Force CD, Popful Mail, Sonic CD, and more.. for $100, so I could buy an N64.
 
[quote name='Whambamm']The stupidest thing I've ever done was blab about how expensive some of my games were to my brother who was, unbeknowst to me at the time, addicted to cocaine. In the course of six months there were a total of like 35 games stolen out from under my nose, few of which fetch less than $20 on ebay. Notables were Valkyrie Profile and Suikoden II. I ended up having to buy a footlocker with a padlock to keep all my games in, so no one but myself could have access to my games.[/quote]

cocaine is a hell of a drug
 
I had a complete dreamcast, 8-9 or so awesome games, 4 controllers, 4 memory cards, and sold it all at a garage sale for $50 right around when the playstation 2 was being announced.
 
I've kept my gaming-related stupidity to a minimum. I don't think I have ever traded in anything other than in instances where I was making a decent profit, such as the EB "extra $10 for 3" and I've rarely sold any worthwhile games of which I didn't retain a personal copy. I still have almost every game and system I have ever owned.

However, about 10 years ago I let a friend borrow my copy of Suikoden, in exchange for Gameday '97. The friend unexpectedly moved soon after and I never saw him or my game again. I ended up buying another copy at EB a few years ago for $20, so it wasn't that bad a loss.

The only two times I have semi-regretted selling games are when I eBayed my copies of Lunar (PS1) and Marvel vs Capcom 2 (PS2). I later found a complete copy of Lunar for $15, though it wasn't in as great a condition as my original copy. I haven't re-bought MvC2, but probably will soon, though I think I might go for the cheaper XB version.
 
When Rhino had their 2 for 1 stuff, there were a TON of new 360 games I wanted, and I had a ton of Rare games.. I traded them all in, disc only. I kept all of the cases and stuff. Off teh top of my head, I dumped off Jedi Academy, Jedi Outcast, Air Force Delta Strike, Silent Scope Complete, Spikeout: Battle Street, F1 2001, Fatal Frame, and Fatal Frame 2.

I knew I'd run across cheap copies in the future, and I did. I have all of the above back except F1 2001 and Air Force Delta Strike, and even added a few rarities, like Sniper Elite, Baldur's Gate DA 2, House of the Dead III and Futurama.

Now I need to find Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis on XBox.
 
selling a gameboy colour, gameboy advance and about 14 games (including pokemon, red, blue,silver, gold, yellow, tcg alongside zelda oracle of seasons and ages) for like $50CAD
 
For whatever reason back in the day, I really really needed some paper to write down something with once, and after fumbling around in my closet I found my version 2 SNES manual and for some unexplained reason I TORE OFF half of the back page. -____- I still to this day have no clue what the fuck I was thinking. I suppose I was young and stupid, even though I was at least 14 or older. With my mindset nowadays, this event would equate to heresy.

Thankfully I've never quite understood why people sell the games or systems they buy and absolutely never well. I can understand some really bad games, I know I've received at least three as gifts, but I could never sell them. The only game I've ever traded in was a 360 copy of....Justice something? (red/white cover). I rescued it from the retail place I used to work in the trash and couldn't bear to see a perfectly good game in the trash. (The return policy was retarded where I worked, long story) I probably could've cleaned up the case and sold it here to someone who actually wanted it, but I ended up going the easy route and trading it in at Gamestop. I think I got $12 in store credit towards FFXII.....which of course dropped in price maybe a few weeks after I got it, etc, etc.

Now that I think about it, I'm not very good at holding off on buying games. Some games I will willingly buy at full price, others I've been getting better at waiting on lately. (Such as holding off on getting Budokai Tenkaichi PS2 for $20 which I believe just recently happened). For one example, I bought the first three .hack PS2 games and Xenosaga 1 when they were released and still haven't opened them. >_< There's $200 that could have easily been $80-$100.
 
I can't really remember doing anything stupid. When I was younger, my dad refused to take me to Funcoland to trade in games and I literally got like 2 games a year from the dad (try playing pokemon stadium for 6 months) so I didn't have much anyways. I had maybe 5 games for the N64, 1 for GBC, 4 for Genesis, and 4 for the PS1 by the time I was 14 whereas others had tons. Now my collection is over 250 games and I just finished buying every Sonic game made in the States (a dream as a kid I decided to fulfill) so now I'm just overloaded with games.

I've had mostly luck with games. A nice man gave me his mint Sega Nomad with all the cords and 8 Genesis games for free cause he just didn't want it. A friend of mine gave me a mint FFVII original label for free cause he didn't want it. I bought Panzer Dragoon Sage for $80 mint as well. I also got House of the Dead mint with 2 guns for Saturn for $60. I bet by now your getting the picture on this.

At one point 2 years ago, I went nuts and purchased a bunch of games on the whim for no reason (Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2, Genma Onimusha, very cheap stuff like that) and realised 2 months after I had no intention on playing them and just traded them in to get them out of my face. Granted I lost a few bucks, but I learned that day to never buy crap you know you won't play.

A stupid thing I will be commiting this year is buying about 25 new games before December. All new releases too including the Legendary edition of Halo 3 (no idea why I'm going to drop $130, but I like wasting money)
 
[quote name='SinnerChrno']For one example, I bought the first three .hack PS2 games and Xenosaga 1 when they were released and still haven't opened them. >_< There's $200 that could have easily been $80-$100.[/quote]
Don't feel so bad, .hack Part 2 : Mutation for PS2 gets $125 new on Amazon if you wanted to sell it there to recoup some costs
 
[quote name='FunkyDoRight']Traded Super Mario RPG for 2 WWF Video Tapes. My friend still holds that over my head. But it still has the Shawn Michels and Razor Ramon Ladder match on it. I hate wrestling now, but still love watchign that.[/quote]

Old wrestling tapes can be worth a decent amount if they're as aired due to all the licensing issues with entrance music, among other things.
 
[quote name='crowbb']I guess my biggest gaming mistake is whatever the heck I did with my Saturn and Sega CD games. I don't know where they are. Most likely they are in storage boxes somewhere but I have yet to find them, except for Panzer Dragoon Saga. I'm an RPGer above all so I've got all the rare RPGs for those systems if I can just remember where they are. I don't even want to sell them, I just want to be able to play Popful Mail again darnit! Some of the others would be fun too. I never did really get into Panzer Dragoon Saga all that much though. I never made it past disc 1 before I lost interest so of course that was the only one I have been able to dig up thus far.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I'll go with this, since I can't really think of anything else. I can not find my copies of Panzer Dragoon Saga, Suikoden II, and quite a few other things. I'm reasonable sure I still have them (not stolen or anything), but I have no fucking clue where they are. I can blame PDS and the others on moving, but I've played Suikoden II in this house, so I'm a little more concerned about that one. I guess my biggest mistake/regret though, is selling off my NES collection (mint; complete) of about 120 to a reseller when I was a kid for basically shit. I also got snowballed by a "friend" on Dragon Force. I had no clue what it was worth. Sold it to him for like $40 or something. In this generation: trusting Gamespot's reviews and buying PDZ and not Quake IV. Yeah, that was the right move... Thank god for demos now.
 
[quote name='Gameboy415']I bought a PS3 for $600 last fall, primarily to play Sonic the Hedgehog (next gen).

*sigh*[/QUOTE]
Yeah, ouch, either part of that would be a huge mistake... I honestly can't say I regret buying my PS3 though. I love it as a Blu-ray player. It is, however, totally worthless as a gaming system. That might change, but I'm really starting to doubt it.
 
No. 2: In 1992 I lent my original NES and 120 games (Mint and Complete) to my girfriend at the time so her younger brother could play it...we broke up that summer and she never returned any of it.

No 1: In a fit of rage after getting beat by Mother Brain in Phantasy Star 2 for the umpteenth time, I tossed my Sega Genesis controller all the way across the room, breaking my mothers $1,500 Lladro sculpture.
 
I was faced with a choice. 1080 Snowboarding or Yoshi Story. I chose Yoshi Story. It's a good game, but I played the crap out of it when I rented it, and I barely played it at all after I bought it. That was 9 years ago, and I still haven't played it much.

I only got it because it was a 2D platformer. Horrible reason.
 
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